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.
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Google AI Data Center to Position Vizag as Gateway for ‘Intelligence India’: Rakesh Bharti Mittal
Google, Adani ConneX and Bharti Airtel are jointly building a $15 billion AI‑ready data centre in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. The facility will deliver 1 GW of capacity across 600 acres and is designed to be self‑sustainable, leveraging 400 MW of renewable power. Officials say the hub will transform Vizag into a strategic gateway for India’s AI, Digital India and global connectivity initiatives. The foundation stone was laid by the state chief minister alongside senior government and corporate leaders, underscoring the project’s national importance.
Get Ready
At Learning Technologies 2026, chair Markus Bernhardt will explore practical AI agents that act on learners' behalf, while Kenny Temowo will discuss a shift toward learning culture focused on enablement over content. Both sessions probe what modern L&D teams must excel at—diagnosing...
Ecosystem Roundup: The Day Geopolitics Broke a Mega AI Deal
Meta’s planned $2‑3 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based AI startup Manus collapsed after China’s National Development and Reform Commission ordered a full unwind. The deal had progressed to integration, with roughly 100 Manus engineers already embedded in Meta’s teams. The intervention highlights...
Making AI Correct for Business and Trade
The UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is launching a programme to purge outdated GOV.UK pages that feed incorrect answers to generative AI tools. An audit uncovered 150 pages untouched for five years, prompting redirects, archives, or updated guidance—a...
The Nebula Series Starts Here
The Nebula series documents an experiment to codify a personal AI‑assisted development workflow into a reusable framework called nebula‑agents, then validate it with a real commercial property‑and‑casualty insurance CRM (nebula‑insurance‑crm). The framework defines agents, actions, roles, and validators in plain...
Infor Index Shows AI Ambition Outpacing ERP Readiness
Infor’s Enterprise AI Adoption Impact Index reveals a stark gap between AI ambition and operational readiness, with more than half of 1,000 surveyed executives stuck in early‑stage deployments despite 80% believing they have the internal capability to scale. The study...
Syspro Betting On AI to Activate Manufacturing ERP’s Future
Syspro is repositioning its manufacturing ERP as an AI‑powered decision engine, embedding intelligent agents directly into core workflows. The AI agents validate sales orders, monitor inventory and flag supply‑demand imbalances in real time, preventing downstream disruptions. Through its AI Studio...
OpenAI's Legal Fight with Elon Overshadows AGI Hype
New feed check issue: Elon vs. OpenAI goes to court, AGI doesn’t matter, China kills Manus, why an OpenAI phone makes sense, and more https://sources.news/p/openai-goes-to-court-elon-musk-agi-clause
Alan Turing Asked if Machines Could Think. We Asked if They Could Lie
Turing Space’s new product, Turing Verify, flips the classic Turing Test by asking whether a machine can spot AI‑generated documents masquerading as authentic credentials. Leveraging a forensic AI trained on 23,029 institutions in 206 countries, the system evaluates structure, metadata...
77% of Enterprise Leaders Say AI Skills Are Urgent—So Why Is Training Still an Afterthought?
A recent survey of 542 U.S. enterprise executives reveals a stark AI skills gap. While 77% consider AI literacy urgent and 63% deem it valuable across the workforce, only 7% have Learning & Development overseeing AI training, and most employees...
4 Ways to Automate Jasper with Zapier
The article outlines four practical ways to pair Jasper’s AI‑writing engine with Zapier’s workflow automation. It shows how marketers can auto‑generate blog drafts from a content calendar, create product descriptions for new eCommerce SKUs, summarize long‑form posts for multiple channels,...
OpenAI Goes to Court as AGI Loses Its Meaning
OpenAI is now a defendant in a high‑profile lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, with the trial taking place at a federal courthouse. The case centers on claims that OpenAI misused Musk’s early research and breached a non‑disclosure agreement, while the...
Publicis Groupe Hong Kong Adds Rhys Turner as Head of Creative Technology
Publicis Groupe Hong Kong has appointed Rhys Turner as its inaugural Head of Creative Technology, a role created to embed AI, data and innovation into the agency’s creative work. Turner, an Australian technologist with two decades of experience spanning agency,...
AI Governance: The Key to Growth for SA’s Financial Institutions
South Africa’s removal from the FATF grey list has restored regulatory confidence, creating a fertile environment for financial institutions to adopt advanced AI. The article argues that embedding robust AI governance frameworks is essential for safely deploying agentic AI in...
Redpine Raises €6.8m to Give AI Agents Access to Non-Public Data
Stockholm‑based Redpine closed a €6.8 million (≈$7.4 million) seed round led by NordicNinja, with Luminar Ventures and Node.vc participating. The startup offers an API that lets AI agents tap premium, non‑public data—especially scientific archives—through a pay‑per‑token model, positioning itself as a data‑licensing...
Why People Hate AI
The fashion industry is grappling with AI, from luxury brands like Prada facing consumer backlash over AI‑generated imagery to retailers such as Revolve betting on a “culture of AI” for growth. Pixel Moda showcases a human‑led model that creates 14 million...
Build AI Live in Meetings to Boost Team Engagement
An easy way to get a team engaged with AI is just to build the thing you are talking about in the meeting during the meeting using Codex or Claude Code. At worst, it fails in ways that can be constructive....
AI Predicts Surgery Risks, Cuts Postoperative Deaths
What could we expect from AI in surgery? TIME magazine has an article on 4 concrete examples and the lowest-hanging fruit. As more than 4 million people die within a month of surgery every year, postoperative mortality is the first example: "𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑤...
Why Manus Has Become a Crucial Prize in the Global AI Race
China has blocked Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI orchestration platform built by Butterfly Effect. The regulator argued the technology’s core DNA was created domestically, imposing export controls even after the company shifted part of its operations...
Chatbots Open the Door to State Government Access
State governments are accelerating AI‑driven citizen services, with Mississippi’s MISSI chatbot leading the way since 2017 and Indiana’s Ask Indiana now the default search tool on its portal. Less than a quarter of states have deployed AI chatbots at scale,...
Gen AI “Creative Destruction” In Hedge Funds: The Automation of Alpha and the Reinvention of the Investment Process:
The hedge fund industry is undergoing a "creative destruction" as generative AI moves from a thematic investment focus to a core operational engine. Large language models now automate idea generation, research, portfolio construction, trade execution, and risk monitoring, compressing cycles...
Adobe Relies on Firefly to Win over Creators
Adobe is betting on its generative AI platform Firefly to become the indispensable tool for modern creators, rolling out a high‑visibility campaign with top YouTubers such as Kinigra Deon and Airrack. The service now bundles audio generation, AI video editing,...
ChatGPT Polishes Emails, Claude Drives Creative Direction
Same prompt. 3 AI tools. Very different results. I asked Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude to create a premium Mother’s Day email for a fictional high-end women’s jewelry brand called DIMOND. Grok was fastest. Claude was slowest and gave me HTML first. ChatGPT landed somewhere in the...
Your LLM Issues Are Really Data Issues
In this episode, Ryan Donovan talks with Harsha Chintalapani, co‑founder and CTO of Collate, about why the biggest challenges facing LLMs in production are actually data problems. Harsha explains how issues like schema drift, ambiguous business definitions, data discovery, lineage,...
8 Benefits of AIOps for Business Automation
AIOps—artificial intelligence for IT operations—leverages machine‑learning to turn chaotic alert streams into actionable insights. By aggregating data from legacy servers, cloud services, SaaS tools, and shadow IT, it delivers end‑to‑end observability and automates root‑cause analysis. The technology reduces alert fatigue,...
Less Than 10% of Higher Education Has No Intention of Adopting AI
Ellucian’s latest AI survey shows that two‑thirds of U.S. higher‑education institutions now use artificial intelligence, up from 49% a year ago, while only 7% have no intention to adopt it. Eighty‑eight percent expect AI usage to rise over the next...
Claude Cowork Outshines Outlook Agent with Smoother Workflow
I have been playing with the new Outlook agent, and it is fine, but really awkward to use, since you have to ask for things in a chatbot window, then go to your drafts, etc. And Claude Cowork does the same...
Why Healthcare AI Still Can’t Scale — and How Nvidia & Hoppr Are Trying to Fix It
Healthcare AI adoption is hampered by deployment and scaling challenges, prompting Nvidia and Hoppr to pivot from building standalone models to creating an AI foundry infrastructure. The foundry leverages Nvidia’s computing power and pre‑trained foundation models, allowing hospitals and radiology...
Keep AI Agents Simple: Reliability over Super‑charged Complexity
OpenClaw/Hermes are unreliable when people try to make them an ‘all-in-one’ super agent. This is especially dangerous in a business environment. Imagine souping up your agent with the latest gadgets - the best skills, the best plugins, gBrain, the best configs,...
The Three Waves of the AI Token Economy: GPUs, Data Center Storage and Optical Modules, CPU
The post maps the AI token economy onto three industrial waves: first, NVIDIA GPUs supplied raw compute power; second, data‑center storage and high‑speed optical modules became essential for moving and persisting tokens; third, CPUs and the broader control‑plane ecosystem are...
Context Aware AI in the Workplace: Changing How Decisions Get Made
Context‑aware AI is shifting workplace decision‑making from manual information gathering to automated insight delivery. By grounding models in emails, documents, meetings and chat, tools like Microsoft Copilot, Slackbot and emerging AI agents surface relevant data and recommend actions. This reduces...
Your Next Hire Might Not Be Human, but Not Everyone Gets that Choice
AI agents are reshaping marketing, delivering 3‑5% annual productivity gains and accounting for more than 60% of AI‑generated value, according to McKinsey. The technology could add up to $4.4 trillion in global productivity, with marketing alone capturing roughly $463 billion. However, the...
How to Make AI Work for Britain: Consolidate Demand, Diversify Supply
The UK public sector is accelerating AI deployments but faces a “silent lock‑in” risk as fragmented procurement creates mismatched infrastructure and governance. Alan Brown’s new report, “Making AI work for Britain,” proposes a two‑pronged strategy—consolidate demand and diversify supply—to develop...
OpenAI Misses Revenue, User Targets As CFO Fears $1.5 Trillion In Commitments Can't Be Paid
OpenAI disclosed that it missed both its user‑growth and revenue targets for the latest quarter, prompting CFO Sarah Friar to warn that the company may not be able to honor its $1.5 trillion compute‑spending commitments. The shortfall has triggered board scrutiny...
Mindful Optimism: AI's Economic Impact Explored
I did this interview with Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly where we discussed some of the backstory on my lifelong quest to understand how AI is transforming the economy and why I'm a "mindful optimist". See first comment for the link.
AI‑crafted Fake Nurse Dupes Thousands, Exposing Trust Gaps
The "Emily Hart" story is wild. A medical student in India used AI to create this persona, a patriotic nurse, to grift thousands of people. Why do we fall for it?
Ambient Computing Is (Almost) Here, but Are We Ready for a Post-Product Era?
Ambient computing—technology that anticipates user needs and embeds intelligence in environments—is moving from niche IoT devices to a pervasive, post‑product ecosystem. The article outlines how sectors from FMCG to healthcare will shift from selling standalone products to orchestrating context‑aware services,...
Altman's AI Optimism Outpaces Influencer Adoption Lag
There will be a very long lag between when Sam Altman pivots from "AI will make you obsolete" to "AI will make you super productive", and when the "AI influencers" on this app execute a similar pivot.
White‑Label AI Chatbots Boost Engagement and ROI
Discover the advantages of white label AI chatbot solutions, allowing businesses to customize technology without starting from scratch. Learn how these tools can enhance customer engagement and drive ROI. https://t.co/9xdLIYNRYV
When Human in the Loop Becomes a Legal Fiction
Enterprises tout "human in the loop" as a safety net, but the phrase often masks a rubber‑stamp process that offers little real control. The article argues that true oversight requires three elements—context, authority, and tolerance for delay—and warns that without...
Anti‑AI Stance: Elite Luxury, Not Everyday Reality
Actual anti-AI energy is the newest instance of @robkhenderson’s “luxury beliefs” — a small fringe of elites playing at radical politics. For normal people, AI is a useful app on their phone, and they’ll just use it more and more.
Survey Answers Lie; People Actually Use AI
It won’t happen. People say all kinds of things in surveys. Watch what they do instead. And what they do is… use AI.
Seoul Viosys Gearing Up for $60B AI Data Center Optical Communications Market
Seoul Viosys is leveraging its proprietary “No‑wire, No‑package” patents and recent VCSEL acquisition to enter the fast‑growing AI‑driven data‑center optical market, estimated at $60 billion. The company has completed a 100 G (25 G×4) transceiver design and is shifting from component supply to...
AI: Our Best Bet to Beat Aging
AI is likely the only hope we have to solving aging. In fact, it is the opposite of David’s paint analogy.
OpenAI May End Up as AI’s WeWork
When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI.
Microsoft, OpenAI Change Contract Terms — Again
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a revised partnership that drops the exclusivity clause and changes revenue‑sharing terms. OpenAI can now deliver its models on any cloud, while Microsoft retains a non‑exclusive license to the IP through 2032 and will no longer...
AI Boosts Food Supply Through Safer, Efficient Agriculture
Everybody eats. Improving our food supply and safer more efficient agriculture is one of tue most direct ways for AI to help people
AI Robot Enhances Guest Experience with Real-Time Guidance
#AI Meets Hospitality: Realbotix #Robot Greets and Guides Visitors by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/h3IhbYiWo7
Foundry Powers Durable, Stateful Agents for Continuous Workflows
Great example of what Foundry enables: durable, stateful agents that run across time boundaries, orchestrate tools and models, and close the loop with evaluation and improvement over long-running workflows. @jeffhollan https://t.co/v0yWTDIcn3
Claude Needs 15 Minutes to Convert HTML Into PDF
This cant be true. It takes Claude 15 minutes to convert an HTML to a pdf.