Anthropic’s hiring bonanza

Anthropic Goes on a Hiring Frenzy

Anthropic will triple its international workforce in 2025 and 5× its applied-AI team.

What’s driving it: Claude’s enterprise footprint has exploded—from under 1,000 customers to 300,000+ in less than two years, with ~80% of usage outside the US. Anthropic is opening its first Asia office (Tokyo), adding 100+ roles in Dublin and London, a research hub in Zurich, and hiring country leads across India, ANZ, Korea, and Singapore.

What they’ll build: Hands-on deployments (Claude Code, domain-specific agents), 24/7 support, and data-sovereignty scaffolding for regulated sectors. Case studies include Novo Nordisk compressing months of clinical reporting to days and Norges Bank streamlining analysis across thousands of portfolio companies.

OpenAI Ships Safety Routing + Parental Controls

OpenAI is testing a safety router in ChatGPT that can switch mid-chat to GPT-5-thinking for sensitive topics, and it rolled out parental controls for teen accounts.

What they do: The router detects emotionally charged conversations and routes them to models trained for “safe completions” (guidance over blind refusal). Meanwhile, parental controls add quiet hours, content filters, training opt-out, voice/off toggles, and distress detection with parent alerts.

Reaction so far: Mixed. Many welcome the guardrails; others say the experience feels over-cautious or “paternalistic.” OpenAI framed this as an iterative 120-day rollout with per-message, temporary routing and model transparency on request.

Agents Hit the Office (and Your Browser)

From startups to giants, tech companies are going all in on agents. Microsoft rolled out new agentic features inside Office, while a cross-browser startup raised fresh capital to automate work where people already live online.

In the Office: Think “vibe working” for Office—prompt out auditable, step-by-step spreadsheets, docs, and decks. 

• The web-first Agent Mode plans tasks, executes them, and shows its work, scoring 57.2% on SpreadsheetBench (ahead of several AI rivals, but still below humans at 71.3%). 

• Office Agent, powered by Anthropic in Copilot chat, assembles full PPTs/Docs, researches on the fly, and previews slides live.

In startup land: Composite raised $5.6M (with backing from NFDG, Menlo, and Anthropic’s fund) for a cross-browser agent. It focuses on professional workflows, local execution, and admin controls where you already work, without swapping browsers or wiring connectors.

Make Engineering Visible

EvolveDev connects to GitHub, Jira, and Slack and uses AI to surface bottlenecks, forecast delivery risk, and auto-generate reporting dashboards.

How you can use it:

• Spot stuck PRs, handoff delays, and cycle-time regressions

• Forecast delivery timelines from historical patterns

• Compare squads and initiatives without manual data pulls

Pricing: Paid

AI Mood Boards

Type a vibe (“warm mid-century living room”), and Mixboard’s image model builds an editable board you can tweak in plain language—“make the sofa modular,” “add autumn vibes.”

How you can use it:

• Rapidly make concept boards for clients or shoots

• Iterate layouts and colors by describing changes

• Collaborate live and share links for feedback

• Spin up event themes or brand directions in minutes

Pricing: Free & paid