Posted Jul 13, 2026 at 11:21 AM UTCRAnthropic’s heavyweight hiring spree continues.Tom Blomfield, former CEO and cofounder of British fintech Monzo, announced a leave of absence from startup accelerator Y Combinator to join the company’s AI compute team. He’s the latest big-name hire in recent months, following Google’s Nobel winner John Jumper and former Tesla Boss Andrej Karpathy.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Robert Hart