Jul 7, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Silicon, Not Salaries

GPT-5 Preview, Altman Picks Cheaper, AGI Needs Legs

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Why hire humans when an AGI robot never asks for equity, health insurance, or a lunch break?

LLM

Welcome to the Model Monopoly

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI Executive Romain Huet says GPT-5 will merge the reasoning chops of the “O-series” with the multimodal tricks of GPT-4 into a single, summer-bound model aimed at killing the current alphabet soup.

🧠 How this hits reality: Goodbye model-roulette, dev teams get fewer API dials but a bigger dependency on one codebase. Feature-tier pricing will shift from “pick a model” to “pay for IQ levels,” and niche providers selling task-specific LLMs just lost their differentiation slides.

🛎️ Key takeaway: OpenAI’s simplification isn’t altruism—it’s a funnel that turns every use case into a single toll booth they control.

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TALENTS

OpenAI Grows Gurus for $105K, Snubs Meta Cash

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI’s six-month residency pays $105 K, relocates 30 outsiders to SF, then signs nearly all full-time—cheaper than matching Meta’s nine-figure poaching bounties.

🧠 How this hits reality: Talent teams get a template: build bootcamps, not bid wars. Universities watch grad pipelines drain; junior devs now compete with mid-career hires flaunting “AGI resident” badges. Meta can keep waving gold bars—missionaries stick around until recruiters mention stock liquidity.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Cheaper to mint believers than outbid mercenaries—especially when GPUs cost more.

HUMANOID

If We Don’t Build Humanoids, AGI Will Just Boss Us Around

📌 What’s happening: Figure CEO Brett Adcock says the real deployment vector for AGI isn’t an app or a chatbot—it’s humanoid robots. His company’s latest bot, Figure 3, now autonomously handles logistics tasks. Their goal? Ship 100,000 units in 4 years, then let robots build more robots. The home robot is “a few single-digit years away.”

🧠 How this hits reality: Hardware no longer sucks. Neural nets are finally moving boxes. This isn’t a TED Talk—it’s active deployment in warehouses. Industries with high repetition and low glory (logistics, healthcare, manufacturing) are quietly getting automated. Home use is trickier—Adcock admits “don’t knock over the candle” is still a hard constraint. As for privacy? They're staffing a security team, but let’s be real: would you trust your boss if he lived in your house?

🛎️ Key takeaway: AGI won’t replace your job—it’ll copy you, and make the human version optional.

QUICK HITS

Independent publishers file EU antitrust complaint over Google’s AI Overviews.
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Helmholtz Munich’s Centaur AI Model Sparks Debate with Human-Like Decision Simulation.
Atlanta attorney fined $2,500 for citing AI-generated bogus cases in divorce brief.
New AI technique by Nvidia and MIT paves the way for real-time, high-fidelity graphics.

TRENDING

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