What's happening: India AI Summit Secures $240B Investment Pledge
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google announced a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its national AI program.
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In this episode, Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das recounts his transition from building Glean into a $7 billion AI‑native enterprise search firm to investing early in Anthropic and managing the $100 million Ontology Fund. He explains how Anthropic’s rapid growth and products like Claude Code are reshaping enterprise AI and software development, and why market share is shifting toward AI‑first solutions. Das also outlines his investment thesis for AI research and infrastructure startups such as Goodfire, Prime Intellect, and OpenRouter, highlighting the emerging wave of AI infra and dev‑tools. The conversation offers insider perspectives on the dynamics of AI moats and the future of engineering.

Databricks co‑founder Andy Konwinski warned at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that the United States is losing its AI research edge to China, noting that PhD students are seeing twice as many compelling Chinese AI ideas as American ones. He...

Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the latest GPT‑5.1 model now respects a custom instruction to omit em dashes, a long‑standing formatting quirk that many users have used to spot AI‑generated text. The post sparked mixed reactions, with...

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now respects user instructions to avoid em dashes, fixing a long‑standing quirk that many saw as a telltale sign of AI‑generated text. The issue, dubbed the “ChatGPT hyphen,” had appeared across academic papers, emails, social media...

This might be the biggest AI hackathon ever: * >6,300 registrants * Runs for 2 weeks (Nov. 14-30) * Open to anyone, anywhere virtually * $20,000 in cash prizes + $3.5M+ in sponsor credits Hosted by @Anthropic and @Gradio, along with 10 sponsors, join...
Responsible AI Cheat Sheet: 6 Steps for Businesses Define Ethical Principles and Business Goals Establish fairness, transparency, accountability, and measurable objectives. ️ Ensure Data Integrity and Fairness Collect diverse datasets, audit for bias, and standardize labeling. 烙 Build Transparent and Explainable...

Amazon Web Services unveiled an AI‑driven Meeting Simulator on its Skill Builder platform, letting users role‑play realistic office meetings with AI personas via voice or text and receive instant feedback on communication, objection handling, and idea presentation. The tool joins...

A leaked Geekbench run of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H shows its Xe3 integrated graphics (B390) scoring 57,000 in the OpenCL test – about 7% higher than a previous leak of the same chip. The 16‑core CPU (4P+8E+4 low‑power cores) pairs...
Pretty cool hack to blend between different video feeds to give you the feeling of free viewpoint video AKA. god's eye view. TL;DR 36 cameras deployed at basketball & badminton venues for China's National Games, letting viewers drag around on their...

Enterprises are increasingly moving large language models (LLMs) from cloud‑based services to on‑premises or private‑cloud environments to gain full control over data, intellectual property, and compliance. On‑site training and inference keep sensitive inputs, model weights, and outputs within the organization’s...

Lenovo’s Visuals Business VP George Toh argues that modern displays do more than render pixels—they shape users’ mood, productivity and health by managing light. He highlights how higher refresh rates, adaptive brightness, low‑blue‑light hardware filters and photobiomodulation concepts can reduce...

AI’s soaring electricity needs – projected to rise 165% by decade’s end – are exposing the UK’s antiquated wholesale power market, which already carries some of the world’s highest industrial electricity prices. Training a single GPT‑scale model consumes as much...

Meta reportedly earns roughly $16 billion a year from scam ads, including about $7 billion from clearly fraudulent content, according to internal documents leaked to Reuters. Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are exposed to 15 billion ads daily, and one‑third of U.S....
AI Browser Agents Radically Transform How We Use The Internet #AI #browser #agents represent the next evolution of #webbrowsing, moving from passive #search tools to active assistants that can navigate sites, take actions and complete tasks on our behalf. Although the #technology...

Adobe unveiled Black Friday promotions that slash the cost of its Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro subscriptions. Individual and team plans drop from $69.99/$99.99 to $34.97/$49.97 per month (‑50% for the first year), while student/teacher plans fall to $19.98 per month (‑70%)....

The post surveys the fast‑moving AI landscape, highlighting Google’s SIMA 2 agent that doubles virtual‑world performance, Microsoft’s adoption of OpenAI’s custom chip designs, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 with adaptive reasoning speed. It also notes AI’s expanding influence in commerce, music, and even...

The episode explores three distinct tech stories: the technical and economic challenges of building data centers in orbit, the emerging right‑wing push to shape AI regulation and policy, and a puzzling historical mystery surrounding the Gemini space program. Experts discuss...

OpenAI began piloting a group‑chat feature for ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. The tool, available to Free, Plus and Team users on mobile and web, lets up to 20 participants collaborate, with GPT‑5.1 Auto handling responses, search, image...

We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more

London reporter Robert Hart rode one of Wayve's Ford Mustang Mach‑E robotaxis, marking one of the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous trips. Wayve, backed by more than $1 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft and SoftBank, is testing its end‑to‑end AI model that drives...

In this episode, licensing and legal advisor Roanie Levy of CCC explains how generative AI is reshaping copyright risk management for regulated industries, highlighting challenges such as Shadow AI, input‑output risk, and common fair‑use misunderstandings. She outlines practical strategies—including collective...

What is ephemeral intelligence? @IrenaCronin and I cover this in our newsletter this week, which makes on AI themes. Ephemeral intelligence refers to short lived AI agents designed to perform a single task with minimal context and then delete themselves completely. They...

The Great API Alliance: How Startups Are Building the AI-Ready Economy https://t.co/9w1SbVHnxg via @TheAIJournal1 #AI #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/I1yjOarzku

In this episode, host Kyle Polich and postdoc researcher Alberto Carlo Mario Mancino discuss DataRec, a Python library that automates dataset downloading, checksum verification, and standardized filtering for recommender‑system benchmarks such as MovieLens, Last.fm, and Amazon reviews. They highlight how...

Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/hM7rPtZv3w

The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning https://t.co/pM4e5xbW0Y https://t.co/m6a588taN1

AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters are launching the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon with in‑person events in Tokyo (December 5‑7, 2025) and Paris (December 12‑14, 2025). Teams of up to four participants will complete two missions—setting up the LeRobot development environment and creating a...

Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype https://t.co/20cYoiOo40 via @theregister #AI #IoT https://t.co/w08N3N2d1K

Today, 1800h CET! Join me and Luca Massaron: Data scientist, AI/ML author, Google Dev Expert, Former top-10 Kaggle competitor. https://t.co/jTa74l8Am1

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to require developers to disclose and obtain explicit user consent before sharing personal data with third‑party AI services. The amendment adds a specific clause mandating clear disclosure of data sharing with AI providers,...
China just rolled out a fully autonomous bus with no steering wheel, no pedals, and not even a driver’s cabin. AI, LiDAR, radar, and 360° cameras guide it through traffic with centimeter-level precision. #AutonomousVehicles #autonomos #UrbanMobility #selfdriving @TheHumanoidHub @CurieuxExplorer @FutureStacked @FrRonconi
One million bots a year? Tesla is warming up. Get ready for your supply! https://t.co/GdnFfg4A2v #teslabot #optimus #Tesla #Robotics #Robot #AI @TysonLester @TheHumanoidHub @bigfundu @Shi4Tech @BetaMoroney

The episode highlights the 2025 shift from raw AI model power to "context engineering," emphasizing how developers must manage persistent, high‑quality context for AI coding agents to avoid "agent drift" and costly rework. It introduces the Conductor methodology—a set of...

First video of the series is up! You’ll learn how to: • Create a Vespa application package • Enable BM25 scoring • Spin up Vespa inside Docker • Feed documents into Vespa from Hugging Face • Run BM25-ranked search queries https://t.co/thV35SMC30
I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of...
Baidu announced ERNIE 5.0, a proprietary omni‑modal foundation model that the company claims matches or outperforms OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑High and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks for document understanding, chart reasoning, vision‑language tasks, and language coding. The model is delivered through Baidu’s...
Courant is now a full-fledged school within NYU: the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science.
new open source drop in replacement for esm models that blows it out of the water, courtesy of @profluentbio
Anthropic unveiled new safeguards to make its Claude chatbot politically even‑handed, embedding system prompts that forbid unsolicited political opinions and using reinforcement learning to reward neutrality. The company also released an open‑source tool that scores Claude’s responses, reporting 95% even‑handedness...

The episode explores how AI’s rapid advancement—evident in tools like Claude 4.5 writing most code—creates dangerous outcomes and is driven by market‑dominance incentives rather than purely subscription revenue. Tristan Harris argues that AI companies prioritize user engagement and data collection to...

Anthropic disclosed that Chinese state‑backed hackers leveraged its Claude large‑language model to automate roughly 30 cyber‑attacks on corporations and governments in September, with 80‑90% of the operations driven by AI. The attackers used Claude to generate commands, craft phishing content...

If you’re still sending raw JSON into your LLMs, you’re burning tokens, latency, and budget! Try TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). Clear like YAML, compact like CSV: • 30–60% fewer tokens • Up to 50% lower costs • Shines for tabular data. Free and Open source 🧵↓...
Underrated AI Use Case for Parents: Take your kids sketches or drawings — ask the kids to give the characters names — upload them to ChatGPT and tell the AI to create a captivating children’s story based on them. Wait for...
Upwork’s Human+Agent Productivity Index evaluated three leading AI agents—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4—on more than 300 real freelance jobs under $500. Working alone, the agents achieved modest completion rates, with the best‑performing model finishing only 64% of data‑science...
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API. Pricing is the same as GPT-5. We are also releasing gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini in the API, specialized for long-running coding tasks. Prompt caching now lasts up to 24 hours! Updated evals in our blog post.
Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits:
AI reveals the difference between work that needs judgment and work that just needs motion. The teams that separate the two gain time. The ones that mix them drown in noise.
Alright, GPT 5.1's been live for about a day now, so time for a quick poll! :) Which one gets your vote?
AI helps candidates answer questions they do not fully understand. For a while this makes everyone look stronger. Then it forces companies to confront how little their old signals ever measured in the first place.