Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic shuts down Claude FableâŻ5 and MythosâŻ5 after US exportâcontrol warning
Anthropic disabled access to its ClaudeâŻFableâŻ5 and ClaudeâŻMythosâŻ5 models after the Trump administration, via the Commerce Department, warned that foreign nationals could exploit the systems. The move followed alerts from Amazon and other firms about a potential jailbreak that could aid cyberâsecurity attacks. Anthropic declined the administrationâs request for a voluntary shutdown but complied with the order.
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By the numbers: AMD acquires AI memoryâoptimization pioneer Mext
Googleâs AI Mode Can Now Help You Find Products in Stock Nearby
Google is expanding AI Mode to let users locate inâstock products at nearby stores and track prices for specific hotels. The storeâcheck feature enables the AI to call local retailers based on naturalâlanguage requests, rolling out in the United States weeks after its Search debut. Hotel priceâtracking now works at the individual property level, sending email alerts for rate changes. Google reports a 350% surge in search interest for âAI travel assistantâ over the past year.
Iris Founder Talks AI-Powered Finance
In this episode, Eric Bandholz chats with Drew, founder and CEO of Iris Finance, about how AI agents are reshaping eâcommerce finance and operations. Drew explains Irisâs dataâinfrastructure platform that centralizes information from Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, QuickBooks and more, then...
Greenhouse Launches AI Principles Framework, Setting the Standard for Responsible Hiring in the AI Era
Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, unveiled an AI Principles Framework built around five pillarsâstructured hiring, reimagined workflows, humanâcentered design, explicit decision ownership, and explainability. The framework mandates that AI signals be auditable, biasâaware, and transparent, and it couples these standards...
AI Agent Costs Are Turning Into Enterprise Payroll
Your AI tool costs went from $20/mo to potentially $500K/quarter. And most companies haven't updated their budgets yet. Here's why AI agent billing is the next enterprise crisis đ§ľđ 1/ A year ago: AI = autocomplete. Quick prompts, quick answers, flat subscription. Budgetable. Today:...
AI Boosts CFTC Surveillance Amid Staff Cuts
NEW: đşđ¸ CFTC Chair Selig said AI is helping offset staff cuts by improving surveillance and investigations as the agency takes on growing crypto and prediction market oversight
AIâs Role in Grocery so Far This Year
Artificial intelligence has become a strategic priority for U.S. grocery retailers in 2026, with major chains like Kroger deepening ties to Google Cloud's Gemini AI and enhancing internal tools such as the Sage virtual assistant. Independentâgrocery distributors are responding by...
AI Coding Agents Trigger Selloff, Enterprise Software Remains Resilient
AI Coding Agents Spark Selloff, but Enterprise Software Holds Its Ground | https://t.co/KTVJGVwr3F https://t.co/OvjaK969v8 https://t.co/dGnt0Jcs1K
Avoid Context Rot: 4 Habits for Claude Code
1/ Claude Code gives you 1M tokens of context. Sounds massive. Context rot kicks in at 300-400K. You're running on degraded context for 60-70% of a long session. Here's the 4-habit system I use to manage it. (h/t Thariq from Anthropic)
Exciting New Series and Recommendation of a New Substack for Young Generation
The author launches a 15âchapter series comparing the Hermes Agent framework with Claude Code, two contrasting AI harness architectures. Hermes Agent is a Pythonâbased, CLIâfirst, modelâagnostic service, while Claude Code is a TypeScript SDK that embeds Anthropic models as a...
Multitask Behavior Models Boost Robot Manipulation Efficiency
Robots can learn complex #manipulation tasks, like assembling a breakfast tray, more efficiently using large behavior models and multitask datasets, when compared with single-task policies. @RussTedrake @RaresAmbrus Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/T6OugH8W0f https://t.co/zeDcCrPl06
Panic Won't Release Playdate Titles that Use Certain Forms of Generative AI
Panic announced that its Playdate storefront, Catalog, will no longer accept new titles that use generative AI for art, audio, music, text, or dialog, while still permitting AI-assisted coding tools with mandatory disclosure. The policy follows the inclusion of Wheelsprungâa...
AI in WealthTech for the Middle and Back Office: Our Top Three Predictions for 2026
The article outlines three AI-driven predictions for wealthâtech by 2026: conversational interfaces will replace traditional web forms, AIâpersonalized backâoffice functions will turn support staff into service multipliers, and AI agents will only thrive once mature, publicly accessible APIs become commonplace....
AI Still Falls Short of End-to-End Accounting, Despite Benchmark Gains
A new DualEntry benchmark of ten accountingâfocused AI models shows Claude OpusâŻ4.7 topping the list with 79.2% overall accuracy, edging out GPTâ5.4 variants. The test reveals strong results in structured tasksâover 90% accuracy for transaction classification and journal entriesâwhile complex...
AI Defies Disruption Theory: Startups Must Rethink Strategy
Disruption Theory's been a staple of startup strategy, but it does not apply to AI. Incumbents do not regard AI as âjust a toy,â and are not waiting around while startups to disrupt them. So, startups need a new strategy. https://t.co/9zku0mmxLZ
Token Path Test Determines Software Firms' AI Survival
New framework from @jrichlive: "are you on the token path?" His test for whether a software company survives the AI shift and the top question he'd be asking on upcoming earnings calls https://t.co/55zfUxN0n2
From AI Promise to Business Impact: Building Future-Ready Enterprise AI
Three years after ChatGPT sparked generativeâAI hype, enterprises are wrestling with the hardânosed phase of scaling pilots into production. A Tech MonitorâAMD roundtable in Stockholm highlighted data quality, siloed architecture, and unrealistic expectations as primary roadblocks. Participants discussed synthetic data,...
Zenskar Raises $15 Million Series A to Expand Agentic Capabilities for B2B Revenue Automation
Zenskar announced a $15âŻmillion SeriesâŻA round led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Shine Capital and Rho. The funding will accelerate its agentic capabilities, especially the Agents Marketplace that lets finance teams deploy AIâdriven billing agents without engineering effort....
Evaluating AI Outputs Is Today's Critical Enterprise Skill
The hottest skill in enterprise data right now isn't building AI models. It's evaluating their outputs. Anyone can spin up a model. Very few can tell you whether what came out was actually right. That's the new bottleneck. And most organizations have no...
Google's Dan Taylor on AI Mode & Evolving Marketing Measurement
In this weekâs episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Googleâs Dan Taylor about AI Overviews, AI Mode, the evolution of marketing measurement as platforms like PMax have gained a greater share of spend, Googleâs UCP protocol,...
Perplexity Launches âPersonal Computerâ AI Assistant for Mac Users
Perplexity has rolled out âPersonal Computer,â an AI assistant that embeds directly into its Mac app and runs continuously on devices like the Mac mini. The assistant can manipulate local files, native apps such as iMessage, Mail and Calendar, and...
Iconiq, Go-To Wealth Adviser for Techâs Elite, Is Putting Billions Into AI
Iconiq, the ultraâdiscreet wealth adviser to tech royalty, now manages roughly $100âŻbillion in assets and is channeling billions into artificialâintelligence ventures. In 2025 the firm poured more than $3âŻbillion into AI startups, including a $4âŻbillion stake in Anthropic, and is...
UJET Brings Google Cloud CX and AI to SMBs Through the Channel
UJET has introduced a managed service called Google Cloud CCaaS, bundling Google Cloudâs contactâcenter and Gemini AI capabilities for small and midsize businesses. The offering is delivered through AVANTâs Trusted Advisor channel, allowing partners to act as sales advisors while...
The âAI Is Inevitableâ Trap
Allbirds announced a pivot from footwear to an AIâfocused business, sending its shares soaring roughly 600âŻpercent, a sevenâfold increase. The move coincides with a Stanford study that finds AI capabilities improving while consumer enthusiasm, especially among GenâŻZ, is waning. Recent...
Governments Are Betting Big on AI and Britain Just Joined the Race With ÂŁ500 Million Sovereign Fund
Britain has launched a ÂŁ500âŻmillion (â$635âŻmillion) Sovereign AI Fund to back homeâgrown AI startups, pairing capital with fastâtrack visas and free superâcomputing access. The move mirrors a global shift as governments treat AI as critical infrastructure, with the United States...
AI Generates Fake Images and Headlines From Unreleased Interviews
Wild: theyâre using AI to make fake stills with fake headlines from the solo interviews we havenât released yet https://t.co/Mrorfc3IEn
US Army Chinook Completes First Automated Landing with Boeing A2X
The U.S. Armyâs CHâ47F Chinook completed its first fully automated approach and landing using Boeingâs A2X software and Digital Automated Flight Control System. The test, conducted after the systemâs January 2026 installation, logged more than 150 approaches with a final...
Commercial AI Models Show Rapid Gains in Vulnerability Research
Forescoutâs Verde Labs reports that commercial AI models have closed the gap in vulnerability research, with all tested models now completing full research tasks and half generating working exploits autonomously. The most capable models, Claude OpusâŻ4.6 and KimiâŻK2.5, can discover...
Luma AI Teams with Wonder Project to Debut FaithâFocused Series on Prime Video
Luma AI announced a partnership with streaming service Wonder Project to launch Innovative Dreams, an AIâpowered production studio. Its first project, âThe Old Stories: Moses,â starring BenâŻKingsley, will debut on Amazon Prime Video this spring, showcasing a realâtime hybrid filmmaking...
Allbirds' $50M AI Pivot Sends Stock 600% Higher, Sparks Skepticism
Allbirds announced a $50âŻmillion financing deal to rebrand as NewBird AI and exit the footwear market after selling its assets for $39âŻmillion. The news sent the stock soaring more than 600% in a single day, igniting a clash between investors...
Dan Herbatschek Launches Ramsey Theory Capital to Bridge Strategy and Tech Execution
Dan Herbatschek, a Columbiaâtrained applied mathematician, founded Ramsey Theory Capital LLC on April 16, 2026 in New York. The firm promises to translate highâlevel strategic intent into scalable, dataâdriven technology solutions, a capability the founder says is missing from many...
Why Upgrading to Claude Opus 4.7 Might Break Your Current Prompts
Anthropic released Cloud OpusâŻ4.7, delivering stronger coding, highâresolution multimodal, and documentâreasoning capabilities. The modelâs new tokenizer consumes 1 to 1.35âŻtimes more tokens, raising operational costs and prompting users to revisit prompt designs. Stricter instructionâfollowing improves precision but may disrupt existing...
Confluent CTO Says Agentic AI Workflows Are Fueling a RealâTime Data Surge
Confluentâs chief technology officer Stephen Deasy says the rise of agentic AI workflows is creating a structural surge in demand for realâtime data, forcing enterprises to move away from batch pipelines toward continuous streaming architectures.
Can AI Replace Your Lift Plan?
Construct Tech founder Gheorghe Busuioc is pioneering AIâdriven lift planning for UK construction sites. The platform combines AIâgenerated lift plans, 3D visualizations, QRâcode access, training videos, and a digital dailyâchecks app to make plans readable and actionable onâsite. Traditional lift...
Ukraine Exports Autonomy as Combat Data Fuels Growth of Physical AI
Ukraineâs combat dataâsharing initiative has become the largest realâworld stress test for autonomous systems, logging over 22,000 ground and aerial missions in the first quarter. AUTNMY AIâs OMEGA algorithm rates the battlefield data as the most underpriced asset in the...
AI Could Police Journalism, Threatening Whistleblowers
From the people who brought you the destruction of Gawker.... Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers https://t.co/11ib6IKtWl
Air Liquide Commits $236âŻMillion to Japan for AI Chip Gas Supply
Air Liquide announced a âŹ200âŻmillion ($236âŻmillion) investment in Japan to build two ultraâhighâpurity gas production units in Hiroshima. The plants, slated for operation by the end of 2028, will feed a global semiconductor leaderâs nextâgeneration AI chip fabs, reinforcing Japanâs...
Docebo Report Finds 85% of Employees Unprepared to Use AI at Work
Docebo released its AI Readiness Gap report, revealing that 85% of surveyed employees cannot translate AI training into onâtheâjob performance. The study of 2,000 enterprise respondents highlights a widening skills gap as companies roll out AI tools without adequate learning...
Five9 and Salesforce Launch AI Integration for Unified Customer View
Five9 announced a deep integration of Salesforce Einstein AI into its contactâcenter platform, enabling realâtime transcription, automated call disposition updates and nextâbestâaction prompts. The move expands a 15âyear partnership and aims to cut agent workload while delivering hyperâpersonalized experiences for...
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.7, Boosting AI-Driven Software Engineering
Anthropic has rolled out Claude Opus 4.7, its most powerful public model, delivering faster multiâstep coding, higherâresolution visual analysis and builtâin safeguards against highârisk cybersecurity use. The upgrade is available across all Claude products and major cloud marketplaces at unchanged...
Microsoft Shares Jump Over 4% on Strong Earnings and AI Outlook
Microsoft Corp. closed the day up more than 4% after reporting earnings that beat expectations and projecting robust growth for its Azure cloud and Copilot AI services. A KeyBanc survey showing 85% of tech executives planning higher Azure spend helped...
Kingstone Companies Launches California Homeowners Business on E&S Line with ZestyAI AI Modeling
Kingstone Companies announced a California homeowners entry on an excessâandâsurplus (E&S) line, teaming with ZestyAI to apply AIâdriven wildfire risk models. The insurer will retain a 30% quota share to limit net exposure while scaling the new business.
CSIS Report | How Russia Is Building a Sovereign Drone Ecosystem for AI-Driven Autonomy
The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report detailing how Russia is constructing a sovereign drone ecosystem that embeds artificial intelligence into unmanned systems. By aligning presidentialâlevel policy, a civilian innovation network, and battlefield feedback, Moscow accelerates the...
Capsule Security Raises $7âŻM to Guard AI Agents as New Privileged Users
Capsule Security, a TelâAvivâbased startup, closed a $7âŻmillion seed round led by Lama Partners and Forgepoint Capital International to launch a runtimeâsecurity platform for AI agents. The funding targets a market where more than 80% of FortuneâŻ500 firms now deploy...
Hyundai Mobis Launches DataâDriven Validation Platform to Cut SDV Testing to One Week
Hyundai Mobis announced a new dataâintegration validation platform that can simulate 10,000 hours of autonomousâdriving tests in just one week. The system links realâworld sensor data with parallel simulators, promising faster certification and stronger competitiveness for softwareâdefined vehicles.
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The Advanced Technology Exploration Community (ATEC) launched ATEC2026, a global competition that treats realâworld robot performance as a âTuring Testâ for embodied AI. Teams will field armâequipped legged robots to complete longâhorizon tasks across open, dynamic environments, moving from simulation...
Future-Ready Pharma Summit
The FutureâReady Pharma Summit gathered analytical scientists, lab managers and decisionâmakers to showcase how automation, AI and digital services are reshaping smallâmolecule pharmaceutical chromatography. Sessions covered AIâdriven LC method optimization, collaborative dissolution workflows, and sustainabilityâfocused regulatory guidance such as USP...
AI Ghost Narratives Create a Minefield for Entities and Journalists
A recent CyberScoop opâed highlights three AIâdriven "ghost" breach narratives that have forced companies into costly crisis mode, resurrected old incidents, and fabricated expert quotes. In the first scenario, a language model fabricated a detailed dataâbreach story that media outlets...
Hospicesâ Top Questions About AI
Hospice providers are rapidly adopting AI to streamline operations and support clinical decisions, with 36% naming predictive analytics as their top technology investment for 2026. The rollout spans functions from scheduling and documentation to medication management and family communication. However,...
Manycore Tech Jumps Up to 187% in Hong Kong IPO, Showcasing Chinese AI Startup Surge
Manycore Tech, a Hangzhouâbased AI and design software firm, surged as much as 187% on its Hong Kong IPO debut, raising roughly US$160âŻmillion. The jump highlights strong demand for Chinese AI startups and the companyâs push into "spatial intelligence."
Trace Beyond APIs: Observe Stateful AI Agent Loops
RT AI agents are stateful with memory and feedback loops. If your tracing stops at APIs, you're flying blind. #SRE #Observability @Star_CIO https://t.co/tRGwCPc4Mb