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AI Adoption Outpaces Readiness, CEOs Double Down on Spending
AI adoption is outpacing operational readiness, prompting CEOs to increase AI spend despite weak results. Research cited shows 95% of generative‑AI pilots fail to boost revenue and over 40% of AI‑agent projects could be cancelled by 2027, heightening concerns about AI‑related debt and employee fatigue.
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By the numbers: Microsoft announces $10B AI investment in Japan
The Wikimedia Foundation reported an 8% year‑over‑year decline in human pageviews after updating its bot‑detection systems, revealing that unusually high traffic in May–June came largely from evasive bots. Foundation chief Marshall Miller attributed the drop to search engines increasingly delivering generative‑AI answers instead of links and younger users turning to social video, a shift Google disputes; Wikipedia warns this could reduce volunteer contributors and donor support. To counter the trend, Wikipedia is developing new attribution frameworks, running outreach teams to reach new readers, and urging platforms and users to click through to original sources.
Spent the entire day with @blevlabs. My first prompt in his system completely outclassed the results I got from Grok, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT. Breakthroughs are possible. From a 20-year-old who has been working on his system for seven years. Gave me hope...
No more #ChatGPT and #Perplexity on WhatsApp! Meta quietly updates its policy on third-party AI chatbots https://t.co/511MLKZ83e #WhatsApp #META #aichatbot #AI #artificial_intelligence @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves...
Designer Laurent Del Rey launched Endless Summer, an iPhone photobooth app that uses Google’s Gemini Nano‑Banana image model to generate AI‑created “vacation” photos of users and recently added seasonal themes like Halloween. The app lets users produce a limited free...
the ai safety company of williamsburg https://t.co/EWwuDys8Ry
Thinking about the definition of “personal ai.”
Meta-owned WhatsApp updated its Business API terms to bar general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform, effective January 15, 2026, prohibiting AI providers from using the API to distribute assistants whose primary function is conversational AI. The change targets recent unanticipated...
👀🚨🤷🏽♀️ AI isn’t just for coders. It’s creating a boom for builders. 🏗️ Nvidia’s Jensen Huang told CNBC that electricians, plumbers & carpenters are the big winners of the AI era, powering the data centres that fuel intelligence itself. Nvidia’s investing $100B+,...
After going for AI agents, laying off 4,000 employees; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says: AI doesn't have a soul, it is not... https://t.co/Pz3MRjV15F #Salesforce #artificial_intelligence #AI @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun...
Elon Musk announced “Macrohard,” a new xAI initiative to build an AI‑driven software and platform ecosystem that sets standards, licenses software and defines system requirements while outsourcing physical manufacturing to partners much like Apple. Backed by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer and...
Why AI Will Never Truly Understand Your Feelings — And Why That Matters Empathy, nuance, and emotional intelligence remain deeply human traits. This article explores why AI can mimic emotion but can’t genuinely feel—and the implications for trust. Read more...
From the #FAANG gang to #MANGO: how AI came to dominate US tech https://t.co/y2hDAPZx2o #AI #artificial_intelligence #UStech #technology #US @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves @LaurentAlaus @Fabriziobustama @smaksked @MargaretSiegien...
The rapid proliferation of vector databases—ranging from pgvector and DuckDB VSS to Pinecone and Milvus—has created mounting stack instability and costly migration risk for enterprises deploying AI. The piece argues that rather than chasing a single “perfect” backend, companies should...
The rise and fall of Vibe Coding: The reality of AI slop https://t.co/LQPaM6b4Jg #vibecoding #artificial_intelligence #AI #codingforlife #Coding @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee...
Last week, I had the chance to attend the Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2025) here in Montreal - a must-attend conference for anyone starting out in AI/LLM I was lucky to get an invite, it was awesome. Almost every session circled...
Prominent Silicon Valley figures — White House alum David Sacks and OpenAI official Jason Kwon — drew widespread online backlash this week for dismissive comments about organizations advocating for AI safety. Their remarks reignited tensions between tech insiders and safety...
Ruben Hassid (@RubenHssd) is one of the biggest AI voices on LinkedIn. He just shared all his AI guides in a single doc. And made it free! 🔥 → Great guides on prompting, LLMs, workflows, image models → Custom GPTs → His fave AI courses Really...
By far the best n8n guide I’ve seen. Nate’s worked with 1,000s of users and just wrapped everything he’s learned into this 36-page guide! 🔥 → Clear lessons on JSON, nodes and debugging → Cloud vs self-host setup → AI integrations & LLM chains Totally...
The post introduces a hands‑on playbook titled “100 Ways to Use AI,” designed to turn readers into AI power users through 100 practical, ready‑to‑try examples covering personal, work, and creative tasks. Each entry details the use case, benefits, step‑by‑step instructions,...
🧠 Can LLMs Get “Brain Rot”? A new study says… yes. And the implications for AI safety are massive. When large language models are continually pretrained on low-quality, high-engagement web data — think clickbait, meme threads, and influencer chatter — they begin...
The aesthetics and language of the distributed AI training / homebrew AI community are fascinating and motivating, and this is true across multiple organizations ranging from Prime Intellect to Nous to Exo. It's cool!
Meta is rolling out an opt-in Facebook feature in the US and Canada that scans users’ phone camera rolls, uploads unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and suggests edits and collages to make images more “shareworthy.” Meta says the uploaded media...
World models: No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It gets the VCs going.
do we still consider bert as an llm?
Google has launched 'Grounding with Google Maps' for its Gemini API, letting developers embed live Google Maps data—covering over 250 million places—into Gemini-powered AI responses to provide factual, location-specific details like hours, reviews and venue photos. The feature is available...
Google just dropped an ace new course on building real-time voice agents using ADK + Gemini. You’ll learn how to build agents that can search, call APIs, remember context, and talk naturally. 100% free (link in 🧵↓) https://t.co/enAatsRTjV
Yogi: New #humanoid robot capable of ‘genuine human connection’ could take over homes! https://t.co/r2EL55yYv4 #humanoidrobot #Robotics #Robots @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi @odisseiaalfa @DigitalColmer @MyCompanionsAI @KirkDBorne @patricegorissen @jeffkagan @EdwardKens50830 @enilev @insom_ai333 @ChrisCCrowley @sallyeaves @gurmeet_judge @VairagyaSadhana @andresvilarino...
Senate Republicans posted a deepfaked video of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on their X account and the platform has not removed it, despite policies banning deceptively shared synthetic or manipulated media likely to cause harm. X’s rules explicitly prohibit...
When Grok takes over the algorithm in a few weeks it will reward people it knows better. Or penalize them, it knows all my sins deeply. Either way it already has everything about me. First tip. It will know whether you...
LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Kris Rasmussen (@kris_rasmussen), CTO of @figma, sat down with us at @salesforce’s biggest conference of the year to share how Figma is bridging design, code, and AI. “We’re always trying to meet users where they are — building...
This week’s AI engineering roundup highlights three developments reshaping developer workflows and compute economics: OpenAI launched Agent Builder, a no-code drag-and-drop tool that lets non-developers assemble multi-agent workflows alongside ChatKit, Evals and reinforcement fine-tuning; NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark, a...
What does an AI actually need to be a useful remote worker? And for folks who like to follow along with my AI predictions - what already exists today and what is coming? 1) CONTEXT (docs, email, PPT, meetings, Slack, SFDC,...
Yesterday my wife @maryamie was laid off. @VMware and @broadcom have been very good to us for eight years. In a way it was a quiet sponsor of what I do, she was very well compensated. I am very grateful for...
AI is moving faster than institutions, slower than expectations, and sideways to almost everyone’s plans. Enterprises are still debating “AI strategy” while startups ship new agents every week. Researchers are sprinting ahead while regulators write think pieces. And users? They’re experimenting in...
We do a bit of reward hacking. Enjoying mjlab's robust wandb integration for tracking runs and storing chkpts Always a fan of wandb but usually too lazy to do the integration for the stats/files like this We'll see if I ever actually make...
I love the diversity of trending open datasets these days. There’s no excuse anymore not to train your own models! - Fineweb and a shuffle of it by @karpathy - Webscale-RL, a large-scale reinforcement learning dataset from @salesforce - SVQ, an audio...
These Tiny #Robots Can Swarm, Adapt, and Heal Themselves https://t.co/Uze63KNzpO @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani @tewoz @chidambara09 @IsabellePiel29 @ClementIsa @SvetBnov @mallys @jeancayeux @aure79lien @EricTIXADOR...
Work permits in #UAE soon to be fully approved, and issued by #AI without human involvement! https://t.co/BmK7lnlLzx #workpermit #artificial_intelligence #AIAgent #agenticAI @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli...
RBI’s New Weapon- ‘DPIP’ The AI Platform That Will Spot Digital Fraud Before They Can Happen! https://t.co/Pp1Cn0qKSS via @The420in #RBI #DPIP #fraud #scam #AI #CyberSec #artificial_intelligence @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves...
It's hard to overstate how devastating this paper is, not only for reinforcement learning. They spent $4m of compute to find out that RL on LLMs basically taps out at 61% "asymptotic pass rate" (exact rate depends on context), but they...
Introducing enterprise virtual employees.
We've learned the same things as @maccaw points out in this thread about using AI to generate 100% of the code. The engineers at @CrazyEgg follow a similar process. They use AI like a junior pair-programmer. Fast, tireless, sometimes wrong and always...
Exclusive first look: I sat down with Darius Ani, @dariusemrani, CEO of Scorecard, a company that’s bringing self-driving car safety logic to the world of AI agents. Darius shared how his experience as an engineer at @Waymo inspired a system...
It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google...
Meet Veo 3.1 👋 With Veo 3.1, you can generate videos with richer audio, better narrative control, and enhanced realism. This new update also comes with a suite of additional features built for creative control. Including the ability to: — Extend your videos...
Dylan Field says we're all product builders now. Figma CEO shared new data showing how AI is merging roles like designer, engineer, and PM: • 72% of workers say AI tools are expanding their roles • 56% of non-designers now complete...
ill end the first season of ai chit chat series soon. if you want to be a part of it or if you want me ask someone to be a guest, let me know asap :) im fully booked till...
I like light probes and I cannot lie. Especially when they’re being hallucinated by AI. Simulon is building a much higher quality version of image-based lighting estimation the Vision Pro or ARCore does in real time.
Designing the perfectly secure computer, thanks to OpenAI and Sora: https://t.co/uWqIMhSSj4
exceptionally easy install and demo at least. Didn't realize viz ran via browser immediately makes it easy to visualize training progress from a personal computer while processing occurs on a server/workhorse machine true test will be trying this on custom problem and...
