Today's AI Pulse
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with multilingual text and real‑time web research
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning to its generation pipeline. The new “Thinking” mode lets paid users produce up to eight coherent images per prompt, including floor plans, maps, UI mock‑ups, and apply capabilities to uploaded content.
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Of the 500+ AI Tools Tested by a Leading Game Dev Tech Provider, only ‘Half a Dozen’ Help ‘in the...
Keywords Studios evaluated over 500 AI tools for game development and found only about six that genuinely enhance production pipelines. The firm’s head of transformation, Jon Gibson, says most tools are built for flashy demos rather than solving concrete studio problems. While 90% of developers report using AI, more than half view it negatively due to governance, IP, and ethical concerns. Gibson stresses the need to shift from novelty to controlled, use‑case‑driven AI integration.
Mythos Hype Debunked: No Real Breakthrough
Yesterday’s Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown. • Sandboxing was turned off, so test didn’t show much about the real world. • Cheap open-weight models can (already) do some similar stuff • No evidence that Mythos itself is a major qualitative jump. In short, we got...
Background Agents Will Power Nonstop Workflow Automation
Right now the main paradigm that we think of agents in is chatting back and forth, but the biggest use of tokens will come from agents that are just always on running in the background doing work for us, or...
Exhibitor Viewpoint: OBSBOT at NAB Show 2026
OBSBOT, the AI‑camera specialist, is headlining the 2026 NAB Show with its flagship Tail 2 4K live‑production camera and a preview of the upcoming Talent 2 all‑in‑one production system. The company will demonstrate a hands‑on podcast studio, a green‑screen zone for virtual...
Minor Hotels Builds AI Stack From Scratch To Improve Personalization
Minor Hotels is constructing a brand‑new global AI and data platform to connect guest information across its portfolio of more than 640 hotels and 12 brands. By building the stack from the ground up, the company sidesteps the legacy‑system bottlenecks...
I Use ChatGPT's New Tubi App to Find Free Movies and TV Shows to Watch - Here's How
ChatGPT has added Tubi TV as a native app, enabling users to locate movies and TV shows through conversational prompts. The integration is available to all ChatGPT users, regardless of subscription tier, and taps Tubi’s catalog of more than 300,000...
AI's Second Inning Promises Explosive Growth, Not a Bubble
Are we in an AI bubble? Andy Jassy gave his take in the $AMZN annual shareholder letter: “I’ve followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we’re in ‘a bubble,’ and if the margins and ROIC will be...
Google Gemini Now Generates Interactive Visualizations You Can Tweak and Explore Right in the Chat
Google Gemini now generates interactive visualizations directly within its chat interface, letting users tweak variables, rotate 3D models, and explore data on the fly. The feature is accessible through the Gemini Pro model on gemini.google, triggered by prompts such as...
Operationalizing AI in Finance: Driving Efficiency, Accuracy, and Audit Confidence Through Governance
Finance leaders are moving AI from isolated pilots to core processes, driven by daily reliance on large‑language models for reporting, forecasting, and audit preparation. The Controllers Council webinar highlighted that disciplined governance—especially around SOX controls—distinguishes experimental use from production‑grade output....
Accountant Launches AI Tax Startup, Secures $12M Seed
In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a...
Meet the New AI Coworker Who Won’t Stop Snitching to Your Boss
Kuse AI has launched Junior, an autonomous AI employee that can join Slack, Zoom, email and act as a full‑time virtual coworker. Priced at $2,000 per month, the service has attracted over 2,000 companies on a waiting list, with 26...
Gemini Adds Interactive Simulations to AI Responses
For example, see my Mt. AI simulation below :) -> The Gemini app can now generate interactive simulations and models "Previously, responses were largely just text with static diagrams. Now, we’re delivering functional simulations that can help you better ...
What Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s Annual Letter to Shareholders Didn’t Say
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s 2025 shareholder letter spotlighted artificial‑intelligence spending and fulfillment upgrades while completely omitting any reference to the third‑party sellers who power the marketplace. The letter highlighted a $200 billion capex plan and a $15 billion AI run rate in...
Switched Tools Restore Productivity After Claude Issues
I’m extremely obsessive with code quality on these things. Knew something was off 4 weeks ago and it progressively got worse. Cancelled my Claude substitution a few days ago - opus 4.6 when released was absolutely magic. I’m sure they...
AMA CEO Outlines Key Goals As New Digital Health/AI Center Staffs Up
American Medical Association CEO John Whyte announced the staffing of a new Center for Digital Health and AI, positioning it to shape policy as digital medicine expands. The center will convene a meeting next month with a leading digital‑medicine coalition...
Add a Screenshot Skill to Give Claude Code Eyes
Give me one minute, and I’ll improve your Claude Code experience immediately. This is the first skill I built. And it’s the skill I use most often. *drumroll* It’s a SCREENSHOT skill. And honestly, I’m shocked Anthropic hasn’t built this functionality...
Siemens Accelerates AI Chip Verification to Trillion‑cycle Scale with NVIDIA Technology
Siemens and NVIDIA announced that Siemens’ Veloce proFPGA CS hardware‑assisted verification platform can capture tens of trillions of pre‑silicon design cycles in just a few days. The breakthrough combines Siemens’ scalable FPGA‑based architecture with NVIDIA’s performance‑optimized chip designs, dramatically accelerating AI/ML system‑on‑chip...
Empower Teams with AI Budgets for Competitive Edge
Give your team the tools and permission to experiment with AI and just get out of their way. To me its clear that AI is raising the bar of whats expected from every person in their role and the competition to...
Lawsuit Alleges Systemic Misuse of Facial Recognition by Reno Police
A Nevada lawsuit claims the Reno Police Department arrested Jason Killinger after a casino’s facial‑recognition system falsely matched him to a banned patron. The arrest was made without corroborating evidence, despite Killinger presenting valid IDs, and the officer later admitted...
Even Nvidia’s Own Research Teams Can’t Get Enough GPUs Amid the Race for AI Computing Power
Nvidia’s own research groups are scrambling for GPUs, highlighting a sector‑wide shortage of the $30,000‑plus chips that power AI model training. At the HumanX conference, applied‑deep‑learning lead Bryan Catanzaro confirmed that even internal teams must fight for compute allocations. The scarcity...
HR Teams Cautiously Experiment with Using AI to Help Set Workers’ Pay
HR departments are cautiously testing AI for compensation decisions, with experimentation rising from 2025 to early 2026 per a Korn Ferry survey. Yet 57% of firms have not started any AI projects in total rewards. Experts warn that data quality,...
Meta Expands CoreWeave Deal to $21 Billion as AI Cloud Demand Grows
Meta has expanded its agreement with AI‑focused cloud provider CoreWeave to a $21 billion, ten‑year contract running through 2032, securing large‑scale GPU clusters for training and inference. The deal comes as Meta ramps up its AI infrastructure spending, targeting more than...
CEO Interview: Axyon AI
Axyon AI targets the $100 trillion-plus pool of institutionally managed assets, offering AI‑driven, human‑in‑the‑loop solutions that automate the entire investment strategy lifecycle. The company estimates a $2.3 billion total addressable market, aiming for 5,000‑7,000 institutional clients with an average annual contract value...
Key Players Pivot to Robots, AI Agents Proliferate | Trading the Markets With AI
The episode covers the rapid expansion of AI agents in crypto (30% of Base chain traffic), Anthropic's Mythos uncovering zero‑day vulnerabilities, and the geopolitical shift toward physical AI and robotics in Japan, China, and the U.S. It highlights Microsoft’s new...
Tubi Strikes ChatGPT Deal that Cuts Out Human Movie Recommendations
Tubi, the ad‑supported streaming service owned by Fox, has launched a new app in the ChatGPT marketplace that lets users ask the chatbot for movie recommendations from Tubi’s catalog. The integration leverages Tubi’s personalization engine, trained on more than one billion...
Seedance 2.0: The Most Controversial AI Video Model in the World Just Landed in the US
ByteDance's Dreamina Seedance 2.0 AI video model, once paused amid controversy, is now live for U.S. users through CapCut. The rollout follows a brief global pause and promises integration across CapCut's Video Studio. CapCut emphasizes safeguards, including limits on real‑face...
Luminai Secures $38M, Inks Enterprise AI Partnership with Cleveland Clinic
Luminai announced a $38 million Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, lifting its total capital to $60 million. Simultaneously, the company unveiled an enterprise AI deployment with the Cleveland Clinic to automate the routing of faxed referrals. By embedding hospital‑specific standard operating procedures...
Cal Newport On Why AI Isn’t Making It Easier
Cal Newport argues that generative AI has not lightened workloads, echoing past tech disruptions. Research from ActivTrak tracking 164,000 workers shows AI users doubled time spent on email, messaging and chat, and increased use of business‑management tools by 94%, while...
Dozens of U.S. Cities Pull Flock Safety License‑Plate Cameras After Privacy Outcry
More than 30 U.S. cities have terminated contracts with Flock Safety, removing its AI‑powered license‑plate readers after public pressure over privacy and data‑sharing with ICE. The wave of cancellations, which began in early 2026, underscores growing scrutiny of municipal surveillance...
Federal Appeals Courts Uphold Pentagon's Blacklist of Anthropic, Escalating AI‑Security Clash
Two federal appellate panels rejected Anthropic's request for a stay, allowing the Department of Defense to keep the AI lab on a supply‑chain risk list. The split rulings—one in Washington, D.C., the other in San Francisco—highlight a growing legal battle...
Automation Frees Us to Pursue New Callings
Two centuries ago, 80% of us worked on a farm. Today, 2%. We didn't become obsolete- we found other callings. @Alfred_Lin brings that long view to Physical AI in Episode 2 of Deployed. The question isn't whether automation replaces tasks. It's...
These AI Glasses Switch Between ChatGPT and Gemini. They're Better Than Meta, but Not Great Yet
Rokid’s AI glasses, now on sale for $279, let users toggle between ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini through a companion app, a flexibility Meta’s $379 Ray‑Ban Gen 2 lacks. Unlike Meta’s glasses, which lock users into a proprietary AI ecosystem and raise...
How Gartner Will Help Accelerate and Scale Your AI Strategy
Enterprise leaders recognize AI’s strategic value, yet many struggle to move from boardroom concepts to production‑grade solutions. Gartner’s Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit 2026 in Las Vegas addresses cultural, skills, governance, architectural, and cost challenges that impede AI adoption. The three‑day...
Top Influencers’ Secret Weapon for Engagement Might Be Replaced by AI
Influencer marketing has leaned heavily on freelance video clippers who turn long‑form content into bite‑sized TikTok, Reels and Shorts clips. Last year, AI‑powered services such as Overlap and OpusClip began offering end‑to‑end clipping, editing and posting without human involvement. Major...
How 400+ Campuses Are Putting AI to Work
Google's AI for Education Accelerator has enrolled more than 400 colleges across all 50 states in under a year, offering a free AI Professional Certificate that carries ACE‑approved college credit. The program equips students, faculty, and staff with practical AI...
To Prevent AI From Taking Graduates’ Jobs, Comp-Sci Professors Try ... More AI
More than 100,000 U.S. computer‑science graduates are confronting a 7 percent unemployment rate in early 2024, outpacing the 4.4 percent average for all new graduates. To counteract AI‑driven job displacement, professors are weaving artificial‑intelligence projects into senior‑year capstone courses, hoping to turn...
ServiceNow's Context Engine Stops Enterprise AI Stalls
The reason enterprise AI stalls is not the model. ServiceNow built something this week that addresses the actual problem Three announcements landed this morning. Each addresses a different reason enterprise AI programs stall before they deliver returns. Context Engine connects identity, policy,...
AI Poised to Transform Healthcare Into Supercharged General Practice
.@peteratmsr on why AI could shift healthcare away from subspecialties, and toward a supercharged version of general practice. Catch my episode with Peter (President of Microsoft Science) on Lifers: Apple: https://t.co/e5WslnfSee Spotify: https://t.co/TaqlqEsE3f YouTube: https://t.co/eAaMF0XEiB
Living Brain Cells Trained to Compute Chaos Mathematics
Wetware #AI: Living Brain Cells Trained to Run Chaos Math by @NeuroscienceNew Learn more: https://t.co/Eipi0gfWur #HealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/Hu3RezoZTu
AI Revolutionizes Legal Practice: Key Findings Unveiled
1/ Very interesting paper about the use of #AI in the #legal sector, by @Dschwarcz et al.👇
AI Safety Requires Ecosystem Defense Against Model Jailbreaks
We should assume that any malicious actor can use the top open weight models and can jailbreak them so they'll answer any question on bioweapons, cyber attacks, etc.. AI safety fundamentally must happen at the ecosystem level. We must...
AI Boosts Developer Productivity—Is a Speed Limit Near?
Wow, developers are getting significantly more productive, faster, in new jobs. Will we reach a plateau where there's nothing left to speed up with AI? https://t.co/lPQEw78kAF https://t.co/JgM0JBrsVZ
Google Launches Gemini UI Overlay Beta, Limited Rollout
Google is rolling out the updated Gemini UI overlay in beta. May not be available for everyone. https://t.co/JREJAX8Xaf
True AI Transformation Reshapes Competition, Not Just Automation
Many execs claim digital transformation when they've only automated tasks with AI. Transformation is when AI changes how you compete and deliver value. #AI #CIO https://t.co/vUAeACa9wo
Top AI Labs Unite on Safety Standards
The Three Biggest AI Labs Just Agreed on Something. That Should Make You Think. https://t.co/6MxkscZbU7
Bus Driver Resists AI Surveillance on School Routes
AI powered cameras are being installed on school buses across the country to surveil the drivers and children on the bus. I spoke to one bus driver in Wichita who’s fighting back against this surveillance tech. https://t.co/IbILY71ldZ
Chinese Open‑Source AI Might Outsmart Anthropic’s Control
Wouldn’t it be something if Chinese open-source models ended up saving the world from oppression by Anthropic? Funniest possible timeline, for sure.
Control Theory Cuts AI Training Compute Costs
Training a large AI model is expensive, but MIT CSAIL researchers have helped develop a new approach that cuts compute costs. Using control theory, "CompreSSM" compresses models during training, shedding complexity. It makes models leaner & faster: https://t.co/8aGuzy7Mbq https://t.co/yXWqasArmy
Tell AI to Update Its Skill After Every Run
One line that will make every AI skill you build better over time: ↓ After every run, say: "Update the skill with anything you learned this session." That's it. Claude learned from anything that happened in that session and the skill gets...
Leverage AI in Trading or Get Left Behind
A lot of people are single-handedly trading without the role of AI. Why would you? Use AI to optimize your trading, backtest, improve and continue to develop with the strongest brain power you could have alongside you. You'll be left behind if you...