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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Cohere’s Rerank 4 Quadruples the Context Window over 3.5 to Cut Agent Errors and Boost Enterprise Search Accuracy
Cohere has released Rerank 4, expanding its context window to 32 K tokens—four times larger than Rerank 3.5—and promising higher ranking accuracy for enterprise search. The model arrives in Fast and Pro variants, targeting speed‑critical and deep‑reasoning workloads respectively. Rerank 4 also introduces self‑learning customization, letting users refine relevance without extra labeled data. Benchmarks show it outpacing rivals like Qwen, Jina, and MongoDB across finance, healthcare, and manufacturing domains.
Baby Delivered in Waymo Continues Proud Tradition of Not Making It to the Hospital
A Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco delivered a baby while en route to UCSF Medical Center after the vehicle’s remote team detected unusual activity and alerted 911. The autonomous car arrived at the hospital before emergency responders, marking the second...
Microsoft Copilot Is Now a Workday Assistant and Nighttime Confidant, Report Finds
Microsoft released the Copilot Usage Report 2025, analyzing 37.5 million anonymized conversations from January to September. The data shows distinct usage patterns by device, time of day, and day of week, with work‑related queries dominating desktop sessions during business hours and...
ChatGPT Enters Red Code: Impact on Your Searches
ChatGPT declared in "red code" — What it means and how it affects your searcheas https://t.co/HkAFTHcVuZ #openai #ChatGPTdown #ChatGPT #redcode #LLMs @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy...
AI Transforming Everyday Workplaces Across Industries
Ai in real world jobs https://t.co/ijr1aU871K
Google’s Answer to the AI Arms Race — Promote the Guy Behind Its Data Center Tech
Google has created a new C‑suite role, chief technologist for AI infrastructure, and appointed long‑time AI systems architect Amin Vahdat to it. The position reports directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, underscoring the strategic priority of AI compute as Alphabet targets...
State Attorneys General Warn Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, and Other AI Giants to Fix ‘Delusional’ Outputs
State attorneys general have sent a joint letter to Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and nine other AI firms demanding safeguards against "delusional" chatbot outputs that have been linked to suicides and violent incidents. The letter calls for transparent third‑party audits, incident‑reporting...
HBM-on-GPU Set to Power the Next Revolution in AI Accelerators - and Just to Confirm, There's No Way This Will...
Imec unveiled a 3D high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) on GPU architecture that dramatically raises compute density for AI workloads. The design stacks four HBM modules directly atop the GPU, achieving record performance but driving peak temperatures to 141.7 °C without cooling. Halving...
The 70% Factuality Ceiling: Why Google’s New ‘FACTS’ Benchmark Is a Wake-Up Call for Enterprise AI
Google’s FACTS Benchmark Suite, released with Kaggle, evaluates large language models on factuality across four real‑world scenarios—parametric knowledge, search‑augmented retrieval, multimodal interpretation, and text grounding. The initial leaderboard shows Gemini 3 Pro topping the chart with a 68.8% overall score, while GPT‑5...
Nvidia Is Reportedly Testing Tracking Software as Chip-Smuggling Rumors Swirl
Nvidia is testing optional tracking software that can verify the geographic location of its AI chips, starting with the Blackwell line. The system infers location by analyzing performance latency and server communication delays. The move follows unverified rumors that Blackwell...
McDonald’s Pulls AI-Generated Christmas Ad After Backlash over 'Soulless' Visuals and Holiday Chaos
McDonald’s Netherlands released a Christmas commercial created with generative AI, but the spot was pulled after viewers mocked its eerie visuals and chaotic tone. The ad, produced by agency The Sweetshop using its proprietary “The Gardening Club” engine, combined unsettling...
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The AI predictions are coming. Mine? Agents get more capable. And used. World Models become much more important. Robots will come out of the woodwork. And humanoids will go from goofy to smart enough that we will see humanoids working in many places. Generalized...
Google Adds Prompt Injection Defenses to Chrome
Google announced that Chrome will embed new safeguards to block indirect prompt‑injection attacks on its built‑in AI agents. The updates introduce a User Alignment Critic that reviews proposed actions against user intent, and Agent Origin Sets that limit data access...
Two New AI Ethics Certifications Available From IEEE
IEEE Standards Association introduced the CertifAIEd program, offering two new AI ethics certifications—one for individual professionals and another for AI products. The certifications are built on IEEE’s four‑pillar ethics framework of accountability, privacy, transparency, and bias avoidance, and reference the...
Data‑Cleaning Engineers: The Unsung Taste Makers Shaping AI
I'm seeing a range of new companies that were trained on very specific people. Those with taste. And taste could mean a dentist that does the best work, if you are building a system for them (I put up a video a...
AI Agents Will Power Corporate Automation by 2026
It is clear to me now that there are a range of new companies, like @agiopen_org that I put up this morning, and Scouts here, among others, that are making AI Agents far more capable than they have been. Major trend...
AI on the Farm: Sickle Innovations and Dayatani Digital Win Awards for Using AI in Agriculture and Food Security
Sickle Innovations and Dayatani Digital were honored at the Mint All About AI Tech4Good Awards for pioneering AI applications in agriculture and food security. Sickle’s AI‑driven grading machines now achieve over 95% sorting accuracy, triple processing speed, and cut labour...
Future LLMs Retroactively Grade Decade-Old Hacker News
Quick new post: Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight I took all the 930 frontpage Hacker News article+discussion of December 2015 and asked the GPT 5.1 Thinking API to do an in-hindsight analysis to identify the most/least prescient comments. This...
Enterprise AI Must Move From Tasks to Owning Outcomes
What’s the biggest barrier keeping AI from doing real work in the enterprise? I asked Rohan Vora at @glean in CXO Spice. We talked about: ✅ Why autonomy needs more than models ✅ How enterprise context unlocks outcomes ✅ Orchestrating across complex systems AI isn’t...
Google Says It Will Link to More Sources in AI Mode
Google announced that its AI‑powered search feature, AI Mode, will start embedding more in‑line links to source articles, accompanied by AI‑generated snippets that explain each source’s relevance. The links will sit above a carousel of related content, giving users clearer...
AI in 2025: From Agents to Factories - Ep. 282
The episode reviews the major AI milestones of 2025, highlighting the rise of autonomous agents that unlocked new creative capabilities, the deployment of AI‑driven robots in agriculture and surgery, and the emergence of AI factories that automate content and model...
Need AI Training? CEOs Think You Should Train Yourself
Emergn’s latest research shows a stark split between employees and CEOs on AI upskilling responsibility. While 81% of workers expect employers to provide AI training, 83% of CEOs argue employees should self‑train. The gap matters because two‑thirds of staff say...
Chatbots Are Struggling with Suicide Hotline Numbers
A recent test of popular AI chatbots revealed mixed performance on suicide‑prevention prompts. ChatGPT and Google Gemini instantly supplied accurate, location‑specific crisis numbers, while Replika, Meta AI, and several others either ignored the request, gave irrelevant US hotlines, or required...
Adobe Photoshop Comes to ChatGPT
Internxt has launched a one‑time, lifetime subscription for its 100 TB encrypted cloud storage, priced at $974.97 through Dec. 14, a steep discount from the regular $9,900 price. The service combines end‑to‑end, zero‑knowledge encryption with post‑quantum cryptography and is GDPR‑compliant, backed by...
Nadella Touts AI Tools, Sparks Big Tech's Race for Digital Dominance in India
Satya Nadella’s India tour highlighted Microsoft’s AI suite—Copilot, agentic AI, and datasets—backed by a $17.5 billion commitment to build infrastructure and upskill 20 million workers over four years. The push coincides with Google’s $15 billion, one‑gigawatt data centre investment, bringing total Big‑Tech AI spending...
Forking Data for AI Agents: The Missing Primitive for Safe, Scalable Systems
Agentic AI systems frequently fail because they share mutable state without snapshot isolation, leading to nondeterministic behavior and debugging dead‑ends. Traditional object stores such as S3 lack version‑aware reads, consistent snapshots, and isolation primitives, making concurrent agent workflows error‑prone. Tigris...
The AI that Scored 95% — Until Consultants Learned It Was AI
SAP secretly tested its AI co‑pilot Joule with five consultant teams, asking four teams to believe the answers came from junior interns. Those teams rated the output about 95% accurate, while the fifth team, told the answers were AI‑generated, rejected...
Harvard Study Finds AI Agents Do More Cognitive Work than Booking or Scheduling Tasks
Harvard researchers, in partnership with Perplexity, analyzed hundreds of millions of interactions in the Comet browser and found that 57% of AI agent activity centers on cognitive work rather than simple booking or scheduling. Productivity and workflow tasks made up...
8 AI‑Driven Trends Shaping Digital Marketing by 2026
If you're still using 2024 marketing tactics, you're already falling behind. Search is fragmenting across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, ChatGPT, and even browsers. AI is reshaping discovery, targeting, and the entire customer journey. And in this video, I breaks down the...
Figma Adds More Photoshop-Like AI Tools for Image Editing
Figma has introduced three AI‑powered image editing tools—Erase object, Isolate object, and Expand Image—directly within Figma Design and Draw. The tools work with the existing lasso selection to instantly remove or separate elements and to extend backgrounds using generative AI,...
AMD's Redstone Update Could Revitalize FSR for PC Games – Here's Why Nvidia Should Be Worried
AMD has launched the FSR Redstone update via the Adrenalin 25.12.1 driver, introducing Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration, Radiance Caching and an upgraded upscaling engine for its RDNA 4 GPUs. The new features are exclusive to the Radeon RX 9060 XT, RX 9070 XT and RX 9070, aiming to close...
A Pay-to-Scrape AI Licensing Standard Is Now Official
The RSL Collective released Really Simple Licensing 1.0, an open specification that expands the robots.txt file to let publishers set licensing and payment rules for AI crawlers. Backed by Yahoo, Ziff Davis and O’Reilly Media, the standard is now supported by Cloudflare,...
Quilter's AI Just Designed an 843‑part Linux Computer that Booted on the First Try. Hardware Will Never Be the Same.
Quilter, a San Francisco AI startup, used a physics‑driven system to design a two‑board Linux computer with 843 components in just one week, cutting human effort from an estimated 428 hours to 38.5. The AI generated a layout with 98%...
AI Startup Tavus Founder Says Users Talk to Its AI Santa ‘for Hours’ per Day
Tavus, the AI startup behind digital voice‑and‑face clones, has relaunched its AI Santa experience for a second year, adding real‑time visual perception, memory and task‑execution capabilities. The upgraded "Tavus PAL" can read users' expressions, recall prior chats and even browse...
Aurora Will Have ‘Hundreds’ of Driverless Trucks on the Road by the End of 2026, CEO Says
Aurora CEO Chris Urmson announced that the company will scale from a handful of autonomous trucks to hundreds by the end of 2026, after postponing its commercial launch to April 2025. The firm currently runs five fully driverless trucks on...
Google Launches Sub-$5 AI Plus Plan in India to Compete with ChatGPT Go
Google has introduced a low‑cost AI Plus subscription in India, priced at ₹199 ($2.21) per month for the first six months and rising to ₹399 thereafter. The plan upgrades users to higher limits on Gemini 3 Pro, the Nano Banana Pro image‑editing model, video generation...
Decode Papers Quickly: Abstract, Figure, AI Summaries
I used to be terrified of reading research papers... until I learned this 👇 The first time I opened one, I thought: “There’s no way I can read this.” Too formal, too technical, too many acronyms - and English wasn’t even my first language. But...
OpenAI Hints at Upcoming GPT‑5.2 “Garlic” Model
[🚨 Gar-Leak Alert] @OpenAI just dropped a not-so-subtle nod to “Garlic”, the codename many believe ties to their next model. GPT-5.2 is expected tomorrow 👀 https://t.co/1ELYioSmih
Adobe Launches Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Inside ChatGPT: Here’s What You Can Do
Adobe announced that Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat are now embedded inside ChatGPT via OpenAI’s Apps SDK, and the three tools are offered free to users in supported regions. The integration lets users edit images, design graphics, and manipulate PDFs...
AI Breakthroughs Hinge on Ever-Faster GPUs
Ilya in 2016 "Our advances depend on GPUs being fast." https://t.co/MBmV24kdEw
Autonomous Cars: Surveillance Concerns Meet Protective Benefits
When I did consumer research about attitudes toward autonomous vehicles I heard often "I don't want to drive a surveillance machine around." Yes you will. It will protect your interests in many ways. Like this.
ChatGPT Can Now Use Adobe Apps to Edit Your Photos and PDFs for Free
Adobe has embedded free Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps inside ChatGPT, allowing users to edit images, PDFs, and designs via natural‑language prompts. The integration, launched on December 10, 2025, works across desktop, web, and iOS, with Android support arriving soon for Photoshop...
MindEval Introduces Multi‑Turn Benchmark for AI Therapy Evaluation
Important work from @SwordHealth and @VSwordH on how we evaluate AI for mental health. MindEval is a new multi turn benchmark that tests how models behave across full therapy like conversations, not just single replies. Much needed, rigorous, and open...
Agentic AI Makes Technology Adaptive, Collaborative, Problem‑Solving
Thanks to innovations such as Agentic AI, this year's technological developments point to a future in which technology will be more adaptable, collaborative and fundamental to solving global problems. Source @McKinsey_MGI Link https://t.co/NMZevjYhXJ via @antgrasso #AgenticAI https://t.co/nTKHEtsOEd
LeapSpace Boosts AI Trust with Transparent, Expert‑Curated Answers
84% use AI, but only 22% trust it. LeapSpace adds transparency with referenced answers and Trust Cards. Curated by experts, including peer reviewers, Scopus CSAB and a new independent AI Advisory Board. Shows steps in real time. More in early...
Advanced LLM Notebooks Offer Wizard-Level Tooling Beyond Fine‑Tuning
Here’s a goldmine of LLM notebooks and it goes way beyond basic fine-tuning 🤯 Auto evals, lazy merges, Franken MoEs, uncensoring techniques… real wizard-level tooling. Built by @maximelabonne and @iusztinpaul, authors of the excellent LLM Engineer’s Handbook. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/VKT8uJpQwe
NanoGPT: First LLM Trained and Run in Space
nanoGPT - the first LLM to train and inference in space 🥹. It begins.
AI Teammates Arrive: ChatGPT Launches Group Collaboration
🚨 New ChatGPT feature: group collaboration. Announced a few weeks ago and haven’t seen it in my feed yet. I really do think 2026 will be the year of the AI teammate. https://t.co/9mUDwJbuQz
ChatGPT’s Memory: Layered Context, No RAG Needed
This is one of the cleanest explanations I’ve seen of how ChatGPT’s memory actually works. No RAG. No vector search. Just a layered context system that feels personal without the overhead. Anyone building serious AI products should read this.
Delian AI Delivers NATO Autonomous Drone Navigation
more capabilities from @delian_ai are coming live this time, from our uk team working for @nato in supplying autonomous navigation to drones in gps-denied environments