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🤖 Google Claims the Top Spot on AI Leaderboards

PLUS: PwC Reveals That AI Can Boost Your Wages

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In today’s Daily Report:

  • 🏆Google Claims the Top Spot on AI Leaderboards

  • 📈PwC Reveals That AI Can Boost Your Wages

  • 🛠Trending Tools

  • 🥪Brief Bites

  • 💰Funding Frontlines

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

🏆Google Claims the Top Spot on AI Leaderboards

Image Source: X/Google CEO Sundar Pichai (i.e., @sundarpichai)/“Our latest Gemini 2.5 Pro update is now in preview.”/Screenshot

Google just launched gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05,” an advanced AI model that thinks before it responds.

Key Details:
  • It’s equipped with a hybrid reasoning engine that allows it to analyze information, draw logical conclusions, and incorporate context to generate more accurate outputs.

  • It boasts improved performance in multi-turn conversations: a back-and-forth dialogue that unfolds over several inputs, or “turns.” In other words, it’s less likely to get “lost” in all the dialogue, maintaining better context throughout your conversation.

  • It claimed the top spot on the LMArena Leaderboard with an ELO Score of 1470. LMArena is a community where humans compare outputs from different advanced AI models and vote on the best ones. A higher ElO Score means the advanced AI model consistently generates better outputs.

Why It’s Important:
  • The Elo Score of 1470 matters because it reflects what humans value when analyzing outputs, like tone, clarity, creativity, and helpfulness. Simply put, it goes beyond standard benchmarks filled with technical evaluation metrics.

  • It also excels at complex coding workflows because it’s designed to “think” like a developer, constantly evaluating itself to adjust how it generates code. In real-world settings, code isn’t always clean-cut; this advanced AI model can handle ambiguity by adapting to changing contexts.

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PwC

📈PwC Reveals That AI Can Boost Your Wages

Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

PwC just released their 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, analyzing AI’s impact on nearly a billion jobs across six continents.

Key Details:
  • Workers with AI skills now earn a 56% wage premium, more than double last year’s 25% wage premium.

  • Even though overall hiring across the job market is slowing down, job roles that involve or require AI skills are growing at a rate of 38%.

  • The requirements for AI-focused job roles are changing 66% faster than last year, prioritizing AI literacy over a college degree.

  • The productivity growth in AI-heavy industries has nearly quadrupled since 2022, jumping from 7% to 27%.

  • The revenue per worker in AI-heavy industries has grown 3x faster than in traditional sectors.

  • Every industry is leveraging AI in daily operations to enhance productivity and boost efficiency, from tech companies to construction sites and mining operations.

Why It’s Important:
  • The workers earning a 56% wage premium aren’t prompt engineers; they’re accountants integrating AI to analyze ledgers faster or marketers utilizing AI to launch ads quicker.

  • Your industry knowledge is what makes AI useful. In other words, AI handles the more repetitive aspects of your workflows, while your industry knowledge provides the strategic oversight to guide AI’s actions.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Sakana AI developed The Darwin Gödel Machine,” a self-improving AI Agent that autonomously refines its coding abilities.

Anthropic published Claude Explains,” a new blog that features posts on technical topics related to Claude’s various use cases.

LumaLabsAI introduced Modify Video,” which enables anyone to change the style, character, or setting within a video just like a movie director.

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas shared that his company processed over 780 million search queries last month, achieving a 20% month-over-month growth rate.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • Nectar Social landed $10.6M to power the future of AI-driven commerce.

  • Sema4.ai secured a $25M Series A Extension to analyze data and automate work with AI Agents.

  • Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G to build autonomous weapons that transform U.S. defense technologies.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Windows AI Engineering Intern, Fall 2025

  • Meta (Sunnyvale, CA): Design Verification Engineer, Entry-Level

  • Baseten (San Francisco, CA): AI Support Engineer, Mid-Level

  • Microsoft (Mountain View, CA): Senior Data Scientist, Copilot AI, Senior-Level

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