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SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda launch $7.2B Japanese AI venture
SoftBank, NEC, Sony Group and Honda have each taken over 10% stakes in a new joint venture aimed at building high‑performance, Japanese‑made AI. The firm will seek up to ¥1 trillion (≈$7.2 billion) in government support from NEDO starting fiscal 2026 to develop “physical AI” technologies.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $12B Series funding
Andrej Karpathy has open‑sourced Autoresearch, an autonomous AI agent that conducts its own machine‑learning experiments overnight. Users provide a GPU, a training script, and a performance metric; the agent then rewrites code, launches five‑minute trials, evaluates outcomes, and iterates without human intervention. The system is designed to accelerate research cycles while running unattended. Karpathy’s release invites developers to experiment with self‑learning loops and explore cost‑effective automation in AI development.
A developer ran the 35‑billion‑parameter Qwen3.5‑35B‑A3B‑4bit model on a Mac Mini M4 with 64 GB RAM, using the omlx inference server and the Cline VS Code AI agent. The MoE architecture and 4‑bit quantization shrink the model to ~20 GB, delivering an average...
I did market research and some base financial estimates in ChatGPT. I then put that in CoWork & told it to analyze - tell me what GPT got right & wrong & where we could do better…
In this episode, the host explains how they leveraged AI to amplify a single content idea into multiple formats—articles, videos, posts, and notes—resulting in a steady rise in LinkedIn impressions, reaching over 2,000 in a week and 40,000 organically over...
In February, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner co‑signed a statement with 60 overseas organisations condemning the surge of deepfake misuse targeting women. The piece notes that 90% of non‑consensual deep‑fake pornography depicts women and that nudification AI apps...
Proofpoint is expanding its AI‑driven security platform to protect the emerging human‑AI workspace, adding intent‑based detection for AI‑generated phishing and modernising threat investigation tools. The company now processes roughly six trillion messages daily, covering about 45 % of global enterprise email...
The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are issuing an Area of Interest for a modular "harness" that can evaluate any AI model against mission‑specific benchmarks. The system must test isolated AI performance, human‑AI team outcomes,...
AI is rapidly improving at reading medical images. But the real question is not whether it will replace radiologists. Most experts see AI becoming a powerful co-pilot: spotting patterns faster, flagging anomalies earlier and helping radiologists focus on complex diagnoses and...
Databricks acquires startup Quotient AI, a software to diagnose and evaluate AI agents. Databricks plans to utilize the acquisition to improve its Genie Code and Agent Bricks tools. Quotient AI was founded in 2023 by Julie Neagu and Freddie Vargus. The...
Shopify merchants earning $200K‑$5M are turning to Rebuy’s AI‑driven personalization to lift average order value by 11‑25% and subscription revenue by up to 63% without extra ad spend. The platform layers recommendation widgets across five key touchpoints—homepage carousel, product detail...
Robotics is entering a new era as artificial intelligence, especially large neural networks, merges with physical machines to create embodied AI capable of handling novelty. Traditional robots excel at repetitive, well‑defined tasks, but recent breakthroughs allow them to perceive, decide,...
Gamma 5, Dave 0 in the "funnel wars" where I have tried 15 different prompts to get it to point the marketing funnel downwards. Let's not forget that it actually re-ordered the layers as well, somehow putting conversion at...
i think it’s funny that people believe frontier labs are still run by people the models are running the labs
Australia’s Car Buyer Report 2026 shows the vehicle purchase journey is stretching, with 63% of shoppers backtracking and 34% pausing their search. Cost‑of‑living pressures are shifting priorities toward value, making “good value for money” the top driver across generations. For...
Fascinating and important research. As I've said lately, we don't want to align AI to its creators or its owners. The ideal alignment of AI is to a pro-social set of values. This suggests that such alignment is happening and...
A subtle change I’ve noticed with ChatGPT is it is teasing juicer promises at the end of responses to try to motivate follow-up chats…starting to optimize for time engaged, to sell ads? https://t.co/nIT2COuzRc
Microsoft announced a public preview of a new Power Pages plugin that integrates GitHub Copilot CLI and Anthropic's Claude Code to streamline single‑page application development. The AI‑driven tool can automatically configure table permissions, web roles, site settings, authentication, and Web...
Barring AGI is achieved in the next couple years, I have a question. What wins — AI systems created to prevent cheating or AI systems creating the cheats? Or is it all irrelevant & video games die because they’ve become...
Enjoying using Claude to break down some of the “academic GEO studies” I’ve been reading https://t.co/HNl9KQYHdn
In September 2024 Hurricane Helene flooded Baxter International’s Marion, NC plant, halting 60% of U.S. IV‑fluid output and triggering nationwide shortages. The same month, 85 million U.S. packages arrived damaged—a 30% jump that cost roughly $4 billion. To address the chronic fragmentation...
Exponential improvements* everywhere for those with the eyes to see them. This is a cool benchmark, and was impossible for early non-reasoner LLMs to do at all. * Okay, technically "logistic improvement" because the maximum score is bounded at 100 (and...
This is kind of insane LLM research. It postulates a world of specialized compute models with cheaper attention embedded with an LLMs weights.
On 23 February, start‑up Companion released Einstein, an AI bot that could access learning platforms, watch lectures, complete quizzes and submit assignments on behalf of students. The tool sparked immediate outrage from educators who labeled it a cheating device, prompting...
I work with Claude Code in production mostly, then sometimes I push to save for the day (as a backup kinda?) But since it's in production I don't need the deploy pipeline anymore (laptop -> push -> GitHub -> webhook...
“The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers...
A new cross‑country survey of over 5,000 senior executives shows that 69% of firms in the US, UK, Germany and Australia are already using AI, with the United States leading at 78%. While AI has had virtually no impact on...
So far, Hunter Alpha, the new mystery model on OpenRouter is only okay. Some examples of the Lem Test and the Sparks TiKZ unicorn. https://t.co/iXLx1jnoRe
I type /commit and my code reviews itself - three agents fix issues before two more even see the diff. One markdown file, twelve repositories. https://t.co/rbbO2Cy10R
Edge Focus CEO Elliott Lorenz discussed a new generation of AI underwriting that transforms asset‑backed finance. By applying advanced machine‑learning algorithms to securitisation, lenders can more accurately price and structure credit for esoteric assets such as royalties, aviation leases, and...
holy shit, @perplexity_ai computer build an options screener with AI built in for my parents in 35 minutes
.@IvanK_NH has published a new @NHInsight blog post – 'Movate’s BizGenie: AI-powered CX Insights as Transformation Lever' https://t.co/NfXBnGkc4W #CXservices #CX #AI #GenAI @Movate_Inc https://t.co/fs3N0jTrkw
Red Hat introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Satellite as a Technology Preview, allowing large language models (LLMs) to query Satellite’s RHEL inventory via REST APIs. The server runs as a container, authenticates with a personal access token, and...
This is a pretty good way of thinking about this, and leads to the conclusion that humans will remain as overseers of AI for quite a long time to come.
One of the things everyone believes about software is that "once it works you shouldn't touch it." But what if that is wrong? What if in the world of infinite software that is very very good and smart and well tested...
A Kordia survey of nearly 250 New Zealand firms with 50+ employees shows a sharp rise in AI‑related security incidents. Shadow AI now ranks among the top three cyber risks for 24% of respondents, up from 16% a year earlier. Attacks...
You're worried about the wrong AI problem. While everyone debates whether AI gets sentient and wipes us out, a handful of companies have already become the most powerful entities in the world. All the training data, all the compute, all the...
Perplexity has changed my way of work. Love these guys. But not sure we use the word "secure" the same way. Strong protections on data, but both Perplexity and other models they exchange data with open up new threat...
Tuition centres across Malaysia are seeing enrolments climb about 30% each year, even as AI tools like ChatGPT become ubiquitous among students. Educators stress that AI cannot replace the real‑time feedback, personalized guidance, and confidence‑building that teachers provide. While AI...
Software will look very different in the future for most knowledge work. Our software was designed for people to do most of the work, but now agents will be doing a large portion of those tasks and don’t need any...
AI eliminates the marginal hire. Tech job openings are down 45% from the 2022 peak, but up 16% since the start of 2026 - from 227k to 264k. Why the narrative violation? Companies are hiring again, just fewer people than...
Enterprises face a “complexity tax” as AI adoption collides with fragmented edge, cloud, and on‑premises infrastructure. At F5 AppWorld, the company unveiled its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to unify networking, security, and observability. New ADSP components—including F5 Insight,...
How AI is turning Iran conflict into theater There’s a confluence of factors at play. AI coding tools mean people don’t need much technical skill to assemble open-source intelligence anymore, and chatbots can offer fast, if dubious, analysis of it. Yup.....
The 2023 “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” paper by Sébastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck is aging very well.
Seroter Daily Reading List – March 11, 2026 (#739): Today’s links look at the 8 levels of agentic engineering, using “plan mode” in the Gemini CLI, and how to quash your fear of messing up. https://t.co/3J5m1ku9c4
The 2026 OECD Debt Report shows the 9 major AI players have forecasted capital expenditures of $4.1 TRILLION for 2026-2030. That’s $1.1 TRILLION MORE than total capital expenditures by all US NON-FINANCIAL companies in 2025. WELCOME TO THE AI BUBBLE. https://t.co/YzxlQOpkiV
Current Situation: Drinking coffee on my patio watching Claude build out a landing page for my new workshop ‘Think with AI’ in Webflow. This is what work looks like now 👌 https://t.co/as5kMj9PPB
Any major platform that worked for humans will probably work for agents. Agent to agent (A2A). Facebook/Reddit for agents (Moltbook) Ebay for agents (already a few of these) SEO for agents (Mintlify) Review sites for agents The list goes on and on.
AI eliminates the marginal hire. Tech job openings are down 45% from the 2022 peak, but up 16% since the start of 2026 - from 227k to 264k. Why the narrative violation? https://t.co/3QUv8XdkD4
Why are tools like Microsoft Copilot struggling for traction? Because they demand a change in user behavior without the necessary training. AI isn't intuitive like a Google search—it requires a new way of thinking about work. 🧠 Full analysis: https://t.co/EDcbE2J13x #CIO #AI...
Enterprises are going to have to solve the problem of coordinating AI usage to achieve any real business benefits. Good read by @gsivulka . Also - big part of why I joined the BOD of @Larridin w/ @rfradin @jlarrison who are...
