⛵ OpenAI goes windsurfing, 🤳 AI job swap is here, 🧽 Robots can finally do the boring stuff too

🤳 The AI job swap is here

A growing list of household‑name companies are swapping human headcount for AI.

• Klarna (Swedish “buy‑now, pay‑later” fintech): customer service

• UPS (the brown‑truck delivery titan): proposal generation

• Duolingo (the chirpy language‑learning app): translation contractors

• Cisco (networking hardware powerhouse) and Intuit: prioritizing AI departments

New technology shaking up the job market is nothing new. The Internet led to the bust of sprawling malls, replaced by ecommerce. But the pace though - the speed is staggering. Is the job market elastic enough to keep up? It’s natural to feel anxious.

Fun Fact: Klarna’s support chatbot kicked off 2 million conversations in its first month, replacing 700 people.

⛵ OpenAI Goes Shopping: $3 Billion for Windsurf

OpenAI just agreed to its biggest deal yet, scooping up Windsurf — an AI‑powered coding assistant (think “GitHub Copilot’s speed‑boat cousin”).

The deal hasn’t officially closed, but it’s close. Only last year, it was valued at 1.25 billion. Now the deal’s for 3 billion. Not too bad.

Fun Fact: For the same $3 billion, OpenAI could have snapped up roughly 120,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs—enough silicon horsepower to retrain GPT‑4 from scratch several times over.

🧹 Robots can finally do your dirty dishes

Physical Intelligence—a Bay‑Area startup backed by Jeff Bezos and UC Berkeley robotics royalty—just showed off π 0.5. It’s a Vision‑language‑action model that can walk into a stranger’s kitchen, figure out what “scrub the sink” means, and then do it.

Reddit’s comment section is already placing bets on how long before the bot tries to wash the cat. π 0.5 was trained on a soup of robot‑camera video, web images, motor logs, and English instructions.

Fun Fact: They raised $400 million in 2024 at a $2 billion valuation. Right in San Francisco’s Mission district.

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