| There’s only one Shell garage left that’s actually shaped like a shell. | There used to be eight back in the 1930s. Now, North Carolina gets the last one. | Brand loyalty was different when companies were out here turning buildings into fan art. | What’s in store: | Nvidia has found yet another very expensive AI lane. Anthropic keeps hiring from the AI cinematic universe. Mindstream Picks: Meta is cutting thousands of jobs to fund its AI push. Our 12 Claude hacks to save a week of work!
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| | | NVIDIA | | | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang loves a big claim, but to be fair, Nvidia keeps delivering. | The company just posted another record quarter, with $81.6 billion in revenue, and expects $91 billion next quarter. | Now, Huang says Nvidia has found a new $200 billion market with Vera, its new CPU built for AI agents. | That matters because Nvidia is best known for GPUs, while CPUs have usually been dominated by Intel and AMD. | But as AI agents become more common, Nvidia believes CPUs will play a bigger role. | Huang says GPUs handle the “thinking” part of AI, while CPUs help agents carry out tasks, use tools, and run the systems behind them. | In brief: | Nvidia says Vera could open a $200 billion market. The CPU is designed for AI agents that complete tasks and use tools. Big tech companies are also building AI chips, so the hardware race is getting spicy.
| Agents need more silicon | Vera is built to process tokens quickly, which Nvidia says makes it better suited for agentic AI. | Competition is already heating up. Amazon, Google, and other cloud giants are also building their own AI chips, so Nvidia is not exactly strolling into an empty room. | Still, Huang says demand is already strong. Nvidia has reportedly sold $20 billion worth of standalone Vera CPUs this year. | Jensen Huang announcing another market opportunity like rent is due on the entire GPU empire.- MG |
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| | | ANTHROPIC | | | Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI and later led AI work at Tesla. | Karpathy said he is excited to return to research and development, adding that the next few years for large language models will be especially important. | At Anthropic, he will help build a team focused on using Claude to speed up pretraining research. | This is the stage where AI models learn their core knowledge and skills. | The move adds another major name to Anthropic’s team as competition with OpenAI continues to grow. | The company has also recently hired Ross Nordeen, a founding member of xAI and former Tesla employee. | Here’s what you should know: | Karpathy is joining Anthropic to work on Claude and pretraining research. He previously co-founded OpenAI and led Tesla’s Autopilot computer vision team. The hire comes as Anthropic and OpenAI compete for top AI talent.
| Not your average tech hire | Karpathy has worked across some of the biggest names in AI. | He helped start OpenAI, joined Tesla in 2017 to lead computer vision work for Autopilot, left in 2022, briefly returned to OpenAI, and later launched AI education startup Eureka Labs. | His name also came up during the recent Musk v. Altman trial, where Elon Musk once described him as one of the world’s top computer vision experts. | Does this mean... war? | Can an AI company hire me for millions, please? - MV |
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Music: Keith Urban has announced new album Flow State, a yacht rock-inspired record featuring classic covers and collaborations with major artists. | Don’t Miss: Meta has reportedly laid off around 8,000 employees as it ramps up spending on AI infrastructure and superintelligence efforts. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring strategy aimed at redirecting resources toward the company’s growing AI ambitions. |
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