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In today’s Daily Report:
🚨YouTube’s BIG “AI Slop” Problem
💸NVIDIA’s $20 Billion Shortcut to Smarter Language
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
YOUTUBE
🚨YouTube’s BIG “AI Slop” Problem
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According to video editing platform Kapwing, up to 33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of “Brainrot” or “AI Slop.”
Key Details:
“AI Slop” refers to low-quality and mass-produced AI-generated content that’s optimized to flood feeds and farm views. It’s all about quantity over quality since YouTube’s algorithms reward volume and engagement over depth and originality.
After surveying 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels, or the top 100 YouTube channels in every country, they found that 278 of them contain only “AI Slop.”
The AI-powered YouTube channel with the most engagement is India’s Bandar Apna Dost, which boasts 2.78 million subscribers, 2.07 billion views, and estimated annual earnings of $4,251,500.
Why It’s Important:
If you’re scrolling through YouTube Shorts after creating an account, there’s a 21% chance you saw AI-generated content within the first 500 videos you viewed. The authentic human touch that once defined YouTube is being drowned out!
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan continues to struggle with the distinction between “AI-generated” and “AI-assisted.” He currently believes how content was made doesn’t determine if it’s allowed. What matters is the content itself. In other words, YouTube isn’t fighting AI unless it jeopardizes advertising or damages brand reputation.
NVIDIA
💸NVIDIA’s $20 Billion Shortcut to Smarter Language
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NVIDIA officially entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement that’s reportedly worth $20 billion to access Groq’s AI inference technology.
Key Details:
Groq developed the world’s first Language Processing Units (LPUs), which are specifically designed for the efficient processing of language models: statistical systems that learn to predict the probability of a sequence of words. You can think of language models as the engines that power ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Imagine GPUs as a team of runners (i.e., AI Chips), each with their own baton (i.e., Data), sprinting side-by-side on a wide track. When it comes to passing the batons (i.e., Data) between runners, things slow down.
Imagine LPUs as a relay race, where each runner (i.e., AI Chip) passes a single baton (i.e., Data) to the next runner (i.e., AI Chip), allowing everything to run super efficiently.
Why It’s Important:
As part of this non-exclusive licensing agreement, Groq will continue to operate independently, while Groq CEO Jonathan Ross will join NVIDIA. He previously helped engineer Google’s TPUs before founding Groq in 2016.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY Nextpower Inc. |
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TIER 1: SILICON ASML Holding N.V. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS Galaxy Digital Inc. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Amazon.com, Inc. |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK Datadog, Inc. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS Pegasystems Inc. |
🔔CLOSING BELL: As of 12/30/2025 market close.
💡STOCK SPOTLIGHT: Each tier showcases a new stock every day.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
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👾NotesBot records, transcribes, and summarizes Discord calls.
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Meta just bought Manus AI for more than $2 billion to engineer “General AI Agents” that execute tasks and automate workflows to supercharge productivity.
Meta FAIR developed “Self-Play SWE-RL,” a new training technique where a single frontier AI model learns to code better by deliberately generating coding bugs.
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed “PaTH Attention,” a new encoding technique that enables advanced AI models to follow the flow of a story better across multiple prompts.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted “Head of Preparedness,” a new job listing to guide safety strategy amid mounting concerns around AI systems rapidly self-improving toward superintelligence.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
BriefCatch secured a $6M Series A for AI-assisted legal writing.
Traini raised a $7.5M Seed Round for an AI-based smart dog collar.
Manifold closed an $18M Series B to develop life-changing medicines.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Kikoff (San Francisco, CA): AI Growth Marketing Intern, Summer 2026
Mistral AI (Paris, FR): Software Engineer, AI Studio, Entry-Level
Meta (Redmond, WA): AI Research Scientist, Robotics, Mid-Level
Chai Discovery (San Francisco, CA): AI Research Lead, Senior-Level
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