Sep 22, 2025 6 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ AI-Generated Life

Plus: OpenAI’s Phantom, Hollywood is Dead

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The line between fiction and reality is dissolving fast. Scientists just designed viruses with AI, raising the specter of “AI-generated life.”

SECRET

OpenAI’s Phantom Engineer

there was ~1 guy at openai responsible for inference CUDA kernels

let’s call him Bob, people would refer to his attention kernel as “the Bob kernel”

it executed probably trillions of times a day on hundreds of thousands of GPUs

one singular guy https://t.co/hARlCebKux
— Rohan Pandey (@khoomeik) September 16, 2025

📌 What’s happening: Inside OpenAI, there is a shadow figure known only as “Bob.” He is the rumored author of the CUDA kernels that run attention at scale, code executed trillions of times each day across vast GPU fleets. This work is so demanding that fewer than a hundred people worldwide are said to have the skill. A bug here does not just break a model, it burns millions in compute and weeks of progress. Bob fixes such issues in minutes.

🧠 How this hits reality: The chatter spread so far that even Mark Zuckerberg was said to be furious his recruiters missed him. Meta reportedly listed “Who is Bob?” as the first topic in its next hiring meeting. In a Valley where GPUs are hoarded like gold, the sudden spotlight on a hidden kernel wizard has turned into a full-blown hunt.

🛎️ Key takeaway: A single engineer just became Silicon Valley’s most wanted secret.

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BIO

AI Just Designed Viruses, Life Engineering Is Now on the Table

Photo by: Lee D. Simon/Science Photo Library

📌 What’s happening: A team of researchers at Stanford University used generative AI trained on DNA, RNA, and protein sequences to create bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria. Some successfully killed drug-resistant E. coli. Out of 302 designed candidates, 16 worked. The paper is not peer-reviewed yet, but the researchers called it “a step toward AI-generated life.”

🧠 How this hits reality: If validated, AI becomes a bio-foundry, designing therapies faster than wet labs and replacing years of trial-and-error drug discovery. Pharma R&D pipelines, biotech startups, and even antimicrobial resistance policy could be rewritten. But so could biosecurity rulebooks, since designing a cure is not far from designing a threat.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI has shifted from writing code to writing genomes, and industries built on “life as fixed” now face life as programmable.

BLOCKBUSTER

Luma CEO Says Hollywood Is Dead

📌 What’s happening: Amit Jain, ex-Apple computer vision lead turned Luma AI founder, just dropped Ray 3, a generative video model he claims can “reason.” Days before launch, he torched Hollywood’s obsession with recycling the same billion-dollar franchises, calling the industry “already dead” unless it embraces AI to cut costs and unlock new ideas.

🧠 How this hits reality: If Jain is right, AI isn’t just a special-effects toy, it’s the lever that rips apart Hollywood’s moat. Studio dominance built on $200M blockbusters crumbles when indie creators can test 50 ideas at studio-level fidelity for a fraction of the cost. The risk isn’t that AI replaces actors, it’s that it replaces Hollywood’s monopoly on novelty.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When anyone can shoot a blockbuster on a laptop, Hollywood’s “risk aversion” stops being strategy and starts being suicide.

QUICK HITS

Forbes claims that in the trillion-dollar AI market, the real gap is not computing power but human psychology, and whoever equips AI with behavioral science will control the future.
Altman said OpenAI will test compute-heavy features for Pro users with extra fees to explore large-scale compute potential.
Google DeepMind used AI-powered physics-informed neural networks to discover new unstable singularities in fluid dynamics, opening a path toward solving century-old problems like Navier–Stokes.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell and economists from Goldman Sachs and UBS agree that the surge in US youth unemployment is driven not by AI but by a hiring freeze and low labor market turnover.
Zuckerberg says AI may face a bubble, but its built infrastructure will remain vital for the future.

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