Cat Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI as Meta buys Conductor
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According to a roundup by Latent Space's AINews, Cat Wu, who was head of product for Claude Code at Anthropic and had been with the team since it was founded, is joining OpenAI. The same roundup also mentions Factory's acquisition of HumanLayer. The current headline additionally refers to Meta's acquisition of Conductor, but available reports give no details of that deal.
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