OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring key talent from the enterprise software industry, including alumni of Salesforce, as AI competition spreads from products to the labour market. OpenAI has recruited executives and staff focused on enterprise sales and customer support, and is also hiring Palantir’s forward-deployed engineers. OpenAI said enterprise customers could account for up to 40 percent of its business and may rise to 50 percent by year-end.

Elon Musk proposed government-paid universal high income as a way to address unemployment caused by artificial intelligence, Business Insider reported. He described it as more generous than basic income, providing enough for a prosperous life beyond basic expenses. Musk also said AI and robotics would create far more goods and services than growth in the money supply, so there would be no inflation. Analysts and academics offered differing views on job losses, wages and retraining.