Updates
Notable moves, new people, and organizations. A curated record, not every change in AI.
Organization route
Jesse Han added to the database
The Math Inc. co-founder and CEO builds AI systems for autoformalization and machine-verified mathematics.
Math Inc.Yaser Sheikh added to Turing Tree
The Sooth Labs co-founder and CEO previously served as a Meta vice president and led foundational work on Codec Avatars, OpenPose, and the Panoptic Studio.
Meta→
Sooth LabsOpenAI promotes Uday Ruddarraju to CTO, Compute
Ruddarraju steps up after a year leading OpenAI’s compute and infrastructure organization.
OpenAIMicrosoft appoints Frank Nagle as its first Chief AI Economist
Nagle will develop research on AI's economic effects while remaining a research scientist at MIT.
The Linux Foundation→
MicrosoftJustin Curl joins Anthropic's AI & Rule of Law team
The AI-policy and legal scholar has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff on its new AI & Rule of Law team.
Cognition→
AnthropicAlex Turner resigns from Google DeepMind over military AI work
The AI-safety researcher said he left in June after opposing Google’s agreement to supply AI for classified Pentagon operations.
Google DeepMindTracy Chou joins Anthropic Labs
The Block Party founder has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff in a founder-shaped role.
BPBlock Party→AnthropicJenny Wen joins Cursor as head of design
The former Claude and Cowork design lead has left Anthropic to lead design at Cursor.
Anthropic→
CursorKhurram Javed leaves Keen Technologies to co-found Oak Lab
Javed is building real-time learning systems with his former PhD adviser Richard Sutton.
KTKeen Technologies→
Oak LabRichard Sutton and Khurram Javed launch Oak Lab
The reinforcement-learning researchers left Keen Technologies to build agents that learn continually from experience.
Oak Lab