What's happening: India AI Summit sparks $240B investment pledge led by Reliance, Adani and Google
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 along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its AI arsenal.
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In this interview, Voxel51 CEO Brian Moore explains how visual AI goes beyond traditional computer vision and why managing image and video data is uniquely challenging. He highlights common dataset pitfalls, the trade‑offs between data quality and storage costs, and how synthetic data, foundation models, and smarter annotation workflows can close data gaps. Moore also shares Voxel51’s open‑source strategy, infrastructure best practices, and lessons for founders building scalable visual AI platforms, emphasizing the need for robust edge‑case handling and industry standards.
What is an AI factory and why it matters? At @NVIDIA GTC, Anne Hecht (Sr Director Product Marketing for Enterprise) gave me an answer that changed how I think about AI infrastructure. AI is not a tool, it's a transformation engine that...

The Laude Institute unveiled its inaugural Slingshots AI grant cohort, funding 15 research projects that tackle the notoriously hard problem of AI evaluation. The program supplies resources—cash, compute, and engineering support—in exchange for deliverables such as startups, open‑source codebases, or...

Amazon has introduced Kindle Translate, an AI-driven translation service for self‑published Kindle books that entered beta on Thursday for a limited group of KDP authors. The tool currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English translations at no cost, letting authors select target...

Security firm Tenable identified seven prompt‑injection vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑4o, collectively dubbed “HackedGPT,” ranging from indirect injection via trusted web sites and 0‑click search exploits to persistent memory injection that can embed malicious commands in saved chats. The researchers demonstrated...

Amazon announced Kindle Translate, an AI‑powered translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors that currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English pairs in beta and is offered for free. The tool lets authors preview AI‑generated translations, set pricing and publish directly from...
Google is now using Gemini to cross-reference ~250M places with Street View imagery to identify visible landmarks for turn-by-turn nav. Think iconic buildings, gas stations and restaurants. So instead of "turn right in 500 feet" you get "turn right after the...
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Chris Coons and Tom Cotton urged President Donald Trump to maintain export controls that bar Nvidia from selling its flagship Blackwell AI chips to China. The resolution, co‑sponsored by Amy Klobuchar and...

Meta’s internal documents reveal the company deliberately kept high‑value scam advertisers active because they generate billions of dollars, projecting $16 billion—about 10% of its 2024 revenue—from fraudulent ads, including $7 billion from “high‑risk” ads alone. The firm allowed accounts with hundreds of...

Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley have introduced the AI‑Related Job Impacts Clarity Act, which would compel federal agencies, publicly traded firms and certain private companies to file quarterly reports with the Department of Labor detailing AI‑driven layoffs, new AI‑related...
AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful. This is why I increasingly try to select software that lets me control...
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model that activates 32 billion parameters per inference and is released under a modified MIT license on Hugging Face. In third‑party benchmarks it posted 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 60.2% on BrowseComp, 71.3% on SWE‑Bench...

🚀 AI Mastery Roadmap – Your GPS to mastering artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to become an AI architect, this roadmap from Mindstream is one of the clearest, most actionable visual guides I’ve seen....

Meta announced the European rollout of Vibes, a short‑form video feed in the Meta AI app that exclusively showcases AI‑generated clips, just six weeks after its U.S. debut and days after OpenAI unveiled its own AI video platform, Sora. The...
Yesterday I said the government shouldn't invest in OpenAI. There's another side to that coin, of course. My mom always taught me to be able to argue both sides of an argument. And we are competing with China, which has...

My conversation with @melrobbins is officially live 🎤 We talked about using AI to better handle overwhelm, run a team with no help, and even ways to use AI to have more meaningful human-to-human in-person interactions. Our interview was 2.5 hours long...

Google is planning a large, undisclosed AI data center on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as part of a cloud‑computing deal with the Australian Defence Force. The site, located 220 miles south of Indonesia, would give...
Everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way to win a technology race is to get the most users and developers on your platform. Yet the anti-export lobby in Washington keeps inventing reasons why America’s friends and allies shouldn’t be...

Reddit has partnered with review platform G2, embedding G2 data into Reddit business profiles and licensing Reddit content to AI models. With 115 million daily active users and a high proportion of tech decision‑makers, Reddit is emerging as a pivotal channel...
Do not watch this video. Instead: 1. Click the Grok button on this post. Wait for it to get done with its three points. Then ask it "what did you learn by watching this video?" 2. Sign up for @Pokee_AI, give it...

Google announced that its Google Finance app will soon include a "Deep Search" feature powered by Gemini AI, delivering fully‑cited, multi‑step research answers and a visible reasoning plan. Users can opt into early access via Google Labs, with usage caps...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced a new team dedicated to building a "humanist superintelligence"—a tightly controlled, limited‑autonomy AI designed solely to serve humanity. The initiative follows Microsoft’s recent launch of its own text, voice and image models and a revised...
The post imagines a world where humane technology reforms replaced addictive social‑media algorithms with consensus‑building and solution‑focused feeds, enforced dopamine‑emission standards, and treated platforms as attention fiduciaries subject to zoning‑like regulations. It describes sweeping cultural, legal, and design changes—including school...
Good morning world model fans. Today I put up a video with founder of @Pokee_AI who has a very different, and better than the others, way to make AI agents work better. Uses reinforcement learning and not just LLMs. More like how...

This is BIG. Deepnote, a company I’ve followed and used since its creation, just OPEN-SOURCED their modern notebook framework 🔥 And honestly, this could be the final chapter for Jupyter. After 7 years of development, @DeepnoteHQ has built something that redefines the notebook...

New deposition testimony from OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit, details why Sam Altman was briefly ousted in November 2023. Sutskever alleges Altman repeatedly lied to the board, pitted senior executives against each other, gave conflicting information...

The EU AI Act, set to take effect in August 2026, imposes a risk‑based framework that requires companies using AI in the bloc to ensure transparency, verification and human oversight, with heavy penalties for non‑compliance. Data sovereignty—keeping data subject to the...

Ring announced an AI‑powered Single Event Alert that bundles multiple motion notifications from the same occurrence into a single push, aiming to curb the “notification fatigue” many users experience. The feature can recognize repeated activity—such as a child playing or...
Most people still confuse RAG and fine-tuning — and it’s costing them weeks of wasted effort. Here’s the simple truth: RAG gives your model better memory. Fine-tuning gives it better judgment. RAG connects your model to an external brain so it can retrieve...

Wow. Anthropic’s latest piece shows MCP code execution slashes token usage in AI agents by 98.7% 🤯 https://t.co/erzyhFhRG0

Ellis and Alex open with a discussion about the Sources launch party and the challenges of late-stage extractionism before bringing on Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela. Valenzuela explains that the toughest hurdle in AI is aligning massive world models with human...
If you're using Colab and you feel like training your model on GPU is slow, switch to the TPU runtime and tune the "steps_per_execution" parameter in model.compile() (higher = more work being done on device before moving back to host...
Best practices for testing your Gradio app 👇
Dennis Crowley, co‑founder of Foursquare, has launched BeeBot, an AI‑powered iOS app that delivers short, location‑based audio updates through headphones, acting like a personalized radio DJ that tells users about nearby friends, events and local news. The app activates automatically...
Necessity is the mother of invention Also - training optimally on small amounts of chips with focus on data means the Chinese models take 10-100x less compute to run as well & have that cost advantage $150/mGPT 4.5 vs $0.5/m DeepSeek v3...

Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases is now open source! 🔥 A single backend for connections, security, and schema-aware SQL tools, built for AI agents. Compatible with Python, JS, Go, LangChain, and more. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/F4PSWLY3J9
Google Cloud unveiled its seventh‑generation Tensor Processing Unit, Ironwood, which offers more than four‑times the training and inference performance of the previous generation and scales to pods of 9,216 chips with 1.77 petabytes of high‑bandwidth memory and optical circuit‑switching. Anthropic announced...
Excited to be at the "then they fight you" stage of intelligent assistants acting on your behalf.
can anyone actually explain, with hard facts, how it's possible AMD still doesn't meaningfully compete in the deep learning space? I understand they lack certain pieces of software. I do not understand how they could reasonably still lack it though.

Google is rolling out its Gemini AI-powered assistant to Google Maps in India, supporting nine local languages and offering hands‑free, contextual navigation. The update adds safety alerts for accident‑prone stretches, real‑time road‑closure data from the National Highways Authority, and speed‑limit...

Almost all companies invest in AI, yet only 1% say they’re mature. @McKinsey 's 2025 workplace report reveals 92% plan to ramp up AI spending and employees expect about 30% of their work to be automated. https://t.co/Y1vEOJyoKk ...
Google is making HUGE moves in AI infrastructure. I got the press release this morning that @TeksEdge shares. It is one of the most stunning press releases I've ever gotten and I get a lot.

Snap announced a $400 million cash‑and‑equity deal with Perplexity to embed the startup’s AI search engine into Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, giving Perplexity access to Snap’s 940 million‑plus user base. The feature is slated for rollout early next year, with Snap beginning to...
The two biggest narratives about AI right now are that (1) it’s a massive bubble (i.e. totally fake) and (2) about to give rise to superintelligence (i.e. totally real). Both narratives can be fake (which is what I believe) but...
There will be no federal bailout for AI. The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place.

OpenAI announced it has surpassed one million paying business customers worldwide, calling it the fastest‑growing business platform in history. The clientele spans finance, healthcare, retail and more, with notable use cases such as Indeed’s AI‑driven hiring boost (20% more applications, 13%...

AI isn’t just replacing jobs, it’s amplifying talent. PwC’s 2025 AI Jobs Barometer shows wages in AI‑exposed roles are rising 2x faster and skills evolving at record speed. AI‑savvy workers can earn a 56% premium. Upskill now to ride the...
tomorrow on ai chit chat is Mr Hamel. he is gonna chat with me about evaluations and why they “do not” matter! dont miss.also, he is providing discounts for his amazing course. @HamelHusain discounts please 🙏 😆
AI-Guided Sperm Analysis Results In First Successful Pregnancy. A significant advancement in fertility treatment has been achieved. https://t.co/AvMH0zctBv #AI #fertilization #healthTech #technews #technology #Innovation

AI is transforming transportation — from fleets & logistics to smart cities & customer experience. For CEOs & tech leaders, it’s more than efficiency: it’s a chance to reinvent business models & drive sustainability. Read my latest article 👉 https://t.co/tDyanilzKB by @ingliguori #AI...