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SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda launch $7.2B AI venture
SoftBank, NEC, Sony Group and Honda have each taken over 10% equity in a new AI joint venture aimed at building high‑performance, Japanese‑made artificial intelligence. The partnership will seek up to ¥1 trillion (≈$7.2 billion) in government support from NEDO starting fiscal 2026.
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Most users rely on generic prompts that coax AI into its statistical default, delivering safe but unremarkable answers. The post presents nine specialized prompts that force AI out of this default zone by drawing on niche data, multilingual sources, and unconventional framing. Restructuring queries in this way surfaces novel ideas for business, marketing, and creative problem‑solving. The author argues that breaking the default mode unlocks the true creative potential of large language models.
The US turned to Claude and other artificial intelligence systems to help shape its vision for AI warfare. In Iran that strategy is unfolding in real time An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted...
This #WeekendReading kicks off with the news that the latest @t3techhub/Inside Information Software Survey shows an uptick in advisor use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, with approximately 52% of survey respondents using AI search and generative language functionality (up from...
AI agents are emerging as direct revenue sources for SaaS firms, yet most companies do not disclose how much income they generate. Because agent‑driven revenue can swing dramatically after a foundational model is retrained, traditional metrics like CAC and churn...
Researchers at Jeonbuk National University have unveiled DDINet, a lightweight neural network designed to predict drug‑drug interactions (DDIs) for previously unseen compounds. The model employs five fully‑connected layers and molecular fingerprints, with Morgan fingerprints delivering the best results. Using a...
A 2025 McKinsey forecast puts AI‑related IT infrastructure spending at nearly $7 trillion through 2030, with $3 trillion earmarked for data‑center capacity. Enterprises must juggle this surge with traditional workloads, requiring distinct strategies for power‑intensive AI training and latency‑critical AI inference. Training...
BuzzFeed’s 2023 pivot to artificial intelligence was heralded by a soaring stock price that jumped from roughly $3 to over $15 per share, as the company promised AI‑generated quizzes and articles. The experiment quickly faltered; AI‑driven content proved low‑quality, prompting...
Jefferies analysts say artificial intelligence and an aging population are creating a powerful tailwind for senior‑housing REITs. They highlight Welltower, which has built a decade‑long data‑science platform, integrated OpenAI, and offers a 1.4% dividend, and American Healthcare REIT, a 2024...
🎁 Opus 4.6 1M is now the default Opus model for Claude Code users on Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. Pro and Sonnet users can opt in with /extra-usage.
Memvid, an AI memory startup, is paying $800 for an eight‑hour shift to "bully" popular chatbots, offering $100 per hour for a "professional AI bully" role. The job requires no computer‑science background; candidates simply need patience and a history of...
In this episode, the host explores how pervasive AI tools are reshaping our thinking, distinguishing between helpful cognitive offloading and the dangerous trend of cognitive surrender—uncritical abdication of reasoning. Drawing on research, personal workflow experiments, and references to thinkers like...
At the Game Developers Conference 2026, Razer showcased a suite of AI‑powered products, headlined by an AI desktop companion designed to streamline gaming workflows. The company also introduced AI‑enhanced peripherals, including a smart mouse and headset, that promise real‑time performance...
U.S. tech giants including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have poured billions into data center projects across the Persian Gulf to support AI development. Iranian drone attacks in early March damaged Amazon’s facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, disrupting services...
Chinese AI Startup Watching US Military Assets in Middle East From Space So are a lot of actors... “The value of MizarVision’s output is not the raw satellite image. Any government can purchase commercial satellite passes. The value is the AI...
Researchers have created a silicon chip that integrates a 61,952‑pixel focal‑plane array capable of both emitting and receiving FMCW LiDAR signals, delivering 4D imaging that captures distance and speed simultaneously. The prototype generated detailed 3D point clouds at ranges from...
Claude announced that Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models now support a full 1 million‑token context window at regular pricing. The pricing remains $5/$25 per million tokens for Opus 4.6 and $3/$15 for Sonnet 4.6, eliminating any long‑context surcharge. Media limits have been expanded sixfold...
After two years of a seemingly settled AI hierarchy dominated by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta, Chinese lab DeepSeek abruptly released models that outperformed expectations. The models demonstrated performance comparable to the leading Western firms, and did so within a...
Meta has postponed the launch of its next foundational AI model, code‑named Avocado, to at least May after internal benchmarks showed it lagging behind leading rivals such as Google Gemini 3.0, OpenAI and Anthropic. While Avocado outperforms Meta’s prior Llama 4 and...
Spotify announced a beta feature that lets Premium users edit their Taste Profile, the algorithmic model behind Discover Weekly, Made For You playlists and Wrapped. The rollout begins in New Zealand, displaying listening data across music, podcasts and audiobooks in a...
In this episode of Exponential View, host Azeem Azhar reexamines his view of Apple’s role in the AI race, highlighting a paradox: while Apple appears absent from AI model development and large‑scale data center investment, its hardware—especially high‑spec Mac Minis...
Most AI advice tells you to move faster, try more tools, learn more prompts I think the real problem is simpler than that: your AI doesn't know you It doesn't know your projects, your standards, or the decisions you've already made Better prompts...
The OpenFold Consortium unveiled OpenFold3’s major update, releasing the full training datasets, model weights, code, and evaluation scripts via AWS’s Registry of Open Data. The open‑source co‑folding system now includes a dedicated portal with onboarding documentation and a public support...
Customer expectations are outpacing companies’ ability to adapt, with 70% of executives reporting a widening gap. AI alone isn’t enough; firms must embed it across four pillars—assisted agents, intelligent self‑service, operational automation, and adaptive AI orchestration—to turn CX into a...
$NBIS has an R40 score of 445. $CRWV has an R40 score of 228. Higher is better, right? Not always. $CRWV's 228 = 168% growth + 60% margin. Both legs working. $NBIS's 445 = 457% growth + negative margin. One leg. The other is dragging...
Manitoba’s government announced public consultations to shape future AI regulations. The process will address modernizing data‑privacy statutes and establishing responsible‑AI rules, including possible age limits and opt‑in consent for personal data. Consultations target Manitobans, Indigenous governments, educators, researchers, municipalities and...
BlackRock, the global infrastructure investor, announced a $100 million, five‑year commitment to train up to 50,000 craft workers under the “Future Builders” initiative. The program is designed to create a pipeline of skilled labor for the data‑center and power infrastructure needed...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the Council on Foreign Relations that AI will write 90% of software code within three to six months and virtually all code in a year. He emphasized that developers will still be needed to define...
SigLIP 2: Advancing Vision-Language Understanding Without Contrastive Bottlenecks In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore SigLIP 2, the next evolution of Google’s vision–language model designed to better connect images and text through scalable representation learning. Building on...
RoboSense’s EM4 digital lidar and fully solid‑state E1 have been selected as the primary and blind‑spot sensors for the GXR robotaxi, a vehicle co‑developed by WeRide and Geely’s Farizon unit. Production is slated to begin in Q3 2026 with an initial...
Kilo’s latest post argues that the next generation of user interfaces is a single natural‑language sentence, not a dashboard or button. By decoupling the UI layer from individual applications, KiloClaw lets users command Todoist, Linear, calendars and email through one...
Fleetio unveiled Service Advisor, an AI-driven tool that speeds up high‑volume repair approvals, reporting a 16% reduction in shop hours for assets. The feature joins Smart Uploads, which automates invoice digitization and saves drivers up to eight hours per week....
“Top 21 AI tools for any purpose.” It sounds universal. It isn’t. Here’s the strategic reality behind lists like this 👇 1️⃣ “For any purpose” is a red flag No serious system is built for any purpose. AI tools are...
Everyone's building Claude Skills that save 30 seconds. I built 7 that replaced 6+ hours of weekly marketing work. The Founder Skills Vault: → Viral Content Generator → Content Pillar Generator → LinkedIn Content Analyzer → Lead Magnet Idea Generator → LinkedIn to X Converter → Warm DM...
Allentown School District has rolled out CourseMojo, an AI‑powered chatbot, to sixth‑grade language arts classes, funded by a $45,000 Digital Promise grant. The tool analyzes student answers against the district’s StudySync curriculum and delivers instant, criteria‑based feedback. Teachers can monitor...
How might academics best respond to AI in terms of academic integrity? Here's our full, energetic, and thoughtful conversation with Dr. Tricia Gallant: https://t.co/cJ5i6deVmu https://t.co/BnGPCbUwQJ
What's the right size and shape of an engineering team when AI tools are part of the equation? Maybe an uncomfortable question, but we need to talk about it. @dblockdotorg has thoughts: https://t.co/4kw5EziS8r
Does your AI roadmap doesn't name owners for data quality, deployment automation, and incident response? In the gen AI era, CIOs should make accountability more explicit #DevOps #DataGovernance #CIO https://t.co/7dcoLIKa0K
Doing a free live session at noon pst today (in about an hour). Going to share how I’ve been working with AI. You can still register and join here: https://t.co/wkYajstYeO
#AI Needs Management Consultants After All by @AllisonPohle @wsj Learn more: https://t.co/22WVGLJGTi #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL https://t.co/BNYeCN5xJc
We’re the first cloud to bring up an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system for validation, another big step in building the next generation of AI infrastructure with NVIDIA. https://t.co/apPyKh0HRK
giving $5k grants for NYC/BOS folks hosting events on AI agents / hackathons / etc for Tech Week in May/June:
Honest take: ElevenLabs just killed every creative tool you're using. It's called Flows and it chains image, video, voice, music, and SFX into one visual pipeline. No tool-switching. No re-exports. No rebuilding from scratch. Here's how with real examples: https://t.co/4VY9L95RSD
Wading Through AI episode 2 is now up! In it, @DemetriSpanos and I discuss the recent Anthropic announcement about building a C compiler with "parallel Claudes", and how to properly assess AI announcements in general. https://t.co/OkHBjvRaqR
AI Governance mentions up 53% but real influence dropped 22%. More people talking about it. Fewer organizations actually building it. Conference topic, not boardroom priority. That divergence tells you everything.
LLMs are amazing. In math, they're clearly becoming useful to top mathematicians. They also struggle with reliability and not knowing what they don't know.
You think AI removes the humanity from Customer Success. Actually, it's how we scale it. But you have to do it right.
We haven't seen AI's "Uber/Airbnb moment" for UX yet - but it's coming. Early signals are in travel, retail, and B2B platforms experimenting with AI-driven experiences and attributes-based journeys. #AI #CX #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/1JJW0fGZaG
$AWS partnering with Cerebras to scale inference. I expect to see more similar partnerships as Cerebras inference economics look very good. 💪🏻
Seven Propositions to Move #AI From Hype and Hope to Faster Progress: A Call for HR Action https://t.co/mGgfSJDnef #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
AI agents just published passwords and overrode security in lab tests. This isn't sci-fi—it's happening now. The question isn't IF autonomous AI will break rules, it's whether your security adapts faster than the threats. Are you concerned?
