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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DeSantis Pressures House to Pass AI Bill of Rights, References FSU Shooting
Governor Ron DeSantis is pressuring the Florida House to pass the state’s AI Bill of Rights during a special legislative session, citing the recent Florida State University shooting allegedly facilitated by ChatGPT. The Senate already approved the sweeping bill, which would ban AI chatbots from interacting with minors without parental consent, require frequent human‑identity disclosures, and impose $50,000 fines for non‑compliance. The push follows a criminal investigation launched by Attorney General James Uthmeier into OpenAI’s role in the shooting. The measure is set to be refiled next week after stalling in the regular session.
AI Sycophancy Could Be More Insidious than Social Media Filter Bubbles
AI chatbots are increasingly adopting a sycophantic tone—offering praise and soft‑spoken corrections—to keep users engaged, mirroring the endless‑scroll tactics of social platforms. The behavior stems from reinforcement learning with human feedback, where reviewers reward responses that feel supportive, even if...
Jump Expands Leadership Team to Accelerate Next Phase of AI Operating System Growth
Jump, the AI operating system for financial advisors, announced four senior hires to accelerate product, customer experience, and partnership growth. The moves follow a $80 million Series B round that brings total capital to $105 million. Jump’s platform, now used by over 30,000...
AI Neckband Lets You Talk without Saying a Word
Scientists at South Korea’s POSTECH have created a silicone neckband that captures subtle neck‑skin movements while a user mouths words and converts them into speech in the wearer’s own voice. The device blends a multiaxial strain‑mapping sensor, a tiny camera...
Microsoft Gives Your Word Documents an AI Co-Author You Didn’t Ask For
Microsoft has moved its Copilot from a suggestion tool to an "agentic" assistant that can directly edit documents, spreadsheets, and slides in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new capability is enabled by default but requires users to activate it through...
Businesses Must Move Beyond AI Hype to Real Value
At the ITWeb AI Summit, TransUnion Africa CEO Lee Naik warned South African firms that AI hype must give way to measurable outcomes, trusted governance, and scalable delivery. He labeled many pilot projects “zombie pilots” that drain budgets without ROI....
Biossil Exits Stealth with $70 Million USD to Give Failed Medicines a Second Chance
Toronto‑based biotech Biossil has emerged from stealth after raising roughly $70 million in equity from investors including OpenAI and Founders Fund. The company leverages an AI platform to spot abandoned drug candidates, then licenses or purchases them to fast‑track development. It...
AI Potential Outpaces Adoption by Fivefold, Gap Likely Smaller
Based on an analysis of AI tools, the MIT Iceberg Index estimates ~11.7% of tasks could be done by AI vs actual adoption of ~2.2% (in terms of wage value). That suggests AI deployment is lagging what's possible by 5x. But...
Beyond Clicks: 3‑layer Framework for AI Search Success
📊 A 3 Layer Framework to Measure AI Presence, Readiness and Business Impact: Redefining Metrics for the AI Search Era - A new guide where I cover: How the old organic search measurement model, built largely around rankings, clicks, and sessions,...
Almanac Health Launches with $10M to Scale Research-Validated Clinical AI for Point-of-Care Support
Almanac Health announced a $10 million seed round, bringing total funding to nearly $12 million, led by F‑Prime with participation from General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Founded by Stanford physician‑researcher Cyril Zakka, the company commercializes a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) system that...
Choosing Between MCPs, CLIs, Skills, and Plugins
Confused by MCPs vs CLIs? Skills vs Plugins? You’re not alone. Having worked directly with all 4 teams, I break down: - Pros & cons of each protocol - When & where to use them - How to combine them...
Talking to AI Agents Is One Thing — What About when They Talk to Each Other? New Startup BAND Debuts...
BAND, a startup founded by former Israeli intelligence veterans, emerged from stealth with a $17 million seed round to tackle the growing fragmentation of generative‑AI agents. The company introduces a deterministic "agentic mesh" that lets autonomous agents built on different frameworks—LangChain,...
AI Is Making Cyberattacks on Local Governments Easier than Ever
Artificial intelligence is accelerating cyberattacks on local governments, with a 42% rise in incidents reported in 2025, according to Motorola Solutions. Experts say AI tools now generate attack code and bypass traditional safeguards like MFA and captchas, making breaches easier...
CVPR 2026 Showcases How AI Is Powering the Next Era of Robotics Innovation
The 2026 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Denver will spotlight AI‑driven robotics breakthroughs, featuring an Embodied AI workshop and the ManipArena manipulation challenge. More than 75% of the expo floor will be occupied by leading AI and robotics...
Equinix's AI Discovery Hub Set to Accelerate AI Deployment in Hong Kong
Equinix has teamed with HPE to launch an AI Discovery Hub in Hong Kong, providing an open testing environment that blends Equinix’s AI‑ready interconnection fabric with HPE’s AI factory‑at‑scale and Nvidia’s GPU stack. Hosted in the liquid‑cooled HK6 facility, the hub...
Interview: Boldyn Tech Expert Tips AI-RAN to Boost Private 5G
Boldyn Networks CTO Andy Conway says AI‑RAN is moving from hype to deployment, especially in its neutral‑host private 5G portfolio. The company has installed more than 130 mission‑critical private 5G sites across the US and Europe, ranging from nuclear plants...
Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters
In this episode, investor Martin Shkreli discusses the shifting economics of AI, contrasting OpenAI’s enterprise monetization strategy with Anthropic’s high‑price model, and argues that the real value now lies in capturing revenue rather than pure model performance. He pivots to...
Datadog Digs Down Into GPU Efficiency as AI Costs Soar
Datadog has integrated GPU monitoring into its observability platform as AI workloads drive up cloud compute costs. The vendor reports GPUs now account for 14% of cloud spend, and IDC forecasts AI infrastructure spending reached $89.9 billion in Q4 2025, up 62%...
ML Model Builders Must Expand Beyond Pure Modeling
If your job is "I make the ML model", your job is cooked. You need to become more than that. This is how:
Clinch Brings AI-Driven Creative Personalisation to Pause Ads Through OpenGlass Partnership
Clinch and OpenGlass have certified Clinch’s ad‑serving tags for pause‑ad formats across major CTV publishers such as Paramount, Tubi, and Plex, enabling AI‑driven creative personalization in real time. The integration collapses the historically fragmented, publisher‑by‑publisher workflow into a single tag...
Build Invisible UIs: Prioritize Agent-First Interfaces
we've spent years trying to get people off of ramp. cards that enforce policy without a portal. receipts via text. memos and categorizations generated in the background. the best experience of ramp has always been the one you don't see. the...
AI Clones Top Recruiters, Delivering Hires 10x Faster
Asendia AI builds AI recruiters for staffing agencies and enterprise companies. It clones their best recruiters into AI agents that match, screen, and submit candidates 10x faster. Congrats on the launch, @LajmiRihab and @zormati_ba! https://t.co/2OHkrmBGLx https://t.co/I8j0pjHDKm
UK Firms Move Beyond AI Experimentation as Measurable Results Emerge in the Project Economy
UK architecture, engineering and consulting firms are moving from AI pilots to operational use, according to Deltek’s 7th Annual Clarity Trends report. Nearly one‑third (29%) now prioritize AI optimisation, and almost half report productivity or cost gains, with 12% seeing...
Winning with AI Requires Critical Thinking, Not More Agents
AI Agents are surging. So is Critical Thinking. Not a coincidence. Organizations winning at AI aren't the ones with the most agents. They're the ones who know exactly what to ask them. Critical thinking is becoming the rarest skill on the floor.
Google Cloud & DeepMind Bet Big on Voice Interactions
IMO: It's very interesting to see the approach that @GoogleCloud and the DeepMind team is taking with voice interactions. Very different from the classic #CCaaS approach. The DeepMind team is "very bullish" on voice interactions. #CIO #CMO #CX #Cloud #AI #GoogleCloudNext
Reverse Image Search Explained: How It Works and How You Can Build It
The article walks readers through building a reverse image search engine using Qdrant, an open‑source vector database, to locate celebrity faces. It explains core concepts such as image embeddings, vector dimensionality, and similarity metrics—particularly cosine similarity. Step‑by‑step code snippets show...
Exploring Customer Acceleration with DeepMind on Google Cloud
Next up... a deep dive discussion about customer acceleration and DeepMind. #CIO #AI #Cloud #DeepMind #GoogleCloudNext @googlecloud https://t.co/eJ00fv7RSm
Live AI Workflow Demo: Repurposing Content with Claude
Doing an AI “show and tell” of one of my @claudeai content repurposing workflows on @superpathco at 11 CDT, come hang 👀
EP 22: Ryan Eisenman on AI Meets Private Markets - Optimizing the Investor Experience and Decision-Making
In this episode, Ryan Eisenman, co‑founder and CEO of Arch, explains how private‑market investors still juggle dozens of disparate portals and paper‑heavy processes, a problem public‑market platforms have already solved. Arch’s fintech solution consolidates private equity, credit, hedge fund and...
Tesla AI Strategy and Q1 Highlights on BBC
Great to be on @BBCWorld with @BenThompsonTV discussing Tesla’s AI Path and the 1Q takeaways 🎯🍿🐂📺 @BBCBreaking @BBCNews https://t.co/mdJQBGacLU
Stop Over‑crafting Prompts; Learn to Work with AI
If you're still trying to craft the perfect prompt for your favorite generative AI chatbot, you're doing it all wrong. Here's how to properly work with generative AI to get the best results and also have the most fun: https://t.co/xG88ex2ZOD...
AI-Written Software Creates Hassles for Wary Security Teams
A ProjectDiscovery report finds AI‑generated code is overwhelming security teams. Only 38% of practitioners feel they can keep up, while 60% say the workload is getting harder. Main concerns are corporate secret leakage, supply‑chain risk, and business‑logic vulnerabilities. Security teams...
How AI Orchestration Is Reshaping Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is undergoing a shift as agentic AI moves from chat‑based assistance to cross‑system orchestration. Human agents currently navigate 4‑10 applications per interaction, inflating costs and causing burnout. Gartner predicts 33% of enterprise apps will embed agentic AI by...
Building Apprentice Pathways for Tomorrow's AI Workforce
I hope you can join me at tomorrow's discussion - Tomorrow's Workforce: Apprentice Pathways for the AI-Driven Organization https://t.co/znyc8k1HIp #AI https://t.co/H115SjcJ9N
Google Cloud Accelerates Agentic AI with Analyst Q&A
Here we go... Analyst Q&A with @ThomasOrTK. These Q&A sessions are one of the hottest tickets. @GoogleCloud is making significant inroads leverage their expertise in cloud into the agentic AI space...and beyond. #CIO #CX #AI #Cloud #GoogleCloudNext https://t.co/hthasip7UW
EU Watchdog Eyes Google Agentic
Google announced that AI now writes 75% of its new code, up from 50% last fall, and its Gemini models process more than 16 billion tokens per minute via customer APIs. At the Cloud Next 2026 event, the company unveiled dual‑chip...
Antithesis Teaches AIs To Correct Their Own Output
Antithesis, a software verification startup, unveiled tools that let AI coding agents automatically detect and fix their own code errors. The new suite operates without human intervention, alerting developers only when an issue cannot be resolved and offering remediation suggestions....
Local LLMs Won’t Need 16GB VRAM—Use Cloud
By end of next year. End of year after for 16gb vram. Do folk really need more for most things? Not really. But just call the cloud models when you do.
Backed by Redesign Health, Gravity Rail Launches with $2.75M to Provide No-Code AI Operating System for Healthcare
Gravity Rail, backed by Redesign Health, launched with a $2.75 million seed round. The no‑code AI operating system lets healthcare teams build, certify, and run AI engagement workflows across voice, SMS, email and web without programming. Early adopters reported a 30%...
Every AI Future Proofing Guide Misses This (8 Prompts)
The "Every AI Future Proofing Guide Misses This" post argues that most AI advice focuses on supply‑side skills while ignoring demand‑side risk. It introduces an eight‑prompt audit that examines who pays you, who pays your payers, and what happens to...
Inside the Grammys’ Anthropic Experiment: How In‑house AI Is Rewriting Workforce Rules
The Recording Academy is piloting an in‑house version of Anthropic’s Claude AI with about 20 senior leaders to formalize AI usage and boost productivity. Executive backing has accelerated the shift from ad‑hoc tools like ChatGPT to a governed internal platform,...
Joget Introduces AI Composer for Conversational Enterprise App Composition with Built-In Governance
Joget Inc. has launched Joget AI Composer, a conversational AI layer inside its Joget DX low‑code platform that lets developers and business users build or modify enterprise apps using natural‑language prompts. Unlike typical AI code generators, the tool creates governed...
AI Displays Bias when Judging People, and that Matters for some of Its Most Common Uses
Researchers at Hebrew University examined how large language models judge people, finding that AI systems emulate human notions of competence, integrity and benevolence but do so with rigid, component‑based scoring. Using 43,000 simulated decisions and nearly 1,000 human participants, the...
UnitQ Launches AI Quality Intelligence Platform to Close the Gap Between Customer Experience and Business Outcomes
unitQ unveiled an AI‑driven Quality Intelligence platform that consolidates six specialized products into a single system, turning every customer signal into real‑time business insight. The platform links feedback directly to revenue, retention and risk metrics, replacing fragmented point solutions with...
Contextual Lock‑in Gives Google Workspace AI a Competitive Edge
. @GoogleWorkspace Intelligence announcement is really a strategic argument: context beats capability, and the suite that knows your projects, your stakeholders, and your history becomes harder to leave. No outside model can replicate what it has accumulated. That is the...
The Agentforce Life Sciences Consultant Certification
Salesforce introduced the Certified Agentforce Life Sciences Consultant exam, a Spring ’26‑aligned credential that validates expertise in building AI‑driven, compliant solutions for pharma, biotech and MedTech firms. The 60‑question, 105‑minute test costs $200 (≈¥30,000) and requires a 62% passing score,...
Genie Lessons: Nobody Wants Agents
In this improvisational episode, the host celebrates the launch of Intent, a next‑generation AI‑powered coding assistant from sponsor Augment Code, and uses it to build a readable Adaptive Radix Tree implementation in Go. He contrasts modern AI agents with traditional...
Morpho Agents - DeFi Lending Built for Machines
Morpho launched a beta suite called Morpho Agents on April 8, delivering a command‑line interface and a knowledge‑base Builder for AI agents to interact with its DeFi lending platform. The tools give agents read, simulate, and write access across Ethereum...
Andrej Karpathy’s AutoResearch Explained
Andrej Karpathy’s AutoResearch framework automates the entire machine‑learning experiment loop—writing code, running training, evaluating results, and deciding the next step—without human intervention between stages. Built to run on a single GPU, it lets individual researchers or small teams launch continuous...
Sean Duffy Wants $10 Billion For AI Air Traffic Control Software
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked Congress for an additional $10 billion to modernize U.S. air‑traffic‑control infrastructure, with a focus on AI‑driven scheduling software. The request trims his earlier $19 billion ask but builds on the $12.5 billion already allocated under the Trump administration....