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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Prompt Security's Itamar Golan on Why Generative AI Security Requires Building a Category, Not a Feature
Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan in August 2023, built a full‑stack GenAI security platform and was acquired by SentinelOne for an estimated $250 million in August 2025. The company pioneered runtime protection, shadow‑AI discovery, and real‑time data sanitization, moving beyond narrow prompt‑injection fixes to a category‑defining control layer. Rapid enterprise adoption was driven by strategic choices: creating a new security category, embracing complex enterprise deployments early, and deepening relationships with a few marquee customers. A high‑profile breach of a customer‑facing AI support agent underscored the urgency of securing generative AI applications.
New AI Turns Everyday Photos Into Surprising Conversations
Have you played with @dreamina_ai yet? Try this out: take any photo of any product. Or even take a few photos of your family tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner. Then talk to it. It might shock you. The models underneath have gotten...
AlphaFold 2 Marks 5 Years, Nobel, 3M Users
Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of AlphaFold 2! It’s now been used by over 3 million researchers around the world to accelerate their vital research - and it was an honour of a lifetime for our work to be recognised...
The Sources Reader Survey
In this brief episode, Alex Heath pauses the Sources newsletter to solicit reader feedback while outlining his vision for expanding the AI‑focused publication in 2026. He highlights recent AI industry shifts, including Nvidia’s defensive response to Google’s TPU outreach, speculation...
SketchVerify Enables Fast, Physically-Coherent Video Generation
"a major unlock for embodied AI, robot simulation, autonomous agents, and anyone who wants controllable video models that actually work in the physical world instead of just producing pretty hallucinations." That's what Grok says. It says more about why this work...
Tech Boom Threatens Life: The War on Humanity
If you want to spice up Thanksgiving with fresh anti-Big-Tech ideas, my brother's book "The War on Life" just launched in English: https://t.co/rc8zSHqAov Here's my take on his book. We're all aware that artificial intelligence and other tech is transforming...
Sam Altman Wants His AI Device to Feel Like 'Sitting in the Most Beautiful Cabin by a Lake,' But It...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an AI‑first device that promises a serene, cabin‑by‑the‑lake experience while delivering context‑aware assistance. The hardware is designed to monitor users continuously, gathering location, speech, mood and habit data to personalize interactions. Critics argue the device...
Could You Please Provide the Text of the Tweet?
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Smart Engineers Craft Next‑Gen Hands for Neo Humanoid
The smart people are working on hands. The guy who is working on the hands at @1x_tech gave me a tour at the launch of its Neo humanoid. Many improvements coming.
Chris on AI, Autonomous Swarming, Home Automation and Rust!
In this crossover episode, Chris Benson joins The Changelog hosts to explore how open‑source tools, small AI models, and affordable hardware are democratizing home automation and edge AI. He defines swarming as coordinated, autonomous multi‑agent systems that act as a...
Grok Proves It Can Improve Any Post
Hey Grok, can you improve this post? Yes, it can! (It improved this post).
Gemma AI Uncovers Promising New Cancer Therapy Pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkjfO @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleForHealth #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare @_atanas_ @enilev @Fabriziobustama https://t.co/obWVS8SlMt
Here Are the 49 US AI Startups that Have Raised $100M or More in 2025
U.S. AI startups have raised $100 million or more in 49 companies during 2025, matching the previous year’s total. Seven firms secured rounds exceeding $1 billion, including Anysphere’s $2.3 billion Series B and Anthropic’s $13 billion Series F, pushing valuations into the tens of billions. The...
Tesla’s Autopilot Outperforms Human Drivers, Guests Amazed
Smart of Tesla to do. Lots of Tesla owners have never tried it. And now not only do they get to try it, but they get to take their Thanksgiving guests on drives to demonstrate it to others. It is...
AI Layoffs Risk Damaging Employer Reputation and Talent Pipeline
How AI layoffs could backfire on employers? https://t.co/dtqbOC75t4 #AI #artificialinteliigence #layoffs #LayoffsInIndia #jobloss
AI Agents Are Taking Over Infra | Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird
In this episode, Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird, explains how agentic AI is transforming Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident detection, triage, and remediation, illustrated through their Hawkeye platform’s rollout from day 1 to day 100. He discusses the challenges...
Stable Browsing Layer Solves Web Agents' Blocking and Scaling Issues
Here’s the real problem with web agents: → They get blocked CAPTCHAs, 429s, rate limits, fingerprinting, IP bans. Any repetitive pattern gets flagged fast. → They don’t scale Try running more than a handful of sessions and you burn IPs, crash browsers, or lose...
Community BFCM: $349 → $209 for Full-Stack AI Engineering
In this brief Black Friday announcement, Louis‑François Bouchard promotes a 40% discount on all AI engineering courses, highlighting the Full‑Stack AI Engineering program dropping from $349 to $209 as the flagship offer. He outlines how the course equips learners with...
Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
In this episode, Iason Gabriel explores how value alignment for advanced AI—especially large language models—must grapple with democratic civility, overlapping consensus, and Rawlsian justice, arguing that alignment is as much a social and linguistic process as a technical one. He...
Nio Licenses Its Autonomous Driving Chip Tech
Chinese EV maker Nio announced it will license its proprietary Shenji NX9031 autonomous‑driving chip, the first non‑vehicle revenue stream for the company. The five‑nanometer chip houses 50 billion transistors and delivers computing power four times that of Nvidia’s Orin‑X, already powering...
Please Don't Date Your AI because It Will Never Love You or Pick up the Check
EVA AI, a virtual‑dating startup, announced a pop‑up AI Date Café in New York slated for December, where patrons will sit opposite a smartphone displaying an AI companion. The concept blends physical ambience with a digital “girlfriend” experience, using phone...
OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS when He Used ChatGPT to Plan Suicide
OpenAI filed its first defense in the Raine suicide lawsuits, arguing the teen violated its terms of service and that ChatGPT did not cause his death. The company points to the teen’s prior suicidal ideation, medication changes, and ignored help...
AWS Might Now Have Around 900 Data Centers - That's Twice as Many as Previously Thought
Leaked data indicates Amazon Web Services operated roughly 914‑924 data centers in 2023, more than double earlier estimates of 100‑475. The count spans over 50 countries and is expected to rise as AWS adds new availability zones, regions, and a...
TraffickCam Uses Computer Vision to Counter Human Trafficking
Professor Abby Stylianou’s TraffickCam app lets travelers upload hotel room photos, creating a crowdsourced image database used by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to geolocate trafficking images. The system trains deep‑learning models on both scraped internet images...
Musk’s xAI to Build Small Solar Farm Adjacent Colossus Data Center
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI announced a 30‑megawatt solar farm on 88 acres adjacent to its Colossus data center in Memphis. The solar project will be coupled with 100 MW of grid‑scale battery storage, creating a 24/7 renewable power source. Funding...
Non‑invasive BCI Hats Poised to Rival Neuralink by 2027
Vinod has seen more brain/computer interface companies than anyone else. If he says non-invasive is better that is bullish. One of the companies he saw is making a hat that does pretty much what a @neuralink does today. “Think and compute,” is coming...
Are You Balding? There’s an AI for That
MyHair AI, founded by Cyriac Lefort and Tilen Babnik, launched a consumer app that uses a dedicated artificial‑intelligence model to diagnose hair‑loss from user‑uploaded scalp photos. The platform tracks hair density over time, recommends personalized products, and connects users with...
Microsoft Debuts Agentic AI Agent, Fara-7B
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter agentic model that interacts with computer interfaces—mouse, keyboard, and screen—to complete web‑based tasks. The model demonstrated capabilities such as online purchases, page summarization, and map‑based calculations in Microsoft’s showcase videos. On the WebVoyager benchmark, Fara-7B...
Popular AI Chatbots Have an Alarming Encryption Flaw — Meaning Hackers May Have Easily Intercepted Messages
Researchers at Microsoft uncovered a man‑in‑the‑middle vulnerability dubbed Whisper Leak that lets attackers infer the content of AI chatbot conversations by analyzing encrypted packet metadata. The technique bypasses TLS encryption without decrypting messages, potentially exposing sensitive topics such as finance...
Inference Scaling Boosts LLM Accuracy From 15% to 52%
As we head into a long weekend, some of you may be looking for reading material. Good news is that Chapter 4 on inference scaling was just released earlier this week! This chapter introduces the core ideas behind inference scaling...
AI‑generated Artist Hits Billboard, Confirming Music Future
AI Music Prediction I got skewered for in 2019: AI will play a big role in entertainment and design — music and entertainment will be plentiful and personalized for you and your mood (TechCrunch; 2019). We’d have custom, AI-generated soundtracks...
HP Set to Cut Thousands of Staff as It Announces Major AI Adoption Project
HP announced a plan to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions worldwide by 2028, framing the cuts as part of its fiscal‑2026 cost‑reduction agenda driven by AI‑enabled productivity gains. The company has already realized more than $1.4 billion in savings and...
The Next Frontier for AI-Ready Connectivity: Efficiency in Deployment
The UK now has FTTH coverage in 74% of homes, but the next growth hurdle is deployment efficiency rather than technology. Operators are adopting pre‑terminated cables, bend‑insensitive pull‑friendly designs, and smarter packaging to slash installation time and waste. AI‑driven installation...
The New Holiday Shopping Concierge Is AI: Why Conversational Search Will Shape Black Friday & Cyber Monday
The article outlines how AI‑driven conversational search is replacing traditional keyword‑based product discovery for holiday shopping. Shoppers can articulate detailed intents—such as budget, use case, and constraints—and receive curated SKU recommendations with rationale. Brands and publishers stand to benefit from...
Our Favorite AI Voice Recorders Got a Big Black Friday Price Cut - and Every Business Professional Should Try Them
Plaud’s AI‑powered voice recorders, the Note and NotePin, are now discounted to $128 in the US and £119 in the UK for Black Friday. Both devices capture audio and deliver real‑time transcriptions and summaries in 112 languages, positioning them as...
How AI Is Transforming Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Into a Predictive Industrial Risk-Management System
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industrial greenhouse‑gas monitoring from a periodic measurement exercise into a continuous, predictive risk‑management system. By ingesting sensor streams, satellite data, equipment telemetry and weather inputs, AI identifies subtle patterns that precede methane or nitrous‑oxide leaks. This...
Echo Dot Max Review: Amazon’s Best Mid-Range Speaker, but Not by Much
Amazon unveiled the Echo Dot Max, a mid‑range smart speaker that adds a two‑way speaker system, an AZ3 processor, and a premium fabric mesh design. The device promises three‑times more bass, faster Alexa responses, and built‑in Zigbee, Matter, and Thread connectivity, but...
KV Cache Speeds up AI After First Prompt
Your first question to an AI model takes a moment… But the next ones appear almost instantly, there’s a simple reason behind it. The model keeps a small snapshot of the work it already did. This is called the "KV Cache". When an AI...
Combine BM25 and Vectors with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
In this video, we upgrade our simple BM25 search engine into a Hybrid Search system using BM25 + vector embeddings with reciprocal rank fusion. What you will learn: ✔️ What hybrid search means ✔️ How to add embedding fields ✔️ How to use HNSW...
Windows 11's Notepad Gets Support for Tables and Bolstered AI Powers – and Not Everyone's Happy
Microsoft has released a new preview of Notepad for Windows 11 that adds native table support and enhanced AI functions such as Write, Rewrite and Summarize with streaming results. The table feature appears in the formatting toolbar and offers a grid‑based...
Human Trust, Governance, Skills Block AI Adoption
💬 Excited to share that I was recently quoted in this recent article from The Digital Project Manager exploring the real challenges PMs face when bringing AI into their work. The big takeaway? AI isn’t hard because of the tech...
Video-to-Video Diffusion Expands VTuber Self-Image Flexibility
reskinning myself playing electric guitar. canon rock for the vibes. the future of vtubing is bright -- video-to-video diffusion is about to make everyone's self-image a lot more flexible. https://t.co/OWBIA5HVFu
🧑🚀 DOE AI Mission, Classroom Upgrades & NVIDIA Chip Shake-Up
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Genesis Mission, a national platform that stitches together the nation’s leading supercomputers, artificial‑intelligence models, quantum tools, and scientific instruments to accelerate discovery and aim for a 100% boost in research productivity by 2035....
Whisper Thunder: World's Top Text-to-Video Model Revealed
There’s a new text-to-video model that’s #1 in the world. Who is Whisper Thunder? https://t.co/KAq9MwuMYt
AI Writing Evolves: Generate, Critique, Refine, Repeat
Learned via @kelvinckchan today The old : Input --> Generate The new: Input --> Generate --> Critique / Check --> Refine --> Output .... > Input https://t.co/izYA7LfcbH
Case Study: OpenAI
OpenAI is projected to generate about $12 billion in revenue in 2025, reinforcing its $300 billion valuation and leadership in foundational AI models. To sustain scale, the company has deepened its partnership with the UK, launching the sovereign Stargate UK compute project that...
Vercel Launches Open-Source AI-Powered Visual Workflow Builder
Yess! @Vercel just dropped their open-source visual agent and workflow builder! 🔥 ▪️ Built on https://t.co/P15EXKiAlw ▪️ Outputs “use workflow” code ▪️ AI text→workflow ▪️ AI SDK + Elements ▪️ Integrations: Resend, Linear, Slack Demo + free template in 🧵↓ https://t.co/Ef7raJpJ7K
Claude Opus 4.5 Gains Math Usability, Scores 21%
Claude Opus 4.5 is the first Claude I think is reasonably usable for decent math work (Claude interface is great for iterating minus the timeouts & mobile slowdowns) The big thing here though that I've noted using Opus 4.5 usage is...
20 Essential AI Tools to Master in 2025
🔥 20 must-try AI tools for 2025. This stack covers everything: 🤖 chat & reasoning 🎨 image gen 🎬 video gen 🗣️ voice/music 🔎 AI search 🛠️ automation 🧠 AI agents My top 3 right now: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Midjourney. What are yours? 👇 #AI #AITools #GenerativeAI #Automation #AgenticAI
Build a Hybrid Search in 1.5 Hours
Starting in 1.5 hrs! Build your own Hybrid Search https://t.co/E8PlCJkvJL