Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, September 5th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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world of tech. Did not see this one coming. OpenAI plans to launch a jobs platform in 2026 to match

employers to candidates with AI skills and also a certification program for teaching AI,

which should launch in the coming months. Quoting Bloomberg,

OpenAI is working with multiple organizations on the program, including Walmart,

the largest private employer in the U.S. OpenAIs said it plans to certify 10 million Americans by 2030.

The company unveiled the jobs initiative Thursday in conjunction with a White House Task Force

meeting on artificial intelligence and education, hosted by First Lady

Melania Trump. Tech industry leaders including OpenAIs Sam Altman and Alphabet Sundar Pachai attended the

event. Altman is also expected to meet with senior White House officials later in the day,

the company said, we believe fundamentally that AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any technology

in history, but it will also be disruptive, said Fiji Simo, the chief executive officer of

applications at OpenAI, and the former head of Instacart. While we can't eliminate the disruption,

we can certainly help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with

companies that need their skills, end quote. For the jobs platform, OpenAI plans to use AI to help

match local governments and companies of all sizes with potential candidates. The service would

put the AI developer in closer competition with companies like LinkedIn, owned by OpenAI

Backer Microsoft.

I don't envision it as just a simple job posting, said Simo, who previously worked as an executive at Meta overseeing the main Facebook application. I envision it more as a candidate being

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