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We’re hosting Convergence: RL Summit with @terac on Oct 29 in SF — bringing together researchers, founders & operators from @GoogleDeepMind, @databricks, @mercor, @arena, @joinHandshake, @turingcom, @deeptuneai, @contra, @Stanford, @Princeton, @UCBerkeley, and more.
Research, industry insight, live Q&A, and open panels about where RL goes next.
Register here: terac.com/events/convergence…
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I sleep better knowing @SnehalAntani exists. Today he raised $250M at $2B after @SignalFire led the Seed, A, & B.
As JSOC's CTO, he fought terrorists who adopted AI faster than us. So he built @Horizon3ai to autonomously test and fix your defenses.
Thanks for protecting us all
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Careful with headlines about AI killing engineering jobs.
We are still super early, and the truth is nobody knows anything.
A new @SignalFire study shows engineers are now 55% of all hires at big tech, up from 46%.
Meanwhile new grad hiring fell off a cliff, down roughly 65%.
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July 19th, @LiliLanXin hosted a Women Founder's Tea Party @ SF Rotunda.
We were beyond happy to sponsor this lovely event, alongside with @SignalFire and GlobalCitizens Law firm - and also have our very own ladies sent to co-host the event! ( @Elli3Kim )
Women Building, and Building Women's Spaces.🍊
Thank you to @jomanaesq, @thatmimido and @su_adeline_k for co-hosting. ⋆.ೃ࿔🌸*:･
#sf #womenintech
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Most AI agent teams keep the output and delete the part that actually matters: the trajectory. Every tool call, dead end, and piece of reasoning behind an agent's answer is more valuable than the answer itself for monitoring, security, audits, and training data.
New piece from @RyanMWexler: signalfire.com/blog/save-ai-…
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7/ This structural flattening cleared the way for the "Super IC," individual contributors running circles around entire old teams by owning end-to-end product surfaces alone.
The market is rewarding execution over coordination: staff packages now regularly beat director pay.
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9/ But top talent isn't waiting around for a frozen job market. Grads from the top 20 U.S. computer science programs are 45% less likely to take a Big Tech job. Instead, they are twice as likely to be founders than at the 2022 market peak. AI compressed the path to building.
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10/ Even Frontier AI Labs are growing up, bloating into mature corporate structures with higher ratios of HR (9.2%) and Finance (5.1%) than incumbents.
The old playbook is dead. Read the full 2026 State of Talent Report by Tawni Nazario-Cranz & Asher Bantock here: signalfire.com/blog/signalfi…
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6/ Org charts are flattening at a breakneck pace. You don't need a manager for every 6 engineers when AI removes the administrative bottlenecks.
• Tech Major managers now oversee ~12 engineers (+14%)
• Startup managers stretch to ~15 (+34%)
• PMs support 22% more devs
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4/ If AI didn't destroy engineering, who actually took the hit? The coordination and support scaffolding built during the cheap-money era. Since 2019 at Tech Majors: 📉 Design roles: -48% 📉 Product Management: -39% 📉 Marketing roles: -36%
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2/ First reality: The headcount boom is dead.
Aggregate tech hiring has plateaued at 25% below the 2019 baseline, the lowest since the '23 crash. Look at Cisco cutting 4,000 jobs despite record quarterly revenue. Growth is no longer measured by size, but by pure leverage.
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1/ Stop waiting for the "tech market recovery." It’s not coming. What we’re seeing right now isn't a temporary rough patch but a permanent, aggressive structural downsizing of tech companies.
The data from our new SignalFire 2026 State of Talent Report cuts straight through the spin. 🧵👇
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Great night with @SignalFire at the @UseCorgi office, thanks for bringing female startup founders together (SF sure needs it) and also met the awesome @sigmagirlgrind irl!!! 🫶
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We're excited to announce a $4M Seed round led by @GameChangersVC, with support from incredible investors including @scooterbraun, @GuyOseary, @stellation, @SignalFire, @MaCVentureCap, and others.
A few years ago, while hosting community events and testing early products, my co-founders @WeilynChong, @NathanAhn, and I noticed a consistent pattern.
After every event, people asked the same questions:
Where are the photos? Who captured that moment? How do I reconnect with the people I met?
fortune.com/2026/06/16/photo…
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new summation pod with @chriswfarmer, founder of SignalFire.
everyone's scared by the layoff headlines but engineering hiring is actually up. we get into why.
plus why venture funds now last 20 years and why the best careers live at the intersection of two unrelated skills.
piped.video/PQ8Kcy_P5gY
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