[AINews] How to land a job at a frontier lab (on Pretraining)

One day before the Google I/O conference, new releases from Gemini are anticipated. While competitors are expected to have a quiet week, Anthropic and OpenAI have achieved some small victories today. Kershaw released the first SpaceXAI model with intriguing details about synthetic data, while Vlad Feinberg's notes emphasize the importance of core-level job preparation. The practical performance of logical changes in large language models remains one of the biggest challenges.