Today's AI Pulse
Google Cloud launches Agentic Data Cloud to power autonomous AI agents
At Cloud Next 2026, Google Cloud introduced the Agentic Data Cloud, a platform that converts static data warehouses into a dynamic reasoning engine for autonomous AI agents. The offering bundles a universal context engine, agent‑first developer tools, and a cross‑cloud lakehouse that unifies data across Google, AWS and Azure, with new components such as the Knowledge Catalog and BigQuery extensions.
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Salesforce Announces Agentforce 360 as Enterprise AI Competition Heats Up
Salesforce announces an upgraded version of its Agentforce platform designed to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents.
Slack Is Turning Slackbot Into an AI Assistant
Slack is testing an update for Slackbot that transforms it into an AI assistant. Presently, it operates as a tool for delivering reminders and notifications. With the update, Slackbot can create custom plans tailored to your workspace, sift through a...
Anduril’s New EagleEye MR Helmet Sees Palmer Luckey Return to His VR Roots
Anduril Industries has unveiled its new EagleEye MR helmet, marking a significant return to virtual reality for co-founder Palmer Luckey. This advanced mixed reality headset is designed for military applications, integrating augmented and virtual reality capabilities to enhance situational awareness...
Rude Prompts Boost GPT-4 Accuracy, Politeness Hurts
Being rude to AI actually makes it smarter! A new study, “Mind Your Tone”, tested how prompt politeness affects GPT-4-based models. The result: very rude prompts scored 84.8%, while very polite ones dropped to 80.8%. Statistical tests confirmed it’s not random. Politeness consistently...
AI's Self‑Fueling Loop: Compute, Demand, Investment
The AI money loop! @Nvidia feeds compute, and invests $100B straight into OpenAI. @OpenAI, valued at $500B, powers growth through $300B in Oracle cloud and AMD GPU scale-ups. @Microsoft, @CoreWeave, @Intel, and @NebiusAI expand reach. @xAI, @Mistral, and Figure AI close the loop through...
From Tool Sprawl to Defensible Value in AI for Legal - with Christo Siebrits of AbbVie
In this podcast episode, Christo Siebrits, AbbVie’s senior associate and general counsel, explains how legal teams can transition from a chaotic array of AI tools to a defensible, value‑driven AI strategy. He emphasizes safe generative‑AI adoption through human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, careful...
2026’s Top Five Tech Trends Shaping Business
Thank you for reading my latest article The Top 5 Technology Trends For 2026. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join my network by clicking 'Follow'....
Breaking the Bottleneck: Why AI Demands an SSD-First Future
Presented by Solidigm As AI adoption surges, data centers face a critical bottleneck in storage — and traditional HDDs are at the center of it. Data that once sat idle as cold archives is now being pulled into frequent use to...
Your Standards, Not AI, Determine Output Quality
AI doesn’t care about the quality of your work unless you do. Most people drop in a prompt and expect miracles. But the output never rises above the discipline of the person using it. If you accept average, so will your tools....
Speak, Let AI Polish: Faster, Cleaner Writing
I was so honored when @RandyWKirk1 asked me to write the foreword of a book he, and a bunch of other AI luminaries is writing. I turned it in this morning and he wrote back "Huge thanks Robert. That was...
👾 LLMs Create Token... Humans Create Value
Why human insight, judgment, and creativity remain the ultimate edge in an AI-driven, token-generating world.
Bought a $499 Virtual Dog, Feeling Stupid
On vacation I thought of one startup more than any other: @IllusionOfLife. I hear I'll be one of the first to get its product: a virtual dog. No other company has caused me so much anxiety before getting its product in...
Add .md to URLs for Instant Markdown Access
cool new feature from huggingface. appending ".md" to any docs url will now give you the markdown which can be used as context for your favorite llm or more 🚀 https://t.co/BlRVWjRp4R
Nvidia’s AI Empire: A Look at Its Top Startup Investments
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.
OpenAI Releases Free Prompt Packs for Every Role
OpenAI just dropped `Prompt Packs` ↳ 300+ curated prompts ↳ 12+ departments (IT, HR, Sales, Product, CS…) ↳ 25 per role Adapt them with your KPIs & product context for better results! 🔥 100% free. Link to the packs in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/SBWAfWfpG3
Self‑Driving Tech Already Outdrives Human Drivers
Autonomous vehicles are passing humans in capabilities. And they are way way way smoother at driving than you are. And if you think that is not a true statement it will be by the middle of next year for sure.
Strange AI-Generated Clips of Musicians with Animals Are Going Viral
It's fake. And odd. If nothing else, generative AI has proven useful for people who want to make odd stuff for no real reason. The latest thing? Musicians accompanied by animals. Accompanied in the official, musical sense, and also in an even...
Balancing AI Optimism with Cautious Fear in Personal Essay
Gosh I hope none of my overly raw, very personal, and emotional essay about my relationship to AI, called "Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear" gets misinterpreted! (Comes out tomorrow AM ET in Import AI). https://t.co/aovFZqjxpg
AI Still in BlackBerry Era, Human Review Crucial
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: Wade Foster (@wadefoster), CEO of @zapier, on AI's "iPhone moment." "We're kind of in the BlackBerry era of AI agents. There's a lot of work to get us to that iPhone moment." "Middle to middle is a...
When Dirt Meets Data: ScottsMiracle-Gro Saved $150M Using AI
How a semiconductor veteran turned over a century of horticultural wisdom into AI-led competitive advantage For decades, a ritual played out across ScottsMiracle-Gro’s media facilities. Every few weeks, workers walked acres of towering compost and wood chip piles with nothing more...
From Months to Weeks: IBM Cuts AI Rollout Time
8 years ago: Implementing a chatbot took months. Our PhD data scientist would wait hours for each data cycle. Moving from concept to production felt like an eternity. Today: NDS Cognitive Labs delivers AI proof of concepts in 2 weeks. That's the...
Agentic Context Engineering Boosts AI Performance Without Fine‑Tuning
🚨 BREAKING: @Stanford just proved you don’t need to fine-tune an AI model to make it smarter 🧠 ACE = Agentic Context Engineering ↳ Model writes, reflects & edits its own prompts ↳ Learns from wins and failures ↳ +10.6% over GPT-4 agents w/...
From SDRs to Smart Systems: Harrison Wade on the Future of AI-Driven Sales
In this episode, Harrison Wade, co‑founder of Succession Bio, discusses how AI can transform sales and marketing in the life‑sciences sector, emphasizing that AI is not a shortcut but a tool that requires deep context, human creativity, and a new...
AI+, Connected Industries Drive Smarter, Secure Enterprise Networks
👉 These themes - AI+, Connected Industries, and Connected Enablers - speak directly to the questions every enterprise leader is asking. #MWC25 Las Vegas #AI #5G #IoT #AgenticAI @MWCHub @CTIA @GSMA https://t.co/st3b04wHGj
Stanford's BLAST Gives LLMs Lightning‑Fast Web Browsing
Bring web browsing to your AI stack, without the latency. @Stanford just dropped BLAST, a high-performance engine that lets LLMs browse, extract & stream the web fast ⚡ ↳ OpenAI-compatible interface ↳ Automatic parallelism + caching ↳ Real-time streaming Free repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/xTUtwgITv2
More Thinking. Worse Results. Wait, What?
From face recognition to grammar learning, both humans and models perform better when they don’t reason step-by-step. Here’s the paradox.
MIT Tool Lets You Visualize and Edit Impossible Objects
MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects https://t.co/0lHT0TIJ9m @MIT #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/uYLG8MyYK6
Reachy Mini Wins TIME’s Best Invention, Targets Million Units
So proud to see Reachy Mini named one of the Best Inventions of 2025 by @TIME! Huge credit to the @pollenrobotics and @huggingface teams, turning a concept into thousands of units sold and shipped in under 6 months. We might not be...
Weaponized AI Can Dismantle Patches in 72 Hours — but Ivanti's Kernel Defense Can Help
Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to explore a victim’s network, exfiltrate data, install ransomware...
Free AI Courses From Leading Tech Companies and Universities
Here are free AI classes you can take online from top tech firms, universities https://t.co/ibbAfx1Jqf #AI #IoT #5G @FortuneMagazine https://t.co/IKQmuIU2SZ
India’s AI Surge Vital for Global Future
Today I met with PM @narendramodi to discuss Anthropic's expansion to India—where Claude Code use is up 5× since June. How India deploys AI across critical sectors like education, healthcare, and agriculture for over a billion people will be essential...
OpenAI No Longer Forced to Save Deleted Chats—But some Users Still Affected
Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.
Microsoft’s Free MCP Course Unlocks Production AI Agents
Microsoft quietly dropped a free MCP course, and it’s a total goldmine for anyone building AI agents! 🔥 11 deep-dive lessons showing you how to actually build and deploy production-grade MCP agents. 100% free on YouTube. Links in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/Ant18ruDgu
New Prompt Beats AI Detectors, Produces Human‑Like Text
This guy literally made a system prompt that outsmarts all AI-detectors. Everything it writes sounds perfectly humanized. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/pxGfI6Rwc8
🧑🚀 2025 Best Inventions, LLM Backdoors & Nano Banana Camera
Best Inventions of 2025, LLM backdoor risks, Nano Banana camera, Google’s Gemini AI agents, and Microsoft’s record-breaking GB300 supercluster.
ChatGPT Connectors Signal Upcoming Hardware Product
The ChatGPT connectors are just so clearly for the eventual hardware product. https://t.co/BYEPuaMlyL
AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Brings Trusted Personalized Healthcare Everywhere
Is the future of healthcare ready to GO with you—anywhere, anytime? At @IBM TechXchange, I spoke with Michelle Barry, CEO of @LifeHealth_4W, to discuss their groundbreaking partnership bringing VIMA to life. @LifeHealth_4W 's vision for personalized healthcare + @IBMwatsonx's enterprise-grade AI and security...
Copilot on Windows Can Now Create Office Documents and Connect to Gmail
Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a...
Speculating on U.S. Government Buying 10% of OpenAI
What are the odds that the US government takes a 10% stake on @OpenAI https://t.co/heI3WJLr48
Will Updating Your AI Agents Help or Hamper Their Performance? Raindrop's New Tool Experiments Tells You
It seems like almost every week for the last two years since ChatGPT launched, new large language models (LLMs) from rival labs or from OpenAI itself have been released. Enterprises are hard pressed to keep up with the massive pace...
New Prompt Unlocks Sora 2’s Mind‑Blowing Video Creation
This guy literally built a system prompt that makes Sora 2 create mind-blowing videos. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/35IQncf2Ay
Enabling Strategic Procurement with AI, From Frustration to Foresight - with Rob DeSantis of Arkestro
The post highlights a podcast episode where Rob DeSantis of Arkestro explains how AI can shift procurement from a risk‑averse, tool‑limited function to a strategic, foresight‑driven capability, delivering 20‑30% cost savings that directly boost earnings per share. He argues that...
Connecting the Dots Across Discovery - with Ben Ninio of Deloitte
In this AI in Business podcast episode, Ben Ninio of Deloitte explains how enterprises are reshaping scientific discovery by using language as a unifying "hack" across R&D fields such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemistry. He shows how large language...
What Did OpenAI Announce at DevDay? Apps SDK, MCP UI & Impact to SaaS - EP99.20-APPS
In this episode of the "Day in AI" podcast, hosts Michael and Chris break down OpenAI’s DevDay announcements, highlighting the new Apps SDK, the MCP UI overhaul, and what these changes could mean for SaaS developers. They weave humor and...
Nvidia Researchers Boost LLMs Reasoning Skills by Getting Them to 'Think' During Pre-Training
Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates RL into the initial training phase rather than saving it for...
Small Startup Tops Hugging Face, Proving Open‑Source Equality
Refreshing to see @neuphonicspeech, a London-based seed startup that raised just a few million, top the most trending models on @huggingface today. They manage to stand out amongst 2M public models & giant corporations from the US and China. Good example...
Master 12 Essential AI Skills for 2025 Business Success
🚀 The 12 AI skills to master in 2025 go beyond prompt engineering: ⚡ Workflow automation ⚡ AI agents & multimodal AI ⚡ RAG & fine-tuning assistants ⚡ AI video generation ⚡ SaaS dev & LLM management 👉 AI isn’t optional — it’s a core business...
OpenAI’s Sora Has Already Hit More than 1 Million Downloads
OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did...
AI-Powered Bioacoustics Boost Endangered Species Conservation
How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species https://t.co/2NWjsbUxbs #ai #sustainability #IoT https://t.co/vaMWUg57Pf
Amazon Launches Quick Suite: Secure AI Agents for Enterprises
Amazon just dropped Quick Suite, an agentic AI platform for enterprise ecosystems. Agents can analyze data, summarize insights, and act across Slack, AWS, Salesforce, with full security and privacy! 🔥 Looks super promising. https://t.co/Gov6GSq4cB