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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Emerson Delivers Next Step in Enterprise Automation Support with Enhanced AI Capability
Emerson announced a major upgrade to its Guardian™ Digital Platform, adding expanded artificial intelligence features and a fully customizable dashboard. The AI‑powered Virtual Advisor now offers natural‑language guidance across Emerson’s AMS, Ovation and DeltaV automation suites, while the refreshed Knowledge Base and integrated call‑support workflows streamline troubleshooting. These enhancements aim to improve system visibility, accelerate workforce productivity, and preserve operational knowledge as the industry faces a generational shift in talent. The platform’s lifecycle‑driven design positions it as a central hub for enterprise‑wide automation support.
Frontier AI Models Are Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre When Asked to Diagnose Medical X-Rays
Researchers at Stanford discovered that leading frontier AI models, including OpenAI's GPT‑5, Google Gemini 3 Pro, and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5, can generate detailed radiology answers even when no image is provided. They label this behavior “mirage reasoning,” where the...
An AI Economy for Everyone Requires One More Step: Let People Invest
OpenAI’s new industrial policy paper calls for easing accredited‑investor restrictions so everyday Americans can back AI‑driven startups. It proposes regulated pathways such as capped contributions and diversified “Generational Wealth Accounts” to let retail investors share early‑stage upside. The editorial argues...
6 AI Prompts Built From the Claude Code Leak
Anthropic’s Claude Code npm package unintentionally shipped a 59.8 MB source map that revealed 44 hidden feature flags and an advanced background agent suite. The leak exposed KAIROS, an always‑on repo monitor, /autoDream for memory reconciliation, and ULTRAPLAN capable of 30‑minute...
Let Claude Cowork Run Your Workflow: Practical Guide
Anthropic introduced Claude Cowork, a desktop‑mode AI that moves beyond answering questions to completing multi‑step knowledge‑work. By granting the model controlled access to local files, users can ask it to read, process, and output finished deliverables such as reports, spreadsheets,...
OpenAI Adds DoorDash, Uber and Dozens of Services to ChatGPT, Boosting Ecommerce In‑app
OpenAI has launched a suite of new ChatGPT app integrations that connect the chatbot to DoorDash, Uber, Spotify, Booking.com and other consumer services. The rollout, limited to U.S. users for DoorDash and Uber, lets users place orders, book rides and...
A Guide to Using Codex CLI and Some Best Practices
OpenAI’s Codex CLI, a Rust‑powered AI coding agent, is gaining traction among developers seeking deeper automation. The tool organizes its functionality into distinct layers—command, agent, skill, plugin, configuration, and hook—each governed by TOML files and slash commands. Best‑practice guidance now...
AlixPartners AI‑SaaS Scorecard Flags Winners and Losers in the Emerging 'SaaSpocalypse'
Consulting firm AlixPartners unveiled an AI‑SaaS scorecard that rates 500 software companies on a 1‑to‑7 disruption scale. The analysis finds only 14% of firms have strong data and vertical moats, while roughly 25% sit in the highest‑risk tier, signaling a...
AI Redefines Roles, Capabilities, and Accountability in Enterprises
In 2 weeks I’ll be in New York co-hosting a small executive dinner with Krishna Kumar, CEO of @simplilearn. We’ll be bringing together a curated group of leaders across financial services, consulting, and enterprise technology to discuss a shift that’s becoming...
Report: 60pc of Companies Could Lay Off Employees that Won’t Adopt AI
A new joint survey of 2,400 employees and C‑suite leaders reveals that 60% of executives plan to lay off workers who refuse to use generative AI, while 92% are actively cultivating a class of “AI‑elite” super‑users. CEOs report high stress,...
In Conversation With: Monumo’s Jarek Rzepecki
Monumo, a UK‑based startup that emerged from stealth in 2024, secured roughly US$12.7 million in funding to commercialise its AI‑driven motor design platform. Its proprietary engine, Anser, runs millions of physics‑informed simulations each day, enabling engineers to evaluate far more design...
RET Ventures Launches First AI-Native Accelerator for Multifamily
RET Ventures announced the launch of an AI‑native accelerator focused on early‑stage proptech startups serving the multifamily market. The inaugural cohort features Brightplace, an AI apartment‑search platform, and LeasingAI, which optimizes visibility on generative search engines like ChatGPT and Gemini....
Clarvos Unveils AI-Driven Workflow Platform to Streamline Marketing for Smaller Businesses
Marketing tech startup Clarvos LLC launched an early‑access AI‑driven workflow platform aimed at small and midsized businesses. The agentic system integrates audience discovery, creative generation and multi‑platform campaign execution across Google, Meta and TikTok, allowing users to move from concept...
Salesforce, Workday CEOs Clash Over AI as SaaS Giants Trim Jobs
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff and Workday founder Aneel Bhusri sat down for a candid discussion on AI's disruptive potential just as both firms disclosed sizable workforce reductions—5,385 at Salesforce and 2,150 at Workday. The meeting underscored a broader reckoning in...
Dairy-Free Creamer Brand Nutpods Is Cracking Fragmentation With AI-Powered Insights
AI Digital launched Elevate, an AI‑powered marketing intelligence platform to combat ad tech fragmentation. Nutpods, a dairy‑free creamer brand, used Elevate to unify data across channels and receive near‑real‑time insights. The platform revealed audio ads outperformed other placements, allowing Nutpods...
Dairy-Free Creamer Brand Nutpods Is Cracking Fragmentation With AI-Powered Insights
Nutpods, a non‑dairy creamer brand, partnered with AI Digital to use its new Elevate platform, an AI‑powered marketing intelligence suite designed to dissolve ad‑tech fragmentation. The tool slashed Nutpods’ reporting lag from weeks to roughly one day, delivering real‑time performance...
Upstart Aria Networks Unveils AI‑Native Networking Platform For The AI Factory Era
Aria Networks, a Palo Alto startup, announced the general availability of its AI‑native networking platform designed for the emerging AI factory era. The solution delivers ultra‑fine telemetry—up to 10,000 times more granular than traditional tools—and automatically closes the loop to...
Two Boxes Raises $3.2M to Scale AI Returns Platform
Two Boxes, an AI‑powered returns platform, secured $3.2 million in new financing led by Assembly Ventures, bringing its total capital to $13 million. The funding will accelerate product development and push the company deeper into enterprise retail, direct‑to‑consumer and B2B...
Tennant Rolls Out X16 SWEEP for Round-the-Clock Autonomous Sweeping
Tennant announced the X16 SWEEP, its first autonomous floor‑sweeping robot from a major cleaning brand, targeting warehouses, logistics hubs and light‑manufacturing sites. Powered by Brain Corp’s BrainOS, the machine combines AI‑driven path planning, visual intelligence and a DustShield system that...
Model Flop Utilization Is the Metric Aria Networks Says Will Define the AI Infrastructure Era
Aria Networks unveiled its “Network that Thinks” initiative, promoting Model Flop Utilization (MFU) as the defining metric for AI‑infrastructure efficiency. The solution combines a hardened SONiC‑based operating system, ultra‑fine telemetry and intelligent agents that operate across the data, control and...
Natter Raises $23M to Replace Enterprise Surveys with AI-Moderated Video Conversations
London‑based Natter announced a $23 million Series A round led by Renegade Partners to accelerate its AI‑moderated video conversation platform. The technology replaces traditional employee surveys with seven‑minute video sessions that generate over 1,000 words of structured insight, compared with roughly ten...
Photonics Emerges as AI’s Next Data Bottleneck
From Copper to Light: The Critical Bottleneck Reshaping AI Infrastructure 🧵 Photonics is becoming one of the most important AI bottlenecks. Compute is scaling fast, but moving data between GPUs is now the harder problem. Copper hits power and bandwidth limits....
EY’s Agentic AI Pivot – A Watershed Moment for Audit Quality?
EY is rolling out an enterprise‑scale, multi‑agent AI framework across 160,000 audit engagements, embedding Microsoft Azure, Foundry and Fabric into its EY Canvas platform. The system processes about 1.4 trillion journal‑entry lines annually, moving the profession toward 100 % population testing and...
Federal Agencies Turn to AI to Transform Contact Centers at Scale
Federal agencies, led by the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Labor, are deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI platform to overhaul contact‑center operations. By automating tier‑0 inquiries and providing real‑time assistance, AI is closing call‑handling gaps without adding headcount. Both...
Zero‑click Grafana AI Attack Can Enable Enterprise Data Exfiltration
Security researchers have uncovered GrafanaGhost, a chained exploit that leverages indirect prompt injection in Grafana’s AI dashboards to exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data without user authentication. The attack persists malicious prompts, tricks the AI model into generating outbound image requests, and...
Awaiting AI to Real-Time Fact
I’m counting down to the day Grok starts fact-checking every deranged viral lie in real time & curb-stomps the poster with receipts. Germany & Japan would still be poor today if we had hung every “war criminal” We are a nation built...
How Can Malaysia Leverage AI for Growth and Not See It as a Threat?
Malaysia stands at a crossroads as AI reshapes sectors from healthcare to manufacturing. While the global AI market is forecast to reach $2.6 trillion by 2032, only 13% of Malaysian organisations feel prepared to adopt the technology. A survey shows 62%...
HP Updates Z Workstations and AI Systems for Hybrid IT
HP Inc. unveiled a new generation of Z workstations and AI systems aimed at high‑performance and hybrid IT environments. The flagship Z8 Fury G6i can house up to four NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and features a Max Side Panel that...
Using AI Responsibly at the Top of the Funnel
Ritu Mohanka, CEO of VONQ, outlines how companies can deploy AI screening tools at the top of the recruiting funnel without sacrificing fairness. She emphasizes transparent model design, bias testing, and human oversight as core pillars of responsible AI. The...
Can Big Tech’s Thirsty AI Data Centres Still Be a Safe Bet?
Investors are demanding greater transparency on water and energy use from AI‑focused data centres operated by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, after several multibillion‑dollar projects were halted amid community opposition. North American facilities consumed nearly one trillion litres of water...
AI Is Reshaping Cyber Risk. Boards Need to Manage the Threat.
AI‑enabled cyber attacks now cost an average $4.88 million per breach and have surged 44% in a single year, while 77% of organizations still lack basic AI security practices. The article argues that traditional VUCA thinking no longer fits; instead, a...
30 Core Algorithms Every AI Practitioner Must Know
30 AI algorithms that power modern AI 👇 📊 Linear & Logistic Regression 🌲 Random Forest ⚡ XGBoost 🎯 SVM 🔍 k-Means / DBSCAN 📉 PCA / t-SNE 🎮 Q-Learning / DQN 🧠 ANN / CNN / RNN / LSTM 🔁 Transformers 🧬 Genetic Algorithms Master the foundations → master AI....
Comment: Trustworthy AI for Investors – a Practical Framework
Asset owners and managers are increasingly feeding AI directly into investment screening, risk assessment, and portfolio oversight, but recent studies highlight accuracy and auditability as the top AI‑related risks. A McKinsey survey and RepRisk‑Oxford Economics research show that over 500...
Beyond GenAI: How Agentic AI Is Redefining the Human-Machine Relationship in Food Manufacturing
Agentic AI is emerging as autonomous digital co‑workers on food‑manufacturing shop floors, moving beyond generative AI tools. These agents can assess conditions, troubleshoot issues, and detect anomalies, boosting uptime and operational insight. Manufacturers are adopting a human‑in‑the‑loop model to keep...
"We Can Better Align the Expected Supply From Our Growers with the Demand From Our Retail Customers"
Source.ag has launched its AI‑driven Harvest Forecast solution for bell peppers, extending the technology previously used for tomatoes. The model delivers weekly harvest predictions up to eight weeks ahead and has already cut three‑week forecast error by more than 40%...
Is the Future of AI Decentralised? Cloud Computing Holds the Key
Artificial intelligence and blockchain are converging in the Asia‑Pacific, where AI development leads and blockchain adoption is strong, especially in Vietnam. The combined AI‑blockchain market is expected to exceed $703 million by 2025, driven by use cases in finance, logistics and...
The Next Evolution of ERP - Intelligence Built Around People
Traditional ERP systems are being re‑engineered into AI‑enabled platforms that deliver real‑time, role‑specific intelligence. While 88% of organizations have adopted AI in at least one function, only a third have scaled it enterprise‑wide, often due to trust and data fragmentation....
Inside KeyBank’s Approach to Customer Experience and AI
KeyBank is reshaping its customer experience by embedding generative AI across its digital channels. The bank pledged roughly $200 million for AI projects, launching chat‑bots that now resolve about 40% of routine inquiries and a recommendation engine that lifted cross‑sell revenue...
Real Progress Lies in 0‑to‑PCC Data, Not AI Hype
Check out my article in @FastCompany on AI drug discovery revolution. From one perspective, it may feel like I am turning into a version of Derek Lowe - AI skeptic. And when I read another interview with the IT...
Avoid AI Travel Scams: Safe Workflow for Solo Travelers
AI and Travel Scams: How Solo Travelers Get Tricked (and What a Safe Workflow Looks Like) https://t.co/9HesntfEdL #solotravel #solotraveler #solotraveling #travelingsolo #travelingalone #travel
AI Sleep Apnea Detection Tool Draws 150,000 Pre-Launch Sign-Ups
Sleep Cycle, the AI‑powered sleep‑tracking app, announced that more than 150,000 users have pre‑registered for its upcoming AI‑driven sleep apnea risk detection tool. The sign‑ups, mainly from the United States and United Kingdom, skew toward adults over 45, a group...
AI Agents and Content Slop Could Kill Social Media
There's a very real chance that social media dies because of AI agents and an overwhelming amount of SLOP.
AI Connects Supply‑Chain Data for Real‑Time Traceability
Supply chains generate continuous streams of operational data across production and compliance processes. AI links these signals along the product journey, enabling traceability and faster response when disruptions, regulatory checks, or trust issues appear. Microblog @antgrasso https://t.co/3hL4Zo8l2r
AI Agents and Non-Human Identities Creating Critical Security Gaps, Report
Keeper Security’s new report, presented at RSA 2026, reveals that companies are rapidly deploying AI agents and other non‑human identities (NHIs) without adequate security controls. Nearly half of surveyed firms give AI‑powered tools access to critical data, yet 76% lack...
Anthropic Secures TPU Capacity, Signaling Compute Diversification
.@Anthropic inks deal with @Google, @Broadcom for TPU capacity https://t.co/FCwUyLMN3c >> Congrats. Compute restrictions are real and supplier diversity is critical. Inflection point for Google TPUs going beyond @GoogleCloud. #NextGenApps by @LDignan
Questioning Chip's Role Replacing Marvell Backend for TPU
Wasn’t this the chip that supposedly was going to replace $MRVL back end design for TPU?
Porn, Dog Poo and Social Media Snaps: The ‘Taskers’ Scraping the Internet for Meta-Owned AI Firm
Scale AI, a company 49% owned by Meta, has built a gig‑worker platform called Outlier that pays thousands to scrape Instagram profiles, harvest copyrighted material and even transcribe pornographic audio for AI training. The workers, dubbed “taskers,” are recruited as...
AI Should Augment, Not Replace, Your Record Systems
The real value of AI, including generative AI, lies in enhancing systems of record for decision-making and analysis. The key question is whether your system of record vendor should also provide these AI tools. #AI #TechStrategy #Business https://t.co/pdM7wnBtIN
AI Engines Heavily Cite Top Journalists and Outlets
The ranking is based on 15 million AI response citations gathered by Muckrack in what it calls “generative pulse data” -> Which journalists and news outlets are most cited by AI answer engines? https://t.co/FbjYIvK7H0 https://t.co/28XLOVzZ9t
AI Marketing Tools List Keeps Expanding with New Additions
The best list of #AI #marketing tools anywhere continues to expand: https://t.co/1MqMiJPCBB New tools added recently include StationOne, @scale_AI, Alemia AI, https://t.co/uZmhN1618N, @poe_platform, Coldi, @fuserstudio, https://t.co/DbgdgVlnZ6, and Atrtificio.