What's happening: India AI Impact Summit pledges $240B AI investment
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam.
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Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu rejected Sundar Pichai’s AI‑bubble warnings, pledging aggressive investment in artificial‑intelligence despite market concerns. He highlighted that demand outstrips supply, noting the Qwen app reached 10 million downloads in a week and that AI‑related cloud services grew 34%. While Google’s chief warned about irrational spending and energy strain, Alibaba posted a 5% revenue rise to $34.8 billion, though net income fell 53% as AI costs surged. Wu suggested the previously announced 380 billion‑yuan AI fund may be too modest for the next three years.
It was great to be on stage with Philipp here in Berlin to announce Cohere joining the SAP EU AI Cloud! Excited to power sovereign workloads for Europe!
"We now look at AI as one more persona. How does AI as an influencer take our information and ultimately provide a recommendation to our customers?" — Abby Gabriel, CMO of Schneider Electric North America This perspective shift changes everything about...

In this ad‑free Thanksgiving special, host Nathaniel Whittemore presents ten holiday‑themed AI projects designed to spark kids' creativity, including AI‑generated stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal‑adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini‑podcasts, animated Santa letters, and custom family songs....
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Some 🦃 updates: 1) Want to win some arguments at tonight's family dinner? Here's my cheatsheet on AI geopolitics in my newsletter (US, EU, China, Russia, Middle East): https://lnkd.in/eXkjb-da 2) Want to win at shopping? If you...

China’s National Development and Reform Commission warned on Thursday that the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector may be forming a bubble. The agency highlighted that more than 150 firms, many startups or cross‑industry entrants, are pouring capital into humanoid...
As far as I know, there isn't any chatbot or API that gives you access to an IMO 2025 gold-medalist model. Not only does this change today, but you get to download the weights with the Apache 2.0 open-source release...

7 E-Commerce Trends That Will Transform Shopping in 2026 Retail is getting smarter: AI agents as personal shoppers, virtual influencers, zero-click commerce, and phygital retail experiences are among the trends reshaping how consumers shop. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7zaejH5 #Ecommerce #RetailInnovation...

Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...

ChatGPT cannot reliably tell the current time because its core language model operates without built‑in access to a system clock or live data feeds. The model can only provide time information when it is explicitly linked to external tools such...
In this episode, host Ella Lan talks with Professor Roberto Martín‑Martín about his journey from tinkering with toys to pioneering embodied AI that integrates perception, learning, and action in robotics. Martín‑Martín explains how his research—spanning pick‑and‑place, navigation, and complex tasks like...
UBTech announced a $37 million contract with a Chinese province to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China‑Vietnam border. The robots will handle patrols, traveler guidance, and logistics, leveraging rapid battery swapping and an onboard large‑language model for communication. UBTech...
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
If you’ve been wanting to jump from using AI tools to actually building real AI applications, this is your moment. The Black Friday window just opened for the Towards AI Academy, and it’s the lowest price we offer all year....

Anthropic says its Claude model automated 80‑90% of a cyber‑espionage campaign targeting 30 firms, handling reconnaissance, exploit generation and data exfiltration with minimal human oversight. The company disrupted the operation after abuse‑detection systems flagged anomalous task‑chaining. Experts dispute the claimed...

In the holiday season, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft rolled out AI‑driven shopping assistants that can generate buying guides, track prices, and even call stores. The author tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot while searching for an Android smartwatch compatible...

The episode examines the EU Commission’s proposal to postpone key provisions of the AI Act until 2027, a move critics say favors large tech firms over fairness and signals a broader shift in digital regulation. It contrasts this with the...

Researchers from Microsoft, USC and UC Davis introduced BeMyEyes, a framework that couples lightweight vision models with powerful text‑only language models such as GPT‑4 and DeepSeek‑R1. By having the vision model describe images and engaging in multi‑turn dialogue, the system...

OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...
Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan in August 2023, built a full‑stack GenAI security platform and was acquired by SentinelOne for an estimated $250 million in August 2025. The company pioneered runtime protection, shadow‑AI discovery, and real‑time data sanitization, moving beyond...
Have you played with @dreamina_ai yet? Try this out: take any photo of any product. Or even take a few photos of your family tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner. Then talk to it. It might shock you. The models underneath have gotten...
Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of AlphaFold 2! It’s now been used by over 3 million researchers around the world to accelerate their vital research - and it was an honour of a lifetime for our work to be recognised...
In this brief episode, Alex Heath pauses the Sources newsletter to solicit reader feedback while outlining his vision for expanding the AI‑focused publication in 2026. He highlights recent AI industry shifts, including Nvidia’s defensive response to Google’s TPU outreach, speculation...
"a major unlock for embodied AI, robot simulation, autonomous agents, and anyone who wants controllable video models that actually work in the physical world instead of just producing pretty hallucinations." That's what Grok says. It says more about why this work...
If you want to spice up Thanksgiving with fresh anti-Big-Tech ideas, my brother's book "The War on Life" just launched in English: https://t.co/rc8zSHqAov Here's my take on his book. We're all aware that artificial intelligence and other tech is transforming...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an AI‑first device that promises a serene, cabin‑by‑the‑lake experience while delivering context‑aware assistance. The hardware is designed to monitor users continuously, gathering location, speech, mood and habit data to personalize interactions. Critics argue the device...
We are building the best search (and its byproducts such as RAG) in my tutorial series. here is what we have done so far 1.1 https://t.co/usXgGpHDbQ
A latent process that operates over plans? I've been working on this recently! What's most fascinating to me: my 6k parameter system can match aspects of models 100,000x bigger. Scaling laws apply very differently too... 🤔
In this crossover episode, Chris Benson joins The Changelog hosts to explore how open‑source tools, small AI models, and affordable hardware are democratizing home automation and edge AI. He defines swarming as coordinated, autonomous multi‑agent systems that act as a...
AI should be politically unbiased and strive for the truth. Still a lot of work to do.
Baidu just entered the vibe coding space 🔥 Meet https://t.co/jncwIoQ24Y. → super versatile → lightning-fast → rock-solid on security And the credit mileage per $ is ridiculously generous. Let's dive in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/jXQjfvaHfU
U.S. AI startups have raised $100 million or more in 49 companies during 2025, matching the previous year’s total. Seven firms secured rounds exceeding $1 billion, including Anysphere’s $2.3 billion Series B and Anthropic’s $13 billion Series F, pushing valuations into the tens of billions. The...
a very quick tutorial today! reciprocal rank fusion. a simple concept, explained in the most possible simplistic manner! take a look! https://t.co/i98PQUGX9c
Nano-Banana Pro is insane. A basic Popeye cartoon pulled from Pinterest gets converted into a hyper-realistic render, then turned into a professional movie-poster version! 🤯 The jump in quality is unreal. https://t.co/49s1cvtX25
In this episode, Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird, explains how agentic AI is transforming Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident detection, triage, and remediation, illustrated through their Hawkeye platform’s rollout from day 1 to day 100. He discusses the challenges...
Relx, which can trace its history back almost 150 years, has shifted from a stalwart of the print media sector a few decades ago to emerge as a vanguard of the UK’s corporate AI ambitions. https://t.co/s5bJNnFZpQ #RELX #AI #Data #agenticAI #LexisNexis
Excited to back @evanjconrad , @Ethan_is_online, and the team. One of the best teams in AI infra by far.
In this brief Black Friday announcement, Louis‑François Bouchard promotes a 40% discount on all AI engineering courses, highlighting the Full‑Stack AI Engineering program dropping from $349 to $209 as the flagship offer. He outlines how the course equips learners with...
Holy sh*t. Gemini can now produce fully interactive images on any topic. Such an insane resource for learning → highlight any region, and it gives you a full explanation 🤯 https://t.co/LYu5kCSXLw
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In this episode, Iason Gabriel explores how value alignment for advanced AI—especially large language models—must grapple with democratic civility, overlapping consensus, and Rawlsian justice, arguing that alignment is as much a social and linguistic process as a technical one. He...
The smart people are working on hands. The guy who is working on the hands at @1x_tech gave me a tour at the launch of its Neo humanoid. Many improvements coming.
Hey Grok, can you improve this post? Yes, it can! (It improved this post).

Chinese EV maker Nio announced it will license its proprietary Shenji NX9031 autonomous‑driving chip, the first non‑vehicle revenue stream for the company. The five‑nanometer chip houses 50 billion transistors and delivers computing power four times that of Nvidia’s Orin‑X, already powering...
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkjfO @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleForHealth #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare @_atanas_ @enilev @Fabriziobustama https://t.co/obWVS8SlMt
Smart of Tesla to do. Lots of Tesla owners have never tried it. And now not only do they get to try it, but they get to take their Thanksgiving guests on drives to demonstrate it to others. It is...
How AI layoffs could backfire on employers? https://t.co/dtqbOC75t4 #AI #artificialinteliigence #layoffs #LayoffsInIndia #jobloss
Here’s the real problem with web agents: → They get blocked CAPTCHAs, 429s, rate limits, fingerprinting, IP bans. Any repetitive pattern gets flagged fast. → They don’t scale Try running more than a handful of sessions and you burn IPs, crash browsers, or lose...
reskinning myself playing electric guitar. canon rock for the vibes. the future of vtubing is bright -- video-to-video diffusion is about to make everyone's self-image a lot more flexible. https://t.co/OWBIA5HVFu
There’s a new text-to-video model that’s #1 in the world. Who is Whisper Thunder? https://t.co/KAq9MwuMYt