Friday roundup: Unis hiring AI officers, OpenAI on jobs and Nano Banana

OpenAI will make custom chips with Broadcom
With Nvidia lurking in the background, more companies are working on their custom AI chips. Now OpenAI has entered the fray, said to produce their own chips with Broadcom next year. It will be for internal use, and won’t be released broadly. They have a long history with this, having first entered talks with TSMC last year. Broadcom said on its earnings call this Thursday that it had secured a $10B order for AI chips without naming from whom, and now the Financial Times is reporting that it is, indeed, OpenAI, who has no comment on this.
More at: Financial Times (Paywalled) and Reuters.

Amazon lens lets you shop for anything you can see
The latest feature in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS lets you simply point your camera on anything you like, and shop for the same or similar items in real-time. It partners with Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, to also answer questions about the products in the shop. It should «roll out to more customers in the coming weeks,» meaning there’s likely an Android version in the works.
More at: Amazon’s product page, and The Verge.

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Universities scramble to hire chief AI officers
With almost all college students being AI savvy, ever more universities are scrambling to keep up. The students want more education on ethical AI and how to use it professionally, and now many are hiring Chief AI Officers to assess AI use across the board, from faculty workflows to partnerships with AI companies, and to develop curriculums to help students to prepare for what is likely to be an AI-first workplace of the future.
More at Fortune.

We know that AI will create lots of new jobs, yet also create disruption. We’re announcing the OpenAI Jobs Platform to connect AI-ready workers with companies who need AI skills, and OpenAI-Certified for workers to learn and demonstrate their AI skills.https://t.co/8afA8OilSP

— Fidji Simo (@fidjissimo) September 4, 2025

OpenAI announces jobs platform to find AI pros
Trying to find an AI-savvy employee? Well, your mileage may vary, and now OpenAI are coming to your aid. They are already working with a host of consulting groups, employers and local governments on this and plan to launch their own jobs platform. This will tee up with new OpenAI Certifications from the OpenAI Academy, which anyone will be able to take — and prove to future employers that you know what you are on about. They say they will certify 10 million Americans by 2030, but the platforms seem more of a promise and doesn’t appear to be live just yet.
More at OpenAI’s announcement, and The Verge thinks it’s a Linked competitor.

Google posts Nano Banana update
The launch of Nano Banana last week cooked up a storm for the Gemini App. You can now get professional grade edits to your photos in seconds, not minutes — and the web promptly took off on it. Now Google is sharing an update, saying they have made 200+ million image edits, recruited 10+ million new users to Gemini and that their «TPUs [are] red hot,» and their site engineers are «howling.» So it’s safe to say it’s busy week at the Googleplex.
More at Josh Woodward’s x.com post, he’s the Google VP for Gemini.