This week on Signal, Nova's weekly show on the future of work, AI, and tech, Ramón and Andrea skip the guest for a news catch-up after a Nova offsite — covering two weeks of AI, funding, and future-of-work headlines.
In this episode:
- Bending Spoons' $25B Nasdaq IPO — the biggest tech listing in Italian history
- OpenAI offers the US government a 5% stake, and the debate over states owning AI companies
- The equity negotiation that turned one ARR milestone into a stake worth hundreds of millions
- Entry-level jobs are disappearing, and paying 20-35% less
- Nova House goes live in Madrid, with an AI for Founders dinner and a hackathon with Karumi
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Two Spanish founders raised $30M from Andreessen Horowitz — and announced it 24 hours before recording this episode. Josep Mingot and Xavier de Gracia, co-founders of Prosper AI, join Ramón to talk about building the AI workforce for healthcare operations: voice agents that handle scheduling, billing, and insurance calls for hospitals and medical practices, 40–50% MoM growth, and the fundraising playbook that landed a16z.

Pablo Omeñaca left a YC-backed company right after a $75M acquisition — not to rest, but to build again. This week on Signal, he joins Ramón and Andrea to talk about Karumi: an AI agent that demos your software product live, on a video call, in any language, 24/7.We cover PMF signals, building moats in the AI application layer, the YC principle every founder should internalize, and what the Claude 5 ban tells us about Europe's AI vulnerability. Plus: why Pablo flew to Africa to put LLMs on laptops for kids with no internet.There's nothing more important in your professional career than your connections. At Nova we know this and help our members connect with the best in every industry. We've built the professional network that helps you grow. If you want to know how to join Nova, find the link here: https://www.novatalent.com

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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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Everyone is watching Anthropic vs. OpenAI. Meanwhile, in the labs, robots are being built that will reshape the economy in ways that make the current AI debate look small.Matthias, Nova 111 UK Supernova and Harvard PhD researcher, joined Ramón and Andrea to talk about the real frontier of AI — the physical world. From exoskeletons helping people with Parkinson's walk, to humanoid robots promising to replace entire industries, the conversation cuts through the hype to what actually matters: when robotics truly unlocks at scale, the blue collar shock will make today's white collar AI disruption look manageable. If a robot costs less than a human, there's no debate — companies will hire the robot. That's not pessimism. That's math.We also got into Europe vs. the US: why the continent's best engineering talent keeps ending up at Harvard, MIT, and ETH Zurich before crossing the Atlantic for good. The schools are world-class. The pay isn't. The ecosystem doesn't pull. And that's a structural problem Europe hasn't solved — and is running out of time to fix.On the news side: Google's Gemini quietly taking over classified Pentagon work, OpenAI removing its safety handover clause from its founding charter, China becoming the first government to legally protect workers from AI-driven layoffs, the Oscars banning AI actors and AI-written scripts, Sam Altman pitching OpenAI as the Stripe of intelligence, and Stripe launching wallets so agents can spend your money — while 47% of internet traffic is already bots.The best connections in your career aren't a matter of chance. Nova is the merit-based professional network where you'll find the greatest talent. Want to be a part of it? Link here 👉 https://www.novatalent.com/top-talent?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep08&utm_content=bio-linkLooking to hire top talent? Nova Recruiter is the world's most advanced tool to find and engage qualified talent. Search in a +800M public profile database with merit-based filters, multi-channel sequencing and AI agents that automate your work E2E and save up to 98% of the sourcing time (~22h / process). Try it for free 👉 https://www.novatalent.com/nova-recruiter?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep08&utm_content=bio-link

OpenAI is no longer just a model company. They raised $4 billion to enter the consulting and services layer, with McKinsey and Bain among the backers. Anthropic is doing the same through a partner ecosystem. The question isn't whether this works technically; it's whether the lock-in holds when switching an API key is easier than switching a SAP implementation.

This week, Ramón Rodrigáñez and Andrea Marino also dig into Cerebras, the chip company targeting a $26 billion IPO that might be the most credible challenger to Nvidia yet, with an OpenAI compute deal of $20 billion already signed. And Gary Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, who builds personal AI until 2am every morning: thin harness, fat skills, fat data, and an open-source skill that turns any book into a personal reflection on your own life.

There's also a practical tip going viral inside Anthropic: stop asking for Markdown outputs, ask for HTML instead. The model takes slightly more tokens, but you absorb the output in a fraction of the time. A small change with a surprisingly large impact on how you interact with AI day to day.

And a harder question to close: is AI making us more productive or just busier? Employee disengagement is at a three-year low in 2026. Meta got caught installing tracking software on employee computers to train replacement models. And trust in AI in the US is now lower than trust in ICE. The edge users are having fun. Everyone else is worried.

The best connections in your career aren't a matter of chance. Nova is the merit-based professional network where you'll find the greatest talent. Want to be a part of it? Link here 👉 https://www.novatalent.com/top-talent?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep07&utm_content=bio-link

Looking to hire top talent? Nova Recruiter is the world's most advanced tool to find and engage qualified talent. Search in a +800M public profile database with merit-based filters, multi-channel sequencing and AI agents that automate your work E2E and save up to 98% of the sourcing time (~22h / process). Try it for free 👉https://www.novatalent.com/nova-recruiter?utm_source=spotify&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signal-ep07&utm_content=bio-link