🤝 OpenAI & UK: A Soft Power Deal, Dressed Like Infrastructure
So, the UK government and OpenAI just made their partnership status... Facebook official? It’s technically a voluntary agreement, but it's wrapped in £2 billion worth of AI investment promises. Stuff like compute centers, educational pilots, justice systems, and “next-gen public service.” Vague, but real.
Here’s the kicker: some folks are uneasy. The deal could accelerate copyright carve-outs to favor AI training, and it tightens ties between public systems and private algorithms. Progress, maybe. But messy.
🧮 DeepMind vs. OpenAI - Math Duel at the Top
Turns out, OpenAI wasn’t the only brainiac in the room. Google’s DeepMind ran its own math model through the International Math Olympiad gauntlet... and tied. Both systems hit gold. Both cracked 5 out of 6 problems.
No models have dropped yet, so we’re working off paper claims. But make no mistake - this is serious territory. Not gimmick puzzles or language tricks. Logic. Proofs. Structure. And suddenly, it’s a competition between codebases.
🌏 Nvidia’s CEO Is Basically a Pop Star in Beijing
Jensen Huang just wrapped another China trip, his third this year. There were selfies. Applause. Social media went wild. He visited Alibaba. Praised Tencent. Signed someone’s GPU box.
But behind the theater? Complicated politics. The U.S. recently said “fine, go ahead” to shipping H20 chips back into China. Temporarily. Huang’s welcome might be loud, but the rules are brittle. This isn’t friendship. It’s tolerated necessity.
🎙️ Fidji Simo Has the Hardest Job at OpenAI
Fidji Simo - ex-Instacart, ex-Facebook - is now running OpenAI Applications, which, to be clear, means every single thing you actually use. ChatGPT, AI tutors, future companions, digital brains that know your schedule. All of it.
In her first staff memo, she struck this weirdly refreshing tone: part warm pep talk, part steely product focus. “We’re building things people will live with,” she wrote. And that might be the hardest bit, making tech feel like it belongs in your life, not just your feed.
🍃 CUDA Meets RISC‑V, and That’s a Quiet Earthquake
Nvidia just said its beloved CUDA platform now runs on RISC‑V CPUs. Translation? CUDA - once loyal to x86 and Arm- can now live on open, royalty-free chips. That’s a huge deal in places like China, where geopolitical risk has made homegrown silicon suddenly... urgent.
It's nerdy, sure. But this one’s foundational. The stuff that decides who gets to build AI infrastructure on their own terms.