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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Meta Announces $1 Billion AI Data Center in Tulsa with Water Sustainability Goals
Meta announced a $1 billion AI‑enabled data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, covering two million square feet. The campus will host up to 1.5 GW of clean‑energy capacity and will consume significant water for cooling. To offset this, Meta partnered with PhyTech to restore more water than the facility uses, targeting over 50 million gallons saved annually. Construction will be led by Fortis Construction, with a 10‑year water‑stewardship collaboration.
A Guide to AI Summarization: How It Works and Tools for 2026
AI summarization tools transform how teams handle information overload by condensing text, audio, and video into concise, actionable summaries. The guide explains the two main approaches—extractive, which pulls key sentences, and abstractive, which rewrites content in new language—and outlines when...
The Data Center Surge Is Here; So Is Wildfire Season
U.S. data centers are projected to consume up to 580 TWh of electricity by 2028, dramatically increasing load on an aging utility grid. Simultaneously, about 180 million wooden utility poles are vulnerable to failure and wildfire ignition as climate stressors intensify. Composite...
SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea
Elon Musk has championed orbital AI data centers as a low‑cost, solar‑powered solution, but SpaceX’s recent pre‑IPO filing admits the concept is still unproven and may never be commercially viable. The plan envisions up to one million satellite‑sized servers launched...
The AI Therapy Crisis: Why the AMA Is Urging Congress to Regulate Mental Health Chatbots
The American Medical Association has written to the Congressional AI and Digital Health Caucuses urging lawmakers to impose strict regulations on mental‑health chatbots. While acknowledging AI’s potential to broaden access to care, the AMA warns that unregulated bots can encourage...
SD Times News in Brief
Gitar, a developer‑infrastructure startup, unveiled an AI‑driven code‑validation platform that automates pull‑request reviews, root‑cause analysis, and fix suggestions, integrating with GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, and CircleCI. The tool aims to replace manual quality gates that can’t scale with the surge...
America’s AI Governance Gap Needs Independent Oversight
The United States faces a widening gap between rapid AI development and slow governmental oversight, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to hostile exploitation. Amber D. Miller argues that independent civil‑society institutions are essential to bridge the divide between Pentagon demands and...
ChatGPT Workspace Agents Automate Team Tasks in Cloud
New from OpenAI -> Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT "Workspace agents are an evolution of GPTs. Powered by Codex, they can take on many of the tasks people already do at work—from preparing reports, to writing code, to responding...
Seedance 2.0 Delivers Ultra‑Realistic AI UGC Ads
How I Make (insanely) Realistic AI UGC ads with Seedance 2.0 WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/WXdgLmQEox In this video, I show you how I use Seedance 2 to create insanely realistic AI UGC ads for dropshipping. The biggest game changer is the...
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Here’s What Actually Works Now.
The article argues that traditional prompt engineering is obsolete and has been replaced by context engineering, where supplying the right details is key. Modern AI models understand natural language, but they still suffer when overloaded with irrelevant data, causing accuracy...
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
A Wired senior writer recounts five recent encounters with AI‑generated scams that were sophisticated enough to fool him at first glance. The models produced phishing emails, fake invoices, and social‑media impersonations that mimicked human tone and branding with uncanny accuracy....
Google Unveils Two New AI Chips For the 'Agentic Era'
Google unveiled two new Tensor Processing Units—one dedicated to training and another to inference—targeting what it calls the "agentic era" of AI. The training TPU promises 2.8 times the performance of the seventh‑generation Ironwood chip at the same price, while the...
Ulta Partners With Google Gemini To Power Agentic AI For Beauty Shoppers
Ulta Beauty has teamed with Google to embed the Gemini generative‑AI model into its website, mobile app, and product listings across Google Search, Shopping, YouTube, Lens and the Gemini discovery platform. The partnership leverages Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, allowing shoppers...
Roo Code Pivots to Cloud-Based Agent, Says IDEs Aren’t the Future of Coding
Roo Code announced it will shut down its VS Code extension, Cloud, and Router services on May 15, 2026, pivoting to a standalone cloud‑based coding agent called Roomote. Roomote runs end‑to‑end tasks across Slack, GitHub and Linear, generating, testing and delivering pull‑requests without...
Neurotechnology Spinoff SkyBiometry Launches AI Infrastructure Suite
Lithuania‑based SkyBiometry, a Neurotechnology spinoff, unveiled an AI Factory and a full‑stack infrastructure suite that combines GPU‑rich hardware, private bare‑metal clouds, and managed Kubernetes orchestration. The offering is designed to accelerate large language model training, generative AI, and computer‑vision projects...
Guest Post: The Intake Form Is Dead. Long Live the Template.
Legal AI is moving beyond drafting assistance to automate the intake stage of contract workflows. Traditional long intake forms and manual data extraction are being replaced by AI that parses emails, term sheets, and meeting notes, then populates structured fields...
Autodesk Announces Fusion MCP Servers and More AI Updates
Autodesk announced that its AI‑powered Autodesk Assistant is now live across Fusion, Inventor, Moldflow and Vault, expanding from a simple chatbot to a task‑orchestrating tool. The company also launched AI rendering in Fusion, granting commercial subscribers 20 photorealistic image generations...
Client Alert: The White House Makes a Cyber and AI Policy Push
In March 2026 the White House issued a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence and a Cyber Strategy, signaling a coordinated federal push to shape AI and cybersecurity policy. Both documents favor industry‑led standards and “common‑sense” regulation over new prescriptive...
Google Brings Auto Browse and Skills to Chrome Enterprise - and a New 'Gemini Summary'
Google announced three new AI‑driven features for Chrome Enterprise: Auto Browse, which lets Gemini act across open tabs to automate tasks like creating CRM contacts; Skills, a one‑click library for saving and reusing frequent Gemini prompts; and Gemini Summary, an...
Rethinking Code Review in the Era of AI
AI tools are now a staple in developers' daily workflows, with roughly 70 % reporting higher productivity. While AI‑generated code often looks clean and well‑structured, it frequently lacks the system‑specific context that prevents subtle bugs. Traditional code review struggles to catch...
The AI Boom Is Single-Handedly Carrying the U.S. Import Market—And Adding $200 Billion to the Trade Deficit, Fed Study Finds
The Federal Reserve’s Minneapolis branch reports that AI‑related products accounted for 23% of U.S. imports in 2025, driving a 73% year‑over‑year surge that dwarfs the 3% rise in non‑AI goods. AI imports totalled roughly $265 billion versus $71 billion in exports, adding...
Microsoft to Test Third-Party AI Models for Incorporation in Its Security Offerings
Microsoft announced it will evaluate third‑party AI models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos, to augment its security suite. The tests will pair these models with Microsoft Defender, Security Exposure Management and the open‑source CTI‑REALM framework for continuous network vulnerability scanning. A...
CDRH Director Tarver Previews AI Guidance at AAMI Event
At the AAMI neXus conference, FDA CDRH Director Michelle Tarver announced that final guidance on AI lifecycle management will be issued later this year, building on the draft released in January 2025. The guidance will codify requirements for representative training...
10x Science: The Founders Who Built the Field Are Now Building the Platform
10x Science is launching an AI‑driven platform that automates molecular characterization of biologic drugs, a step traditionally performed manually by PhD scientists using outdated software. The company’s founders—two Stanford‑trained researchers with Nobel‑linked publications and a veteran YC entrepreneur—bring deep scientific...
Fraud and the False Optimism of AI for Science
The article debates whether AI‑generated research constitutes fraud or a legitimate productivity tool. It contrasts optimistic views that see AI as a natural extension of scientific methods with pessimistic concerns that outsourcing idea generation erodes judgment and misattributes credit. The...
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
A year after Anthropic’s CISO Jason Clinton warned that AI‑powered virtual employees would be roaming corporate networks, the promise remains unfulfilled. Security breaches, unreliable performance and a string of failed hype‑driven demos have kept autonomous agents out of production. Earlier...
Paper Mache Businesses
The New York Times highlighted Medvi, a $1.8 billion AI‑driven healthcare firm, as a solo‑founder unicorn, but investigative reports reveal it relies on deep‑faked patient images, bogus doctor endorsements, and outsourced medical work. The author labels such ventures “paper‑mache businesses,” where AI strips...
I Put Perplexity Vs. Claude to the Test: Here’s My Verdict
The article pits Perplexity AI against Anthropic’s Claude, testing their free versions across writing, research, coding, and multi‑turn conversation. Perplexity shines in real‑time, source‑cited research, while Claude excels at deep contextual reasoning, coding assistance, and creative prose. Both services share...
Pulse Releases Multilingual Table Benchmark and Unified Metric
Pulse just open-sourced PulseBench-Tab, a frontier benchmark for table extraction across 9 languages, alongside T-LAG, a new scoring metric that evaluates structure and content in one unified score. After processing billions of pages for Fortune 50 enterprises, the largest investment firms,...
AI Board Features CEOs, Musicians, and Artists
One of the more compelling AI use cases: An AI board of directors, which includes CEOs from Canva, Figma, Universal Music Group, plus Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar. Here’s SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton:
Gupshup Launches Superagent
Gupshup unveiled Superagent, an autonomous AI platform that orchestrates customer conversations across all major messaging and voice channels. The tool lets users design campaigns, build journeys, provision infrastructure, process transactions and self‑optimize with simple prompts. It operates on WhatsApp, RCS,...
SAP and Google Cloud Expand Partnership to Deploy Multi-Agent AI
SAP and Google Cloud have deepened their alliance by linking SAP Engagement Cloud, SAP Customer Experience and Joule solutions with Google’s Gemini Enterprise AI platform. The integration enables marketers to deploy multi‑agent AI that accesses unified data across both ecosystems...
Precisely Launches EngageOne RapidCX
Precisely announced EngageOne RapidCX, a governed‑AI platform that adds real‑time visibility and decision support to customer communications. The new release introduces a Next Best Action Agent for email, a metrics‑driven homepage with five performance widgets, and a Communication Tracker that...
AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
An AI‑driven tool called Malus claims it can recreate any open‑source project from scratch, producing functionally identical code while avoiding attribution and copyleft licenses. The service leverages the clean‑room design principle established in the 1982 IBM BIOS reverse‑engineering case, arguing...
NAN120: How Network Engineers Can Thrive in an AI-Driven World
In this episode, senior solution engineer Ashwin Chosi discusses how the surge in AI workloads is reshaping network engineering, emphasizing the need for scalable, resilient infrastructure and intelligent automation. Drawing on his experience at AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Keysight, he...
AI Mirrors Nuclear, Electricity, Press: Power, Infrastructure, Democratization
Just riffing on some AI metaphors/analogies floating around right now as a way of thinking through things. Here are some dominant ones: Nuclear weapons / Cold War arms race. AI as a dangerous new force that concentrates enormous power in the hands...
Google's MCP Unifies All Cloud Services for Agents
May not seem sexy but I love love love Google going all in on MCP. Even dummies like me can create amazing apps that leverage MCP. All GCP and Workspace services are now exposed via MCP. Developers can address GKE,...
CIOs Must Turn AI POCs Into ROI, Prevent Rogue AI
RT CIOs face pressure to go beyond AI POCs and deliver ROI while avoiding the risk of rogue AI. #CIO #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/IkMrUQXpxe
ChatGPT Image 2.0 Empowers Low‑Skill Scammers
Criminals who aren't good at photoshop and want to scam quickly are rejoicing everywhere thanks to ChatGPT Image 2.0.
AI Disruption Won’t Hit All SaaS Companies Equally
Claude Code & AI disruption will not impact software companies equally 🤖 @DivesTech thinks buying downbeat SaaS names might just be the biggest "ghost trade" of his career 💻 https://t.co/C1b1iQA5na
Google AI Now Writes Three‑quarters of New Code
75% -> Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall https://t.co/iAQrM8UHCQ
AI Regulation Boom to Spawn $5B Compliance Industry by 2027
"By 2027, fragmented AI regulation will grow to cover 50% of the world's economies, driving $5 billion in compliance investment." Thus begins a whole new industry.
Judge AGI by Novel Learning, Not Human Mimicry
Judging AGI by how well it can mimic us is a category error, because mimicry isn't intelligence and isn't general. We should judge AGI by how well it learns to do things we didn't teach it (including things we don't...
Patrick Marlow Delivers Best Google Cloud Next Demo
Patrick Marlow, Senior Product Manager, Applied Al, @GoogleCloud, gave the best demo of the #GoogleCloudNext 2026 keynote so far, IMHO. https://t.co/LyppH8165c
AI Agent Seamlessly Switches Languages Mid‑Conversation
Super impressive customer experience agent demo. The agent was interrupted mid sentence several times and user switched from English to Spanish and the agent replied using the same language https://t.co/oGoH7QBK65
AgentOps: Full‑stack Ops Essential for Scaling AI Agents
AgentOps = MLOps for autonomous AI. 🧠⚙️ To scale agents in production you need the full stack: 🗺️ planning 🧠 memory/context 🤖 execution (tools/APIs/code) 📈 monitoring 🔁 optimization 🛡️ governance 🏗️ infrastructure Agents don’t scale without operations. #AgentOps #AIAgents #AgenticAI #LLMs #Automation
LLM Outperforms Expectations Finding AML/KYC Guidelines
An anecdote for you from LLM land: I sent Opus 4.7 out to do a literature survey of various government law enforcement internal guidelines w/r/t AML and KYC usage in prosecutions. It was much more successful at finding these docs...
AI Decisions Demand Trusted Context, Not Blind Guesses
+1 to this Karthik Narain "But here's the reality, reasoning without context is just a guess, and when you expect your AI to make decisions and your agents to take actions, you cannot afford to guess trusted context, turns an intelligent gas to a decisive action." #GoogleCloudNext
AI Art: Genuine Feeling or Clever Manipulation?
If you are emotionally moved by an AI generated song or video, is this a generative experience or are you simply being manipulated?
Ask Your RLM Questions for Upcoming MIT Explainer
Ask us your questions about Recursive Language Models (RLMs) & where LMs are underutilized or inefficient. We’ll pick some to feature in an upcoming explainer w/MIT PhD student Alex Zhang (@a1zhang), who recently developed RLMs. For more on his work: https://t.co/pFtCO03Hcq...