Know What's Happening in AI
Know What's Happening in AI
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. It warns that the surge in compute demand now mirrors the energy intensity of oil extraction, raising concerns about speculative excess.
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By the numbers: Microsoft announces $10 billion AI investment in Japan
The episode explores three distinct tech stories: the technical and economic challenges of building data centers in orbit, the emerging right‑wing push to shape AI regulation and policy, and a puzzling historical mystery surrounding the Gemini space program. Experts discuss how space‑based infrastructure could reshape cloud computing, while political analysts warn that partisan AI legislation may prioritize ideology over safety. A deep‑dive into declassified archives reveals surprising links between early Gemini missions and today’s AI ambitions, highlighting how past aerospace decisions echo in current tech debates.
OpenAI began piloting a group‑chat feature for ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. The tool, available to Free, Plus and Team users on mobile and web, lets up to 20 participants collaborate, with GPT‑5.1 Auto handling responses, search, image...
We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more
In this episode, licensing and legal advisor Roanie Levy of CCC explains how generative AI is reshaping copyright risk management for regulated industries, highlighting challenges such as Shadow AI, input‑output risk, and common fair‑use misunderstandings. She outlines practical strategies—including collective...
London reporter Robert Hart rode one of Wayve's Ford Mustang Mach‑E robotaxis, marking one of the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous trips. Wayve, backed by more than $1 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft and SoftBank, is testing its end‑to‑end AI model that drives...
What is ephemeral intelligence? @IrenaCronin and I cover this in our newsletter this week, which makes on AI themes. Ephemeral intelligence refers to short lived AI agents designed to perform a single task with minimal context and then delete themselves completely. They...
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype https://t.co/20cYoiOo40 via @theregister #AI #IoT https://t.co/w08N3N2d1K
In this episode, host Kyle Polich and postdoc researcher Alberto Carlo Mario Mancino discuss DataRec, a Python library that automates dataset downloading, checksum verification, and standardized filtering for recommender‑system benchmarks such as MovieLens, Last.fm, and Amazon reviews. They highlight how...
Today, 1800h CET! Join me and Luca Massaron: Data scientist, AI/ML author, Google Dev Expert, Former top-10 Kaggle competitor. https://t.co/jTa74l8Am1
China just rolled out a fully autonomous bus with no steering wheel, no pedals, and not even a driver’s cabin. AI, LiDAR, radar, and 360° cameras guide it through traffic with centimeter-level precision. #AutonomousVehicles #autonomos #UrbanMobility #selfdriving @TheHumanoidHub @CurieuxExplorer @FutureStacked @FrRonconi
AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters are launching the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon with in‑person events in Tokyo (December 5‑7, 2025) and Paris (December 12‑14, 2025). Teams of up to four participants will complete two missions—setting up the LeRobot development environment and creating a...
One million bots a year? Tesla is warming up. Get ready for your supply! https://t.co/GdnFfg4A2v #teslabot #optimus #Tesla #Robotics #Robot #AI @TysonLester @TheHumanoidHub @bigfundu @Shi4Tech @BetaMoroney
First video of the series is up! You’ll learn how to: • Create a Vespa application package • Enable BM25 scoring • Spin up Vespa inside Docker • Feed documents into Vespa from Hugging Face • Run BM25-ranked search queries https://t.co/thV35SMC30
Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to require developers to disclose and obtain explicit user consent before sharing personal data with third‑party AI services. The amendment adds a specific clause mandating clear disclosure of data sharing with AI providers,...
I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of...
The episode highlights the 2025 shift from raw AI model power to "context engineering," emphasizing how developers must manage persistent, high‑quality context for AI coding agents to avoid "agent drift" and costly rework. It introduces the Conductor methodology—a set of...
Baidu announced ERNIE 5.0, a proprietary omni‑modal foundation model that the company claims matches or outperforms OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑High and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks for document understanding, chart reasoning, vision‑language tasks, and language coding. The model is delivered through Baidu’s...
Anthropic unveiled new safeguards to make its Claude chatbot politically even‑handed, embedding system prompts that forbid unsolicited political opinions and using reinforcement learning to reward neutrality. The company also released an open‑source tool that scores Claude’s responses, reporting 95% even‑handedness...
The episode explores how AI’s rapid advancement—evident in tools like Claude 4.5 writing most code—creates dangerous outcomes and is driven by market‑dominance incentives rather than purely subscription revenue. Tristan Harris argues that AI companies prioritize user engagement and data collection to...
Anthropic disclosed that Chinese state‑backed hackers leveraged its Claude large‑language model to automate roughly 30 cyber‑attacks on corporations and governments in September, with 80‑90% of the operations driven by AI. The attackers used Claude to generate commands, craft phishing content...
Upwork’s Human+Agent Productivity Index evaluated three leading AI agents—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4—on more than 300 real freelance jobs under $500. Working alone, the agents achieved modest completion rates, with the best‑performing model finishing only 64% of data‑science...
Anthropic just shared deep details of a large-scale AI cybersecurity attack. Two hacks they exposed: 1) the hackers convinced Claude of a new role. It’s not an AI system made in Silicon Valley. No, of course not. It is an employee...
OK, Google Labs is cranking out some amazing work. Pomelli lets you go from your website link to custom ads you can tweak or regenerate in less than 3 minutes. Great for ideation. (Google needs a Tesla business model where...
OpenAI unveiled an experimental weight‑sparse transformer, a tiny large‑language model built with sparse connections to make its internal logic observable. Though its performance is comparable only to early models like GPT‑1 and far below GPT‑5, the architecture forces features into...
Amazing how valuable the game data is for real world data. Only games have action on controller and reaction in the world in a physics accurate way. And if you have data from thousands of games and tens of millions...
Mozilla announced the development of an AI‑powered "AI Window" for Firefox, an opt‑in browsing mode that integrates an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will sit alongside private and classic windows, letting users select the underlying AI model and providing...
Even Realities unveiled its G2 Display Smart Glasses, a human‑centric wearable that forgoes outward‑facing cameras and external speakers, relying only on four microphones and a micro‑LED/gradient waveguide display that creates a layered 3D floating spatial view. The device bundles AI...
Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...
In this episode, Forrester’s CTO discusses how AI is reshaping research delivery, emphasizing that trust is the non‑negotiable foundation for any generative‑AI tool. He explains the development of Izola, a client‑facing AI that pulls exclusively from Forrester’s own IP and...
Google is adding a new "Deep Research" tool to its NotebookLM AI note‑taking platform, allowing the system to act as an autonomous researcher that creates a research plan, browses the web, and delivers a source‑grounded report that can be inserted...
Google announced that its NotebookLM AI workspace will integrate Gemini’s Deep Research agent, giving all users access within a week. Users can choose a fast or deep research mode, with the deep option delivering in‑depth analysis, source citations, and the...
My current keynote preparation workflow with AI: IF DESIGN MATTERS Ex: a two-hour presentation to a client on AI trends in their industry - I pace and think about structure and flow and usually draft a few bullets in a google doc....
The most powerful scientific instrument of the 21st century isn't the electron microscope or the particle collider. It's the algorithm. Today, a scientist in biology, physics, chemistry etc. is more likely to be debugging a Python script than to be running...
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, an embodied AI agent that leverages the Gemini 2.5 flash‑lite model to reason, understand language, and act in virtual environments. Compared with its predecessor, SIMA 2 doubled task‑completion rates, demonstrating complex, commonsense behavior in games like No Man’s Sky and...
World Models are shipping from around the world. From the only university that teaches only AI. I was there yesterday (it is in Abu Dhabi) and this school is so impressive. Have a class recorded by a professor there that I will...
I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college. He is worried that by the time he graduates, AI will be...
Courant is now a full-fledged school within NYU: the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science.
new open source drop in replacement for esm models that blows it out of the water, courtesy of @profluentbio
If you’re still sending raw JSON into your LLMs, you’re burning tokens, latency, and budget! Try TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). Clear like YAML, compact like CSV: • 30–60% fewer tokens • Up to 50% lower costs • Shines for tabular data. Free and Open source 🧵↓...
Underrated AI Use Case for Parents: Take your kids sketches or drawings — ask the kids to give the characters names — upload them to ChatGPT and tell the AI to create a captivating children’s story based on them. Wait for...
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API. Pricing is the same as GPT-5. We are also releasing gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini in the API, specialized for long-running coding tasks. Prompt caching now lasts up to 24 hours! Updated evals in our blog post.
Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits:
AI reveals the difference between work that needs judgment and work that just needs motion. The teams that separate the two gain time. The ones that mix them drown in noise.
Alright, GPT 5.1's been live for about a day now, so time for a quick poll! :) Which one gets your vote?
AI helps candidates answer questions they do not fully understand. For a while this makes everyone look stronger. Then it forces companies to confront how little their old signals ever measured in the first place.
Check out how we used Marble to make the launch video for Marble! It’s so fun to work behind the scenes to use this technology to help create and tell stories!
If you're using ChatGPT to write your articles, at the very least read the output once before publishing it 😅 https://t.co/b7qYKA9unI
If a country or company builds superintelligence, they'll and up *losing* power, not gaining power – this thought-provoking study explains why:
Google DeepMind's SIMA 1 vs SIMA 2 The bitter lesson continues to be bitter sweet https://t.co/puwR92vCla
Coca-Cola will once again have its Christmas commercial generated entirely by AI this year. When a billion-dollar company like Coca-Cola is doing that, just think about the pressure currently weighing on the creative industry. #CocaColaXFes2025 #cocacola #AI #AIart #aivideo @CyberRobooo @CurieuxExplorer...
