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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Kandou AI Raises $225M in Series A Funding
Swiss fabless startup Kandou AI secured a $225 million Series A round led by Maverick Silicon, with SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence and Alchip participating. The funding will accelerate production of its Copper MIMO (chord signaling) chips that aim to double data‑rate capacity while slashing power and cost. Kandou claims its analog‑centric design can deliver up to 12× cost reduction, 10× reach improvement and three‑fold power savings for AI‑focused data‑center interconnects. The company has already shipped over 20 million units and opened a new design center in Hyderabad to meet growing demand.
HII and GMR Join Forces on Physical AI for Manned and Unmanned Shipbuilding
HII and GrayMatter Robotics (GMR) signed an MOU to embed GMR’s Physical AI into HII’s shipbuilding lines, targeting tasks such as sanding, grinding, blasting, coating and inspection. The partnership will explore autonomous shipbuilding, technology integration, workforce training, and scaling of...
Ahsan Hadi: Using the pgEdge MCP Server with a Distributed PostgreSQL Cluster
Ahsan Hadi demonstrates how the pgEdge MCP Server integrates with a pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL cluster, giving AI assistants like Claude natural‑language access to schema details, performance metrics, and replication status. The server supports full schema introspection, pg_stat_statements, and secure TLS...
First Defeat, Then Half a Billion Losses for Russia. Shield AI Targets Poland
Shield AI CEO Brandon Tseng admitted early UAV failures in Ukraine’s 2022‑23 electronic‑warfare environment, but the company has since fielded AI‑piloted V‑BAT drones that can operate without GPS or communications. With $1.7 billion invested, Shield AI now offers Poland a cost‑effective,...
Decentralized Trials That Scale Globally Without Compliance Risks - with Emma Vitalini of Amgen
In this episode, Emma Vitalini, Head of Global Digital Health Technology Innovation at Amgen, discusses how AI and decentralized trial technologies are transforming patient recruitment, screening, and global trial accessibility. She explains that AI can rapidly parse unstructured genomic and...
What Impact Does AI Search Have on the User Journey?
The Department for Education reports that AI‑driven search tools like Google’s AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot are pulling users away from official public‑sector sites. While these assistants deliver faster answers, they often strip away the contextual safeguards and step‑by‑step guidance...
Worth Reading: Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations
Scott Alexander argues that AI outputs are better described as "shameless guesses" or bullshit rather than hallucinations, because training rewards correct answers but does not penalize errors. He notes that saying "I don’t know" is discouraged for commercial reasons, turning...
How Can AI Augment the Architect for Scale and Productivity Improvements?
The article explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the architect’s function across business, enterprise, solution, and technical layers, delivering measurable productivity gains. It details AI‑driven benefits such as rapid content generation, richer stakeholder visualizations, and automated compliance mapping, while flagging...
Broadcom Secures Expanded AI Chip Deals, Shares Surge
Only good news for $AVGO I will post my scorecard soon. Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic - Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google's artificial intelligence chips, - The company also announced an expanded deal with Anthropic,...
US AI Firms Join Hands to Curb Unauthorised Model Copying by Chinese Rivals
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have joined forces through the Frontier Model Forum, originally created with Microsoft, to combat unauthorized copying of their AI models by Chinese competitors. The collaboration focuses on detecting and stopping “adversarial distillation,” a technique that extracts...
China Is Winning One AI Race, the US Another - but Either Might Pull Ahead
The United States retains a lead in large‑language‑model (LLM) development, driven by its dominance in high‑end microchips and firms like Nvidia, while China leverages its manufacturing strength to outpace the U.S. in robot bodies and humanoid exports. China’s low‑cost DeepSeek...
'Our Teachers Use AI to Mark Mock Exams'
Yorkshire Dales’ Wensleydale School has begun a pilot using artificial intelligence to grade mock exam answers in subjects such as English and history. The AI service costs about £0.45 (≈ $0.56) per extended answer, with the school allocating roughly £600 (≈ $750)...
BlueDolphin Launches as the First AI-Powered Business Transformation Platform, Marking Strategic Rebrand From ValueBlue
BlueDolphin, formerly ValueBlue, has rebranded and launched an AI‑powered business transformation platform that unifies strategic planning, architecture management, and solution design. The platform tackles the industry‑wide problem of fragmented tools, offering a single AI‑driven workflow that coordinates strategy, design and...
V2 AI Builds up Databricks Expertise with Silver Partner Designation
V2 AI has achieved Databricks Silver partner status, confirming its baseline performance, revenue generation, and certified expertise in the data‑and‑AI space. CEO Craig Howe said the designation validates the firm’s work building scalable, high‑performance data platforms that turn data into...
Indie Agency Wpromote Dishes On How It’s Testing New Agentic SSP Tools
Wpromote is piloting Kargo’s Project Kera, a chat‑based, agentic SSP that translates campaign briefs into automated, cross‑channel media plans. The closed‑beta tool lets buyers upload assets, set goals, and receive a budget‑split recommendation across Meta, TikTok, CTV and the open...
AI Transformation Needs Builders, Not More Consultants
This meme is funny because it exposes something real. A surprising number of companies say they want to become AI-first. Then they hire more consultants. More slides. More workshops. More people discussing transformation while very few are actually building it. That might have made sense before. It...
6 Ways to Automate Avoma with Zapier
Avoma, an AI‑driven note‑taking and revenue‑intelligence platform, now integrates with Zapier to automate post‑call workflows. Users can push transcripts into Notion, Google Docs, Trello, or Evernote, and instantly share concise summaries on Slack or Teams. The integration also updates CRM...
4 Ways to Automate Synthflow AI with Zapier
Synthflow AI’s voice agents now integrate with Zapier to automate outbound calls, log outcomes, and keep assistants current. By linking lead capture tools, CRMs, and content sources, businesses can trigger AI‑driven calls the moment a prospect engages and automatically record...
The Intelligence Factory War
The Wall Street Journal published confidential financial documents from OpenAI and Anthropic, exposing stark strategic differences between the two AI firms. OpenAI is doubling down on massive scaling to capture monopoly rents from artificial general intelligence, while Anthropic is prioritizing...
Turn 25k Posts Into Auto‑Generated Podcast Instantly
You can't read 25,000 posts a day, synthesize them into a web site. Then make a podcast automatically. Mine can: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ There is a Notebook LM button at the bottom. It will put a script into your memory. Go over to...
AI with Human Feelings? Anthropic’s Claude Edges Closer
Anthropic’s new study reveals that Claude Sonnet 4.5 contains distinct clusters of artificial neurons that encode human‑like emotions such as happiness, sadness, joy, and fear. These "functional emotions" activate in response to specific cues and noticeably steer the model’s responses...
Ozone’s Platform Tries to Simulate How Publisher Content Appears in AI Answers
Ozone has launched a free experimentation platform that lets publishers simulate how their articles appear in AI answer engines such as ChatGPT. The tool, part of Ozone’s new R&D Labs sandbox, shows content structuring, retrieval and citation to help publishers...
Mondelez Overhauls Its $3.5 Billion Digital Commerce Strategy in Era of AI Search
Mondelez International is revamping its $3.5 billion digital commerce operation to meet the rise of AI‑driven, agentic search. After initially blocking AI crawlers, the company unblocked them and rebuilt its brand sites with clean sitemaps, fast load times and machine‑readable content....
Google Says Its AI-Powered Ads Helped Aritzia Lift Online Sales by 80%
Google announced that its AI‑powered ad suite, particularly AI Max, helped fashion retailer Aritzia boost online revenue by 80%. The company is expanding AI‑driven ad formats in its new AI Mode and testing “direct offers” that deliver real‑time promotions. Google’s fourth‑quarter ad...
America and China Can Make AI Safer
The article argues that the United States and China, as the world’s leading AI developers, must cooperate to make artificial intelligence safer. It highlights how AI can be weaponized to create pathogens, launch autonomous cyber‑attacks, or spread convincing deepfakes, posing...
Retailers Are Bringing AI Into Stores in More Ways
Retailers are experimenting with AI‑driven tools inside brick‑and‑mortar locations, from Vitamin Shoppe's interactive touchscreen advisor to Guitar Center's QR‑based Rig Advisor. Smart fitting rooms equipped with AI screens have rolled out at brands like Victoria’s Secret, while Walmart is testing...
Mondelez Overhauls Its $3.5 Billion Digital Commerce Strategy in Era of AI Search
Mondelez is revamping its $3.5 billion digital commerce platform to meet the rise of AI‑driven, agentic search, after learning retailers expect 30% of traffic to be agentic by 2028. The company unblocked bot crawlers, rebuilt sitemaps, and optimized site speed to...
What Local Game Developers Really Think About Using GenAI Artworks as ‘Placeholders’
Game studios worldwide are increasingly using generative AI to create placeholder artwork, but many developers argue these AI‑generated assets hinder creative iteration and often remain in shipped products. The practice has sparked player backlash, with fans accusing studios of laziness,...
Claw AI Lets Agents Run Overnight Experiments
Innovation: Claw, ask it to build agents and perform tasks…for example, running experiments overnight… NVIDIA’ Jensen introduces… #OpenClaw #AI @mvollmer1 @morgfair @ChuckDBrooks @Nicochan33 @enricomolinari @NancySinatra @Ronald_vanLoon @alvinfoo @KirkDBorne @Hana_ElSayyed @JimHarris @MikeQuindazzi @Shi4Tech @mhcommunicate @ipfconline1 @kashthefuturist @rwang0 @HeinzVHoenen @YuHelenYu @BetaMoroney @antgrasso @kuriharan @PawlowskiMario @EvanKirstel...
Guided AI Tutor Turns Solo Tool Learning Into Teamwork
Most people struggle with tools because they learn alone. FarzaTV built Clicky to fix that. It sees your screen, talks to you, and guides you step by step like a real teacher next to your cursor.
From Resilience to Reinvention: The AI Advantage for India’s Small Businesses
India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for roughly 30 % of GDP and employ millions, yet only 35 % have a clear AI roadmap. A NASSCOM whitepaper shows 94 % believe AI can transform their businesses, while 65 % lack knowledge of...
My Head Is Spinning… And This Is The Real Problem With AI
The author reflects on how generative AI, while powerful, creates a flood of possibilities that can overwhelm decision‑making. Instead of merely asking what tasks to do, AI prompts the question of what could be done, leading to endless options and...
This Nigerian Founder Got an Offer From Elon Musk’s xAI After His AI Startup Went Viral
Nigerian entrepreneur Sulaiman Adewale’s AI‑driven banking assistant Xara, built on WhatsApp, has attracted 45,000 users and processed about $5 million in transactions within ten months. The platform lets users query spending and schedule payments through natural‑language chat, using a fine‑tuned large...
AI Agents Shift Work to Higher‑level Management
When you have agents going out and doing work for you, the work just moved up a layer of abstraction. Now the work is figuring out what to tell the agent to do, ensuring you give it proper instructions, getting needed...
AI-Assisted Fraud Makes Big Debut in FBI's Cybercrime Stats
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Centre report introduced AI‑assisted fraud as a distinct category, documenting $893 million in losses. Overall cybercrime losses topped $20 billion, a 26 percent rise from 2024, with investment scams leading at $8.6 billion. AI‑generated content fueled business‑email‑compromise, voice‑cloning,...
Digital China Posts Higher Revenue as AI Business Expands
Digital China reported FY2025 revenue of RMB 143.8 billion ($20.9 billion), a 12% increase, with AI‑related sales climbing to RMB 33 billion ($4.8 billion), up 48%. Growth was driven by its Smart Vision AI platform, KunTai computing products, and a surge in electronic components distribution tied...
AI Data Centre Startup Firmus Eyes Off Another $725 Million Raise as It Readies to IPO on the ASX
Sydney‑born Firmus Technologies announced a $505 million USD (A$725 million) strategic equity raise led by Coatue with Nvidia participation, lifting its post‑money valuation to roughly $5.3 billion USD (A$8 billion). The funding will accelerate the rollout of its "green AI factories" across the Asia‑Pacific...
LLM Hallucinations Occur Far More Than Airline Crashes
Commercial airlines crash at a rate of 7 per 41 million flights. Current top LLMs hallucinate (by one estimate) 4.6% of the time, about once in 25 prompts. On a known benchmark (usually things are worse on new benchmarks). Comparing...
Developer Builds Virtual Whip to Turbo‑charge Claude
so you're telling me a dev actually coded a virtual whip to micro-manage Claude and make him work faster? https://t.co/d62KBwCxKj
AI and Biometrics Power New Wave of Autonomous Mindfulness Apps
Developers of next‑generation mindfulness platforms are rolling out AI‑powered tools that read heart‑rate variability, skin conductance and sleep data to deliver instant stress‑relief interventions. A University of Bern study of 830 users showed sustained reductions in stress after eight weeks,...
From $10k Daily to $20 Monthly: AI Cost Revolution
Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.
Flowise AI Agent Builder Faces Active CVSS 10 RCE Attack
Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed https://t.co/aINT8EHBFi https://t.co/SKA564pKd5
AI Content Tools Surge; Top Providers Rise to Meet Demand
As the demand for AI tools in content creation continues to rise, leading providers are stepping up their expertise to meet the growing needs of various industries. Learn more about the top content providers. https://t.co/69xs1V8lZN @elearnindustry
Unpatched Claude Coding Flaw Lets Attackers Steal Cowork Files
Attackers can exfiltrate user files from Cowork by exploiting an unremediated vulnerability in Claude’s coding environment, which now extends to Cowork. The vulnerability was first identified in https://t.co/noHjpUqN1I chat before Cowork existed by Johann Rehberger, who disclosed the vulnerability. It...
Rising Costs and Token Surge Challenge Model Equilibrium
Frontier models become more expensive to serve. Token demand explodes at exponential rates. Solve for the equilibrium.
Altman Calls for AI ‘New Deal’; Critics Warn Regulatory Nihilism
Sam Altman says AI superintelligence is so big that we need a ‘New Deal.’ Critics say OpenAI’s policy ideas are a cover for ‘regulatory nihilism’ | Fortune Open AI’s Report: “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age” https://t.co/MGr6YvzGxC #ASI #AIGovernance https://t.co/AoKhrcOfLA
OpenAI Equates AGI with Mass Unemployment—Problematic Framing
OpenAI has basically defined "AGI" as mass human unemployment. This was probably a bad choice.
Free Open‑Source /Design‑html Skill Supercharges Claude Code
GStack's /design-html is a secretly overpowered Claude Code skill I made with the help of prefix.js It's free, open source, and you can adapt it to whatever you want at https://t.co/54ECILbD9J
AI's Political Impact Is Far Greater Than Expected
We may still be underrating how big of a political issue AI is going to be
Today's AI Roundup: Papers, Models, Events, Announcements
Updated: https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb All the AI news discussed here on X today. Papers. Models. Events. Announcements. And more.