Cloudflare cut 20% for the agentic era, Europe is war-gaming AI cyberattacks, and data center economics are colliding with reality
Compute scales faster than policy, security teams get a new baseline, and agents move from “feature” to “operating layer”
One-year anniversary edition: AI spend accelerates, headcount compresses, and power politics hits hiring
Snap cut 16% citing AI code-gen, OpenAI shipped “computer-use” Codex, Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7, and inference capex just escalated again
Security hiring just became urgent, enterprise teams are being cut to fund compute, and the AI talent war is now C-suite level.
AI capex hit $635B, OpenAI closed $122B, Oracle started cuts, and Microsoft shipped in-house models
The last 7 days pushed hiring toward three realities: leaner orgs, tighter compute constraints, and more security-first workflows
AI infra keeps scaling, big tech tightens headcount, and security teams start treating hiring as an attack surface
The last 7 days pushed hiring toward three buckets: AI infra, agentic consumer product, and cyber defence
OpenAI goes even bigger, the US government freezes Anthropic, and “AI-first restructuring” becomes explicit.
Skild’s $1.4B "Omni-Brain," Spatial Intelligence rounds, and why the grid is now the ultimate talent filter.
$30B into Anthropic, $5B into Databricks, and why utilities just became part of your hiring plan
