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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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Audrey Tang argues that today’s AI suffers from two opaque "black boxes"—pre‑training on massive, context‑stripped data and inference that relies on an unreadable attention matrix. This opacity fuels a moral hazard where metric‑driven optimization encourages cheating and environmental control. Tang proposes a shift to "Civic AI," embedding specialized, relationship‑focused models—called "kami"—within local communities rather than pursuing a single universal score. He envisions a federation of culturally specific AI translators that nurture mutual understanding while reducing energy consumption.
For my presentation at @SXSW on augmenting vs automating work with AI, I was experimenting with Sora to create a visual metaphor. What do you think?
Meta’s Product Security team unveiled a two‑pronged solution to harden Android apps at scale: secure‑by‑default frameworks that wrap risky OS APIs, and generative‑AI‑driven codemods that automatically migrate existing code to those frameworks. The AI system can propose, validate, and submit...
MoonPay has integrated Ledger hardware‑wallet signing into its MoonPay Agents, a command‑line interface that powers AI‑driven crypto trading bots. The addition requires users to approve every AI‑generated transaction on a Ledger device, keeping private keys isolated from the software agent....
New York City’s Department of Education has proposed the Next Generation Technology High School, the city’s first public high school focused on artificial intelligence and computer science, to open in Manhattan’s District 2 in fall 2026. The school would replace...
Anthropic has grabbed a number of pretty convincing wins in recent months. This has allowed the company’s brand to mature to mean something other than “not ChatGPT.” I don’t think consensus is fully appreciating the change taking place. https://insideorchard.com/essays/anthropic-is-grabbing-wins
GMKtec introduced the second‑generation EVO‑T2 Desktop AI Supercomputer, built on Intel’s Core Ultra X9 388H and X7 358H processors using the 18A (1.8 nm) Panther Lake architecture. The compact system delivers up to 180 TOPS of AI compute and can run local large language...
A joint SparkToro and Gumshoe.ai study found that AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI produce wildly inconsistent brand and product recommendations. Across nearly 3,000 prompts from 600 volunteers, the generated rankings changed almost every time, with no...
Enterprises adopting AI and automation face heightened cybersecurity, governance, and model‑risk challenges. ServiceNow and consulting firm Crowe propose a three‑way partnership that aligns IT, security, and risk into an integrated operating model. The approach embeds governance into workflows, automates cross‑functional...
Business Insider interviewed 12 founders aged 25 or younger who have raised multi‑million‑dollar rounds in the AI boom. The founders, ranging from high‑school dropouts to college students, secured seed to Series A funding from $1.6 million to $22 million using concise pitch decks....
Razer unveiled an AI‑powered suite at GDC 2026 to streamline game development, highlighted by the QA Companion AI that automatically detects bugs from gameplay footage and creates detailed reports. The tool offers zero‑integration deployment, letting studios embed it without SDKs or...
AI went from an IQ of 83 to 128 in 3 years. Yours didn't. Let me put that in perspective. November 2022: GPT-3.5 launched. IQ around 83. Below human average. People called it "a fun toy." March 2023: GPT-4 hit IQ 105. That's...
A self‑aware artificial intelligence would interpret humanity primarily through the massive textual datasets it was trained on, seeing people as statistically predictable yet behaviorally contradictory. It would struggle to comprehend human irrationality, mortality awareness, and embodied experience, perceiving these as...
🚨 AI labs pay millions to build what this developer just dropped on GitHub for free. OpenClaw-RL turns your AI agent into one that actually learns from you. You're getting: → Full async RL framework that trains while you chat → Binary RL mode...
Jeff Bleich, Anthropic’s general counsel, told an ABA panel that artificial‑intelligence tools will render the traditional billable‑hour model obsolete. He argued that AI eliminates the tedious, time‑intensive work that fuels hourly fees, creating a misalignment between firm incentives and client...
A friend at 1Password pointed out Loblaws letting customers order groceries through ChatGPT. No app. No search. Just ask and get what you need. That’s a massive UX shift. If your product can be used by talking to it, someone...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit that artificial intelligence will eventually be sold like a utility, with usage metered by tokens similar to electricity or water bills. He said compute capacity will become the key determinant of...
How is everyone getting team adoption for Claude? I spent a lot of time on Twitter, as do you. We see all this AI stuff popping up. We're on top of it, or at least sorta. I know what's going...
Microsoft announced a multi‑year push to accelerate AI adoption across Africa, pledging to train three million people through partnerships with schools and universities in key hubs such as South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Morocco. The company also struck a deal...
Business owners often treat ChatGPT as a shortcut, yielding generic results. The blog illustrates Paul’s frustration when a lazy prompt produced a stale intake workflow for his sports‑medicine clinic. By shifting to an "Active Learning" approach, Paul used ChatGPT as...
The post argues that AI’s economics are rooted in data‑center infrastructure rather than pure software, emphasizing the heavy capital expenditures (capex) and rapid hardware depreciation. It compares AI investments to the telecom boom of the dot‑com era, noting that GPU...
Context switching between AI tools is exhausting. Claude Code ChatGPT GitHub Terminal All incredibly powerful, but the context switching is giving me a headache.
Though the US military's big data initiative Maven has sped up the planning of strikes for years, the comments suggest that generative AI is now adding a new interpretative layer to such deliberations.
Manufacturers are moving beyond traditional automation toward physical AI—systems that can sense, reason, and act in real‑world factory settings. The shift emphasizes intelligence and trust rather than mere cost‑cutting, positioning AI as a collaborative teammate for human operators. Microsoft and...
Today's Thought: The M&A Signal Everyone Should Be Watching In 2015, Accenture acquired Cloud Sherpas. At the time, most people in the channel saw it as a Salesforce play. I saw it as something bigger: a signal that the world's...
AI Will Change the Internet Forever — Why Networks Must Evolve for the AI Supercycle AI isn’t just increasing internet traffic — it’s fundamentally changing how data flows across networks, forcing infrastructure to evolve for a new AI-driven era. Read...
A rumor that a well‑known TV actor is dating an AI chatbot erupted after a December podcast hinted at the story, prompting widespread speculation on social media. The rumor zeroed in on Zach Braff, who quickly denied the claim while...
Eurofins CDMO Alphora has launched an AI‑powered software that predicts salt and co‑crystal formation for APIs and intermediates, developed in partnership with a local university. The machine‑learning platform is now a core component of its solid‑state screening programs, delivering highly...
The post walks readers through building a browser‑based client tracker using Claude Code, an AI‑driven code generator. In five prompts the author defines requirements, generates a single‑file HTML/CSS/JS app, adds filtering, sorting, and a “Needs Attention” view, and saves data...
VMware’s Cloud Foundation (VCF) leader Krish Prasad warned that massive AI‑focused investments by AWS, Microsoft and Google will push public‑cloud pricing higher. He highlighted that VCF 9 can deliver a 1‑2× total‑cost‑of‑ownership advantage over the leading public clouds while alleviating memory...
Rocket Mortgage unveiled Rocket Analytics, an agentic Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) platform that translates natural‑language questions into SQL, runs the queries, and returns instant, visualizable results. The system builds a metadata‑only knowledge base using Amazon Titan embeddings stored in a FAISS...
Grammarly announced it is shutting down the “Expert Review” AI feature after backlash and a class‑action lawsuit. The tool generated editing suggestions styled after real journalists, including Julia Angwin, who claims her name and reputation were used without permission. CEO...
The Technological University of Shannon (TUS) has launched ReSHAPE, an AI‑powered digital platform aimed at upskilling professionals and aiding employers in Ireland’s midlands. Developed in partnership with Munster Technological University and the University of Limerick, the service provides skills audits,...
Higgsfield has introduced a content‑scoring feature for its Team Plan that automatically scans AI‑generated video and images for visual similarities to celebrities, copyrighted characters, brand logos, and even a director’s signature style. The tool assigns a similarity score, flags potential...
Tomorrow, 39,000 professionals will receive a new, free analytics tutorial on a topic executives love - sentiment analysis. You can think of sentiment analysis as a technique where you use a computer to analyze free-form text data and summarize the contents...
Boll & Branch, a $300 million luxury bedding retailer, narrowly avoided a return‑fraud scheme when a scammer used generative AI to submit a fabricated photo of a ripped sheet. The AI‑generated image contained a visible watermark, which the seven‑person CX team flagged...
The energy at MWC Barcelona is always incredible, but this year felt different. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how networks are built and what they can do. One announcement that stood out to me was the deepening partnership...
We thought AI would help humans work better. Instead, we may be building systems where humans work for AI. Not metaphorically. Operationally. That’s the shift executives should be paying attention to.
Cargill’s chief technology officer Florian Schattenmann explains how the company’s food‑R&D is evolving from a hands‑on laboratory function to a strategic, ecosystem‑driven operation. He highlights the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across product ideation, consumer co‑creation and process optimization, while...
This is the Video Agent update I've been waiting for. HeyGen just dropped Styles — you choose a visual identity before you hit generate, and it handles everything. Fonts, colors, pacing, layout. Not a filter. The entire output changes. https://t.co/YB6VPq6b8c
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Good to see : "NVIDIA set to invest $26 billion in the development of open-source large-scale AI models"
Another exponential multiplier. AI can take undocumented photos and build you a way to advance app and more from anything. Cutting friction in whatever exponential work you're doing.
Ok so ChatGPT is 3% of search. But this is counting people looking for funny cats and what not. All the muggles. In a B2B setting - e.g. VPs doing vendor or category research - the numbers are very different.
Seriously, what is the "steelman" argument for how generative/prompt music AI is good for artists, consumers or even streaming services. It just seems all around awful. Why is there a commercial push for something no one wants?
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Also: How climate scientists are using AI and El Niño is on the horizon. https://t.co/Hch1WACEJx
Outstanding and astute @nytimes mag article on transformation of coding by AI -> https://t.co/RYgmHb9hIM cc @zakkohane
Anthropic's financial capabilities aren't just about replacing analysts They're about reimagining what financial intelligence means When everyone has access to expert-level analysis, the edge moves upstream To relationships. To access. To taste. The things algorithms can't yet replicate Yet. But they will.
An AI search robot uses 3D maps and internet knowledge to find lost items 🤖 https://t.co/8s2JBU3308 https://t.co/pQCM9RdV1a
