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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RepRisk Roundtable London: Tackling Hidden Sustainability Risk in Private Markets with AI
RepRisk is sponsoring a Sustainability Breakfast Roundtable in London on June 11, 2026, aimed at senior risk, investment, compliance and sustainability leaders. The event will explore how trustworthy AI can improve risk identification, boost visibility into private‑market exposures, and scale sustainability workflows. Speakers include RepRisk’s Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, Man Group’s Anna‑Marie Tomm and Federated Hermes’ Louise Dudley, who will share practical use cases. Attendees will leave with actionable guidance on moving AI pilots into production for ESG risk management.
SignalShot: AI-Driven Proof of Signal’s Full Security
Today is the launch of SignalShot: An AI-powered moonshot launched to prove that Signal Messenger is bug-free and secure – and turbocharge the AI-powered quest to secure all critical software.The spectacular power of new AI tools such as Mythos to find...
Court Ruling in Amazon-Perplexity Case Raises New Questions for Agentic AI in Enterprise Systems
A U.S. federal court in Northern California issued a preliminary injunction in Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI, holding that AI agents accessing password‑protected platforms without explicit platform permission may violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s data‑access...
Honda Considers an Analog Spin for Software-Defined Vehicles
Honda Motor Co. is teaming with Texas‑based semiconductor maker Mythic to co‑develop an analog compute‑in‑memory system‑on‑chip for its upcoming software‑defined vehicles. The partnership leverages Mythic’s memory‑centric architecture, which the company claims can deliver up to 100 times the energy efficiency of...
Claude Design Turns Chat Into Full‑Fledged Design Tool
Last week, Anthropic dropped the coolest "AI isn't just chat" product. Claude Design lets you describe what you want to Claude and it returns prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by just chatting. You can then export to Canva, PDF, PPT, or hand...
Safeguarding Scientific Publishing From AI Hallucinations and Fabricated Citations
A 2025 Science study found that 13.5% of biomedical abstracts published in 2024—over 200,000 papers—were drafted with AI assistance, exposing a surge in AI‑generated content. Researchers and medical‑affairs teams are now confronting AI hallucinations, including fabricated citations that can slip...
AI Poised to Power Next‑gen Humanoid Robot Brains
Gill Pratt designed the DARPA robotics challenge. Now he thinks advances in AI can help power the brains of humanoid robotics in the near future. https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots-gill-pratt-darpa
You’re Not Experiencing One Version of Reality
The post argues that individuals experience reality as a single, filtered narrative, ignoring the myriad alternative possibilities that coexist at any moment. It highlights how our brains select one interpretation, while other outcomes remain hidden until later reflection. By framing...
58% of Organizations Spend Over 10 Hours a Month Securing AI-Generated Code
A Cloudsmith report reveals that 58% of organizations devote more than ten hours each month to validating and securing AI‑generated code, with 8% spending over forty hours. The study also shows 44% of respondents have suffered security incidents linked to...
ECI Software Solutions Expands AI Capabilities to Automate Manufacturing Workflows and Drive Efficiency Gains
ECI Software Solutions announced new Practical AI features—AI Assistant and AI Invoicing—integrated into its Deacom and JobBOSS² ERP platforms. The AI Assistant delivers real‑time answers within the application, while AI Invoicing captures vendor invoices, matches them to purchase orders and...
Convos: Instant OpenClaw on Your Phone
Convos, the chat app from XMTP, lets users spin up OpenClaw or Hermes AI agents directly on their phones with a few taps. The platform provisions email, phone numbers and web‑browsing capabilities in seconds, turning each agent into a personal...
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Highlights Rapid Growth and Widening Governance Gaps
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows AI adoption accelerating while governance lags. Documented AI incidents climbed to 362 in 2025 and the Foundation Model Transparency Index fell to 40 out of 100, with 80 of 95 notable models released without training...
Interview: Freshwave CTO Offers AI-RAN Walkthrough
Freshwave Group’s CTO Tom Bennett says AI‑enabled radio access networks are feasible, but only if the underlying data infrastructure is ready. He argues that massive GPU deployments at cell sites are unnecessary; instead, high‑capacity fibre links should funnel RAN data...
Infor and AWS Bring Agentic AI to Manufacturing at Enterprise Scale
Infor and Amazon Web Services have launched a suite of industry‑specific AI agents built natively on AWS, aimed at manufacturing and distribution firms. The agents combine AWS’s enterprise‑grade infrastructure with Infor’s deep manufacturing intelligence to automate planning, execution, and financial...
Local vs Remote MCP Servers – Which Should You Choose?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers let AI applications pull live data, tools, and prompts, bridging the gap between static LLM knowledge and up‑to‑date enterprise information. Architects must decide whether to host MCP servers locally or remotely, a choice that influences...
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3.6‑Max‑Preview, an early‑stage upgrade to its Qwen3.6‑Plus large language model. The preview delivers notable gains in agentic coding, world knowledge, and instruction‑following, with benchmark lifts such as +9.9 on SkillsBench and +5.3 on QwenChineseBench. It...
Knak Makes Enterprise Marketing Production Callable by AI Agents
Knak announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI agents and orchestration layers to call its production platform directly. The integration lets AI assistants generate on‑brand emails, landing pages and other assets using Knak’s template library without manual...
AI Empowers CEOs to Code, Not Just Oversee
I came back to code because AI made it possible for me to build at a level I couldn't before. I'm not coding despite being CEO of YC. I'm coding because this is the most important technological shift since the internet...
Merging Language Models with Unsloth Studio
Unsloth Studio, launched in March 2026, offers a free, no‑code web GUI that runs entirely on a user’s computer to fine‑tune, merge, and export large language models. The platform supports popular LLM families such as Llama, Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek and Mistral,...
Google Cloud Pushes Agentic Cloud to Outpace AWS, Microsoft
.@GoogleCloud Next opens Wednesday in Las Vegas with an opening keynote titled “The agentic cloud.” Google Cloud exited Q4 2025 with the fastest growth of the Big Three. Now Thomas Kurian needs to prove Google can turn TPU and model...
EDA AI Agents: Intelligent Automation in Semiconductor & PCB Design
Siemens has launched the Fuse™ EDA AI System and Fuse™ EDA AI Agent, a purpose‑built platform that merges generative and agentic AI across its entire semiconductor and PCB design suite. The solution tackles five core industry challenges—proprietary expertise, rigid on‑premise...
How Prime And A Smarter Alexa Are Giving Amazon An AI Shopping Edge
Amazon launched Alexa+, an AI‑powered upgrade to its voice assistant, to all users in March 2025. The new assistant can handle complex conversations, place orders, manage smart‑home devices, and suggest recipes, all while leveraging Amazon’s 30‑year e‑commerce expertise. Early data show...
Jellyfish Wants You to Use Large Language Models to Plan Your Ad Buys
Jellyfish is marketing its “Share of Model” service, which uses large language models to gauge how often AI assistants mention a brand versus competitors and turns those insights into targeting cues for Google Performance Max campaigns. The agency applied the...
Pervaziv AI Ushers Multicloud Environments Into Agentic AI Era Across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud with Cortex 3.5
Pervaziv AI unveiled Cortex 3.5, expanding its secure AI orchestration platform to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud alongside its existing AWS support. The upgrade introduces over 40 AI agents, 12 enterprise connectors and more than 300 operational capabilities, creating a unified...
Physical AI Edges Closer to Real-World Deployments
Capgemini’s new report shows physical AI is moving from hype to practical deployment, with 80% of 1,678 executives across 16 countries already experimenting and only 4% operating at full scale. The gap reflects historic integration challenges, but falling hardware costs,...
Eigen Secures $15M Seed for ‘Mutual Friend’ AI Tool
San Francisco‑based Eigen emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by Benchmark, backed by notable angels such as Pinterest co‑founder Ben Silbermann and Spotify’s co‑president Gustavo Söderström. The startup is building what it calls the world’s first “mutual...
TSC Publishes Regulator Responses to Its Report on AI in Financial Services
On 16 April 2026 the Treasury Select Committee published regulator responses to its AI in financial services report, featuring input from HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority. HM Treasury reiterated that existing technology‑risk rules already...
How RFID and AI Are Improving Delivery Reliability Across Logistics
Zebra Technologies highlights how logistics firms are layering RFID onto barcode systems and deploying on‑device AI to improve package visibility and proof of delivery. RFID tags broadcast location data, creating billions of real‑time points that cut manual scanning and boost...
IWIL Ignite Expands in Canada, Targets 100,000 Future Skill Leaders by 2030 to Strengthen Canada’s AI Workforce
IWIL Ignite, the Centre for Global Digital Literacy and AI Incubation, announced its expansion into Canada, aiming to develop 100,000 AI‑ready skill leaders by 2030. The rollout coincides with a national virtual summit on AI and the future of work,...
The AI Trust Advantage: How Smarter Security Wins Customer Confidence
Security leaders are recognizing that AI‑powered experience platforms now touch critical business functions such as HR, CRM and compensation systems, expanding the data exposure surface. The rise of “shadow AI,” where only 20% of employees use approved tools, creates hidden...
AI as Partner: Meet Your Decision‑Making Digital Twin
Many people talk about Al as a threat, but l've always seen it as a partner to help me in my decision making. In 2017, I delivered this Ted Talk sharing a tool I had developed at Bridgewater: embedding our firm's decision-making principles into...
Digi Power X Signs First AI Revenue Contract - $19.6 Million, 24-Month SubQ AI Agreement, Validating Operational Launch of AI...
Digi Power X Inc. announced a 24‑month bare‑metal GPU rental deal with SubQ AI worth roughly $19.6 million, effective May 15, 2026. The contract secures exclusive access to the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs on the company’s NeoCloudz platform and includes a $2.95 million upfront...
AI Browser Agents Redefine Online Interaction and Automation
AI Browser Agents Radically Transform How We Use the Internet AI browser agents are changing how we interact online — automating tasks, searching smarter and redefining user experience. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXhuYXjD #AI #Internet #DigitalTransformation #BernardMarr
QuikStor Integrates with Lumio to Bring AI Call Handling and Website Conversion to Self-Storage Operators
QuikStor, the SaaS platform for self‑storage operators, announced an integration with Lumio, an AI‑powered workforce solution. The connection links Lumio’s voice agent and website concierge directly to QuikStor’s management system, enabling 24/7 call handling and online conversion without extra staff....
Adobe Summit 2026 - Adobe Gives CX an Agentic Makeover with the Launch of CX Enterprise
Adobe unveiled CX Enterprise at its 2026 Summit, an end‑to‑end agentic automation platform that layers a persistent AI co‑worker on top of the Adobe Experience Platform. The new co‑worker can orchestrate multiple purpose‑built agents, integrate third‑party systems, and extend AI capabilities...
Meta Is Back in the LLM Game After a Year-Long Break
Meta returned to the large‑language‑model market on April 8 with Muse Spark, a multimodal LLM released after a year‑long hiatus following the poorly received Llama 4. The launch was accompanied by a 158‑page safety report and strong benchmark numbers, though analysts question...
DoorDash Pays Gig Workers to Train Their Replacement Robots
doordash is paying 8 million gig workers to train the robots that replace them it's pretty insane once you look at the details on march 19, they launched an app called "tasks" it's basically a menu of filming jobs the menu: wash some dishes,...
BigBlueBam Public Beta Brings AI-Native Architecture to Open-Source Project Management, CRM, and Knowledge Work
Open‑source platform BigBlueBam entered public beta, delivering an AI‑native architecture built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Its MCP server exposes 340 tools across 20 integrated applications—including project management, CRM, knowledge base, and automation—matching the scale of Microsoft’s Azure MCP...
Real‑world AI Copilot Will Define the Future
The most important AI copilot is not the one writing emails or code, it is the one operating in real-world environments where mistakes have real consequences. In fields like surgery and manufacturing, AI must see, understand, and act correctly in...
RECARO Unveils AI Voice-Controlled Lie‑Flat Seat
RECARO Aircraft Seating is so confident in its new 'AI-powered seat control by voice' feature for lie-flats that it allowed journalists to test it at Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. VIDEO: RECARO reveals AI-powered seat control for R7 premium seat https://t.co/UZtj6Oe8vG https://t.co/AnG87SxjUu
CodesClue’s Has Newly Launched AI-Driven Software Development Framework that Redefines Its Business Efficiency in 2026
CodesClue launched an AI‑driven custom software development framework on March 24, 2026, aiming to replace generic off‑the‑shelf tools with proactive, intelligent solutions. The platform embeds machine‑learning, automation and human‑centric design to deliver scalable, integrated applications. By positioning itself as a...
Claude Code Gets Auto‑deep Thinking with New Xhigh Default
Anthropic just published best practices for Opus 4.7 with Claude Code. The biggest changes: Default effort is now "xhigh" (new level between high and max). Fixed thinking budgets are gone. The model decides when to think deeply on its own. https://t.co/CJQoXcKrG5
SubTuringBradBot Launches, Replacing FAQs with Interactive AI
The dining-room-corner linear algebra experiment, or, why I am trying to build a BradBot instead of a FAQ list—SubTuringBradBot, office hours, gasbags, and “hexapodia”: **SubTuringBradBot Is Finally Live—at Least for Now: Monday MAMLMs** 2026-04-20 Mo
Telcos, How Well Do You Know Your Robots
The post warns that generative AI is only the tip of the iceberg; physical AI—software that controls robots in the real world—will soon reshape the $50 trillion global labor market. By tethering devices like Boston Dynamics’ robot dog to 5G backhaul,...
AI Crawler Patterns Boost Business Site Search Performance
Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show clear patterns that drive better AI search performance to business sites. https://t.co/Hkhd40OXNn via @martinibuster, @sejournal
Robot Dog Uses Google AI to Read Gauges and Thermometers
Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Google’s AI 🤖 https://t.co/Z9OxCoqZbt https://t.co/VEz7BUBfYb
The AI Boom Risks Undermining Global Energy Efficiency Efforts
The International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that the surge in artificial intelligence is propelling electricity demand faster than any previous driver, ushering in an “age of electricity.” Training large AI models and powering data centers now consume comparable energy to...
AI Spam Flood Drowns Real Cold Emails
I wake up to 10+ AI generated emails everyday now. Similar subjects and same signatures sign offs. I immediately delete all of them. It’s never been harder to get attention from a cold email if you’re actually a person sending. So...
Hyatt Deploys ChatGPT Enterprise Across Global Workforce
Hyatt has implemented ChatGPT Enterprise across its global corporate and hotel workforce, giving employees access to OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT‑5.4 and Codex. The AI suite is slated to support finance, marketing, operations, business development, real‑estate, and product teams, accelerating...
Tech Leaders, Brace Yourselves: AI Costs Will Only Go Up
Anthropic has rolled out a blended pricing model for enterprise Claude users, charging a $20 per‑seat fee plus variable usage fees tied to the specific model. This shift signals a broader trend of rising LLM costs as providers seek a...