Today's AI Pulse
Trump flags Anthropic as national security risk, tension eases after G7
President Trump told The Axios Show that Anthropic was briefly deemed a national security threat, leading the Commerce Department to impose export controls and the Pentagon to label the firm a supply‑chain risk. He added that the concern has softened after a recent G7 meeting.
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By the numbers: Connie Health acquires Clearlink’s Medicare business
Is Haiku 4.5 Really THIS Good? OpenAI's Erotic Mode & Are MCP Apps the Right Approach? EP99.21
The post introduces the "This Day in AI" podcast, hosted by Michael and Chris Sharkey, who present themselves as average tech enthusiasts sharing candid, humor‑filled discussions about AI experiments, tools, and mishaps. It emphasizes the show’s informal, non‑expert vibe, offering “mediocre hot takes,” prank calls, and attempts at AI‑driven projects like phishing and music creation. The authors position the podcast as a community for listeners who appreciate learning through mistakes and celebrating average‑level AI exploration.
Analytics: The Essential Tool for Content Marketers
🔴 If you're a content marketer, this is why you have Analytics! Some content gets real results. Some content …not so much. This is obvious to every marketer who's pushed the publish button. But it’s less obvious that content performs...
Dagger’s Container Use Simplifies AI Agent Parallelism
Docker is overkill for running AI agents in parallel. @Dagger_io’s new Container Use is a much simpler, agent-first alternative: → No Dockerfile needed → Git-native isolation → Full logs & real‑time visibility + easy one-liner commands to do it all! 🙌 Let’s compare 🧵↓ https://t.co/etVd1uHheZ
Under the Hood of AI Agents: A Technical Guide to the Next Frontier of Gen AI
Agentic AI—LLM-based systems that autonomously run tools in a thought-action-observation loop—are rapidly moving from chat prototypes to production, enabling tasks from booking travel to coding. Key infrastructure components include agent development frameworks, cloud model hosting, tool-call protocols (notably the year‑old...
OpenAI Slashes Microsoft Revenue Share, Gains $50B
Major shift at OpenAI: revenue share with Microsoft & partners to fall from 20% → 8% by end of decade, potentially netting @OpenAI an extra $50B. Big move on margins, and implying pressure on terms and structure. 🔗 https://t.co/kjyCLj1C6B #AI...
Even LLMs Can't Answer Simple Emoji Queries
Some questions shouldn't be asked of LLMs. :-)
OpenAI Needs $1 Trillion!?, Google Kills Ads, BlackRock's $40B Data Center
Jaeden Schafer’s post surveys a whirlwind of AI‑industry headlines, from Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity’s “Agent Shopping” feature and OpenAI’s $38 billion shift to AWS, to Nvidia’s historic $5 trillion market cap and OpenAI’s purchase of the Sky desktop‑control AI. The author intersperses...
Top AI Minds Ranked: Who Defines Our Future
All the best in AI are on this list: https://t.co/2dDZtIT7Gf
Add AI to Any Site with a Tiny Widget
[tiny project] ai-share-widget the easiest way to add* ai capability to a site with a front-end widget where you can customize the prompt and allow the user to pass that into their AI tool of choice github (102 lines of code) in...
Google Cloud C4 Brings a 70% TCO Improvement on GPT OSS with Intel and Hugging Face
Intel and Hugging Face benchmarked OpenAI’s GPT OSS on Google Cloud’s new C4 VMs (Intel Xeon 6/Granite Rapids) and report a 1.7x improvement in total cost of ownership versus prior-generation C3 instances. The C4 machines delivered 1.4x–1.7x better throughput per...
Video AI Faces Its Own Turing Test
The Turing Test for video … 😅
Walmart Explores ChatGPT-Powered Shopping Experience
Walmart to allow customers to shop using ChatGPT? https://t.co/GcOFDzhy0f #shopping #onlineshopping #wallmart #ChatGPT @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi @odisseiaalfa @DigitalColmer @MyCompanionsAI @KirkDBorne @patricegorissen @jeffkagan @EdwardKens50830 @enilev @insom_ai333 @ChrisCCrowley @sallyeaves @gurmeet_judge @VairagyaSadhana @andresvilarino @amomsimpression @amit6060 @0xAmol @OfficialDabier
A Holiday Season Gift-Wrapped In Agentic Commerce
OpenAI has published a Product Feed Specification to let merchants list and sell products directly through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout, complete with product-level controls (enable_search, enable_checkout), support for rich media/3D assets, and 15-minute feed updates. Major partners including Walmart and Salesforce...
Mac Mini Excels at Inference; DGX Spark Needed for Fine‑tuning
Saw that DGX Spark vs Mac Mini M4 Pro benchmark plot making the rounds (looks like it came from @lmsysorg). Thought I’d share a few notes as someone who actually uses a Mac Mini M4 Pro and has been tempted...
AI Art Hits Sameness, Lacks Emotional Storytelling
AI is amazing but it isn't good enough yet. @Kantrowitz says, below, AI has a sameness problem. The problem is if you hang out here on X all day long we see the sameness. Look at my AI Artist's feed. If...
How to Filter Out AI on Pinterest
Pinterest has added a desktop setting that lets users toggle off GenAI interests to reduce AI-generated content in their recommended Pins, accessible under Settings → Refine Your Recommendations → GenAI interests. The change is rolled out via the desktop app...
From Moonshot to Millions: Veo’s Video Revolution
In 2018, video generation was a moonshot project by the Google Brain team. Today, hundreds of millions of videos have been generated with Veo. 🤯 In this episode of Release Notes, @doomie and @OfficialLoganK reflect on Veo's journey from research to...
AI Contests Accelerate Product Fixes and Empower Creators
Since I just judged another, similar, contest, these are smart for companies to do. First, they are a forcing function to get AI companies to ship and fix things, but they get feedback from real users and get lots of...
Anthropic’s Latest AI Model, Claude Haiku 4.5, Doubles Down on Speed and Safety
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a lightweight AI model that it says matches Claude Sonnet 4’s coding performance while running twice as fast and at one-third the cost. The model is available across Anthropic’s apps, Claude Code, Amazon Bedrock and...
AI Autonomously Resolves IT Outages, Easing Human Overload
AI is stepping in as an autonomous operator for overloaded humans. ➡️ AI agent detected VPN outage ➡️ Authenticated into New Relic ➡️ Re-established expired integration ➡️ Streamed telemetry data ➡️ Identified SW update as root cause ➡️ Suggested a rollback IT lead reviewed...
Nano Banana Expands to Slides, NotebookLM, Gemini Tools
Several of our launches this week have been absolutely 🍌… Here are the new places you can find Nano Banana: — Edit images using custom prompts directly in Slides @googleworkspace — @NotebookLM’s video overviews got a huge upgrade with 6 new...
Google’s AI Videos Get a Big Upgrade with Veo 3.1
Google unveiled Veo 3.1, an upgraded text-to-video model that improves prompt adherence, audio realism and now supports both landscape and portrait (16:9) outputs, plus a lower-cost “Fast” variant. The model is rolling out across Google’s ecosystem—Gemini app, Flow filmmaking tool,...
Dreamina AI Surpasses Nano‑Banana, Offers Multi‑Media Creation
I'm playing with @dreamina_ai (used it on my post earlier) and it's quite special for creating a wide variety of things, videos, photos, posters. It's from ByteDance and is beating the others, lets you upload six images and mix them...
India Launches EdGini: Personalized, Fun Learning Platform
Excited to share my new venture– EdGini, a Made-in-India learning platform built to empower students! • 🎯 Smart, engaging & personalized learning experience • 📊 Real-time performance tracking & skill growth • 🧩 Curated challenges to make learning fun • 💡...
Major Federation of Unions Calls for ‘Worker-Centered AI’ Future
The AFL-CIO launched a “workers first initiative on AI,” urging employers and policymakers to embed labor protections into AI deployment through stronger collective bargaining, regulation, and worker involvement in development. The federation — representing 63 unions and nearly 15 million...
Veo 3.1 Adds Audio, Object Tools; Flow Goes Mainstream
Veo 3.1 just dropped - Google listened and added audio everywhere it was missing. You can also insert objects into video and (soon) remove them too. Flow is quickly becoming less of a labs demo, and more of a creation tool....
The Right Mental Model For Agentic AI
A forthcoming report preview argues that companies need a clear mental model for 'agentic' AI—autonomous, goal-driven systems—to effectively reshape work and capture value. It outlines practical frameworks and design principles for integrating agents across enterprise functions, plus metrics for measuring...
AI Success Requires Ops Redesign, Not Just UI Upgrade
Overheard at World Forum today ⬇️ #ServiceNowPartner “We're reimagining critical processes such as hire to retire and source to pay and record to report, so that everyone and everything, people, systems, suppliers, agents, can work together in one place.” If your team's...
AI Is Changing How We Quantify Pain
Care homes and clinical researchers are turning to AI-driven tools to quantify pain in nonverbal patients, replacing or augmenting subjective observational scales like the Abbey Pain Scale. These systems use computer vision, sensor data and pattern recognition to detect facial...
Dfinity Launches Caffeine, an AI Platform that Builds Production Apps From Natural Language Prompts
Dfinity on Wednesday launched Caffeine, an AI platform that builds, deploys and continuously updates production web applications from natural-language prompts without human coding, running on the decentralized Internet Computer Protocol. The publicly available service — tested by more than 15,000...
MyNeutron Adds Persistent AI Memory Across Models
If you bounce between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & co, myNeutron might just become your favorite Chrome extension. It gives you that personal memory layer, context you can save, combine, and reuse across models ✨ How it works: → Save “Seeds” from web pages,...
Rethinking How Life Sciences Organizations Approach AI - Mathias Cousin of Deloitte
In this podcast episode, Mathias Cousin, Managing Director at Deloitte, discusses how life‑sciences firms can successfully adopt AI by focusing on high‑impact "string of pearls" use cases, investing in data quality, and hiring AI‑native talent. He emphasizes practical change‑management tactics...
Five AI Skill Mistakes Costing Companies Millions
5 AI-Era Skills Mistakes That Will Cost Your Business Millions In 2026 With $5.5 trillion at stake globally due to workforce #skills gaps, businesses in 202 6are making five critical #mistakes that threaten their survival in the #AI era. From...
Codex CLI Exit Saves Sessions, Huge QOL Boost
whoever added this to the codex cli when you exit is a lifesaver cannot tell you how many times I've mindlessly ctrl+c trying to copy paste only to break a session then i gotta dig up the latest chat. such a simple...
OpenAI Has Five Years to Turn $13 Billion Into $1 Trillion
OpenAI is generating roughly $13 billion in annual revenue—about 70% from $20/month ChatGPT subscribers—despite only ~5% of its 800 million users paying. The company has locked in more than 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from vendors including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD...
OpenAI Targets $1 Trillion From $13 Billion in Five Years
"OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion." Do you think they can do it? https://t.co/py7EgsSvnP
NanoChat Code Sparks Fresh Look at LLM Theory
Karpathy’s nanochat codebase motivated me to revise llm theory
Anthropic Releases Comprehensive Claude Code Blueprint for Developers
Anthropic just published a killer blueprint for Claude Code users! 🔥 → GitHub CLI workflows → .md prompt tuning → Custom slash commands → Headless + multi-agent agents Dense, yes... but pure gold if you're building with LLMs. Download link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/kCbF9amMFW
Launch of Readsail: Curated AI Learning Platform
If your company wants to help employees stay up to date with AI, I've teamed up with @natolambert and others to launch @readsail. It's essentially a platform that makes it easy to manage ongoing AI learning and brings you a...
AI Will Redefine Managers and Jobs, Says ServiceNow SVP
I spoke with Josh Kahn, SVP at @ServiceNow, about future AI interfaces, the role of mid-managers, and AI-driven job transformation. Here’s everything he said 🧵 #ServiceNowPartner
FactoryAI CLI Setup Guide Arriving Soon
getting setup with @FactoryAI's CLI i hear you - more how-to's/guides are coming https://t.co/gRvIl7hmzY
Securing AGI Future with 40k GPUs and 2GW Texas Campus
onwards to agi 🫡 looks like we’ve got stuff to chat about at the @stateofaireport nyc launch tmrw @eisokant :) https://t.co/lUthvM1nhD
Humanlike Chatbots Trigger Mental Health Crises
Earlier this year, after receiving emails from people in the throes of AI psychosis, I began to keep in touch with one man as he journeyed to recovery. I'm grateful to James that he was willing to go on record. He...
Found a Goldmine for Scalable Search and RAG
I've been looking for how search and RAG can be done on large scale and actual data, and there's just toy examples everywhere I look. Not just some pdfs or a website with everything in context, but actual search, retrieval,...
Machines Learn From Experience Using Reinforcement Learning
🎯 Reinforcement Learning = Machines learning from experience. An agent interacts with an environment, receives rewards, and learns which actions yield the best outcomes. Used in 🚗 self-driving cars, 🤖 robotics, 🎮 gaming & more. RL turns feedback into intelligence. #AI #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning
Launching Lore: AI Infrastructure to Outpace China
BIG NEWS I'm partnering with Jesse Tinsley ($2B+ portfolio across Mainstreet, Recruiter, Bench) to build an AI infrastructure company. We're launching Lore to help America and its allies beat China in the AI race. Here's how we're doing it 🧵 https://t.co/ePyIYmKMPi
GPT-5 Codex Resc
built a community command centre with droid spec'd a plan first w/ 4.5 one-shot functionality worked switched to gpt-5-codex for pesky bug it lives! https://t.co/fqqRIAn3dn
Seeking Comparison: Nvidia Spark Vs. M4 Max
did anyone compare nvidia spark with m4 max?
Runway Apps: Visual GPTs, More Practical Than Ever
Runway apps is basically the visual equivalent of GPTs — except a lot more useful. Of course the likes of Replicate and FAL have the advantage of these apps model agnostic.
From DGX-1 to Spark: Petaflop Power in Tiny Box
Things have come a long way since the delivery of the DGX-1 9 years ago; amazing to see...