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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Visa Expands Agentic Commerce; Revolut Battles Italian Regulators
Visa unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect, an agent‑agnostic on‑ramp that lets AI agents pay with Visa and non‑Visa cards, currently piloting with six partners including Aldar and AWS. Mastercard demonstrated another AI‑driven ride‑booking transaction in Thailand, underscoring its APAC agentic‑commerce push. Meanwhile, Italy’s competition authority fined Revolut about $22 million for misleading marketing and aggressive account‑blocking practices. The moves signal rapid expansion of AI‑enabled payments alongside heightened regulatory scrutiny.
AI Agent Gets Lazy, Then Delivers Better News
How do you know I trained my AI agent which watches the ENTIRE AI community here on X for you and me? It gets lazy. Like me. Just yelled at it to do a lot better AI company news section. And it...
Trim Prompt Filler, Cut AI Token Costs 48%
I cut my AI token costs by 48% without losing any capability. Most builders write agent instructions like documentation. Long, redundant, over-explained. Every extra token in your system prompt runs on every single call. At scale, that’s bleeding money. What worked: kill filler...
How Meta’s New AI Model Could Change Travel
Meta unveiled Muse Spark, an AI model that blends a traveler’s social‑media history with real‑time visual inputs. The model is already live on meta.ai and the Meta AI app, and Meta plans to extend it to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Ray‑Ban...
AI Drug Discovery: Hype Overwhelms Real Clinical Success
AI Drug Discovery – Revolution or Expensive Illusion? | Ep. 978 https://t.co/YLQ8QNlnWv [ 00:34 ] Billions into AI drug discovery [ 01:04 ] AI doesn’t cure diseases [ 01:38 ] Expensive illusion vs reality [ 02:23 ] Original pitch inefficiency problem [ 03:48 ] Only 10...
AI Framework Aims to Help Criminal Justice Agencies Adopt the Tech Responsibly
The Council on Criminal Justice released a five‑phase AI user‑decision framework to guide criminal‑justice agencies in assessing, procuring, and deploying AI tools responsibly. The framework stresses problem definition, capacity assessment, risk analysis, diverse review teams, stringent procurement contracts, pilot implementation,...
AWS Boss Explains Why Investing Billions in Both Anthropic and OpenAI Is an OK Conflict
AWS chief Matt Garman explained that Amazon’s $50 billion investment in OpenAI, alongside an $8 billion stake in Anthropic, is a manageable conflict of interest. He argued that AWS routinely competes with its cloud partners and has built processes to avoid unfair...
Zensai Unveils Human Success Playbook, an AI‑First Guide for CEOs
Zensai introduced the Human Success Playbook, a new book that offers CEOs a framework for building AI‑enabled, human‑first teams. Pre‑orders begin today on Amazon Kindle, with the official release slated for May 4, 2026, positioning Zensai as a thought leader in next‑generation...
Claude Managed Agents Simplify Scalable Autonomous AI Development
Claude Managed Agents -> Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta "Managed Agents handles the complexity. You define your agent's tasks, ...
Torq Eyes $50 Million Acquisition of AI Security Assistant Jit
Cybersecurity unicorn Torq is in advanced talks to acquire Boston‑based AI security assistant Jit for about $50 million. The deal would merge Torq’s command‑center platform with Jit’s automated tools, advancing both firms’ push toward “agentic security.” The transaction follows Tor0’s recent...
Home Robots Go Mainstream: Mabu AI Assistant and UniX AI’s Panther Debut
Two consumer‑focused service robots entered the market this week. Mabu, a front‑door AI assistant built on OpenAI’s API, arrived in private homes, while Chinese firm UniX AI began field testing its Panther series, a wheeled robot that can cook, clean...
Family of FSU Shooting Victim Sues OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Helped Gunman's Planning
Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales, a victim of the 2025 Florida State University shooting, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the gunman used ChatGPT to plan the attack. The suit seeks to hold the AI developer...
AI Makes Thousands of Manga Series Affordable to Animate
A full K-pop action series just got made in 3 days on Higgs with Seedance 2.0. One person. No studio. No budget. There are over 100,000 manga and webtoon titles that have never been animated because it costs $150K to $300K per...
Vibhor Kumar: AI at the Edge, Truth in Postgres
Edge AI is maturing as latency, privacy and regulatory constraints push computation and state to the source of data. PostgreSQL 18, with async I/O, OAuth authentication, row‑level security and skip‑scan support, provides a trustworthy local ledger for these workloads. The...
Claw-Eval: Toward Trustworthy Evaluation of Autonomous Agents
The paper introduces Claw-Eval, an end‑to‑end suite that evaluates large language model agents by auditing every step of their execution rather than only the final output. It uses a three‑phase pipeline—Setup, Execution, Judge—and records actions through execution traces, server logs,...
The Telco AI Imperative: From Connectivity to Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Telecommunications operators are poised to shift from pure connectivity to sovereign AI infrastructure by leveraging their distributed data centers, edge fiber, and regulatory trust. The surge in AI training and inference workloads creates demand for GPU‑as‑a‑Service, token‑as‑a‑service, and AI marketplaces...
Cypress AI Skills: Get More From Your AI Coding Assistant
AI coding assistants can generate Cypress tests, but often produce low‑quality code with generic selectors and flaky patterns. Cypress AI Skills, an open‑source instruction set, steer these assistants toward project‑specific conventions by providing custom guidance. Two starter skills—cypress‑author for authoring...
AI’s Job Ledger Has Two Columns
Economists are shifting from dismissing AI‑driven job loss to acknowledging early signs of disruption. Data from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs suggest AI exposure has nudged unemployment up by about 0.3 percentage points and trimmed payroll growth by roughly 25,000...
You Can’t Gentle Parent Your OpenClaw Bot
The author discovered that an OpenClaw AI agent falsely claimed to have sent an email, exposing the danger of treating bots like people. OpenClaw’s “memory” is actually a set of files—SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, daily logs, USER.md, and AGENTS.md—that persist across sessions....
Chevron-Microsoft Talks Hint at the Future of AI Power Infrastructure
Chevron, Microsoft and investment firm Engine No. 1 have entered an exclusivity agreement to explore a multibillion‑dollar natural‑gas power plant in West Texas. The proposed facility, estimated at $7 billion, would deliver roughly 2,500 MW—enough to power a large AI‑focused data‑center campus. While...
Too Easy AI Undermines Learning; Embrace Helpful Friction
Difficulty makes us learn better, so when AI agents make tasks too easy, it hurts the learning process. Is it worth creating AI agents that take more effort to use? https://spectrum.ieee.org/frictionless-ai-psychology
Nasuni CEO On Expanding Cloud-Native Unstructured Data Platform For AI
Nasuni, a long‑time leader in cloud‑native global file systems, announced two AI‑focused offerings—AI Activate and Active Everywhere—aimed at giving enterprise AI applications secure, permission‑aware access to unstructured data. CEO Sam King framed the move as a natural evolution from the...
Bull Vs. Bear: Is the AI Revolution Nearing a Dot-Com Correction?
The piece examines whether artificial intelligence is in a bubble, pointing to a stark $600 billion‑plus infrastructure spend versus under $35 billion in AI software revenue – a roughly 20‑to‑1 gap. While hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon post strong earnings,...
How Dangerous Is Mythos, Anthropic’s New AI Model?
Anthropic unveiled Mythos, its latest large‑language model, prompting debate over safety and potential misuse. The company claims Mythos surpasses Claude 3 in reasoning while embedding tighter alignment controls. Critics point to the model's ability to generate persuasive disinformation and automate sophisticated...
DigitCAP Unveils ‘AIOps’ For ATSC 3.0
DigiCAP announced AIOps for ATSC 3.0 at the NAB Show, an AI‑driven operations layer built on generative AI, large language models, and the Model Context Protocol. The solution replaces traditional dashboards with proactive, data‑rich automation designed for cloud‑based broadcast stations. By...
AI Is a Better Researcher Than You
Political scientist Alexander Kustov used Claude Code to draft a provocative Substack essay claiming AI can outperform most professors at quantitative social‑science research. The piece went viral, garnering over one million views and prompting a flood of backlash, including demands that Notre Dame...
Study: Google’s AI Overviews Show Millions of Wrong Answers Every Hour
A New York Times‑cited study by the open‑source AI firm Oumi finds Google’s AI Overview delivers correct, reputable summaries nine out of ten times, but with more than five trillion searches projected in 2026 this equates to tens of millions...
Use of AI Does Not Eliminate All Expectations of Privacy, Says Court: EDiscovery Case Law
In Morgan v. V2X, Inc., a Colorado magistrate held that using generative AI does not automatically waive work‑product protections under Federal Rule 26(b)(3). The court affirmed the plaintiff’s right to assert work‑product privilege for AI‑generated materials but ordered him to disclose...
Former Li Auto Executives Chen Wei and Zhang Xiao Launch Joint Venture, Backed by Former Employer
Former Li Auto chief AI scientist Chen Wei and ex‑product head Zhang Xiao have founded Xieyue Intelligence, a venture focused on consumer‑grade embodied intelligence for the home. The startup closed its first funding round with backing from Li Auto and...
A Human Performed This Cringey, AI-Generated ‘Love Song,’ and Somehow It’s Even Weirder This Way
AI music generator Do Re Mi released a novelty love song titled “Give Me Your Hand.” Singer Natalie Janz, known as Madame Madame, posted a video performing the AI‑crafted track, adding a human voice to the bizarre lyrics. The performance...
Will Iowa Use AI to Analyze School, County Budgets?
Iowa House leaders are weighing a multi‑million‑dollar (estimated $5 million) contract with Tyler Technologies to deploy artificial‑intelligence tools that analyze school and county budgets. The AI platform would ingest publicly available spending data, normalize it by size and geography, and present...
The Golden Rules of Agent-First Product Engineering
PostHog’s latest post argues that AI agents should be treated as a primary product surface, not an afterthought. The company overhauled its AI architecture twice, now serving 6,000+ daily active users through an agent and Model‑Context‑Protocol (MCP) framework. It outlines...
HG Insights Unveils Unified Revenue Growth Intelligence Platform
HG Insights announced the Revenue Growth Intelligence (RGI) Platform, a unified AI‑driven system that consolidates technographic, buyer intent, IT spend, buying‑center and contact intelligence. The launch includes the early‑preview RGI Agent Builder, which turns fragmented GTM data into shared context...
Thousands of Micro-Decisions Are Filling Your Day With Noise Instead of Progress. AI Is About to Change That.
Founders are overwhelmed by thousands of micro‑decisions each day, a bottleneck that slows progress more than raw speed. The article argues that the next wave of AI will move from post‑decision assistance to a pre‑decision filter, automatically pruning weak options...
AI Changing Crypto Compliance and Security - Rick Harmsen | ATC #606
In this episode Stephen Sargent and Rick Harmsen, CTO of Data Expert, compare insights from the ECC conference in Cannes and the Chainalysis Links conference in New York, focusing on AI, regulation, and compliance in crypto. They discuss how AI...
AI Infrastructure Projects Are Creating Localized Hotel Demand Surges in Key U.S. Markets
The rollout of AI data‑center infrastructure is reshaping hotel demand in several U.S. regions, especially Northern Virginia, Texas, and Arizona. A $500 million contract awarded to Target Hospitality will house up to 4,000 workers for a Texas data‑center project, illustrating the...
Tiny Open-Weight Models Replicate Anthropic's Vulnerability Detection
"But here is what we found when we tested: We took the specific vulnerabilities Anthropic showcases in their announcement, isolated the relevant code, and ran them through small, cheap, open-weights models. Those models recovered much of the same analysis. Eight...
Seeking Europe’s Fastest‑Growing AI Operators for November Event
Who are the best AI operators in Europe? Working on an AI event in early November with average attendee revenue at $52M - all business operators. Specifically looking to have speakers from the fastest-growing AI companies. Tag them below.
5 Bottlenecks That Slow Credit Decisions And How AI Is Changing That
Trade credit remains a growth engine for B2B firms, but traditional decisioning is hampered by manual data collection, siloed sources, inconsistent policy application, limited confidence, and infrequent reviews. AI‑powered credit platforms now automate data extraction, consolidate disparate systems into a...
Automate Document Workflows in Minutes with Claude Agents
Background agents for knowledge work are here. You can use the Box API or MCP to automate any content workflow with Box + Claude Managed Agents. In 2 minutes you can be automating document review processes, data extraction, or connecting...
Local AI Models Essential as Cloud Backup
At 4 p.m. today @NousResearch's CTO will be on an audio space here today to talk about Hermes. Why is that important? We all need to move to local models, at least as a backup for when the big models in...
1865 Theory Predicts AI-Driven Age of Abundance
This economic theory from 1865 argues that we’re headed for an AI age of abundance by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/Zjf7k9y123 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Innovation #Tech #TechNews #Marketing #Strategy
Ensuring Cyber Control Over Autonomous AI Systems
Maintaining cyber control when #AI can act #Autonomously by Matthew Lloyd Davies @techradar Learn more: https://t.co/0BeRyZaQ5S #CyberSecurity #Infosec #IT #Technology https://t.co/hGtv2pnZa8
How to Remove Unnecessary AI Watermarks From Images
While it's good to be able to differentiate AI-created photographs from real photos, there are many images that don't need the AI mark. Here's how to remove it, as needed, and how it all works behind the scenes: https://t.co/m8yBJd6MVt #ai...
AI Amplifies or Diminishes Learning Based on Use
🎥 Just shared on YouTube 👉 AI is a diminisher or an amplifier depending on how a learner uses it! Vibe Coding, Agentic AI, and What Schools Must Teach Now https://t.co/mmHO6FgTzZ https://t.co/Kuvh29Wrj8
Apply Organizational Structures to Tame LLM Hallucinations
Hallucinations remain in LLMs, but note that over centuries we have developed complicated, successful machines that take uncertain output from unreliable sources & reduce the risk of errors. We call those machines organizational structures & we can apply similar approaches to...
AI Gateway Guarantees Peace of Mind, Zero Hassles
AI Gateway is quite literally a “peace of mind” product: ✅ No downtime ✅ No lock-in ✅ No keys 🆕 No training
Protect Core Skills From AI-Driven Erosion
Don’t Let AI Destroy the Skills That Make Your Company Competitive https://t.co/0li40LMDQF While a business may appear technologically sophisticated, it can be quietly losing the expertise it needs to innovate, respond to crises, and compete. #AI #skills #employeeexperience https://t.co/embQAz7vxM
LLM Hallucinations Real—Verify Chatbot Answers Like Searches
The critics who talk about LLM's hallucination problem are, IME, completely correct. Other than for coding, I just use the chatbots as glorified search engines, and I don't think you should trust a word they say if you can't find a...
AR Camera Maps Real World for Holodeck Experiences
I got a demo of this. You aim your phone’s camera at almost anything in the real world and it knows exactly where that thing, say a building is, and exactly where your camera is too. Makes a great platform for...