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Anthropic replaces junior developers with AI, German courts hold Google liable for AI searches, Disney acquires Character.AI talent, Gemini agents beat Minecraft, and NVIDIA open-sources its GPU orchestration platform.

1. Anthropic reduces junior hiring as AI agents take over workloads — Anthropic's share of junior hires has dropped to nine percent as internal AI agents log six times more hours than human employees. Researchers warn this could cause a future shortage of senior specialists.
2. German court holds Google legally liable for AI search overviews — A regional court ruled Google is responsible for false information generated by its AI search overviews. This strips away traditional safe harbor protections and treats AI answers as Google's own content.
3. Disney employs majority of Character.AI workforce in stalking horse bid — Disney has agreed to hire the vast majority of Character.AI employees in a reverse acquihire. The move highlights a focused push by traditional media companies to internalize frontier AI talent.
4. Four Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously beat Minecraft — A team of four AI agents powered by Google's Gemini 4 Argon model successfully coordinated to complete Minecraft without human intervention. The agents wrote over two thousand programs to achieve the goal.
5. NVIDIA open-sources Run:ai GPU orchestration platform — NVIDIA has released its full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform as an open-source project. The release commoditizes the orchestration layer, making it cheaper for developers to manage complex Kubernetes-based GPU clusters.

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