Today's AI Pulse
Pinterest inks $4B AWS cloud pact to power AI visual search
Pinterest announced a $4 billion multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services, its largest infrastructure deal ever, to power AI‑driven visual search and discovery through 2031. The partnership expands use of AWS Trainium chips for large‑language and vision‑language models and adds Graviton processors, while Pinterest migrates to a Kubernetes‑based architecture.
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You Don’t Have a Skill. You Have a Novice.
The article argues that AI "skills" are often just untrained novices; generic skills work out‑of‑the‑box, but context‑dependent skills need extensive feedback loops—hundreds of iterations—to become production‑ready. It outlines a four‑stage maturity model and warns that treating AI skills like plug‑and‑play software leads to poor results. The piece emphasizes that the competitive edge in 2026 will come from the training infrastructure rather than the raw model. Teams that invest in iterative refinement will unlock reliable, brand‑aligned AI output.
AI Tools Now so Easy, Market Is Oversaturated
It used to be that posting a new AI tool on social media required a certain amount of effort — even building and shipping a simple tool for the AI community took real work. Now that Claude Code and Codex...
QuinAs Links Memory Device Physics to AI Performance
QuInAs Technology has published research linking its ULTRARAM compound‑semiconductor memory device directly to AI system performance. The paper introduces a physics‑based compact modelling framework that captures resonant tunnelling and floating‑gate dynamics, enabling hardware‑aware benchmarking of ULTRARAM as a synaptic element...
CEA-Leti, CEA-List and PSMC Collaborate
CEA‑List, CEA‑Leti and PSMC announced a collaboration to merge RISC‑V processor IP with silicon‑photonic interconnects on PSMC’s 3D‑stacking platform, targeting next‑generation AI systems. The joint effort will embed customizable RISC‑V compute blocks and microLED‑based optical links into high‑bandwidth chiplet architectures,...
Mythos AI Finds 20 Zero‑days, Poised to Crack Smart Contracts
Anthropic's Mythos model is so powerful they restricted it to 12 partners and a $100M compute budget. It's already found 20 zero-days in legacy software. @kaiynne and @tayvano_ want to know when it finds the first one in a smart contract. New...
Data Minimisation vs AI Context Maximisation: The Battle Defining the Future of Smart Systems
AI product teams chase higher accuracy by feeding models ever more context, but privacy regulations demand strict data minimisation. The article argues that the conflict is structural: richer data improves personalization and retrieval, yet expands exposure and governance risk. It...
We’re Coding 40% Faster, but Building on Sand: The 2026 Quality Collapse
Software teams are delivering code 40% faster thanks to large language models, but the rapid pace has exposed a growing quality collapse. AI‑generated code floods repositories while developers’ understanding lags, tripling the time needed for meaningful pull‑request reviews. Experts warn...
South Korea Deploys Nationwide AI Platform to Manage Chronic Diseases
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare rolled out the Medical AX initiative, a government‑backed AI platform that will oversee exercise, diet, primary care, imaging and remote consultations for chronic disease patients. The program, launched at a briefing in Seoul,...
MDPI Study Finds AI Chatbots Boost Creativity and Growth Mindset in Entrepreneurship Education
A peer‑reviewed study in MDPI’s Education journal reports that AI‑driven chatbots, combined with visible‑design thinking routines, significantly enhance self‑regulated learning, creativity and growth‑mindset development among entrepreneurship students. The findings highlight a scalable tool for fostering human potential in higher‑education settings.
Ambrosia AI Slashes Nutraceutical Ingredient Development From Years to Hours
Applied Laboratory Technologies unveiled Ambrosia, an AI‑driven platform that can compress the development of nutrition ingredients from multi‑year timelines to a matter of hours. Co‑founders Dr. Paul Spagnuolo and Brian Johnston say the system replicated five years of lab work...
Scala Biodesign Raises $16 Million Series A to Speed Protein Bio‑hacking
Scala Biodesign announced a $16 million Series A round led by Grove Ventures to expand its ScalaOS platform, which uses AI and physics‑based modeling to streamline protein engineering. The funding aims to cut years of trial‑and‑error for drugmakers developing longevity‑focused biologics.
‘Wasting A Lot Of Budget’: Heatseeker’s New CTO On Why Guessing Without Testing Is Failing Marketers
Heatseeker has appointed former Google AI leader Kawal Gandhi as chief technology officer, signaling a push to replace traditional survey‑based market research with AI‑driven behavioural experiments. The platform runs live “ghost ads” on social media to capture real clicks, sign‑ups...
AI Is 'Fuelling' Shift Work Economy Despite Employee Scepticism
Deputy’s new report, based on 41 million shifts and 268 million hours, shows AI is accelerating the shift‑work economy rather than displacing frontline jobs. AI tools are trimming documentation, improving patient coordination in hospitals, and sharpening demand forecasting and staffing precision in...
SentiPulse Open‑Sources SentiAvatar, Real‑Time 3D Digital Human Framework
SentiPulse, together with the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University, has released SentiAvatar as an open‑source framework for building expressive 3D digital humans. The package includes the SUSU avatar, a 21,000‑clip, 37‑hour motion dataset and a motion foundation...
Ohio Man Convicted Under Federal Take It Down Act for AI‑Generated Deepfake Abuse
James Strahler, 37, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and publishing digital forgeries, becoming the first person convicted under the federal Take It Down Act. Prosecutors say he created more than 700 AI‑generated sexual images, prompting the first enforcement of the law...
U.S. Digital Health Market Projected to Hit $713 B by 2035 as AI Fuels Rapid Expansion
A Nova One Advisor forecast puts the U.S. digital health market at $117.15 billion in 2025 and on track to $713.36 billion by 2035, a 19.8% CAGR. AI‑driven tools are accelerating the shift, yet entrenched EHR silos threaten data liquidity and innovation.
AIHR Launches Guide to Upskill Employees and HR Teams in AI
AIHR published a comprehensive guide on building AI skills for employees and HR professionals, outlining a three‑layer training model. The guide cites McKinsey’s $4.4 trillion productivity potential and warns that only 1% of leaders feel their firms are AI‑mature, underscoring the...
ServiceNow and Five9 Launch AI‑Powered Platform to Merge Employee and Customer Service
ServiceNow and Five9 announced a joint AI‑driven solution that integrates ServiceNow’s workflow engine with Five9’s contact‑center platform. The turnkey offering promises real‑time transcription, unified routing and a single‑pane‑of‑glass agent workspace, aiming to cut costs and boost productivity for high‑volume service...
US Courts Split on Anthropic AI Supply‑Chain Designation, Raising GovTech Stakes
A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the Pentagon’s supply‑chain risk designation on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model, while a California judge earlier ordered the label removed. The clash pits national‑security priorities against a tech firm’s push for limited AI deployment, highlighting...
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data and Gave Me Terrible Advice
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs unveiled Muse Spark, a generative AI model that invites users to paste raw health data such as lab results or fitness‑tracker readings. The bot promises trend analysis and visualizations, but early testing showed it offering vague or incorrect...
AI‑Generated Phishing Attacks Surge, Prompting New Enterprise Defenses
IBM reports AI can draft a convincing phishing email in five minutes, a task that once took humans 16 hours. The Federal Trade Commission notes fraud losses jumped 25% to $12.5 billion in 2024, spurring CIOs to adopt new detection tools,...
TCS, Kyndryl, NEC & Two Other Firms Empanelled to Build, Run AI for Government Departments
The Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT has empanelled six firms—including Tata Consultancy Services, Kyndryl, NEC, Innefu Labs, CoRover and Cactus Communications—to develop and run AI solutions for government departments. More than 80 companies bid, with Innefu Labs winning the...
OpenAI Acquires Niche Tech Talk Show TBPN, Sparking Venture Capital Interest
OpenAI announced the acquisition of the Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN), a niche streaming talk show with 345,000 X followers and 74,000 YouTube subscribers. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, is framed as a move to shape public...
AccuQuant Launches AI‑Powered Quant Trading Robot with Zero‑Latency Execution
AccuQuant introduced its Predictive-Neural 4.0 AI trading robot on April 8, 2026, promising zero‑latency execution, 24/7 market scanning and a $20 welcome bonus for new users. The platform aims to lower technical barriers for retail investors while delivering institutional‑grade risk...
Abound and NEAR AI Partner to Launch ‘Financial Autopilot’ for Non-Resident Indians
Abound, the Times of India‑backed super‑app for Indians abroad, announced a partnership with NEAR AI to launch an AI‑powered “Financial Autopilot.” The service will move beyond recommendations, automatically executing remittances, managing NRE/NRO accounts, paying bills and providing a real‑time net‑worth...
Google Owns the Most AI Compute, and It Built It Its Way
Google is now the largest single owner of AI compute, holding roughly one‑quarter of the world’s capacity – about 5 million H100‑equivalent units, most of which are its own TPU chips. By contrast, only about 25 % of that compute relies on...
Prioritizing ROI and Real-World AI Over Hype
HumanX recap: Less hype. More substance. Conversations focused on ROI, AI infrastructure, and real-world use. Deep dive in my newsletter. ❤️🫶🏾
Evening Update: Pentagon AI Chief Cashed In Millions on xAI Deal Amid Defense Contracts.
Pentagon under‑secretary for research and engineering Emil Michael held a sizable stake in Elon Musk’s xAI while steering the department’s AI procurement. During his tenure the Pentagon signed two contracts with xAI, and Michael’s holdings rose from roughly $500,000‑$1 million to...
AI Creates Jobs; Beginners Can Thrive in the Era
How AI Is Creating Jobs | How Beginners Will Win in the AI Era? https://t.co/0EQd22i3Yu via @YouTube #AI #artificialintelligence #jobseekers #job #CareerTips #career @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi...
I Trust Codex, Not Claude Code, in YOLO Mode
The biggest difference between Claude Code and Codex, as I see it: - Do I trust Claude Code to run in YOLO mode? No. I am not stupid. - Do I trust Codex to run in YOLO mode? Yes.
Amazon Investing $200 Billion Into AI Capex in 2026 and Making $15 Billion In AI Revenue
Amazon’s 2025 shareholder letter reveals a $200 billion AI‑focused capex plan for 2026, with AWS AI revenue already topping $15 billion. The company’s custom silicon—Graviton, Trainium and Nitro—now runs a $20 billion‑plus revenue stream and is projected to save tens of billions in...
AI Boosts Productivity, but Prompt‑injection Risks Threaten Organizations
Wonder if the AI calculus becomes “12% productivity gains per employee with the tail risk of the org going under for a week if Ralph is the victim of a convincing prompt injection and inadvertently sends out internal info to...
AI Meets Finance: Startup Redefines Investment Automation
This week on H1G we're featuring a startup who is integrating AI and finance. Very ambitious. The headline wraps up the value prop perfectly. Subscribe at https://t.co/HULd13ZpSd, an explanation for why this headline works will arrive fresh in your inbox tomorrow morning....
NBA Superstar James Harden’s Signature Beard Inspires AI-Animated Short
Utopai Studios partnered with NBA star James Harden to produce an AI‑driven 3D animated short that spotlights his signature beard. The film was created using PAI, the studio’s proprietary screenplay‑to‑screen AI that generates characters, shots, and sequences without prompt‑based tinkering....
90 Days to Transform AI From Incremental to Exponential
The 90-Day AI Leap: From Incrementalism to Exponential Advantage by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/PBjQFvJPzu @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #AgenticAI #AIAgents #Agentic #AI #FutureOfWork #Strategy #CEO #CFO https://t.co/7pEtwwQ83Q
AI Generates Full Video Ads From Text Alone
This is crazy… Now you can make a full video ad with sound just by typing a few words. No camera. No team. No editing. Everything is changing right in front of us. And most people don’t even know how powerful AI has become.
Anthropic and OpenAI Target Big Businesses with Enterprise-Grade Controls and Lower Pricing
Anthropic announced enterprise‑grade controls for its Claude Cowork agent, adding role‑based access, team spend limits, and OpenTelemetry observability to help large firms manage AI deployments. OpenAI responded by cutting the price of its Codex Pro plan to $100 per month, offering...
Mythos Isn’t AGI; Just a Specialized, Incremental Model
I rest my case: Mythos isn’t AGI. It’s not even better at biology than the last model. It’s tuned to particular things, not a giant advance towards general intelligence. Same as it ever was.
AI Shipping Speed Outpaces Market Absorption
The pace at which useful things are shipping also seems to be accelerating. Model releases are coming faster, of course, but so are significant application and enterprise products (especially from Anthropic). Almost certainly faster than the market can track or...
Mainframe Data Hurdles Slow AI Innovation
"Feeding the Beast: The Challenges of Using Mainframe Data in AI Models", systems, data, database, ai, and business systems expert Craig Mullins @craigmullins, shares key insights you need to be across to meet today's AI innovation demand. Click to read: https://t.co/FydpThBlPx
Treasury Urges Banks to Adopt Anthropic’s Powerful AI
A model so good the Treasury Secretary is making sure bank CEOs know about its capabilities to prevent catastrophe. Any sane government would want to be first in line to use this. But this administration is ostracizing the company that makes...
AI’s Jagged Weaknesses Outpace Human Quirks
Things that make the jagged intelligence of AI harder to deal with than the jaggedness of humans: 1) Weaknesses are not always intuitive or identifiable in advanced 2) All LLMs have similar weaknesses, so you can't just hire a different one 3) Jagged...
Half of Americans Used AI Weekly; 20% See Job Takeover
In a new survey released Thursday, a nonprofit AI research center found that half of American adults used AI in the past week, either for personal or work use, with 20% of full-time workers saying that AI has taken over...
Opus Beats All for OpenClaw; Claude Lacks Personal Touch
Both of these can be true: 1. No model is anywhere near as good as Opus for OpenClaw 2. Using Claude Code as a personal assistant replacement is OK but just doesn’t feel as “mine” as my OpenClaw
Fed and Hedge Fund Leader Warn of AI-Driven Cyber Threats
JUST IN: Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell called Wall Street execs to an urgent meeting over worries that Anthropic PBC's new AI model will ramp up cyber threats.
AI as a Catalyst to Reinvent End‑to‑end Experiences
GenAI is today's spark, not the destination. The real opportunity is using AI to reinvent customer experiences and operations end-to-end. #AI #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/vUAeACa9wo
Fed and Bessent Summon Wall Street over Mythos Risks
JUST IN: Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell called in Wall Street leaders to tackle systemic risks from Anthropic's new Mythos model.
Claude Code's 2‑hour Promise Yields Barely a Prototype
People assume they can build any MVP with Claude Code in 2h. But what they build is a MP at best. Maybe even just an M.
OpenAI Supports Bill Capping Liability for AI Catastrophes
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters https://t.co/1jlcLnvLiW https://t.co/COcZSRoP6D
LeoneDataAI Joins to Boost Data‑focused AI Initiatives
Excited for @LeoneDataAI to join the company covering Data, one of the hottest areas in AI.