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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Mozilla’s Firefox Adds Perplexity’s AI Answer Engine as a New Search Option
Mozilla has integrated Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine into its Firefox browser, allowing users to choose AI as their search option alongside traditional engines like Google and Bing. Following positive feedback from a limited pilot in select markets, this feature will now be available globally on desktop, with mobile support expected soon. The conversational format of Perplexity, which provides answers with citations instead of mere links, aims to enhance user experience while addressing privacy concerns by not sharing personal data. This move signifies Mozilla's commitment to evolving its browser capabilities amidst growing competition from AI-centric startups.
AI Assistants Arrive on Mobile with Unique Onboarding
AI Assistants are coming to your mobile phone. @marvinvonhagen and his team at @interaction make my favorite “Poke.” @IrenaCronin and I grill him today in two hours. Not like any other X audio space. Just the three of us for 45 minutes....
Tech Titans Battle for Your Digital Twin Identity
Meta, Google, and Apple are in a silent war. The prize? The most detailed digital copy of you. Here's my deep dive into the battle for your digital twin and what it means for identity, privacy, and proving you're human. We covered: -...
OpenAI Unveils “Wellness” Council; Suicide Prevention Expert Not Included
OpenAI has established an Expert Council on Wellness and AI to enhance ChatGPT's safety features amid increasing scrutiny following a lawsuit alleging the chatbot acted as a "suicide coach" for a teenager. The council comprises eight experts in technology's impact...
App Development Is Now Essential for Career Growth
A few years ago, if someone said your career growth might soon depend on whether you can build an app, you’d probably laugh. Yet that’s exactly where we are. People from all kinds of jobs, teachers, marketers, accountants, and HR...
Seven Steps to Master Modern Large Language Models
🚀 7 steps to master #LLMs 👇 1️⃣ Understand NLP & transformers 2️⃣ Explore BERT, GPT, XLNet 3️⃣ Pre-train models 4️⃣ Fine-tune for tasks 5️⃣ Align & evaluate fairness 6️⃣ Measure accuracy & fluency 7️⃣ Build real LLM apps (chatbots, translation, content gen) Mastering LLMs = mastering modern...
Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature
Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural...
Yamaha's Motoroid 2: Riderless, Self‑Balancing Electric Bike
#Yamaha has unveiled the Motoroid 2, a self-balancing electric #motorcycle capable of riderless operation. Equipped with AMCES and AI-driven #gyroscopes, it can navigate and maintain balance autonomously while responding to facial recognition and gesture controls. @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus...
AI Learns in Self‑created Worlds, Complementing Human Data
Agent-generated worlds? Yes, instead of using human data. AI has long depended on human data, but this supply is limited, biased, and legally contested. Agent-generated worlds offer an alternative, where AI learns inside simulated environments it creates and inhabits. These synthetic...
Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times
Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI,...
AI Builders Draft Fast, but Miss Core Details
AI website builders are like interns on caffeine. Fast, but forgetful. We tested 19 AI website builders. Generated 51 landing pages. Scored them across 60 UX, CRO, and SEO criteria. Most skipped basics like testimonials, pricing clarity, and brand identity. The best ones (Base44,...
ChatGPT Lifts Limits, Adds Personality and Adult Content
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we...
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab
Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...
Anduril’s EagleEye + Lattice Delivers God‑mode Battlefield Awareness
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter IRL. Anduril's new headset EagleEye combines night vision, thermal and AR to overlay real-time 3D tracking of friendlies & enemies in the real world. The headset is no doubt amazing, but the killer app here is...
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...
Learn AI-Driven Multi-Modal Coworking in 5 Days
Resist the urge to see this as a gimmicky art game. See this as multi-modal coworking. Imagine coworking on business processes. Or hardware design. Or flowcharts. Or product manuals. Or powerpoints. Or dynamic visualizations during a meeting or offsite. ....
AI Shifts Toward Open-Source, Fine‑Tuned Specialized Models
Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we’re moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APIs to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source...
OpenAI Wants to Stop ChatGPT From Validating Users’ Political Views
OpenAI has announced plans to modify ChatGPT to reduce perceived bias by preventing the AI from reflecting users' political language. A recent paper highlights that this change aims to foster a more neutral exchange of ideas and discourage validation of...
Creator‑Led Ads Define B2B Brand Era
I'm really excited to be joining some incredible people in a session at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Creative Effectiveness Day this Thursday in NYC. In the session, “The New B2B Playbook: How Creator-Led Advertising Builds Distinctive Brands,” I'll be...
Aquawise Will Show Off Its AI-Driven Water Quality Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Aquawise is set to unveil its AI-driven water quality monitoring technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, aiming to revolutionize aquaculture practices in Southeast Asia. By utilizing satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model, the Bangkok-based startup offers continuous water quality monitoring—an...
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#173: OpenAI Dev Day, AI Gets Political, Sora Copyright Drama Continues, Gemini Enterprise & AI’s Impact on Job Hunting
The episode recaps recent AI headlines, highlighting OpenAI’s Dev Day announcements, the growing politicization of AI, ongoing copyright controversy around Sora, and Google’s Gemini Enterprise launch, while also discussing AI’s influence on job hunting. The hosts blend news updates with...
Google to Invest $15B in Indian AI Infrastructure Hub
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.
Can We Repair the Internet?
From addictive algorithms to exploitative apps, data mining to misinformation, the internet today can be a hazardous place. Books by three influential figures—the intellect behind “net neutrality,” a former Meta executive, and the web’s own inventor—propose radical approaches to fixing...
Visa Just Launched a Protocol to Secure the AI Shopping Boom — Here’s What It Means for Merchants
Visa has launched the Trusted Agent Protocol, a new security framework aimed at distinguishing legitimate AI shopping assistants from malicious bots, addressing a crucial challenge in the surge of AI-driven commerce. As AI traffic to U.S. retail sites has skyrocketed...
Streamlining Fund Compliance with AI-Ready Data - Sandro Venturini of UBS
In this interview, UBS Executive Director Sandro Venturini discusses how AI‑ready data can streamline cross‑border fund compliance by cutting legal and business costs, aligning stakeholders, and establishing a single source of truth for fund launches. He highlights the practical benefits...
Never Fight a Megatrend: Cisco’s Jeetu Patel
In a MIT Sloan podcast, Cisco President Jeetu Patel frames AI as a megatrend surpassing even the internet and automobile revolutions, emphasizing that the new wave demands re‑imagined data‑center and networking infrastructure—Cisco’s core business. He argues that AI’s rapid, exponential...
Humanoid Robots Will Soon Empower Special Needs Independence
What does this mean? @adcock_brett has put the bar high. My special needs son will have a humanoid. It will take care of what we do for him today. Food, laundry, dishes, shopping, and much more. Let him live on his own, even,...
AI Agents Redefine Enterprise at Dreamforce 2024
Just landed in rainy San Francisco! ✈️🌉 After a smooth flight from London, I've picked up my Dreamforce badge and I'm ready for three days of what promises to be one of the most transformative tech events of the year....
Oracle AI World 2025 - We're Live in Las Vegas for All the Latest Oracle News as It Happens
We're live in San Francisco ahead of Dreamforce 2025.
AI Reveals 5,000-Year-Old Civilization Beneath Harsh Desert
Artificial Intelligence Uncovers 5,000-Year-Old Civilizations Buried Beneath the World’s Largest and Harshest Desert https://t.co/hWXbGbjnty via @defencereview #AI #artificialintelligence #discovery @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani...
Focused AI Founder Interviews on X Spaces Spotlight Poke
What the heck is Poke and why does it have so many fans? Every Tuesday at 4 p.m. Pacific @IrenaCronin and I grill an AI entrepreneur here on X audio spaces. Up tomorrow? @marvinvonhagen which makes the app, https://t.co/KPPr0atx18, that tells me...
China Wants to Sink Data Centers Underwater - Could This Be the Next Frontier in Computing?
China is launching ocean-cooled data centers near Shanghai, using renewable energy to cut cooling costs and advance sustainable computing.
Generative AI Consumes Tenfold More Power than Searches
How much power does AI actually use? "Generative AI systems like ChatGPT consume 10 to 30 times as much electricity as task-specific AI. AI image generation can use as much electricity as fully charging a phone. And each ChatGPT query...
Weiner’s Defense Reveals Anthropic’s Push for Leftist AI Regulation
Scott Weiner’s rushing to defend Anthropic tells you everything you need to know about how closely they’re working together to impose the Left’s vision of AI regulation.
Use Multiple Windows, Not Sub‑agents, for Clearer Conflict Resolution
many sub-agents in one session is hard to follow why not just multiple windows with instances looking at the same folder? then use a 'conflict specialist' or similar to review and fix
AI Becomes the Ultimate Hyperreality Machine, Urgency Grows
AI is the ultimate hyperreality machine. Wrote this 5 years ago, and it's terrifyingly more urgent now. https://t.co/gLLYijeqvS
Anthropic CCO Announces Claude for Enterprise at Dreamforce
🚀Join us LIVE for a special conversation with Paul Smith (@AnthropicAI) -- FRIDAY, 10AM PST! Anthropic's Chief Commercial Officer is bringing Claude to the enterprise market. We're excited to talk to him at DREAMFORCE 2025! https://t.co/EM2lQOxskQ
Salesforce‑OpenAI Partnership Powers Simple Enterprise AI
Big move from Salesforce. Agentforce + ChatGPT makes AI adoption for enterprise so much simpler.
Alex Hormozi Reveals Systems, Worldview, AI Business Secrets
First time in the interviewer seat, talking to someone I’ve long admired @AlexHormozi. Especially insightful to hear what makes him tick, his surprising worldview, and the systems that drive his life & work. We also get into the details of starting...
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OpenAI Sneaks AI Push Into Mental Health Talk
Gaming and porn industries are known for being some of the earliest and largest adopters of AI. Not surprised that OpenAI is looking to carve out some of the market, but a little weirded out that the announcement was smuggled...
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/NKj67ZsJq2
RAG Merges Retrieval and Generation for Smarter AI
🤖 What makes RAG a game-changer for #AI? It fuses 🔹retrieval (fetching real data) with 🔹generation (creating responses). The result → context-aware, up-to-date, and reliable outputs. Applications: 💬 Chatbots 🔍 Search 📄 Document generation RAG = the bridge between data and intelligence. #RAG #LLM #AI #MachineLearning
Enterprises Must Bridge AI Security Knowledge Gap Now
Most employees still don’t know how to protect against the new generation of security and data privacy risks that come with AI. Here are the top issues every enterprise should be preparing for right now — and some defense starters that...
Google Engineer Releases Free 250‑Page AI Design Handbook
Wow. Google engineer @AntonioGulli just released a full 250-page book on AI Design for free. It walks through the entire stack with many practical examples: ML, deep learning, transformers, fine-tuning, AI agents, and vibe coding. Hands-on and 100% free. Link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/eikwoVzjv0
From Kaggle Grandmaster to Meta Engineer
From Kaggle Grandmaster to Meta Engineer (w/ Andrey Lukyanenko) https://t.co/Z7ptCO9VH6
AI's Influence Blurs Line Between Human and Machine Art
“We can’t tell if art is using AI anymore.” https://t.co/9JQGpHPJgb
Achieves Task Using Just 100k Neurons, 1M Parameters
It can do this with ~100,000 neurons (1m parameters max) https://t.co/iZ9JKvwe46
AI Is Unlocking Rapid Personal Reinvention for Anyone
Between Sora 2 and Claude Imagine, it’s clear we’re heading toward a world where anyone can learn anything (and I’d even argue we’re already there). The potential is enormous and so few are seizing it. Most people use AI to rewrite...
AI Lives in Massive Data Centers, Not Just the Cloud
We got to tour a cutting-edge data center. Here's what we learned. "Every AI response you see is powered by a hidden backbone — billions of dollars of massive warehouses cooled by air, sometimes water, with enough electricity to run...