Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The company selling the shovels in the AI gold rush just made a big move to start mining, too. | With its new powerful (and fully open) Nemotron 3 models, Nvidia is giving Western developers the competitive option they've been missing — while ensuring they stay hooked on its hardware in the process. | | In today's AI rundown: | Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 open models for agentic AI AI reasoning models smash CFA exams Design better websites with Cursor's new editor Perplexity study shows how users are using AI agents 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| | | | NVIDIA | |  | Image source: Nvidia |
| The Rundown: Nvidia just introduced its Nemotron 3, a family of open models designed specifically for building multi-agent AI systems — marking the chipmaker's most significant push yet into frontier model development. | The details: | The lineup spans three sizes: Nano (30B), Super (100B), and Ultra (500B), with Nano available now and the larger versions coming in 2026. Nano beats similar-sized models like Qwen3-30B on coding and instruction-following benchmarks, while also generating responses over 3x faster. Unlike most closed U.S. rivals, Nvidia is publishing training data, fine-tuning tools, and reinforcement learning environments alongside the models. The chipmaker lists Cursor, Perplexity, ServiceNow, and CrowdStrike as early adopters across coding, search, enterprise automation, and cybersecurity.
| Why it matters: Closed U.S. labs are increasingly creating their own silicon, while Chinese leaders are dominating open model usage globally. Nvidia releasing strong, completely open models gives Western developers a competitive open-source option, and also keeps them building on Nvidia's hardware in the process. |
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| | AI & FINANCE | |  | Image source: Reve / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: A new study just found that six leading AI models now pass all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring a record high of 97.6% on Level 1. | The details: | Researchers tested GPT-5, Gemini 3.0 Pro, Claude Opus 4.1, Grok 4, and DeepSeek-V3.1 across 980 questions spanning all exam tiers. GPT-5 topped Level II at 94.3%, while Gemini 3.0 Pro dominated the most difficult constructed-response section with 92%. In 2023, GPT 3.5 failed the first two levels, and GPT-4 passed only Level I — with the leap to near-perfect scores taking roughly 24 months. An NYU study in September also showed models passing all three levels, but with scores in the 70s vs. the near-perfect numbers of current frontier systems.
| Why it matters: Acing a standardized test and handling daily demands of financial analysis are still very different things, but the speed of improvement on these exams is wild — and models mastering finance knowledge could shift the profession's value toward human skills like client judgment and relationship management. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: Learn how to quickly set up and use Cursor's new visual design editor to refine your frontend design without having to switch back and forth with a design tool like Figma. | Step-by-step: | Open a new project in Cursor with an HTML and CSS file (latest update required) — ask Cursor agent to build a simple index.html + styles.css or use a template Install the live server extension: hit CMD+Shift+P, search "Open with Live Server," then copy the URL and paste it into Cursor browser (CMD+Shift+B) Toggle on the element selector, click any element to edit properties in the Design pane, or tell the agent what changes you want in the active chat Hit Apply for the agent to make changes — click "Keep" or "Keep All" to save (the agent updates classes automatically so changes apply to all matching elements)
| Pro tip: Make sure you're saving your progress with Git as you go. Git will make it easier to roll back any unwanted style changes, and you can even ask the agent to write Git commits for you. |
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| | AI RESEARCH | |  | Image source: Perplexity |
| The Rundown: Perplexity and Harvard just published a study analyzing how users of the company's Comet browser are utilizing AI agents, finding usage heavily centered on cognitive work and research over automating simple tasks. | The details: | Researchers analyzed hundreds of millions of anonymized queries from Perplexity's Comet browser, which launched in July. Over half of queries involved research or workflow management, with common tasks including summarization, document editing, and coursework help. Tech workers, academics, marketers, and finance professionals generated the bulk of activity, with adoption correlating to GDP and education levels. Behavior shifted over time, with users who started with casual queries like travel planning often migrating toward heavier knowledge work later on.
| Why it matters: During the AI agent rise, we've frequently seen use cases like booking flights/tickets, ordering groceries, and handling mundane tasks. But Perplexity's research (which may skew differently from ChatGPT or other assistants) shows users gravitating toward deeper work uses, not personal life conveniences. |
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| | | Merriam-Webster named 'Slop' as its 2025 Word of the Year, defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of AI." | The U.S. Office of Personnel Management introduced "Tech Force," a push to recruit 1K early-career AI and software workers into federal government roles. | Manus released version 1.6 of its AI agent platform, which introduces mobile app development and a visual design editor alongside performance improvements. | Klarna launched the Agentic Product Protocol, an open standard that gives AI assistants access to over 100M products across merchants. | AI2 released Olmo 3.1, an upgraded version of its open-source model family that the lab claims is the "strongest fully open reasoning model." |
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| | | | | Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. | Today's workflow comes from reader Vicky F. in Phoenix, AZ: | "I am using AI as a research partner to reconstruct the complex life of one of my ancestors. ChatGPT has helped me locate and analyze historical records, draft emails to libraries and state agencies, and uncover new leads….We've built timelines, tested genealogical theories, compared maps and newspaper accounts, interpreted probate language, and tracked migration patterns. Now we're co-writing a full narrative of her life." | How do you use AI? Tell us here. |
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