Today's AI Pulse
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network for exploiting Gemini AI in massive scam campaign
Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the Outsider Enterprise network that used its Gemini AI to automate scam text messages. The operation ran 9,000 fake websites, registered 1 million fraudulent domains and sent 2.5 million texts in two weeks, scamming hundreds of thousands and causing multi‑million‑dollar losses.
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Connected TV Becomes First Real Testbed for AI‑Driven Agentic Advertising
Connected TV (CTV) is emerging as the inaugural arena for agentic advertising, as budgets grow 9.5% YoY and manual workflows strain publishers. AI‑driven agents are being deployed to automate pricing, pacing and inventory allocation, offering a potential solution to CTV’s complex deal structures.
AI Hype Masks Stagnant Productivity and Margins
I think AI has also become the “plausible deniability” to streamline organizations that grew amok during the past two decades. I see more orgs simply recalibrating. The AI use is hi on an individual level in some places but by no...
Health Systems Should Prepare Now for Increasing Enforcement Around AI Use
Healthcare regulators are poised to intensify enforcement of AI applications across billing, coding, and clinical decision support, using existing fraud and abuse frameworks rather than a dedicated AI regulator. Jeff Wurzburg of Norton Rose Fulbright warns that boards will be...
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
A coalition of more than 70 civil‑rights and advocacy groups has urged Meta to abandon “Name Tag,” a facial‑recognition feature planned for its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart glasses. The technology would let wearers instantly identify anyone with a public Instagram...
Tipping Point: Accountants Scramble for AI Tech
The CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer released on April 13 reveals a sharp shift toward artificial intelligence in U.S. accounting firms. Over 55 % of firms now plan AI investments, a ten‑point rise from pre‑tax‑season levels, while demand for practice‑management and workflow...
OpenAI Investigation Reveals Pattern of Deception, Rattles AI Founders
A New Yorker investigation uncovered a documented pattern of deception by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, including false safety approvals and lobbying against AI regulations. The report, based on internal memos and interviews, has unsettled founders who view the findings as...
Wicket and Axess Roll Out Next-Gen Biometric Access System at LAFC’s BMO Stadium
Wicket and Axess have installed a next‑generation biometric entry system at Los Angeles Football Club’s BMO Stadium, pairing facial authentication with custom turnstile hardware. The solution, built with Ticketmaster, embeds the technology directly into access pedestals, removing the need for...
Top Machine Learning Use Cases in Finance & Trading
159 page PDF download. The best examples of how machine learning is used in finance and algorithmic trading. Grab the paper here:
Cisco Eyes Astrix Security To Lock Down AI Agents In Potential $350M Deal: Report
Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI‑agent security startup Astrix Security for a price between $250 million and $350 million. Astrix’s platform safeguards non‑human identities across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS environments, addressing emerging threats as AI agents proliferate. The potential...
AMD: Memory, Not Compute, Is the Next Bottleneck in AI Data Centers
AMD’s latest blog highlights memory—not compute—as the emerging bottleneck in AI data centers, emphasizing that data movement now drives performance and power limits. The company promotes LPDDR5X, a low‑voltage mobile memory now adapted for servers, claiming superior performance‑per‑watt compared with...
BALCO Deploys AI Humanoid Agent for Real-Time Training, Operations and Safety
Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO), a Vedanta Aluminium unit, has launched ALAISA, an AI‑powered humanoid assistant on its Chhattisgarh smelter floor. The robot delivers real‑time procedural guidance, safety protocols, and decision support directly to shop‑floor operators. In its pilot, ALAISA has...
Claude.ai Down
Anthropic reported that Claude.ai is currently offline, with the incident posted on April 13, 2026 at 15:40 UTC. The status page lists the issue as under investigation and notes that the outage affects the entire Claude.ai service. No estimated time for...
How Foresight Prevented $100M in Delays and Cut Reporting Overhead by 90% for a Global Data Center Portfolio
Foresight, an AI‑driven portfolio assurance platform, helped a multinational data‑center operator avoid roughly $100 million in construction delays and slash reporting overhead by about 90 %. By consolidating fragmented project data into a single real‑time dashboard, the solution gave executives visibility into...
YouTube’s AI Is Scanning Your Channel Right Now
YouTube’s AI now scans an entire channel before a human reviewer ever looks at it, flagging content that violates its monetization rules. Six specific triggers—reused clips, repetitive formats, lack of original perspective, community‑guideline breaches, copyright issues, and restricted topics—can instantly...
From Prompt to Publish
The post warns that solo entrepreneurs like Aleksandra waste time when AI chats become a digital junk drawer. Mixing unrelated tasks in a single thread pollutes the LLM's context window, leading to confused outputs and stalled content. The author proposes...
This City Is Not Just Training Its Staff on AI, It’s Educating the Public
San José, California, has launched an AI Center for Civic and Social Good that offers free workshops to residents as part of its AI for All initiative, backed by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and the Bay Area Council. The city is also...
Unlocking Hospital Efficiency with AI-Enabled Solutions: It’s a Hot Button at the Upcoming IFHE World Congress Oct. 17-20
Hospitals generate massive clinical, operational and financial data, but siloed systems hinder efficiency. Schneider Electric, working with Microsoft, is testing AI to merge these datasets, uncover patterns and suggest operational improvements. At the IFHE World Congress in New Orleans (Oct 17‑20),...
Meta Creating AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg so Staff Can Talk to the Boss
Meta is developing an AI‑powered digital replica of CEO Mark Zuckerberg to field employee questions and convey company strategy. The clone is being trained on his voice, mannerisms, public statements, and internal insights, with Zuckerberg himself participating in the process....
Mastercard and Google Put Passkeys at the Heart of AI Payments
Mastercard and Google have unveiled Verifiable Intent, an open‑source cryptographic framework that secures AI‑driven purchases with biometric, passkey‑grade authentication. The system bundles a consumer’s verified identity, the AI agent’s instructions, and the resulting transaction into a tamper‑resistant record. Built on...
Hillwood, PowerHouse Advance $20B Joliet Data Campus as Midwest AI Buildout Accelerates
On March 19, 2026, Joliet’s city council voted 8‑1 to annex roughly 795 acres for a $20 billion AI‑scale data‑center campus backed by Hillwood and PowerHouse. The 24‑building, 6.9‑million‑sq‑ft campus will eventually host up to 1.8 GW of power, positioning it among...
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch Signals IPO Readiness as AI Agents Fuel Revenue Surge
Vercel’s annual recurring revenue surged from $100 million at the start of 2024 to a $340 million run rate by February 2026, driven by a wave of AI‑generated apps. CEO Guillermo Rauch told investors the company operates like a public firm and is...
Anthropic’s Mythos: Our Takeaways
Anthropic has decided not to release its latest AI model, Mythos, citing concerns over its power. The model can automatically discover zero‑day vulnerabilities across large software ecosystems, turning AI into a strategic cyber‑security tool. Anthropic will limit access to a...
Tesla FSD Demands Driver Vigilance at Tricky Intersections
Crossing a busy intersection with limited options for safe passage, Tesla's FSD sometimes requires quite a bit of courage. Looking left, it's relatively clear and predictable. But with cars backed up from the light on the right, it's less clear. Make...
To Work for Us, AI Must Not Think for Us
The article argues that the most profound threat of artificial intelligence is not job loss but the erosion of human thought and the knowledge‑creation processes that underpin AI models. While public debate fixates on automation displacing workers, Rodrik warns that...
AI IPOs Are Pricing Potential
AI-driven companies are increasingly going public before their products, markets, or models fully mature. Unlike traditional IPOs that are anchored in current revenue and margins, AI IPOs are priced largely on projected capability growth and scalability. This shift forces investors...
AI Is Collapsing Barriers, Letting Anyone Build Now
I didn't go to college in 2010. My parents weren't happy, and neither were Albert's when he made the same call a year later. But we had already learned to code. We were empowered to build without waiting for permission....
Vivek Natarajan of Google DeepMind at RAAIS 2026
Vivek Natarajan, a research lead at Google DeepMind, will speak at the RAAIS 2026 summit in London on June 12. He is best known for pioneering Med‑PaLM and Med‑PaLM 2, AI systems that achieved up to 86.5% accuracy on medical licensing...
Replenit Raises $2.5M to Bring Real-Time AI Decision-Making to Retail
Replenit, an AI decision engine that converts customer signals into real‑time, individualized actions, closed a $2.5 million pre‑seed round co‑led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint. The Warsaw‑based startup adds a reasoning layer to existing retail data stacks, enabling brands to move...
He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.
Ben Riley, an Austin resident, discovered through his father's MyChart portal that his 75‑year‑old dad, retired neuroscientist Joe Riley, had been warned by oncologists to start treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia within ten months. Despite the urgent medical notes, Joe...
Analyzing the Analysis: How Do AI Portfolio Recommendations Hold Up?
Allan Roth tested Anthropic’s Claude on a $1.37 million multi‑account portfolio, including an $80,000 cash infusion, to see how well AI could generate a summary and rebalancing recommendations. Claude correctly identified the low 0.03% weighted expense ratio, proper tax‑location of assets,...
TPAs Are Leveraging AI, Convergence to Enable Advisors, Providers
At the second annual TPA Roundtable in Chicago, industry leaders examined how artificial intelligence and the convergence of wealth and retirement are reshaping third‑party administrator (TPA) operations. Participants highlighted a surge of new 401(k) plans, fee pressure, talent shortages, and...
Skyscanner, Almosafer Launch ChatGPT Apps in Middle East, Where AI Booking Is Possible
Skyscanner and Saudi OTA Almosafer launched ChatGPT‑integrated apps on April 8, letting users search and book flights across the Middle East via natural‑language prompts in English and Arabic. The services target the UAE and Saudi Arabia, markets where travelers show strong...
System Design, Not Model Hype, Drives AI Advantage
Most teams are still evaluating AI like it’s 2023. Comparing models. Debating open vs. closed. But the real edge now is system design. How models connect. How agents run. How workflows execute. And yes—hybrid is winning. Right model, right task. by @ronald_vanloon | Check out the full article: https://bit.ly/4vwgSBy #NVIDIAPartner #NVIDIAGTC...
AI Roundup: OpenAI's $122B Raise, Copilot Alerts, Muse Spark
Want the latest AI news? Catch up on OpenAI’s $122 billion haul, Microsoft Copilot warnings, Meta’s Muse Spark and more. https://t.co/DFiGNM8SFV
Sports Publisher On3 Tries AI Recommendations To Keep Engagement In Its Home Court
On3, a sports‑focused publisher with 15 million monthly visitors, has deployed Mula’s AI‑powered recommendation engine across about 20 of its sites to sustain engagement and revenue per session (RPS). The system leverages first‑party data to surface articles, vertical video and Fanatics‑linked...
CEOs Chase AI Hype While Researchers Dismiss AGI
- CEOs of AI labs do not understand their technology at all, they're just salesmen - Corporate CEOs do not understand AI, they just chase hype and announce projects and deals - AI/ML researchers know AGI is nonsense - $2tn capex for slopcoding...
AI Company Becomes First Autonomous Drug Prescriber in Utah
An editorial @JAMA_current on @doctronic (the AI company now prescribing renewal medications without physician involvement in Utah) entitled "The First AI Drug Prescriber" https://t.co/Wo1rVhnr4s https://t.co/hAcYbYLmIv
Ag Tech Talk: Smarter Data, Stronger Relationships
Ever.Ag’s VP of Product and Services, Alan Brady, says AI is reshaping the crop‑input market by turning a fragmented, transactional network into a connected, real‑time ecosystem. The technology enables retailers, distributors, suppliers and agronomists to share data instantly, shifting margin management...
Prepare for AI Cost Spikes, Plateaus, or Runway Loss
They're calling it the $7 Doritos problem. AI labs spend hundreds of millions to train models. The market expects them to be nearly free. Three outcomes: massive price hikes, capability plateaus, or labs running out of runway. Your AI strategy should plan for...
AI Leadership Must Act Fast or Miss Generation
If the leadership in the AI movement doesn’t step up quickly, organize around the right “go to market” and create incentives to align everyone, this will be a generational fumble. It is, sadly, happening before our eyes.
AI Keeps Claiming To Know Stuff It Doesn’t … And Maybe Sam Altman Does, Too
OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently insisted a one‑mile run took over ten minutes, refusing correction, a flaw CEO Sam Altman called a “known issue” that may take a year to resolve. The incident highlights the broader problem of AI hallucinations, where models...
AI Hallucinations Designed to Drive Token Consumption
Generating useless tokens and giving half answers IS THE FEATURE (see most recent trend on hallucinations). This is so you need to keep prompting it, thereby using more tokens and consuming just enough time as to not use other ways...
LLMs Now Callable Directly From Pub/Sub Pipelines
At some point, it'll be possible to call an LLM from ANY piece of your architecture. Should you? We just added the ability to call LLMs (managed ones, or custom ones) from @googlecloud's messaging service Pub/Sub. I ask the question, and tried...
Agentic Prospecting: Seven Reasons The Hype Falls Short
The sales‑tech sector is touting autonomous AI agents that can monitor accounts, detect buying intent, and execute outreach without human input. The article outlines seven reasons why this hype is premature, citing unreliable intent signals, limited automatable tasks, activity‑driven noise,...
Trump’s AI Jesus Image Sparks MAGA Outrage
MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Posts AI Photo of Himself as Jesus https://t.co/WDd7vDbpON via @newrepublic
AGI Requires Both Symbolic Logic and Neural Networks
💯. “@garymarcus has won, others too” And the smart people already know it. AGI requires both symbols and neural networks. Period.
Linux Developers May Use AI, Still Fully Responsible
Linux developers are permitted to use AI assistance, but individual contributors are still wholly accountable for their work. https://t.co/UH5nUio5uE
AI Automates $50k Pool Sales via Satellite Scans
this guy litterally uses @OpenClaw to sell $50k+ pools on autopilot 🤯 → Scans satellite for $500k+ homes → Filters by lot size & sun exposure → Renders a 3D pool in their yard → Calculates home value lift → Auto-mails a before/after postcard https://t.co/HTw09lXt2d
AI Redefines Intelligence, Not Extends Human Thought
Humanity's biggest mistake may be assuming AI thinks the way we do. 👉AI Didn't Extend Intelligence, It Changed Its Direction https://t.co/UlhQpCbNCi #AI
Anthropic AI Guides Rapid AI Vulnerability Prep for All
Great advice from @AnthropicAI on prep for accelerated AI vulnerability discovery, including what to do if you don’t have a dedicated security team, if you’re reporting bugs you found, or are an open source maintainer. /ht @_decius_ for sending the link ...