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AI boom likened to fracking as $200B pours into startups
The Financial Times op‑ed argues the current AI surge mirrors the fracking era, highlighting massive capital inflows and speculative fervor. AI startups attracted over $200 billion in 2023 funding, and compute demand now rivals the energy intensity of oil extraction.
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By the numbers: Microsoft commits $10B AI investment in Japan
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, a new agentic coding model that replaces GPT‑5.1‑Codex as the default in its Codex developer environment. The model introduces a compaction mechanism that enables long‑horizon reasoning across millions of tokens, cutting token usage by about 30% and allowing it to complete tasks that run for more than 24 hours. Benchmark results show Codex‑Max leading or matching Google’s Gemini 3 Pro on key coding tests, with 77.9% accuracy on SWE‑Bench Verified and 58.1% on Terminal‑Bench 2.0. The model is currently available through the Codex CLI and to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise users, with a public API slated for future release.
This seems small but is actually a huge win for GPT-5.1 🏆 When I talk to business users of ChatGPT, what they want is: 1) for ChatGPT to follow instructions, even negative ones - if you say ‘never say the...
Microsoft announced new agentic AI features for Windows 11 Insider builds that can automate tasks such as email drafting and file sorting, but these capabilities are disabled by default and require user opt‑in. In a security advisory, the company warned that...
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Teachers, a dedicated workspace that gives educators unlimited access to the latest ChatGPT 5.1 Auto model, including search, file uploads, connectors, and image generation. The service, already deployed to 150,000 teachers across U.S. districts, features education‑grade privacy and...
In this episode, Krish Ramineni, co‑founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, walks listeners through the evolution of AI‑powered meeting assistants—from early BERT‑based prototypes to today’s real‑time transcription and knowledge‑automation tools like Live Assist. He highlights key lessons about product‑market validation, the...
Fetch AI announced a trio of products—ASI:One, Fetch Business, and Agentverse—aimed at building an "Agentic Web" where personal AI assistants can securely coordinate with verified brand agents to execute multi‑step transactions. ASI:One serves as an orchestration layer that stores user...
Amazon Prime Video is beta‑testing a new AI‑driven “Video Recap” feature for select U.S. original series, including *Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan*, *Fallout*, *The Rig*, *Bosch* and *Upload*. The tool uses Amazon Bedrock models to analyze episodes, extract key scenes, and stitch them together...
Amazon Prime Video announced the beta rollout of AI-generated video recaps for select Prime Originals such as Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Upload. The generative‑AI system stitches together narration, dialogue, and music to produce theatrical‑quality season summaries, building on last year’s text‑based...
Alex Lieberman and Arman Hezarkhani discuss Tenex's AI‑first consulting model that pays engineers by story‑point output instead of hours, enabling some to earn $1 million and delivering ten‑fold productivity gains. They explain how this incentive structure spurred rapid prototyping—building complex vision...
What does an electrified, digitalized, AI-powered future look like? Here are 5 key takeaways from @SchneiderElectric Innovation Summit: 1. One Digital Grid: Adding 1,000-2,000 TWh of electricity per decade. Platform on Azure reduces outages 40%, cuts interconnection timelines 25% with AI-powered intelligence. 2....
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Sunday Robotics co‑founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi about the emerging "GPT moment" in AI robotics and their flagship product, Memo, a general‑intelligence home robot. They explain how diffusion policy, ACT/ALOHA frameworks, and...
Buried the lede a bit but our fully open source II Agent framework is now state of the art in Terminal Bench 2 using just Gemini 3! Congrats to team for amazing work & more coming the pipeline The best agents will...
I met with Saudi's head of AI last week in Abu Dhabi and he told me they wouldn't allow robots into the country without the data being stored in their datacenters. Well, here is how Tesla's robotaxis and Optimus humanoids...
Senators John Curtis and Mark Kelly introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, a bipartisan amendment to Section 230 that would strip liability protections from for‑profit social‑media platforms with over a million users if their recommendation algorithms can be shown to have...
Meet SAM 3, a unified model that enables detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects across images and videos. SAM 3 introduces some of our most highly requested features like text and exemplar prompts to segment all objects of a target...
Just to confirm, is everyone okay with the fact that a majority of society believes (incorrectly) that "GenAI" is the only form of AI system to be used for every technological function, question and issue from now until the end...
DeepMind unveiled AlphaProof, an AI system that achieved silver‑medalist performance at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring just one point shy of a gold medal. The system combines a multi‑billion‑parameter neural net, tree‑search, and a novel test‑time reinforcement learning (TTRL)...
Today we’re excited to unveil a new generation of Segment Anything Models: 1️⃣ SAM 3 enables detecting, segmenting and tracking of objects across images and videos, now with short text phrases and exemplar prompts. 🔗 Learn more about SAM 3: https://go.meta.me/4de3d8 2️⃣...
I rarely talk about Huawei, but they’re pushing some really interesting stuff in AI right now. Just went through @Huawei's key takeaways from their 6th Innovation and IP Forum. V. strong signals for the AI ecosystem, especially around: → computing → open standards → long...
The Verge tested a $68.99 "AI Smart Pen" marketed on YouTube as a cheat device that scans printed test questions and returns AI-generated answers. In practice, the pen’s camera often failed to read text, and when it did, the answers...
Humans are vulnerable to compelling narratives. AI can deliver them instantly and persuasively, which increases the risk that we trust outcomes we should question. Analytics and education must work together to counter our natural bias to accept a good story....
On October 19, 2025, four men disguised as construction workers used a furniture lift to access a balcony at the Louvre and stole crown jewels worth €88 million in under eight minutes, exploiting the museum’s reliance on visual categorization. The thieves’...
Target will launch a beta ChatGPT‑powered shopping app within the next week, allowing users to generate ideas, browse products, build multi‑item baskets, shop for groceries and complete checkout directly in the chat interface. The rollout expands OpenAI’s retail app portfolio,...
Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers resigned from OpenAI’s board after a congressional release of Jeffrey Epstein’s email cache revealed intimate and inappropriate communications between Summers and Epstein. The emails, spanning November 2018 to July 2019, show Summers...
AWS’s latest research shows that more than nine in ten companies worldwide plan to raise overall IT spending (93%), cloud spending (97%) and cybersecurity budgets (90%). While 56% of respondents view public cloud as more secure and 81% believe it...
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬. A lot of people ask me if it’s still worth doing a Master’s to learn 𝘼𝙄. Honestly, for most people, it’s not about the degree anymore. It’s about staying...
Chief Information Officers are increasingly being tasked with AI responsibilities as enterprises move from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments, according to new Salesforce research. While three‑quarters of CIOs report greater confidence and 97% say they now understand AI better, collaboration...
Quantum‑physics researchers at Spain’s Multiverse Computing have compressed DeepSeek R1 by 55% into a “Slim” version and stripped the Chinese‑mandated censorship layers, enabling the model to answer politically sensitive queries similarly to Western AI. Meanwhile, Google launched Gemini 3, a multimodal model...
Camera Intelligence’s Caira, a Kickstarter‑backed Nano Banana AI camera, attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and combines a Micro Four Thirds 11‑MP Sony sensor with Qualcomm Snapdragon and Google Edge TPU processors. It offers on‑device generative editing, voice control and...
The European Commission has unveiled a Digital Omnibus proposal that dilutes core elements of the GDPR and postpones key provisions of the AI Act. The changes would simplify cookie consent rules, allow broader use of anonymized personal data for AI...
Swedish AI‑assisted coding startup Lovable announced it has doubled its annual recurring revenue to $200 million within four months, reaching the milestone just four months after crossing $100 million in July. CEO Anton Osika attributed the rapid growth to the company’s decision...
In this pre-Thanksgiving episode, the host demonstrates how they built a custom Thanksgiving party hub in Lovable, covering guest management, dish tracking, recipe sharing, and photo galleries. They detail the process of refining AI‑generated designs with Google Fonts, Tailwind, and...
Google is embedding support for XR smart glasses into the Android version of Google Translate, as revealed by hidden code referencing "Glasses" as a playback device. The upcoming feature will extend the Live Translation service, allowing spoken translations to be...
If you never have built software before what are you waiting for? I just built a fairly complex app with @Trae_ai in a few minutes. Nuts. Just by talking to it. And when I hit a snag, it helped me...
@dileeplearning Here's another example. See our paper for details. https://t.co/LvU16Oe45g
Quantum‑inspired AI firm Multiverse Computing announced a 55% smaller version of the Chinese‑censored large language model DeepSeek R1, dubbed DeepSeek R1 Slim, that it claims retains near‑original performance while stripping out state‑mandated censorship. The team used tensor‑network compression, a technique borrowed from quantum...
@dileeplearning As a fun example, here is one task from our study, where we asked humans and LLMs to both generate an output grid and the rule that describes the transformation. https://t.co/oNSXVyCzg8
"AGI is multimodal and reality is the dataset of AGI"
AI-generated voice cloning has moved from experimental demos to full production, with roughly one in three U.S. consumers reporting synthetic‑voice fraud in Q4 2024 and many incurring losses. Fraudsters now combine breached personal data with low‑cost text‑to‑speech and automated dialing to...
AI now exceeds human performance in most technical tasks — but humans still lead in multimodal reasoning 🧠 The next frontier isn’t about replacing humans, but amplifying how we think across data, images & language. Source: Stanford AI Index 2025 #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork...
droid changelog custom models for subagents are IN full changelog here: https://t.co/c5pzDR734B https://t.co/bS5sOOuzrQ
The episode announces the open call for nominations for the 2026 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, highlighting its purpose to honor researchers whose current work significantly influences the autonomous agents field. Listeners are instructed on how to nominate candidates...
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One gift of parenthood is becoming so attuned to your child that you develop what feels like mild telepathy. How might brain-computer interfaces potentially allow us to expand and enrich this for the purpose of greater love and understanding? A...
Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me. Vibe coded a sign language recognition app with video enabled, confidence scores, sampling settings, and tips in under 5 minutes. Code written with Gemini-3. Gemini-2.5 handling detection. Video is sped up 2x. https://t.co/QT8TgjX8k9
Microsoft Unveils Tool to Help Companies Control, Track AI Agents | World DNA https://t.co/7eETFvDiA6 #AIAgent #artificial_intelligence #AI #Microsoft
What does Generative Engine Optimization REALLY mean? How should you think about it? Why SEO still matters more than ever and the rise of UGC in the SERP. In my latest with @HubSpot - I break it all down: https://t.co/uKABuubMU8
LIVE in ~2 hours (6pm CET) with Gagan Biyani (co-founder: maven, udemy) > $1million course secrets? > AI in education > Edtech 2.0 > College is dead in 2025? > Most students will finish in 2 years with AI. join live. like, share, subscribe!...
95% of Americans don't want a race to AGI and superintelligence, but instead want better AI tools to cure diseases and solve problems. Here at @WebSummit, I discuss how this controllable "95% AI" can gives us almost all the AI...
Most people don't know this exists. OpenAI recently launched the AI Academy, and it’s completely free! 11 courses covering: → Prompt engineering → Reasoning with ChatGPT → Data analysis → Coding, writing, search & more Perfect for beginners or tinkerers! Link below 🧵↓ https://t.co/HrFkkyi0V3
