Critical Software is rebuilding itself around AI (200 ppl being layed off)

Critical Software co-founder and chairman Gonçalo Quadros told Lusa that the Coimbra company is being "refounded" around AI, with routine testing and code production now handled by machines, and acknowledged that "some people" were let go without giving a number. He said the company will keep developing technology for critical systems in aviation, aerospace and automotive, which must still be designed, verified and validated by humans, and suggested AI could multiply its productive capacity ten-fold. Quadros also warned about the race among big AI developers, saying that if machines reached recursive self-improvement and control were lost, "we may be on the edge of the abyss."