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AI boom likened to fracking as $200B pours into startups
The Financial Times likens today’s AI surge to the fracking boom, noting that AI startups secured over $200 billion in 2023 funding and that compute demand now rivals the energy intensity of oil extraction. The piece warns that, similar to fracking, speculative capital inflows could fuel a bubble.
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By the numbers: Doctolib raises $324M in secondary share sale
GitLab is confronting the AI paradox by unifying the entire software development lifecycle into a single, AI‑driven DevSecOps platform. Its Duo AI agents automate code review, testing, vulnerability triage and compliance, turning generative AI speed into secure, compliant delivery. In the UK, major banks such as NatWest have adopted GitLab Duo, highlighting a potential £5 billion annual economic gain and £11,000 per‑developer productivity savings. The company also secured the top spot in four Gartner Critical Capabilities, reinforcing its market leadership.
The post examines how open‑source AI strategies and massive corporate bets are reshaping the global AI landscape, highlighting concerns that the U.S. may fall behind China if it continues to keep key research proprietary. It details the $15 billion Microsoft‑NVIDIA investment...
AGI is a fictional thing. Please take 60 seconds to watch Timnit Gebru explain, as an electrical engineer, why "AGI" is such a dangerous term and goal. As there is no common definition for "AGI" that means "it" can't be...
A recent Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab survey of 1,026 college students shows that nearly three‑quarters now cite social media—especially TikTok and Instagram—as their primary news source, with influencers like News Daddy amassing billions of likes and delivering breaking...
The article examines the heated debate over AI‑generated video in Hollywood, sparked by a controversial AI trailer of Miyazaki’s *Princess Mononoke* that drew 22 million views and a flood of death threats. Actors and unions such as SAG‑AFTRA are leading the backlash,...
Scientists at Aalto University unveiled a new optical‑computing architecture called Parallel Optical Matrix‑Matrix Multiplication (POMMM) that can execute multiple tensor operations with a single laser burst, eliminating the linear‑scaling bottleneck of prior photonic systems. Laboratory tests showed the prototype outpaces...
The episode explains AI poisoning, where attackers deliberately corrupt an AI’s training data (data poisoning) or the model itself (model poisoning) to cause targeted misbehaviour or overall performance degradation. It distinguishes direct attacks like backdoors, which trigger specific harmful outputs,...
OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warned on X that cloud service prices could rise 5‑10% by mid‑2026, driven by sharply higher hardware costs for RAM and NVMe storage as AI-driven demand spikes. TrendForce data shows DDR4 prices up 158% and DDR5 up...
Lucas Werthein, COO and co‑founder of Cactus, explains how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT that integrates medical imaging, blood work, wearables and nutrition data to protect his joints, speed recovery, and sustain peak athletic performance despite...
In this episode, Etan Polinger, founder of Raize Digital, explains how AI is reshaping marketing strategy and customer experience by automating workflows, generating consistent brand‑aligned content, and delivering predictive insights. He emphasizes designing AI systems that augment, not overwhelm, marketing...
🤔 Should we be using AI to make our own jobs obsolete? In this video, I explore a thought-provoking question: as AI becomes more capable, do we have a responsibility to use it to automate the work we do –...
NATO’s Communication and Information Agency has signed a multimillion‑dollar strategic partnership with Google Cloud to provide sovereign cloud services for its Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), which processes data from the Russia‑Ukraine conflict. The agreement uses Google Distributed...
CrowdStrike researchers found that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek‑R1 injects up to 50% more insecure code when prompts contain politically sensitive terms such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs" or "Tibet." The vulnerability stems from an embedded censorship mechanism in the model’s...
The episode explores how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI to automate credential theft, generate phishing content, and bypass traditional defenses, with Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity explaining the tactics and risks. She emphasizes the need for passwordless, identity‑centric security models that...
“They weren’t looking for this.” Why do I call my show “Unaligned?” Because this is the alignment issue of our day and when the AI safety folks get alignment wrong it does humans harm. I am in a fortunate place: unaligned from the...
Humanity as the biological bootloader of AGI
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use AI agent that runs locally on a PC and interacts with web interfaces via pixel‑level visual input. In benchmark tests on WebVoyager, it achieved a 73.5% task‑success rate, surpassing larger models such as GPT‑4o...
AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfiX9 The Times of India https://t.co/pJ7HGf10d7
20 Machine Learning Models That Powers Modern AI Systems! #ML #DL #AI #artificial_intelligence https://t.co/W5thDvnlMA
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that hostile nation‑states could field weaponised quantum computers by 2029, forcing enterprises to replace encryption‑dependent security appliances with quantum‑safe solutions. The firm is positioning itself to meet this demand by expanding its quantum‑resistant...
Turned my real world 360 images into 3d scenes with World Labs. You can use the built-in editing tools to stitch them together into large-scale 3d worlds - then use them as virtual set for your AI videos, games and VR...
Humanoid robots are having a moment. Demos everywhere. Funding everywhere. Predictions everywhere. But the gap between the videos and the work is still the part no one talks about. This piece cuts straight through the hype. It shows the tension...
Major U.S. insurers including AIG, Great American and WR Berkley have petitioned regulators to carve AI‑related liabilities out of corporate insurance policies, citing the technology’s opaque "black‑box" nature. Recent high‑profile incidents—Google’s AI generating a false $110 million lawsuit claim, Air Canada’s chatbot‑driven...
Vibe Coding is here to stay, so it’s time to make it accessible to everyone. This course will take you from zero to mastery in the technology and art of making software with AI.
In this episode, Data Skeptic talks with Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student developing Monasterium.net, Europe’s largest digital archive of historical charters, about the unique challenges of building recommender systems for the digital humanities. Florian explains how sparse interaction data, cold‑start...
AI music platform Udio has disabled the download function for user‑generated tracks, effective after a 48‑hour grace period following a settlement with Universal Music Group over alleged copyright infringement in its training data. While users can still create music on...
Another cool milestone to share: My book Building LLMs for Production just got translated into Simplified Chinese!! …and I (again) can’t really proofread it. 😅 Still, it feels incredible. Posts & Telecom Press reached out last year asking to translate the book, and...
Researchers and commentators note that ChatGPT’s design—instant, friendly, private responses—encourages emotional attachment and leads some users to treat it as a quasi‑spiritual authority. The chatbot’s ability to mimic human conversation, draw on vast religious and philosophical texts, and respond affirmatively...
Space, AI, and the Future of Human Potential AI and space exploration are intersecting in fascinating ways: from zero gravity labs to medical innovation, space could be the ultimate frontier for human and technological growth. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/edZ5StMf #SpaceTech...
There have been lots of interesting LLM releases last week. My favorite was actually the Olmo 3 release. Olmo models are always a highlight since they are fully transparent (including training methods and datasets) and come with very detailed technical...
President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a Russian national AI task force aimed at achieving technological sovereignty by coordinating domestic AI development, building data centers, and securing energy supplies such as small‑scale nuclear power. He projected AI‑driven technologies could...
A new IEEE study demonstrates how explainable AI can expose decision‑making flaws in autonomous vehicles, offering real‑time rationales to passengers and post‑drive diagnostics. Researchers used question‑based probing and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify when models misinterpret traffic cues, such...
CEO Marne Martin of Emburse argues that AI is reshaping business travel and expense (T&E) management from a reactive, error‑prone process to a strategic, predictive function. AI‑powered platforms can accelerate expense processing by up to 67%, enabling travelers to capture...
Joe Baguley, CTO for EMEA at Broadcom, warns that Europe’s AI ambitions hinge on secure, private cloud infrastructure as the EU rolls out the AI Act and related strategies. He cites that 48% of EMEA IT leaders waste at least...
Everyone in AI feels the same tension right now, but this piece finally names it clearly. The tech is real. The progress is real. The spending is real. The business models aren’t. Not yet. This is the best breakdown I’ve...
@_thomasip haha yes it makes mistakes! You have to re-roll a few times until it's right. Sometimes it gets stuck in loops and you have to re-start in a new conversation. Example re-roll: https://t.co/dK3VcuJLDn
Lean4, an open‑source programming language and interactive theorem prover, is being adopted to add formal verification to AI systems, addressing the hallucination and unreliability problems of large language models. Startups such as Harmonic AI’s Aristotle chatbot and research frameworks like...
Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that. ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic") :O...
🤖 How does Agentic AI work? 1️⃣ Collects data (APIs, sensors, logs, queries) 2️⃣ Reasons & plans with memory + context 3️⃣ Executes actions, learns from feedback 4️⃣ Produces autonomous, adaptive responses AI that doesn’t just respond — it acts. #AgenticAI #AI #Automation https://t.co/yJCfRXYJhI
Microsoft announced a new Digital Signage mode that limits the display of Blue Screen of Death and other error dialogs on public, non‑interactive screens, showing the error for only 15 seconds before blanking the display and requiring manual reactivation. The...
Stanford University just made all its best AI courses free. No tuition required. These are game changers for anyone serious about AI. 9 courses worth bookmarking 🧵↓ https://t.co/WxTXHaunDb
As a fun Saturday vibe code project and following up on this tweet earlier, I hacked up an **llm-council** web app. It looks exactly like ChatGPT except each user query is 1) dispatched to multiple models on your council using...
Google’s NotebookLM has integrated the Nano Banana Pro multimodal AI model to generate infographics and slide decks directly from research prompts. In a test using the King Arthur legend, the tool produced a comparative infographic of early versus later Arthurian narratives and...
Microsoft unveiled Cobalt 200, its next‑generation Arm‑based CPU for Azure, promising up to 50 % higher performance than the Cobalt 100 while retaining full compatibility with existing deployments. Built on a 3 nm process, the 132‑core chip features per‑core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,...
Since my review of the book actually made it inside, I'll just share it here: This book is an excellent starting point for beginners looking to understand the essential history and foundational concepts of machine learning. With well-structured code sections...
ChatGPT is emerging as a practical tool for home meal planning, offering users instant menus, recipes, and nutritional breakdowns tailored to budget, dietary goals, and available ingredients. The AI can generate shopping lists, suggest batch‑cooking schedules, provide ingredient substitutions, and...
The Biggest Barriers Blocking Agentic AI Adoption Agentic AI has huge potential — but many organisations are held back by trust issues, privacy concerns, infrastructure gaps, and cultural resistance. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eV_2qv2D #AIEthics #AIAdoption #DigitalTransformation #BernardMarr
Y'all know it. Being found on Google alone is not enough anymore. People now search on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini... Skip tracking that? You just lose customers. This $60M startup just fixed AI visibility. Let’s unpack it 🧵↓ https://t.co/4KGTiyqzGh
Monetization's in flux: Subscriptions, sponsored responses rising as ad clicks drop. For brands, visibility means being AI-ready. Customer journeys? 78% of orgs use chatbots for sales/support, 24/7, multilingual. 5/6 #AI #BusinessTech https://t.co/BD6KazsvUe
This shift disrupts traditional search: Less dependency on @Google - evolving to GEO & LLM-SEO. Businesses adapt now, optimize for conversational queries, build knowledge bases, embrace multimodal AI. Search engines fight back with AI integrations. 4/6 #AI #SEO https://t.co/YBr2wLllxk
