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🤝In Partnership: Free 2026 HR trends report
🤿Deep Dive: AI anxiety is reshaping San Francisco’s startup culture
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🤿Deep Dive: AIG's AI overhaul beats its own expectations
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
San Francisco Startup Workers Are Clocking 16-Hour Days as AI Anxiety and Ambition Collide
Intelligence: San Francisco's startup scene has entered a new level of intensity, with workers and founders regularly clocking 12 to 16-hour days as the AI boom drives both excitement and fear about job security. Unlike previous hustle eras, this one is fueled not just by ambition but by a growing sense that falling behind, even for a weekend could cost people their careers.
Sanju Lokuhitige, co-founder of Mythril, works 12 hours a day, seven days a week, describing the culture as worse than China's notorious "996" working model, 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
Around 250,000 tech workers were laid off globally in 2025, with AI cited as a frequent factor and executives like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have publicly said AI may replace junior and mid-level engineers.
Entry-level tech job postings have dropped by a third since 2022, while roles requiring five or more years of experience have grown, making startup grinding a near-prerequisite for future employment.
A Stanford study found significant employment declines for early-career workers in AI-exposed industries, flagging it as a potential warning sign for the broader economy.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, while the IMF estimates 60% of jobs in advanced economies will be eliminated or transformed.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
AIG Says Generative AI Is Processing More Submissions Than Anticipated Without Adding Headcount
Intelligence: AIG has reported that its generative AI deployment is delivering results well ahead of its own early projections, with CEO Peter Zaffino calling the throughput gains "the biggest surprise." The insurer has embedded AI across underwriting and claims workflows, processing hundreds of thousands of submissions without hiring additional staff.
AIG's internal tool AIG Assist is now live across most commercial lines of business, with the company reporting it can manage incoming data "at a fraction of the time" compared to before.
Lexington Insurance, AIG's excess and surplus unit, was targeting 500,000 submissions by 2030 and it has already surpassed 370,000 submissions in 2025, years ahead of schedule.
AIG built an orchestration layer to coordinate multiple AI agents across its front-to-back workflow, tightening the link between intake, risk assessment, and claims handling.
During the Everest retail commercial conversion, AIG used AI to build a portfolio ontology that allowed it to prioritize renewal accounts "in a fraction of the time".
AIG partnered with Palantir to launch Lloyd's Syndicate 2479 with Amwins and Blackstone, using LLMs to assess whether the programme portfolio matched the syndicate's stated risk appetite.
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