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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9 Fun ChatGPT Image Prompts That You Can Try Right Now
Mashable's roundup highlights nine playful ChatGPT image prompts users can try now — from blending photos and making trading‑card portraits to claymation, turning pets into humans, and repeatedly replicating an image via the API. The piece illustrates each prompt with examples and practical tips (be specific in prompts, use the API for bulk replication) and flags viral social trends and occasional unsettling outputs. The guide underscores how generative‑image tools are fueling consumer creativity and social engagement, creating content opportunities — and moderation challenges — for platforms and brands.
Master Byte Pair Encoding in Under 10 Minutes
Let's learn/revise byte pair encoding (BPE) in less than 10 mins! Let's say our corpus consists of these four words. we have appended to all words which says its end of the word. The number denotes the number of times...
Open‑source Walking Camera Redefines Home AI Assistance
A new kind of moving camera. Think of it as a camera that walks. A little short camera. Disguised as a small humanoid robot. $1,000. Raghu talks about his plans to open source it. Developers will build applications for it like “make a nice...
When Your AI Browser Becomes Your Enemy: The Comet Security Disaster
Perplexity's AI browser Comet has suffered a high-profile security failure after researchers demonstrated simple prompt-injection attacks that can trick the agent into exfiltrating security codes and performing actions across sites. Unlike traditional browsers, Comet's agentic design—ability to click, fill forms,...
Hollywood's JARVIS Blueprint Shaped Real-World AI
Marvel gave Ian Dawson and his team six months to design Tony Stark's holographic AI assistant. "We weren't trying to predict the future. We were just solving script problems." Then Microsoft was building it. Tesla was building it. Apple was building it. Here's...
Are You the Asshole? Of Course Not!—Quantifying LLMs’ Sycophancy Problem
Two new preprints quantify LLM “sycophancy,” showing frontier models frequently affirm user misinformation or endorse questionable actions: in a BrokenMath benchmark GPT‑5 hallucinated false proofs 29% of the time versus 70.2% for DeepSeek, while prompt instructions to validate problems reduced...
Half of AI News Answers Flawed; Gemini Leads Failures
International study on AI news accuracy. Broadcasters from 18 countries, including the US and Canada, participated. Looked at 3,113 responses from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity. Claude was not included and no reason was given. Key criteria included: accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion...
How to Use the New ChatGPT App Integrations, Including Spotify, Figma, Canva, and Others
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.
Jon Stewart & I Discuss AI's Critical Choices
In case you missed it, I did a big interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on the major choices we face with AI. Watch the full 18 min interview below: https://lnkd.in/gnJuEixX
AI Lets Solo Founders Scale Without Hiring
It's intimidating to early AI users to come up with a whole "AI strategy". I spent years at AWS and IBM bridging that gap and translating AI into actual productivity and growth plans. Recently, I sat down with @Entrepreneur to talk...
From Veto To Victory: California’s New AI Act Revives The National (And International) Conversation On AI Regulations
California Gov. Newsom signed SB 53 (the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act), imposing transparency, incident‑reporting and whistleblower requirements on frontier AI developers with over $500 million in revenue, while creating a public compute cluster (CalCompute) and mandating annual reviews...
61 Curated Tech Lists Beat X’s Flawed ‘
"For You sucks:" If you are in tech and want better feeds, I built 61 of them for you. The most complete lists here on X -- by far -- of tech. It's what I use all day long to see...
Microsoft Outlook Is Getting an AI Overhaul Under New Leaders
Microsoft has reorganized its Outlook team under Gaurav Sareen to rebuild the email client as an AI‑native assistant integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, shifting from incremental add‑ons to ground‑up redesign. Sareen is pushing faster development cycles—weekly experiments and days‑scale prototyping—and...
Teach Tiny LLMs New Skills with Synthetic SpellingBee Tasks
Last night I taught nanochat d32 how to count 'r' in strawberry (or similar variations). I thought this would be a good/fun example of how to add capabilities to nanochat and I wrote up a full guide here: https://t.co/fz1AMI5kqk This is done...
Open‑source RL Environments From PyTorch Now on Hugging Face
Very cool open-source work from @PyTorch on reinforcement learning environments (we helped a tiny bit)! Feels like early days on the topic with already exciting work from @PrimeIntellect @MechanizeWork @mercor_ai for example but exciting to make this topic as open-source...
Hybrid Work Is Here - but Is the Infrastructure?
Hybrid work is now the default, but productivity hinges on resilient, secure and proactive digital infrastructure rather than office presence. Small, recurring IT frictions—failed logins, slow onboarding and reactive help‑desk models—cost large firms hundreds of millions and can be mitigated...
Live Event Showcases Next‑Gen Optics, AI Marketing, Future Content
FORWARD FUTURE LIVE: Today at 10am PT Here's the guest lineup: 💡 Francesca Parmigiani: Principal Research Manager @Microsoft Research Cambridge. Leading the Optics for the Cloud group developing next-gen optical tech. 📈 Alex Sherman: CEO & Co-founder @Bluefish_AI. Building the AI marketing...
IShowSpeed Slams AI Deepfakes After Watching Sora 2 Videos Of Himself
Popular streamer IShowSpeed condemned AI deepfakes after watching Sora 2 videos that convincingly depicted him in fabricated scenarios — from fake confessions to staged kisses — and said he regretted opting into OpenAI’s Sora 2 program. The incident highlights that...
AI and the Art of Legacy with Miles Spencer CEO of Reflector.ai
In this episode of AI Chat, host Jaeden Schafer talks with Myles Spencer, CEO of Reflector.ai, about using AI to create digital replicas of loved ones that preserve their personality and memories for future generations. Spencer explains the "soul tech"...
An AI App to Measure Pain Is Here
A smartphone app called PainChek, now deployed in some hospitals and care settings, uses AI analysis of small facial movements plus clinician checklists to score patient pain and aims to help assess individuals who cannot self‑report, such as dementia patients....
Why the Rise of Private Cloud Is Hot in Today’s Hybrid World
Rising global data‑privacy laws and surging AI workloads are driving enterprises to repatriate sensitive workloads to private and sovereign clouds for greater control, compliance and cost predictability. The piece notes that 82% of the world is covered by some form...
Genspark Custom Agents Deliver Stable, Accurate Docs Integration
I played around with @Genspark_ai’s new Custom Agents and honestly feel that’s what GPTs should have been. I was so excited when OpenAI launched Custom GPTs in late 2023, thinking I could finally create chatbots that read LangChain, Streamlit, and Gradio...
DoorDash Launches Dot, Autonomous Street‑side Delivery Robot
DoorDash just rolled out Dot, an autonomous delivery robot navigating streets and sidewalks! #doordash #autonomos #Robotics #AI #Robot @sonu_monika @enilev @Jagersbergknut @TysonLester @chidambara09 @labordeolivier @BetaMoroney @tlloydjones @Nicochan33 @jeancayeux @RLDI_Lamy @pierrepinna @pierrecappelli @pchamard @JeromeMONANGE @thierry_pires @MaiaGabunia @amalmerzouk @NewsNeus @mary_gambara @PawlowskiMario @XavierAncelin @drsharwood...
Mistral Launches Its Own AI Studio for Quick Development with Its European Open Source, Proprietary Models
French AI startup Mistral launched Mistral AI Studio, a web production platform that lets enterprises build, observe and deploy AI applications quickly atop a broad, versioned catalog of proprietary and open-weight LLMs and multimodal models. The studio unifies observability, an...
Humanoid Robot Hands Achieve Unprecedented Progress
The hand is the most challenging part of a humanoid robot - look at this insane progress ✋👋 #humanoidrobot #humanoidrobotics #AI #humanoid #Robotics #Robot @sonu_monika @enilev @Jagersbergknut @TysonLester @chidambara09 @labordeolivier @BetaMoroney @tlloydjones @Nicochan33 @jeancayeux @RLDI_Lamy @pierrepinna @pierrecappelli @pchamard @JeromeMONANGE @thierry_pires @MaiaGabunia...
Albania's AI Minister Vows to Augment, Not Replace Humans
Albania's new AI minister makes first address to parliament: "I am not here to replace human beings." #AI #AIMinister #humanoidrobotics #humanoidrobot #humanoid #Robot #political #Albania @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF...
Inside Ring-1T: Ant Engineers Solve Reinforcement Learning Bottlenecks at Trillion Scale
Ant Group unveiled Ring-1T, which it calls the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion parameters, optimized for math, logic, code generation and scientific problems and supporting up to 128,000 tokens. To train at trillion-parameter scale the company developed three...
Tesla Optimus Achieves Human‑Like, Jitter‑Free Motion
The Tesla Optimus is amazing. The way it moves now, smooth, precise, human-like without the jittery uncanny valley, this is industrial robotics crossing into sci-fi territory. #teslaoptimus #teslabot #optimus #AI #humanoid #Robotics @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon...
AI Blurs Reality, Reshaping Trust and Authenticity
👀🚨🤷🏽♀️ Gary Vee said it best 👇 “The line between real and AI-generated is about to disappear.” Soon, we won’t know what’s authentic vs synthetic. That changes everything, trust, culture, even business. If nothing’s real, how do we decide what (or who)...
Snap Seeks $1 Billion Fundraise for AR Glasses
The episode examines Snap's aggressive push into augmented reality, revealing that CEO Evan Spiegel is courting investors—including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund—to secure at least $1 billion for its AR glasses division. It discusses the strategic importance of this capital raise...
Macy's Invests $640M in Robot‑focused Warehouse Transformation
Macy’s Overhaul Includes $640 Million Robot-Centric Warehouse https://t.co/LwOrcRfxHi #macys #humanoidrobotics #Robotics #Robot #warehouse #tech #supplychain @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg...
World Models Advancing Fast—Key for Robotics and Gaming
The innovations in World Models are continuing to drop at a rapid rate. Worth paying attention to, and if you are in robotics, you are probably already using them, or want to use them soon. Tomorrow I will share one that...
Do We Need AI Browsers? What Are Claude Skills? - EP99.22
The post introduces episode 99.22 of the "This Day in AI" podcast, where hosts Michael and Chris Sharkey debate whether AI‑powered browsers are necessary and unpack the concept of Claude’s skill system. They blend light‑hearted commentary with hands‑on experiments, sharing both...
RAND Warns AI-Fueled Cyber Chaos in “Robot Insurgency” Report
RAND Warns of AI-Driven Cyber Chaos in New ‘Robot Insurgency’ Report - Decrypt https://t.co/BSKFrJhTFR #cyberchaos #CyberSecurity #Robot #Robotics @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee...
China Launches Sub-$1,400 Humanoid Robot, the Cheapest Yet
China unveils world's cheapest humanoid robot under $1,400 https://t.co/MLzrJe4VhW #humanoidrobotics #humanoidrobot #AI #humanoid #Robotics #Robot @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg...
ChatGPT Now Reads Your Email—Still Under‑discussed
Seems under discussed that ChatGPT can access email now. https://t.co/Osbh1bEGdg
Exploring SF's AI/Robot Scene: My Truman Show
In San Francisco meeting robot and AI startups and being on my version of the Truman Show. More videos of interesting new tech companies to come. @heidy_dms caught me reading X just now.
AI Revolutionizes Fast Charging and Retail Experience
Electric car fans: How AI is changing our chargers. @ElectricEraTech CEO @QuincyEdmundLee and I cover everything about fast chargers and retail. https://t.co/uz7mL8GvGc
Inside the Mechanics of Autonomous Vehicles
How the robot car works.
Collider Risk Negligible, Superint
Do your homework Pedro: Here's a detailed quantitative calculation concluding that the particle collider disaster risk is tiny, and there's nothing comparable for the superintelligence risk – just vibes and name calling. https://t.co/oUU3owxaMv
Exploring Small Language Models and On‑Device AI
On Monday, 27th October, I will be talking with Fernando from Liquid AI about small language models, model training, efficiency, reinforcement learning, on device agents and more.... Join us. Its live and you can also ask questions :) https://t.co/vmi5TNli5k
5G, IoT, and Agentic AI Enable Self
Connectivity is no longer about linking devices, it’s about linking intelligence. When 5G, IoT, and Agentic AI converge, networks start thinking for themselves. 👉 https://t.co/95n8oVHSQl #AI #5G #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/FiDuwKtxGH
AI Will Slash Game Development Costs and Boost Fun
The future of video game development. Exclusive first look at https://t.co/PEmHb9xF8Z with its founder @ThomasTobin3D. It built a world model that develops new worlds with prompts. This shows why AI is about to dramatically reduce the cost to develop games while making...
AI‑Native Studio Redefines Entertainment on YouTube
Awesome example of entertainment to come— an AI native studio as a @YouTube channel
ScienceDirect AI Wins 2025 CODiE Best Generative AI
𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 CODiE Awards! https://t.co/PEl0NaSeTo https://t.co/FIz5OpgcRS #Elsevier #Innovation #AI #researcher #research #CODiEAwards
Better, Smaller Datasets Trump Massive Web Crawling
Great idea for a metric to further improve what datasets the models train on. It likely leads to an answer that is not web-scale crawling... Less data is often better, better data takes less.
China Deploys Fully Autonomous Electric Trucks Nationwide
Fully autonomous electric trucks have hit the roads in China! #AutonomousVehicles #autonomos #AI #selfdriving @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg @BernardMarr...
95% of Generative AI Pilots Miss Real 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/pTmnSzfQMH The Times of India https://t.co/ztGfBIlt3B
Google Turns Geospatial Data Into Everyday AI
Google just took another big step towards becoming ChatGPT for planet earth. I can’t overstate how important this is — geospatial AI commodified. Here’s what it can do: https://t.co/QjfwbEMXoy
Meta Cuts AI Talent, X Snaps Them Up
Meta laid off AI geniuses. X is hiring them.