Idealab’s Bill Gross thinks AI could help launch 1 million new businesses, making up for any job losses it causes

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Idealab’s Bill Gross gives away 1.2 million AI-generated business ideas. Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting bugs denied bail. OpenAI discloses more rogue AI incidents involving financial, medical, and government data. AI safety experts unhappy with Anthropic’s proposed AI bill. Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to new public benefit fund. Maybe neural networks aren’t as hard to understand as we thought. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra aces new theoretical physics benchmark. There’s been a lot of concern, understandably, about AI eliminating jobs. So far, the great job apocalypse hasn’t shown up. But there are hints out there that jobs are getting harder to find and that AI is part of the reason. Bloomberg reported this week that banks in the U.K. are slashing back-office jobs, thanks in part to AI Anthropic unveiled data showing that as it has deployed AI throughout its fast-growing organization, who it hires has shifted. Far fewer junior employees are being hired in technical roles than previously. Since early 2025, hiring of junior technical employees has fallen from 27% of all new hires to 9%, the company said. Anthropic is also hiring a lot fewer administrative staff than…