Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: ‘Learning How to Learn’ Is the Key Future Skill - Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, said the most important skill for the next generation will be the ability to “learn how to learn.” Hassabis argued that alongside math, science, and humanities, young people will need meta-skills—learning strategies, adaptability, and problem-solving—that enable them to keep pace with shifting demands.

China’s New SpikingBrain AI Models Deliver Speed and Efficiency on Domestic Chips - Chinese researchers have introduced SpikingBrain 1.0, a family of brain-inspired AI models that achieve over 100× speed gains on long prompts while running entirely on China’s MetaX chips instead of NVIDIA hardware. SpikingBrain is designed to more closely imitate how the human brain works. Instead of keeping all neurons “switched on” like today’s large language models (LLMs), SpikingBrain neurons only activate when needed.

Elon Musk’s xAI Cuts 500 Data Annotation Jobs in Major Layoffs - Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off about one-third of its data annotation team—around 500 workers—in one of its largest cuts to date, as it shifts toward more specialized roles. Workers were told their employment would end that day, with system access revoked immediately. However, they would be paid through November 30 or until their contracts expired.





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‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind - How much do foundation models matter? These days, startup teams are focused on customizing AI models for specific tasks and interface work, and see the foundation model as a commodity that can be swapped in and out as necessary. That approach was on display especially at last week’s Boxworks conference, which seemed devoted entirely to the user-facing software built on top of AI models.

OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says we’re in an AI bubble (but that’s OK) - “I think it is both true that AI will transform the economy, and I think it will, like the internet, create huge amounts of economic value in the future,” Taylor said. “I think we’re also in a bubble, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money. I think both are absolutely true at the same time, and there’s a lot of historical precedent for both of those things being true at the same time.”

China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations - On Monday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation ruled that semiconductor giant Nvidia was in violation of the country’s antitrust regulations, as first reported by Bloomberg. The ruling was in reference to Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a computer networking supplier, for $7 billion.

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