AI boom likened to fracking as capital pours in
The Financial Times argues the AI surge mirrors the fracking era, citing over $200 billion in 2023 AI startup funding and compute demand that rivals oil‑extraction energy use. It warns that massive speculative inflows could create a bubble similar to the one seen in fracking.
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Runway unveiled its Gen-4.5 text-to-video model, touting unprecedented physical accuracy and visual precision. The new system delivers more realistic motion, weight, and fluid dynamics while better adhering to detailed prompts. Gen-4.5 is being rolled out gradually to all users, maintaining the speed of its predecessor but still facing challenges with object permanence and causal reasoning. The launch positions Runway against OpenAI’s Sora 2, intensifying competition in lifelike AI video generation.

AWS re:Invent 2025 kicked off in Las Vegas with live coverage highlighting three marquee keynotes. CEO Matt Garman opened the event outlining Amazon’s multi‑year cloud strategy, followed by AI and Data VP Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian unveiling the next generation of...

From hiring to policing, Americans face moral questions about bias, transparency, and accountability in algorithmic systems. By Geoffrey Moore Author – The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality This question is misdirected. Of course,...

AI agents are emerging as powerful productivity tools, but PwC argues they are amplifiers rather than replacements for human talent. Executives view AI agents as a near‑term competitive advantage, with 73 % expecting significant gains, yet success hinges on aligning agents...

new on the press: unveiling @airstreet's investment in the leading frontier ai company for visual intelligence, @bfl_ml from the black forest 🌲 @robrombach @andi_blatt and their team have shipped the world's most popular image generation and editing models, FLUX - and...
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledges that early Watson efforts were technologically sound but mis‑timed, prompting a shift toward modular, enterprise‑focused generative AI via the new Watsonx platform. He argues that AI costs will fall dramatically over the next five years...

In this episode, Lukas Biewald interviews the CEO and founder of Surge AI about how their company is redefining data labeling for next‑generation large language models. They explore why traditional annotation pipelines fail, the importance of inter‑annotator agreement, and Surge’s...
5 Things You Should Never Tell Chat GPT 🤖 Think your ChatGPT chats are private? Think again. In this video, I share the 5 things you should never tell ChatGPT or any public AI chatbot — from personal data to...
The Incredible Tech That Stole The Show at Goodwood’s Future Lab At the Future Lab, Goodwood showcased next-gen tech: humanoid robots, quantum simulators, space-inspired innovations — a glimpse of the future where AI and engineering converge. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/edgx8asG...
A coalition of AI researchers and clergy, dubbed the “AI Avengers,” is urging the Vatican to treat artificial general intelligence (AGI) risks as a serious policy issue. Pope Leo XIV, a math‑trained, tech‑savvy pontiff, has already signaled interest in AI, convening...
OpenAGI, a stealth startup founded by MIT researcher Zengyi Qin, unveiled Lux, an AI foundation model that autonomously controls computers. Lux achieved an 83.6% success rate on the Online‑Mind2Web benchmark, outpacing OpenAI’s Operator (61.3%) and Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use (56.3%)....
A U.S. telecom firm, Securus Technologies, has deployed an AI model trained on years of inmates' phone, video, and text communications to flag planned criminal activity. The pilot uses a dataset of seven years of Texas prison calls and is...
Everyone asks how to ship faster as an AI engineer. @ShawhinT nailed the answer. He’s a former senior data scientist turned entrepreneur and one of the most efficient AI builders I know — the guy is literally shipping full products,...

The AI community is moving beyond larger models and bigger datasets toward reinforcement‑learning (RL) environments that let agents learn by interacting with simulated worlds. Recent investments of billions by Silicon Valley firms are creating these digital classrooms where models can...

OpenAI is reportedly testing an advertising feature in the ChatGPT Android app, as hidden code references an “ads feature,” “bazaar content,” and a “search ads carousel.” The beta version (1.2025.329) suggests a rollout could be imminent, though timing and integration...

Artificial‑intelligence investment now powers more than 90% of U.S. GDP growth in early 2025, with $60 billion spent on computer equipment and $10 billion on data‑center construction. A handful of AI‑heavy firms such as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and NVIDIA account for over...

Google is gradually rolling out Gemini for Home, an AI‑powered upgrade to its smart‑home platform, but access is limited to a waiting list and primarily US users. A Reddit‑discovered hack lets Android users trigger the update by opening the googlehome://assistant/voice/setup URL in...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is evolving from a powerful search tool into a research collaborator, delivering full solutions to four long‑standing mathematical problems and uncovering hidden links across physics, biology, and computer science. The model’s “compression factor” enabled six hours of AI‑augmented...

Lucy Smith’s December 2025 AI seminar roundup lists a series of free, virtual talks covering diverse topics such as optimization for societal impact, AI safety, AI literacy measurement, protein engineering with diffusion models, and the role of third‑party intelligence in markets....
Securus Technologies has trained a large‑language‑model on years of recorded inmate phone, video, text, and email communications and is now piloting the system to flag conversations that suggest planned criminal activity. The AI tool, initially built on seven years of...
The SARLO‑80 dataset aggregates roughly 2,500 Umbra synthetic aperture radar (SAR) scenes and aligns them with high‑resolution optical imagery at a uniform 80 cm slant‑range resolution. Each SAR patch (1,024 × 1,024 px) is co‑registered with an optical counterpart and enriched with English natural‑language...
⌨️ Is prompting just a phase – or the future of how we use AI? In this video, I explore whether AI prompting – the skill of crafting instructions to get the best results from AI tools – will eventually...

Loveable, a Stockholm‑based AI startup, has become Europe’s flagship “vibe coding” platform, reaching a $1.8 billion unicorn valuation and $100 million ARR within eight months of its Series A. The service lets users describe a concept in natural language and automatically generates full‑stack,...
In this episode, Lauren Tulloch, VP and Managing Director of the Copyright Clearance Center, explains how financial services firms are increasingly exposed to copyright risks as they adopt AI tools for data analysis, content generation, and routine employee workflows. She...

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Pleased to see #Huawei and ICPC bringing global student talent together at the 2025 ICPC Challenge Championship powered by Huawei, held Nov 11–13 at Huawei’s Lianqiu Lake Campus in Shanghai. Under the theme “𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲...
Apptio’s Technology Business Management (TBM) platform adds a Financial Intelligence Layer that unifies data from ERP, cloud, ITSM, HR and other systems. By normalizing and enriching these inputs, the solution enables FinOps, IT financial management and strategic portfolio management teams...
AI Agents Lead The 8 Tech Trends Transforming Enterprise In 2026 Enterprises will face a new wave of #transformation in 2026 as #AIagents , industry #cloud platforms, #quantum readiness, and #digitaltwins reshape strategy and operations. This article explores the eight...
AWS has added Visa’s Intelligence Commerce platform to its Marketplace, pairing Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol tools with Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore. The joint effort includes publicly available blueprints that streamline multi‑agent workflows such as travel booking and B2B payment reconciliation....
ELON JUST CALLED OPTIMUS A VON NEUMANN PROBE... HERE’S WHY THAT’S INSANE! Elon just hinted that his Tesla bot, Optimus, might one day make copies of itself #teslabot #tesla #optimus #Robotics #Robot #AI @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1...
DeepSeek. Kling. Runway. And a new robotics company. Busy morning!
Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc‑0, marking a five‑year jump from v4’s initial candidate. Daily pip installs have surged to over 3 million, pushing total installations past 1.2 billion. The library now supports more than 400 model architectures and hosts upwards of 750 k checkpoints,...
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first successful sim2real transfer on Geoff the G1! https://t.co/eywBjbiLxy
Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools! https://t.co/s8XiLeLlk8 #AI #LLMs #LLM #GenerativeAI #GenAI #security #cyberattack #cybercrimes #Hacker
James Cameron, the director of the Avatar franchise, told CBS Sunday Morning that generative AI is "horrifying," warning that it can create characters and performances from text prompts. He contrasted this with performance‑capture technology, which he describes as a celebration...
AI isn’t magic. It’s a process. 8 steps: 👉define problem 👉collect/prepare data 👉choose model 👉train 👉evaluate 👉fine-tune 👉deploy 👉ensure ethics & safety Real value comes from running this loop well. #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #ResponsibleAI https://t.co/XYE2HFejK1

🚨 Huge news from Deepseek today. V3.2 and V3.2-Special are officially out. Both are engineered with a reasoning-first approach for agentic systems... and early results show they outperform GPT-5 and Gemini 3.0 Pro in key areas. DA WHALE IS BACK 🐳🔥 https://t.co/XHyvBYV2yV
Amazon slashed the price of its Echo Frames smart glasses to $115 for Cyber Monday, a steep drop from the regular $300 list price. The promotion bundles a prescription‑ready model with a free Echo Spot smart alarm clock, delivering roughly...
Chat! A new DeepSeek model (v3.2) has landed!!!! https://t.co/IiT4N6hffg
Between hybrid work schedules and AI-prompted workflows, we’ve introduced acceleration to our lives without brakes. A straightforward three-step process for reclaiming agency is AIR: Awareness, Inquiry, Reframing... https://t.co/GVExaZT260 #leadership #managers #work
Think you know how to spot model differences? @The_GridAI made a challenge with 10,000 $ in prizes!!! You get 2 replies and must guess if these replies are coming from the same LLM or not. It sounds simple… but it absolutely isn’t 😅 Gameplay...
Wow, such a great open-source drop! Put Claude on steroids with 120+ scientific skills spanning maths, biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, & more 🤯 If you’ve ever wanted Claude to act like a research assistant, this gets very close. Free and open source. Repo in...
3 year anniversary of ChatGPT Where will we be 3 years from now
AI sharpens whatever attention you bring to it. Clear focus turns into clear output. Unclear thinking collapses instantly. A marketing brief with three real constraints produces a usable campaign in minutes. A product request with hand-wavy goals produces an endless loop of...
ChatGPT is 3 years old today! We launched expecting a small research audience. Within hours, the usage was far beyond anything we’d prepared for. Since then, hundreds of millions of people have pushed us to make it more reliable, more capable,...
Here's my conversation with Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) about the nature of intelligence in biological systems, including unconventional & alien intelligence, agency, memory, consciousness, and life in all its forms here on Earth and beyond. It's here on X in full and...
we found ourselves a nice lil local optimum. https://t.co/PXevVKYcpL
MongoDB’s AI resource hub is an absolute goldmine! 🔥 Clean explanations, practical demos, & a real production focus: ↳ Vector search pipelines ↳ Memory-capable agents ↳ Storage architectures ↳ Indexing, caching, security One of the best collections out there. Link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/n2AqUKPLo4
this took off. note that its not just an issue with copilot. see the responses. models use cat/grep to access env vars when they are literally told not to. antigravity runs commands that it feels is right without asking your...
Gemini 3 Pro debugged two interesting health things that no other LLM has gotten right.