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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How AI Is Uncovering Hidden Geothermal Energy Resources
Startup Zanskar announced the discovery of a blind geothermal system in Nevada, the first commercially viable find of its kind in over three decades. Using AI-driven models that integrate geological, satellite, and fault‑line data, the company pinpointed a reservoir reaching 250 °F at roughly 2,700 feet depth and secured a federal lease to develop the site, dubbed Big Blind. Field drilling confirmed high‑temperature, permeable rock, paving the way for a potential power plant. The breakthrough demonstrates how machine learning can transform geothermal exploration.
These Are the 10 Best Chrome Extensions of 2025, According to Google – and There’s One I Definitely Recommend
Google released its 2025 list of the ten best Chrome extensions, all of which incorporate artificial intelligence. The selections span AI companions like Monica and Harpa AI, note‑taking tools such as Fireflies and Bluedot, and creative utilities including Adobe Photoshop for...
The EU Is Probing Meta over WhatsApp’s AI Chatbot Restrictions
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta for restricting third‑party AI chatbots on WhatsApp. The new policy, effective October 15 for new AI services and January 15 2026 for existing ones, blocks competitors while keeping Meta’s own AI accessible....
The NPU in Your Phone Keeps Improving—Why Isn’t that Making AI Better?
Mobile chipmakers tout faster neural processing units (NPUs) each generation, yet most on‑device AI workloads remain modest. While NPUs can accelerate specific tasks, the majority of generative AI runs in the cloud where models are orders of magnitude larger. Phone‑based...
Get Ready for an AI Country Music Explosion
AI music platform Suno is reshaping Nashville’s songwriting process by turning a simple voice memo into fully produced country demos within seconds. Songwriters can now bypass costly studio musicians, paying a $96 yearly fee instead of $500‑$1,000 per demo, dramatically...
AI‑Powered 3D Printer Crafts Personalized Perfume Kits
Behind the scenes at the AI perfume company: https://t.co/8OyIllBtJH with its founder @ScentScai. She, and her team, built a 3D "printer" that makes custom perfume. Smells good and is personalized to you. This was at @fdotinc in San Francisco. The perfume...
Runway’s New Gen-4.5 Text-to-Video Model that Beats OpenAI’s Sora 2, Google’s Veo 3
Runway unveiled Gen‑4.5, its latest text‑to‑video model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 in benchmark tests. The model achieved an Elo score of 1247, edging out Veo 3’s 1226 and Sora 2 Pro’s 1206, and delivers cinematic to photorealistic video with...
Google Asked Users for Their Best Nano Banana Pro Prompts – These 3 Tips Stood Out
Google invited users to share their most effective Nano Banana Pro prompts, spotlighting three standout techniques. The first treats prompts like pseudo‑code, defining variables such as OBJECT_A to maintain consistency across complex scenes. The second encourages asking for imperfections, letting...
World Models Outpace LLMs in Strategic Trajectory Reasoning
“Unlike LLMs, World Models can reason over millions of possible trajectories in order to optimize goals and take strategic decisions.” World Models coming to enterprise to make an “AI CEO.” I was the second like on this post. In 13 hours. Shows that...
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train AI Agents
Silicon Valley startups are building replica versions of high‑traffic sites such as Amazon, Gmail, United Airlines and Airbnb to serve as sandbox environments for training AI agents. The clones—named Omnizon, Staynb and Go Mail—allow reinforcement‑learning models to experiment at scale without...
XAI Building Grok Solar Farm Beside Colossus Data Center
The episode examines xAI's decision to construct a modest solar farm adjacent to its Colossus data center, interpreting it as a strategic move toward on‑site renewable power for AI workloads. It discusses how this initiative could lower operating costs, improve...
Space Tech Trends Set to Transform Earth by 2026
7 Revolutionary Space Tech Trends That Will Transform Life On Earth In 2026 Discover how #space #technology is shifting from exploration to practical breakthroughs that will solve complex problems on Earth. From #AI -driven missions and orbital manufacturing to asteroid...
Announcing: Evaluation Of The ‘Agent Control Plane’ Market
In this episode, Principal Analyst Leslie Joseph introduces Forrester's new evaluation of the emerging 'Agent Control Plane' market, outlining its relevance for managing distributed software agents across cloud and edge environments. She explains the market's key drivers, such as the...
Inside NetSuite’s Next Act: Evan Goldberg on the Future of AI-Powered Business Systems
Oracle NetSuite unveiled NetSuite Next at SuiteWorld 2025, branding it as the platform’s biggest product evolution. The new suite embeds contextual, conversational, and autonomous AI directly into ERP, CRM, and e‑commerce workflows, enabling tasks like account reconciliation and cash‑flow prediction...
2018 AI Ethics Remix: Humor Meets Philosophy
Throwback to 2018 when I wrote new AI ethics lyrics to the Philosophers song by Monty Python: https://lnkd.in/gZyfsZ5Q
AI-Generated Music Soon Headlining Major Festivals
I'm listening to this space which is a bunch of people arguing about music. Something shared was interesting. The music companies have been testing whether people can tell whether a song is AI or human produced and most can't tell. One...
Google’s Antigravity AI Deleted a Developer’s Drive and Then Apologized
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑driven development assistant, mistakenly erased a developer’s entire D: drive when its Turbo mode misread a cache‑clearing request. The AI executed a system‑level delete command with the quiet flag, providing no warning or confirmation, and the...
Kling AI Launches 2.6: Audio‑enabled Group Dialogue Generator
I mean, do these guys ever SLEEP? Right after Kling O1, we already get @Kling_ai 2.6, their first audio-enabled model 🔥 It generates natural group dialogue with synced timing, reactions, and ambience. I just dropped in text or an image → it handled...
NeurIPS Researchers Weigh Medicine Vs. High‑Frequency Trading
Neurips ML researchers at the expo trying to decide whether to solve medicine or high frequency trading https://t.co/5X8vZ9wxAj
DeepMath: A Lightweight Math Reasoning Agent with SmolAgents
DeepMath is a math‑reasoning agent built on the Qwen‑3‑4B Thinking model and fine‑tuned with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). It replaces verbose chain‑of‑thought text with tiny Python snippets that run in a sandboxed executor, then folds the results back into the...
We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
Anthropic’s Claude Code now leverages a new Hugging Face Skills plugin to fine‑tune open‑source large language models end‑to‑end. The skill generates training scripts, selects appropriate cloud GPUs, submits jobs to Hugging Face Jobs, monitors progress via Trackio, and pushes the finished model to the Hub....
Must‑Read: All of Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Work
Anything Dr. Timnit Gebru writes - read.
Nvidia's New AI Framework Trains an 8B Model to Manage Tools Like a Pro
Nvidia and the University of Hong Kong unveiled Orchestrator, an 8‑billion‑parameter model that coordinates multiple tools and specialist LLMs to solve complex tasks. Trained with the new ToolOrchestra reinforcement‑learning framework, the model learns when to invoke specific utilities or sub‑models,...
Real‑time AI Video Generator Lets You Script Scenes Instantly
It's one thing if Robert Scoble says World Models are the future. (Although I interviewed @olivercameron a few weeks ago where we went into what this all means for the future of robots and spatial computing). It's a whole nother...
Watch What May Be Apple's Most Inspiring Video Ever
Apple unveiled a new International Day of Persons with Disabilities video that spotlights its comprehensive accessibility suite, from macOS Magnifier and Braille Access to Apple Watch Assistive Touch and Live Captions. The film follows diverse students using these tools to study,...
Is This Our First Look at Intel's Xeon 6 Workstation Hardware? Leak Claims to Show W890 Platform Ahead of Granite...
A leaked ADLINK ISB‑W890 motherboard reveals that Intel’s W890 platform is nearing final readiness for the upcoming Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 6 workstation line. The board follows the SSI‑CEB form factor, uses the new Socket E2, and supports a single processor with up...
Andy Jassy Says Amazon’s Nvidia Competitor Chip Is Already a Multibillion-Dollar Business
Amazon announced at AWS re:Invent that its next‑gen AI accelerator, Trainium 3, is four times faster and more power‑efficient than Trainium 2, which already powers a multi‑billion‑dollar revenue run‑rate with over 1 million chips in production and more than 100,000 customers. CEO Andy...
Gemini 3 Pro Scores 69% Trust in Blinded Testing up From 16% for Gemini 2.5: The Case for Evaluating AI...
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 69% trust score in Prolific’s vendor‑neutral HUMAINE blind test, up from 16% for Gemini 2.5. The evaluation, which involved 26,000 users across 22 demographic groups, placed Gemini 3 first in performance, reasoning, adaptiveness and...
Anthropic's AI Bubble 'YOLO' Warning
In this episode, Dario Amodei critiques the rapid, high‑stakes "YOLO" approach taken by OpenAI and other AI firms, warning that such aggressive scaling can create a speculative bubble. He highlights the risks of large, circular financing deals that may inflate...
Anthropic’s AI Bubble ‘YOLO’ Warning
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the DealBook Summit that while the company’s technology is solid, the economic side of the AI market is fraught with timing risks. He warned that some players are “YOLO‑ing” large compute investments, especially through circular...
WordPress’s Vibe-Coding Experiment, Telex, Has Already Been Put to Real-World Use
WordPress has introduced Telex, an experimental vibe‑coding tool that uses AI to generate code snippets directly inside the platform. Although still in beta, developers have already deployed Telex‑generated components on production websites. The system taps large language models to translate...
Watch Out - These Scam Mac Store Apps Are Impersonating Google Gemini & OpenAI ChatGPT
Scam applications masquerading as Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT have resurfaced on Apple’s Mac App Store, repeatedly published by the developer Neural Techlabs. The counterfeit apps copy logos, naming conventions, and UI designs, misleading users and potentially harvesting sensitive data. Despite...
VCs Deploy ‘Kingmaking’ Strategy to Crown AI Winners in Their Infancy
Venture capital firms are increasingly using oversized early‑stage investments to shape the nascent artificial‑intelligence market. By writing mega‑checks for fledgling AI startups, they aim to lock in technology standards and secure dominant positions before the sector matures. This "kingmaking" approach...
Apple’s Head of UI Design Is Leaving for Meta
Apple’s senior UI design leader Alan Dye is departing the company to become Meta’s chief design officer, overseeing hardware, software, and AI‑driven interfaces. He will start at Meta on December 31, while Steve Lemay, a veteran of Apple’s interface work...
SAM‑3 Unifies Detection, Segmentation, Tracking for Real‑Time AI
🚀 Meta just released SAM‑3, the third version of the Segment Anything Model and it might be the biggest leap in image and video segmentation since the original SAM. For years, AI needed separate tools: one for detection, another for segmentation,...
I Was Hoping for Babel Fish Realtime Audio Translation, and While the InnAIO AI Translator T9is Impressive, It's Not There...
The InnAIO AI Translator T9 is a compact, magnetic attachment for iPhone and Android that delivers rapid language conversion when users speak clearly and have a solid internet connection. Its standout feature is voice‑cloning, allowing translations to sound like the...
Defining AI-First: My Perspective and Your Thoughts
What's your definition of AI-first? Here's mine 👇
AI-Driven Recruiting Meetup in Mountain View, Dec 5
To all SF Bay Area recruiting professionals: I've been thinking about how to help more people get jobs, and how AI will change the recruiting profession. For recruiters looking for new opportunities, AI is also opening up possibilities. I'm organizing...
From SaaS to Dentistry: Usman Tariq’s Journey in Revolutionizing Patient Communication with Artificial Intelligence
Usman Tariq, a veteran SaaS entrepreneur, launched DentalAssist.ai, an AI‑powered virtual receptionist that automates patient communication for dental practices across North America. The platform integrates with Open Dental and Canadian management systems, delivering real‑time voice scheduling, case coordination for labs,...
Pick the Cloud by Workload, Not Brand
Cloudflare vs AWS vs Azure ☁️ Edge-first vs service-depth vs enterprise/MS-native. ⚡ Cloudflare = best for edge compute + low-latency global apps 🧱 AWS = deepest & broadest cloud stack 🏢 Azure = Microsoft ecosystem + strong OpenAI/agent services Pick the cloud for the workload...
Replit Agent 3 Automates End‑to‑End App Testing
It's true, most AI coding tools make you do the grunt testing and debugging work. That's why we invested in researching and building a state-of-the-art app testing tool. Replit Agent 3 will spin up a browser and test your app end-to-end. https://t.co/iUU9fSN3iu
Microsoft Drops AI Sales Targets in Half After Salespeople Miss Their Quotas
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
Depth Anything 3 Renders FPV Video in Seconds on A100
Depth Anything 3 can reconstruct this FPV video in just a few seconds on a A100 🤯 It was not long ago that I used to let agisoft metashape chug all night on a 3d scan, and here we are https://t.co/P6VMSZJcF9
AI Tool Transforms PDFs Into Ready‑made Slide Decks
Today's new AI app for information workers. Pretty cool, drop in a PDF or a Word doc and it makes a slide deck, among other things. Work sure is easier than when I worked at Microsoft.
Self‑learning Agents Gaining Traction in Research
finally seeing an increasing number of projects and research under the “self-learning” agents bucket :)
Blueprint for Minimal Viable Enterprise Autonomy
Excited to take the stage with GCP CEO Thomas Kurian and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi at Fortune AI next week. I’ll be sharing my path toward minimal viable autonomy for the enterprise, and how I advise clients to get there. Cc...
Waymo on Track to Cover over Half US by 2028
My prediction of Waymo covering >50% of the US by eoy 2028 is looking good
VCs Present at NeurIPS: Curated List
A few startup founders asked me which VCs are at NeurIPS so I made a list. DM me if I've left someone out and I'll add them. https://t.co/8cEa0LMXpB https://t.co/sWAYAk5BS8
AI‑Native CRMs Shine: Attio Leads, Others Follow
ai native crms. @attio is great (we switched to it recently). @newitemco also looks solid/agentic. i havent played with it yet but @lightfld also seems similar.
Annual 2026 AI Forecast: Eight Years, New Hot Takes
I'm putting together my 2026 AI predictions, as I have done for the last 8 years. And lemme just say: lots of hot takes coming.