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News of the day
1. Anthropic bans AI in interviews to assess genuine candidate thinking, focusing on skills, values, and ethics in a high-stakes hiring process. → Read more
2. Nvidia's new Alpamayo 2 Super robotaxi AI model is powerful but lacks published onboard performance metrics for its distilled versions, leaving manufacturers to evaluate potential without concrete data. → Read more
3. China approves NEO, the world's first invasive brain-computer chip, for paralysis patients, prioritizing scale and accessibility over a competitive race. → Read more
4. Meta introduces Muse Spark, a multimodal AI model for personal superintelligence, featuring tool use, visual reasoning, and health expertise. → Read more
Our take
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Last time, we noted that Anthropic was turning honesty into a selling point with Opus 4.8. The company is clearly applying the same yardstick to its hiring, and it is not faking it.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, landing a job at Anthropic means clearing up to five rounds of interviews. The most feared one is not technical: it is the "culture interview," a conversation about values, worldview and ethical dilemmas. That is where most strong candidates wash out, including those who shone on the coding side. Dario Amodei says he spends close to a third of his time on internal culture. Translation: you can be technically brilliant and still get shown the door over a difference of principle.
A tasty detail: during these exercises, using AI is forbidden unless explicitly allowed. So the lab that sells supercharged assistants insists on bare brains to check how its future employees actually think. The rule was already imposed and then partly relaxed last year, but the live interview remains a no-crutches zone.
The backdrop is dizzying. The company has just closed a Series H of 65 billion dollars, for a post-money valuation of 965 billion that now overtakes OpenAI. Salaries climb as high as 850,000 dollars, equity not included. So much so that some candidates shell out nearly 4,600 dollars for coaching delivered, anonymously, by employees of Anthropic and OpenAI themselves.
Two readings coexist. Either Anthropic genuinely protects its mission by screening for judgment rather than raw performance. Or the company is building itself a high-end ideological echo chamber, where thinking like the house becomes the first skill required. That ambiguity is exactly what makes the whole thing fascinating.
To get into the lab that wants to align machines, you first have to prove you are properly aligned yourself.
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