Today's AI Pulse
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2.0 with multilingual text and ‘Thinking’ mode
OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning. The new ‘Thinking’ mode lets paid users generate up to eight coherent images per prompt, including floor plans, maps and UI mock‑ups. The feature expands the model’s ability to work with uploaded content.
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Everyone's Talking About AI Agents. Almost Nobody Has Actually Built One. Here's How
A recent poll shows only 3% of readers have actually built a self‑running AI agent, despite 65% claiming to experiment with them. The gap narrows as Model Context Protocol hits 97 million monthly installs and low‑code platforms like Make.com simplify integration, tools, and persistence. The author demonstrates a free, no‑code Gmail triage agent that can be deployed in under 15 minutes for essentially zero cost. This practical guide highlights why the ability to launch autonomous agents is becoming accessible to non‑developers.
Secure-by-Design: 3 Principles to Safely Scale Agentic AI
Enterprise adoption of agentic AI is shifting from experimental copilots to autonomous agents that execute decisions across environments. This expands the attack surface, prompting a secure‑by‑design shift championed by a CrowdStrike‑NVIDIA blueprint. The article outlines three core principles: treating AI...
Match AI Risks to the Right Organizational Zone
Not all risks belong in the same part of the organization. Some call for exploration, others for disciplined execution, and a few require full commitment across the enterprise. Treating them the same way is a common source of confusion. The...
ChopGrad Cuts Gradient Cost, Boosts Training Efficiency
ChopGrad: Making Training More Efficient by Cutting Gradient Complexity In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore ChopGrad, a novel technique aimed at improving the efficiency of training deep learning models by selectively simplifying gradient computations. Instead of...
Too Much Order, Too Soon: The Case Against AI Term Sheets
Washington is edging toward a federal AI "term sheet," a non‑binding framework intended to shape industry expectations. The article argues that while such political coordination can influence investment and compliance planning, it risks creating the wrong kind of certainty in...
Master 10 AI Concepts, Outpace 90% of Everyone
If you understand these 10 AI concepts, you’re already ahead of 90% of people. LLMs → predict the next word Hallucinations → sound right, not always right RAG → connects AI to real data Prompting → better input = better output Agents → AI that...
Mythos Could Exploit Vulnerabilities, Raising Skynet Concerns
Mythos, Anthropic’s not yet released model, allegedly can not only find security gaps but exploit them. How far from Skynet are we?
Cadence Expands AI And Robotic Partnerships With Nvidia And Google Cloud
Cadence announced expanded AI and robotics collaborations with Nvidia and Google Cloud at its CadenceLIVE event. The partnership integrates Cadence’s multi‑physics simulation tools with Nvidia’s CUDA‑X libraries, Omniverse and Isaac frameworks, enabling high‑fidelity digital twins for chip design, robotics and...
LLM Misdiagnoses Logs, Wastes Hours Without Human Oversight
Was recently in a 20-person problem call. Someone used an LLM against one of the logs with possible sources of issue. It of course came up with a theory to justify the prompting. It was not that at all, but it...
Documented AI Skills Turn Assumptions Into Speed
I was pulling together my library of AI skills recently and realized I now have over 60 of them, covering everything from how I write reports to how I run a top task analysis. When I started, I treated them...
Google Deepens AI Integration Across Ads and Search with Gemini Enforcement and AI Mode Expansion
Google’s 2025 Ads Safety Report shows Gemini‑powered AI blocked 8.3 billion ads, a jump from 5.1 billion the year before, and halted over 99% of policy‑violating ads before they reached users. The enforcement model now focuses on individual ads rather than whole...
Is Your AI Risk Assessment Ready? (Part 1)
The article warns firms against handing compliance duties to ChatGPT without a structured approach. It outlines the first three steps of an AI risk assessment: establishing an enterprise‑wide governance body, performing a use‑case specific risk assessment, and pinpointing whether risks...
Roblox Launches Agentic AI Tools to Speed up Game Development Workflows
Roblox unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools designed to streamline the entire game‑development pipeline, from concept to testing. The new Planning Mode turns a single prompt into a structured, editable roadmap, while mesh generation and procedural‑model tools let creators...
Iris Founder Talks AI-Powered Finance
Iris, an AI‑driven financial‑modeling platform founded by former investment banker Drew Fallon, offers brands a data infrastructure that automates finance and operational workflows. The service integrates with Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, QuickBooks, Gusto and other systems, enabling AI agents to generate...
Valencia-Based GuruSup Raises €1.3 Million Seed Round for AI Customer Service Platform
GuruSup, a Valencia‑based SaaS startup that builds AI agents for customer service, closed a $1.4 million seed round led by 4Founders Capital with Addendum Capital and several Spanish angels. The funding will fund a headcount doubling and a five‑fold increase in...
Michael Baker International Launches Titan
Michael Baker International unveiled Titan, an enterprise AI platform that aggregates leading large‑language models through a secure, Azure‑based interface. The system grants more than 6,000 engineers, architects and scientists unified, no‑code access to build custom AI agents and publish them...
Alignment By Default?
The post argues that large language models inherit a "normative prior" from pre‑training on human text, making them partially aligned by default rather than purely value‑neutral optimizers. Traditional AI‑risk concerns—instrumental convergence, specification gaming, deceptive alignment—remain relevant but are reframed because...
Widespread AI Use Masks a Growing Workplace Readiness Gap
A Study.com survey shows that nine‑in‑ten U.S. workers are already using AI tools, yet only about one‑sixth feel fully prepared to leverage them effectively. While 21% of employees must use AI as a core function and 45% are encouraged to...
☕🤖 Tutorial: Turn ChatGPT Into Your Brand Strategist (Build a Real Brand Plan in 45 Minutes)
The post walks founders through building an AI‑powered brand strategist using ChatGPT, delivering a full brand audit, positioning, pain‑point map, messaging framework, voice guidelines, and a 90‑day activation plan in about 45 minutes. It replaces a typical $15,000 agency engagement...
FYI: Here Is My Current List of Skills in Claude
Paul Baier reports a rapid shift from ChatGPT to Anthropic's Claude, citing a survey where 97% of MIT AI Summit attendees now favor Claude as their primary AI productivity tool. He explains Claude "Skills," custom instruction sets that automate repeatable...
10 AI Forex Trading Bots in 2026: Features and Use Cases for Getting Started
The 2026 guide surveys ten AI‑driven forex trading bots, ranging from beginner‑friendly platforms like MoneyFlare to advanced research environments such as QuantConnect. Each bot is evaluated on onboarding simplicity, automation depth, coding requirements, and compatibility with major platforms like MT4,...
AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech
This week’s tech headlines were dominated by a surge of AI upgrades, from Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 with self‑verification to OpenAI’s expanded Codex app and the cybersecurity‑focused GPT‑5.4‑Cyber. Major vendors also rolled out security fixes, with Microsoft patching 165 Windows flaws...
Google’s AI Mode Can Now Help You Find Products in Stock Nearby
Google is expanding AI Mode to let users locate in‑stock products at nearby stores and track prices for specific hotels. The store‑check feature enables the AI to call local retailers based on natural‑language requests, rolling out in the United States...
Iris Founder Talks AI-Powered Finance
In this episode, Eric Bandholz chats with Drew, founder and CEO of Iris Finance, about how AI agents are reshaping e‑commerce finance and operations. Drew explains Iris’s data‑infrastructure platform that centralizes information from Shopify, Amazon, Walmart, QuickBooks and more, then...
Greenhouse Launches AI Principles Framework, Setting the Standard for Responsible Hiring in the AI Era
Greenhouse, the leading hiring platform, unveiled an AI Principles Framework built around five pillars—structured hiring, reimagined workflows, human‑centered design, explicit decision ownership, and explainability. The framework mandates that AI signals be auditable, bias‑aware, and transparent, and it couples these standards...
AI Agent Costs Are Turning Into Enterprise Payroll
Your AI tool costs went from $20/mo to potentially $500K/quarter. And most companies haven't updated their budgets yet. Here's why AI agent billing is the next enterprise crisis 🧵👇 1/ A year ago: AI = autocomplete. Quick prompts, quick answers, flat subscription. Budgetable. Today:...
Data‑center Delays Jeopardize US AI Expansion
Data centre delays threaten to choke AI expansion Almost 40% of such builds in US risk hold-ups, including projects tied to Microsoft and OpenAI $NBIS $CRWV https://t.co/6uooabWhYh
AI’s Role in Grocery so Far This Year
Artificial intelligence has become a strategic priority for U.S. grocery retailers in 2026, with major chains like Kroger deepening ties to Google Cloud's Gemini AI and enhancing internal tools such as the Sage virtual assistant. Independent‑grocery distributors are responding by...
Launching Chit Chat Stocks Compute: Podcast Neo Cloud for AI
Officially launching Chit Chat Stocks Compute, our journey to building a podcast Neo Cloud for AI workloads
New Open‑Source SRE Extension Boosts Gemini CLI
Want a little Site Reliability Engineering help from your agentic CLI? @palladius just open sourced a new SRE extension for the @geminicli. It's got a handful of useful skills for investigations, anomaly detection, and mitigations. https://t.co/euwVVEOK6r https://t.co/dnjWoIdlmD
Exciting New Series and Recommendation of a New Substack for Young Generation
The author launches a 15‑chapter series comparing the Hermes Agent framework with Claude Code, two contrasting AI harness architectures. Hermes Agent is a Python‑based, CLI‑first, model‑agnostic service, while Claude Code is a TypeScript SDK that embeds Anthropic models as a...
AI Is a Business Revolution—Adopt Now or Fall Behind
I’ve seen businesses take weeks to execute, now it’s seconds. That’s not evolution, that’s a revolution. I use AI across everything: finance, marketing, even my own photography. If you’re not leveraging these tools, you’re already behind. This isn’t optional anymore....
Convolution Powers All Image Filters in 60 Seconds
Blurring. Sharpening. Edge detection. They ALL come down to one operation: convolution. Here's a 60-second visual breakdown of how a kernel slides across an image to produce filters — pixel by pixel. If you're learning CV, bookmark this. #ComputerVision #Convolution #ImageProcessing #OpenCV #DeepLearning #CNN
Panic Won't Release Playdate Titles that Use Certain Forms of Generative AI
Panic announced that its Playdate storefront, Catalog, will no longer accept new titles that use generative AI for art, audio, music, text, or dialog, while still permitting AI-assisted coding tools with mandatory disclosure. The policy follows the inclusion of Wheelsprung—a...
Anthropic's Opus 4.7 Boosts Non‑Coding Quality via Adaptive Thinking
I'll give Anthropic credit for moving quickly. Opus 4.7 Adaptive Thinking now triggers thinking much more often, including for the tasks it failed at yesterday. That also means it is doing a lot more web search. So far, a large improvement...
AI Mistakes Will Soon Be Called Errors, Not Hallucinations
In two years, nobody serious will call AI errors hallucinations. Error is the better word. An error is a human thing, and humans have been building guardrails around errors for centuries - editors, checklists, code reviews. Errors we know how to handle.
AI in WealthTech for the Middle and Back Office: Our Top Three Predictions for 2026
The article outlines three AI-driven predictions for wealth‑tech by 2026: conversational interfaces will replace traditional web forms, AI‑personalized back‑office functions will turn support staff into service multipliers, and AI agents will only thrive once mature, publicly accessible APIs become commonplace....
Never Trust AI Alone: Critical Judgment Required
The “Jimmy Cliff” Hallucination: Why “trusting your AI” is a trap, and why critical judgment is the final, non-negotiable step of data literacy https://t.co/rHwTssIIiG via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #AgenticAI #AIAgents #AI
AI Boosts CFTC Surveillance Amid Staff Cuts
NEW: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Selig said AI is helping offset staff cuts by improving surveillance and investigations as the agency takes on growing crypto and prediction market oversight
AI Still Falls Short of End-to-End Accounting, Despite Benchmark Gains
A new DualEntry benchmark of ten accounting‑focused AI models shows Claude Opus 4.7 topping the list with 79.2% overall accuracy, edging out GPT‑5.4 variants. The test reveals strong results in structured tasks—over 90% accuracy for transaction classification and journal entries—while complex...
AI Coding Agents Trigger Selloff, Enterprise Software Remains Resilient
AI Coding Agents Spark Selloff, but Enterprise Software Holds Its Ground | https://t.co/KTVJGVwr3F https://t.co/OvjaK969v8 https://t.co/dGnt0Jcs1K
Avoid Context Rot: 4 Habits for Claude Code
1/ Claude Code gives you 1M tokens of context. Sounds massive. Context rot kicks in at 300-400K. You're running on degraded context for 60-70% of a long session. Here's the 4-habit system I use to manage it. (h/t Thariq from Anthropic)
From AI Promise to Business Impact: Building Future-Ready Enterprise AI
Three years after ChatGPT sparked generative‑AI hype, enterprises are wrestling with the hard‑nosed phase of scaling pilots into production. A Tech Monitor‑AMD roundtable in Stockholm highlighted data quality, siloed architecture, and unrealistic expectations as primary roadblocks. Participants discussed synthetic data,...
Multitask Behavior Models Boost Robot Manipulation Efficiency
Robots can learn complex #manipulation tasks, like assembling a breakfast tray, more efficiently using large behavior models and multitask datasets, when compared with single-task policies. @RussTedrake @RaresAmbrus Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/T6OugH8W0f https://t.co/zeDcCrPl06
AI Defies Disruption Theory: Startups Must Rethink Strategy
Disruption Theory's been a staple of startup strategy, but it does not apply to AI. Incumbents do not regard AI as “just a toy,” and are not waiting around while startups to disrupt them. So, startups need a new strategy. https://t.co/9zku0mmxLZ
Zenskar Raises $15 Million Series A to Expand Agentic Capabilities for B2B Revenue Automation
Zenskar announced a $15 million Series A round led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Shine Capital and Rho. The funding will accelerate its agentic capabilities, especially the Agents Marketplace that lets finance teams deploy AI‑driven billing agents without engineering effort....
Token Path Test Determines Software Firms' AI Survival
New framework from @jrichlive: "are you on the token path?" His test for whether a software company survives the AI shift and the top question he'd be asking on upcoming earnings calls https://t.co/55zfUxN0n2
Evaluating AI Outputs Is Today's Critical Enterprise Skill
The hottest skill in enterprise data right now isn't building AI models. It's evaluating their outputs. Anyone can spin up a model. Very few can tell you whether what came out was actually right. That's the new bottleneck. And most organizations have no...
Perplexity Launches ‘Personal Computer’ AI Assistant for Mac Users
Perplexity has rolled out “Personal Computer,” an AI assistant that embeds directly into its Mac app and runs continuously on devices like the Mac mini. The assistant can manipulate local files, native apps such as iMessage, Mail and Calendar, and...
Google's Dan Taylor on AI Mode & Evolving Marketing Measurement
In this week’s episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Google’s Dan Taylor about AI Overviews, AI Mode, the evolution of marketing measurement as platforms like PMax have gained a greater share of spend, Google’s UCP protocol,...