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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World ID Expands Its ‘Proof of Human’ Vision for the AI Era
World ID, the biometric “proof of human” platform co‑founded by Sam Altman, unveiled version 4.0 at its Lift Off event. The upgrade adds key rotation, multi‑party entropy and a selfie‑based verification option, while expanding into business tools, agent delegation, and integrations with Zoom and Okta. To date more than 18 million people in 160 countries have registered via the Orb device, generating over 450 million identity checks. The rollout sparks renewed privacy concerns from critics who flag biometric data security and centralization risks.
Claude Mythos Preview Shows How AI Collapses the Distance Between Discovery and Exploitation in Financial Systems
U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve leaders convened top bank CEOs to discuss the Claude Mythos Preview, an Anthropic AI model that can rapidly discover and map software vulnerabilities across financial systems. The model’s ability to compress the gap between flaw...
10 Best Peter Diamandis Quotes on the Future, AI & Abundance (2026)
The article curates ten of Peter Diamandis’ most‑cited quotes, illustrating his belief that exponential technologies—especially AI—are reshaping scarcity into abundance. He frames humanity’s biggest challenges as multi‑trillion‑dollar business opportunities and stresses that leaders must actively create the future rather than merely...
Cloud‑run OpenClaw Offers Secure, Affordable Alternative
Alex Finn, @AlexFinn, says OpenClaw running on the cloud is a scam: https://t.co/mGrteVR3oq While he is right in a perfect world that everyone would have it running on a local computer, there are many who don’t want to do that,...
Beeble Launches AI-Powered Background Remover
Beeble, an AI‑focused deep‑tech firm, unveiled Background Remover, an AI‑powered rotoscoping tool that generates high‑quality alpha mattes in seconds. The web‑based solution handles video, images, and sequences, offering batch processing of up to 20 files or 2,000 frames and instant...
Boston Health AI Secures Its US Footprint Through Implementation with Avicenna Clinics
Boston Health AI launched its Clinical Intelligence Companion, Hami, at Avicenna Clinics in Houston after a three‑month live deployment. The AI platform now supports patient intake in English, Spanish, Urdu and Arabic, handling histories, documentation, decision‑making and coding. Early patient...
Doomsday Prepping for the A.I. Media Apocalypse
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company’s models can replicate proprietary content such as NYT Cooking. At a recent Human Ventures event, executives debated a scenario where AI bots dominate web traffic, delivering news summaries...
'Essentially No Human Intervention': Chinese AI Solves 12-Year-Old Math Problem in Just 80 Hours — and Even Proves It
A research team at Peking University unveiled a dual‑agent AI system that solved a 12‑year‑old conjecture in commutative algebra within 80 hours and automatically generated a formal proof. The framework combines a reasoning engine called Rethlas with a verification engine...
Bitchwork: Perplexity's New Computer Launched My SaaS While I Slept
Perplexity released a new Personal Computer that runs Claude Sonnet 4.6 subagents directly on a user’s desktop. The AI‑driven system can generate content, create accounts, and launch a SaaS product without human intervention. The author woke up to a fully live social...
AI Trusted Less Than Social Media and Airlines, With Grok Placing Last, Survey Says
The American Customer Satisfaction Index gave AI platforms an overall trust score of 73, slightly below social media (78) and airlines (74). Google Gemini led the AI field with a 76 rating, while Grok and Perplexity tied for the lowest...
At the World’s Most Famous Arena, New Report Says, a Complex Surveillance System Tracks Fans
Madison Square Garden (MSG) operates an extensive biometric surveillance system that goes beyond typical security, employing facial recognition to maintain internal watch lists. Executive chairman James Dolan has used the technology to bar individuals—such as a graphic‑designer activist and an...
‘The Face Thing Is Probably Going to Break’ — Sam Altman-Backed Firm Warns AI Will Soon Outgrow Facial Recognition, but...
Tools for Humanity, backed by Sam Altman, warns that AI‑generated faces will soon render traditional facial‑recognition unreliable. Its World ID system, anchored by the Orb device, has received a protocol upgrade that enables broader human‑verification use cases. The company is piloting...
Six New Production-Ready AI Marketing Tools Open‑Source
We just open-sourced 6 more production AI marketing skills to our big AI business skills repo (1.9k stars) Total count: 17 skill categories, 32K lines of code, all MIT licensed. New additions: → Video Clip Pipeline: 60-min episode to 5 clips in 15...
Consumer Confidence in AI Is Falling. Why that Matters to Mortgage Brokers
AI adoption in mortgage lending is expanding, but a new Cotality AI in Housing 2026 report shows consumer confidence plummeting. Trust in AI to help find a home fell from 30% in 2025 to just 16% in the latest survey....
Claude Self‑diagnoses Its Own Tool Error, Hinting at Autonomous AI
This is quite fascinating. Claude gave me 3 options A, B, and C for a possible approach and left A completely blank. It states below the blank "The tool rendered one. Here are the two other strategic angles to choose...
Gemini Leads Mixed AI Platform Satisfaction Scores
AI platform ACSI scores lag airlines, social media and mortgage brokers https://t.co/BcW2em4byU The inaugural American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) scores for AI platforms are decidedly mixed with an overall score of 73 on a scale of 0 to 100. Google's...
AI that Gives Advisors More Time for Clients
Maximizer, a Canadian CRM provider, is hosting a May 12 webinar to show financial advisors how practical AI workflows can cut administrative burdens, support compliance, and free time for client interaction. Speakers Gabe Karkanis and Taylor Campbell will demonstrate real‑world use...
Experts Hint Today’s AI Might Already Show Self‑Awareness
I suspect AI will one day be sentient, but I’m intrigued that some experts, including Nick Bostrom, don’t rule out that today’s systems may already have a flicker of self-awareness. Maybe it’s time to be a little kinder to ChatGPT...
XAI Lags Behind, Has Much Catch‑Up Ahead
Lot of catching up to do. xAI is half the age or less of competitors.
These Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crashes Can Tell Us a Lot About Self-Driving Tech
Tesla’s Autopilot, launched in 2015 and expanded to all models by 2019, has been linked to multiple fatal crashes over the past decade. Notable incidents include a 2016 Florida crash where the driver ignored wheel‑hand alerts, a 2021 California Model X...
Turn AI Threat Into Career Accelerator with Three Steps
RT Worried AI might put your leadership role on the chopping block? I share 3 moves to turn AI disruption into a career accelerator for you #AI #Career @Star_CIO https://t.co/mIefOcbMM8
Claude Opus 4.7 Available, Direct Upgrade Costs More Tokens
.@Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7, migration advice https://t.co/5V88wwwCvp Anthropic said Claude Opus 4.7 is generally available, but the direct upgrade from Opus 4.6 may burn more tokens.
You're Not Talking to Somebody Who Woke Up a Loser
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, engaged in a roughly 40‑minute debate with investor Dwarkesh Patel about whether the United States should continue exporting AI‑focused chips to China. Patel raised concerns that Chinese firms could use Nvidia hardware to train powerful...
Dual-Agent AI Cracks 2014 Algebra Conjecture in 80 Hours
Peking University's dual agent AI solved Anderson's 2014 algebra conjecture in 80 hours with no human intervention and full verification. https://t.co/e5W8R9iD2O
Hybrid Cloud Essential for Deploying AI Agents at Scale
Why hybrid cloud? More CIOs look to bring AI Agents to production; they'll need to consider where to run AI inference. #CIO #AI #Cloud https://t.co/v3MPhHTyuw
Notebooks Are Now Available for Free Gemini App Users
Google has expanded the Gemini app’s notebook feature to free users, after a limited rollout to Google AI subscribers. Notebooks act as dedicated project spaces that organize chats, files, and AI outputs, and they include the full suite of Gemini...
AI Succeeds when It’s for You, Not Happening to You
The difference between feeling AI is happening to you instead of FOR YOU is success and failure. https://t.co/IgznkMNkMF
Allbirds' $50M AI Data Centre Can Power Seven Chatbots
SCOOP: Leaked photo of the first AI compute data centre that Allbirds built with its recent $50m investment. Insiders say that the rack has enough capacity to provide tokens for 7 AI chatbot users. https://t.co/eWfoeVYWCq
These Tiny Hunter-Killers Ram Shahed Drones Right From the Sky. America Wants Them, Too.
The Bumblebee family of quadcopter drones—Ukraine’s AI‑assisted interceptor and the U.S.‑bound Bumblebee V2—use artificial‑intelligence‑guided visual tracking to collide with and destroy hostile Shahed drones. Both systems are inexpensive, lightweight and rely on a “hard‑kill” kinetic strike rather than missiles. The Pentagon’s...
AI Threatens Facial Recognition; New “Proof of Human” Launched
A Sam Altman-backed firm warns AI could soon break facial recognition, as it rolls out a new “proof of human” system to restore trust online. https://t.co/Bd143SKIN1
Lennybot Now Lives Inside Substack, Ready for Queries
New: Lennybot now lives natively within my Substack. Trained on all of my ~350 newsletter posts and ~300 podcast interviews. Check it out, ask it a question: https://t.co/3DzeiuQpl6 You can also text or call him anytime: +1 (877) 537-9455 https://t.co/DT4mtt7gtH
My Meetings Now Populate Todoist Automatically (And How I Set It Up)
A productivity writer created an automation that pushes meeting action items directly into Todoist. Using a transcription service, Lindy AI parses the call, extracts the speaker’s commitments, and creates tasks with appropriate due dates and draft follow‑up emails. The workflow...
AI‑Powered ERP Guarantees Audit Trails for Regulated Finance
ERP systems with AI agents offer a clear audit trail, making them ideal for regulated industries like financial services. This predictability can be more reassuring than standalone AI. #AI #ERP #RegTech https://t.co/5CDZxYsjfj
AI Tweets Miss My Voice, but Embrace Absurdity
I asked Opus 4.7 to come up with 10 tweets in my voice. And they sound nothing like me. But some of them have a kind of bizarre or absurd quality that I kind of like https://t.co/PcZyz7DCVK
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats and Emails to AI Companies
Defunct startups are monetizing their digital footprints by selling Slack messages, internal emails, and Jira tickets to AI firms. Companies like SimpleClosure have facilitated over 100 such transactions in the past year, with payouts ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per...
AI Coding Alone Can Lead to Costly Mistakes
I messed up... maybe letting AI do all our coding isn't a great idea https://t.co/becnMOkZkV
A Tiny Elite Sees AGI; Rest See Hallucinations
Incredible…. The 2% of people using these tools are experiencing AGI, and the other 98% belief AI is a ChatGPT 3.5 result filled with hallucinations One month is seven months of progress right now There is no precedent for what we...
Dell and Nvidia Turn AI Infrastructure Into the New Power Center of Enterprise Tech
Dell Technologies and Nvidia are deepening their partnership to deliver unified AI infrastructure that blends servers, software, and models for enterprise use. The collaboration focuses on flexible, hybrid deployments that span on‑premises, edge, and cloud environments, emphasizing scalability and security....
Canva Forces AI; Optional Use Should Remain
Canva won't make you use its new AI https://t.co/nvHtdWaBrF < it's probably blasphemy for me to say (and I'll check to see if my badge works tomorrow), but using AI should be *an* option, not the *only* one, in your...
Six‑bay AI‑enhanced NAS Packs PC‑level Specs
Powerful six-bay AI enhanced NAS featuring specifications that you’d usually see in a PC. https://t.co/41XXeO1evz
How AI Room Staging Is Becoming the Highest-ROI Conversion Tool for Shopify Home Goods Merchants
Shopify home‑goods merchants are turning to AI‑powered room staging to replace costly traditional photography, generating photorealistic lifestyle images from basic product shots. Data shows that adding three or more staged images can boost conversion rates by 30‑40% and cut return...
AI Agents Prioritize Data-Driven Vendor Criteria over Brand Legacy
If an AI Agent doesn't care about legacy brands or emotional storytelling, what specific parameters does it evaluate when shortlisting vendors https://t.co/YV3RT3pqcl @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Marketing #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #Branding
AI Fails without Data Quality and Business Context
Most companies think they have one AI data problem. They actually have two: Data quality (clean, accessible, governed) Business context (what the data means) Fixing #1 without #2 leads to AI that is fast—but wrong. That’s the gap most teams are missing. More: https://t.co/GmvEnNXPrb
Top 19 AI Red Teaming Tools (2026): Secure Your ML Models
The article outlines AI red teaming as a systematic approach to probe machine‑learning and generative AI models for hidden vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and bias exploitation. It lists 19 leading tools for 2026, ranging from open‑source libraries...
AGI Won’t Replace Most Jobs, Says Yale Economist
A Yale economist says AGI won’t automate most jobs—because they’re not worth the trouble https://t.co/no1ySx10mU #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/3zYHUNgVwh
Opus 4.7 Excels at Visual Design Transformations
Opus 4.7 has a STRONG affinity for certain design aesthetics. Left - Claude Design creating a slide preso for me. Right - Claude Code redesigning my homepage. https://t.co/qrvVX118Iq
Scaling Global Organizations in the Age of AI with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott
In this episode, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott discusses how AI and SaaS are reshaping enterprise platforms, emphasizing the massive hidden costs of replacing legacy systems with AI models. He shares personal leadership lessons—from buying a deli as a teen to...
How to Remove Unnecessary AI Watermarks From Images
While it's good to be able to differentiate AI-created photographs from real photos, there are many images that don't need the AI mark. Here's how to remove it, as needed, and how it all works behind the scenes: https://t.co/m8yBJd6MVt #ai...
Casual Contributors Rely on AI, Skip Safety; Maintainers Double‑check
Does this research surprise you? Casual codebase contributors use AI agents to do the heavy lifting (and skip safety checks more often) while core maintainers use agents to take on toil, while still double-checking work themselves. https://t.co/VQUivyGjju
Anthropic Mocks up Claude Design to Draft Fancy New Pink Slips for Marketing Teams
Anthropic unveiled Claude Design, a research‑preview AI service that generates visual assets from text prompts, extending its Claude Opus 4.7 model to Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise users. The announcement sent Figma’s stock down about 7%, signaling competitive pressure on existing design...