A humanoid robotics startup in Silicon Valley appears to have an acceptance rate lower than any Ivy League university. Figure AI has been flooded with résumés since its founding in 2022, according to the startup’s founder and CEO, Brett Adcock. “Just checked, 176,000 job applications at Figure the last 3 years,” he wrote in an…

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever believes the tides of the AI industry will have to shift back to the research phase. On an episode of the “Dwarkesh Podcast” published Tuesday, Sutskever, who is widely seen as a pioneer in modern artificial intelligence, challenged the conventional wisdom that scaling could be the key road map to AI’s…