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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How to Build an AI Company Now
Raffael Marty argues that AI‑first companies must build the backend before the UI. The data layer, ontology, APIs, and token‑efficient architecture form the durable moat, while front‑ends become thin, self‑serve interfaces. Treating token usage as a product decision, not just an infrastructure metric, ensures low cost and scalability. Companies that shift focus from dashboards to headless backends can reduce engineering overhead and accelerate feature rollout.
Codex Can Now Work On Your Other Computer
OpenAI’s Codex now supports remote connections, allowing the AI to operate directly on a project hosted on another machine via SSH. Developers can keep code on a Mac Mini, server, or cloud instance without transferring files to a local workstation....
Trillion‑parameter Ling‑2.6 Shatters Cost‑performance Myth
Excited to see @AntLingAGI release Ling-2.6-1T, a 1 trillion parameter model that delivers state-of-the-art performance across SWE-Bench, AIME 2026, TAU2-Bench, and BFCL while maintaining exceptional efficiency. This represents a meaningful step forward in scalable, high-performance agentic AI. By achieving superior results with...
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Is Here, and It's No Potato: Narrowly Beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.5, a redesign focused on agentic computer use and coding, positioning it as the most capable publicly available large language model. The model outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview on the Terminal‑Bench 2.0 benchmark (82.7% vs 82.0%) and surpassed...
Claim Clarity on the Role of Specialized AI in Advancing Workers’ Compensation Decision Precision
Claim Clarity, a workers’ compensation AI specialist, says domain‑specific AI can speed and sharpen claim decisions. Providers spent over $25 billion on claim adjudication in 2023, with nearly 70% of denied claims eventually approved after multiple reviews, highlighting inefficiencies. AI adoption...
GPT‑5.5 Pricing Doubles to $5/$30 per Million Tokens
I didn't had this on my binfo card... gpt-5.5 is a ~2x price increase from 5.4: "For API developers, gpt-5.5 will soon be available in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M...
At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
Stanford’s CS 153 class, nicknamed “AI Coachella,” has become a viral campus phenomenon, drawing thousands of students eager to learn from Silicon Valley’s top CEOs. The course’s star‑studded guest lineup mirrors the music festival’s hype, turning a technical class into a...
Iterative AI Deployment Democratizes Safety and Innovation
1. We believe in iterative deployment; although GPT-5.5 is already a smart model, we expect rapid improvements. Iterative deployment is a big part of our safety strategy; we believe the world will be best equipped to win at the team...
U.S. Marine Corps Just Tested a Self-Driving Artillery Platform
Overland AI integrated its OverDrive autonomy stack and SPARK sensor kit onto the Marine Corps ROGUE Fires platform, completing a multi‑hour, fully autonomous demonstration in April 2026. The unmanned ground vehicle navigated mixed, GPS‑denied terrain without human input and performed manned‑unmanned...
Anthropic Mythos - We’ve Opened Pandora's Box
Anthropic’s Mythos AI system has automatically discovered thousands of zero‑day vulnerabilities, many of which were previously known only to nation‑state actors. By turning sophisticated exploits into low‑skill, script‑kiddie‑ready tools, Mythos shifts the cyber‑security balance toward attackers. The article warns that...
AI Learns From Millions of Genomes, Not Text
What if you could train a ChatGPT-style AI not on text from the internet, but on millions of genomes across all of life? Samuel King has spent his @Stanford PhD building exactly that. He'll be on the "Genome as a Canvas" panel...
New Pareto Frontiers: Massive Context, Speed, and Benchmark Gains
looks like new Pareto frontiers across everything: - Context: 400K context in Codex and a 1M in API - API Pricing: $5/m input and $30/m output tokens. - Codex improved its own inference speed 20% lol - First generation...
Mythos Is a Wake-Up Call for DDoS Defense
Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos can autonomously identify software flaws and craft exploits, prompting an emergency meeting of top bank executives with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The regulator‑level concern centers on AI‑driven attackers accelerating vulnerability...
Vision Banana Exposes AI's Shortcut-Driven Visual Misunderstandings
Vision Banana: Rethinking How AI Models See and Generalize In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore Vision Banana, a concept that challenges how vision models learn and generalize from visual data. Instead of focusing purely on performance...
Nvidia Offers Free Access to 80+ AI Models
HOW IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS? @nvidia is quietly giving away free API access to 80+ top-tier AI models, via API and for FREE 🤯 You can instantly use models like MiniMax, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS and others, all through an...
Hospitality Ranks Least Prepared for AI as Workforce Gaps Widen
A 2026 Resume Now analysis finds hospitality is the least AI‑ready industry, trailing healthcare, financial services and logistics. The report highlights a widening skills gap as AI tools are deployed faster than frontline workers can be trained. Automation is reshaping scheduling...
Prune Idle Session History to Cut Resume Costs
Hmm @AnthropicAI or knowledgeable users, does "full" here mean "including pre-resumption"? >The design should have been simple: if a session has been idle for more than an hour, we could reduce users’ cost of resuming that session by clearing old thinking...
Anthropic PMs Ship in Days, Hire Introspective AI Talent
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else I sat down with @_catwu, Head of Product for Claude Code at @AnthropicAI, to get a peek into their unprecedented shipping pace, how AI is changing the PM role, and how to...
GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
Researchers from William & Mary, Jefferson Lab, and Silicon Data analyzed 3,500 GPUs across 11 cloud providers and found substantial performance variability even among identical models. The study, using the SiliconMark benchmark, showed up to a 34.5% difference in 16‑bit...
Veteran Developer Criticizes Slow Issue Resolution at Anthropic
Mfers were telling me its a skills and prompt issue. You all look super silly right now. 25 years developing, I know what I'm doing - finally acknowledged. I'm glad they are trying to address this, but a month to...
AWS Bets on Frontier Agents as the Next Era of Enterprise AI
AWS unveiled its "frontier agents" strategy at the London Summit, positioning autonomous AI systems as a new class capable of completing complex, multi‑day tasks without human oversight. The company highlighted Kiro, an agentic development platform that writes code from natural‑language...
GPT‑5.5 Adds Personality, Cuts Token Costs for Agents
GPT-5.5 just dropped, I’ve been testing it for the last two weeks. tl;dr - It’s an incredible model, but there’s something different about this launch… OpenAI isn’t just going for raw intelligence. They’ve improved the personality of the model. This is almost...
An AI Agent Just Designed a Complete RISC-V CPU From Scratch in 12 Hours
Verkor.io’s agentic AI system, Design Conductor, generated a complete RISC‑V CPU core—named VerCore—in just 12 hours, moving from a 219‑word specification to a GDSII layout ready for fabrication. The five‑stage, in‑order design runs at 1.48 GHz and achieved a CoreMark score...
Google Meet Can Now Take Notes During In-Person Meetings Too
Google Meet has expanded its AI‑powered "Take Notes for me" feature to cover live, in‑person meetings. Powered by Gemini, the tool records audio, generates real‑time transcription, and compiles a summary that is saved automatically as a Google Doc. The capability,...
I Tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini on the Same Task. ChatGPT Finished Last.
A productivity blogger tested three leading large language models—Claude Sonnet 4.5, ChatGPT 5.2, and Gemini 3.0—on a weekly meeting‑transcript summarization workflow. Using identical prompts and data, Gemini produced the most comprehensive insights, uncovering patterns the author missed, while Claude was...
AI-Driven System Intelligence Unlocks Hidden Data Center Efficiency
For years, the assumption has been simple: better hardware would drive efficiency. Christopher Wellise (@cwellise) no longer believes that. The real gains are coming from systems intelligence and from AI uncovering efficiencies inside infrastructure we already thought was optimized. That 9% efficiency...
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive Into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
Google unveiled Veo, a high‑fidelity 1080p video generation model that leverages latent diffusion in a 3‑D latent space, and paired it with Gemini, its multimodal reasoning engine, to act as a cinematic director. The integration, accessible through Vertex AI, lets Gemini...
AI, Brand Safety’s Frenemy | Behind the Numbers
In this episode, Marcus talks with UK analyst Bill Fisher and US AI expert Jacob about the surge of AI‑generated "slop" on platforms like YouTube and its impact on brand safety. They highlight how AI content now makes up roughly...
An Update on Recent Claude Code Quality Reports
Anthropic identified three separate changes that temporarily degraded Claude Code's performance and fixed them by April 20. The first was a March 4 switch of the default reasoning effort from high to medium, which reduced intelligence and was reverted on April 7. A...
Silicon Valley Showdown: Narrative Power Trumps Money
WWE of Silicon Valley — Elon / OpenAI Trial is about Narrative Power, Not Money
AI Threatens Our Inner Authorship and Cognitive Friction
🧵 1/2. 🚨 The internet reshaped the world around us. 🚨AI is reshaping the world within us. 👉It doesn’t just speed up thought—it can erode the friction and authorship that forge real cognition. My new article on the “unintended self” and what we...
Astera Labs Leads SMRF’s 21% Gain on AI Infrastructure
The ALPS Nautilus SMR, Nuclear & Technology ETF (SMRF) posted a 21.3% gain since March, outpacing all other ALPS funds as AI‑infrastructure spending surged. Astera Labs led the rally, jumping 77% on soaring demand for high‑speed connectivity chips that keep...
1H 2026 SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors: Connected Solutions and New AI-First Capabilities
SAP announced the first‑half 2026 release of SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors, adding AI‑first recruiting tools and tighter integration with the SAP HCM suite. The update introduces AI‑driven candidate matching, automated interview scheduling, and a new API marketplace for third‑party extensions....
Expert Advice on Turning AI Future Into Action
There have been an awful lot of "AI is the future" posts recently. And yes, it IS the future. But knowing that and knowing what to do about it are two very different things. So who better to ask than...
OpenAI Launches GPT 5.5: Redefining Computer Work
JUST IN: OpenAI releases GPT 5.5 calling it "a new way of getting computer work done"
The First Hurdle Is the Hardest in Generative AI Adoption – and Businesses Keep Falling
AWS’s UK‑focused study shows enterprises are adopting generative AI faster than their European peers, yet only 24% have reached an advanced AI stage in 2026 – a modest 1‑point rise from the previous year. While 68% of employees report productivity...
Anthropic Copies OpenAI's Generic Limit‑reset Apologies
Never going to hit my usage limits what with Anthropic now imitating OpenAI in 'we apologize and reset all users' limits' as a first-line customer service response to issues
Investors Reveal 2026 Drivers of Agentic AI Funding
Missed our agentic AI webinar? 👀 Investors from @NEA, @DellTechCapital, & @645ventures broke down what's actually driving agentic AI investment in 2026. Watch the full recording. 👇 https://t.co/U9o5Dvde7t https://t.co/C4BtnSkGnh
How I Solved for Data Validation with AI
During a company hack week, an analytics engineering team tackled the persistent problem of validating data changes introduced by AI‑driven code refactoring. Using Claude Code, they built an AI skill that automatically opens a GitHub pull request and launches a...
Testing the New GPT-5.5 over the Next Three Days
Well, there goes my next 3 days… GPT-5.5 is here. Time to put it to the test.
AI Democratizes Building; Moat Now Is Context and Trust
RT If everyone can build with AI, why buy? Because the new moat isn't code. It's context, domain expertise, and earned customer trust. #CIO #DigitalTransformation @Star_CIO https://t.co/QCJX9x5Zwh
Ecommerce Trends: AI’s Key Conversion Metric Is Improving
Adobe Digital Insights reports that AI‑driven traffic to North American retailers converted 42% more often than non‑AI traffic in March 2026, overturning a year‑earlier deficit. AI‑referenced visits surged 393% year‑over‑year, while visitors stayed 48% longer, viewed 13% more pages and...
AI's Noisy Market Needs a Trusted Review Intern
i low-key need an intern whose only job is trying every random AI product launch and writing up what’s actually good. there is remarkable stuff shipping right now. it is just buried under an insane amount of noise. big opportunity to build...
GenAI Is Reshaping Consulting: Tasks Displaced or Accelerated
#CIOChat Q1: GenAI can clearly now draft decks, analyze markets, map processes, even propose architectures. Where are you already seeing consulting work getting displaced or compressed by AI? What’s actually gone vs. just faster? https://t.co/3nFFOrCofT
Weekly Reset at 11 Am PT Frustrates $1K Spend
usage resets at 11am PT every Thursday anyway? and frustrating after spending like 1k on claude this week
AI Will Widen Labor‑Capital Gap, Spark Chaos
“AI is going to increase inequality between labour and capital. That is almost for sure. I would say it is setting us up for a . . . shitshow.” @DAcemogluMIT @FT https://t.co/yIw3ipP3Cl
AI Advisory Cuts Corporate Insurance Costs by 30%
Huscarl (https://t.co/CutB1JCSro) is an AI-native advisory firm for corporations buying insurance, helping them save 30% on annual premiums with zero downside. https://t.co/zx4aMlJQoj https://t.co/jieNr8zu6n
Google Cloud Showcases AI Agentic Apps at Next 2026
Richard Seroter, @rseroter, Chief Evenangenist, Google Cloud and Emma Twersky, @twerske, Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud kickoff series of demo which will showcase various parts of Google Cloud 🌧️ platform for building AI based agentic applications, during #GoogleCloudNext 2026 Developer...
Governments Cede AI Power to Wealthy Tech Elite
Governments are so in awe of tech bros' tales about the AI future "that they have given them a free pass to do... whatever they want" leading to a big "transfer of power away from the state" to...
HR Overlooks AI’s Real Impact on Workforce
HR´s blind spot in assessing the impact of AI https://t.co/nntpfcj1lN #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR