Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
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Davis Secures $5.5 Million Seed Funding to Launch AI‑Driven Real‑Estate Design Platform
Davis, a London‑based PropTech startup, closed a $5.5 million seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton. The funding will accelerate the rollout of Gaudi‑1, its proprietary AI model that generates regulatory‑compliant architectural designs in days instead of months. Investors cite the company’s hybrid service model and early client traction across two continents as proof points.
Menu-Order AI Deploys GLP‑1‑Driven Nutrition Guidance to 100,000 Users
Menu-Order AI, founded by Melissa Butler, has rolled out an AI‑driven ordering platform that offers real‑time, GLP‑1‑aligned menu recommendations. The app has logged more than 100,000 global downloads, positioning it at the intersection of preventive health and the restaurant sector.
Intuit Adds AI‑Powered Workforce and 401(k) Tools to QuickBooks
Intuit announced that its flagship QuickBooks platform will now include AI‑driven workforce management and a built‑in 401(k) retirement solution. The move broadens QuickBooks from pure accounting software into a more complete HRTech suite for small and midsize businesses, though pricing...
NY Democratic Primary Becomes Proxy War Over AI Regulation
In New York’s 12th Congressional District Democratic primary, Assemblymember Adam Bores, Assemblymember Micah Lasher and influencer Jack Schlossberg are using the race to argue over artificial‑intelligence regulation. Early polling shows Schlossberg ahead with 22%, while the candidates clash on how...
Udemy Boosts AI Role‑Play with Video and Custom Scenarios for Millions of Learners
Udemy announced new video and customization capabilities for its AI‑driven Role‑Play platform, letting organizations tailor simulations to specific roles and workflows. The upgrade builds on a library of more than 15,000 instructor‑created scenarios and over 400,000 interactive simulations, positioning Udemy...
Salesforce's MuleSoft Launches Omni Gateway to Govern Enterprise AI Agents
Salesforce announced MuleSoft Omni Gateway, a new control‑plane solution that centralizes governance of AI agents, APIs, MCP traffic and LLM interactions. The product aims to close the gap where 42% of companies abandon AI agents before production, according to S&P...
Google Health App Launches in India with AI Coach and Rs. 99 Premium Plan
Google announced the public rollout of its rebranded Google Health app and AI‑powered Health Coach in India, beginning May 19 and expanding to all eligible users by May 26. The service includes a premium subscription priced at Rs. 99 per month (about $1.20),...
Startup Harnesses the Power of AI in the Ongoing Hunt for Minerals
Earth AI, an Australian‑founded, US‑based startup, uses artificial intelligence and low‑disturbance drilling to locate critical‑mineral deposits faster than traditional methods. The company claims a 75% discovery success rate, far above the sub‑1% industry norm, and has already identified copper, cobalt,...
S&P 500 Hits Record Above 7,300 as AMD Rockets 19% and Oil Slides Below $100
The S&P 500 breached the 7,300 mark after Advanced Micro Devices posted a 19% share surge on a $10.25 billion Q1 revenue beat. The rally was amplified by falling oil prices and strong earnings across the AI and consumer sectors, lifting...
Former Cadillac CMO Melissa Grady Dias Becomes CEO of Measured Wellness
Melissa Grady Dias, who spent seven years as global CMO of Cadillac, has been appointed CEO of California‑based Measured Wellness. The health‑tech firm will tap her branding and digital expertise to accelerate a national rollout of its wearable‑data platform as...
Airbnb CEO Predicts AI Will Rewrite Job Descriptions
Airbnb’s latest shareholder letter reveals that its engineers now co‑author 60% of their code with artificial intelligence, accelerating product cycles. In the customer‑support arena, the AI Assistant resolves more than 40% of guest inquiries without human intervention, contributing to a...
Zagreb Launches Europe’s First Commercial Robotaxi Service with Uber and Pony.ai
Zagreb has become the first European city to operate a commercial robotaxi service, deploying a fleet of 10 autonomous vehicles in partnership with Uber and Chinese driverless firm Pony.ai. The service, priced at €1.99 per ride, began on April 8...
Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing
Anthropic’s internal study shows that AI‑driven Claude Code is now used in 60% of employee work, delivering roughly a 50% productivity uplift. The research revealed that 27% of AI‑assisted output consisted of tasks employees would not have attempted without the...
HIMSSCast: ‘Implement an AI Solution in Digestible Chunks’
Northwell Health Labs has integrated artificial intelligence into its revenue cycle management, achieving a 40% reduction in error rates. The AI was deployed in small, digestible chunks, allowing the system to generate quick wins and avoid the pitfalls of a...
Celtic Bank Teams with AI Firm Casca to Speed SBA Loan Approvals
Celtic Bank announced a partnership with San Francisco‑based AI company Casca to automate SBA 7(a) loan origination. The move promises to shrink processing cycles from months to weeks, leveraging Casca’s cloud platform to handle document collection, financial analysis and compliance.
The Openclaw Bill Shock No One Sees Coming
OpenClaw agents run continuously, often while users sleep, and can generate hidden costs when heartbeats reload full conversation history. Recent GitHub issues revealed regressions where light‑context flags were ignored, causing millions of input tokens to be consumed daily. The post...
5WPR Index Finds Costco Tops AI Citation Rankings, Walmart Trails
5WPR released its 2026 U.S. Grocery Retail AI Visibility Index, ranking grocers by how often they appear in AI‑generated answers. Costco tops the list, followed by Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, while Walmart—holding roughly 21% of grocery market share—falls to fourth...
Google Shopping AI Bidding Slashes E‑Commerce CAC by 61% and Boosts ROAS
Google’s new Performance Max for Shopping Campaigns 2.0 has cut e‑commerce customer acquisition costs by an average 61% and lifted conversion rates 43%, according to internal data. Early adopters like CookCraft and StyleLink report dramatic CAC drops and ROAS jumps,...
Anthropic Takes On Local Search, Challenges Google
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot now leverages Google Maps and Places APIs to answer local queries such as hotel searches. The integration ranks results using star ratings, reviews, and relevance, and Claude can pull data from over 200 daily connectors like TripAdvisor,...
Invoca Integrates ChatGPT Ads to Track AI Search Revenue
Invoca announced a no‑code integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads Conversions API, enabling marketers to attribute leads, appointments and sales directly to AI‑search ad spend. The move positions AI search as a measurable paid media channel alongside Google and Meta.
74% of Workers Think They Can Spot AI-Generated Content, But 48% Get It Wrong
A recent Resume Now survey of 1,006 U.S. workers reveals a stark gap between confidence and accuracy in spotting AI‑generated content. While 74% say they can identify AI output, only 52% actually choose the AI‑written example correctly, meaning 48% get it...
Elon Musk's $100 Billion Lawsuit Targets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Leadership
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for more than $100 billion, alleging the founders misappropriated a nonprofit. Testimony from former board members and executives has focused on CEO Sam Altman's chaotic management style and alleged safety lapses, raising fresh questions about governance...
What Is Agentic AI? These Companies Sit Atop $4 Trillion Idea
Agentic AI, the next evolution of artificial intelligence, enables software agents to perceive, reason and act independently, moving beyond chat‑bot capabilities. William Blair values the total addressable market at roughly $4 trillion, three times current global software spend. Leading firms such as...
DOE and NVIDIA Detail Genesis Mission Plans at SCSP AI+ Expo
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and NVIDIA’s Ian Buck announced the Genesis Mission at the SCSP AI+ Expo, a joint DOE‑NVIDIA effort to embed artificial intelligence into energy research. The partnership will deploy two AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory—Equinox...
Course Correction: Google to Link More Sources in AI Overviews
Google is rolling out new features to embed more source links in its AI Overviews and AI Mode. A “Further Exploration” box will list relevant articles, while an “Expert Advice” section will surface snippets with direct citations. Hover‑over pop‑ups will preview...
The 'AI Coachella' Prof's Plan for the Data Center Backlash
Anjney Midha, former Andreessen Horowitz partner, is publicly outlining AMP, an AI‑compute startup that acts as an independent system operator for the AI grid. AMP aggregates idle GPU capacity from multiple cloud providers and meters it to frontier research teams...
Supermicro’s New AI Campus Embodies the Industrialization of AI Infrastructure
Supermicro unveiled a 714,000‑square‑foot AI Campus near its San Jose headquarters, the company’s largest U.S. site covering 32.8 acres. Branded as a Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) hub, the campus combines design, domestic manufacturing, testing, service and global distribution...
Unified Farm Data Layer Brings AI-Ready Agronomy Analytics to Agriculture
Leaf Agriculture has launched a unified farm data layer that aggregates inputs from major equipment manufacturers, soil labs, satellite imagery, and weather services into a single, SQL‑queryable environment called LeafLake. The platform leverages Wherobots to spatially process telemetry and imagery,...
The Multifamily Industry Just Got Its Dreadnought Warning. Most Owners Will Ignore It.
Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs to create an AI‑native enterprise services firm that will embed Claude models and engineers directly into portfolio companies. The venture, also backed by Apollo, General Atlantic, Leonard Green, GIC and...
Anthropic Secures $1.8B Computing Partnership with Akamai
Anthropic has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies $AKAM - Bloomberg
Operational AI Is Hitting the Limits of Earth Observation Data
AI models are moving from experimental Earth Observation (EO) datasets to operational deployments that must function across diverse geographies, seasons, and sensor changes. However, satellite imagery suffers from calibration drift, uneven revisit schedules, and fragmented data supply, forcing users to...
AI Agents Fueled a Frenzy of Startup Building at the Consensus Miami EasyA Hackathon
Nearly 1,000 developers converged at the EasyA hackathon inside Consensus Miami 2026, racing to build AI‑agent products across ecosystems such as Base, Solana, Microsoft and Google. The event, which has evolved from a modest Austin gathering into a premier crypto‑AI...
It Seems Neverness to Everness’ Developer Replaced AI Slop with… Even Sloppier AI Slop
AI-generated assets are becoming commonplace in video‑game development, but the line between prototype and final product remains blurry. In the gacha title *Neverness to Everness*, developers pledged to remove AI art after fan backlash, yet a patched billboard still featured...
Conductor Raises $22M, Launches Cloud Agents for Nonstop Coding
Conductor (@conductor_build) is a Mac app that lets you run multiple coding agents at the same time. Create an isolated copy of your codebase in one click, tell Claude or Codex to go work, and review and merge the results. The...
AI Removes Unwanted Elements From Vintage Photos Using Copilot
Did you know that AI can help you get rid of unwanted elements in old photos? Then you can try to improve on things, as I demonstrate to amusing effect with Microsoft Copilot and a vintage 70s photo... https://t.co/of8ByS8Qxr #photos...
A New AI Model Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game. Washington Wasn’t Ready.
In a 48‑hour swing, the White House floated then retracted an FDA‑style pre‑deployment vetting regime for frontier AI after Anthropic unveiled Mythos, a model that can locate and exploit software vulnerabilities. Mythos helped Mozilla fix more Firefox bugs in April...
Chatbot Ads Slip By? Users Say They’ll Notice
This Article Claims You Probably Wouldn’t Notice if a Chatbot Slipped Ads Into Its Responses Well, I would certainly notice and would not like it at all https://t.co/aRMvQtJavM https://t.co/i2qsfiAfxf
GPT-NL Leads Europe’s Push for Homegrown AI
GPT-NL is emerging as one of Europe’s most ambitious attempts to build a homegrown AI system https://t.co/ud95YBYHAk
Claude, Brought to You by Elon Musk
Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to rent AI compute from the aerospace firm’s massive data center, aiming to alleviate chronic capacity constraints. The new arrangement will allow the company to lift rate limits on its Claude Code service and...
Automate DMs and Lead Gen with AI, Save Time
If you're not using AI to scale your DMs, your outreach, your lead gen… … you're manually doing a job that a system should own. Your time is too expensive for that.
AI Agent Pricing Shifts Toward Seat‑Based Features
The more I think about AI agents, the less obvious it is that pricing goes purely consumption-based Token costs matter... but enterprise agents may need identities, roles, auth, budgets, audit logs etc That sounds oddly seat-like? just not human-seat-like
What to Expect at the AWS Financial Services Symposium: Watch theCUBE’s Exclusive On-Demand Coverage Starting May 11
The AWS Financial Services Symposium will be streamed on‑demand by theCUBE starting May 11, spotlighting how banks, insurers and capital‑market firms can build trusted, AI‑driven systems. Analysts note that 67 % of enterprises distrust their revenue data, making AI trust the new...
GPT5.5-pro Generates PhD‑Level Combinatorics Chapter in Hours
Tim Gowers on GPT5.5-pro: "I would judge the level of the result that ChatGPT found in under two hours to be that of a perfectly reasonable chapter in a combinatorics PhD."
AI Search Leaders Debate Top Vs. Bottom Funnel
People that are leading or working on AI search efforts: Which of these are trying to solve for? Top or bottom of funnel? Or both? CC @JHTScherck @TheCoolestCool @lilyraynyc @Kevin_Indig @kristakdoyle https://t.co/sBfHaojBy5
Apollo, Blackstone Eye $35B
Apollo and Blackstone are among private credit lenders talking to Broadcom on ~$35 billion in financing for that company's AI chip business. Scoop by @silasfelixbrown and @lauralevfinance https://t.co/FB9UTY7pBg
AI Shines in Dense Workflows, Boosting Speed
I did not plan it this way yesterday, obviously, but Codex with Chrome only further validates what we laid out in this series where AI right now captures value where workflows are more dense, or where automation leads to faster...
AI Threats Rise; Defenders Must Adopt Guardrails
AI is changing cybersecurity on both sides. Attackers are using it—and defenders must too. CTG shares how to build the right guardrails. 🔗 https://t.co/mbvrjTVwVw @CTGinc #HIMSS26 #HITSM
AI Component Shortage Reveals Systemic Supply Chain Fragility
This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis. https://t.co/oeB83TsHLc
Agentic Workflows: Google’s Gemini Empowers CIOs
The next frontier isn't just LLMs—it’s Agentic Workflows. Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is designed to help CIOs build, scale, and govern autonomous agents. Here are the key takeaways from Google Cloud Next: https://t.co/CqZ5slgQDX #CIO #AI #Cloud #Automation #EnterpriseTech
Data Security Stalls AI-Driven Government Decision Advantage
Unleashing AI across the US government: The data security challenge holding back decision advantage https://t.co/tqboSraG83 https://t.co/KTPh26EoKy