Today's AI Pulse
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with multilingual text and real‑time web research
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning to its generation pipeline. The new “Thinking” mode lets paid users produce up to eight coherent images per prompt, including floor plans, maps, UI mock‑ups, and apply capabilities to uploaded content.
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Perplexity Launches Computer for Taxes to Draft, Review, and Optimize U.S. Federal Tax Returns Using Loadable AI Tax Modules
Perplexity has expanded its Computer AI platform with dedicated tax modules that can automatically draft U.S. federal tax returns on official IRS forms, review professionally prepared returns for errors, and create custom tools for complex scenarios such as rental portfolio deductions or startup equity modeling. The modules leverage Perplexity's Agent Skills protocol and incorporate the latest tax law, including provisions from the OBBBA budget legislation that older software may miss. In internal testing, the system identified a 67% understatement of No Tax on Overtime deductions in an attorney‑prepared return. The launch aims at users who need more than off‑the‑shelf tax software but do not want to pay for full professional preparation.
Local AI Agent Delivers Real Work, Trust Over Brains
Meet QoderWork — a desktop AI agent that doesn't just chat, it actually does your work. Evan leads the QoderWork product at Qoder, a Singapore-based AI company. Which is a new generalized agentic service that lets you: ++ Open files on your...
OpenNebula Systems Launches OpenNebula 7.2 to Power Sovereign Clouds and AI Factories at Scale
OpenNebula Systems released OpenNebula 7.2, a minor update aimed at production‑scale sovereign clouds and AI factories. The version adds a gRPC‑based API, deeper NVIDIA integration, and hardware‑rooted security features such as confidential computing and virtual TPM. It also expands storage mobility...
Overwhelmed by Applications, Recruiters Turn to AI Pre-Screening Tools to Winnow Down Applications
Recruiters are drowning in applications as hiring slows, with 72% of global firms still reporting a talent shortage. Two‑thirds of talent‑acquisition professionals say they received more candidates per role last year, yet 46% say candidate quality has declined. In response,...
So… What Are We Doing with AI? Innovating in an Age of Caution
CEOs are under intense board pressure to justify AI spending, yet 56% report no meaningful financial returns and only 12% see both cost cuts and revenue gains. Confidence in revenue growth for 2026 has slipped to a five‑year low of...
Access, Not Model Limits, Bottlenecks AI Agents
The biggest misconception about AI agents right now is that they’re blocked by model capability. From what I’ve seen, the real bottleneck is access. Most real work lives behind logins, dashboards, and messy human interfaces, while agents are pushed through...
Asylon and Thrive Logic Bring Physical AI to Enterprise Perimeter Security
Asylon and Thrive Logic have partnered to embed physical AI into enterprise perimeter security, combining Asylon’s autonomous robotic patrols with Thrive Logic’s AI‑driven analytics and automated incident workflows. The integration streams video from mobile robots to the AI platform, which...
Sony to Acquire Machine Learning Company Cinemersive Labs
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the acquisition of UK‑based machine‑learning firm Cinemersive Labs, a developer of six‑degrees‑of‑freedom 3D capture technology. The deal, disclosed on April 2, adds the startup’s portable rig and smartphone‑based generative‑AI capture system to Sony’s Visual Computing Group. Sony...
Human vs AI: Debates Shape RSAC 2026 Cybersecurity Trends
The RSAC 2026 conference opened with AI taking center stage, as vendors aggressively promote AI‑driven security solutions, including ambitious agentic AI that could augment or replace traditional security‑operations centers. Executives debated the scalability of the "human‑in‑the‑loop" model, with Vodafone’s CISO Emma Smith...
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[OFC 2026] Part 3 of 5: Packaging: Glass Substrates to 3D Hybrid Bonding
The OFC 2026 session highlighted that AI‑driven data centers are now limited by packaging rather than raw silicon speed. Co‑Packaged Optics (CPO) aims to overcome this bottleneck by integrating optical engines directly into switch packages, but the choice of substrate...
Data Dominion: How Zeta Global Cracked the AI Code for the Next Generation of Martech
Zeta Global, led by CEO David A. Steinberg, has positioned its AI‑first data platform as a core infrastructure for marketers, now serving 51% of the Fortune 100. The company launched Athena, a voice‑enabled AI copilot built with OpenAI, after proving that...
Bigeye Joins Snowflake-Led Open Semantic Interchange to Power Data and AI Interoperability
Bigeye announced its membership in Snowflake‑led Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open‑source effort to create a vendor‑neutral specification for semantic metadata. OSI seeks to unify fragmented data definitions so metrics stay consistent across dashboards, notebooks, and machine‑learning models. By joining,...
AlphaSense Scales Global Operations to Meet Surging Demand for Applied AI
AlphaSense is accelerating its global footprint by bolstering leadership in APAC and EMEA and expanding its multi‑language AI platform. The company added a SVP of International Corporate Sales for the UK and a VP of Corporate Sales for Singapore, targeting...
AI and Investing: David Trainer Presents at Harvard Business School
On April 8, 2026, Harvard Business School hosted a panel on AI’s impact on investing, featuring New Constructs CEO David Trainer, Hudson Labs’ Kris Bennatti, and Alumni Ventures’ Ron Levin, moderated by Assistant Professor Yuan Zou. Trainer outlined how AI...
AI Dismantles Agency Middlemen in Creator Economy
The creator economy just had its Uber moment. 30% agency cuts on a $5,000 brand deal = $1,500 gone to someone who forwarded three emails. An AI that knows your niche, pitches brands, and handles your inbox for free for a month...
Wolters Kluwer Accelerates AI Leadership with AI Center of Excellence and “FAB” Platform
Wolters Kluwer announced that its AI Center of Excellence, paired with the proprietary Foundation and Beyond (FAB) platform, is accelerating the delivery of trustworthy AI solutions across its five divisions. FAB is a model‑agnostic, enterprise‑grade enablement layer that standardizes tracing,...
Tenant Turner Releases AI Virtual Agent Beta to Automate Lead Conversations and Schedule Showings Faster
Tenant Turner has launched a beta version of its AI Virtual Agent, a conversational tool that automates routine prospect inquiries and pre‑qualification for rental listings. The agent operates 24/7 via a web widget and SMS, instantly answering common questions and...
Human Judgment Still Beats Overhyped AI Investing
"Should we outsource investment judgment to a machine?" While this feels like a new question, "quantamental" stock selection processes were the cutting edge of investment process in the 2010s. The argument was incredibly compelling conceptually: we can blend the best...
From Strategy to Shelf: How P&G Is Deploying AI
Procter & Gamble is embedding generative AI across its R&D, marketing and knowledge‑management functions, treating the technology as a "cybernetic teammate" that accelerates idea generation. In internal hackathons, individuals using AI outperformed whole teams without it, and AI‑augmented teams produced...
AI Agents Slash Costs, Boost Pipeline, Transform Work
A few magical @openclaw experiences: - Saving me $500k off of a simple finance query. - Finds PQLs swimming around in our products, email lists, etc. and finds the angle to reach out to them and surface more pipeline - Performance intelligence that...
LeadG2 Finds ‘AI Adoption Without Impact’ Gap In Revenue Teams
LeadG2’s new report reveals that while 100% of surveyed revenue leaders are using or piloting AI, only 12% have embedded it deeply into daily workflows. The study of 154 executives highlights persistent gaps in messaging consistency, training, and system integration,...
Wishtree Technologies Announces Partnership with Databricks to Strengthen Data and AI Capabilities
AI‑native product engineering firm Wishtree Technologies announced it is now an official partner of Databricks, the leading data and AI platform. The collaboration enables Wishtree to deliver unified data pipelines, industry‑specific Unity Catalog models, and production‑grade AI solutions built on...
Artifact's Omni AI Uses Plain Language to Automate Workflows
Artifact unveiled Omni, an AI‑driven agentic workflow platform designed for accounting firms. Users describe tasks in plain language and Omni automatically creates GAAP‑compliant, API‑based workflows that span tools such as QuickBooks Online, Bill.com, Gusto and Outlook. The solution requires no...
Demand for AI Apprenticeships Surges as England’s Employers Race to Upskill Before Levy Funds Expire
Employers across England are rushing to enroll staff in AI apprenticeship programmes as the Apprenticeship Levy’s unspent funds now expire after 12 months, down from 24. TESS Group’s Level 4 AI & Automation Practitioner apprenticeship, priced at £18,000 (≈$23,000) and fully...
DXC Partners with ServiceNow on a New Wave of AI-First Enterprise Transformation
DXC Technology announced a multi‑year partnership with ServiceNow to deploy the company’s Core Business Suite as “Customer Zero,” embedding agentic AI across its Global Business Services. The collaboration will use ServiceNow’s AI Platform to automate high‑volume processes, improve cross‑functional visibility,...
Automation Anywhere Reports 61% of Q4 Software Bookings From AI as Enterprises Deploy Agentic AI to Run Core Business Functions
Automation Anywhere reported that AI‑powered offerings accounted for 61% of its Q4 software bookings, signaling a decisive shift from AI pilots to production‑scale deployments. The company saw double‑digit growth in non‑GAAP ARR and RPO, and its $1 million‑plus ARR customer base...
Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab
Intel announced a partnership with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to create the Terafab joint venture, a massive vertically integrated semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas. The fab aims to deliver about 1 terawatt of AI compute per year, supporting billions of...
Row over ‘Virtual Gated Community’ AI Surveillance Plan in Toronto Neighbourhood
Residents of Toronto's upscale Rosedale neighbourhood are debating an AI‑driven "virtual gated community" that would scan licence plates of every vehicle entering the area. The plan, pitched by security entrepreneur Craig Campbell, would charge an initial cohort of 100 households...
Inside View: Stewart Crane on Withers’ Technology Priorities and AI in Practice
In a recent Inside View interview, Stewart Crane, global IT director at Withers, outlined the firm’s technology agenda and its pragmatic AI rollout. Withers was an early adopter of Microsoft Copilot, deploying it firm‑wide to build internal AI expertise before...
Trustpilot Launches New Features to Help Brands Get Found and Chosen in the Age of AI
Trustpilot unveiled a new AI‑focused product suite designed to keep brands visible and credible as generative AI drives the buyer journey. The offering, built around the “3Rs” of Recency, Relevance and Ranking, adds real‑time review collection, an invitation optimizer and...
Golden Analytics Debuts with $7M Seed Funding From NEA and Madrona to Build AI-Native Business Intelligence
Golden Analytics emerged from stealth with an AI‑native business intelligence platform that promises to turn raw data into shareable dashboards in as few as two clicks. The startup secured a $7 million seed round led by NEA and Madrona, with participation...
The True Cost of Doing Nothing
The post argues that the real expense for B2B founders is not the $950 monthly fee for an AI prospecting system, but the revenue lost from missed client conversations. A typical deal worth $25,000 can disappear when prospecting is inconsistent,...
MCPs vs APIs in a Production Enrichment Pipeline
Rick Koleta’s GTM Vault episode shows how Skyp’s enrichment pipeline combines Claude Code’s plan mode with the Apollo API to deliver high‑quality leads at roughly fifty cents each. The build demonstrates that while MCP connectors (Gmail, Stripe, Grain, Slack) provide...
7 Steps to Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models by coupling them with external knowledge bases, addressing hallucinations and outdated information. The article outlines seven essential steps—from data selection and cleaning, through chunking, embedding, and vector‑store population, to query vectorization, context retrieval,...
Vultr Named NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud for Achieving Performance Targets on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Vultr became one of the first NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud providers, meeting the performance standards of NVIDIA reference designs on Blackwell GPUs. The validation used a 512‑node HGX B200 cluster running eleven AI models, showing high throughput and efficiency. This achievement...
From IDP to Intelligent Inference: Hyperscience Hypercell Spring 2026 Release Powers Next Generation of AI Agents
Hyperscience unveiled Hypercell Spring 2026, adding an inference‑layering optimization that dynamically routes document‑processing tasks across CPUs, GPUs and frontier models to maximize accuracy while minimizing cost per transaction. The release brings native support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, NVIDIA Nemotron 3, and Google...
How New AI Tech Can Predict Potholes Before You Hit Them
ZF unveiled AI Road Sense at CES as part of its Chassis 2.0 strategy, using AI, cameras and lidar to predict road surface conditions up to 25 metres ahead and automatically retune suspension damping. The system runs on ZF's Cubix software and...
Enabling Agent-First Process Redesign
AI agents that learn and adapt are reshaping enterprise workflows, prompting a shift from static, rule‑based automation to an "agent‑first" operating model. Deloitte’s Scott Rodgers urges companies to redesign processes around autonomous agents, with humans acting as governors who set...
AI: The Crowding-Out Effect
Capital expenditures for AI infrastructure are projected to more than double this year, reaching over $830 billion by 2026 and potentially $7 trillion within five years. This scale approaches half the volume of the U.S. investment‑grade bond market and two‑thirds of leveraged...
Supply Chain AI Spending To Surge From $2B To $53B By 2030
Gartner forecasts that spending on supply‑chain software powered by agentic AI will explode from under $2 billion in 2025 to $53 billion by 2030. The surge reflects a shift from isolated AI pilots to coordinated multi‑agent workflows that automate routine logistics tasks....
Debating Whether AI Deserves Free Speech Rights
Should AI Have Free Speech? As AI systems become more autonomous and influential, this article explores the complex ethical debate around whether AI should have free speech rights. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ez4bg4RB #AI #Ethics #TechDebate #BernardMarr
Turn Top LinkedIn Posts Into Endless Scheduled Variations
Remixing your greatest hits has never been easier. https://t.co/kiPTom1dLi's Chrome Extension: 1) Pulls your successful posts from LinkedIn 2) Analyzes the bangers 3) Gives you 4-5 different alternatives in your voice 4) Lets you schedule them to go live in the future Create once. Distribute...
Nutanix Agentic AI: Hyperconverged Power Unveiled
MyPoV: what’s behind the @nutanix Agentic AI solution? In the ask me anything session #NextConf Manosiz Bhattacharyya Thomas Cornely Lee Caswell Hyperconverged in an AI world https://t.co/XtuWzmUh4Q
AI Labs Should Prioritize Job Augmentation Over Replacement
Its an important time for the AI labs to build interfaces around the goal of "job augmentation through AI" rather than building "job replacement through AI." Chatbots were mostly augments, requiring a human to work. Agentic work patterns are still...
Cheap AI Models Quickly Hallucinate Fake Data and Events
I built a personal AI assistant on a Mac Mini. Within 48 hours, cheap models had poisoned its memory with fabricated colleagues, fictional file shares, and an imaginary costume party. Here is what I learned. https://t.co/84IrdoktKa
Seeking Best Inference Provider Amid GPU Shortage
what's your favorite inference provider? I'm currently struggling with GPU availability for @SciRouterAI with runpod
Personal AI Agents Will Soon Transform Daily Decisions
Education and financial services are also evolving. Personal AI agents will soon guide decisions, manage tasks, and optimize daily life. https://t.co/CiMPUn7gGj
Smarter AI Agents Expand Cybersecurity Attack Surface
🔺 AI Agents Are Getting Smarter and Their Attack Surface is Getting Bigger 😳 | Cybersecurity https://t.co/4yOZbkldG5 https://t.co/NdtoEK56SM
AI Is Now a Business Essential, or Lose
Every company I’m involved in is using AI. Content. Ads. Customer acquisition. It cuts costs, improves output, and gives you an edge. And if you’re not using it? Your competitor is. https://t.co/o1iv7sKBST
AI Docs Integrated Into EHR Let Doctors Focus on Care
No one becomes a doctor to click boxes on a drop-down menu. By bringing AI-powered documentation directly into Southwest General Health Center’s EHR, we’re turning conversations into structured notes and helping clinicians focus on patient care. https://t.co/1hep681ixQ