News Summary

• Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia filed more H-1B visa applications for new hires and renewals in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 than they did a year earlier.
• The split points to a new reality in tech hiring.
• Companies are cutting jobs while concentrating talent in smaller, more specialized teams — or "pods," as Meta calls them.
• That can make foreign-born workers with specialized skills central to companies' talent strategies, even as the visa process becomes harder to navigate.