🐝 Today's job openings, plus Anthropic hires its first-ever policy chief

Anthropic brings on a former state supreme court justice and OpenAI fires back at Apple in a 31-page filing

Welcome, busybees.

It’s a quieter Saturday on the AI news front, so today we’re catching up on two stories that are still developing and worth understanding properly, plus real jobs across product, people, marketing, and engineering you can apply to today.

Anthropic just hired someone whose entire career has been about navigating exactly the kind of pressure AI companies are under right now. Tino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and the outgoing president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is joining as Anthropic’s first-ever Chief Global Affairs Officer.

He’ll run policy and government relationships worldwide, reporting directly to President Daniela Amodei, at a moment when Anthropic is dealing with export controls, a Pentagon dispute, and governments everywhere trying to figure out how to regulate frontier AI. And OpenAI escalated its fight with Apple this week, filing a 31-page motion that calls Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit “rotten to its core” and accuses Apple of suing to cover for its own AI shortcomings, the word “fail” reportedly appears about 50 times in the filing. A hearing is set for October 1.

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Here’s what happened in AI today:

• Anthropic brings on a former state supreme court justice as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer.

• OpenAI calls Apple’s lawsuit “rotten to its core” in a 31-page motion to dismiss.

• A new report traces the real fault lines behind this week’s DeepMind leadership shake-up.

• Mathematicians are still pushing back on OpenAI’s disputed math “breakthroughs” from last week.

…and a whole lot more that you can read about below.

• Anthropic Hires Its First Chief Global Affairs Officer

Anthropic just built out its policy team with one of the most credentialed hires in AI governance. Tino Cuéllar steps into the newly created Chief Global Affairs Officer role after stepping down as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and after years as a California Supreme Court justice ruling on technology and privacy cases. He’s also spent the last several months as a trustee of Anthropic’s own Long-Term Benefit Trust, so this isn’t an outside hire learning the company from scratch. His mandate: manage Anthropic’s relationships with governments everywhere, at a time when the company is fighting export restrictions and navigating an unsettled relationship with Washington.

• OpenAI Calls Apple’s Lawsuit “Rotten to Its Core”

OpenAI stopped playing defense against Apple and went on offense instead. OpenAI filed a 31-page motion to dismiss Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit outright, arguing the case is “rotten to its core” and telling the court Apple is using litigation to make up for its own struggles shipping competitive AI features. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for October 1.

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Today’s Job Board

Product Manager | Zippi
Remote / Sao Paulo, Brazil (Full-time)
Shape the product for a payments platform built for micro and small businesses across Latin America.

Head of People | Ultra
New York, NY, United States (Full-time)
Build the people function for a startup building practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial work.

Technical Recruiter | Metriport
United States (Full-time)
Help grow the team behind Metriport’s open-source platform for healthcare data intelligence.

Marketing Operations Specialist / GTM Engineer | Signadot
Remote (US and Latin America) (Full-time)
Own the marketing systems and GTM engineering behind Signadot’s testing infrastructure for AI agents.

Business Development Representative | Artisan
United States (Full-time)
Help sell Artisan’s AI business development rep, plus its full AI sales team, to enterprise customers.

Software Engineer, Full Stack | Confido
New York, NY, United States (Full-time)
Build the AI-powered financial automation platform that helps CPG brands close their books faster.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | Instrumentl
Remote (US) (Full-time)
Help automate grant discovery and writing for nonprofits with AI-powered matching tools.

Senior Software Engineer | Banner
Remote (US) (Full-time)
Build software helping commercial real estate owners manage capital spend.

Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Infrastructure | Athelas
San Francisco, California (Full-time)
Lead the infrastructure team behind Athelas’s AI-driven health systems technology.

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Today’s Money Moves 💸

Lumilens Emerges From Stealth With $700M
Lumilens, which builds a connectivity platform for AI infrastructure, came out of stealth with more than $700 million in new funding. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech Capital, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital led the round for the San Jose-based startup.

Volta Raises Series A at a $2.4B Valuation
AI cloud infrastructure startup Volta also emerged from stealth this week, announcing a Series A at a $2.4 billion valuation. The round was led by Azora, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, and Nvidia.

Horizon3 Closes $250M Series E
San Francisco cybersecurity provider Horizon3 raised a $250 million Series E led by NightDragon and New Enterprise Associates, setting a valuation of more than $2 billion, triple what it was valued at in its Series D last year.

Whatnot Hits a $20B Valuation
Live shopping marketplace Whatnot raised $545 million in Series G funding, reportedly setting a $20 billion valuation for the Los Angeles company. Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Avra led the round.

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Skill Of the Day

How to Get Past an AI Resume Screener

Most job applications today get read by an AI filter before a human ever sees them. Most people don’t know how to write for that filter, here’s the fix.

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Prompt of the Day

The “Interview Story Bank” Prompt

Use this before any interview. Most people freeze up trying to remember examples on the spot, this turns your work history into ready-to-tell stories in advance, in the format interviewers actually want to hear.

<sub>System Role: An interview coach who has sat on the hiring side of the table.

Objective: Turn my raw work experience into 3-4 sharp STAR-format stories tailored to this specific role.
Constraints: Each story needs a real number or concrete outcome, not a vague claim like “improved efficiency.” Flag if I’ve given you too little detail to make a story land, and ask for what’s missing.
Format:</sub>

_{The Story: Situation, Task, Action, Result, in 4-5 sentences total.
Best Fit For: Which likely interview question this answers.
The Follow-Up: One question they’ll probably ask next, so I’m ready for it.}

_{Text: [Paste the job description, plus a rough list of your relevant work experience]}

That’s a wrap for today, busybees. 🐝

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