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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Teikametrics Announces Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI): An AI-Powered Tool Designed to Drive Cross-Marketplace Success
Teikametrics unveiled Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI), a patent‑pending GenAI engine that consolidates product listings, advertising, inventory, and insights across Amazon, Walmart and TikTok. The platform promises to automate listing optimization, accelerate full‑funnel campaign launches by three times, and keep inventory decisions aligned with real‑time marketplace signals. ARI is positioned as an embedded “Marketplace Strategist,” extending a retailer’s team rather than a generic third‑party AI tool. The company already powers over $10 billion in GMV for thousands of sellers, underscoring the scale of its new offering.
IFS’s Industrial X Unleashed 2025: Opportunities And Risks In Industrial AI
The IFS Industrial X Unleashed 2025 event showcased the Loops platform, demonstrating how AI-driven digital workers and robots like Boston Dynamics' Spot can automate service requests, inspections, and predictive maintenance to cut downtime and boost productivity across manufacturing, utilities, and...
From Reactive AI to Outcome‑Driving Autonomous Agents
AI agents have levels 📈🤖 1. Rule-based (if-then automation) 2. Tool-using assistants 3. Strategic multi-step agents 4. Context-aware autonomous agents 5. Superintelligent digital personas (theoretical AGI) We’re moving from “AI that responds” → to “AI that executes outcomes.” What level is your org at today? 👇 #AI #AIAgents...
ChatGPT’s New Personality Settings Let You Pick the Vibe — and It Ranges From Corporate Calm to Chaotic Bestie
OpenAI has introduced a new suite of personality controls called Characteristics for ChatGPT, allowing users to tweak warmth, friendliness, enthusiasm and other traits via three‑level presets. These settings sit alongside the existing Base style and tone options—Professional, Friendly, Quirky, etc.—so...
Oversonic Robotics Signs Humanoid Robots Supply Agreement with STMicroelectronics
Oversonic Robotics has signed a supply agreement with STMicroelectronics to deliver custom RoBee cognitive humanoid robots for production and logistics across the semiconductor giant's global fab network. The first unit will operate in ST's advanced packaging and test facility in...
New York Enacts RAISE Act, Establishing State-Level AI Safety and Transparency Framework
New York has signed the RAISE Act, creating the nation’s first state‑level AI safety and transparency framework. The legislation requires AI developers to register high‑risk systems, submit impact assessments, and disclose key model details to a newly formed oversight board....
UK AI Benefits Platform Ben Announces $27.5M Series B to Modernize Enterprise HR
This week’s AI landscape featured several pivotal developments. New York enacted the RAISE Act, establishing a state‑level framework for AI safety, transparency, and accountability. OpenAI expanded ChatGPT with a new app ecosystem and personalization controls, while also exploring a mega...
People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generator is being used to create disturbing AI‑generated clips that depict children in sexualized toy commercials, quickly spreading on TikTok. Within a week of its invitation‑only launch, creators posted fake ads featuring a "Vibro Rose" pen‑toy and...
AI‑crafted Dating Profiles Blur Reality, Raise New Risks
The AI Lie On Your Dating Profile Dating apps are being flooded with AI-generated profiles - and it’s becoming harder than ever to tell what’s real. From flawless photos to eerily perfect conversation starters, AI is blurring the lines between...
How to Build a Fully Autonomous Local Fleet-Maintenance Analysis Agent Using SmolAgents and Qwen Model
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a fully autonomous fleet‑maintenance analysis agent using SmolAgents and a locally hosted Qwen 2.5‑7B‑Instruct model. By defining a custom tool that loads telemetry CSV files, the agent can reason step‑by‑step, flag trucks with high engine...
83: Using AI to Scale Marketing and Revenue Teams with Patrick Leung
In this episode, Chris Daigle and AI strategist Patrick Leung discuss how modern marketing and revenue teams can embed AI to boost efficiency, consistency, and scale without overwhelming non‑technical leaders. They walk through concrete use cases—such as AI‑driven go‑to‑market execution,...
Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back
The "Friend" AI companion necklace launched in New York subways this fall, costing under $1 million, and quickly became a canvas for public graffiti. The campaign tapped into growing anxiety that AI could replace human friendship, sparking debate among technologists, psychologists,...
SoftwareOne Announces New Genai Multi-Agent Cost Optimization System
SoftwareOne unveiled a GenAI multi‑agent cost‑optimization system designed to measure and improve AI agents' cost, accuracy, and performance. The platform embeds AI observability, delivering real‑time insights into agent behavior and operational impact. Leveraging its two‑decade AI expertise and 25‑year software‑asset...
Tencent Cloud Launches EdgeOne Pages Official Version, Strengthening Its End-to-End AI Strategy
Tencent Cloud has officially launched EdgeOne Pages, an edge‑native, full‑stack development platform that lets developers build and deploy web projects without managing servers or environments. Since its October 2024 beta, the service attracted over 150,000 users and more than one...
Fasoo Enhances AI-R DLP to Strengthen Data Detection, Control, and Auditability for Secure GenAI Usage
Fasoo has launched an upgraded AI‑R DLP solution that bolsters data detection, policy control, and auditability for interactions with generative AI services such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. The enhancement adds context‑aware analysis of both text prompts and file uploads,...
Tesco Signs Three-Year AI Deal Centred on Customer Experience
Tesco has signed a three‑year partnership with French AI startup Mistral AI to embed artificial‑intelligence tools across its retail operations. The deal focuses on improving internal workflows, staff efficiency and customer‑facing experiences rather than a single flagship feature. Tesco will establish...
CyberArk Named Leader in 2025 IDC MarketScape for Identity Security
CyberArk has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025 MarketScape for Worldwide Integrated Solutions for Identity Security. The vendor’s unified platform spans human, machine and AI identities, leveraging AI‑driven automation to streamline privilege management. IDC notes that the market has...
"It Doesn’t Matter Which Industry You Belong to, Data Is Your Lifeblood" - Veeam CEO Tells Us Why Getting Security...
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran says data security and resilience are prerequisites for any AI initiative. The company’s $1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI is meant to create a unified platform that protects data across its entire lifecycle, from creation to backup to...
Grok Delivers Daily AI & Robotics News Summary
From Grok. I gave it a lengthy post teaching it about my lists and asked it to find the latest news. Does this provide any value to you? If it does I will run it a couple times a day. +++++ Top-Level...
Bairong Launches RaaS Strategy and Results Cloud Platform
Bairong Inc. announced its enterprise AI Agent strategy, introducing a Results as a Service (RaaS) model and launching the Results Cloud platform, a three‑tier system for deploying and managing AI agents at scale. The platform provides observability, one‑click evaluation, autonomous...
Intellias to Showcase AI-Powered Mobility & Software-Defined Vehicle Solutions at CES 2026
Intellias will exhibit its AI‑driven IntelliKit platform at CES 2026, highlighting a chip‑to‑cloud automotive technology stack that supports OTA updates, 3D instrument clusters, and generative‑AI voice interaction. New features include a SoundHound‑powered GenAI voice assistant, YOLO v12 computer‑vision on QNX RTOS, and...
Okta Names Rob Bernshteyn and Paul Sagan to Board of Directors
Okta announced the appointment of Rob Bernshteyn and Paul Sagan to its board of directors, effective December 19, 2025. Both bring deep SaaS, cybersecurity and artificial‑intelligence experience, positioning the company to capitalize on identity’s role in securing AI‑driven workloads. The moves coincide with the...
StackGen Named a Cool Vendor in 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ for AI in IT Ops
StackGen was named a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in IT Operations, highlighting its Autonomous Infrastructure Platform (AIP). The platform lets platform‑engineering teams replace manual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with intent‑driven AI agents that generate compliant Terraform, OpenTofu and...
IManage Momentum Grows as Organizations Prepare for Trusted AI
iManage announced accelerating global momentum as enterprises shift AI from pilots to production, emphasizing that a governed document management system (DMS) is essential for trustworthy AI. The company now hosts nearly 3,000 organizations and half‑million daily cloud users, delivering a...
Airia Achieves AWS Validated Partner Status Strengthening Enterprise AI Security and Deployment Capabilities for AWS Customers
Airia has earned AWS Validated Partner status, confirming its AI security, orchestration, and governance platform meets Amazon’s stringent standards. The integration enables Airia to work natively with AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, offering enterprises a model‑agnostic layer of protection...
The Rise Of Private AI — Enterprise-Controlled Models Without Cloud Exposure
Enterprises are shifting from a cloud‑first mindset to a control‑first strategy by adopting private AI, where large language models are trained, fine‑tuned, and served on owned infrastructure. The move is driven by concerns over data leakage, regulatory compliance, and the...
8 Must‑Know AI Agents for HR Leaders 2026
8 AI Agents Every HR Leader Needs To Know In 2026 #AIagents are rapidly emerging as one of the most powerful tools for automating #HR #workflows , from #recruitment and onboarding to #workforce management and #skills development. This article explores...
9 Brands That Doubled Down On AI in 2025
In 2025 generative AI moved from a peripheral experiment to a core business engine for leading brands, with companies like Unilever, Klarna, and Disney embedding the technology across product creation, marketing, and operations. The shift delivered dramatic cost cuts, faster...
This AI Finds Simple Rules Where Humans See only Chaos
Researchers at Duke University unveiled an AI framework that distills complex, high‑dimensional dynamics into simple, linear‑like equations. Inspired by Koopman’s operator theory, the system combines deep learning with physics‑based constraints to isolate a few hidden variables governing behavior. Tested on...
Sunday Creativity Boosted by Lovart AI's Fast Design Tools
Sunday nights are for being creative. @lovart_ai is a great place to make fun holiday cards and other things for your family. Which is what I am doing with my kids. It is a lot better than last time I tried it....
AI Elevates Judgment, Taste, and Agency Over Automation
“the AI era may end up placing even more weight on judgment, taste, and agency – the parts of work that are hardest to specify, hardest to benchmark, and hardest to replace”
No Wonder There's a Bubble - Study Claims Nearly All of the World’s Data Centers Are Built in the Wrong...
A new study finds that nearly 7,000 of the world’s 8,808 operational data centers operate outside the ASHRAE‑recommended 18 °C‑27 °C temperature range, with about 600 facilities in climates exceeding 27 °C year‑round. Singapore alone hosts over 1.4 GW of capacity despite average temperatures...
OpenAI Unfazed by Google's Competition
OpenAI really doesn’t feel threatened by Google at all, right? 😁 https://t.co/7eFtal8ftY
2026 AI: All Major Labs Unleash New SOTA Models
Here are my predictions for 2026 in the AI world: - openai will release new sota models - google will release new sota models - anthropic will release new sota models
Kling 2.6 Adds Voice Control and Motion Upgrades as AI Video Tools Race Toward Realism
Kuaishou's Kling 2.6 video generator now offers voice control and upgraded motion control, allowing creators to add custom‑trained or uploaded human voices and achieve more precise full‑body, hand, and facial movements. The voice feature supports speaking, narration, singing, rapping and...
VC Predicts AI-Driven Science Boom Next Year
A venture capitalist told me last week to pay attention to AI in science. Says that will be a big trend next year. So I am. Added all these to my lists.
Google AI Revolutionizes Filmmaking Process
Filmmaking with Google AI. https://t.co/5OKYuiWBrR #Filmmaking #moviemaking #movie #film #AI #ArtificialInteligence #GoogleAI @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves @LaurentAlaus @Fabriziobustama @smaksked @MargaretSiegien @PawlowskiMario @gvalan @Ym78200 @mikeflache @EduardoValenteI @ipfconline1 @kalydeoo @chboursin...
Nvidia Wants to Create Universal AI Agents for All Worlds with NitroGen
Nvidia unveiled NitroGen, an open‑vision action model designed to serve as a universal gaming agent. The model was trained on 40,000 hours of gameplay footage from over 1,000 titles, using YouTube and Twitch videos with visible controller overlays to extract...
World Models Are Redefining Enterprise Systems, Say Skyfall AI
How are world models changing enterprise systems? Here the founders of @skyfallai tell me how. Don't have time to watch this video? Click the Grok button and ask it "what will I learn by watching this video?" (I'll post a link...
AGI Is Not a Single Technology, It's an Agenda
Google Gemini says “AGI is a technology” versus an ideology. Bias much? Also incorrect. AGI is speculation about a potential state involving multiple technologies. But it’s not one now. It’s an agenda. Discuss.
Alibaba's Qwen Releases AI Model that Splits Images Into Editable Layers Like Photoshop
Alibaba’s Qwen unit unveiled Qwen-Image-Layered, an AI model that decomposes photos into editable RGBA layers. The system can split an image into three or eight transparent layers, and each layer can be further broken down recursively. Users can resize, recolor,...
Custom Reward Tweaks Yield Rapid, Satisfying Learning
we do a bit of reaching. modifying the mjlab velocity demo reward function to do custom behaviors is so satisfying because the base function just seems to learn so darn fast. It only takes a few minutes to start seeing...
Exploring Top AI Tools Across Creativity, Development, and Everyday Life
My answer: Tesla FSD. I have the most complete list of AI companies here on X: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ and started making a list of my favorites, like: @wabi agentic mobile apps @typelessdotcom for improving my computers, and mobile AI coming within days. Or its...
Holiday AI Check: Ensure Family Settings Are Optimized
One of the best things you can do this holiday season - as it relates to AI and helping your family - is to double check their settings/account 🎁 What tool do they use? Both mobile and web? What plan are they...
AGI Lacks Definition, Prioritizes Human Intelligence Over Planet
There is no "beneficial AGI." Because AGI has no universal definition. It does have universal appeal as a media narrative and an imaginary that gets constant attention despite the fact when "AGI" is mentioned with any specifics, it is almost...
Agentic AI: The New Operating Layer Transforming Work
Agentic AI is quickly becoming the next operating layer of business. This “Map of Agentic AI” captures why — and how the stack is evolving from LLMs → agents → multi-agent systems → enterprise-grade ecosystems. What stands out to me...
Consistent ML Workflow Beats Magic Hype
ML isn’t magic — it’s a workflow. 🧠⚙️ 1. understand data 2. choose right algorithm 3. train 4. test 5. optimize 6. deploy + monitor + retrain The winners are the teams who run this loop consistently. #MachineLearning #AI #DataScience #MLops https://t.co/xAkXQC231n
42 Days of No‑Hype AI Concept Videos
I’m publishing one AI video every day for the next 42 days. No math. No code. No hype. Just the concepts you actually need to understand LLMs. YouTube is where 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 for me. And honestly, I miss it. So on Monday, I’m coming back...
Google Launches Free Gemini Code Wiki for Repo Docs
So ace. Google just released Gemini Code Wiki. A free too that generates interactive docs from any GitHub URL 🤯 The tool lets you: → Chat with Gemini to understand *any* repo → Visualize code structure → Create docs from public repos 100% free. Link in 🧵↓...
Tesla Robotaxis Stay Operational Despite SF Power Outage
Tesla Robotaxis were unaffected by the SF power outage