Top 3 Signals This Week
1) Jensen Huang woos Beijing as Nvidia finds a way back into China
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Beijing this week as reports emerged that the company anticipates U.S. approval to restart AI chip sales to China.
Huang explained that U.S. officials are still reviewing the licensing applications for Nvidia’s China sales, and the company would need to rebuild its supply chain operations—a process he suggested might require up to nine months to complete.
“The Chinese models, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, are excellent,” he said.
Huang highlighted his appreciation for Chinese AI models’ open-source nature, which allows free downloads and local use on personal computers.
He noted that DeepSeek R1 has been downloaded by companies across numerous countries—claiming “99%” of users—for local deployment in healthcare, robotics, imaging, and various other applications.
2) AWS announces new innovations for building AI agents at AWS Summit New York 2025
Amazon headlines its latest AI announcements with Bedrock AgentCore, complemented by expanded AWS Marketplace offerings and a $100 million investment in agentic AI development.
Main highlights:
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore allows enterprises to deploy and manage secure AI agents at scale through seven essential services.
- The expanded AWS Marketplace provides businesses with streamlined access to purchase and implement AI agents and tools from top vendors.
- AWS will inject an additional $100 million into its Generative AI Innovation Center to accelerate agentic AI development and implementation.
- Enhanced Amazon Nova customization features give customers greater precision and adaptability when building solutions tailored to their specific requirements.
Learn more: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-summit-agentic-ai-innovations-2025
3) Coinbase launches the ‘everything app’
Coinbase has unveiled the Base App, which replaces Coinbase Wallet as a comprehensive platform featuring Social by Farcaster, Messaging by XMTP, Payments, and Trading capabilities.
Revealed at Coinbase’s “A New Day One” event, the launch repositions Base as a three-component ecosystem: the current Base Chain Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base Build developer tools and resources, and the new Base App that acts as a consumer entry point to blockchain services.
The application incorporates hundreds of mini-applications spanning games to prediction markets, provides instant USDC payments through NFC technology, and features encrypted XMTP messaging that allows users to share content, interact with AI agents, or transfer funds.
Read more here: https://www.theblock.co/post/362713/coinbase-unveils-base-app-rebrands-wallet-as-all-in-one-social-and-trading-platform
💡 Headhunter’s Lens
The internet era rewards specialists, but we believe the future belongs to generalists. GenAI has already levelled the playing field, and the AI disruption is coming for knowledge workers.
We met with three thought leaders yesterday, and one of them, a Data Architect, shared that the future of work will reward multi-disciplinary talent. She envisions managing five team members and 15 AI agents in the not-too-distant future, perhaps in 5–7 years. And it might come sooner.
So what does that mean for you, especially if you’re thinking about your next job?
- Choose discomfort over comfort to learn new skills.
- Avoid roles that box you in, look for multi-disciplinary scope.
- Get your hands dirty with AI and have some use cases under your belt before your next move.
- Read more, especially in areas that train first-principles thinking such as hard science, economics, history, and so on.
🚀 Executive Move to Watch
Nikita Bier joins X as Head of Product.
Bier gained recognition as the creator of teen-focused social apps Gas and TBH, both designed to foster positive interactions through compliment-sharing features. Gas was later acquired by Discord, while Facebook purchased TBH, establishing Bier’s reputation for building platforms that encourage supportive communication among young users.
📬 One to Forward
🎧 How to speak so that people want to listen, by Julian Treasure