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Thursday’s top story: Insider reports have revealed that OpenAI could be releasing an AI agent model as early as January.
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🤫 OpenAI’s secret AI agent revealed!
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✂️ AMD slashes 4% of workforce
🤖 How to build AI chatbots that understand your business with Chatnode
📜 How to align employee training with regulations using ChatGPT
🙌 OpenAI’s alliance plans to beat China
👣 WSJ's bold step with AI summaries
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FACT OF THE DAY
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STOCK MARKETS
🪙 AI and tech stocks consolidated after a volatile week of trading. Bitcoin continued to steal the headlines after breaking to fresh all-time highs at $93,529. In other news, AMD cut 1,040 jobs (4% of its workforce) to focus on AI chip development. Learn more.
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AGENTS
Our Report: After dashing hopes that its next big model—Orion—will not be arriving this year, insider reports have revealed that OpenAI could be releasing an AI agent that can control a computer and complete tasks autonomously, as early as January.
🔑 Key Points:
Insiders revealed that OpenAI told staff that the AI agent—codenamed Operator—will first launch as a research preview, through its developer API, so developers can provide feedback before it’s released to the public.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, also confirmed that he thinks “the next giant breakthrough will be agents,” and Chief Product Officer, Kevin Weil said, “2025 is going to be the year that agentic systems hit the mainstream.”
This all comes after Anthropic recently released an autonomous AI agent, called ‘Computer Use’ and Google announced its planning to release Jarvis, its “helpful” AI agent “that surfs the web with you” in December.
🤔 Why you should care: As highlighted last week, AI improvements are slowing due to a lack of untapped, real-world data, leaving tech firms, like OpenAI, scrabbling to think of alternative ways to train and scale new AI models, as small, incremental improvements will not justify a hike in prices—which are needed to fund the development and maintenance of costly AI models—so the hope is that with AI agents, we will see a ChatGPT-like jump in innovation that will validate the costs of development.
But will the lack of untapped, real-life training data hinder AI agent development progress?
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LAYOFFS
Our Report: AI chip maker and NVIDIA’s biggest rival, AMD, has confirmed its reducing its global workforce by 4% to strengthen its position, against NVIDIA, in the rapidly growing AI chip market.
🔑 Key Points:
While it’s unknown how many employees will be impacted by the layoffs, AMD had ~26k employees at the end of 2023, so reducing its workforce by 4% means around 1,000 workers will be affected.
This comes after a mixed Q3 earnings report which revealed its gaming division has declined by 69%, YoY, and while projecting $5B AI chip revenue for 2024, this is just 20% of its total projected revenue.
Despite this, AMD CEO—Lisa Su—assured investors that its new chip “is looking very good, and is on track to launch in the second half of 2025, with the largest increase in output we have ever delivered.”
🤔 Why you should care: In comparison to NVIDIA, which owns 80% of the AI chip market share and is the most valuable company in the world, AMD has struggled to ship enough AI chips to satisfy its big tech customers—like Meta and Microsoft—and, although it’s positioned itself as a “superior choice” for running AI models, NVIDIA’s early entry into the market and its “robust ecosystem” have left AMD unable to keep up and, as a result, its shares have fallen by 5% over the year (NVIDIA’s has risen by 200%).
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PROMPT ENGINEERING
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BREAKING NEWS
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GLOBAL
In a new policy blueprint, detailing how the US can defend its global AI lead (specifically against China), OpenAI wants the US to align with neighboring countries and build a "North American Compact for AI."
OpenAI believes this contingent could streamline access to talent, financing, and supply chains for building AI technology and infrastructure, making it an unstoppable force against China.
This collaboration could then expand to include a "global network of US allies and partners," including countries in the Middle East, which OpenAI has recently been in talks with over funding for AI chips and data centers.
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FEATURES
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is testing an AI summary feature—which displays a list of AI-generated bullet points, summarising a news story—called “Key Points” which sits at the top of some news articles.
Readers are told when a summary has been generated with AI but are informed that an Editor has approved it, and the feature has appeared in articles about Trump’s plans for the Department of Education.
The WSJ isn’t the first to test this type of AI feature, but there are concerns that, while this could enhance the efficiency of content consumption, AI’s propensity to hallucinate could reduce reliability and understanding.
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