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DeepSeek operator engineer Liu Sheng discusses the impact of AI on his work. He states that the main Attention operator of DeepSeek V4.1 was written by himself, but given the current pace of progress, in another six months to a year, the level of AI in writing operators will likely catch up to or even surpass his own.A year ago, AI could only help him check documents, read code, and find bugs. Now it can read CUDA, PTX, and SASS, analyze the pause time of each instruction, and independently optimize operators. He anticipates that the next step will be for AI to design scheduling plans, evaluate performance, and complete implementations on its own. He is very clear that the better he optimizes the operators, the faster the training and inference of the DeepSeek model will be, and AI will catch up to him even faster. But even if he stops now, models from other companies will not stop, so he will continue to make the operators the best they can be.He believes that he is unlikely to become unemployed, but he may be forced to "change careers," transitioning from writing operators himself to becoming a "mecha pilot" who manipulates agents. What he truly finds difficult to accept is not the disappearance of his job, but the possibility that he may never have the chance to do the work he loves again: "I have to bury my talent in yesterday." The article concludes with his reasons for staying at DeepSeek. He advocates that cutting-edge AI should be provided openly and cheaply to everyone and openly expresses his disbelief that Anthropic or OpenAI can achieve this. He worries that the strongest AI will ultimately be controlled by a few companies, further turning the technological gap into a gap of power and class.

Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated in a post on X that over the past six months, the team has received many opportunities to acquire cryptocurrency companies.He mentioned that Morpho rarely acquires companies for intellectual property or technology. If they want to build a certain capability, they prefer to hire the right talent and develop it end-to-end themselves, following their own engineering, auditing, and formal verification processes. Talent acquisition may be attractive, but the valuation will be purely based on a comparison of the cost of the talent acquired versus hiring an equivalent team.

Talent Protocol announced that it has been acquired by Interplanetary Talent Services (IPTS) and is supported by Protocol Labs. Builder Score will become a public product, running locally in the browser, using public data from GitHub and four blockchains, with each calculation verifiable. Builders can publish their scores as proof on Base. IPTS will obtain some reputation data to match builders with positions in cutting-edge technology fields such as AI, crypto, hardware, and life sciences.Both parties will continue the results for five years: 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million events have been indexed, over $600,000 has been distributed through Builder Rewards, and 116 builders from more than 15 countries have been supported by Talent House. Talent Protocol will cease commercial operations, with the API, Talent+, and social channels shutting down at the end of August. The team will not join IPTS or Protocol Labs, and $TALENT is not included in this acquisition.

Jeff Yan, co-founder of Hyperliquid, recently stated in the VALR podcast that one of the biggest challenges currently facing the cryptocurrency and fintech sectors is the failure to attract enough top entrepreneurial talent.Jeff Yan believes that, influenced by factors such as the AI boom and social prestige, many of the best young people are unclear about which fields they should engage in to create the most value, resulting in very few choosing to enter the cryptocurrency industry.He stated that reconstructing the financial system from first principles and transforming academic theories into scalable market designs is a highly meaningful endeavor, and he urged young entrepreneurs not to focus solely on the surface value of things but to concentrate on the real problems facing the world and participate in the development and innovation of on-chain finance.

The new research lab Ethlabs was launched this week, co-funded by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, Bitmine Immersion Technologies holding approximately 5.7 million ETH, and Sharplink holding approximately 876,000 ETH, with the specific funding amount undisclosed.Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that Ethlabs will complement the Ethereum Foundation, but acknowledged that the two will "overlap in certain areas," and that "the most concentrated talent" will be at Ethlabs. The lab focuses on faster settlement, cross-chain interoperability, and readiness for institutional and AI applications, which highly overlaps with the priorities of the Foundation after its reorganization this week.This move comes as the Ethereum Foundation cut about 40% of its 2026 budget and eliminated 54 positions this week, with Vitalik Buterin defining it as a shift towards a donation fund model. Former Foundation core development coordinator Trent Van Epps warned last week that core development faces a funding gap in three to nine months. Ethlabs' first real test will be the Glamsterdam upgrade, where the roadmaps of the two organizations will intersect for the first time in a limited upgrade queue.

According to Gate market data, Google's (GOOG.O) stock price fell on Monday after another well-known artificial intelligence leader left to join a competitor. Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper announced over the weekend that he would be leaving to join Anthropic. Following the news, Alphabet's stock price briefly dropped by 7.2%, marking the largest intraday decline since February. Last week, Google researcher Noam Shazeer also announced his departure to join OpenAI.

According to the "Web3 New Generation Talent Insight Report" released by Bitget, the core challenge currently facing the industry is not a shortage of talent, but rather the misalignment of recruitment barriers and employment channels. Data from a multi-regional survey based on the Blockchain4Youth (B4Y) initiative shows that 54% of respondents view the requirement of "prior experience" for entry-level positions as the biggest obstacle to entering the industry, while 52% point out that school education lacks practical skills.From the perspective of regional distribution and trends, Web3 continues to attract highly educated talent and emerging market talent. Nearly 46% of respondents are aged between 23 and 30, and over 58% hold a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree; in terms of career preferences, 61% of respondents consider "the integration of AI and blockchain" as the most desirable career path, while another 62% believe that guidance from industry veterans is the most helpful in accelerating career development.Currently, the number of registered students at the Blockchain4Youth Learning Center has surpassed 10,000, and students who complete the courses can obtain certificates and job opportunities, thereby closing the loop from learning to career paths and providing talent support for the next phase of industry growth.

According to official news, YZi Labs announced the launch of the recruitment platform YZi Talent, integrating open positions in Web3, AI, and biotechnology from its portfolio.The first batch of positions includes Backend Chief Engineer at predict.fun, Frontend Staff Engineer, and Founding Business Leader at AgriDynamics Robotics, with more companies set to join in succession.

According to Bloomberg, as crypto-native companies like Coinbase continue to lay off employees on a large scale and the industry as a whole is in a downturn, traditional financial institutions such as JPMorgan and BlackRock have recently bucked the trend by posting dozens of digital asset-related positions, becoming a major highlight in the current crypto job market.Analysts point out that having a background in Wall Street has become an important asset for crypto talent to maintain their competitive edge in employment during the industry's downturn.

According to CoinDesk, the American Innovation Project (AIP), a U.S. technology policy advocacy organization, has added two policy researchers, including Jacob Smagula, who has a background in the cryptocurrency industry, to join Congressman Ritchie Torres's team to participate in legislation related to digital assets.It is reported that Smagula previously worked in the government affairs team of the Bitcoin mining company MARA and is currently engaged in policy research at the DeFi Education Fund, possessing experience in communication between the cryptocurrency industry and regulators. AIP was established in 2025 with support from organizations such as the Digital Currency Group, aiming to provide Congress members with professional insights and policy support on emerging technologies like AI and digital assets. This appointment is seen as a signal of further professionalization in U.S. cryptocurrency legislation and regulation.

Bitget officially launched the "Blockchain4Youth Learning Center" with its first course, aimed at providing a systematic blockchain learning path for young people and further connecting knowledge learning with career development. After completing the course and passing the assessment, students will receive a certificate of completion issued by Bitget's Chief Marketing Officer Ignacio Aguirre Franco, serving as an official certification of their Web3 capabilities. Certificate holders can gain more industry exposure and priority employment opportunities among the partner employers of the Blockchain4Youth Talent Alliance.To bridge the gap from learning to employment, Bitget has partnered with the Web3 recruitment platform Bondex to provide students with a transparent job-seeking channel and a talent pool connection mechanism. Bondex co-founder Ignacio Palomera stated that the project aims to address the real issues faced by learners, such as "lack of industry connections after completing the course, insufficient effective certification, and unclear job-seeking paths," building a more direct bridge between young talent and recruiting companies.So far, the Bitget Blockchain4Youth series of projects has attracted over 15,000 young participants. Bitget CMO Ignacio Aguirre Franco pointed out that the goal of the learning center is to transform young people's interest in Web3 into a tangible entry path. As the program continues to advance, Blockchain4Youth is gradually evolving from a single event project into a long-term infrastructure focused on Web3 education, career guidance, and talent development.