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DeepSeek is hiring for operations and maintenance with a monthly salary of 30,000, while regular duty staff only earn five to six thousand

According to an interview with "Daily People," a data center operations engineer who has worked in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia for 5 years stated that local AI data centers are still under large-scale construction, but the hiring demand at his company has significantly decreased. The company hired thousands of people in 2025, but by the time of the interview in 2026, only 3 new hires had been made.The engineer, who goes by the pseudonym Zhang Liwei, originally worked on an assembly line at an automobile factory. When he first switched careers, his internship monthly salary was 2,000 yuan, which increased to 4,500 yuan after graduation. After 5 years of job hopping and promotions, he currently earns over 10,000 yuan per month. In April of this year, DeepSeek was hiring senior operations engineers and senior delivery managers for its data center in Ulanqab, offering a monthly salary of 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, with 14 months' salary. These positions require extensive experience in data center operations and project management. According to Zhang Liwei's observations, local ordinary duty staff still earn around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per month, while assistant engineers can earn over 10,000 yuan.The entry barriers are also rising. In 2024, some data centers were still hiring newcomers without relevant professional backgrounds; however, this year, some companies have required candidates to have a relevant degree and work experience, and there is even a 35-year age limit for basic duty positions. Zhang Liwei mentioned that a former colleague has started a training class for operations, charging nearly 20,000 yuan per student, and classes only start when there are 60 students, with a single session fee approaching 1.2 million yuan. The so-called internal recommendations are mostly just to help students secure an interview opportunity.

BlackRock has recorded a $3.6 billion IBIT physical conversion: security considerations have become the main driver

According to Barron's, Robbie Mitchnick, head of BlackRock's digital asset business, stated that since regulators approved the physical creation and redemption of crypto assets last year, the company has recorded approximately $3.6 billion in physical conversions of directly held Bitcoin into shares of its spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT. Since BlackRock does not handle all transactions itself and may not see every conversion, the actual scale may be larger.BlackRock also provides physical conversions for the iShares Ethereum Trust ETF and the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF, but the related scale is much smaller than IBIT. Mitchnick noted that demand continues to rise, and this is currently the highest level of interest the company has seen, which does not change with Bitcoin price fluctuations. The primary motivation is security and peace of mind. Outsourcing custody to an institutional-grade cold storage model is more attractive for holders; holding ETF shares managed by large fund managers is generally seen as less risky than placing assets on crypto trading platforms or in always-online hot wallets.He mentioned that the recent hacking incident at Binance has once again highlighted the risks of trading platforms, although large Bitcoin holders have long understood these risks. The minimum threshold for physical conversions has been reduced from the initial approximately $30 million to about $1 million to $2 million, with the threshold set by intermediary firms facilitating the transactions, such as Galaxy Digital, Talos, and Virtu. Mitchnick expressed hope that the threshold could be lowered to a single ETF share, but the cost structure is unlikely to drop to zero in the short term.

first_img Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, with high actual generation costs

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and the restricted version Mythos 5.2 on Monday, stating that the new model can transform a small number of instructions into runnable software, design physical objects, and address research questions that previously required a professional team. The official announcement claims that its output speed has improved by up to 30% compared to the previous generation, with Fable 5.2 scoring 49.1% in the internal FrontierCode 2 evaluation, higher than Fable 5.1's 32.4%. Both share the same underlying model, with Fable having stricter protections against dangerous biological and cybersecurity requests, while Mythos is only open to certified institutions in relevant fields.In terms of pricing, the standard API price is $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens, lower than the previous generation's $10 and $50; an optional fast mode can increase output speed by up to 2.5 times, but the rates double to $16 and $80. In comparison, Kimi 3.1 Pro is priced at $2 and $10, while the latest DeepSeek model is $0.6 and $1.98 during off-peak hours.AI blogger Matthew Berman's tests show that Fable 5.2 can generate playable games and a browser version of Excel. One level styled after "Gears of War" took 43 hours and 48 minutes to complete, consuming 8.63 billion tokens, with an estimated cost of $14,710 based on developer pay-per-use estimates; the Excel clone is estimated at about $11,700, and a "Fall Guys" style game ran for 71 hours, consuming over 9 billion tokens, approximately $13,000. Anthropic provides one week of Fable access for Pro users and standard Team seats, capped at half of the weekly quota, with promotional access for Pro users ending on November 16.
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