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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
OpenAI has published a Product Feed Specification to let merchants list and sell products directly through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout, complete with product-level controls (enable_search, enable_checkout), support for rich media/3D assets, and 15-minute feed updates. Major partners including Walmart and Salesforce are integrating catalogs and order/fulfillment flows, signaling rapid industry adoption ahead of the holiday shopping season. The spec forces brands and retailers to supply structured, up-to-date product data and performance signals (e.g., return rates), compressing time-to-market and raising the bar for discovery, trust, and conversion on AI-driven “agentic” commerce channels. For businesses, the move shifts competitive advantage to firms that can rapidly syndicate high-fidelity product information and operationalize instant checkout relationships with AI platforms this season.
In 2018, video generation was a moonshot project by the Google Brain team. Today, hundreds of millions of videos have been generated with Veo. 🤯 In this episode of Release Notes, @doomie and @OfficialLoganK reflect on Veo's journey from research to...
Since I just judged another, similar, contest, these are smart for companies to do. First, they are a forcing function to get AI companies to ship and fix things, but they get feedback from real users and get lots of...
Pinterest has added a desktop setting that lets users toggle off GenAI interests to reduce AI-generated content in their recommended Pins, accessible under Settings → Refine Your Recommendations → GenAI interests. The change is rolled out via the desktop app...
AI is stepping in as an autonomous operator for overloaded humans. ➡️ AI agent detected VPN outage ➡️ Authenticated into New Relic ➡️ Re-established expired integration ➡️ Streamed telemetry data ➡️ Identified SW update as root cause ➡️ Suggested a rollback IT lead reviewed...
Several of our launches this week have been absolutely 🍌… Here are the new places you can find Nano Banana: — Edit images using custom prompts directly in Slides @googleworkspace — @NotebookLM’s video overviews got a huge upgrade with 6 new...
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a lightweight AI model that it says matches Claude Sonnet 4’s coding performance while running twice as fast and at one-third the cost. The model is available across Anthropic’s apps, Claude Code, Amazon Bedrock and...
I'm playing with @dreamina_ai (used it on my post earlier) and it's quite special for creating a wide variety of things, videos, photos, posters. It's from ByteDance and is beating the others, lets you upload six images and mix them...
Excited to share my new venture– EdGini, a Made-in-India learning platform built to empower students! • 🎯 Smart, engaging & personalized learning experience • 📊 Real-time performance tracking & skill growth • 🧩 Curated challenges to make learning fun • 💡...
Google unveiled Veo 3.1, an upgraded text-to-video model that improves prompt adherence, audio realism and now supports both landscape and portrait (16:9) outputs, plus a lower-cost “Fast” variant. The model is rolling out across Google’s ecosystem—Gemini app, Flow filmmaking tool,...
Veo 3.1 just dropped - Google listened and added audio everywhere it was missing. You can also insert objects into video and (soon) remove them too. Flow is quickly becoming less of a labs demo, and more of a creation tool....
The AFL-CIO launched a “workers first initiative on AI,” urging employers and policymakers to embed labor protections into AI deployment through stronger collective bargaining, regulation, and worker involvement in development. The federation — representing 63 unions and nearly 15 million...
A forthcoming report preview argues that companies need a clear mental model for 'agentic' AI—autonomous, goal-driven systems—to effectively reshape work and capture value. It outlines practical frameworks and design principles for integrating agents across enterprise functions, plus metrics for measuring...
Overheard at World Forum today ⬇️ #ServiceNowPartner “We're reimagining critical processes such as hire to retire and source to pay and record to report, so that everyone and everything, people, systems, suppliers, agents, can work together in one place.” If your team's...
Care homes and clinical researchers are turning to AI-driven tools to quantify pain in nonverbal patients, replacing or augmenting subjective observational scales like the Abbey Pain Scale. These systems use computer vision, sensor data and pattern recognition to detect facial...
Dfinity on Wednesday launched Caffeine, an AI platform that builds, deploys and continuously updates production web applications from natural-language prompts without human coding, running on the decentralized Internet Computer Protocol. The publicly available service — tested by more than 15,000...
If you bounce between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & co, myNeutron might just become your favorite Chrome extension. It gives you that personal memory layer, context you can save, combine, and reuse across models ✨ How it works: → Save “Seeds” from web pages,...
In this podcast episode, Mathias Cousin, Managing Director at Deloitte, discusses how life‑sciences firms can successfully adopt AI by focusing on high‑impact "string of pearls" use cases, investing in data quality, and hiring AI‑native talent. He emphasizes practical change‑management tactics...
5 AI-Era Skills Mistakes That Will Cost Your Business Millions In 2026 With $5.5 trillion at stake globally due to workforce #skills gaps, businesses in 202 6are making five critical #mistakes that threaten their survival in the #AI era. From...
OpenAI is generating roughly $13 billion in annual revenue—about 70% from $20/month ChatGPT subscribers—despite only ~5% of its 800 million users paying. The company has locked in more than 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from vendors including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD...
A petaflop on your desk. Let that sink in. NVIDIA’s new DGX Spark squeezes what used to be an entire data center into desktop size — Grace Blackwell chips, 128GB unified memory, and a full AI stack out of the box....
At #MWC Las Vegas 2025, Keynote 2 explored what resilience really means in the age of intelligent automation. ✅ @ServeRobotics is scaling physical AI to 2,000 robots this year. ✅ @boingo is turning connectivity into infrastructure for airports and arenas. ✅ @IBM's...
The episode explores the escalating battle between AI and cybercrime, highlighting how artificial intelligence serves as both a powerful defense tool and a new vulnerability. Guest Grant McCracken, founder of Dark Horse Security, explains how AI-driven detection, automated threat analysis,...
Inside the AI compute race. "To serve all of the needs of the customers of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and everything else, operators of these facilities have been ordering GPUs at a massive scale. The supply cannot even keep...
"OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion." Do you think they can do it? https://t.co/py7EgsSvnP
Karpathy’s nanochat codebase motivated me to revise llm theory
Anthropic just published a killer blueprint for Claude Code users! 🔥 → GitHub CLI workflows → .md prompt tuning → Custom slash commands → Headless + multi-agent agents Dense, yes... but pure gold if you're building with LLMs. Download link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/kCbF9amMFW
2025 was supposed to be the year of "AI agents," according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and other AI industry personnel. And it has been, in many ways, with numerous leading AI model providers such as OpenAI, Google, and even...
If your company wants to help employees stay up to date with AI, I've teamed up with @natolambert and others to launch @readsail. It's essentially a platform that makes it easy to manage ongoing AI learning and brings you a...
I spoke with Josh Kahn, SVP at @ServiceNow, about future AI interfaces, the role of mid-managers, and AI-driven job transformation. Here’s everything he said 🧵 #ServiceNowPartner
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will roll out a new ChatGPT update in the coming weeks that restores elements users liked from prior models and, starting in December, will introduce age-gating that allows verified adults to engage in...
getting setup with @FactoryAI's CLI i hear you - more how-to's/guides are coming https://t.co/gRvIl7hmzY
onwards to agi 🫡 looks like we’ve got stuff to chat about at the @stateofaireport nyc launch tmrw @eisokant :) https://t.co/lUthvM1nhD
Earlier this year, after receiving emails from people in the throes of AI psychosis, I began to keep in touch with one man as he journeyed to recovery. I'm grateful to James that he was willing to go on record. He...
I've been looking for how search and RAG can be done on large scale and actual data, and there's just toy examples everywhere I look. Not just some pdfs or a website with everything in context, but actual search, retrieval,...
🎯 Reinforcement Learning = Machines learning from experience. An agent interacts with an environment, receives rewards, and learns which actions yield the best outcomes. Used in 🚗 self-driving cars, 🤖 robotics, 🎮 gaming & more. RL turns feedback into intelligence. #AI #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning
BIG NEWS I'm partnering with Jesse Tinsley ($2B+ portfolio across Mainstreet, Recruiter, Bench) to build an AI infrastructure company. We're launching Lore to help America and its allies beat China in the AI race. Here's how we're doing it 🧵 https://t.co/ePyIYmKMPi
built a community command centre with droid spec'd a plan first w/ 4.5 one-shot functionality worked switched to gpt-5-codex for pesky bug it lives! https://t.co/fqqRIAn3dn
did anyone compare nvidia spark with m4 max?
Runway apps is basically the visual equivalent of GPTs — except a lot more useful. Of course the likes of Replicate and FAL have the advantage of these apps model agnostic.
Things have come a long way since the delivery of the DGX-1 9 years ago; amazing to see...
What is the cloud, actually? "So whenever you hear the term in the cloud, what they’re actually talking about are these massive data centers. You can think of data centers as a factory for computation. The name doesn’t change whether...
AI Assistants are coming to your mobile phone. @marvinvonhagen and his team at @interaction make my favorite “Poke.” @IrenaCronin and I grill him today in two hours. Not like any other X audio space. Just the three of us for 45 minutes....
🚀Join us LIVE for a special conversation with Nancy Xu -- FRIDAY, 10AM PST! Salesforce's VP (@salesforce) is leading the development of Agentforce. We're excited to talk to her about agentic AI at DREAMFORCE 2025! https://t.co/vnUsenQ6fS
after 8 years responding to ai hate almost daily, this is still my favorite response https://t.co/G4ZB8HdMIE
Scott Weiner’s rushing to defend Anthropic tells you everything you need to know about how closely they’re working together to impose the Left’s vision of AI regulation.
many sub-agents in one session is hard to follow why not just multiple windows with instances looking at the same folder? then use a 'conflict specialist' or similar to review and fix
AI is the ultimate hyperreality machine. Wrote this 5 years ago, and it's terrifyingly more urgent now. https://t.co/gLLYijeqvS
🚀Join us LIVE for a special conversation with Paul Smith (@AnthropicAI) -- FRIDAY, 10AM PST! Anthropic's Chief Commercial Officer is bringing Claude to the enterprise market. We're excited to talk to him at DREAMFORCE 2025! https://t.co/EM2lQOxskQ
