Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
Also developing:
‘Significant Gap’ Between Charities’ AI Use and Board Oversight, Report Suggests
Charity Excellence’s 2026 report finds that while 76% of UK charities are already using AI—mostly in informal, ad‑hoc ways—board awareness remains minimal, with only 3% of trustees acknowledging any AI use. More than 60% of charities are still in the early stages of adoption, and fewer than 3% have fully embedded AI into operations. The study highlights a stark disconnect between operational reality and governance, compounded by public ambivalence toward AI‑driven decision‑making in the sector.
Abstract Token Reasoning Matches Verbal CoT, Cuts Cost
Does a LLM really need to think in English or Chinese? How about it thinks using a short sequence of reserved "abstract" tokens through reinforcement learning? They find out that it is as performant as verbalized CoT at a fraction of the...
CHATBOT Act Introduced in Senate
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee introduced the Children’s Health, Advancement, Trust, Boundaries, and Oversight in Technology (CHATBOT) Act, aiming to shift control of AI chatbot use from tech firms to parents. The bill mandates family accounts, parental consent, and bans...
Microsoft and Tieto Partner to Scale AI Solutions in Europe
Finnish software firm Tieto has entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft to accelerate AI adoption across Europe. The collaboration includes co‑selling AI solutions, joint showcases and a training program to upskill 5,000 Tieto consultants on Microsoft’s AI stack. Tieto, with...
TruckSmarter Partners with SONAR To Deliver TRAC Spot Rates For Motor Carriers
TruckSmarter has launched Dispatch, an AI‑driven chat interface that lets drivers find, bid on, and book loads without scrolling traditional boards. The platform now integrates SONAR’s TRAC spot‑rate data, delivering real‑time market pricing to more than 500,000 carriers on the...
Why AI Poses a Unique ROI Challenge for Accounting Firms
The article highlights the emerging difficulty accounting and law firms face in quantifying AI’s return on investment, as traditional efficiency‑based metrics clash with billable‑hour revenue models. While 34% of tax firms and 41% of law firms have broadly deployed generative...
Ludi Announces Ludi Boost™: New AI-Powered Operating Model & Strategic Services Offering for Provider Workforce Management
Ludi, Inc. unveiled Ludi Boost™, an AI‑enabled compensation platform that bundles advanced technology with a strategic services team of more than 80 experts. The solution consolidates compensation data, governance and administration into a single system of record, promising faster program execution,...
Warp Is Going Open Source and Wants You to Improve Its Coding Tools with AI
Warp is open‑sourcing its desktop Agentic Development Environment (ADE), inviting its nearly one‑million users to build new features with AI assistance. Developers propose ideas on Warp’s GitHub issues page, where AI agents draft specifications and handle initial triage before a...
Build and Organize an Effective Machine Learning Team
Businesses across sectors are racing to embed machine learning for innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. Companies can structure ML groups as centralized, decentralized or hybrid units, often operating in agile "AI pods" that blend data scientists, engineers, and project managers....
Gap Targets Improved Traceability Operations, Data Collection
Gap Inc. has teamed with AI‑driven supply‑chain platform Inspectorio to embed its Paramo layer across the retailer’s supplier network. Paramo’s agents and copilots analyze primary data, flag compliance trends, and automate quality‑inspection workflows. The partnership aims to tighten product traceability,...
Neoclouds: What They Are and How They Cut ERP Cloud Costs
AI is moving from pilot projects into core ERP processes, inflating cloud compute demand and turning cloud spend into a volatile operating cost. Global cloud infrastructure spending hit $110.9 billion in Q4 2025, while 88% of CFOs report rising cloud budgets. Specialized...
Why You Shouldn’t Ask Chatbots to Act Like an Expert
A new Wharton Generative AI Labs study examined six large language models on graduate‑level science, engineering and law questions and found that assigning "expert" personas to prompts does not consistently boost accuracy. In most cases, the persona‑based prompts performed no...
Mistral AI Takes on Enterprise AI Orchestration with Workflows
Mistral AI launched Workflows, an orchestration layer that turns AI‑powered processes into production‑ready systems, now in public preview. Early adopters include ASML, ABANCA, CMA‑CGM, France Travail, La Banque Postale and Moeve, using it for critical operations. The tool lets developers...
Veritone Brings Forth A Content Intelligence AI Agent
Veritone has introduced Discovery Content Intelligence, a new component of its VERI AI agent that lets media and entertainment firms query vast audio‑video archives using natural language. The tool can locate specific moments, generate structured summaries, track brand mentions, and...
Square Unveils Its Managerbot, And Toast’s New Device Goes Abroad
Square's POS unit launched Managerbot, an AI‑driven assistant embedded in the Square Dashboard, now in open beta for U.S. retailers. The bot monitors sales, inventory and staffing, delivering actionable recommendations that owners must approve. Meanwhile, Toast introduced its Go 3 handheld...
![How We Built a System for AI Agents to Ship Real Code Across 75+ Repos [Part 2 of 2]](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://www.mabl.com/hubfs/Geoffs%20Blog%20Featured%20Image%202.png)
How We Built a System for AI Agents to Ship Real Code Across 75+ Repos [Part 2 of 2]
mabl has operationalized AI agents across more than 100 repositories using a four‑phase pipeline—analysis, planning, implementation, and review—integrated with Jira. Confidence‑based gating reduces implementation failures by roughly 60 % and forces human oversight before code merges. Between October 2025 and March 2026 the...
Harnessing AI to Fight Fraud
Payments firms are turning to artificial intelligence to counter a new wave of AI‑driven fraud, as highlighted at the Nacha Smarter Faster Payments conference in San Diego. Speakers warned that fraudsters are deploying "polymorphic agentic agents" that adapt in real...
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Powers Enterprise AI Agents
Nvidia launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 30‑billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts multimodal model that unifies vision, audio, and text processing. The open‑source model promises higher inference throughput and lower costs, enabling enterprise AI agents to handle document intelligence, computer‑use tasks, and video analysis within a...
Availity Introduces Availity Extend to Secure Healthcare Automation at Scale
Availity, the nation’s largest healthcare network, launched Availity Extend, a platform that lets payers, providers, and tech partners build automation and AI directly on its network. The solution leverages Availity’s existing connectivity and security framework, enabling workflows to run with live...
Musk and Altman Go to Court
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, has officially gone to trial, centering on claims that OpenAI misused early AI research and funding. The Vergecast episode breaks down the case’s origins, the legal arguments, and why Musk appears...
Report: Data Centers in Space – Key Takeaways
A new GAO Science & Tech Spotlight report examines the prospect of placing data‑processing and storage systems on satellites. Proponents argue space‑based data centers could slash the land, electricity, and water footprints of terrestrial facilities. However, the report flags formidable engineering...
Why AI Agents Are Triggering a Rethink of Enterprise Identity
Enterprises are rethinking identity management as AI agents become integral to automation. Traditional token‑based access, which assumes a one‑time authentication, no longer protects against evolving threats. Organizations are moving toward continuous, context‑aware verification that treats humans, workloads, and LLM‑driven agents...
Are Your Agents Quietly Draining Your Budget?
Enterprises are rapidly scaling autonomous AI agents, with deployments doubling in 2025 as pilots move into production. Real‑world usage reveals cost spikes up to ten times the prototype budget, often driven by looping or misconfigured agents that can squander tens...
Clinical Utility of the AITIS Model for Test-Free Identification of Sarcopenia in Patients with Stage IV–V Non-Dialysis-Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease
The study validates the Artificial Intelligence to Identify Sarcopenia (AITIS) model as a test‑free screening tool for sarcopenia in 236 patients with stage IV–V non‑dialysis chronic kidney disease. Using only age, sex, height, weight and 20 self‑reported functional items, AITIS achieved...
Development of an Intelligent Food Nutrition Recognition and Nutrient Intake Assessment System in Hospital Settings
Researchers at Peking University People's Hospital created an AI‑driven food nutrition recognition system for therapeutic hospital meals. The platform combines RGB‑D imaging, the Segment Anything Model for segmentation, and a SE_ResNet50_vd classifier, achieving 99.2% accuracy in food type identification. Volume...
Breach Secure Now Gives MSPs an AI Adoption Playbook
Breach Secure Now (BSN) has introduced an AI Risk to Adoption Program aimed at helping managed service providers (MSPs) guide small‑and‑medium business (SMB) customers through safer AI deployment. The partner‑led offering supplies a repeatable model covering risk assessment, shadow‑AI discovery,...
Virtue AI Launches PolicyGuard: Real-Time AI Guardrail Creation with Stackable Compliance and No Engineering Overhead
Virtue AI unveiled PolicyGuard, a real‑time AI guardrail platform that lets enterprises define, edit, and enforce custom AI policies without engineering bottlenecks. The solution translates natural‑language policies, PDFs or JSON into enforceable controls and layers over 30 compliance frameworks such...
Cops, Robbers and Robots: How AI Is Changing Cybercrime
Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybercrime, illustrated by a recent breach where hackers exploited Anthropic's Claude large‑language model to siphon roughly 150 GB of sensitive Mexican government data. The incident highlights a broader trend: AI‑driven "vibe hacking" enables both seasoned and novice...
GM’s AI Story Is Taking Shape as the Carmaker Aims to Distinguish Itself From Rivals Like Tesla
General Motors reported solid first‑quarter earnings, emphasizing the growing role of its autonomous‑driving technology. The automaker highlighted Super Cruise, its advanced driver‑assistance system launched in 2017, as a key differentiator from rivals such as Tesla. Executives said the company sees...
interos.ai Launches iQ to Elevate Supply Chain Risks to the C-Level
Interos.ai unveiled iQ, a second‑generation AI‑driven platform that merges ERP identifiers with its Resilience knowledge graph to deliver predictive supply‑chain risk analytics. The solution quantifies financial exposure, maps tariff impacts, and suggests alternative suppliers, targeting Fortune 1000 enterprises and government agencies....
Weaponized Deepfakes Arrive: AI’s New Existential Threat
Between improvements in generative AI, Grok’s mass generation of nonconsensual sexual images, and a US administration using the technology for propaganda, the long-predicted threat of weaponized deepfakes is here. That's why we named them one of the 10 Things That...
Canonical's Approach to AI Is Refreshingly Thoughtful - Microsoft Should Take Note
Canonical announced that Ubuntu 26.04 will integrate AI through both implicit background enhancements and explicit opt‑in tools, emphasizing local inference and open‑weight models. The company’s strategy avoids rebranding the OS as an AI product, instead offering developers the choice to...
AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron
AMD’s open‑source Lemonade SDK 10.3 was released with major upgrades, most notably swapping Electron for the Rust‑based Tauri framework. This change shrinks the pre‑built Windows and macOS binaries from roughly 101‑107 MB to just 7‑9 MB, a ten‑fold reduction. The update also...
Stacklet Joins the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to Advance Open Standards for Autonomous Cloud and AI Infrastructure
Stacklet, creator of Cloud Custodian, has become a Silver Member of the Linux Foundation‑hosted Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The move positions Stacklet to help shape open standards for autonomous cloud and AI infrastructure. With its Jun0 platform and newly launched...
AvePoint Doubles Down on Agentic AI and Multicloud Resilience Across the Confidence Platform
AvePoint unveiled major upgrades to its Confidence Platform, emphasizing agentic AI governance and multicloud resiliency. The new Rapid Recovery System shifts disaster recovery focus to restoring a Minimum Viable Company first, while expanding backup coverage to Azure PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB,...
An Oligarch’s Dystopian Scheme to Discredit Journalism with AI
A Peter Thiel‑backed startup, Objection AI, launched this month offering an AI‑driven "jury" that grades journalists with an "Honor Index" and arbitrates media disputes for a $2,000 fee. Founded by Aron D’Souza, the lawyer who led the Thiel‑funded Gawker lawsuit, the service blends...
AI Where It Matters: Why Apple Is Poised to Become the Invisible AI King
Apple is positioning itself as the "invisible AI" leader by embedding Google’s Gemini model into Siri for the upcoming iOS 27 release. Rather than chasing benchmark‑topping models, the company is betting on hyper‑personalized, behind‑the‑scenes AI that deepens its ecosystem moat. This...
Affinity Launches Model Context Protocol to Connect Relationship Intelligence to AI Tools for Private Capital
Affinity unveiled its hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP), linking its relationship‑intelligence CRM directly to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot. The protocol translates natural‑language queries into secure API calls, enabling private‑capital teams to retrieve, update, and annotate...
Digistore24 Rolls Out MCP Server, Enabling New Layer of AI-Powered Efficiency for Vendors, Affiliates
Digistore24 unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, letting vendors and affiliates link AI agents directly to the sales platform. The new layer enables AI tools such as Claude Desktop, Cursor and Windsurf to manage products, orders, campaigns and reporting...
Wrike Connects Governed AI To Enterprise Workflows, Now Available On OpenAI GPT Store
Wrike announced that its Managed Collaboration Platform (MCP) Server is now listed in the OpenAI GPT Store, enabling enterprise teams to connect ChatGPT directly to Wrike's Work Intelligence Graph. The integration offers OAuth‑secured, user‑scoped access with full audit trails, turning...
AI‑Driven Workforce Demands Immediate Lock‑In Cost Management
Any company that truly believes AI agents will be a significant part of their workforce in the future should be working overtime on the lock-in problem. Both the CTO & CFO should be having sleepless nights about x% of their workforce...
AI Poetry Mirrors Our Deep Human Need for Understanding
AI poetry reveals something deeper than technology. People are drawn to it not just for the words, but for the feeling of being understood and seen. The insight is simple. Even when the source is artificial, the need it reflects is entirely...
Syntax Launches AI-First Application Managed Services for SAP Solutions
Syntax introduced an AI‑First Application Managed Services (AMS) model to modernize support for SAP environments, covering ECC, S/4HANA, Cloud ERP and line‑of‑business apps. The platform embeds AI into ticket handling, delivering up to 40% reduction in support effort and about...
Ignorance Fuels AI Hate: We Fear What We Don't Understand
People love to hate what they do not understand. This explains at least some of the AI derision.
Big Tech AI Earnings Set to Surprise Tomorrow
Tomorrow $GOOGL $MSFT $AMZN and $META will flex their muscles and show higher than expected AI growth. The demand is very real and the receipts are printing. 👀🚀 https://t.co/F1QxBPuaqp
X Stop Guessing. Start Deciding with Precision.
Legal teams are adopting AI platforms that can review contracts in minutes, but the tools stop at flagging issues without prescribing actions. Recent RFPs and procurement failures reveal a missing “judgment layer” that defines who decides on high‑risk clauses and...
Apptronik Poaches Top Robot Talent Amid Growing War
The humanoid robot talent wars are heating up ... >> Apptronik Teases New Robot, Stacks C-Suite With Waymo, Boston Dynamics, Amazon Vets https://t.co/uPY9OnVW7O
Microsoft Backs Agent-to-Agent Protocol in New Framework
Glad to see Microsoft betting on the Agent-to-Agent Protocol for their v1 Agent Framework (Python/C#) ... https://t.co/3R39hl934s
DeepSeek-V4 Is Here. So Is Everybody Else.
DeepSeek released two new models—V4‑Pro (1.6 trillion total, 49 billion active) and V4‑Flash (284 billion total, 13 billion active)—instead of a single V4 offering. Pricing for V4‑Pro is markedly higher than the disruptive rates of V3, pushing effective costs to about $1.74 per million...
Ubuntu Prioritizes Hardware Support and Local‑First AI
I started to talk with teams building the leading OSes about how AI changes (or does not change) their roadmap and what their OS looks like. Ubuntu is one that feels very grounded: massive focus on hardware support (GPUs, NPUs, DPUs)...