http://www.awn.com/news/rising-sun-pictures-standardizes-arnold-primary-production-renderer
I've been playing around with Arnold in Maya rencently (no Max support, yet) and impressed by what I've been seeing, hope to put some work up here soon. It's great to see this renderer really gaining traction. Being a physically based renderer it puts it squarly shoulder-to-shoulder with VRay, and a lot of the job listings I see posted seem to value experience in either similarly.
Would love to get a job working with this tool one day! For now will content myself with getting out a personal project. What this space...