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Here is what we have Today:

• 🎮 Gemini conquers Pokémon Blue while Claude still struggles.

• 🥷 Apple and Anthropic building secret coding tool.

• 🔌 Google's plan to prevent AI from melting the power grid.

• 🧠 Amazon's New model trains smaller AIs to match its intelligence.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Google

⚡ A Power Surge Is Coming—Google Wants to Fix It

🧠 AI is booming… but the U.S. grid is straining
America’s AI revolution is outpacing its power supply—and the workforce needed to keep it running.

This week, Google dropped a plan that hits both problems head-on: fixing America’s aging energy infrastructure and training a new army of electrical workers.

📜 Google just launched a national roadmap
“Powering a New Era of American Innovation”
🔹 15 proposals
🔹 Grid upgrades
🔹 Workforce development
🔹 New energy sources

👷 130K Electricians in the Pipeline
Google’s investing big in training:
✅ 100K current electrical workers will be upskilled
✅ 30K new apprenticeships by 2030
✅ Powered by AI-enhanced training

🤖 AI meets infrastructure
Backed by Google’s AI Opportunity Fund, now expanded to cover essential trades—not just tech.

💥 Why it matters:
The U.S. is facing a two-front challenge:
1️⃣ Build a modern grid
2️⃣ Find skilled people to do it

Meanwhile, ⚠️ China is heavily investing in energy.
In the AI era, ⚡ power is the new fuel.

🔥 Bottom line?
No power, no AI.
Google’s betting big that fixing the grid + training the workforce = America stays competitive.

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Amazon

🤖 Nova Premier: The AI That Trains Other AIs

Not just smart — it's a teacher.

Amazon just rolled out Nova Premier — its most powerful AI model yet. But instead of trying to outsmart everyone, this one has a different job: teaching other models to be smarter.

🔍 What is Nova Premier?

• ⚡ Multimodal: Reads text, images, and videos

• 🧠 1M-token context window → Can analyze 750,000 words at once

• 🔁 Designed to teach smaller models using Bedrock Distillation

📉 But Wait — It's Not the Smartest?

• ❌ Lags behind Gemini 2.5 Pro in math, science, and coding

• ✅ Excels at orchestrating multi-agent tasks
  → Think: Financial research & workflow automation

📈 Why It Matters

Nova Premier isn’t trying to beat the best.
It’s built to make the rest better.

• 🧬 Trains smaller models like Nova Pro and Micro

• 🚀 Boosts their performance by up to 20%

• 🧑‍🏫 Acts as a "master coach" in Amazon’s AI ecosystem

🧩 The Big Picture

Instead of chasing one supermodel, Amazon is:
🔄 Distributing intelligence
🔧 Optimizing performance
🎯 Scaling smarter—not just bigger

🗞️ TL;DR

Amazon’s Nova Premier isn’t a solo star —
it’s building a smarter AI team from the top down.

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• Moonlight solar panels are a new technology advancement that can generate electricity at nights, consist of harnessing the earth's natural radiative cooling process to generate electricity. This is achieved by attaching thermoelectric generators to modified commercial solar panels. It then captures the heat after the sunset to create electricity.

• Apple and Anthropic are working on a new AI coding tool based on Xcode, powered by Claude Sonnet, according to Bloomberg. The platform will help write, edit, and test code, and is currently planned for internal use. Apple is also partnering with OpenAI and possibly Google to boost its broader AI strategy.

• Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue — a 1996 GameBoy game — marking a milestone for AI agents. It was run by an independent developer who fed Gemini game screenshots with extra data. Gemini used that to decide moves, call tools, and press buttons — no walkthroughs, just reasoning. Claude AI is still trying to finish Pokémon Red.

• ChatGPT just passed X in global pageviews — 4.8 billion vs. 4 billion in the past 28 days, according to Similarweb. OpenAI’s rapid feature rollout, especially GPT-4o’s viral image generation, helped drive the spike. This shift comes as OpenAI explores building its own social network.

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