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Oct. 27th, 2025 | 🗞️ In the news, “Atlas, the $150 billion threat?”; Meta cuts while quantum leaps forward
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This week’s important news 🗞️ “Atlas is a rational, existential move to ensure OpenAI’s future control over the digital interface. But because its strategic necessity overrides its current functional utility, it is perceived as a desperate corporate tool rather than a genuine consumer innovation, thereby struggling to gain the mass adoption it fundamentally needs to succeed. It’s a high-stakes gambit: the future of OpenAI depends on the success of a product whose present is defined by skepticism and competitive replication.” Continue reading below.
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Meta is cutting about 600 roles in its Superintelligence Labs across its FAIR unit and teams focused on product AI. The company stated this restructuring is meant to make its AI unit more flexible and responsive.
In a dramatic development for energy-efficient computing, the NVIDIA Inception startup Starcloud is preparing to launch space-based data centers this November. They plan to use NVIDIA H100 GPUs and solar power, projecting a tenfold reduction in energy costs compared to Earth-based facilities.
Meanwhile, a major breakthrough in quantum computing was announced as a new algorithm running on the Willow chip achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. The research, published in Nature, demonstrated the algorithm running 13,000 times faster than a top classical supercomputer.
In other news, a survey found that most Americans react negatively to AI-generated videos posted by President Trump. Additionally, a new study suggests that in the age of AI, freshers face a challenge getting on-the-job learning, while mid-level managers face an uphill task leading AI integration.
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Meta to cut around 600 roles in Superintelligence Labs AI unit
Meta (META.O), opens new tab, is cutting around 600 positions out of the several thousand roles in its Superintelligence Labs, the Facebook owner said on Wednesday as it looks to make its artificial intelligence unit more flexible and responsive. The job cuts will affect Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) unit, as well as teams focused on product-related AI and AI infrastructure, the company said. [LAYOFFS]
The NVIDIA Inception startup projects that space-based data centers will offer 10x lower energy costs and reduce the need for energy consumption on Earth.
Starcloud is preparing to deploy AI-data-center capacity in orbit this November using NVIDIA H100 GPUs and solar-powered systems that exploit the unique advantages of space. [LINK]
New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.
Sundar announced a breakthrough quantum algorithm this week using its new Willow processor. The company demonstrated a “verifiable quantum advantage” with an algorithm called Quantum Echoes that ran 13,000 times faster than one of the world’s top classical supercomputers. The research was published in Nature and improves upon their 2019 study that only sampled bitstrings from a highly chaotic quantum state of qubits. [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
AI-generated video has gotten good. Should designers try it? [LINK]
Most Americans react negatively when shown three AI-generated videos posted by President Trump [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Shuttle: $6 million seed funding raised to build the AI platform engineer for developers [LINK]
In AI age, ‘no learning time for freshers, uphill task ahead for mid-level managers’. [LINK]
🔮 What else
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it. [LINK]
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🗞️ In the news, “Atlas, the $150 billion threat?”
Atlas is a rational, existential move to ensure OpenAI’s future control over the digital interface.
But because its strategic necessity overrides its current functional utility, it is perceived as a desperate corporate tool rather than a genuine consumer innovation, thereby struggling to gain the mass adoption it fundamentally needs to succeed.
It’s a high-stakes gambit: the future of OpenAI depends on the success of a product whose present is defined by skepticism and competitive replication.