
Microsoft pledges $10 billion AI and cloud investment in Japan
Microsoft announced a 1.6 trillion‑yen (≈$10 billion) AI and cloud investment in Japan through 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand services.
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It's fake. And odd. If nothing else, generative AI has proven useful for people who want to make odd stuff for no real reason. The latest thing? Musicians accompanied by animals. Accompanied in the official, musical sense, and also in an even more literal way — as in a kitty cat climbing all over a …

So proud to see Reachy Mini named one of the Best Inventions of 2025 by @TIME! Huge credit to the @pollenrobotics and @huggingface teams, turning a concept into thousands of units sold and shipped in under 6 months. We might not be...

Here are free AI classes you can take online from top tech firms, universities https://t.co/ibbAfx1Jqf #AI #IoT #5G @FortuneMagazine https://t.co/IKQmuIU2SZ

How a semiconductor veteran turned over a century of horticultural wisdom into AI-led competitive advantage For decades, a ritual played out across ScottsMiracle-Gro’s media facilities. Every few weeks, workers walked acres of towering compost and wood chip piles with nothing more...

Today I met with PM @narendramodi to discuss Anthropic's expansion to India—where Claude Code use is up 5× since June. How India deploys AI across critical sectors like education, healthcare, and agriculture for over a billion people will be essential...

In this episode, Harrison Wade, co‑founder of Succession Bio, discusses how AI can transform sales and marketing in the life‑sciences sector, emphasizing that AI is not a shortcut but a tool that requires deep context, human creativity, and a new...

Microsoft quietly dropped a free MCP course, and it’s a total goldmine for anyone building AI agents! 🔥 11 deep-dive lessons showing you how to actually build and deploy production-grade MCP agents. 100% free on YouTube. Links in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/Ant18ruDgu

This guy literally made a system prompt that outsmarts all AI-detectors. Everything it writes sounds perfectly humanized. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/pxGfI6Rwc8

From face recognition to grammar learning, both humans and models perform better when they don’t reason step-by-step. Here’s the paradox.

The ChatGPT connectors are just so clearly for the eventual hardware product. https://t.co/BYEPuaMlyL
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Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to explore a victim’s network, exfiltrate data, install ransomware...

Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.

What are the odds that the US government takes a 10% stake on @OpenAI https://t.co/heI3WJLr48

Best Inventions of 2025, LLM backdoor risks, Nano Banana camera, Google’s Gemini AI agents, and Microsoft’s record-breaking GB300 supercluster.

Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a...

It seems like almost every week for the last two years since ChatGPT launched, new large language models (LLMs) from rival labs or from OpenAI itself have been released. Enterprises are hard pressed to keep up with the massive pace...

This guy literally built a system prompt that makes Sora 2 create mind-blowing videos. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/35IQncf2Ay
The post highlights a podcast episode where Rob DeSantis of Arkestro explains how AI can shift procurement from a risk‑averse, tool‑limited function to a strategic, foresight‑driven capability, delivering 20‑30% cost savings that directly boost earnings per share. He argues that...
In this AI in Business podcast episode, Ben Ninio of Deloitte explains how enterprises are reshaping scientific discovery by using language as a unifying "hack" across R&D fields such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemistry. He shows how large language...

In this episode of the "Day in AI" podcast, hosts Michael and Chris break down OpenAI’s DevDay announcements, highlighting the new Apps SDK, the MCP UI overhaul, and what these changes could mean for SaaS developers. They weave humor and...

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates RL into the initial training phase rather than saving it for...

Refreshing to see @neuphonicspeech, a London-based seed startup that raised just a few million, top the most trending models on @huggingface today. They manage to stand out amongst 2M public models & giant corporations from the US and China. Good example...

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OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did...

Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. I’m subbing in for Nilay while he’s still out on parental leave, and I’m excited to keep diving into...
This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.
Ready to GO? Here are my favorite moments from @IBM TechXchange. What an incredible event celebrating the power of partnership and ecosystem innovation. From the groundbreaking @Anthropic collaboration bringing Claude to IBM watsonx, to partners like @Dell showcasing Granite 4.0 demos, @Intel...

The post interviews doctoral candidate Ashmi Banerjee about her research on AI-driven recommender systems that mitigate exposure bias and promote sustainable tourism. She describes using large language models to generate synthetic data, designing recommendation architectures that balance user satisfaction with...

The post recounts a Practical AI podcast interview with Chelsea Linder, VP of Innovation at TechPoint, about Indiana’s AI Innovation Network—a state‑wide, SBA‑funded effort that now boasts nearly 400 members and aims to share best practices across sectors. Linder explains...

DC wants Superman and other characters under the stewardship of human artists. DC Comics president and publisher Jim Lee said that the company “will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork,” assuring fans that its future will remain rooted in human creativity....

Microsoft is getting ready to release a new OneDrive app on Windows next year that will include a photo gallery, people view, AI-powered slideshows, and editing features. It’s part of a number of new features coming to OneDrive in the...
In this episode of the AI in Business Podcast, Steve Taczala, VP of Service Operations at Impact Networking, explains how AI can cut through ticket noise in enterprise MSP environments by automating intelligent routing and prioritizing actionable incidents. He outlines...
In this interview, Sunitha Rao, SVP of Hybrid Cloud Business at Hititech Vantara, discusses how enterprises can modernize data infrastructure to handle growing data volumes while maintaining quality, and how to prevent model degradation as AI scales. She highlights the...

Presented by Zendesk Zendesk powers nearly 5 billion resolutions every year for over 100,000 customers around the world, with about 20,000 of its customers (and growing) using its AI services. Zendesk is poised to generate about $200 million in AI-related revenue...

The friction of having to open a separate chat window to prompt an agent could be a hassle for many enterprises. And AI companies are seeing an opportunity to bring more and more AI services into one platform, even integrating...

Presented by Certinia Every professional services leader knows the feeling: a pipeline full of promising deals, but a bench that’s already stretched thin. That’s because growth has always been tied to a finite supply of consultants with finite availability to work...
DevDay 2025 INTERVIEW: Greg Brockman (@gdb), President of @OpenAI, on platform risk and how OpenAI thinks about developers building on top of its models. “We want to help transition the world to an AI-first economy — and we can’t do that...

Zero chance tomorrow’s org chart looks like today’s org charts. So what WILL it look like? Clara Shih says AI will likely shrink specialization - the more optimistic reframe is that Gen z and Gen alpha will become professional generalists....

Google veterans have poured $3 million into Supermemory, a startup developing a cognitive AI platform aimed at enhancing human memory through advanced algorithms. The post explores how this funding could accelerate the creation of memory‑boosting tools and reshape digital learning experiences....

How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species https://t.co/2NWjsbUxbs #ai #sustainability #IoT https://t.co/vaMWUg57Pf
Amazon just dropped Quick Suite, an agentic AI platform for enterprise ecosystems. Agents can analyze data, summarize insights, and act across Slack, AWS, Salesforce, with full security and privacy! 🔥 Looks super promising. https://t.co/Gov6GSq4cB

The post announces that Supermemory has secured a $3 million funding round led by former Google executives, marking a significant boost for its cognitive AI platform. The startup is building personal memory assistants that can understand context and user behavior, promising...
You know I’m a big fan of @genspark_ai, and their new app just made photo editing insanely simple. `Photo Genius` brings voice-controlled AI editing right to your phone. Fast and seriously good. iPhone and Android. Quick dive 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/fTUrhmsdgL

Autonomous Networks are moving from concept to reality! #CSPs are climbing to Level 4 where the network thinks for itself. #TMForum ’s latest report shares the blueprint + CSP case studies building it today. Dive in 👉 https://t.co/Z2KCBmGv9Q...

The skills that top AI leaders recommend today ⬇️ The absolute best thing to be working on right now is entrepreneurship aka “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resource constraint” because “the underlying substrate of our resources is continually...

Clara Shih from @Meta: One interesting use case of LLMs is to extract tacit culture and knowledge from a smaller enterprise or startup. Aneesh Raman from @LinkedIn: maybe net-new businesses is the right metric to look at for business growth;...

Lots of AI optimism at Masters of Scale Summit from Aneesh Raman, @levie, @clarashih 🤖 Aneesh: we were not born to be productive, we are here to imagine; we are at the beginning of the next shift Aaron: Productivity >>...

California is taking AI safety seriously. The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53) gives employees at advanced AI companies new legal rights to report safety risks without retaliation. The act applies to companies using large-scale compute for model...

The best Silicon Valley startups are spending time making AI agents productive, says @levie from @Box https://t.co/WvLGcpsTrn