Academic or non profit researchers, startup employees etc. don’t usually have 100k lying around. And the more wealthy and skilled prospective immigrants are, the more they are considering Switzerland, Singapore, Canada or Dubai, or simply stay home in Berlin, Paris or Stockholm
MARKET TRENDS
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From AI-Powered to AI-Free: The Marketing Shift of 2026
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In 2023 there was a big uptick in companies marketing their products as “AI powered”. 2026 will be the year of companies marketing their products as “AI free” (a trend already underway)
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Agentic AI: 6 Key Highlights for 2025
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Agentic AI – 6 Key Highlights You Should Know
Agentic AI is reshaping automation by enabling autonomous, intelligent, and collaborative systems capable of handling entire workflows without continuous human input. Here’s what sets it apart in 2025: Autonomous, Goal-Driven -
Web Indexing Harder Than Building GPT: Market Concentration
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Why it's hard to build a web index, objectively harder than building a GPT-4.1. Argument: there are just fewer people – literally two (G and M) – who have done it well.
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AI Dominates Markets and Geopolitical Landscape in 2026
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Everything is riding on AI now, from the markets to geopolitics.
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OpenAI plans 125x energy capacity increase by 2033
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OpenAI have 9x'd their capacity this year, and have a goal to 125x further by 2033, thus exceeding current energy capacity of the whole of India – as per @alexeheath reporting of @sama
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AI Progress, Evals, and Reinforcement Learning in Job Market
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quite a privilege to be a guest on Odd Lots! talked w joe & tracy about pace of progress in AI, broken evals, the crazy job market, and the difference between supervised and reinforcement learning
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Meta Explores Google AI Partnership for Enhanced Ad Targeting
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Meta Eyes Google AI for Ads: Google's valuation is going to skyrocket Meta is exploring talks with Google about using Gemini and Gemma AI models to boost its ad targeting, after setbacks with its own AI efforts. While still early, the move shows Meta’s willingness to lean on
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Expert-Driven AI Implementation Improves Cost and Speed
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I also think the paper makes a very compelling case that experts working directly with AI results in cost and speed improvements, and that those experts should use more advanced models. You should probably be doing this in firms It also shows this was not always true with GPT-4
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ChatGPT Plus as potential gateway to advertising implementation
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Jakob has a valid point. ChatGPT Puls could be the first step into implementing ads in ChatGPT.