Anthropic Residency opens for senior technical leaders with placements of six weeks to six months and pay equivalent to $350,000-$500,000 per year. Applications close on November 22, 2026. The program accepts professors, technical founders, and staff-level engineers without ML background. Residents receive mentorship, compute access, and a path to full-time AI research.
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Placement length: six weeks, three months, or six months.
Compensation: $350,000 to $500,000 per year equivalent.
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Skilling Africa – 15+ trainings, 3M Africans by 2030
Skilling Africa launches with Google, combining 15+ training initiatives into an offline-ready hub. Goal is to train 3M Africans in AI and digital skills by 2030. Free learning is available now.
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15+ Google training initiatives in one offline-ready learning hub
Goal to train 3M Africans in AI & digital skills by 2030
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- skillingafrica.withgoogle.com - Linked in the post
LLM findings short shelf life, 50 claims tested 15 months
LLM findings short shelf life, 50 claims tested 15 months, most no longer held or showed substantially reduced effects. The study revisited 50 widely cited findings about LLM behavior.
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50 widely cited findings about LLM behavior were re-tested.
Within 15 months of publication, most findings no longer held or showed substantially diminished effects.
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- zou-group.github.io - Linked in the post
Anthropic compute deals total $895B through 2045
Anthropic is on a deal spree to secure compute, spending hundreds of billions on major cloud providers and new data centers, and exploring converting old coal plants. All deals total more than $895B through 2045.
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Spending hundreds of billions on Microsoft, Amazon, Google and SpaceX
Partnering with former crypto miners to build new data centers