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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How to Know if Your AI Partner Understands Your Business
Companies often hire AI partners without vetting their business acumen, leading to costly delays. Effective partners start by probing workflow pain points, not by pushing specific models, ensuring solutions address real needs. Experience at a similar company size and stage is crucial, as startups and enterprises face distinct integration and compliance challenges. The best partners also know when to pause AI projects, emphasizing data quality and readiness before development begins.
Manulife IM Sticking with Proxy Advisers Despite AI Proposal Push
Manulife Investment Management’s chief sustainability officer told Responsible Investor that the firm will continue to rely on established proxy‑advisory firms even as it pilots an artificial‑intelligence tool for assessing shareholder proposals. The AI pilot is designed to evaluate the ESG...
AI Pioneers Unite to Launch the Shared AI License Foundation to Advance Foundation Model Innovation
Leading AI firms including Anthropic, Genentech, IBM, Meta and Microsoft have launched the Shared AI License Foundation (SAIL), a non‑exclusive patent pool for foundation‑model technologies. The coalition, with observers eBay and TD Bank and members such as Block and Figma,...
AfterQuery Raises $30M To Expand AI Data Solutions
AfterQuery announced a $30 million Series A round that values the applied‑data lab at $300 million. The funding will fuel expansion of its expert network, hiring, and enterprise solutions. The company already works with nearly 100,000 vetted professionals and has surpassed a $100 million...
Did Your IT Department Tell You About What Happened in AI This Week?
Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI model that identified tens of thousands of hidden vulnerabilities across banks, hospitals, operating systems and browsers, prompting a coordinated warning to twelve leading tech firms through Project Glasswing. Simultaneously, the company launched Claude Managed Agents,...
OpenAI Launches ‘Child Safety Blueprint’ Amid Surge in AI-Generated Abuse
OpenAI unveiled a "Child Safety Blueprint" to tackle the surge in AI‑generated child sexual abuse, a threat that saw a 14% rise in reported incidents in the first half of 2025. The framework, crafted with the National Center for Missing...
Unlock the Full Potential of GitHub Copilot with Coxy
GitHub Copilot provides a monthly quota that most subscribers barely use, especially those paying $10 or more who also receive near‑unlimited access to GPT‑4o. Coxy is a lightweight local proxy that converts Copilot’s proprietary request format into a standard OpenAI‑compatible...
OpenAI and Meaghan B Murphy Discuss How Families Are Using ChatGPT Safely and with Confidence with YourUpdateTV
OpenAI partnered with AI‑savvy parent Meaghan B. Murphy for a nationwide media tour aimed at educating families on safe ChatGPT usage. The tour highlighted built‑in safeguards—quiet hours, content filters, and privacy settings—designed to protect teen users while encouraging productive learning....
Amazon CEO Says Chip Business 'On Fire' As AWS Steps Up Challenge To Nvidia
Amazon’s cloud unit reported a $15 billion annual AI revenue run rate and a custom‑chip business now exceeding $20 billion, double the Q4 figure. CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the rapid growth of its Trainium 3 accelerator, which promises better price‑performance than Nvidia GPUs....
Nvidia Rubin GPUs May Be Delayed, Slowing the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure
Nvidia’s next‑gen Rubin GPUs, slated for late‑2024 shipment, face supply delays due to HBM4 memory validation, CX9 interconnect rollout, and higher power and cooling demands. TrendForce now projects Rubin to represent only 22% of Nvidia’s 2026 shipments, down from an...
OpenAI Hits Pause on Flagship UK Data Centre Scheme
OpenAI has placed its flagship $500 bn Stargate AI data‑centre project on hold in the United Kingdom. The scheme, slated for a Tyneside site in partnership with Nscale and Nvidia, would have installed roughly 8,000 Nvidia AI processors. OpenAI cited soaring...
AI Cuts Trading Strategy Build Time From Months to Weeks
I'm super excited about AI, as it has been making a massive impact in our trading strategies. We've accomplished a lot of progress over the course of the last 4-6 weeks by combining humans with AI for the establishment of our...
AI Fuels Next Cybersecurity Boom: 8 Stocks to Watch
From $244B to $699B: 8 Cybersecurity Stocks Positioned for the Next AI-Driven Security Cycle Growth holds at 12–14% CAGR, driven by expanding attack surfaces and rising digital complexity. Cybercrime is heading toward $10.5T annually, while AI accelerates both offense and defense....
Japan IT Week 2026: Pegatron Showcases End-to-End AI Server Solutions and Strengthens Japan Presence
Pegatron Corp. showcased its full‑stack AI server solutions at Japan IT Week 2026, emphasizing a vertically integrated model that covers design, manufacturing, and after‑sales support. The exhibition highlighted rack‑scale platforms featuring NVIDIA HGX Blackwell and AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, as well as...
Shilo, Rechat, Lofty Add AI Tools; Associations Bolster Agent Safety
Shilo, Lofty and Rechat each rolled out new AI‑powered tools that automate coaching, lead nurturing and conversation capture for real‑estate agents, all offered at no extra charge to existing customers. Shilo’s Signals builds DISC‑style profiles from over three million calls,...
Gen AI Shows Promise and Peril in Patient-Centered Care, New Review Finds
A new viewpoint in the Journal of Medical Internet Research reviews generative AI’s role in patient‑centered clinical decision support. Funded by AHRQ and led by NORC, the authors categorize four use‑case areas and outline six critical needs for safe integration....
AI Solutions for Life Underwriting
In this episode, Dale Hall interviews Whitney Barnes, Director of Sales for Insurance at Digital Owl, about how AI is transforming life insurance underwriting. Whitney explains how AI can process millions of medical record pages, extract relevant risk factors, and...
OpenClaw for Normies Is Here
In this episode of The Long Game, hosts Jake Sullivan and John Feiner discuss the surprising Iran cease‑fire announcement and its implications for U.S. policy, then shift to a deep dive with Marvin Von Hagen, CEO of Polk, about his...
New Survey Reveals Overwhelmingly Optimistic Results on the Use of AI in Construction
A CMiC‑Dodge survey of more than 6,000 construction firms found that 87% of contractors believe artificial intelligence will have a meaningful impact on the industry. Respondents expect AI to cut time on repetitive tasks (85%), improve decision‑making (over 70%) and...
OPSWAT Adds Predictive AI Engine to MetaDefender for Pre-Execution Threat Detection
OPSWAT introduced Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI‑driven threat detection engine, into the MetaDefender platform. The static‑analysis engine predicts malicious intent in milliseconds, delivering sub‑100‑ms inference while maintaining a tiny memory footprint. In internal tests the engine achieved 99.99%...
How Insurance Leaders Can Leverage AI Without Sacrificing Trust
Capgemini’s WNS unit outlines how insurers can embed control, privacy and compliance into AI deployments while still fostering cross‑jurisdiction collaboration. Techniques such as geographic data restrictions and federated learning enable model training without moving raw data. High‑impact AI use cases...
I Asked 5 Data Leaders About How They Use AI to Automate - and End Integration Nightmares
Data leaders across industries are turning to generative AI and automation to tame complex data‑integration projects. Thomson Reuters is piloting an internal AI tool for M&A due diligence, while Create Music Group runs more than 600 pipelines with Astronomer’s Astro...
AI-Caution Prompts Rising Demand for Authentic, Human-Led Content in Social Buying Journeys
New research from the Retail Technology Show surveyed over 1,000 shoppers and found that 53% distrust AI‑generated social content, rising to 58% among Gen Z. More than half (51%) believe AI threatens brand trust on social platforms, while 43% say authentic,...
Global AI Secures Enterprise Agentic AI Deployment with Fortune Global 500 Pharmaceutical Leader
Global AI Inc. announced a full‑scale production rollout of its Agentic AI Platform with a Fortune Global 500 pharmaceutical company. The solution now runs end‑to‑end across regulatory reporting and payroll functions, linking inventory, ERP, HR and finance systems into a...
The Equation Just Broke: What Block’s AI Restructuring Means for Every Company & Industry. Highlights From A16Z Podcast.
Block, the parent of Square, Cash App and Afterpay, announced a restructuring that eliminated more than 40% of its workforce despite being profitable and ranking in the top quintile for gross profit per employee. The cuts focused on engineering after...
XMax Advances AI Strategy Through Development and Deployment of An AI Inference Platform
XMax Inc., through its wholly‑owned subsidiary XMax AI, signed an agreement with Cloud Alliance Inc. to develop and deploy a cloud‑based AI inference platform on Amazon Web Services. The platform will deliver large‑model API access, intelligent routing, authentication, integrated payments,...
Fingerspitzengefühl As Corporate Structure
Block, led by Jack Dorsey, is piloting an AI‑driven reorganization that replaces traditional hierarchical coordination with a continuously updated world model built from its Cash App and Square transaction data. The system combines modular financial capabilities, an intelligence layer that...
How OpenClaw Became Google's Next Big AI Threat After ChatGPT
OpenClaw, an open‑source autonomous AI assistant, has surged in early 2026, offering messaging‑driven agents that operate locally on personal computers. The platform can create subordinate agents, manage files, and execute multistep tasks without constant cloud access, drawing praise from Nvidia’s...
The Death of the CV
DY/DX warns that AI‑generated résumés are stripping the CV of its signalling power, prompting firms to rethink hiring. While South African recruiters are adopting AI for bulk screening, the consultancy argues that keyword‑driven tools can miss high‑potential candidates with non‑linear...
Microsoft Finally Begins Removing Copilot From Notepad on Windows 11 — but the AI Still Persists
Microsoft has begun stripping the Copilot brand from Windows 11 apps, starting with Notepad. The latest Insider build removes the Copilot icon and renames the AI menu to “writing tools,” while preserving the underlying functionality. Settings now list the AI toggle...
OpenAI Halts Stargate UK Data Centre Project
OpenAI announced it is suspending the construction of its Stargate data centre in the United Kingdom, a project originally slated to cost roughly £200 million (about $250 million). The facility was intended to house some of the world’s most powerful AI compute...
Meta Adds $21B AI Cloud Spend, Total $35B
Meta Platforms $META has committed to spend an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave $CRWV This comes on top of a prior deal for Meta to spend $14.2 billion with CoreWeave - CNBC
Hugging Face's Safetensors, Meta's Helion Join PyTorch Foundation
The PyTorch Foundation announced that Meta’s Helion DSL and Hugging Face’s Safetensors format have joined its portfolio of open‑source AI projects. Helion provides a domain‑specific language for writing custom machine‑learning kernels, while Safetensors delivers a fast, secure tensor serialization method....
Claude Cowork: Simple, $20 AI Desktop Assistant
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 While I was wrestling with OpenClaw, Anthropic quietly launched something that does most of what I wanted OpenClaw to do. It’s called Claude Cowork with Dispatch. Here’s how it works: you open Claude on your...
Will ChatGPT Ads Become a Meaningful Part of the Performance Media Mix?
ChatGPT advertising is entering the performance media arena, drawing early spend thanks to its large, intent‑rich audience. The article argues that lasting budget allocation will depend less on user numbers and more on the ability to measure outcomes against other...
Argentum AI Selects Rafay for Infrastructure Orchestration
Argentum AI has chosen the Rafay Platform to orchestrate its rapidly expanding AI infrastructure portfolio, which spans more than 3 GW of power across the U.S., Europe and other regions. The unified software‑orchestration layer lets Argentum provision customized GPU compute environments...
The Top Priority for Adobe’s Next CEO? Prepping for the ‘Age of Agents’
Adobe announced that longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after 18 years, triggering a board search for a successor. Analysts say the top priority for the next leader will be reshaping Adobe’s portfolio for the emerging "agentic AI" era,...
CoreWeave, Meta Strike Another $21 Billion Deal for AI Computing
CoreWeave Inc. has inked a new $21 billion agreement to provide AI‑cloud capacity to Meta Platforms through December 2032. The contract builds on a prior $14.2 billion deal that ran until the end of 2021, extending the partnership by an additional year. Compute...
AI Semiconductor Market to Reach USD 1.1 Trillion by 2035
The AI semiconductor market is set to exceed $1.1 trillion by 2035, according to a new industry report. Valued at roughly $102.8 billion in 2025, it is expected to grow at a 27‑33% compound annual growth rate. Growth is fueled by expanding...
Media Distillery Targets Sports Streamers with New Engagement Platform
Media Distillery unveiled an AI‑driven Sports Engagement Suite that automates highlights, real‑time key‑moment detection, chapter navigation, and related shoulder content. The platform aims to ease the labor‑intensive workflow of packaging sports coverage for broadcasters and streaming services. Football will be...
Reusable "Skills" Are Coming To Gemini In Chrome
Google has introduced a new "Skills" button to Gemini in Chrome, currently available in Chrome Canary. The feature lets users save a prompt as a reusable skill and summon it later with a slash command. Google also ships a few pre‑built...
Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said search is evolving from a simple results list into an AI‑driven agent manager that can plan, execute, and coordinate tasks. He envisions future queries becoming "agentic" searches where multiple AI agents run in parallel to...
Built a Custom iPad Bible App in an Hour
Whipped up a wide margin Bible app for the iPad today with Claude Code. I love marking up my Bible, but also love reading the Bible on my iPad. So now I can do both. → I started off with "How...
From Token Prediction to Concept Reasoning: AI’s New Cognitive Layer
LLMs predict tokens. LCMs reason in concepts. That’s the shift. Language-agnostic meaning → better abstraction, longer context, less repetition. If it works, this isn’t an upgrade. It’s a new cognitive layer for AI. https://t.co/kVE7AI5vtg
How AI and Data Analytics Are Driving Payout Optimization Across Platforms
Payout optimization has shifted from a back‑office task to a real‑time business imperative, with AI and analytics now guiding speed, cost, and fraud decisions. Global real‑time payments surged 42% in 2023 and are projected to exceed 511 billion transactions by 2028,...
Google Home Rolls Out Gemini Worldwide; User Reception Mixed
Google Home has started expanding Gemini globally, but some users have yet to get along with it. https://t.co/sMiGR6czb7
AI Agents Set to Revolutionize Global Finance
How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System - interview on @NoPriorsPod https://t.co/XFsJ32mzNt via @YouTube
Amazon's AI Strategy Mirrors Its Core Consistency Blueprint
Amazon’s most consistent, fundamental corporate strategy, the one that’s made the e-commerce/cloud giant into the powerhouse it is today, is also its AI strategy: $AMZN https://t.co/RC1LAKEh4n https://t.co/e5Dn7VESOn
GLM-5.1 Claims Top Performance Over GPT, Anthropic, Gemini
https://t.co/PA3A2NtsOG ups ante in open-source LLMs with GLM-5.1 https://t.co/NmEFxGdoho https://t.co/PA3A2NtsOG launched GLM-5.1, its flagship open-source model that claims to outperform OpenAI's GPT-5.4, Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE Bench Pro benchmarks for…
Open‑Source AI Now Seen As Chinese‑Driven
i really like this project and it’s increasingly looking like open (source) ai is synonymous with chinese ai