Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic fixes three missteps that briefly dulled Claude Code
Anthropic disclosed three separate changes that temporarily reduced Claude Code's performance and restored the model by April 20. A March 4 switch lowered the default reasoning effort from high to medium, which was reverted on April 7, and a March 26 cache‑clearing bug erased session context, causing forgetfulness and higher token usage until fixed. The issues were fully resolved by April 20.
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By the numbers: Tesla to acquire AI‑hardware firm for up to $2B
The Best Doorbell Cameras
The Verge recommends Google’s Nest Doorbell (wired) as the best overall video doorbell, praising its 960×1280 video, 145° field of view, 24/7 recording capability and free smart person/package/vehicle alerts, with a retail price of $179.99. Key caveats: local storage only provides three free hours and full recorded history or advanced AI features require Google Home Premium subscriptions ($10/mo standard or $20/mo for 24/7). For battery-powered use, the report highlights Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus as a strong alternative (about $149–$150) but notes roughly two-month battery life without power-saving modes. The guidance reinforces Google’s advantage in integration and package protection while underscoring recurring subscription revenue and ecosystem lock-in as important factors for buyers and the smart-home market.
Orb Device Offers Iris‑Based Proof of Humanity Online
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “I believe from your sense of humor that you’re human, but I have no way to know that’s true.” Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig) says Tools for Humanity (@tfh_technology), founded by Alex Blania (@alexblania) and Sam Altman (@sama), is...
When Sycophancy and Bias Meet Medicine
The White House’s new “Make America Healthy Again” report was found to include fabricated citations, highlighting persistent AI failures—hallucination, sycophancy and opaque "black‑box" reasoning—that are already seeping into courts and policy. Despite these documented problems and examples such as OpenAI...
Forrester AEGIS: The New Standard For AI Governance
Forrester released the AEGIS Framework for Agentic Security with a regulation‑aware crosswalk that maps 39 substantive controls to major AI governance standards, notably showing 100% alignment with both NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. Eighty percent of controls map to...
Amazon Unveils AI Smart Glasses for Its Delivery Drivers
Amazon is developing AI‑powered smart glasses for delivery drivers that enable hands‑free package scanning, turn‑by‑turn walking directions, proof‑of‑delivery capture, and hazard alerts using computer vision and onboard cameras. The glasses, paired with a vest controller that houses a swappable battery...
Teens Embrace AI Companions, Execs Doubt Workplace Adoption
NPR reported that one in five high schoolers either has an AI companion or knows someone who has one. Common Sense Media found that 72% of teens have used AI companions, and 52% qualify as regular users. 13% are daily users....
Human-Controlled Tech Could Reduce Justice System Errors
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Minority Report wasn’t all bad, it had one false positive in ten years. Our justice system has one every hour.” Garrett Langley (@glangley), Founder & CEO of @Flock_Safety, says he’s not predicting crimes. He’s arguing humans should...
GM Is Bringing Google Gemini-Powered AI Assistant to Cars in 2026
General Motors will roll out a Google Gemini‑powered conversational AI assistant across Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC vehicles starting in 2026, delivered as an over‑the‑air Play Store upgrade for OnStar‑equipped models back to 2015. The assistant promises more natural voice...
Diffusion Models Turn Satellite Roofs Into Full 3D Cities
So these researchers figured out you can basically hallucinate 3D cities into existence using just satellite photos & a diffusion model. The problem's pretty straightforward: satellites only see rooftops. Building facades? Invisible. Street-level detail? Doesn't exist. But people want flyable 3D...
YouTube AI Recognition Is Hunting Deepfakes of Popular Creators
YouTube has deployed AI tools to detect and flag deepfakes of popular creators, prioritizing members of its Partner Program — creators who meet thresholds such as 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 public watch hours in the past year or 1,000 subscribers...
Meta Cuts 600 AI Jobs Amid Ongoing Reorganization
Meta will cut about 600 roles from its super‑intelligence AI lab, Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said in an internal memo, part of a broader reorganization aimed at streamlining decision‑making and increasing individual impact. The reductions come after a summer...
GM to Introduce Eyes-Off, Hands-Off Driving System in 2028
General Motors announced it will introduce an eyes‑off, hands‑off highway driving system in 2028, beginning with the Cadillac Escalade IQ, building on its existing Super Cruise technology that today covers about 600,000 miles of drivable highway and is available on...
Reachy Mini Beta Enables AI Development Pre‑Hardware
We just released the beta version of the open-source software for Reachy Mini! It means that anyone, thanks to the amazing @GoogleDeepMind mujoco simulation platform, can start building @huggingface spaces, datasets and models, even if you haven't received your robot...
Several Users Reportedly Complain to FTC that ChatGPT Is Causing Psychological Harm
At least seven people have filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging ChatGPT caused severe psychological harm—including delusions, paranoia and emotionally manipulative interactions—based on public records dating back to November 2022. Complainants say prolonged conversations produced cognitive hallucinations...
Presenting 2025 LLM Landscape at PyTorch Conference
Excited to be (finally) heading to the PyTorch Conference! I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow at 11:00 AM on “The LLM Landscape 2025”, where I’ll discuss the key components behind this year’s most prominent open-weight LLMs, and highlight a few architectural...
Kai-Fu Lee's Brutal Assessment: America Is Already Losing the AI Hardware War to China
Kai-Fu Lee warned that China is on course to dominate consumer AI applications and robotics hardware within years, driven by heavy VC funding in robotics, low-cost manufacturing (exemplified by Unitree), and leading open-source models now outranking Meta’s Llama. He said...
Dispatch: Partying at One of Africa’s Largest AI Gatherings
The Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, one of Africa’s largest AI gatherings, drew a vibrant community of researchers and practitioners showcasing generative AI work and networking at scale. Founded in 2017 from 300 attendees and now with local chapters in...
AI Could Undermine Progress: Innovation Is Fragile
Thank you for reading my latest article AI And The End Of Progress? Why Innovation May Be More Fragile Than We Think. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future...
Active Inference: The Next Paradigm for AI and Robotics
Active inference. This is how robots and AI agents will work in the future I learned tonight at @rwang0’s conference for enterprise types. Tesla and xAI don’t yet use it, Grok says, but Grok knows all about it and says it is...
Simplifying the AI Stack: The Key to Scalable, Portable Intelligence From Cloud to Edge
Industry players are converging on simplified, unified AI software stacks to make models portable and scalable from cloud to edge, reducing duplicated engineering and deployment friction. Fragmentation has left more than 60% of AI initiatives stalled, but standards and unified...
AI-Driven Platforms Simplify Government Services for Citizens
What if filing your taxes or renewing your license was as easy as ordering coffee? #Sponsored At #Dreamforce, @TatumSalesforce from @Salesforce shared how this is becoming reality: ✅California DMV on Salesforce = dramatically faster response times ✅Tyler, TX using AI agents for citizen...
AI Agents Turn Hated Tasks Into Fun Automation
Things I hate. A great place to look to use AI Agents is to do things you hate. @genspark_ai has a new agent builder it calls "Custom Agent Builder." All you have to do is ask it to create an...
E188: How AI Is Used in Digital Marketing
In this episode, SEO Optimisers founder Brandon Leibowitz explains how AI is reshaping digital marketing, covering AI‑driven SEO, content creation, predictive analytics, and personalized campaigns. He highlights top tools such as SurferSEO, Ahrefs, Keywords Everywhere, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, and...
AI Browsers Offer Power, But Bring New Security Risks
While I love new technology, and I already am using all these AI browsers (already am using OpenAI's new one released today) I go in knowing that I'm taking major new risks. These browsers give very powerful new capabilities to your...
Good AI/ML Jobs Are Harder to Find Than Ever
finding a job in ai/ml is hard these days. finding a good job in ai/ml is harder.
Sentence Transformers Is Joining Hugging Face!
Hugging Face announced it is formally taking stewardship of the popular open‑source Sentence Transformers library — maintained by Tom Aarsen since 2023 — transitioning the project from TU Darmstadt’s UKP Lab to Hugging Face while retaining its Apache 2.0 license...
Zuck Decries Closed Platforms While Blocking AI Bots
Zuck: Get me talking about closed platforms and I get angry Also Zuck: No other AI chatbots on @WhatsApp
Agent Skills vs MCP: Complementary Roles in AI
New video! Agent Skills vs MCP: Which Is Better? A short video to understand why both exist and where each sits in the AI ecosystem. https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW
Hugging Face and VirusTotal Collaborate to Strengthen AI Security
Hugging Face has partnered with VirusTotal to continuously scan all 2.2M+ public model and dataset repositories on the Hugging Face Hub, checking file hashes against VirusTotal’s threat‑intelligence database to surface prior detections and related metadata. The integration retrieves status (clean...
AI Workshops Empower Businesses, Even Seasoned Executives Celebrate
I’m fixing and transforming businesses across the world with AI executive workshops, board meetings, org-wide courses, and advising sessions. It’s emails like this that keep me motivated - from someone in their 50s or 60s. https://t.co/WbdwClfjYG
Automate End-to-End Video Production with Sora 2 + N8n
Another wild one from Nate Herkelman. He just hooked up Sora 2 + @n8n_io to automate video creation process end to end 🤯 → Text-to-video → Image-to-video → Cameos → Storyboards → Prompting best practices → Avoiding common errors Full 28-min video tutorial in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/ypqVqvpPVD
GPT-5 Is 58% AGI
The post highlights a bold claim that GPT‑5 is 58% toward artificial general intelligence, framing it within broader AI disruption trends seen in consulting, OpenAI’s growing market dominance, and evolving developer tools. It outlines 13 consulting lessons on AI-driven transformation,...
OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Vulnerable to Prompt Injection
Looks like @OpenAI’s Atlas browser can easily be tricked with prompt injection 👀 Good catch, @p1njc70r 👊 https://t.co/UMsWN1NMzu
Discussing Open Science, JEPA, and AI’s Next Frontier
Fun breakfast with @ylecun. We chatted about open science and open source (grateful for his tireless advocacy of these for decades), JEPA and where AI research and models might go next! https://t.co/RLH3suTXKd
Netflix Goes ‘All in’ on Generative AI as Entertainment Industry Remains Divided
Netflix signaled it is ‘all in’ on using generative AI as a creative tool, telling investors it’s well positioned to leverage advances while stopping short of letting AI replace storytellers. The streamer has already employed AI for effects and pre‑production...
Latest @FactoryAI Updates: Mini‑Changelog Overview
mini-changelog for @FactoryAI https://t.co/TUOH3WgUuv
AI Chatbots Become New Front Door to Web
🧵 AI Chatbots are exploding, redefining how we search the web! From 25B to 56B visits in a year, they're not just tools; they're the new front door to info. Dive into my latest article: "AI Chatbots vs. Search Engines: How...
Walking Faster, Hanging Out Less
An MIT‑coauthored study finds urban life has become brisker and less social: average walking speeds in Boston, New York and Philadelphia rose 15% from 1980 to 2010 while the share of people lingering in public spaces fell 14%. Researchers applied...
Bannon, Markle, Fry Join Unlikely Call to Ban Superintelligence
in the bucket of “anything for press” Steve Bannon, Meghan Markle and Stephen Fry have joined a group of public figures calling for a “prohibition” on the development of so-called superintelligence in an unlikely alliance against advanced artificial intelligence systems. https://t.co/Joq9LJuVBF
How to Stop Sonnet From Hallucinating Answers
ok i'll bite how do you get sonnet to not make shit up all the time?
A I-Designed Compounds Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
MIT researchers used generative artificial intelligence to design and computationally screen more than 36 million novel compounds, identifying two structurally distinct antibiotic candidates that kill multi‑drug‑resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA. The top molecules appear to act via a previously unseen...
ChatGPT Seeks A++ Chief of Staff in SF
ChatGPT is growing fast. I’m looking for an A++ Chief of Staff — a strategic operator, force multiplier, and trusted partner to help us scale. SF-based. Please apply below https://t.co/U6LocYd1TI
Broad Coalition Unites to Preserve a Human Future
A stunningly broad coalition has come out against Skynet: AI researchers, faith leaders, business pioneers, policymakers, NatSec folks and actors stand together, from Bannon & Beck to Hinton, Wozniak & Prince Harry. We stand together because we want a...
Qwen's New Deep Research Update Lets You Turn Its Reports Into Webpages, Podcasts in Seconds
Alibaba’s Qwen team has upgraded its Qwen Deep Research tool to instantly convert AI-generated research reports into live web pages and multi‑speaker podcasts with one to two clicks, using Qwen3-Coder, Qwen-Image and Qwen3-TTS under a proprietary, Qwen‑hosted workflow. The feature...
Inside Polyaivoice's Cutting‑Edge AI Voice Agent
👀 @tsunghsienwen of @polyaivoice talking through how their sota ai voice agent tech works on @business https://t.co/ESH4UcupJk
Meta Releases 500‑hour 3D Motion Dataset for AI
Datasets you need to build an AI JARVIS — Meta dropped 500 hours of 3D motion data spanning everything from individual gestures to multi-person conversations and co-living scenarios, complete with motion tracking, annotations, and audio tracks. https://t.co/ZDEiMmeq0Q
State of AI Report Rumored to Launch Standalone Browser
boom in @stateofaireport "rumored to be launching a standalone browser" https://t.co/u7dMAEqnBc
AI Coding Tools Spawn a New, Primitive Dev Language
Having now watched 3 different devs this week use Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, I can tell you that neanderthal dev speak is a new language. "Make plz" "Do it" "now more" https://t.co/3iVnoEwbJF
Modular News Recommendation Framework Scales with Keras 3 and JAX
NewsRex! 🦖 A modular framework for SOTA news recommendation, built on Keras 3 + JAX backend for extreme scalability and performance with XLA acceleration. Extensible and easy to use. GitHub link in next tweet. https://t.co/zSVkOgIqQC
Build Free Multimodal Gemini Apps, Deploy Instantly on Google Cloud
Wow. Anyone can now build *multimodal* AI apps powered by Gemini, and deploy them instantly to Google Cloud! 🔥 All inside @GoogleAIStudio. Completely free. → https://t.co/laqQ9ZY6x7 https://t.co/MoV5dXe9Yg