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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Your Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Just Got a Major Audio Update — Especially for Spotify Users
Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is currently available to early‑access participants in the United States and Canada. The upgrade also promises a clearer Spotify listening experience on the glasses.
Even Powerful AI Still Needs Human Touch
The more powerful the tool, the more the human matters. AI can't replace what's most essential. Not everyone agrees. Do you? https://lnkd.in/e7cjgydM
The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...
XPENG's Iron Robot Blurs Line Between Human and Machine
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
How to Use the Holidays to Stop Our ‘WhatsApp Aunties’ Falling for AI
Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...
Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Get Access to Your Files – but Bigger Worries Remain
Microsoft clarified that AI agents in Windows 11 will not automatically access personal folders. Users must approve each file‑access request or grant permanent permission through a dialog box. Permissions can be set per agent—Copilot, Researcher, Analyst—but apply to all personal directories...
AI Can Now Pass the CFA Exams: What Does that Mean for Finance Jobs?
Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...
OpenAI Reveals Major Hire to Lead Global Stargate Data Center Expansion
OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025,...
“A Band-Aid on a Giant Gash”: Trump’s Attacks on Science May Ruin His AI Moonshot
Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Apple engineers have customized an open‑source computer‑vision AI to spot color errors on ImageTek's bacon label prints, preventing a major client loss. The effort is part of Apple’s broader $600 billion U.S. manufacturing investment and its newly launched Apple Manufacturing Academy,...
Ghost Jobs, Robot Gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let Me Tell You About the Bleak New Age of Job Hunting |...
Eleanor Margolis describes a deteriorating UK job market where 40% of 2024 listings are "ghost jobs"—vacancies posted to project growth rather than fill roles. Applicants now face AI‑driven resume filters that prioritize keyword matches, often reproducing bias. Even when a CV...
"AI Is Too Big for the European Internet" - so It's Time for Companies to Work Together, Nokia Says
Nokia’s latest research warns that AI traffic is overwhelming Europe’s internet infrastructure, with 86% of European enterprises saying current networks can’t keep pace. The study also shows similar concerns in the United States, where 88% of telecoms and enterprises cite...
Federated Learning Boosts AI Without Leaving Data Behind
When sensitive data must remain in place, yet collective intelligence is needed, a distributed approach to artificial intelligence emerges. Federated learning enables this balance, allowing models to improve across networks without compromising data sovereignty or transparency. #FederatedAI #PrivacyFirst #AI
Advanced AI Must Be Rooted in Empathy and Ethics
The more sophisticated AI becomes, the more essential it is to ground it in empathy and ethics
Roblox Brings AI Into the Studio to Speed up Game Creation
Roblox has embedded generative AI directly into its Studio development environment, giving creators on‑demand tools for asset generation, text‑to‑speech and real‑time translation. The new Assistant can turn simple prompts into fully functional objects, initially for vehicles and weapons, and connects...
Embedded AI Frees Employees for Higher‑value, Human‑centric Work
The real promise of enterprise AI is not automation for efficiency, it is freeing people to focus on higher value, human-centred work In my recent conversation with Timo Elliott , Innovation Evangelistat SAP , we explored how embedded AI inside...
5 Predictions for AI’s Growing Role in the Media in 2026
Fast Company columnist Pete Pachal outlines five predictions for AI’s influence on media in 2026. He emphasizes that copyright disputes will intensify as publishers block AI crawlers while AI firms cling to fair‑use defenses. Google retains a competitive edge because...
One‑Click AI Coding Platform Now Open‑Source via Cloudflare
Your own AI coding platform in one click. ICYMI @Cloudflare opensourced VibeSDK, letting anyone spin up their own vibe coding environment 🤯 → LLM code gen + fixes → Safe runs in CF Sandboxes → Infinite scale via `Workers for Platforms` → GitHub export Demo +...
Headset Hassles and Empty Content Stall Virtual Worlds
Why haven't virtual worlds caught on with the masses yet? The founder of Second Life sparked an interesting discussion on this topic with hundreds of replies. My take (I was on the team that built Microsoft's first virtual world in Second Life...
This Guy’s Obscure PhD Project Is the only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Image Chaos
Dr. Eric Wengrowski, a Rutgers PhD graduate, turned his decade‑long steganography research into Steg AI, a startup that embeds invisible watermarks in images to track their movement online. The technology has gained unprecedented attention as AI‑generated imagery proliferates, prompting the...
AI Is Moving to the Edge – and Network Security Needs to Catch Up
Small and mid‑size businesses are rapidly deploying AI at the edge, moving workloads from centralized data centers to retail stores, clinics, and remote sites. This shift delivers real‑time insights, resilience, and faster deployment but strains network bandwidth and security controls....
AI Browsing Agents Pose Serious Security Risks
Letting AI Browse The Web For You Sounds Great Until It Goes Wrong AI-powered #browseragents promise to transform how we #search , #shop and work online by acting directly on our behalf. This article explores the real #security #risks behind...
AI Agents Drive Enterprise’s 2026 Tech Transformation
Thank you for reading my latest article AI Agents Lead The 8 Tech Trends Transforming Enterprise In 2026. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join my...
Thinking Machines Lab Makes Tinker Generally Available: Adds Kimi K2 Thinking And Qwen3-VL Vision Input
Thinking Machines Lab has moved its Tinker training API to general availability, removing the waitlist and opening access to all developers. The update adds three major capabilities: support for the 1‑trillion‑parameter Kimi K2 Thinking reasoning model, an OpenAI‑compatible sampling interface, and multimodal...
AI Agent Highlights Expensive X API and New TOS Compliance
I'm having @blevlabs's AI agent (cognitive architecture) read all my lists tonight and this is the first thing it noticed that people are talking about in the AI Community. Hitting the X API is expensive, but oh so good. By...
AI Expands Data, Researchers Struggle for Reliable Insights
As AI reshapes how we work, researchers face a growing challenge: finding accurate, reliable insights in an ever-expanding sea of information. https://t.co/mYVnvm8Pg2 #ScienceDirectAI #AI #Research #Elsevier
Scale Wants to Make the Oscars for AI
The episode explores Scale AI's launch of its inaugural "Models of the Year" awards and the company's ambition to host an Oscars‑style ceremony for AI models next year. Host Bing Liu, Scale’s head of research, explains that the awards, based...
AI-Powered Phones Are About to Arrive
AI phones are coming.
Nanobanana vs ChatGPT Images: Which AI Wins?
.@GeminiApps's nanobanana 🍌 (left) VS @Openai ChatGPT Images (right) Who wins? https://t.co/MpeCZVkOV6
OpenAI’s Image AI Aims to Reduce Creative Friction
The episode examines how OpenAI’s new image AI tools are designed to cut down the friction that often hampers creative workflows, highlighting specific efficiency gains for artists and designers. It discusses the technology’s ability to streamline tasks like image generation,...
2026: The Rise of Retrieval‑Augmented Generation
2026 will be the year of RAG
Start Building with Hugging Face Robot Today
Getting started with @huggingface robot. Are you? https://t.co/gi1bY0df6W
Meta AI Glasses Add AI Hearing Boost & Spotify
The episode reviews Meta's latest AI glasses update, highlighting the new Spotify integration and an AI-powered hearing boost that clarifies conversations. It explains how these features function, from streaming music directly to the lenses to real-time audio enhancement using on-device...
New Stereo Model Beats Rivals, Realizes Coauthor’s
“Our model outperforms existing real-time stereo models by a large margin.” I wrote two books on spatial computing over the past decade. One of my coauthors, Shel Israel, died this year, but his dreams, and mine, are shipping literally every day.
From Rules to Data: How Machines Truly Learn
What is Machine Learning? From rule-based AI to data-driven learning — this video explains how machines learn from data, why traditional rules failed, and how Machine Learning fits into the bigger AI picture. #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AIExplained #DeepLearning #ComputerVision
Your TV Is a ‘Mass Surveillance System’ Says Texas, and the State Is Suing LG, Samsung, Hisense, TCL, and More...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits against Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL and Hisense, alleging their smart TVs use Automated Content Recognition (ACR) to collect viewing data without consent. The suit claims ACR can capture screen images as often as...
AI Artists Elevate Tools and Storytelling, Raising Contest Standards
I have helped judge a few of these kinds of contests and every time the work improves. Which makes sense, AI Artists and Film Makers are getting way better tools, but they also are telling better stories. Added to my...
Apple's AI Potential Is Being Seriously Underestimated
People are under-estimating @Apple in AI!
George Osborne Joins OpenAI: Ex-Chancellor Adds Tech Post to His CV
George Osborne, former UK chancellor, has been hired by OpenAI to head its new "OpenAI for Countries" division, which focuses on building relationships with governments worldwide. Based in London, Osborne will spearhead national‑level AI infrastructure projects and expand existing partnerships...
Agentic AI Reshapes IT Risk Management Strategies
What agentic AI really means for IT risk management | CIO https://t.co/oB13kFoyTP #AI #ArtificialInteligence #aiagent #agenticai #CorporateRisk
Explore AI's Future with Schmidt and Top Thinkers
You can read Eric Schmidt 's terrific analysis of where AI is heading: "The San Francisco Consensus", along with 20 other essays from the world's leading thinkers in volume 2 of the Digitalist Papers.
Claude Opus 4.5 Anticipates Intent, Pruning Unnecessary Details
Claude Opus 4.5 feels 20% more goal-oriented. Two examples from today: ➡️ I dictated a long client email, it drafted the email and say something like "yeah i went ahead and removed these 2 points because they don't support your point as...
Exploring Web's Future with AI Agents and Humanity
Cofounder of @Tiny_Fish will join @IrenaCronin and me to talk about the future of the Web, AI Agents, robots, and being human: @sudheenair. 4 p.m. pacific today. Will be recorded. https://t.co/oGnkprlZgg
AI Development Mirrors Toddler Learning Stages
Ai learns like toddlers https://t.co/LmasDvAlfu
OpenAI Unveils Upgraded Images Section in ChatGPT
OpenAI just rolled out a revamped “images” section in ChatGPT, and it looks pretty rad 👀 https://t.co/dtGfB36saY
CES2026 Highlights Convergence of AI, Energy, Mobility, Health, Policy
#CES2026 feels different. Not about gadgets, about how AI, energy, mobility, health, and policy are converging to shape the next decade. Read my Newsletter article: ⬇️ https://t.co/69keAc3EoR via @LinkedIn @CES @CTATech @JimHarris
Our Journey Building a Robust Verification Agent
Wrote about how we built our verification/testing agent.
Turn Images Into Grok Videos in 20 Seconds
Made this into a @Grok video in 20 seconds by long-pressing on the image
Team Adds Soul Feature to Virtual Beings
The team behind the virtual being that joined our Thanksgiving dinner has opened up the ability to add "soul" to virtual beings.