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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announces that Amit Agarwal, former President and CPO of Datadog, is joining the Vercel Board of Directors to help scale the company.

Alexander Rakhlin has been named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, succeeding Ankur Moitra, and will lead interdisciplinary statistics and AI research efforts.

Paul Grewal is joining AI company Cognition as Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer, where Devin, an AI software engineer, is developed.

Jesse Thaler has been named director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science, effective Aug. 1. Thaler is a theoretical physicist who combines quantum field theory and machine learning, and has been leading the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions.

Justin Solomon, associate professor at MIT, has been appointed associate dean of engineering education at the School of Engineering, effective July 1. He will focus on advancing innovation in engineering education, integrating AI into curricula, and building industry collaborations.

Alex Olegimas joins Google DeepMind as Director of AGI Economics to study how frontier AI could reshape the economy, including impacts on work, labor, wealth distribution, and institutional adaptation.

Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke as a trustee to advise on the economic impacts of advanced AI and help ensure responsible development.