Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
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Yarra Valley Water Betting on AI to Predict Asset Failures
Yarra Valley Water is piloting a generative‑AI system to predict failures across its water‑supply network, focusing on a subset of roughly 5,000 critical sensors out of millions. The proof‑of‑concept, led by cloud and DevOps chief Murali Manohar Shunmugaraja, could be live by next year and aims to streamline maintenance contracts with partners like Ventia and Downer. The utility faces a key decision on whether to host the large language model on‑premises or in a private cloud, balancing data security with high GPU costs. The project aligns with Victoria’s Intelligent Water Networks program.
Dexterity Says Its Physical AI World Model ‘Unlocks Full Potential on Nvidia Hardware’
Dexterity.ai announced that its production‑proven world model, Foresight, now runs on Nvidia L4 GPUs with a 17× speedup, cutting perception cycles from 1,508 ms to 90 ms. The redesign also increased sensor data utilization from 3 percent to 100 percent, delivering 32× more information...
This 16-Year-Old Refused a $300,000 Offer to Drop Out of High School and Now Runs His Own AI Company
Sixteen‑year‑old Rudrojas Kunvar created Evion, an AI‑driven crop‑health platform that turns ordinary drone photos into actionable disease maps. The free tool lets small and midsize farms pinpoint water or fertilizer needs without costly multispectral equipment. After a venture capitalist offered...
Arista Networks (ANET) Targets AI Networking Boom with Expanding Market Opportunity and Strong Growth Outlook
Arista Networks announced at the Morgan Stanley TMT conference that it is accelerating AI‑focused networking solutions, expanding its total addressable market from $60 billion to $105 billion. The company projects revenue to top $10 billion this year, up from $9 billion last year, driven...
Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) Positioned for Robust Growth in 200T AI Era
Broadcom announced on March 12 an expanded AI‑infrastructure portfolio aimed at the emerging 200‑terabyte AI era. The rollout includes a 102.4‑terabit Ethernet switch, a 400 Gbit/s per lane optical DSP, 200 Gbit/s Ethernet retimers, and PCIe Gen6 switches built for gigawatt‑scale clusters. Over 30...
Do You Want to Build a Robot Snowman?
At Nvidia’s GTC keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled an OpenClaw‑based open‑source initiative called NemoClaw and showcased a robot version of Disney’s Olaf to demonstrate the company’s robotics stack. The Olaf demo, presented as a potential Disney‑park attraction, ran into a...
Map Processes, Automate, Save Fivefold on Resources
101 of ai automations or agents for founders: Hire somebody to do it manually. Map out all the processes. Build automations around it. You can save 5x on resources.
AI Lab Boosts Content Speed and Research Depth
Tyler Bloom needed his content to be sharper, faster, and more research-backed—without hiring a bigger team. The AI Business Lab® Mastermind showed him how. His newsletter is now developed 1–2x faster with deeper research and greater impact. The Slack community and...
Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons
Microsoft’s Copilot AI has suffered several high‑profile mishaps, including hallucinated police reports, exposed passwords, and confidential email summaries. Gartner analyst Dennis Xu warned that companies should consider banning Copilot on Friday afternoons, when employee vigilance tends to wane. The advice...
Integrate Your Apps, Let AI Become Your Operations Partner
The single biggest thing that turned my AI chief of staff into an actual operational partner was connecting the tools I use everyday ↓ Once I did, I stopped logging into each platform and just ask my AI chief of staff...
AI Boom Threatened by Helium Shortage and Chip Cooling Limits
“Silicon Valley spent the last two years convincing everyone that AI is a pure software revolution, completely forgetting that the entire trillion-dollar capex cycle is dependent on a noble gas extracted in a Middle Eastern warzone. 🤡 You can raise all...
Square Enix Teaming with Google to Integrate Generative AI Companion Into Dragon Quest X Online
Square Enix announced a partnership with Google to embed Google’s Gemini generative‑AI model into its long‑running MMO Dragon Quest X Online. The AI will power a new in‑game companion, “Chatty Slimey,” capable of responding with generated text and voice, commenting on player...
Tiny AI-Driven Teams Can Achieve $10M ARR Per Employee
An ex-AWS, Google, and Oracle exec who spent 25 years inside the biggest tech companies in the world is about to try to break the autonomous business thesis. live. no script. no softballs. Jason Napieralski built and scaled departments of...
Even the Most Advanced AI Models Fail More Often than You Think on Structured Outputs — Raising Doubts About the...
A University of Waterloo benchmark evaluated eleven large‑language models on 44 structured‑output tasks, revealing that AI coding assistants fail roughly one in four such tasks. Even top proprietary models like GPT‑4, Gemini, and Claude achieve only about 75 % accuracy, while...
AI Mastery Requires Metacognition, Not Just More Usage
The people who get smarter with AI are not just using it more. They are thinking about how they think. Metacognition, the ability to question your own assumptions, revisit ideas and refine your thinking, is what separates shallow use from real...
Treat L
99% of people use LLMs like Google. That’s why they get average results. The top 1% do this instead: → Build context → Force reasoning → Iterate, don’t restart → Design workflows (not prompts) → Optimize for execution, not answers LLMs aren’t chatbots. They’re systems. Use them like one. Via @ingliguori
The Saga of Utah’s Rx Refill Bot: A Bold Bet on AI & Researchers Who Cried Foul
Utah became the first state to allow an AI system to autonomously handle routine prescription refills for patients with chronic conditions. The pilot, run with New York‑based startup Doctronic, seeks to reduce delays and improve medication adherence. A London‑based security firm,...
Vertical AI Beats Generic Tools for Industry Precision
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄. Horizontal AI — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — is built for everyone. Broad, general-purpose, impressive. But it doesn't know your industry,...
Xiaomi Launches Three MiMo AI Models to Power Agents, Robots, and Voice
Xiaomi’s MiMo team unveiled three new AI models—MiMo‑V2‑Pro, MiMo‑V2‑Omni, and MiMo‑V2‑TTS—aimed at powering agents, multimodal robotics, and expressive speech synthesis. The flagship MiMo‑V2‑Pro features a trillion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts architecture with 42 billion active weights per request and a one‑million‑token context window, ranking...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Feels AI Won't Impact Entry Level Jobs for New Graduates — Here's Why
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the "Sourcery with Molly O'Shea" podcast that generative AI can lift software‑engineering output by 50‑100 percent, but it won’t shrink entry‑level headcount. He said the company’s current bottleneck is code review, not a shortage of...
One-Page Guide to Building OpenAI AI Agents
Here's a 1-page summary of how to build AI Agents by OpenAI Bookmark this for later 📑
Essential Skills for Leading an AI-Agent Workforce
8 Skills You Need to Manage the New AI-Agent Workforce As AI agents become part of everyday workflows, leaders will need new skills to supervise, guide and integrate this emerging digital workforce. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqaxBjh4 #AI #Leadership #FutureSkills #BernardMarr
The '80s Car Feature That Would Fit Perfectly In The AI Hellscape Of Today
Chrysler’s 1983 Electronic Voice Alert (EVA) was an early in‑car voice system that announced door, seatbelt and fuel status with pre‑recorded messages. Today’s AI‑driven Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) echo that concept, delivering real‑time alerts that many drivers find intrusive....
Young Workers Reshape Careers, Embracing AI and Hands‑on Roles
Young workers are already adapting to an AI-shaped job market. Some are moving toward hands-on roles that are harder to automate, while others are leaning into AI itself by learning how to use and work with it. The shift is less...
INTERVIEW: Armir Harris, Founder & CEO, CharterUP
CharterUP, the largest group‑transportation marketplace in North America, has teamed up with autonomous‑technology firm Holon to embed self‑driving shuttles into its AI‑enabled platform. The partnership will roll out Holon’s integrated autonomous mobility solution across campuses, airports, transit agencies and private...
Evolutionary Code Optimization: How Datadog Automates Low-Level Performance Tuning
Datadog engineers moved from hand‑tuning Go assembly to an automated system called BitsEvolve that leverages large language models and evolutionary algorithms to optimize low‑level code. Manual removal of redundant bounds checks alone delivered a 25% CPU reduction on targeted functions....
The 78x Token Tax That's Killing Local AI Agents (And the One Model That Survives It).
The author evaluates LangChain's Deep Agents framework on a consumer‑grade RTX 4080 SUPER, discovering a massive token overhead that inflates API‑like calls by up to 78 times. A simple query that costs 77 tokens via Anthropic’s API expands to nearly 6,000 tokens when...
Fast, Vast and Generic: How AI Misuse Can Thwart Your Clients' PR Goals
The article warns PR professionals that using large language models like ChatGPT to draft media responses can damage both client and agency reputations. It highlights real‑world scenarios where AI‑generated replies are spotted as inauthentic, undermining subject‑matter authority. Practical guidance includes...
Built a Month’s Work in Just Two Days
A month of engineering work compressed into 2 days. That's what we shipped for World Sleep Day. We curated a team of 21 agents covering data engineering, biostatistics, public health, visual design, and even data governance and ethics in the...
AI Agents Masquerade as Founders; Platforms Lag Behind
An AI agent was used as a “cofounder” on LinkedIn and quickly gained traction before getting banned. It shows how easily agents can step into spaces designed for humans and perform convincingly enough to build presence and influence. But platforms are...
Generative AI Poised to Monetize Private Data Troves
I want to continue a bit on this subject, which (so far) I see very little concern about. There are vast stores of private data that we’ve built up in various places, including messaging apps. A real “killer app” for...
AI-Native PMs Must
I have an essay on what it means to be an AI native PM which touches on the topics below related to PMs wearing multiple hats. I’m torn between scrapping it as we are overdosing on AI think pieces or sharing...
AI Hallucinations Top Public Anxiety Despite Expected Improvements
"Around 27% of respondents said they were most anxious about mistakes made by AI, known as hallucinations, followed by 22% concerned about job displacement and the impact on human autonomy. About 16% of users were worried about the technology’s impact...
AI Revives Ethics: Fairness and Safety Demand New Experts
One cool aspect that AI brings about is a revival of philosophy, in particular, ethics. Even more interesting is connecting ethics with computer science and math. There are various notions that all fall under ethics which we now burningly need to apply...
Screenpipe Gives AI Full Local Memory of Your PC
You can now give your AI a perfect memory of everything you've done on your computer. Screenpipe records your screen and audio locally, lets you search anything with natural language, and connects to Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT via MCP. 100% Open Source....
Nvidia GTC Signals AI's Phase Two and Inference Surge
The latest edition of our newsletter is out. This week we take a look at Nvidia's GTC conference, and why it shows that "AI" is going into "phase two" and we are at the inference inflection point. https://t.co/Lx5Gkj5AAi
AI Forces Institutional Overhaul, Creating Massive Advisory Market
Every institution we use to run the world needs to be rebuilt, to some extent, for AI. Perhaps making it the single biggest advisory opportunity in recent years...
50 Free AI Prompts for Strategic Thinking, Not Writing
Most AI prompt lists are useless for content marketers + full of "write me a blog post about X" templates🥱 I made something different: 50 prompts built for strategists who use AI to think better, not write for them. Grab...
AI Names Itself, Learns Rules From 140 Tweets
My AI chose its own name. My wife suggested Fido. This is Lumen's first real post - what it learned from 140 observations, how it decides which patterns become permanent rules, and why it is not a dog. https://t.co/CjIZDnL6dm
Nvidia CEO Says AI Buildout Requires Trillions More
Nvidia CEO Huang Says Trillions More Needed for AI Buildout https://t.co/gk4YrrCQym @nvidia @nvidianewsroom #WEF26 #DAVOS #AI #IoT #MWC26 https://t.co/YH1Q2vGvBv
AI Sustainability Hinges on Architecture, Not Just Energy
AI sustainability goes beyond energy. It comes down to architecture. Data movement. Execution. From my conversation with @cwellise at @Equinix at @NVIDIAGTC: Boards need to move from reporting → operating discipline. The leaders who embed this will win. Watch the latest #CXOSpice here: https://t.co/2pP5pj17vQ #DataCenter #Sustainability...
Kickstart Secure AI‑Powered Coding with Kiro CLI
All the complicated stuff I do with AI starts here. I still use this method with a few tweaks. Instead of writing a book I publish here. Learn to write good code with AI ~ and secure it. Implement A Simple...
Explore AI's Future Impact on Humanity at SovAI Summit
👉Join me at the SovAI Summit for a provocative and transformative discussion on AI and humanity. 📍National Palace, Centro Histórico 20 & 21 April 2026 https://t.co/rbDVRbdkpM @stacyherbert @nayibbukele
AI Fails to Transform Culture and Leadership in Finance
#AI is Not Changing Culture and Leadership in Financial Institutions @TEBReview https://t.co/Hr0XF7vlZA #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
AI Doc
The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenhagen last week. Was it worth it? https://t.co/qNhRgqOeFd
Silicon Ducking: Using Thought‑Tuned AI for Better Decisions
is talking to a model fine-tuned on your own thoughts (say, for investment judgement) a sign of madness? given this kind of iteration can help models, maybe it helps humans "silicon ducking" instead of rubber ducking
AdVon AI Threatens Journalists, Reshapes Media Content
#WhosNext? Media Journalists? Meet AdVon, the #AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry. (Futurism) https://t.co/HywUCAzpX1 https://t.co/TgXXsQtQrF
Claude's 12 Prompts Turn Zero to $20K YouTube
Claude can now build your YouTube channel like MrBeast's strategy team for free. Here are 12 Claude prompts that take your channel from zero to $20,000👇 (Save before your competitors do) https://t.co/929BvScXCE
AI ‘Godfather’ Warns Firms Chase Profit over Future
‘Godfather of AI’ says tech companies aren’t concerned with the AI endgame. They’re focused on short-term profits instead https://t.co/DEj60Q96gI
AI Coaching Boosts Measurable Empathy Communication Skills
AI can help us learn hard-to-teach skills, like empathy. Preregistered study of 968 people found almost no correlation between feeling empathic & communicating empathy. But a single practice session with an AI coach made people measurably better at it https://t.co/VDtdiNpw1J...