OG Approved - No BS Tech News # 91

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Olivier Gomez (OG)
October 16, 2025

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💡What’s the Big Idea?

Meta just paid $1.5 billion to hire a single AI engineer — proof that the true bottleneck in AI isn’t compute or capital, it’s elite human capability.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. AI talent is now a strategic asset class. The best engineers are commanding valuations rivaling entire startups.

2. Big Tech’s hunger for talent is outpacing regulation and reason. Companies are buying individuals the way they once bought companies.

3. This is a signal, not an anomaly. If one engineer can be worth $1.5B, the next wave of innovation will belong to whoever can attract, retain, or clone that level of intelligence.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because AI’s next breakthroughs won’t come from tools — they’ll come from the few minds capable of making them useful, safe, and scalable.

⭐OG Rating:

5/5 It perfectly exposes the new hierarchy of value in tech — where one brain can move markets faster than an entire enterprise ever could.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

Europe doesn’t have an AI innovation problem — it has an investment courage problem, and the fix is to fund ambition instead of managing risk.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. Europe builds great research but starves it of capital. Billions flow into regulation, not scale.

2. Investors play defense. They back “safe” AI ethics projects instead of betting on transformative platforms.

3. The answer isn’t more policy — it’s conviction. Europe already has the brains and infrastructure; it just needs investors who act like founders, not auditors.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because the next industrial edge won’t come from compliance — it’ll come from backing bold builders before the U.S. or China do.

⭐OG Rating:4.5/5 - Sharp diagnosis, strong realism — but Europe’s execution gap has been obvious for a decade. The insight is right; the will to act still isn’t.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

Elon Musk just took delivery of NVIDIA’s DGX Spark — a petaflop-scale AI supercomputer — showing that the new space race isn’t orbital, it’s computational.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

  1. DGX Spark is purpose-built for frontier models. One machine delivers performance once reserved for national labs — now sitting inside SpaceX.

  2. Musk is collapsing boundaries. The same stack that powers rockets will now train multimodal AI for vision, robotics, and autonomy.

  3. Hardware is a strategy again. Whoever controls compute capacity controls innovation velocity — and Musk just locked in first-mover speed.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because power in AI is shifting from code to compute — and Musk understands that owning the machine means owning the future.

⭐OG Rating:

5/5 A milestone moment: symbol, signal, and strategy in one move. Musk just turned silicon into sovereignty.

💡What’s the Big Idea?

An AI professor in China went viral not for her research, but her looks — revealing how society still rewards visibility over substance, even in fields built on intellect.

🔑 Key Takeaways for Readers:

1. The algorithm loves surface. Even in academia, virality amplifies aesthetics before ideas.

2. Humility stands out in a noisy world. Her modest response — “I’m ordinary” — became the real signal of intelligence.

3. Cultural bias persists. When a female AI expert trends for beauty, it exposes how far recognition still skews from merit.

⚡ Why It Matters (OG lens):

Because the future of AI isn’t just about smarter machines — it’s about a smarter culture that values the mind over the mirror.

⭐OG Rating:

4/5 A human reminder in a tech-obsessed world: progress means little if perception still runs on outdated code. 

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