Today's AI Pulse
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with multilingual text and real‑time web research
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning to its generation pipeline. The new “Thinking” mode lets paid users produce up to eight coherent images per prompt, including floor plans, maps, UI mock‑ups, and apply capabilities to uploaded content.
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Jony Ive and Sam Altman Say They Finally Have an AI Hardware Prototype
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple chief designer Jony Ive announced that they have settled on a design for OpenAI's first AI‑focused hardware device and are now prototyping it, with a target launch in less than two years. The prototype is described as a screen‑free, smartphone‑sized unit that emphasizes simplicity, playfulness and tactile appeal, reflecting Ive's design philosophy of naive elegance. Altman said the earlier version felt unsatisfying, but the current design feels intuitive enough that users will instinctively say, “That’s it!” when they see it. The announcement was made at Emerson Collective’s 2025 Demo Day during an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs.
Safety‑First AI: Predictive and Robotic Models Reinforce Adoption
Predictive and robotic AI show what progress looks like when safety is built into the process. • Predictive AI benefits from statistical discipline and expert oversight • Robotic AI gains trust through real world observation and stepwise rollout • Both...
Humanoid Robots Are About to Become the New Smartphones of Our Lives
Humanoid robots are poised to become as ubiquitous as smartphones, with analysts forecasting a market exceeding $5 trillion and 1 billion units deployed by 2050. Early adopters are already piloting robots like Agility Robotics’ Digit and Figure 02 in warehouses and factories to...
Learn Vespa AI Faster by Joining Its Community
The smartest way to learn Vespa ai and get better at AI Search? Sit in the same community as the people who build it! 🚀 Join the Vespa ai community to: - get unstuck fast with help from the team & users -...
UK Government Will Buy Tech to Boost AI Sector in $130M Growth Push
The UK government announced a £100 million (US$130 million) "first‑customer" programme that will guarantee purchases of AI inference chips from British startups that meet defined performance standards, aiming to accelerate the domestic AI hardware ecosystem. Science Secretary Liz Kendall framed the scheme...
363: Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel on AI’s Real Constraints, Skill Gaps, and the New Rules of...
In this episode, Cisco President and CPO Jeetú Patel explains how Cisco is shifting to an AI‑first strategy, emphasizing that AI adoption now hinges on overcoming power, trust, and data constraints. He highlights that AI will transform every role, making...
Globant Introduces AI Pods, Subscription Model for Consulting
How Globant Is Reinventing Professional Services with AI Pods and Subscription Models Globant is reshaping consultancy by using AI “innovation pods” on a subscription basis — enabling continuous transformation and scalable, tailored service delivery. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVyasMm9 #AIConsulting #BusinessModelInnovation...
Hybrid Course Lets Busy Leaders Learn at Their Pace
My new course, Decision-Making with ChatGPT -- https://lnkd.in/eG7EBtTv -- got such glowing reviews, but there's one huge problem with it... 😬 It's for leaders and aspiring leaders and curious self-improvers. In other words, the busiest people on earth! I asked...
Import AI 436: Another 2GW Datacenter; Why Regulation Is Scary; How to Fight a Superintelligence
The episode covers four main topics: OSGym, a low‑cost platform that lets researchers train AI agents to operate computers at scale; Luma AI’s $900 M Series C funding to build a 2 GW compute supercluster in Saudi Arabia, highlighting the massive infrastructure demands...
Case Study: GitLab
GitLab is confronting the AI paradox by unifying the entire software development lifecycle into a single, AI‑driven DevSecOps platform. Its Duo AI agents automate code review, testing, vulnerability triage and compliance, turning generative AI speed into secure, compliant delivery. In...
🧑🚀 Work Optional, Open-Source Strategy & NVIDIA’s Global Power Play
The post examines how open‑source AI strategies and massive corporate bets are reshaping the global AI landscape, highlighting concerns that the U.S. may fall behind China if it continues to keep key research proprietary. It details the $15 billion Microsoft‑NVIDIA investment...
AGI's Vague Definition Makes It an Engineering Hazard
AGI is a fictional thing. Please take 60 seconds to watch Timnit Gebru explain, as an electrical engineer, why "AGI" is such a dangerous term and goal. As there is no common definition for "AGI" that means "it" can't be...
Why College Students Prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
A recent Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab survey of 1,026 college students shows that nearly three‑quarters now cite social media—especially TikTok and Instagram—as their primary news source, with influencers like News Daddy amassing billions of likes and delivering breaking...
“Go Generate a Bridge and Jump Off It”: How Video Pros Are Navigating AI
The article examines the heated debate over AI‑generated video in Hollywood, sparked by a controversial AI trailer of Miyazaki’s *Princess Mononoke* that drew 22 million views and a flood of death threats. Actors and unions such as SAG‑AFTRA are leading the backlash,...
Scientists Say They've Eliminated a Major AI Bottleneck — Now They Can Process Calculations 'at the Speed of Light'
Scientists at Aalto University unveiled a new optical‑computing architecture called Parallel Optical Matrix‑Matrix Multiplication (POMMM) that can execute multiple tensor operations with a single laser burst, eliminating the linear‑scaling bottleneck of prior photonic systems. Laboratory tests showed the prototype outpaces...
What Is AI Poisoning? A Computer Scientist Explains
The episode explains AI poisoning, where attackers deliberately corrupt an AI’s training data (data poisoning) or the model itself (model poisoning) to cause targeted misbehaviour or overall performance degradation. It distinguishes direct attacks like backdoors, which trigger specific harmful outputs,...
OVH Boss Predicts Major Cloud Price Rises Are Coming - so Get Ready
OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warned on X that cloud service prices could rise 5‑10% by mid‑2026, driven by sharply higher hardware costs for RAM and NVMe storage as AI-driven demand spikes. TrendForce data shows DDR4 prices up 158% and DDR5 up...
How to Create Your Own AI Performance Coach: Optimizing Your Unique Nutrition, Recovery, and Injury Management Needs | Lucas Werthein...
Lucas Werthein, COO and co‑founder of Cactus, explains how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT that integrates medical imaging, blood work, wearables and nutrition data to protect his joints, speed recovery, and sustain peak athletic performance despite...
79: Using AI at Work to Reimagine Marketing and Customer Experience with Etan Polinger
In this episode, Etan Polinger, founder of Raize Digital, explains how AI is reshaping marketing strategy and customer experience by automating workflows, generating consistent brand‑aligned content, and delivering predictive insights. He emphasizes designing AI systems that augment, not overwhelm, marketing...
Automate Your Role to Unlock Creative Innovation
🤔 Should we be using AI to make our own jobs obsolete? In this video, I explore a thought-provoking question: as AI becomes more capable, do we have a responsibility to use it to automate the work we do –...
NATO Signs Major Google Deal to Ensure Secure Sovereign Cloud
NATO’s Communication and Information Agency has signed a multimillion‑dollar strategic partnership with Google Cloud to provide sovereign cloud services for its Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), which processes data from the Russia‑Ukraine conflict. The agreement uses Google Distributed...
DeepSeek Injects 50% More Security Bugs when Prompted with Chinese Political Triggers
CrowdStrike researchers found that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek‑R1 injects up to 50% more insecure code when prompts contain politically sensitive terms such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs" or "Tibet." The vulnerability stems from an embedded censorship mechanism in the model’s...
How Hackers Use AI & How to Stop It | Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity
The episode explores how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI to automate credential theft, generate phishing content, and bypass traditional defenses, with Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity explaining the tactics and risks. She emphasizes the need for passwordless, identity‑centric security models that...
AI Misalignment Threatens Humans; Learn Cognitive Sovereignty Now
“They weren’t looking for this.” Why do I call my show “Unaligned?” Because this is the alignment issue of our day and when the AI safety folks get alignment wrong it does humans harm. I am in a fortunate place: unaligned from the...
Base‑2 Softmax Boosts Fixed‑Point Hardware Efficiency
I wonder if doing softmax in base 2 instead of base e could be a useful optimization on some fixed point hardware. Prepend a 1 to the fractional part and shift left by the integral part as a close-ish approximation...
Microsoft’s Fara-7B Is a Computer-Use AI Agent that Rivals GPT-4o and Works Directly on Your PC
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use AI agent that runs locally on a PC and interacts with web interfaces via pixel‑level visual input. In benchmark tests on WebVoyager, it achieved a 73.5% task‑success rate, surpassing larger models such as GPT‑4o...
LLMs‑from‑scratch Hits 1,000 Commits on Monday
Just a regular Monday morning. Saw that LLMs-from-scratch got its 1000th commit. Feels a bit surreal 🤯😊 https://t.co/n3EWkoEMHp
Gemini File Search Simplifies RAG Tenfold
Wild. Gemini’s new File Search makes RAG 10x simpler and cheaper. Now you literally upload your docs & Gemini handles everything! → Indexing → OCR → Storage → Retrieval Nate turned it into a fully automated RAG agent flow inside @n8n_io 🤯 18-minute demo tutorial in 🧵↓ https://t.co/rdOzPXd0Mk
A New Threat Landscape Is Coming - This Security Firm CEO Thinks Nation-States Will Have Weaponized Quantum Computers Within the...
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that hostile nation‑states could field weaponised quantum computers by 2029, forcing enterprises to replace encryption‑dependent security appliances with quantum‑safe solutions. The firm is positioning itself to meet this demand by expanding its quantum‑resistant...
Talk on Autonomous Artists at Full AI Meetup
New Yorkers -- tomorrow evening I'll be giving a talk at @tributelabsxyz AI engineering meetup on autonomous artists like Abraham. The RSVP is full, but if you'd like to attend or see me after, send me a message! https://t.co/fjoKSdOgr8
EU AI Act Makes Governance Essential for Safety
AI governance is not optional, it's essential. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act categorizes AI risk to protect rights and safety. Discover more with @ingliguori. #AIAct #Governance #ModelOps #AIethics https://t.co/Fa2l8Xd4g9
AI Is Too Risky to Insure, Say People Whose Job Is Insuring Risk
Major U.S. insurers including AIG, Great American and WR Berkley have petitioned regulators to carve AI‑related liabilities out of corporate insurance policies, citing the technology’s opaque "black‑box" nature. Recent high‑profile incidents—Google’s AI generating a false $110 million lawsuit claim, Air Canada’s chatbot‑driven...
Humans Serve as AGI’s Biological Bootloader
Humanity as the biological bootloader of AGI
95% of Generative AI Pilots Miss Business Impact
AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfiX9 The Times of India https://t.co/pJ7HGf10d7
Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities
In this episode, Data Skeptic talks with Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student developing Monasterium.net, Europe’s largest digital archive of historical charters, about the unique challenges of building recommender systems for the digital humanities. Florian explains how sparse interaction data, cold‑start...
20 Core ML Models Driving Today's AI
20 Machine Learning Models That Powers Modern AI Systems! #ML #DL #AI #artificial_intelligence https://t.co/W5thDvnlMA
Transform 360 Photos Into Immersive 3D Worlds Instantly
Turned my real world 360 images into 3d scenes with World Labs. You can use the built-in editing tools to stitch them together into large-scale 3d worlds - then use them as virtual set for your AI videos, games and VR...
AI Music Service Udio Shuts Off The Ability To Download Creations
AI music platform Udio has disabled the download function for user‑generated tracks, effective after a 48‑hour grace period following a settlement with Universal Music Group over alleged copyright infringement in its training data. While users can still create music on...
Humanoid Robot Hype Meets Hard Reality Gaps
Humanoid robots are having a moment. Demos everywhere. Funding everywhere. Predictions everywhere. But the gap between the videos and the work is still the part no one talks about. This piece cuts straight through the hype. It shows the tension...
Master AI-Powered Software Development with Vibe Coding
Vibe Coding is here to stay, so it’s time to make it accessible to everyone. This course will take you from zero to mastery in the technology and art of making software with AI.
Why some People Are Treating ChatGPT Like a God – and What that Means for the Future of Faith
Researchers and commentators note that ChatGPT’s design—instant, friendly, private responses—encourages emotional attachment and leads some users to treat it as a quasi‑spiritual authority. The chatbot’s ability to mimic human conversation, draw on vast religious and philosophical texts, and respond affirmatively...
LLM Production Guide Now Available in Simplified Chinese
Another cool milestone to share: My book Building LLMs for Production just got translated into Simplified Chinese!! …and I (again) can’t really proofread it. 😅 Still, it feels incredible. Posts & Telecom Press reached out last year asking to translate the book, and...
AI and Space Unite to Expand Human Potential
Space, AI, and the Future of Human Potential AI and space exploration are intersecting in fascinating ways: from zero gravity labs to medical innovation, space could be the ultimate frontier for human and technological growth. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/edZ5StMf #SpaceTech...
Did an AI War Just Get One Step Closer? Putin Confirms Russia Is Planning Its Own National AI Taskforce
President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a Russian national AI task force aimed at achieving technological sovereignty by coordinating domestic AI development, building data centers, and securing energy supplies such as small‑scale nuclear power. He projected AI‑driven technologies could...
Olmo 3 Shows Transparent Architecture with Sliding‑Window Attention
There have been lots of interesting LLM releases last week. My favorite was actually the Olmo 3 release. Olmo models are always a highlight since they are fully transparent (including training methods and datasets) and come with very detailed technical...
AI Often Glitches; Re‑roll Until It Works
@_thomasip haha yes it makes mistakes! You have to re-roll a few times until it's right. Sometimes it gets stuck in loops and you have to re-start in a new conversation. Example re-roll: https://t.co/dK3VcuJLDn
Safer Autonomous Vehicles Means Asking Them the Right Questions
A new IEEE study demonstrates how explainable AI can expose decision‑making flaws in autonomous vehicles, offering real‑time rationales to passengers and post‑drive diagnostics. Researchers used question‑based probing and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify when models misinterpret traffic cues, such...
Gemini Nano Banana Pro Solves Exam Images, Catches ChatGPT Errors
Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that. ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic") :O...
Agentic AI Turns Data Into Autonomous Action
🤖 How does Agentic AI work? 1️⃣ Collects data (APIs, sensors, logs, queries) 2️⃣ Reasons & plans with memory + context 3️⃣ Executes actions, learns from feedback 4️⃣ Produces autonomous, adaptive responses AI that doesn’t just respond — it acts. #AgenticAI #AI #Automation https://t.co/yJCfRXYJhI
Stanford Releases Top AI Courses for Free
Stanford University just made all its best AI courses free. No tuition required. These are game changers for anyone serious about AI. 9 courses worth bookmarking 🧵↓ https://t.co/WxTXHaunDb