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Anthropic shuts down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models under U.S. export controls
Anthropic abruptly disabled its flagship Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a U.S. export‑control directive, underscoring the vulnerability of firms that depend on closed‑source AI services. The move triggered a sharp rally in Chinese open‑source offerings as investors shifted to downloadable models that can run on‑premise.
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By the numbers: Respond raises $62.5M Series B
AI Adoption Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls, Increasing Risk
Hospitality operators are racing to embed AI agents while security controls lag, leading to massive data breaches. In March 2026, attackers stole 527 credentials from Spanish and Austrian platforms, exposing personal data of more than 5 million guests. The article highlights how AI agents often operate with plain‑text passwords and insufficient authentication, amplifying the scale of attacks. It warns that without robust audit trails and vendor transparency, hotels face multi‑million‑dollar losses and eroded guest trust.
The AI Voice Agent Stack That Books Calls and Closes Deals — Without a Sales Team
AI voice agents now handle inbound leads by introducing themselves, qualifying prospects, and booking calendar slots in real time, all without human sales reps. The lean stack—Vapi or Bland for calling, GPT‑4o or Gemini for language, Calendly/Cal.com for scheduling, HubSpot...
Arc Raiders Studio Confirms AI Anti-Cheat Is Tracking Player Behavior
Embark Studios released an AI‑driven anti‑cheat system for its multiplayer title Arc Raiders. The solution combines kernel‑level telemetry with machine‑learning models to detect abnormal player behavior, while a human team reviews every ban appeal. It also trains models to distinguish...
GetDandy Launches Autonomous AI Workforce for Local Businesses, Delivering 24/7 Customer Engagement With No Setup Required
GetDandy unveiled an autonomous AI workforce that manages every customer interaction for local businesses across phone, SMS, Google Business Profile, web chat, email and social media, requiring no setup or ongoing training. The system automatically trains agents using each business’s...
New Claude Plugin Generates Viral LinkedIn Posts Instantly
Last week, I spent 7+ hours building a set of Claude Skills to help you write viral LinkedIn posts faster. The result? A Claude Cowork plugin anyone can install to write publish-ready LinkedIn posts in minutes. Now, I originally built this to share...
New AI Search Links, Core Update Winners And Losers – SEO Pulse via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google rolled out five tweaks that add inline links, end‑of‑answer citations, and public‑forum previews to AI Overviews and AI Mode, giving each reference more context. A March core update analysis shows aggregators such as YouTube, Reddit and travel OTAs losing...
How Hershey Is Using AI to Future-Proof Its Marketing Model
Chocolate giant Hershey has built an AI‑powered marketing measurement system after nearly a year of development. Trained on three years of sales and marketing data, the tool aggregates social, search and streaming signals to deliver monthly mix updates and prioritize...
Eightfold AI Announces Integration of Agentic Interviewing with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting
Eightfold AI announced that its autonomous AI Interviewer is now integrated with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting, part of Oracle’s HCM suite. The integration embeds Eightfold’s skills‑based interview engine—covering screening, functional, and coding interviews—directly into Oracle’s recruiting workflows. It enables enterprise...
NVIDIA and Corning Expand U.S. Optical Manufacturing
NVIDIA and Corning announced a multiyear partnership to expand U.S. optical connectivity manufacturing for AI data centers. Corning will boost domestic capacity tenfold and increase fiber output by more than 50%, adding three new plants in North Carolina and Texas...
China Prioritizes AI Deployment, US Chases AGI Myth
Why China is Winning the Race: US chasing AGI myth while China builds the AI future US betting AI future on a goal no one can define, while China prioritizes mass deployment over big bang discovery "The real danger for...
The Secret to the Perfect CRM Is Building It Yourself with AI
Softr’s AI Co‑Builder lets businesses craft fully functional, AI‑powered CRM systems using plain‑English prompts, eliminating the need for code or developer resources. The platform automatically generates backend tables, defines data relationships, and configures role‑based permissions, streamlining setup and maintenance. Built‑in...
EU AI Act Deal Would Delay High-Risk Rules to 2027, Ban Abusive AI Content
EU lawmakers reached a provisional Digital Omnibus on AI that pushes the high‑risk Annex III obligations to Dec 2 2027 and the product‑embedded Annex I rules to Aug 2 2028. The deal also adds Article 5, a categorical ban on AI systems that generate child sexual abuse...
Founder Fridays No. 193
The post argues that AI is now rewriting the rules of every industry, turning costly, manual processes into closed‑loop, outcome‑focused businesses. It warns that traditional org charts and layered management become bottlenecks as AI can directly access and act on...
Newforma Outlines AI Roadmap and Ecosystem Updates
Newforma unveiled an AI‑focused product roadmap at Newforma World 2026, introducing Vojo, an AI assistant that provides natural‑language search, BIM model analysis, and AI‑assisted submittal reviews. The rollout includes Smart Email Filing, which automatically tags emails to projects and suggests...
OpenAI Puts GPT-5-Level Reasoning Into Voice Model
OpenAI unveiled three real‑time voice models—GPT‑Realtime‑2, GPT‑Realtime‑Translate and GPT‑Realtime‑Whisper—each powered by GPT‑5‑level reasoning. The APIs blend streaming transcription, instant translation and contextual reasoning in a single end‑to‑end service. Pricing for simultaneous interpretation is set at $0.034 per minute, dramatically undercutting...
The Deepfake Era Has Arrived and PR Is the Front Line
AI‑generated deepfake videos have moved from theoretical risk to active weapon in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, exemplified by the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s fabricated ad of Texas candidate James Talarico. Similar attacks have hit Europe, with the Bank of...
AI Outpaces Regulators; Calls for Stronger Oversight Grow
The AI industry may be moving faster than governments can respond. Paul Tudor Jones says the U.S. is already late on AI regulation, especially around deepfakes and verification standards. The mood is changing quickly. Even many inside the AI ecosystem now appear...
How to Build Vector Search From Scratch in Python
The article walks readers through building a full‑stack vector search engine in Python using only NumPy. It explains how to generate or simulate 8‑dimensional embeddings, normalize them, and retrieve the nearest items via cosine similarity expressed as a dot product....
Align Intent and Skill Levels for Effective AI Training
If you're investing in AI training for your team, read this before you book anything. We've trained developers at dozens of companies to become AI engineers. And the biggest problem is never the content. It's the setup. Here are the two biggest...
How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a generative‑AI model so adept at spotting software flaws that it will be limited to a handful of enterprise partners. The UK AI Security Institute and independent tests show OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 and smaller, cheaper models...
Google Cloud Next ’26: Rubrik Secures and Accelerates AI Agents on Google Cloud
Rubrik unveiled Rubrik Agent Cloud (RAC) for Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, delivering a unified control layer that secures and accelerates AI agent deployments. Powered by Rubrik’s Semantic AI Governance Engine (SAGE), the solution offers real‑time intent‑based guardrails, an...
How a Robot (Sort of) Made Me Lunch
London startup Kaikaku AI is piloting a food‑assembly robot called Fusion at a poke‑bowl shop, backed by $1.8 million in funding. The machine automatically dispenses vegetables, sauces and raw salmon into a bowl, while a human adds rice and final seasoning....
26 Leaders Discuss the Shifting Attitude Toward AI
Fast Company surveyed 26 Impact Council leaders about how attitudes toward artificial intelligence are evolving. Executives now view AI as an expected, operational part of daily workflows rather than a speculative experiment, with boards demanding tangible impact and speed. Governance...
Cactus Music Taps AI for ‘Artist Ops’ to Support Human Musicians
Cactus Music, a Chile‑based agency that has handled over 450 Latin American releases, has launched Artist Ops, an AI‑augmented platform designed to streamline music marketing for independent artists. The freemium service provides basic tools for free, while professional and enterprise...
The Death of "Text-Only" ChatOps: Why Google's A2UI Matters for DevOps and SRE
Google has open‑sourced A2UI (Agent‑to‑User Interface), a declarative JSON protocol that lets AI agents generate native, interactive UI components instead of plain text. The framework prioritises security by restricting agents to a trusted component catalog and works with any front‑end...
Law Reinvented: Key Takeaways From a “Goldmine of Practical Guidance”
Law Reinvented: Leading AI Transformation in Legal Practice, authored by Adam Curphey, Oz Benamram and Rebecca Pasternak, is slated for release and praised as a practical guide for the legal sector. The book argues that AI strategy cannot exist in...
From B2B to A2A: Alibaba.com Reimagines Global Trade with $1M+ AI-Powered Pitch Competition
Alibaba.com relaunched its CoCreate Pitch competition as an AI‑driven product innovation contest, offering a prize pool exceeding $1 million. The event introduces Accio Work, a plug‑and‑play AI agent that lets founders launch and scale businesses without code. Finals will be held in...
LLM System Design Interview #45 - The FP32 Hidden Tax
In a Meta senior AI engineer interview, candidates are asked to load a 7‑billion‑parameter model in BF16 on an 80 GB A100. The model’s weights occupy only 14 GB, yet the script crashes with an out‑of‑memory error as soon as the AdamW...
DesignX: OS and AI Layer for Factory Decisions
DesignX introduced Df-OS, a no‑code Digital Factory Operating System, and Vish.ai, an AI reasoning layer that turn raw factory data into actionable decisions. The platform sits above existing ERP, MES and IoT tools, structuring process information and applying real‑time insights...
8 Best AI Coding Assistants I Recommend for 2026
The article ranks the eight top AI coding assistants for 2026, evaluating them on G2 scores, user satisfaction, and real‑world workflow impact. GitHub Copilot, Replit, Gemini, Amazon Q Developer, IBM watsonx Code Assistant, Claude, Cursor, and SoftSpell each earn a...
Apple Testing Camera‑enabled AirPods for Visual Siri Queries
Sorry, another Jarvis reference. :) Jarvis will need eyes -> Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video "Apple wants users to be...
How to Build PowerPoint Decks Instantly Using Claude AI
Anthropic’s Claude for PowerPoint is an AI‑driven add‑in that lets users generate and edit slides directly within Microsoft PowerPoint. A Claude Pro subscription starts at $20 per month and unlocks two models—Opus 4.6 for full‑deck creation and Sonnet 4.6 for rapid, targeted...
Will AI Boost or Undermine Market Efficiency?
I just released a new video on my YT channel. Curious what you think: Will AI make markets more or less efficient?
DeepMind Trains AI on 23 Years of EVE Online Decisions
EVE Online — if you know, you know. If you don't, it just sounds strange. DeepMind is now training AI inside it. On 23 years of player decisions — real people, real consequences.
ProWebChat Emerges as a Leading AI-Powered Chat Assistant Redefining Engagement With Advanced AI Integration
ProWebChat, the AI‑powered engagement platform from Ground Zero Intelligence, is gaining traction as a comprehensive solution that goes beyond basic chat widgets. It offers instant, 24/7 visitor interaction, real‑time lead capture, and the ability to embed custom AI tools into...
Little Learnings #8
MoonPay unveiled the MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit card that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly from a self‑custodial on‑chain wallet. The card bridges the gap between autonomous agents and the real‑world economy by converting stablecoins to fiat at...
PR Firm News: BGR Analytics Rates Texas Tops for AI Investments
BGR Analytics released its Best States for AI Investment Index, ranking Texas as the top state for artificial‑intelligence capital, with Utah and Florida trailing. The index evaluates 50 states and D.C. across five pillars: dynamic economy, business climate, data‑center readiness,...
AI Stole My Client’s Song — Then Its Version Went Viral.
An AI‑generated copy of Stick Figure’s "Angels Above Me," retitled "Run Run River," went viral on TikTok and quickly climbed to #2 on the global Shazam chart, generating millions of streams and substantial royalties. The AI version omits any credit...
OTB Group and Google Cloud Launch AI-Powered Hyper-Personalised Shopping Experiences
OTB Group, the owner of Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor & Rolf, has teamed with Google Cloud to roll out an AI‑driven, hyper‑personalised shopping experience. The service uses Google Cloud’s Virtual Try‑On API, powered by Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform,...
Debate Heats Up Over Claude's Consciousness After Dawkins Op‑Ed
Richard Dawkins’ recent op‑ed suggesting that Anthropic’s Claude might possess consciousness has set off a firestorm of commentary among scientists, AI developers, and spiritual thinkers. The piece has revived long‑standing questions about machine personhood and the psychological illusion of consciousness...
The Tech Download: Meta, Google Enter AI Agent Race as ‘Agentic Wars’ Heat Up
OpenClaw’s viral launch sparked a rush among Big‑Tech to build agentic AI tools, and this week both Meta and Google disclosed active development of personal AI assistants. Meta aims for a highly personalized assistant that handles everyday tasks, while Google...
Predictable AI Openings Undermine Content Credibility
I got some feedback recently that made me stop and think. Someone told me they could tell my LinkedIn posts were AI-generated before they finished the first sentence, and the giveaway wasn't the content, it was the opening. Always "last...
Doing Real Work Signals Claude‑generated Text
You should add the phrase “doing real work” to the list of signs that the text you’re reading was probably generated by Claude.
3 Things AI in Health Care Investing Cannot Evaluate
Physician‑scientist Harsha Moole built an AI system that rapidly compiles data and scores healthcare startups, dramatically speeding the information‑gathering phase of venture diligence. He stresses that despite its efficiency, the AI cannot replace human judgment when evaluating clinical workflow integration, stakeholder...
AI Adoption in Turkey Skews Toward Large Firms, Broadband Hubs
Research @CEP_LSE on Turkey (2021–24) documents significant disparities in AI adoption which is concentrated among large firms & in regions with high-speed broadband & proximity to data centers particularly for software-intensive & cloud-based applications https://t.co/2wLHq4GrCL
AI Advantage: Smarter Marketing Primer
I wrote this 2 years ago and still applies. I explain the concepts like RAG and other terms hopefully we'll The AI Advantage for Smarter Marketing – A Primer https://t.co/d0FGwWACsm
Sector Snapshot: Sales And Marketing Gets An AI Makeover
Venture funding for sales, marketing and CRM startups has steadied around $8 billion annually, far below the $20 billion peak of 2021‑22. AI‑centric companies now dominate the share, pulling in $3.7 billion in 2026 so far. Notable deals include Sierra’s $950 million round at...
AWS Predicts AI Agents Will Handle Future Payments via Micropayments
AWS knows AI agents will be making payments for us in the future – and the first step starts with agent-to-agent micropayments. https://t.co/f4Zs4F5JlV
AI Now Holds 40% of Market, Echoing 1881 Railroads
AI bubble watch: Railroads = 63% of US stocks in 1881, ‘AI 10’ today = 40% BofA Hartnett https://t.co/CiE00E0p6t
Why Siri Is Finally Getting Its Own Standalone App in iOS 27
Apple is rolling out iOS 27 with a dedicated Siri app that serves as a central hub for all AI interactions, unifying Apple Intelligence and third‑party models. The update adds AI‑enhanced features to the Camera, Photos, and productivity tools, enabling automatic...