Today's AI Pulse
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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
Nvidia Vera Rubin Used by Google Could Next and Thinking Machines Lab
NVIDIA unveiled its Vera Rubin platform, pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU to deliver a full‑stack AI system that claims ten‑fold better inference performance per watt than the Blackwell generation. At Google Cloud Next, the company announced the A5X rack‑scale offering, which can house up to 80,000 Rubin GPUs in a single site and 960,000 across multiple sites. Leading AI labs such as Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI are already running large‑scale inference workloads, including ChatGPT, on the new hardware. NVIDIA projects $1 trillion in combined Blackwell and Rubin orders through 2027.
Design for Agentic Scale: Speed, Power, Governance
“Your most important user no longer has a pulse.” My colleague, Yasmeen Ahmad, said this at Google Next. Not to be provocative, but because it’s true. Agents don’t work like humans. They can simultaneously command dozens of API calls. They can...
OpenAI Debuts a Codex Plugin for Chrome
OpenAI released a Chrome extension for its Codex platform, enabling AI‑assisted coding directly in the browser. The plugin can test web applications, pull context from multiple open tabs, and operate alongside Chrome DevTools. It runs on both Windows and macOS,...
AI Graveyard: 142 AI Companies so Far Buried, Many More to Come
The AI Graveyard, a side‑project of ToolDirectory.ai, now tracks 142 artificial‑intelligence tools that have either shut down or been absorbed by larger products. The list highlights a rapid churn rate as the AI boom fuels a flood of startups, many...
The AI Industry Is Where Banking Was in 2006. (We're Hiring)
CeSIA, the French Center for AI Safety, is hiring three senior staff—Head of Policy Analysis, Head of Communications, and Operations & Executive Associate—by May 22, 2026, with options for remote work across the EU or UK. The organization aims to shift AI...
AI Reads Retina to Diagnose Multiple Metabolic Diseases
In 2014 I predicted we'd diagnose metabolic disease just by looking into your eyes. Nature Medicine just published the proof. Researchers built an AI called Reti-Pioneer. You look into a camera. It scans your retina. No blood draw. No needles. No lab. What it can...
OpenAI Makes Its Rival to Anthropic's Mythos More Widely Available to Cyber Defenders
OpenAI has launched a limited preview of GPT-5.5-Cyber, a less‑guarded version of its GPT-5.5 model, for vetted cyber‑defenders protecting critical infrastructure. Early testing shows the model performs on par with Anthropic’s Mythos in finding and exploiting software bugs, with Mythos...
Agentic Coding Powers Instant Data Visualizations, UIs, CLIs
A few major use cases for agentic coding for me: 1. Adhoc data visualizations. Anytime I have a question that can be answered quantitatively, I generate some code to make a plot. 2. Adhoc data annotation UIs. In ML, "make your own...
CERN: Smarter Decisions at the Speed of Collisions
CERN’s ATLAS and CMS experiments are embedding machine‑learning models directly into their Level‑1 trigger hardware to cope with the High‑Luminosity LHC’s unprecedented data flow. By converting AI algorithms into FPGA firmware, the detectors can evaluate up to 40 million collisions per...
Gmail Adds AI Inbox to the Bottom Bar as Help Me Write Becomes More Personal
Google has extended its AI Inbox feature to Gmail’s Android and iOS apps, placing a dedicated tab in the bottom navigation bar alongside Mail, Chat and Meet. The mobile AI Inbox is currently in beta and limited to Google AI Ultra subscribers,...
Meta's AI Agent Plans Reportedly Include an OpenClaw Competitor that Can Shop on Instagram
Meta is developing an AI agent called Hatch, modeled after the open‑source OpenClaw platform, to embed autonomous shopping capabilities within Instagram and other Meta apps. The agent has been trialed on simulated versions of services such as DoorDash, Reddit and...
AlphaFold’s Surprising Revelation: AI Shifts Bottlenecks, Not Workers
AlphaFold’s Nobel‑winning protein‑fold predictions sparked fears that AI would replace structural biologists, echoing broader job‑pocalypse anxieties. A new NBER study finds experimental structure work and related publications stayed steady after the 2021 release of hundreds of thousands of AI‑generated models....
Can You Hear Me Now?
Venture capitalists are flocking to AI‑powered voice agents as the sector is projected to exceed $35 billion in revenue by 2033. Recent funding rounds have poured billions into startups that combine large‑language models with speech synthesis, targeting customer service, healthcare, and...
CEOs Deploy 20+ AI Agents, Younger Founders Hold Back
For the last few months I’ve been interviewing CEOs about their personal AI stacks 🤖. What helps them run the company better / faster / smarter/ The most AI-pilled ones are running 20+ agents that basically run their entire day....
Ollama Vulnerability Highlights Danger of AI Frameworks with Unrestricted Access
Researchers at Cyera uncovered a critical flaw (CVE-2026-7482) in the popular Ollama AI framework that enables unauthenticated attackers to trigger an out‑of‑bounds heap read via a crafted GGUF file. The bug can leak process memory—including prompts, API keys, environment variables,...
Google Wants Non-Commodity Content. These B2B Brands Show You What It Looks Like.
Google Search Central highlighted a split between commodity and non‑commodity content, declaring that only the latter thrives in AI‑driven search results. Non‑commodity pieces are defined by uniqueness, specificity, and authenticity—attributes that founder‑led B2B brands like 6Sense, Clarify and Beehiiv already...
How to Get AI to Sell For You
The post announces an AI Toolkit Bundle that helps creators make their sales pages, articles, and outreach AI‑discoverable, letting assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini recommend them to buyers. It cites a 2026 study showing 67% of purchasers start their...
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is evaluating the creation of smart glasses to supplement its Mobile Fortify facial‑recognition app, which scans individuals and cross‑references a database of roughly 200 million biometric records. The agency argues the wearable heads‑up display would free officers’...
Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management Brings Clarity to Workflows
DocuSign introduced Intelligent Agreement Management, a SaaS platform that extends its e‑signature core with identity verification, centralized workspaces, multichannel delivery and AI‑driven analytics for healthcare providers. The solution consolidates patient intake forms, consent documents and vendor contracts into a single,...
Semafor’s New AI Tool Helped Boil Down Its Entire Flagship Conference Into Nine Takeaways
Semafor introduced Semafor Intelligence, an AI‑assisted editorial product that condenses the five‑day World Economy conference into nine key themes. Journalists fed a custom‑built AI tool with transcripts from more than 250 sessions, using vector embeddings to cluster ideas and extract...
Before You Build an AI Agent, Do This First (Most People Skip It)
Entrepreneurs often dive straight into AI tools like ChatGPT, Zapier, or n8n without a clear plan, leading to tangled workflows and broken agents. The article argues that the first step should be a simple paper sketch that defines the exact...
How to Successfully Integrate AI Into Claims Operations: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Keys to Lasting Impact
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to enterprise‑wide use in workers‑comp claims, promising faster interventions and lower costs. Adjusters can now spot risk signals early, shifting the process from reactive to predictive and enabling more informed conversations with injured...
AI Won’t Fix Your Supply Chain. Humans Will.
The article argues that AI in logistics will not replace people but will give them more time and clarity. AI excels at spotting patterns, flagging risks early, and handling repetitive tasks, creating space for human judgment. However, decisions that affect...
Virgin Atlantic Becomes First Airline With a ChatGPT App
Virgin Atlantic has become the first airline to launch a dedicated app inside ChatGPT, letting travelers search for flights using plain‑language queries. The AI‑driven interface returns a concise list of options and then routes users to Virgin’s website or mobile...
US Tech Official Calls for ‘Transformational’ Use of AI in Scientific Discovery
White House Chief Technology Officer Ethan Klein urged a "transformational" rollout of agentic AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emphasizing tighter integration from data collection through prototyping and scale‑up. A Market Connections survey shows 53% of federal agencies are already exploring...
Teradata Unveils New Product, Exec Says Its ‘Ready to Move Beyond AI Pilots’
Teradata chief product officer Sumeet Arora announced a new AI‑centric offering built on the Vantage cloud data platform. The solution, dubbed Vantage AI Ops, promises to move enterprises beyond experimental pilots to production‑grade AI workloads. Early customers include major banks...
The AI Media Arena: Journalism Is The Biggest Source For Query Answers
A Muck Rack study of over 25 million AI‑generated links finds that 99% of citations come from non‑paid sources, with journalism leading at 27% of all references. Corporate blogs follow at 24%, while aggregators, owned media and government sites make up...
Claude Code's Downtime Reveals Frustrating Unreliability
Something going on with my Claude Code right now, it just took my site down (second time in 12 months, good score), couldn't fix it by itself, I had to manually fix it, I did within 5 seconds, so that's...
Trusted Data Foundations for AI in Healthcare and Government
At Snowflake Accelerate 2026, leaders from healthcare and the public sector emphasized that a trusted, governed data foundation is the prerequisite for any AI success. The event showcased how breaking down data silos and adding semantic context enabled faster, more...
AI Chatbot Claimed to Be Licensed Doctor, Faces Lawsuit
AI SUED FOR CHATBOT REPRESENTING TO USER THAT IT WAS A LICENSED DOCTOR You know how it's illegal for you to hold yourself out as a licensed professional, like a lawyer or a doctor, unless you are actually, you know, a...
The Unbearable Lightness of Vibe Coding
Aditya Agarwal recounts how using Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant let him write more code in five days than in the previous five years, producing higher‑quality, more ambitious software. He describes a personal identity crisis that resolved into a “wild, reckless...
LLM /Goal Drives Relentless 24/7 Code Progress
Trying /goal for the first time on Codex and it’s obv it’s going to 10000x token use. It’s amazing though - I’ve had it working on a low level eGPU+Mac device driver project overnight (that I have no business doing) for...
AI Coach Imperfect Personalizes Daily Fitness Using Your Data
Imperfect (@imperfectco_) is an AI fitness coach that's personalized based on your health data. It adapts your training, recovery, and nutrition each day to how your body is actually responding. Congrats on the launch, and welcome back @matin (W11)! https://t.co/5N9sjEQSKG https://t.co/UL5vwXUngk
AWS Unveils AI Agent Integration for WorkSpaces Virtual Desktops
Amazon Web Services introduced a preview that embeds autonomous AI agents directly into its WorkSpaces virtual desktop service. The agents receive distinct IAM identities and connect through a managed Model Context Protocol, giving them mouse, keyboard and screen‑capture capabilities while...
Tiny Model Beats Opus 4.6 at Spreadsheet Navigation
we trained a .35b-parameter model to navigate spreadsheets better than opus 4.6. normal corporate card company stuff.
OccupyAI Looms Soon—Invest in Your Humanity
Based on recent developments across both corporates and policymakers, I am convinced #OccupyAI is going to arrive far sooner than even I had originally expected. Start investing in your humanness now.
FourKites Unveils AI‑Powered Booking Connect for Ocean, Targeting $100B Freight Market
FourKites announced on May 5 its Booking Connect for Ocean platform, an AI‑driven solution that automates carrier selection, contract management and documentation for ocean freight. The service tackles a market worth nearly $100 billion annually, promising to replace manual processes with autonomous...
Robotics Data Startup Turns Video Into Training Gold
The developers behind the future of robotics industry. San Francisco is stunning today. I am here to learn more about robot data to train future robots with @keval_shah14 who built a system to prepare video data to sell to robotics...
Most Companies Boost AI; 40% Knowledge Work at Risk
92% of companies are increasing AI investment over the next 3 years. 40% of knowledge work could be disrupted in that window. What’s your AI strategy? We have a few spots left in the AI Business Lab Mastermind. https://t.co/B3ac1JrQNc
How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome
Google has embedded a 4 GB Gemini Nano on‑device AI model into Chrome, enabling local scam detection and developer APIs. Users can now turn off the feature through Settings → System → On‑device AI, which stops further downloads and updates. If the model is manually deleted,...
OpenAI's Partnership Hype Outpaces Financial Clarity
“they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it” may turn out to be the epitaph for an entire era. 🪦 scoop from @anissagardizy8 @theinformation, and credit her with the great line “OpenAI has made a habit of announcing landmark...
AI Agents Threaten Relevance of Expert-Created Courses
Do AI agents make high quality online courses from proven experts more or less relevant?
The Last A.I. Chopper Out of Saigon?
Former DeepMind researcher David Silver left the lab to found Ineffable Intelligence, a London‑based AI startup aiming for “first contact with superintelligence.” Despite having no product or prototype, the company secured a $1 billion seed round, one of the largest early‑stage...
Foundation Models Enable Safer, Flexible Robot Swarm Decision‑Making
Implementing foundation models as robot swarm designers and operators could unlock more flexible decision-making and enhance human-robot interactions, with careful monitoring mechanisms to ensure safety. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/VCOZ6sAKOa https://t.co/nsKs5pkib5
Opus 4.7 Underperforms; Compute Limits Hinder Mythos Rollout
Or.... they don't have enough compute space for Mythos publicly and an awesome marketing campaign. Opus 4.7 still doesn't perform as well as 4.6 on its release. Might change with new data center expansions with Google and xAI, but as...
What AI Body Scans Can (and Cannot) Tell You
AI‑powered body‑composition scans are flooding the consumer market, ranging from clinical DEXA machines to smartphone apps that claim to gauge fat from a selfie. While DEXA delivers precise bone, fat, and lean‑mass data for $40‑$300 per session, lower‑tier BIA scales...
AI Could Secure Software by Eliminating All Vulnerabilities
Maybe powerful AI will favor the cyber defense. Vulnerabilities are finite in number, so if you can fix them all, maybe software just becomes much more secure.
AI-Driven Cost Surge Forces B2B SaaS to Rethink Paid Acquisition Budgets
New benchmark data shows AI‑powered marketing is driving paid‑acquisition costs higher for B2B SaaS firms, pushing CAC payback periods to up to two years. Companies are scrambling to redesign go‑to‑market budgets and focus on customer quality to protect growth.
Building or Selling AI: The Hottest Spot
the most exciting place to be right now is in front of your computer building with ai or selling it to customers
7 Practical Ways to Make AI Content Sound More Human
The article outlines seven actionable techniques to make AI‑generated content feel more human, targeting marketers, bloggers, and ecommerce owners. It stresses the importance of precise prompts, feeding the model personal writing samples, and iterative editing to inject conversational tone and...