Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under US export‑control directive
Anthropic abruptly disabled access to its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a Trump administration export‑control directive that bars foreign nationals from using the tools. The company said the move was a misunderstanding and disabled the models for all users, including those in the United States, to ensure compliance.
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By the numbers: Dapple raises $30M seed round
Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature
Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural appearance, and will be available by default for user activation. Launched on October 8, this feature could strengthen Google Meet's position in the competitive video conferencing market, catering to users seeking convenience and enhanced presentation during virtual meetings. As remote work continues to shape professional interactions, this development underscores the importance of personalization in digital communication tools.
Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times
Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI,...
Anduril’s EagleEye + Lattice Delivers God‑mode Battlefield Awareness
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter IRL. Anduril's new headset EagleEye combines night vision, thermal and AR to overlay real-time 3D tracking of friendlies & enemies in the real world. The headset is no doubt amazing, but the killer app here is...
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab
Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...
Learn AI-Driven Multi-Modal Coworking in 5 Days
Resist the urge to see this as a gimmicky art game. See this as multi-modal coworking. Imagine coworking on business processes. Or hardware design. Or flowcharts. Or product manuals. Or powerpoints. Or dynamic visualizations during a meeting or offsite. ....
AI Shifts Toward Open-Source, Fine‑Tuned Specialized Models
Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we’re moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APIs to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source...
OpenAI Wants to Stop ChatGPT From Validating Users’ Political Views
OpenAI has announced plans to modify ChatGPT to reduce perceived bias by preventing the AI from reflecting users' political language. A recent paper highlights that this change aims to foster a more neutral exchange of ideas and discourage validation of...
Creator‑Led Ads Define B2B Brand Era
I'm really excited to be joining some incredible people in a session at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Creative Effectiveness Day this Thursday in NYC. In the session, “The New B2B Playbook: How Creator-Led Advertising Builds Distinctive Brands,” I'll be...
Aquawise Will Show Off Its AI-Driven Water Quality Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Aquawise is set to unveil its AI-driven water quality monitoring technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, aiming to revolutionize aquaculture practices in Southeast Asia. By utilizing satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model, the Bangkok-based startup offers continuous water quality monitoring—an...
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#173: OpenAI Dev Day, AI Gets Political, Sora Copyright Drama Continues, Gemini Enterprise & AI’s Impact on Job Hunting
The episode recaps recent AI headlines, highlighting OpenAI’s Dev Day announcements, the growing politicization of AI, ongoing copyright controversy around Sora, and Google’s Gemini Enterprise launch, while also discussing AI’s influence on job hunting. The hosts blend news updates with...
Google to Invest $15B in Indian AI Infrastructure Hub
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.
Can We Repair the Internet?
From addictive algorithms to exploitative apps, data mining to misinformation, the internet today can be a hazardous place. Books by three influential figures—the intellect behind “net neutrality,” a former Meta executive, and the web’s own inventor—propose radical approaches to fixing...
Visa Just Launched a Protocol to Secure the AI Shopping Boom — Here’s What It Means for Merchants
Visa has launched the Trusted Agent Protocol, a new security framework aimed at distinguishing legitimate AI shopping assistants from malicious bots, addressing a crucial challenge in the surge of AI-driven commerce. As AI traffic to U.S. retail sites has skyrocketed...
Streamlining Fund Compliance with AI-Ready Data - Sandro Venturini of UBS
In this interview, UBS Executive Director Sandro Venturini discusses how AI‑ready data can streamline cross‑border fund compliance by cutting legal and business costs, aligning stakeholders, and establishing a single source of truth for fund launches. He highlights the practical benefits...
Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel
In a MIT Sloan podcast, Cisco President Jeetu Patel frames AI as a megatrend surpassing even the internet and automobile revolutions, emphasizing that the new wave demands re‑imagined data‑center and networking infrastructure—Cisco’s core business. He argues that AI’s rapid, exponential...
Humanoid Robots Will Soon Empower Special Needs Independence
What does this mean? @adcock_brett has put the bar high. My special needs son will have a humanoid. It will take care of what we do for him today. Food, laundry, dishes, shopping, and much more. Let him live on his own, even,...
AI Agents Redefine Enterprise at Dreamforce 2024
Just landed in rainy San Francisco! ✈️🌉 After a smooth flight from London, I've picked up my Dreamforce badge and I'm ready for three days of what promises to be one of the most transformative tech events of the year....
Oracle AI World 2025 - We're Live in Las Vegas for All the Latest Oracle News as It Happens
We're live in San Francisco ahead of Dreamforce 2025.
AI Reveals 5,000-Year-Old Civilization Beneath Harsh Desert
Artificial Intelligence Uncovers 5,000-Year-Old Civilizations Buried Beneath the World’s Largest and Harshest Desert https://t.co/hWXbGbjnty via @defencereview #AI #artificialintelligence #discovery @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani...
Focused AI Founder Interviews on X Spaces Spotlight Poke
What the heck is Poke and why does it have so many fans? Every Tuesday at 4 p.m. Pacific @IrenaCronin and I grill an AI entrepreneur here on X audio spaces. Up tomorrow? @marvinvonhagen which makes the app, https://t.co/KPPr0atx18, that tells me...
China Wants to Sink Data Centers Underwater - Could This Be the Next Frontier in Computing?
China is launching ocean-cooled data centers near Shanghai, using renewable energy to cut cooling costs and advance sustainable computing.
Generative AI Consumes Tenfold More Power than Searches
How much power does AI actually use? "Generative AI systems like ChatGPT consume 10 to 30 times as much electricity as task-specific AI. AI image generation can use as much electricity as fully charging a phone. And each ChatGPT query...
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/NKj67ZsJq2
Google’s Photoshop-Killer AI Model Is Coming to Search, Photos, and NotebookLM
Google is integrating its Nano Banana image‑editing model from Gemini 2.5 Flash into Search (Lens and AI Mode), Google Photos, and NotebookLM, letting users perform conversational image edits and apply new Nano Banana–powered video styles directly in those apps. The...
RAG Merges Retrieval and Generation for Smarter AI
🤖 What makes RAG a game-changer for #AI? It fuses 🔹retrieval (fetching real data) with 🔹generation (creating responses). The result → context-aware, up-to-date, and reliable outputs. Applications: 💬 Chatbots 🔍 Search 📄 Document generation RAG = the bridge between data and intelligence. #RAG #LLM #AI #MachineLearning
Enterprises Must Bridge AI Security Knowledge Gap Now
Most employees still don’t know how to protect against the new generation of security and data privacy risks that come with AI. Here are the top issues every enterprise should be preparing for right now — and some defense starters that...
OpenAI Partners with Broadcom to Produce Its Own AI Chips
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to produce its own computer chips to power its AI data centers. The deal is the latest in a series of partnerships designed to reduce the company’s reliance on Nvidia and secure enough computing...
Google Engineer Releases Free 250‑Page AI Design Handbook
Wow. Google engineer @AntonioGulli just released a full 250-page book on AI Design for free. It walks through the entire stack with many practical examples: ML, deep learning, transformers, fine-tuning, AI agents, and vibe coding. Hands-on and 100% free. Link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/eikwoVzjv0
From Kaggle Grandmaster to Meta Engineer
From Kaggle Grandmaster to Meta Engineer (w/ Andrey Lukyanenko) https://t.co/Z7ptCO9VH6
California Becomes First State to Regulate AI Companion Chatbots
California has enacted SB 243, becoming the first state to regulate AI companion chatbots, aiming to safeguard children and vulnerable users from potential harms. The legislation introduces stringent guidelines for the development and deployment of these technologies, mandating transparency and...
AI's Influence Blurs Line Between Human and Machine Art
“We can’t tell if art is using AI anymore.” https://t.co/9JQGpHPJgb
Achieves Task Using Just 100k Neurons, 1M Parameters
It can do this with ~100,000 neurons (1m parameters max) https://t.co/iZ9JKvwe46
A New Wave of 'Shadow AI' Is Worrying Workplaces
New Microsoft research shows that the use of shadow AI is once again on the rise.
AI Is Unlocking Rapid Personal Reinvention for Anyone
Between Sora 2 and Claude Imagine, it’s clear we’re heading toward a world where anyone can learn anything (and I’d even argue we’re already there). The potential is enormous and so few are seizing it. Most people use AI to rewrite...
AI Lives in Massive Data Centers, Not Just the Cloud
We got to tour a cutting-edge data center. Here's what we learned. "Every AI response you see is powered by a hidden backbone — billions of dollars of massive warehouses cooled by air, sometimes water, with enough electricity to run...
This New AI Technique Creates ‘Digital Twin’ Consumers, and It Could Kill the Traditional Survey Industry
A new research paper quietly published last week outlines a breakthrough method that allows large language models (LLMs) to simulate human consumer behavior with startling accuracy, a development that could reshape the multi-billion-dollar market research industry. The technique promises to...
Master AI in 2025: From Basics to Career
🚀 Master AI in 2025 Dal codice alla carriera 👇 📘 Build strong foundations 📗 Master ML & Deep Learning 📙 Learn LLMs & MLOps ⚙️ Deploy real AI projects 💼 Transition to AI careers L’AI non è più un’opzione — è una competenza chiave. Qual è il...
Altman: Early Sora Release Prepares Society for Deepfakes
I asked Sam Altman if he's worried about watermark removers on Sora. Everyone's seen the unfiltered Jake Paul videos with no watermark (generated by Sora) going viral on socials... So what's the pull for creators to enable face cameos with that risk? Sam's...
YouTube Music Is Channeling Spotify’s AI DJ with This New Feature – and Early Testers Love It Despite One Big...
Despite some frustrations, beta users are enjoying YouTube Music's new AI host – especially its music trivia commentary.
Run Your Own ChatGPT Clone in Just Four Hours
Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single, dependency-minimal codebase....
AI Defies SaaS Rituals; Embrace Hypothesis over Fixed Roadmaps
SaaS let you win by drawing straight lines. Requirements in, code out. QA ran their checklist. Customers got exactly what the roadmap promised. The whole machine ran on one idea. If you could predict it, you could control it. AI ignores your...
Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?
Leaders Own AI Mistakes: Scale Your Decisions Wisely
❗ AI doesn’t make mistakes — it scales yours. When AI fails, it’s not the algorithm “misbehaving.” It’s leadership. How you build it is riddled with choices leaders must own. Even when you buy off-the-shelf AI, it's the leader who...
AI's Gravity: Balancing Optimism with Necessary Fear
Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - an essay where I grapple with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems. The world will bend around AI akin to how a black hole pulls and bends everything...
Let AI Automate Tasks, Save Hours of Writing
You should be a bit more lazy. Stop doing things you can automate. Let AI help with that... Here's how you can create and give tasks to your team that go in-depth and cover all the bases without requiring 3...
Neural‑Band‑Free Interaction Boosts Gaming, Learning, AI
neural band, without the neural band this mode of interaction + genie3/veo3/odyssey will be incredible for gameplay, learning, embodied ai training and entertainment https://t.co/nNtV8xLKS7
Algorithms Now Compose Music for Spotify's Playlists
Spotify made music for algorithms. Now algorithms make music for Spotify. https://t.co/KogbvVIwo4
Sliding Window Attention Streamlines Long-Sequence Processing
Sliding Window Attention 🔗 https://t.co/LIR9gCActT https://t.co/NSn4D4vLoF
Real-Time Interactive AI Arriving Within Two Months
It’s time for real-time. Wonder if it’ll be real-time video or *interactive* real-time generation i.e. genie 3