This week on Signal, Nova's weekly show on the future of work, AI, and tech, Andrea and Ramón are back together to break down the biggest signals of the week, from bot traffic overtaking humans to a possible AI valuation crash. In this episode:

• Bot traffic has officially surpassed human traffic online for the first time, years ahead of schedule
• Scott Galloway's prediction of a 50 to 70% correction in AI company valuations
• Dario Amodei's thesis on a world with high GDP growth and high unemployment at the same time
• Nvidia's RTX Spark: the first AI-native chip for personal computers, and what it means for local agents
• GitHub reports 3x more code shipped in 5 months of 2026 than all of 2025
• Merakore's rise from $1M to $1B ARR in two years
• Ecosystem wins: Factorial's €150M raise, Bending Spoons' $20B NASDAQ IPO filing, and Stack AI's acquisition by Asana
• Nova 111 UK Gala recap and first day at Nova House in Madrid

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This week on Signal, Nova's weekly show on the future of work, AI, and tech, we sit down with Javier Cuesta, founding partner at Bedford & Bailey to dig into what AI is really doing to recruiting and careers.

In this episode:

- Where AI already beats the average recruiter, and the trust layer it can't replace

- The Jevons paradox: why cheaper code means more engineers, not fewer

- The real state of the entry-level job market

- Salary transparency, and what the US already learned

- Nova House launches in Madrid

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An AI just solved a geometric problem open for 70 years. SpaceX filed for a $1.75T IPO. Google's CEO named 2030 as his year for AGI. And inside Nova, the team went from a frontier model to one that costs 15 times less and performs 2.5x better on AI shortlisting.

This week Ramon sits down with Christian, CPO at Nova, and Jesus, Head of AI at Nova, to cover what's shipping at Nova and what shaped the week across AI, tech, and the future of work.

This week's news

- GPT cracks the Erdos geometry problem, open and unsolved for 70 years

- SpaceX files for a $1.75T IPO, selling roughly 4% of shares

- Google I/O: 7x more tokens processed year-on-year, CEO says AGI by 2030

- EU Pay Transparency directive goes live next week, enforcement still pending in most countries

- Micron and AMD up 6x in 2 months as agents drive unexpected demand for CPU and RAM over GPU

- XAI and Cursor: why Grok needs a platform, not just a better model

Timeless takeaways

- How Nova went from a frontier model to one that's 15x cheaper and 2.5x more accurate on shortlisting, using eval datasets and LLM-as-a-judge

- Fine-tuning vs. prompting in 2026: when each makes sense and why most teams are still prompting

- How Nova's product team now ships full projects end-to-end, from data pipelines to the website, without handing off to engineering

- The "Become an AI Recruiter" course: how Christian built it solo with AI and one LinkedIn post hit 1,400 comments the day after

- IC vs. manager: why the best career move in 2026 is staying in the field, not climbing above it

- Claude Code: why the desktop app is the better onboarding path for non-technical teams

The episode closes with a sharp conversation on the IC vs. manager shift, why mid-management built on information relay is quietly being replaced, and what the actual future of knowledge work looks like.

Signal is hosted by Ramon Rodriganez and Andrea Marino, co-founders of Nova. New episode every week.

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