Interviewing For A Job At Anthropic? DON’T Use AI.

Interviewing For A Job At Anthropic? DON’T Use AI.

From Tech Brew Ride Home by Morning Brew

June 1, 2026 · 22 min

About this episode

The episode discusses recent tech announcements and Anthropic's unique hiring practices that prohibit AI in interviews.

Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family built with MediaTek on TSMC 3, plus a DGX Station desktop that runs 1T-parameter models. Intel detailed its Crescent Island GPUs, MiniMax launched a coding model rivaling Opus 4.7 at 1/40th the price, and Anthropic bans AI in interviews. Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls "the most efficient PC chip ever built", made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek (The Verge) Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them "built for agentic AI" (Tom's Hardware) Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (SiliconAngle) Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (The Information) A look at Anthropic's hiring process, which prohibits AI use in interviews and features a culture interview that candidates describe as highly intense (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad…

Topics covered

  • AI hiring practices
  • Nvidia announcements
  • Intel GPUs
  • coding models
  • Anthropic

Keywords

  • Nvidia
  • RTX Spark
  • Anthropic
  • AI interviews
  • MiniMax
  • Crescent Island GPUs
  • coding model

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia, MediaTek, TSMC, Intel, MiniMax, Anthropic, Bloomberg, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, SiliconAngle

Products: RTX Spark, DGX Station, Crescent Island GPUs, M3, Claude Opus 4.7

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