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[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"
This roundup highlights how frontier AI is reshaping engineering hiring practices while tracking significant advances in world models, automated mathematical discovery, and independent model evaluations.
Anthropic hiring manager Felix Reiseberg announced he has stopped using traditional coding interviews because Claude now outperforms humans on standard coding challenges. The daily roundup also covers Google DeepMind's release of the Genie 4 world model, major mathematical formalization milestones by Axiom, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and updates to the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 and FrontierCode 2.0 benchmarks.