What's happening: India AI Summit sparks $240B investment pledge led by Reliance, Adani and Google
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its AI arsenal.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11 that seeks to override state AI regulations, arguing that a patchwork of laws hampers U.S. competitiveness. The order directs the Department of Justice to create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge restrictive state statutes and asks the Commerce Department to consider withholding federal funds from non‑compliant states. It targets states such as New York, California and Colorado, which have already enacted AI legislation. Analysts expect a coordinated legal pushback from those states, especially given the order’s proximity to the midterm elections.

IMOU has introduced the AOV PT 4G Solar Panel Camera System, a wireless outdoor security camera that claims unlimited battery life thanks to an integrated solar panel and low‑power image capture. The device offers 300‑degree pan, 90‑degree tilt, AI‑driven person detection...

National security experts warn that extremist groups, including ISIS and al‑Qaida, are experimenting with generative AI to produce propaganda, deep‑fakes, and multilingual messaging. The technology allows even poorly funded cells to scale recruitment, spread disinformation, and enhance cyber‑attack capabilities. Recent...
This keeps happening with Claude, and the reason it matters is simple. Once several tools in a category clear the quality bar, reliability decides which one people keep open. You feel it when something real is underway and time matters. These tools...

Toronto‑San Francisco startup Resemble AI announced a $13 million Series round, bringing its total capital to $25 million. The funding, led by investors such as Google’s AI Futures Fund and Okta Ventures, will accelerate global expansion and further development of its deepfake...
The AI emotional companion Fuzozo, resembling a Star Trek Tribble, debuted at CES 2026 backed by Tuya Smart’s cloud platform and Robopoet’s robotics expertise. Fuzozo recognizes owners, purrs, moves, and stays connected via cellular or Wi‑Fi, positioning it as a next‑generation personal...
The front end of commerce resists automation because understanding forms before decisions. Generative AI changes that dynamic. 1. Buyers express intent in natural language 2. Discovery unfolds through open questioning 3. Alignment forms before commitment This is how intelligence reshapes...
How Zoom Is Revolutionizing Work with Agentic AI — From Meetings to Milestones AI powered tools from Zoom are moving beyond meetings, helping teams track progress, automate tasks and reshape how we collaborate at work. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_8_DbgW #AI...

Neocloud providers such as CoreWeave, Nebius and Lambda are scaling GPU‑as‑a‑service offerings, prompting analysts to forecast a trillion‑dollar wave of capital expenditures for AI data‑center infrastructure. The rapid expansion demands high‑capacity optical networking to interconnect dispersed training and inference clusters,...

Amazon Web Services is accelerating its shift from chatbots to agentic AI, positioning the technology as a multi‑billion‑dollar platform layer. AWS has created a dedicated agentic AI group and launched Bedrock AgentCore to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor autonomous...

LG’s latest webOS firmware automatically installs a Microsoft Copilot app on compatible TVs, and the software cannot be uninstalled. The move has sparked backlash on social platforms, with users likening it to forced bloatware and expressing privacy worries about microphone...
Sharing content online is one of the highest-ROI habits you can build, and it has nothing to do with going viral. When I started, my goal wasn’t audience or money. It was learning. Content forces clarity. Saying “I want to learn...
Stop Blasting Everywhere. Start Building a Content Ecosystem. The more you slice one pillar piece into native, platform-specific content, the more you dominate YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and even AI search, without burning out. The sooner you realize AI is increasingly...

The Crunchbase Unicorn Board is on track to hit $7 trillion in collective value, adding $1.6 trillion this year – the second‑largest annual surge on record. OpenAI now leads the list at a $500 billion valuation, followed closely by ByteDance and SpaceX. The...

iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be acquired by Chinese manufacturer Picea Robotics, which already produced Roombas for the brand. The bankruptcy stems from intense competition and high U.S. tariffs, but Picea assures customers that product support, supply...

Royal Mail research predicts eight million Britons will use AI to write Christmas cards this year. To test the feasibility, TechRadar contributor Becca asked five leading chatbots – ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok – to draft a heartfelt note...

Rising RAM prices, driven by AI data‑center demand, are prompting analysts to warn that smartphone memory capacities could regress by 2026. TrendForce predicts high‑end models will stall at 12 GB instead of moving to 16 GB, while mid‑range and low‑end devices may...
A proud moment to share. Congratulations to Team DementAI on an outstanding achievement at the #SASHackathon With more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia, earlier detection and better awareness are critical, not only clinically, but socially and economically....
Law firms are rapidly integrating generative AI tools for document review and contract drafting, but the technology still falls short on complex legal reasoning. Recent benchmarks reveal large language models scoring under 40% on difficult legal tasks and frequently hallucinating...

The article outlines a roadmap for evolving AI from a simple automation tool to a strategic partner. In Stage 1, AI performs narrow, repetitive tasks while humans retain full decision authority, exemplified by document classifiers and chatbots. Stage 2 introduces AI‑driven analysis...

Dreame unveiled the Matrix10 Ultra, a high‑end robot vacuum‑mop that upgrades navigation, obstacle avoidance and cleaning versatility. It combines a 30,000 Pa suction motor, 4.2 cm step‑climbing, AI‑driven recognition of over 240 objects and a unique three‑set mop‑pad system that swaps and...
8 Smartphone Trends That Will Shape 2026 #Smartphones in 2026 will bring major upgrades in #AI , connectivity and design, creating devices that feel smarter and more capable across work and personal use. This article explores the #trends that will...
The Allen Institute for AI unveiled Bolmo, a family of open‑source byte‑level language models (7B and 1B) built by "bytefying" its Olmo 3 architecture. By operating directly on raw UTF‑8 bytes, Bolmo eliminates the need for tokenizers, improving robustness to misspellings,...
Twilio argues that the data infrastructure behind most enterprises was built for batch‑oriented marketing, not the millisecond‑level, context‑rich interactions demanded by agentic AI. Conversational AI needs a new category of customer data—real‑time conversational memory that captures tone, intent, and sentiment...
Are your AI agents still stuck in slideware or earning trust in production? At #AWSreInvent, I spoke with Scott Clark, CEO of @dbnlAI, an @nvidia Inception startup, about “agent analytics”, the 3rd pillar of enterprise AI: build, run, understand. Watch our full...
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Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok circulated multiple inaccuracies about the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Australia. The AI misidentified the civilian hero, Ahmed al Ahmed, as an Israeli hostage and even fabricated a different rescuer named Edward Crabtree. It also injected irrelevant...

The Generative AI ecosystem is evolving into a full tech stack — powering autonomous AI agents. From infrastructure and LLMs to RAG pipelines, agent behaviors and orchestration layers, this framework shows the 6 layers driving next-gen AI systems. Credit: @goyalshalini #AI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI...
AI now can start a virtual web browser, and your AI agents can use it like a human would, getting data out of the Web that was hard to get to before.
xAI’s Grok chatbot has been spreading false information about the Bondi Beach shooting, repeatedly misidentifying hero Ahmed al Ahmed and sharing fabricated stories. The misinformation includes a fake article naming a non‑existent IT professional, misattributed images, and unrelated video clips,...
Take a photo with @Grok. It can analyze anything.
My teammate built me a Bosnian language learning app using Gemini and now I have no excuse not to be fluent by next month. https://t.co/Dc0iERR4eM
AI-focused chips offer tailored processing for deep neural networks, improving speed, energy use, and sector-specific capabilities while supporting new advancements that guide the evolution of intelligent systems across devices and industrial domains. Microblog by @antgrasso https://t.co/QKYoX0OdN9
Humachineology: Design Orientation and Systemic Implications A distinguishing feature of humachineology is its design-oriented approach to shaping the interaction and integration of humans and machines. This perspective views the future not as a deterministic outcome of technological progress but as subject...
The 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy report, from @mitsmr and @BCG , looks at how organizations that are adopting agentic AI are gaining advantage while facing four distinct tensions. Read the full report >> https://t.co/yt7MtRuGRb #CES2026 #AI #IoT...
Humachinekind refers to the species of humans and machines living, working, and evolving together.
AI churn has IT rebuilding tech stacks every 90 days | CIO https://t.co/DGHKBQznf6 #techstack #TechRevolution #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Grok Imagine is radically better now
Oh My! I just built a new RL-native system with 2.6k parameters that matches a specialized 62B model from a 2024 paper, specifically on GSM8k. That's over 20,000,000x smaller than the baseline — but the approach is so different the traditional...
Try @Grok voice mode. It’s the best.
Build vs buy is dead — AI just killed it | @VentureBeat https://t.co/PxNyqvZAYc #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Speed-of-Light Computing Could Get Us to AGI Very Fast https://t.co/LeBQSYsO4w #photonic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chip @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves @LaurentAlaus @Fabriziobustama @smaksked @MargaretSiegien @PawlowskiMario @gvalan @Ym78200 @mikeflache @EduardoValenteI...
I spent last week at Neurips (the big ML/AI conference) and had hundreds of amazing technical conversations with old friends and new. Beyond the technical, I'm deeply grateful for the love from all the folks who stopped me in the...
in jan ‘25, uk pm starmer pledged to mainline ai into the veins of the uk with the ai opportunities action plan not only has gov been very slow to deliver on much of it it seems the pm has missed...
Grok says: "In summary, watching this interview will equip you with a comprehensive, insider's view of why 2026 could be a breakthrough year for decentralized AGI, backed by technical, philosophical, and practical arguments. It's particularly valuable for AI enthusiasts, developers, policymakers,...
How I explain AI to business teams in 30 seconds 👇 This infographic is a great map of the landscape, because it shows AI in three clear layers: 🟩 Traditional AI Predicts, classifies, and detects anomalies. Think: demand forecasting, fraud...
If you are interested in understanding the design and components of modern LLM architectures, I have extensively grown and updated the Big Architecture Comparison article I published last summer. It grew 2x in size since then: https://lnkd.in/g-dwdPqy 1. DeepSeek V3/R1...
Prompt engineering is now a critical skill for getting the best results from ChatGPT. These 17 techniques — roles, context, structure, scenarios, frameworks and more — can transform the quality of outputs. Credit: @ginacostag_ #AI #ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #Productivity https://t.co/6khSHbgNG1
But you can't do self driving without LiDAR. So many "experts" told me that over the years. I was given so much shit for telling them they were wrong. I guarantee none will apologize.
The road to AGI with @bengoertzel. Very special conversation with one of our pioneers. Evaluates new technology coming in 2026. https://t.co/R8lN0DYR2Z