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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YouTube Will Let You Opt Out of AI Upscaling on Low-Res Videos
YouTube announced that videos uploaded in 240p‑720p will be automatically upscaled to HD using AI, with 4K upscaling planned, but both creators and viewers can opt out and original files will be preserved. The rollout includes a new “super resolution” label in settings and applies only to videos not already remastered to 1080p. In parallel, YouTube is expanding thumbnail limits to 50 MB for 4K images, testing larger video uploads, and adding TV‑focused features such as instant QR‑code shopping and immersive homepage previews. The changes target the platform’s fastest‑growing surface – TV screens – to improve visual quality and commerce opportunities.
Phia’s Founders on How AI Is Changing Online Shopping
Phia, an AI startup founded by Stanford roommates Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, launched a browser extension and app that aggregates pricing data from more than 150 second‑hand platforms, covering over 350 million items, to help shoppers compare prices and assess...
Each Computing Leap Redefines How We Express Intent
Every leap in computing begins with a new way to express intent. In the beginning, we spoke in commands. The first computers waited for precision. Each keystroke was an instruction carved into syntax. The interface was obedience itself. We learned to think...
Cameo Sues OpenAI over Sora’s ‘Cameos’
Cameo filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in a California federal court against OpenAI, alleging that the "cameo" feature in OpenAI's Sora 2 video‑generation app dilutes and tarnishes Cameo's brand. The complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages and a court order prohibiting...
Research Skills Grow Without a PhD: Learn, Build, Share
During my conversation with @PetarV_93 - Senior Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind and Lecturer at Cambridge. He said something that stuck with me. “You don’t need a PhD to think like a researcher. You need curiosity, discipline, and the courage to keep...
🧑🚀 AGI Partnerships, NVIDIA Announcements & OpenAI’s $135B Shift
OpenAI completed a legal recapitalization into a public-benefit for-profit structure that gives Microsoft a roughly 27% stake valued at about $135 billion while a controlling non‑profit foundation holds 26%, a move that unlocked $30 billion from SoftBank and includes a...
The AI Hype Index: Data Centers’ Neighbors Are Pivoting to Power Blackouts
The AI Hype Index warns that many firms are chasing AI without clear returns, while NGOs exploit generative models to fabricate suffering for social media clicks and AI translators churn out low‑quality Wikipedia entries in endangered languages. At the same...
DeepSeek May Have Found a New Way to Improve AI’s Ability to Remember
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI firm, unveiled an OCR model that uses visual tokens instead of traditional text tokens to store and retrieve information, effectively compressing memory like a snapshot of a book page. The approach reduces token count, mitigating the...
AI Chitchat Returns: Exploring AI Careers & Education
ICYMI, I've resumed my YouTube channel after 2 years and have been running a series called AI Chitchat. I'm talking to interesting people about their journey and the advancements in the world of AI. So far Ive talked to: > Andrey...
Google Labs' Pomelli AI Auto‑creates Ad Campaigns From Websites
.@GoogleLabs just launched Pomelli, an experimental AI that turns your brand’s website into full-blown ad campaigns 🤯 Feed it your website: ↳ it reads your tone and style ↳ generates campaigns and captions ↳ keeps content consistent and scalable Live in the US, CA, AU...
Geostar Pioneers GEO as Traditional SEO Faces 25% Decline From AI Chatbots, Gartner Says
Geostar, a Pear VC‑backed startup that just emerged from stealth, is betting on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to help businesses adapt to AI‑driven search as Gartner predicts traditional search volume will drop 25% by 2026. The company is nearing $1 million...
VLLM Delivers Blazing‑fast, Memory‑efficient LLM Inference
Running your own LLMs? Meet your new best friend: vLLM. An open-source engine that rethinks inference for blazing-fast, memory-efficient serving 🔥 ↳ Powered by PagedAttention (virtual memory for attention) ↳ OpenAI API-compatible ↳ Free + scales like a beast Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/iTqEz8GjoQ
No-Code AI Powers 2025’s Top ML Trends
How could you use no-code AI to boost your projects? Top 10 Machine Learning Trends to Watch in 2025 https://t.co/e65AsSHtq4 #AI #MachineLearning #IoT https://t.co/jjQuiGTJ6d
AI Product Liability: The Light-Touch Law with Heavyweight Impact
The Center for Humane Technology argues that applying traditional product liability to AI — treating chatbots and companion apps as products, not services — is a practical, innovation‑friendly way to force safer design, create legal accountability, and mitigate mounting harms...
2025 Report Reveals Skills Needed for Future Jobs
Future of Jobs Report 2025: The jobs of the future – and the skills you need to get them https://t.co/lBMcF8QL6P #FutureOfWork #AI #IoT #GLMC @wef @Global_LMC @WorldBank https://t.co/HwvzA02oNJ
NEO Robot Offers Home Care and Companionship
The need for home care and companionship may prioritize bringing NEO home! https://t.co/xPWXTLfYqz #HomeCare #eldercare #healthcare #AI #humanoidrobot #humanoid @bigfundu @efipm @devaang @sonu_monika
From Static Classifiers to Reasoning Engines: OpenAI’s New Model Rethinks Content Moderation
OpenAI has released two open‑weight models, gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, under an Apache 2.0 license that use chain‑of‑thought reasoning at inference time to interpret developer‑provided safety policies and produce explainable moderation decisions. Unlike traditional static classifiers, the models accept both a policy...
Agentic AI Is All About the Context — Engineering, that Is
Elastic unveiled Agent Builder, a new feature that streamlines context engineering for agentic AI by letting users connect private data indexed in Elasticsearch to large language models via the Model Context Protocol. The tool consolidates data retrieval, governance, and workflow...
AI Revolutionizes Modern Defence Capabilities
How artificial intelligence is transforming the defence industry! https://t.co/BCOtBJlxzO #AI #artificial_intelligence #defenceindustrynews #FutureTech @CyberRobooo @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut @Khulood_Almani
E189: The Mirror Never Lies: How AI Reveals Your Health From Your Face
In this episode, Remi Koscielny, CEO and co‑founder of Shen.AI, explains how AI and computer‑vision turn ordinary smartphone cameras into clinical‑grade, non‑invasive health monitors using remote photoplethysmography and ballistocardiography. He details the science behind detecting heart rate, blood pressure, stress...
Building a Healthcare Robot From Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac
NVIDIA released Isaac for Healthcare v0.4 with an end‑to‑end SO‑ARM starter workflow that takes developers from mixed simulation and real‑world data collection through fine‑tuning and real‑time deployment of surgical assistant robots. The pipeline fine‑tunes GR00T N1.5 on predominantly synthetic data...
Europe's AI Boom: 40 Startups Secure $50M+ Funding
40 European AI startups that raised $50M+ in 2025. Most are hiring. From open-weight models to robotics, defence, quantum, and healthtech. 1/ @MistralAI 🇫🇷 – $1.7B open-weight models 2/ @HelsingAI 🇩🇪 – $600M defence & security AI 3/ @IsomorphicLabs 🇬🇧 – $600M AI for...
IBM's Open Source Granite 4.0 Nano AI Models Are Small Enough to Run Locally Directly in Your Browser
IBM unveiled four Granite 4.0 Nano open‑source language models—two hybrid‑SSM variants (350 M and 1.5 B parameters) and two transformer variants of similar size—available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The smallest models run on a modern laptop CPU with 8–16 GB...
Secure Vibe Coding: I’ve Done It Myself And It’s A Paradigm Not A Paradox
The article warns that “vibe coding” – using AI tools like Cursor to generate applications without reviewing the code – produces functional but insecure software, as demonstrated by missing input sanitization, lack of rate limiting, poor error handling, and exposed...
Mappa’s AI Voice Analysis Helps You Find the Best Job Candidates and Will Show Off Its Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Mappa, an AI‑powered behavioral intelligence platform founded in 2023, uses voice‑pattern analysis to gauge traits such as empathy and confidence and then ranks job candidates by role compatibility. The startup has raised $3.4 million in a seed round led by Draper...
Super Teacher Is Building an AI Tutor for Elementary Schools — Catch It at Disrupt 2025
Super Teacher, founded by ex‑Google product manager Tim Novikoff, offers an AI‑powered tutoring app for elementary students at $15 a month (or $10 with an annual plan) and has signed up roughly 20,000 families, with public schools in New York, New Jersey...
Speedy AI Launches Sacrifice Safety for Profit
Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) on the race to build AI faster, and the risks that come with it. “Companies want to move fast to maximize profits and be first to market, but that often means jumping over guardrails meant for safety.” “We’ve seen...
How Many ChatGPT Users Discuss Suicide with the AI? The Number May Shock You.
OpenAI’s blog announced that its new GPT‑5 model can better detect mental‑health crises, but disclosed that even rare signals translate into large absolute numbers given its 800 million weekly users. The company estimates 0.07% of users (≈560,000) show signs of psychosis...
Data Centers in Spaaaaace - Space Tech Firms Want to Take Nvidia H100 GPUs Into Orbit to Power the Next...
Redmond‑based Starcloud, backed by Nvidia Inception, and cloud‑computing firm Crusoe are partnering to build the first orbital data centers, launching Nvidia H100 GPUs aboard a Starcloud satellite in November 2025 with limited AI compute services expected by early 2027. The...
Generative AI Now Daily Tool, Delivering ROI For
You need to read the third annual AI Adoption Report from Wharton Human-AI Research. ↓↓↓ - 82% use generative AI weekly (up from 72% in 2024 and 37% in 2023) - 46% use generative AI daily (+17pp YoY) - nearly 75% already see...
Testing Inference-Scaling Techniques to Shape Upcoming Chapter
On that note, I am currently running a large-scale experiment on the upcoming inference-scaling chapter: A) Parallel Sampling - Self-Consistency (Majority Vote) - Rejection Sampling - Best-of-N (Verifier-Based) B) Sequential Refinement - Self-Refinement - Power Sampling - MCMC (Simple) - MCMC (Block as in "Reasoning with Sampling" paper) - Tree-of-Thought ......
Fortanix and NVIDIA Partner on AI Security Platform for Highly Regulated Industries
Fortanix Inc. and NVIDIA unveiled a joint turnkey AI platform that leverages NVIDIA’s confidential‑computing GPUs to run agentic AI in on‑premises or sovereign environments, targeting highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance and government. The solution integrates Fortanix’s Data Security...
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Have a ‘Legitimate AI Researcher’ by 2028
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company aims to create an AI system capable of functioning as a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028. The roadmap hinges on two pillars: continued breakthroughs in core algorithms and a dramatic increase in...
Six Key LLM Insights Every Leader Must Know
🎙️ New article published: “𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀” At the core of today’s most powerful AI applications are Large Language Models (LLMs). We use them daily—often without realizing it—but how many truly understand what powers...
Elloe AI Wants to Be the ‘Immune System’ for AI — Check It Out at Disrupt 2025
Elloe AI founder Owen Sakawa pitched his platform as an “immune system” for artificial‑intelligence, a layer that sits on top of any large language model to filter bias, hallucinations, errors, misinformation and compliance breaches. The startup, a Top 20 finalist in...
AI Forces Brands to Rebuild Marketing Funnels From Scratch
Almost every brand will need to rebuild their marketing funnel from the ground up. Alex Sherman, CEO of @Bluefish_AI, explains how brands are adapting to AI: “Marketers have always split budgets between organic and paid, but AI is forcing a rethink. What’s...
VC Vinod Khosla Says the US Government Could Take 10% Stake in All Public Companies to Soften the Blow of...
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, proposed that the U.S. government acquire a 10% equity stake in every public company and redistribute the proceeds to citizens as a way to share the wealth generated by artificial general intelligence (AGI). He...
OpenAI Pivots to Consumer Glasses and Phones.
Jony Ive is having to eat his words, I learned from an industry leader last night who has inside connections to @OpenAI. Can't disclose who it is, but he says that OpenAI is readying a full court consumer products push...
Human Workers Fuel Next Robot Breakthrough
Robot breakthrough. This is why the 12,000 workers at @Tesla's Fremont Factory are so important. I hear groups of them are training the robots, doing tasks over and over to give its simulator enough data to help it build very advanced...
ARC Prize Seeks Backend Engineer for AGI Evaluation
The ARC Prize foundation is hiring a backend engineer. If you're a builder with a strong track record and you're passionate about our mission of building the best AGI evals possible, please apply ⬇️
I’m Unable to View the Linked Content, so I Can’t Create a Headline.
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Introducing the Future Name for AI-Powered Software
Writing about where AI-powered software is going and I’ve come up with a new name for what we’re all going to end up building. Essay coming later today.
TED2025 Promise Fulfilled: Humanoid Robots Arrive at Home
When I brought 1X to TED2025 they promised something insane - people in the audience would have a humanoid robot in their homes within a year. Now these mad lads are delivering. Huge congrats Bernt, Dar, Eric and team! Order...
Exploring New Control Features in Generative Video Tools
Trying the new “control” features in generative video tools https://t.co/vRDrz0B7zf
Screens Now Track Your Movements in Virtual Worlds
your screen now understands how you move in virtual worlds
Open‑source AI: Essential Foundation, Calls for Global Expansion
Great to see the shoutout from Jensen @nvidia for open-source AI & @huggingface. Open-source is the foundation of AI and we need much more of it in the US & around the world! https://t.co/kFtBAPbqZi
AI Multiplies Impact; Quality Data Determines Success
AI is a multiplier, not a miracle. Your data makes or breaks it.
AI Tools Shift From Research to Infrastructure when Delivering Value
If an AI tool creates motion without movement, it’s research. When it compresses a release cycle, trims spend, or expands revenue, it becomes infrastructure.
Seeking Reliable AI Face‑Swap Solution After Deepfake Setback
Best face swap method in ai right now? Progress got nuked during the deepfake drama and I have about 6 minutes of generated footage with a slightly off face that needs a reliable fix
AI Breakthroughs Imminent; Watch Videos for Insight
I'm hearing the same. That we are in a lull right now and that breakthroughs are coming. I'm uploading two videos with @blevlabs right now. He has one, and there are others. The videos are long, but worthy to see...