The one skill for the AI era

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Friday.

At the Acropolis in Athens, DeepMind CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis forecast the emergence of artificial general intelligence within a decade and argued that cultivating meta-skills, defined as accelerated learning and adaptive reasoning, is essential to navigating an AI-centric economic and political order.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned that without intentional distribution frameworks, accelerating technological capability will concentrate leverage and deepen structural inequality.

Without deliberate global governance, AGI will concentrate power faster than any technology in history.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

Recap of the 2 AI videos this week:

1. “The AI video gold rush is absolutely insane.” (Matt Zien)

2. “It all began…when I was prompted.” (Ron Baranov)

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💡 Here’s what you should know

• Nvidia and OpenAI plan multibillion-dollar UK AI infrastructure push

  Nvidia and OpenAI are in talks to back a major UK data center investment, expected to be announced during President Trump’s state visit, as governments race to secure sovereign AI infrastructure.

• Apple AI leader Robby Walker to exit

  Robby Walker, who led Apple’s AI and search teams and previously oversaw Siri, will leave next month amid delays to the company’s Apple Intelligence rollout.

• Anthropic expands AI security work with US and UK teams

  Anthropic gave US and UK government experts deep access to its models, uncovering vulnerabilities that drove major safeguard and evaluation improvements.

• OpenAI works with US and UK agencies to stress-test AI security

  A deep dive into how OpenAI partnered with CAISI and UK AISI to red-team ChatGPT Agent and GPT-5, uncovering vulnerabilities and strengthening safeguards against cyber and biosecurity threats.

• Albania names AI “minister” to fight corruption

  Albania has appointed Diella, a Microsoft-backed AI “minister,” to oversee public tenders, enforce transparency, and modernize governance, making it one of the first countries to embed AI in its cabinet.

• AI designs and prints shape-shifting materials

  Northwestern engineers created an AI system that autonomously designs and 3D-prints materials that morph under multiple stimuli, advancing adaptive robotics, medical devices, and programmable engineering.

• Google launches AI Accelerator for Pennsylvania small businesses

  At the AI Horizons Summit, Google and state leaders unveiled a statewide AI Accelerator offering free workshops, training, and career certificates to help Pennsylvania small businesses adopt AI tools and upskill their teams.

• Kyndryl and VML partner to deliver AI-driven customer experiences

  Kyndryl and WPP’s VML have formed a global partnership combining infrastructure expertise, AI platforms, and creative services to help brands build personalized, data-driven customer journeys at scale.

• Teachers say AI cheating is “off the charts”

  Educators report rampant AI use among students, with some warning that take-home writing assignments are now effectively invitations to cheat.

• Math Inc. launches Gauss to scale proof formalization

  Gauss autonomously formalized the strong Prime Number Theorem in Lean, producing 25,000 lines of code in weeks and signaling a path to scaling formal verification and machine-assisted mathematics.

• 10 wild AI photo edits made with Gemini’s Nano Banana

  See how Google DeepMind’s new model blends, styles, and transforms photos with stunning precision.

💰 The numbers

• AI is projected to add $15.7T to global GDP by 2030, per a new FICCI–BCG white paper.

• Micro1 raised $35M Series A at a $500M valuation to expand AI training data services, as demand surges following Scale AI’s shakeup.

• Penguin Ai raised $29.7M for its AI platform focused on automating prior authorization, medical coding, and claims processing.

🧠 Thought starters

Models are evolving from static predictors to dynamic reasoning systems.

Longer inference cycles allow them to search, verify, and refine answers in ways training alone couldn’t achieve.

This makes compute strategy a core differentiator: the best teams will orchestrate reasoning depth and cost to unlock automation and insight that others can’t reach.

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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