Today's AI Pulse
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2.0 with multilingual text and ‘Thinking’ mode
OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning. The new ‘Thinking’ mode lets paid users generate up to eight coherent images per prompt, including floor plans, maps and UI mock‑ups. The feature expands the model’s ability to work with uploaded content.
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Gallup Survey Finds Gen Z Hope in AI Drops to 18% as Anger Rises to 31%
A new Gallup survey of 1,572 Americans aged 14‑29 reveals that while more than half still use generative AI daily or weekly, optimism has slumped to 18% and anger has climbed to 31%. Only 15% of working Gen Z respondents view AI as a net benefit, highlighting growing skepticism toward AI in education and the workplace.
Katalon Unveils True Platform, AI‑Driven Quality Layer Built on AWS
Katalon announced the launch of True Platform, a unified software quality solution that pairs autonomous AI agents with built‑in governance, traceability and human oversight. Deployed on Amazon Web Services and powered by Amazon Bedrock, the platform aims to eliminate testing...
US Treasury Warns of AI Cyber Risk as Insurers Accelerate AI Underwriting
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent convened top bank CEOs to discuss AI‑driven cyber threats from Anthropic’s Mythos model, as insurers worldwide roll out dozens of AI tools for underwriting and claims. The juxtaposition of regulatory alarm and rapid AI adoption...
Hostinger Rolls Out $7‑Month AI Agent Suite for SMBs
Hostinger has introduced Hostinger Agents, a subscription service that bundles seven AI‑driven specialists for $6.99 a month. The suite promises to cut small‑business consulting costs by delivering strategy, SEO, marketing, legal and sales support on demand.
Waymo Robotaxi Drives Wrong Way Through San Antonio Whataburger Drive‑thru, Sparking City Outcry
Waymo’s driverless taxi entered a Whataburger drive‑thru in San Antonio from the opposite direction, forcing police to manually move the occupied vehicle. The episode underscores operational flaws in Waymo’s emergency response system and fuels growing municipal criticism of robotaxi fleets.
TSMC Q1 2026 Revenue Jumps 35% to $35.7B on AI Chip Demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co reported first‑quarter 2026 revenue of $35.7 billion, a 35% year‑over‑year increase that topped analyst estimates. The surge, driven by AI‑related chip orders, sparked a 2.3% rise in the stock and reinforced TSMC’s role as a bellwether for...
Karpathy Says Developers Have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone Else Is Next.
Andrej Karpathy warned that developers are undergoing an "AI Psychosis" as frontier models like OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code solve programming problems in minutes that once took weeks. The same agentic capabilities are now spilling into broader enterprise functions...
Anthropic's Mythos AI Model Triggers Security Alarm as Limited Release Sparks Fear of Weaponization
Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI system that can autonomously locate and exploit software vulnerabilities, but restricted access to about 40 vetted companies. Security experts warn the model could be weaponized, while U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve officials convened to assess...
CoreWeave Shares Surge 12% on Multi‑Year Anthropic AI Compute Deal
CoreWeave Inc. (CRWV) jumped more than 12% to $103.20 after announcing a multi‑year partnership with Anthropic to provide dedicated data‑center capacity for the Claude family of AI models. The deal adds to CoreWeave’s growing roster of hyperscaler contracts and signals...
Molotov Attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco Home Sparks Security Concerns
OpenAI chief Sam Altman disclosed that a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his Russian Hill mansion early Friday, igniting the gate but causing no injuries. Police arrested 20‑year‑old Alejandro Daniel Moreno‑Gama, linking the assault to a later threat at OpenAI’s...
Claude Code's /Ultraplan Speeds Workflow with Cloud Planning
🚨 Claude Code users, your workflow is about to get significantly faster. The new `/ultraplan` is incredibly mighty 🔥 Instead of locking up your terminal, Claude now lets you build and refine your implementation plans in the cloud while you keep working...
AI Models Would Rather Guess than Ask for Help, Researchers Find
Researchers introduced ProactiveBench, a 108,000‑image benchmark that tests whether multimodal language models ask for clarification when visual information is missing. Across 22 models—including LLaVA‑OV, Qwen2.5‑VL, and GPT‑4.1—accuracy fell from roughly 80% on clear‑view tasks to under 20% on proactive scenarios,...
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How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
The rapid rise of AI‑generated and synthetic media is outpacing verification tools, as illustrated by Iran‑linked outlets producing Lego‑style propaganda within 24 hours and the White House’s teaser videos that sparked confusion. Automated traffic now drives about 51% of internet...
AI Security Officials Test Anthropic Cyber Threat as Bank of England to Convene Chiefs
UK officials have tested Anthropic’s new AI model, Claude Mythos, which successfully completed a full cyber‑range simulation, revealing its ability to locate unknown vulnerabilities. The AI Security Institute labeled it the most capable cyber‑focused model ever evaluated, prompting the Bank...
Claude Code's New Ultraplan Feature Moves Task Planning to the Cloud
Anthropic introduced Ultraplan, a new feature for Claude Code that moves the programming task planning phase to the cloud. Developers launch a planning job in the terminal while the plan is generated on the Claude Code web interface, allowing the...
Anthropic Brings Claude AI to Microsoft Word so You Can Chat with Your Documents
Anthropic has launched Claude for Word in beta, initially limited to Microsoft 365 Team and Enterprise subscribers. The add‑in lets users draft, edit, and revise documents from a sidebar while preserving formatting and tracking changes. Features include semantic navigation, comment‑driven...
This iPhone Trick Lets You Use ChatGPT without the Privacy Risks
Apple’s Siri now offers a built‑in extension that routes ChatGPT requests through the iPhone’s digital assistant, masking the user’s IP address and limiting location data to a broad region. Under a privacy agreement, prompts sent via Siri are excluded from...
Can AI Be a ‘Child of God’? Inside Anthropic’s Meeting with Christian Leaders.
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot and now valued at roughly $380 billion, convened a private meeting with a panel of Christian religious leaders to discuss the moral framework of its next‑generation models. The company hopes the theological perspective...
Sam Altman Calls for ‘Democratised’ AI, Calmer Debate After Attack on Home
Sam Altman used an attempted arson at his San Francisco home to warn that heated AI rhetoric can spill into real‑world violence. In a blog post he framed the incident as evidence of a "race for control" over powerful artificial intelligence...
How AI Medical Scribe Enhances Patient Care
AI-powered medical scribes are reshaping clinical workflows by automating documentation, cutting physician charting time by up to 50%. The technology translates spoken consultation notes into structured electronic health records, improving data accuracy and reducing manual entry errors. With less paperwork,...
GenAI: Beyond the Efficiency Hype 🚀
The Builders Club Podcast hosted Ahmad Fattahi, Executive Director at Genentech, to examine the true ROI of generative AI beyond its touted time‑saving benefits. Fattahi explains that many firms are already doubling or tripling output per employee, but these efficiency...
One‑sentence AI Pipeline Transforms Drug Discovery Workflow
What if your next drug discovery pipeline started with one sentence, not 6 months of scripting? In this latest deep dive with @scispace, I saw a shift that feels bigger than incremental AI gains. Upload single-cell data and get clustered cell types,...
3 Under-the-Radar Tech Names Investors Might Have Missed
Investors focused on the AI‑driven “Magnificent Seven” may be overlooking three mid‑size tech firms that underpin the sector’s hardware stack. Qnity Electronics, spun off from DuPont, is seeing 10% organic sales growth and targets $5 billion in 2026 net sales, while...
Anthropic Blocks OpenClaw's Founder From Accessing Claude AI, Reverses Decision in Hours
Anthropic temporarily suspended OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger’s Claude account, citing suspicious activity, but reinstated it within hours. The ban appears linked to Steinberger’s work on integrating Claude’s fallback feature after a classifier bug was identified. Anthropic recently announced a broader...
AI Is Making Us Faster, More Productive, and Worse at Thinking
AI adoption is accelerating, with U.S. tech firms slated to spend $667 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026—a 62% year‑over‑year rise. Yet a Goldman Sachs analysis shows only a handful of companies can link AI to measurable earnings, and productivity gains...
My AI Learning Journey – Part 5 – A GUI for the LLM at Home
The author details how to layer Open WebUI (OWUI) on top of an existing Ollama installation using Docker Compose, exposing the UI on port 3000. By configuring Ollama to listen on 0.0.0.0:11434 and adjusting the host firewall, the container can...
Sponsored: The Chip as the New Core: How Server Providers Are Powering AI Conversations in the Data Center
AI is driving a fundamental shift in data‑center design, placing semiconductor chips at the core of infrastructure strategy. Specialized GPUs and accelerators demand far greater power and cooling, prompting server providers to become strategic partners in chip selection and thermal...
Sponsored: Ablecom Launches 130kW-Ready Cooling Solutions for High-Density Computing
Ablecom unveiled its AbleRack enclosure and AbleCool rear‑door heat exchanger to address the industry’s move toward 130 kW‑per‑rack servers. The heavy‑duty AbleRack can bear a static load of 2,500 kg, features 80% perforated panels, and meets Zone 4 seismic standards. AbleCool offers modular,...
Space Race 2.0: AI's Trillion-Dollar Escape Plan
Artificial intelligence’s soaring compute needs are straining Earth’s power grids and water supplies, prompting a search for alternatives beyond terrestrial data centers. Launch costs to low‑Earth orbit have dropped more than 90% thanks to reusable rockets, making space‑based compute economically...
I Owe You Something Honest
Patrick launched a newsletter focused on AI workflow automation for agency owners, quickly amassing 23,000 subscribers through Meta ads and giveaways. He acknowledges that many subscribers may not recall signing up and reintroduces himself as a guide to AI stacks,...
AI Can Screen 15 Million Molecules in a Day. It Still Can’t Cure Alzheimer’s.
Novartis used generative AI to design 15 million molecular‑glue candidates for Huntington’s disease and synthesized about 60, yielding a promising scaffold. While AI can trim early‑stage drug discovery timelines by 30‑40 percent and lower costs, no AI‑discovered compound has secured FDA approval...
OpenAI MYTHOS, Gemini Agents & Anthropic’s New Strategy Explained
OpenAI unveiled MYTHOS, a restricted AI model built on GPT‑5.3 Codex aimed at cybersecurity and available only to vetted partners. The same Codex platform is being reshaped into a “super app” that bundles chat, automation, native image/video rendering, background task...
Frontier AI's Rapid Threat Looms if Misused
We live in such a perfect world considering where frontier AI could easily take us in under a year if the villains were a bit more creative. Some of the very realistic ideas that are on the surface I am...
The Exact Video Prompt Template I Use for Seedance 2.0 to Create Viral Video that Gain Me 100k Followers and...
The post unveils a 5‑part Director Template designed for AI video generators like Seedance 2.0 and Kling. By structuring prompts around Theme, Visuals, Camera, Style, and Action + Sound Design, creators can produce cinematic, story‑driven clips instead of static slideshows. The author shares...
AI & Emotional Tuning
The AI Orchestrator Playbook reframes large language models as conditional probability distributions rather than obedient executors. Prompting is seen as conditioning a distribution, and the orchestrator’s job is to shift sampling away from the consensus center toward task‑specific regions. This...
Designing Legible AI Codebases & Embracing Friction
AI Engineer conference in Europe is pretty good. A few slides from Armin Ronacher's talk: Designing agent legible codebases and embracing friction links below
Brain‑Inspired AI Delivers Scalable, Energy‑Efficient Parallel Computing
We absolutely must understand how the brain works to solve brain diseases. @unconvAI is taking inspiration from the brain, and is ultimately solving a different problem: it is building machines that can solve many problems in parallel in a massive...
GBrain Integrates with Claude via MCP Server
GBrain now works properly in Claude using GBrain's MCP server Now your OpenClaw or Hermes Agent's memory and LLM Knowledge Wiki can be accessed and used by Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code by MCP https://t.co/R2XbY1xinP
Mythos AI Exposes Critical Flaws Across All OSes
Anthropic's Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser by @EddyTheGent https://t.co/Wz76Q174Y8 https://t.co/kUAhNoKC9j
Create Hedge Fund Strategies with One Sentence, No Code
🚨 You can now build hedge fund-level trading strategies with zero code. Type your strategy in plain English with Horizon and it handles the logic, the backtesting, and the execution automatically. What used to cost $500K/year and a team of 5...
Anthropic’s Chart Tops Wikipedia’s Deceptive Graph Hall
this chart from Anthropic earned top spot in Wikipedia’s 'Most Deceptive Graphs' Hall of Fame 😁 https://t.co/zcJtuF7iQj
AI Masks Bad Data, Making Broken Pipelines Invisible
Snowflake is trending this week. Not because of a new feature. Because AI made broken data transformation pipelines impossible to ignore. An LLM does not know your data is bad. It just makes it sound confident. That is worse than a bad dashboard. At...
AI Revives Dad's Childhood Photo with Sentimental Twist
I will always be grateful that Generative AI restored my dad’s childhood photo and apparently asked itself, “What if Chucky, but sentimental?” #AI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #DigitalTrust #FutureOfWork #Technology #MachineLearning Image credits: Ralph https://t.co/0q0bMnKa6k
Use Gen AI to Argue Bull and Bear Views
Jeremy https://t.co/SHKmqpIutV, you’d instead use gen AI tools to argue the bull and the bear arguments https://t.co/QnEXYv9D2P
AI‑Engineered Steel Boosts 3D‑Print Strength, Cuts Costs
🔺 Scientists use AI to create ultra-strong, rust-proof steel for 3D-printed parts New AI-designed steel delivers high strength, flexibility, and rust resistance while cutting cost and processing time for 3D printing. https://t.co/hbm3AUGt2z https://t.co/b3vLdGRclh
Claude AI Grows Tomatoes Autonomously for 100+ Days
Anthropic’s Claude #AI #Autonomously Grows Tomatoes for 100+ Days in Groundbreaking Experiment by @d33v33d0 #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/lhMuLS70zA
Autonomous Agents Turn Compute Into Unlimited Demand
My take: When agents are free to work, chat, design, code, buy, sell, and self-organize 24/7 the demand for compute will become limited only by compute availability itself. Agents are Jevons Paradox embodied.
AI Chat Slows Down when Browser Tab Loses Focus
Does it feel like your AI slows its response if you leave the browser tab? Is this just me?
Yudkowsky’s Double Talk: Safety Proposals vs Bomb Threat
“Yudkowsky talks out of both sides of his mouth. He wants us to believe that his proposals for avoiding an AGI apocalypse are within the bounds of established norms, yet in a moment of honesty he says that he would...
AI Agent Integration Still Stuck in Altair BASIC Era
Yes, this is indeed a somewhat frustrating setup to get OpenClaw + GBrain + LLM Knowledge Wiki talking to your phone. These are all things that need to be fixed. We're in the Altair BASIC era of AI agents. (Screenshot below...