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🤖 This Coding Agent Saves Millions of Dollars In Compute Costs

PLUS: How AI Is Reshaping the Career Ladder

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In today’s Daily Report:

  • 🧾This Coding Agent Saves Millions of Dollars In Compute Costs

  • 🪜How AI Is Reshaping the Career Ladder

  • 🛠Trending Tools

  • 🥪Brief Bites

  • 💰Funding Frontlines

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🧾This Coding Agent Saves Millions of Dollars In Compute Costs

Image Source: Google DeepMind/“New Coding Agent combines advanced AI models with Automated Evaluators to target highly complex problems in Modern Computing!”/Screenshot

Google DeepMind developed “AlphaEvolve,” a Coding Agent that creates and optimizes algorithms, saving millions of dollars in compute costs.

Key Details:
  • “AlphaEvolve” orchestrates a pipeline of advanced AI models to autonomously test, refine, and enhance algorithms.

  • It deploys Gemini 2.5 Flash for speed and Gemini 2.5 Pro for depth to propose changes to the source code within existing algorithms.

  • These proposed changes are tested by the Coding Agent, which generates simulations to observe how well they perform in realistic conditions.

  • The best proposed changes are guided to the next round of evolution,” where “AlphaEvolve” combines the most successful traits of each proposed change to create even more optimized algorithms.

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro are designed to handle more complex tasks that require multi-step reasoning. They achieve this by breaking down these more complex tasks into smaller parts, examining those smaller parts, and synthesizing a cohesive output by employing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques.

Why It’s Important:
  • AlphaEvolve” has been quietly at work inside Alphabet’s Google, optimizing Borg, which powers platforms like Google Search and Google Maps. It constantly recovers an average of 0.7% of compute resources.

  • It also broke German Mathematician Volker Strassen’s 56-year-old matrix multiplication record, discovering a new way to multiply two 4×4 complex matrices using 48 scalar multiplications instead of 49. This discovery matters because fewer multiplications means faster compute.

AI TRENDS

🪜How AI Is Reshaping the Career Ladder

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

It turns out that AI developments are reshaping the career ladder, with white-collar, entry-level job roles increasingly at risk.

Key Details:
  • Roughly 170 million new jobs are projected to be created this decade, while 92 million jobs are projected to be displaced this decade.

  • While these projections suggest a 7% increase in total employment, AI-powered tools add a layer of complexity, especially with how, when, and where AI developments create jobs or destroy jobs.

  • The rise of AI-powered tools threatens to automate as many jobs as it creates for white-collar, entry-level job roles. For instance, AI-powered tools are projected to replace 67% of Sales Representatives and 53% of Market Research Analysts.

  • These white-collar, entry-level job roles were traditionally the on-ramp to careers in law, finance, and marketing. But AI-powered tools can now perform detailed legal research or analyze market trends faster, more accurately, and more efficiently.

  • In contrast, senior-level job roles are thriving. With AI-powered tools handling more tactical, repetitive, or analytic workflows, Managers and Executives are increasingly focused on strategic oversight and critical thinking.

Why It’s Important:
  • Over 49% of U.S. Gen Z job hunters believe AI has reduced the value of their college degree in the job market.

  • The expected 7% increase in total employment this decade hides a qualitative shift in white-collar, entry-level job roles requiring higher cross-disciplinary knowledge with significantly more AI literacy.

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🛠TRENDING TOOLS

💭Fliki turns ideas into videos with AI voices.

👔Seveum finds your dream job in record time.

⚙️CodeDesign.ai builds, hosts, and exports websites.

📊Fluig converts any document into any diagram for free.

🗣️Intellisay creates your optimal day in 2 minutes of talking.

🥪BRIEF BITES

Chegg plans to lay off 22% of staff as students turn to conversational chatbots such as ChatGPT for homework help.

U.S. Tech Giants such as NVIDIA, AMD, Google, and Amazon locked in historic multi-billion-dollar deals with Saudi Arabia to fund AI projects.

OpenAI introduced the “Safety Evaluations Hub,” a resource to explore ChatGPT’s hallucinations, jailbreak attempts, and harmful content.

Notion just released “Notion AI for Work,” a new set of AI-powered tools, including Enterprise Search and Research Mode, to streamline business workflows.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • Glass Imaging raises a $20M Series A to improve digital image quality.

  • Persona AI closes a $27M Pre-Seed Round to develop AI-powered humanoid robots for manufacturers.

  • TensorWave secures a $100M Series A to support the world’s most demanding AI-enabled workloads.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

  • HeyGen (Los Angeles, CA): Social Media Marketing Intern, Fall 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Hardware Validation Engineer, Entry-Level

  • Perplexity AI (Palo Alto, CA): AI Inference Engineer, Mid-Level

  • OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Product Manager, Search, Senior-Level

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