Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
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AI and the Art of Legacy with Miles Spencer CEO of Reflector.ai
In this episode of AI Chat, host Jaeden Schafer talks with Myles Spencer, CEO of Reflector.ai, about using AI to create digital replicas of loved ones that preserve their personality and memories for future generations. Spencer explains the "soul tech" approach, the importance of biographers for accurate data input, and how the platform tackles challenges like hallucinations, privacy, and emotional impact. He also outlines upcoming innovations such as VR, holographic experiences, and broader partnerships to deepen immersive legacy preservation.
An AI App to Measure Pain Is Here
A smartphone app called PainChek, now deployed in some hospitals and care settings, uses AI analysis of small facial movements plus clinician checklists to score patient pain and aims to help assess individuals who cannot self‑report, such as dementia patients....
Why the Rise of Private Cloud Is Hot in Today’s Hybrid World
Rising global data‑privacy laws and surging AI workloads are driving enterprises to repatriate sensitive workloads to private and sovereign clouds for greater control, compliance and cost predictability. The piece notes that 82% of the world is covered by some form...
Genspark Custom Agents Deliver Stable, Accurate Docs Integration
I played around with @Genspark_ai’s new Custom Agents and honestly feel that’s what GPTs should have been. I was so excited when OpenAI launched Custom GPTs in late 2023, thinking I could finally create chatbots that read LangChain, Streamlit, and Gradio...
DoorDash Launches Dot, Autonomous Street‑side Delivery Robot
DoorDash just rolled out Dot, an autonomous delivery robot navigating streets and sidewalks! #doordash #autonomos #Robotics #AI #Robot @sonu_monika @enilev @Jagersbergknut @TysonLester @chidambara09 @labordeolivier @BetaMoroney @tlloydjones @Nicochan33 @jeancayeux @RLDI_Lamy @pierrepinna @pierrecappelli @pchamard @JeromeMONANGE @thierry_pires @MaiaGabunia @amalmerzouk @NewsNeus @mary_gambara @PawlowskiMario @XavierAncelin @drsharwood...
Mistral Launches Its Own AI Studio for Quick Development with Its European Open Source, Proprietary Models
French AI startup Mistral launched Mistral AI Studio, a web production platform that lets enterprises build, observe and deploy AI applications quickly atop a broad, versioned catalog of proprietary and open-weight LLMs and multimodal models. The studio unifies observability, an...
Humanoid Robot Hands Achieve Unprecedented Progress
The hand is the most challenging part of a humanoid robot - look at this insane progress ✋👋 #humanoidrobot #humanoidrobotics #AI #humanoid #Robotics #Robot @sonu_monika @enilev @Jagersbergknut @TysonLester @chidambara09 @labordeolivier @BetaMoroney @tlloydjones @Nicochan33 @jeancayeux @RLDI_Lamy @pierrepinna @pierrecappelli @pchamard @JeromeMONANGE @thierry_pires @MaiaGabunia...
Albania's AI Minister Vows to Augment, Not Replace Humans
Albania's new AI minister makes first address to parliament: "I am not here to replace human beings." #AI #AIMinister #humanoidrobotics #humanoidrobot #humanoid #Robot #political #Albania @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF...
Inside Ring-1T: Ant Engineers Solve Reinforcement Learning Bottlenecks at Trillion Scale
Ant Group unveiled Ring-1T, which it calls the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion parameters, optimized for math, logic, code generation and scientific problems and supporting up to 128,000 tokens. To train at trillion-parameter scale the company developed three...
Tesla Optimus Achieves Human‑Like, Jitter‑Free Motion
The Tesla Optimus is amazing. The way it moves now, smooth, precise, human-like without the jittery uncanny valley, this is industrial robotics crossing into sci-fi territory. #teslaoptimus #teslabot #optimus #AI #humanoid #Robotics @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon...
AI Blurs Reality, Reshaping Trust and Authenticity
👀🚨🤷🏽♀️ Gary Vee said it best 👇 “The line between real and AI-generated is about to disappear.” Soon, we won’t know what’s authentic vs synthetic. That changes everything, trust, culture, even business. If nothing’s real, how do we decide what (or who)...
Snap Seeks $1 Billion Fundraise for AR Glasses
The episode examines Snap's aggressive push into augmented reality, revealing that CEO Evan Spiegel is courting investors—including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund—to secure at least $1 billion for its AR glasses division. It discusses the strategic importance of this capital raise...
Macy's Invests $640M in Robot‑focused Warehouse Transformation
Macy’s Overhaul Includes $640 Million Robot-Centric Warehouse https://t.co/LwOrcRfxHi #macys #humanoidrobotics #Robotics #Robot #warehouse #tech #supplychain @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg...
World Models Advancing Fast—Key for Robotics and Gaming
The innovations in World Models are continuing to drop at a rapid rate. Worth paying attention to, and if you are in robotics, you are probably already using them, or want to use them soon. Tomorrow I will share one that...
Do We Need AI Browsers? What Are Claude Skills? - EP99.22
The post introduces episode 99.22 of the "This Day in AI" podcast, where hosts Michael and Chris Sharkey debate whether AI‑powered browsers are necessary and unpack the concept of Claude’s skill system. They blend light‑hearted commentary with hands‑on experiments, sharing both...
RAND Warns AI-Fueled Cyber Chaos in “Robot Insurgency” Report
RAND Warns of AI-Driven Cyber Chaos in New ‘Robot Insurgency’ Report - Decrypt https://t.co/BSKFrJhTFR #cyberchaos #CyberSecurity #Robot #Robotics @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee...
China Launches Sub-$1,400 Humanoid Robot, the Cheapest Yet
China unveils world's cheapest humanoid robot under $1,400 https://t.co/MLzrJe4VhW #humanoidrobotics #humanoidrobot #AI #humanoid #Robotics #Robot @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg...
LeRobot v0.4.0: Super Charging OSS Robotics Learning
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.4.0, a major upgrade to its open‑source robotics stack that introduces LeRobotDataset v3.0 (chunked episodes and streaming to handle OXE‑scale datasets >400 GB), new VLA models (PI0.5 and GR00T N1.5), and a plugin system for easier...
Better, Smaller Datasets Trump Massive Web Crawling
Great idea for a metric to further improve what datasets the models train on. It likely leads to an answer that is not web-scale crawling... Less data is often better, better data takes less.
China Deploys Fully Autonomous Electric Trucks Nationwide
Fully autonomous electric trucks have hit the roads in China! #AutonomousVehicles #autonomos #AI #selfdriving @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg @BernardMarr...
OpenAI Launches Company Knowledge in ChatGPT, Letting You Access Your Firm's Data From Google Drive, Slack, GitHub
OpenAI has launched "company knowledge" in ChatGPT for Business, Enterprise and Edu subscribers, allowing the model (powered by a GPT‑5 variant) to query and synthesize data from workplace apps like Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Gmail and HubSpot and return answers...
95% of Generative AI Pilots Miss Real Business Impact
AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfQMH The Times of India https://t.co/ztGfBIlt3B
Google Turns Geospatial Data Into Everyday AI
Google just took another big step towards becoming ChatGPT for planet earth. I can’t overstate how important this is — geospatial AI commodified. Here’s what it can do: https://t.co/QjfwbEMXoy
Researchers Show that Training on “Junk Data” Can Lead to LLM “Brain Rot”
Researchers from Texas A&M, UT and Purdue quantified an “LLM brain rot” effect, showing that continual pre‑training on high‑engagement, short or sensationalist “junk” tweets degrades large language model performance on reasoning and long‑context memory benchmarks. Using two junk-data definitions drawn...
Meta Cuts AI Talent, X Snaps Them Up
Meta laid off AI geniuses. X is hiring them.
EA Partners with Stability AI for ‘Transformative’ AI Game-Making Tools
Electronic Arts is partnering with Stability AI to co-develop AI models, tools and workflows intended to accelerate game content creation, including tools to generate photorealistic Physically Based Rendering materials and to pre-visualize full 3D environments from prompts. EA says the...
Instagram Users Can Now Use Meta AI Editing Tools Directly in IG Stories
Meta has integrated its AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly into Instagram Stories via a new “Restyle” menu, letting users enter text prompts to add, remove or change elements in photos and videos and apply preset effects like outfit...
A Two‑Minute AI Demo Can Spark Big Learning
I went to Madison Square Park and held a FREE AI training. Here’s how it went. One of the first folks to stop by had heard of ChatGPT but hadn’t used AI yet. So we jumped into how to open...
Robots Poised to Replace Human Security Patrols
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: Garrett Langley (@glangley), Founder & CEO of @Flock_Safety, says drones, robotic guards, and even humanoid robots like Figure could take on many of today’s routine security tasks. “I have a hard time imagining that in 10 years...
Redefining Data Engineering in the Age of AI
A survey of 400 senior data and technology executives by MIT Technology Review Insights finds data engineers are becoming central to corporate AI efforts, with 72% of respondents—and 86% at the largest, most AI‑mature firms—saying data engineers are integral to...
Meta's Soft Tokens Yield Modest Gains on GSM8k
This paper from Meta about "Soft Tokens" in RL is interesting; it allows LLMs to invent their own non-discrete (recursive) representations in order to solve problems better... Results are mixed though: it's only a few percent better on GSM8k from pass@4...
AI Dev 25 NYC: Real‑World Lessons on Building Production AI
The full agenda for AI Dev 25 x NYC is ready. Developers from Google, AWS, Vercel, Groq, Mistral AI, SAP, and other exciting companies will share what they've learned building production AI systems. Here's what we'll cover: Agentic Architecture: When orchestration...
Amazon’s New AI Shopping Tool Tells You Why You Should Buy a Recommended Product
Amazon launched “Help me decide,” an AI-driven recommendation feature that analyzes a shopper’s searches, browsing and purchase history to suggest products and explain why a specific item fits their needs. The tool, built on large language models and AWS services...
AI Upskills Teams, Boosts Accuracy Without Layoffs
Can AI elevate your workforce instead of replacing it? #SalesforcePartner At Dreamforce, Rohit Khanna (CCO @Smarsh) shared their people-first approach to Agentforce: ✅46% deflection rate, 92% accuracy ✅Zero layoffs - upskilled L1 → L2/L3 support ✅76% adoption (they named their AI “Archie”) Thriving in highly...
TinyML on Arduino: AI Runs on Microcontrollers
🚀From Blink to Think: Deploying ML on Arduino! At LearnOpenCV, we’ve always believed that AI shouldn’t be limited to powerful GPUs or cloud servers. It should run everywhere - even on the tiniest boards. Our latest article of the edge devices series,...
Android Chief Sameer Samat on Google Pixel and the Path to AI Glasses
Ellis and Alex discuss their weekend adventures and OpenAI's Atlas browser before interviewing Google Android chief Sameer Samat, who explains how headsets are a stepping stone toward AR glasses and how Gemini could evolve into a Jarvis-like AI assistant. Samat...
Proof of Humanity Can Replace Invasive ID Checks
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Too many services ask for personal info just to prove you’re not a bot.” Uploading your driver’s license to book a golf tee time or join a social network shouldn’t be considered normal. Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig), Chief Architect...
AI Kills Cover Letters—Signal with Something Else
There are next-level life hacks hidden everywhere - and here’s a new book that’s full of them. Even better: it’s written by my favorite Economics professor from Wharton, Judd Kessler ! He told me over lunch something that most job...
Research Finds that 77% of Data Engineers Have Heavier Workloads Despite AI Tools: Here's Why and What to Do About...
A survey of 400 senior tech executives by MIT Technology Review Insights and Snowflake finds 77% of data engineers report heavier workloads despite widespread AI tool adoption, with 83% of organizations using AI data tools and engineers' time on AI...
Use RAG for Dynamic Facts, Fine‑tune for Stable Expertise
Most people still mix up RAG and fine-tuning. Many of our clients start by wasting time fine-tuning when RAG would've worked. Here's the real difference:👇 ✅ RAG = Your model's external brain It doesn't change the model at all. Just connects it to a...
Strong CTAs Amplify Your Entire Marketing Strategy
🔴 Because a great CTA makes all of your marketing more effective... Lead generation is a chain. It starts with the traffic source and ends on the thank you page. Each step in that process is a link in the...
We Let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” Surf the Web for Us—Here’s What Happened
OpenAI this week debuted Atlas, a ChatGPT‑integrated browser with a preview Agent Mode that can click, scroll and perform multi‑step web tasks for users. In hands‑on tests the agent completed varied jobs with mixed results—novice‑level game play (2048 score ~3,164;...
AI Tool Explosion Demands Centralized Aggregators to Curb Paralysis
Huge day for AI with a bajillion amazing tools coming out For the sake of our limited time and limited brains, please let hubs like @krea_ai @HelloCivitai @Scenario_gg etc aggregate them all together Lack of interest is probably just choice paralysis at...
Finally, the Long‑awaited Feature Lands in ChatGPT
I've been patiently waiting for this in ChatGPT for what feels like a decade now. https://t.co/LSMc1VpOvh
OpenAI Welcomes AriX Sky Team, Integrating Desktop AI
Excited to welcome @AriX and the Sky team to OpenAI. They’ve built one of the most thoughtful AI experiences on desktop, and we can’t wait to bring their craft into ChatGPT. More here: https://t.co/3zXOBVesoj
CrusoeAI Secures $1.4B to Power Infrastructure Boom
👀 @ChaseLochmiller and team @CrusoeAI are an unstoppable force that’s enabling the greatest infrastructure buildout of our lifetime. And it’s still early innings! $1.4b in fresh capital, let’s go! https://t.co/p8Hp8XVdGA
AI Firms Launch Browsers to Dodge Scraping Liability
The reason AI companies are rushing to release browsers: they don't want the responsibility / liability of scraping on their servers. They need to push that to the users! We'll be moving into an ever more gated internet soon...
PlayCanvas Introduces LOD Streaming for World‑Scale Splatting
I like big splats and I cannot lie. PlayCanvas's new LOD streaming system for 3D Gaussian Splatting is a big deal. It's a key step towards splatting the world and making it explorable. Check out a live demo below in your...
ChatGPT Performance Lagging for Users Today
is it just me or chatgpt is super slow for everyone today?
Top 9 Must-Read AI Guides From OpenAI, Google, Anth
AI guides are flooding the scene, but these top 9 picks from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are the ones you can't miss 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/X3jx1XLnGF