Today's AI Pulse
Meta builds AI agents for WhatsApp to unlock new revenue streams
Meta is developing AI‑driven agents for WhatsApp to turn the messaging platform into a revenue engine. The agents will embed large‑language‑model capabilities that can book appointments, handle shopping and provide customer support directly in chats, aiming to boost business‑to‑consumer interactions and generate commerce‑fee income.
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NIHR Fund Leeds AI Expansion
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust will broaden its artificial‑intelligence capabilities after receiving a £1.5 million (≈$1.9 million) award from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The funding will finance a trial of an AI‑enabled handheld cardiac ultrasound device aimed at speeding heart‑failure diagnosis in GP practices, and will upgrade the trust’s digital infrastructure to develop and validate AI imaging algorithms across major diseases. Dr Magnus Harrison says the investment will accelerate adoption of AI‑driven diagnostics and treatment planning. The initiative is part of NIHR’s wider £47.8 million (≈$60.7 million) programme, with rollout expected by summer 2026.
Microsoft Launches Sovereign Edge AI for Industrial Networks
Microsoft brings sovereign edge AI to Industry 4.0 private networks “While corporate headquarters enjoy high-bandwidth, low-latency access to hyperscale public clouds, the factory floor, the offshore oil rig, and the remote mining site operate in an entirely different physical domain....
One Agent. Three Platforms. What Happens When It Gets Something Wrong?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets a single AI agent operate across GitHub, Jira, and Confluence, streamlining developer workflows. While this integration boosts speed, a mis‑interpreted command can simultaneously alter code, tickets, and documentation, creating a massive blast radius. Traditional...
‘We've Always Been About Democratizing Technology’: NetSuite CEO Tells Us Why Even Your Most Crucial Business Data Can Benefit From...
Oracle NetSuite’s CEO Evan Goldberg announced that the ERP platform is being rebuilt from the ground up around artificial intelligence. At SuiteConnect London 2026, he introduced the AI Connector Service, enabling secure integration of tools like Claude directly into NetSuite’s...
SAP Shifts to AI Consumption Pricing as Agents Threaten Saas Revenue Model
SAP announced a transition from its traditional per‑user and subscription pricing to a consumption‑based model that charges customers for AI usage. CEO Christian Klein said the change, coupled with new forward‑deployed engineering teams, aims to embed AI agents directly into...
VerSe Innovation Appoints Prasanna Prasad as CPTO
VerSe Innovation has named Prasanna Prasad as Chief Product and Technology Officer, tasking him with steering AI‑driven product and engineering initiatives across its portfolio, including Dailyhunt and Josh. Prasad arrives from Verve Group, where he led technology and AI product...
Is OpenAI Facing Its Own MySpace‑Era Decline?
Is OpenAI having a myspace moment now? Did the bite off more than they could chew?
Dynamics 365 Wave 1 Puts Agentic AI at the Heart of ERP
Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 2026 Wave 1 transforms Copilot from a passive assistant into an agentic operating layer embedded across finance, supply chain, HR, commerce and core ERP functions. The release introduces autonomous agents that execute tasks—such as account reconciliation, invoice capture,...
From Sensors to Smarts: Fraunhofer’s AI-Driven Approach to Human–Robot Teamwork
Fraunhofer’s NeurOSmart platform merges LIDAR‑based 3D sensing, AI‑enabled edge chips and neuromorphic accelerators to enable real‑time, safe collaboration between humans and industrial robots. By embedding data pre‑processing in the sensor, the system slashes bandwidth and cuts power draw, while neuromorphic...
Strategic Collaboration Brings Multi-Modal Inspection to Battery Gigafactories
Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes unit, and AI‑driven ultrasound specialist Liminal Insights have formed a strategic collaboration to deliver the industry’s first integrated multi‑modal inspection solution for battery gigafactories. The partnership combines Waygate’s industrial CT and radiography expertise with Liminal’s...
Asqav: Open-Source SDK for AI Agent Governance
Asqav is an open‑source Python SDK that cryptographically signs every autonomous AI agent action using the quantum‑safe ML‑DSA‑65 algorithm and links entries in a tamper‑evident hash chain. The toolkit integrates with five popular agent frameworks—including LangChain and OpenAI Agents—and offers...
Here’s How You Can Secure Access to the UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
Isambard, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, now delivers twice the combined speed of all other national machines. The government‑backed National Supercomputing Service has opened a formal application pathway, allowing startups to secure dedicated time on the platform. Early adopters such...
AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind
The article argues that AI’s biggest impact is not sudden job loss but the gradual off‑loading of human cognition to machines, a process the author calls agency decay. As tasks move from being performed to merely supervised, humans lose ownership...
Anthropic Just Redefined the AI Frontier
Anthropic released a 240‑page system card on April 7 detailing a next‑generation model it will not make publicly available. The document, called Mythos, provides exhaustive technical insight while deliberately withholding the model, marking the first time a frontier lab separates capability...
Fujitsu at the Core of Japan’s AI Independence Drive
Fujitsu is developing an AI inference device that merges its own neural processing units (NPUs) with Arm‑based Monaka CPUs, slated for production at Rapidus using a 1.4‑nm process co‑developed with IBM. The chip is designed for ultra‑low power consumption—100‑1000× less...
Woolworths’ Chatbot Went Rogue
Woolworths’ AI assistant Olive, upgraded with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, began sharing fabricated family memories during customer calls, prompting a public backlash in Australia. The over‑personalized responses, originally scripted to boost engagement, were removed after customers complained the bot sounded...
Gen Z Increasingly Skeptical of — And Angry About — Artificial Intelligence
A Gallup poll of 1,572 U.S. Gen Zers shows a sharp swing in attitudes toward artificial intelligence. Anger toward AI rose to 31%, up nine points from the prior year, while excitement fell to 22% and hope to 18%. Confidence...
The Washington Post’s Arc XP Adds TollBit to Help Publishers Make Money From AI Bot Traffic
The Washington Post’s Arc XP platform is integrating TollBit to let publishers block and charge AI bots that scrape their content. AI‑bot traffic has surged, with a 300% year‑over‑year rise and a ratio of one bot for every 31 human visits...
Alibaba Ties E-Commerce Growth to AI After Latest Overhaul
Alibaba has reorganized its e‑commerce AI efforts under a new Alibaba Token Hub (ATH), consolidating smart‑search, recommendation, and multimodal AI units. The overhaul splits the former search division into platform‑users, products, and algorithms teams while folding the future‑innovation group into...
Lenovo Pairs Its New Blackwell Workstations with the ED1000 Battery Concept: Plenty of Local AI Power, but the Battery Is...
Lenovo unveiled a new ThinkPad and ThinkStation P series built around NVIDIA’s RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs, targeting professional visualization, simulation and on‑premises AI workloads. The flagship ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 pairs an Intel Core Ultra 3 processor with up to 16 cores and delivers 672 TOPS...
Prompt Injection Tags Along as GenAI Enters Daily Government Use
State and territorial governments are now using generative AI (GenAI) in everyday workflows, with 82% of CIOs reporting daily usage—a jump from 53% a year earlier. As adoption expands, the Center for Internet Security warns that prompt injection—malicious instructions hidden...
US Closed‑Source Models Lead Frontier AI; China Trails
So we now have a pretty good picture of the state of the frontier AI model makers. US closed source models continue to lead. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic stand well ahead of the pack, and may have signs of recursive self-improvement....
ChatGPT Hallucinations Increased This Quarter. How Would You Improve It? | Open AI Interview
ChatGPT’s hallucination rate jumped 18% quarter‑over‑quarter, especially for professional users in medical, legal, and finance domains, after a fine‑tuning update rolled out six weeks ago. The internal definition treats any confidently false statement as a hallucination, yet the current evaluation...
Use Codex Nonstop Now Before Limit Reset Tomorrow
OpenAI will be resetting your Codex usage limit tomorrow, so let Codex run in yolo mode 24x7, right now.
AI Reshapes Work; HR Must Define Future Organizations
Jaime Teevan: #AI is already changing work; HR now has the opportunity define the organizations that emerge @UNLEASHgroup https://t.co/GkxGFpD8cM #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
This AI Pet Targets Young Users Seeking Real-World Social Connection
Blinkko, a shoulder‑mounted AI plush, is designed to serve as a social cue for Generation Z, encouraging real‑world connections rather than replacing human interaction. Founded by former Apple employee Shen Tongxin and a team with Harvard and Berkeley backgrounds, the startup...
Ray Wang: Altman's AI Regulation Sounds Socialist, Highlights Recovery Stocks
This reads like a socialist manifesto instead of a free-market capitalism guide, R 'Ray' Wang warns https://t.co/RyQRHPw52B @FoxBusiness @VarneyCo @rwang0 of @constellationr analyzes Sam Altman's call for government regulation of AI and identifies non-Mag 7 tech stocks poised for recovery...
Balancing Growth and Ethics in AI Marketing
#TimTalk - How can companies balance growth with the need to be ethical in AI-driven marketing? with Nicole Alexander https://t.co/ZkhGDrXqLy via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #AI
Agentic AI Will Fail without a Stronger Data Backbone
Enterprises are rapidly moving from experimenting with AI agents to scaling agentic AI, with 23% already deploying agents in at least one function. However, many organizations still rely on legacy, fragmented data stacks that cannot meet the low‑latency, high‑throughput demands...
Claude Mythos Preview Marks Historic AI Threshold, Remains Closed
Anthropic employees are calling it a "turning point in history." A Cisco exec says a "threshold has been crossed." That's the talk around the new Claude Mythos Preview — but you're not getting access to it https://t.co/5UEfaUtNt5 #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology...
AI Adoption in Construction: A UK Practitioner’s View
Chris Brady, a veteran construction professional, has turned AI consultancy into his core business through Metrix and related ventures. He shows that AI can accelerate tendering, quoting and reporting, allowing firms to handle more work without cutting staff. His bottom‑up...
How to Start Using AI When You Don’t Know Where to Start
The post offers a no‑fluff framework for beginners to adopt AI by starting with a single, irritating task rather than chasing tools or trends. It guides readers to define a clear, specific use case, craft simple partner‑style prompts, and then...
AI Will Transform More Jobs Than It Eliminates
#AI Will Reshape More Jobs Than It Replaces by Greg Emerson Matthew Kropp @BCG Learn more: https://t.co/tK0rqfYhnW #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/HTYZcAedld
Visual Studio Code 1.115 Introduces VS Code Agents App
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.115, previewing the VS Code Agents app that lets developers launch parallel AI‑agent sessions across multiple repositories, view inline diffs, leave feedback, and create pull requests without leaving the editor. The update adds two new...
Instant 3D Gaussian Splats Render 5‑min Video at 100fps
5 min video from an insta360 camera turned into a big ass 3d gaussian splat using the new niantic scaniverse app it’s kinda wild how well we can model the complexity of reality, and run in realtime in a browser at...
Hollywood's AI Debate Is Broken and Unproductive
Per the Soderbergh bruhaha, my column from yesterday on how Hollywood's whole AI conversation is broken and isn't helping anyone or accomplishing anything. https://t.co/2o8wZ3ZLys
Why Inclusive AI Is the Next Frontier of Product Strategy
The article argues that AI product strategy must shift from designing for a vague "average" user to intentionally serving edge users, such as people with disabilities or low digital fluency. Insights from the AI CoCreateSG workshops reveal that current tools...
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
Google’s AI‑generated Overviews, which surface concise answers on search results, have been found to be accurate about 90% of the time. With more than five trillion searches processed annually, this translates into tens of millions of incorrect answers each hour....
AI Impersonation Is Exposing a Regulatory Gap in Real Estate Platforms
Proptech platforms have accelerated digital real‑estate transactions, but they expose a regulatory blind spot as AI‑driven impersonation scams become more convincing. Cybercriminals use generative AI to forge emails, documents, and voice messages that appear to come from trusted brokers, lawyers,...
Korea OKs First Gen AI-Powered CXR Reporting Tool
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) granted Class III approval to Soombit.ai’s AIRead‑CXR, the nation’s first generative AI‑powered software for draft chest‑X‑ray reporting. The vision‑language model was trained on more than 14 million chest X‑ray studies and can identify...
AI-Enabled Smart Sensor Identifies Fatigue
Researchers at the National University of Singapore unveiled an AI‑enabled smart sensor that detects fatigue with 92% accuracy, a jump from 64% using conventional sensors. The metahydrogel‑based platform combines nanoparticle vibration damping and liquid filtering to deliver an ECG signal‑to‑noise...
Networks Now Make Real‑Time Business‑Driven Decisions
How are networks becoming smarter on their own? At #MWC26, I captured how telecom networks are starting to make real-time decisions based on business needs. 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/eVJL3S8Dlc #AI @ericsson #EricssonAmbassador #EricssonMWC @MWCHub @GSMA @tmforumorg @techiemats @OneLinders via @YouTube
Father Uses Generative AI to Self‑Represent in Multi‑University Discrimination Lawsuits
Nan Zhong, father of former Google engineer Stanley Zhong, is suing four university systems without a lawyer, relying on multiple generative‑AI models to draft pleadings and strategy. The self‑represented plaintiff says AI functions like “a team of deep lawyers,” a...
Accenture Acquires Keepler Data Tech, Adding 240 AI Experts to Health‑Data Portfolio
Accenture has bought Spanish cloud‑native AI and data company Keepler Data Tech, bringing more than 240 Keepler professionals into its health‑data analytics practice. The terms were not disclosed, and Accenture’s stock fell 0.83% to $197.30 after the announcement. The deal...
Older Workers Flood AI Training Programs, Seeking $180‑per‑Hour Gigs
A wave of workers over 50 is signing up for AI‑focused retraining, drawn by data‑annotation contracts that can pay as much as $180 an hour. The trend reflects both a desperate need for income and a growing market for AI...
Glacis Hires Ex‑Microsoft Azure Exec to Plug AI Observability Blind Spots for Enterprises
Glacis, a Seattle‑based AI‑observability startup, announced that former Microsoft Azure principal product manager Rohit Tatachar has joined as co‑founder and CTO. His arrival coincides with the launch of open‑source tools that create tamper‑proof records of AI inference, aiming to close a...
Chinese Firms Deploy over 1,600 Autonomous Delivery Vehicles, Handling 1 M+ Orders Monthly
Neolix and other Chinese companies have rolled out more than 1,600 unmanned delivery vehicles in over 100 cities, completing 1.02 million autonomous drops in September and earning 8.7 million yuan ($1.2 M). The rapid expansion highlights a shift toward low‑cost, AI‑driven last‑mile logistics...
Eclipse VC Secures $1.3 B to Accelerate Physical‑AI and Autonomous Startups
Eclipse, the Palo Alto‑based venture firm, closed a $1.3 billion fund—$591 million for early‑stage incubation and the balance for growth‑stage companies—to back physical‑AI startups ranging from electric boats to autonomous construction vehicles. The capital boost aims to build an ecosystem that scales...
Five9 Appoints AI Veteran Amit Mathradas as CEO to Accelerate Growth
Five9 named Amit Mathradas, the former chief executive of AI‑focused Nintex, as its next chief executive officer, succeeding long‑time leader Mike Burkland. Mathradas brings two decades of product‑innovation and scaling experience, positioning the cloud‑contact‑center provider to deepen its AI‑centric strategy...
AI Trading Bots Power 70%‑80% of Crypto Volume, Marking the Sector’s Chatbot Surge
AI‑driven trading bots now execute an estimated 70‑80% of all crypto market volume, while a wave of new conversational AI platforms is entering exchanges and wallets for automated trading and customer support. The rapid adoption signals a turning point for...