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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NSF Awards $11M to Expand AI Training for K-12 Teachers
The National Science Foundation has awarded $11 million to the Computer Science Teachers Association to launch a multistate professional development program that equips K‑12 teachers with foundational computer science and artificial intelligence skills. The two‑year initiative will roll out in six named states and additional locations, directly serving roughly 2,500‑3,000 educators and indirectly impacting up to 600,000 students. Training combines intensive summer workshops with sustained support through state and local educator networks, and includes a research component on AI pedagogy and ethics. The effort aligns with the White House executive order to advance AI education for American youth.
AI Brings Val Kilmer Back To Life In New Movie
The Australian Football League’s 2026 season, running March 5‑September 26, will be streamed live and free on the 7plus platform. Although 7plus is geo‑blocked to Australia, viewers worldwide can bypass restrictions using a VPN, with ExpressVPN highlighted as the top choice. The...
Amelia Van Camp: Preparing for Agentic Commerce Now and for the Future
At the Mirakl Summit in London, Head of Agentic Commerce Amelia Van Camp highlighted how AI is reshaping marketplace ecosystems. She explained Mirakl’s strategy for embedding large‑language models into category mapping, customer experience, product sourcing and retail media. The discussion...
Colorado Adopts AI Framework Ensuring Notice, Correction, Human Review
I’m grateful to the task force for developing a framework to guide how Colorado uses AI. Under this proposal, Coloradans would get upfront notice when AI is used in major decisions, the ability to correct errors, and the right to...
2,400 Kaiser Mental Health Professionals Strike in California Over AI Concerns
Around 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental‑health clinicians walked off the job in Northern California, protesting what they describe as a looming shift toward artificial‑intelligence‑driven therapy. The strike coincided with a one‑day walkout by more than 23,000 Kaiser nurses, highlighting broader workforce...
Inside One VC’s Litmus Test for Investable Healthcare AI Startups
Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Yahoo, Google and Twitter executive, transitioned into healthcare investing after a stint as CMO at Color Genomics. In 2019 she founded Moxxie Ventures, focusing on early‑stage AI‑driven health companies such as Dandelion Health, Pharos Health, Luminai...
AI Legal Tech Startup MiAI Law Raised $2 Million
Australian legal‑tech startup MiAI Law, founded by barrister Laina Chan, announced a $2 million seed round raised in five days from family, staff and angel investors. The platform differentiates itself by linking case law and statutes through a transparent reasoning engine...
Quarterly Economics Update: Generative AI Is Rewriting Knowledge Work — But the Real Economic Shock Is Still Coming
Generative AI is beginning to lower the marginal cost of knowledge work across professional services, enabling employees to produce the same output faster. While most firms are still using AI at the individual level, the true economic shock will arrive...
Seeking AI Tinkerers Event Experiences Before LA Night
Has anyone here been to an AI Tinkerers event? What city did you go to and what was it like? Heading to the one in Los Angeles (Venice) tonight
The Complete Style Transfer Handbook: All in ComfyUI
Style transfer tools in AI image generation have matured, offering creators multiple pathways to apply precise visual aesthetics. Out‑of‑the‑box models like Recraft, Nano Banana Pro, Grok Image Edit and Seedream 5.0‑lite enable reference‑based transfers, while custom LoRAs extend capabilities for...
AI Conundrum: Why MCP Security Can't Be Patched Away
Enterprises are rapidly wiring large language models to external services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), unlocking powerful automation but also exposing a novel attack surface. Because MCP turns LLMs from passive responders into autonomous agents, they can execute actions...
Techman’s Humanoid Robot Astonishes GTC 2026 Crowd, Redefining Industrial Robotics
Techman Robot unveiled the TM Xplore I, a wheeled‑base humanoid, at Nvidia's GTC 2026, showcasing Physical AI that can see, think, and act. The robot runs on Nvidia's Jetson Thor edge module and employs a Vision‑Language‑Action model for real‑time perception,...
New Minnesota Bill Would Require 90-Day Notice for AI that Could Displace Workers
Minnesota lawmakers introduced the Safeguarding Human Intelligence and Employment in Labor Displacement Act, requiring employers to give a 90‑day notice before deploying AI that could displace workers and to provide a transitional upskilling period. The bill also mandates notification to...
Why Enterprises Are Replacing Generic AI with Tools that Know Their Users
Enterprises are moving beyond generic AI models toward agents that understand individual users, leveraging large language models for deep personalization. Zoom exemplifies this shift with its AI Companion, which lets users tailor meeting summaries, generate persona‑specific follow‑up emails, and apply...
Can Zero Trust Survive the AI Era?
Federal agencies are confronting a dual challenge: AI‑enabled attackers are slashing attack timelines to roughly 11 minutes and dramatically lowering malware development costs, while defenders must integrate AI into their security stacks. Zero Trust principles—continuous verification, least‑privilege access, and micro‑segmentation—remain...
Agents and Quantum: Cybersecurity World Confronts AI Vulnerabilities and Data Risks Amid an Expanding Threat Landscape
Enterprise adoption of AI agents is exposing new security gaps, with tests showing agents can leak confidential data and 60% of AI‑related incidents resulting in data loss. Vendors are responding: F5 introduced NGINX Agentic Observability to monitor agent‑to‑agent traffic, while...
HR Tech Evolution: AI-Powered Workday Systems and Hiring Efficiency
AI-driven tools are reshaping Workday configuration by automatically spotting hidden anomalies, quantifying change risk, and streamlining audits. The technology delivers proactive insights that replace manual, intuition‑based processes, allowing enterprises to act before issues affect operations. Integrated recommendation engines now suggest...
AI Platforms Always Handle Your Data, Privacy Gone
"Every major AI platform today runs on the same basic trust assumption. You have to trust the provider to handle your data responsibly." ^^^ This doesn't actually capture the issue correctly. The question is not whether platforms "handle your data...
The Death of Gatekeepers and the Rise of Sovereign Creators
The essay argues that generative AI is collapsing visual‑production costs by roughly 90%, instantly automating many entry‑level Hollywood VFX roles and exposing the inefficiencies of legacy studios. By decoupling creative vision from massive budgets, AI eliminates the need for gatekeepers...
AI Is a Librarian, Not a Scientific Explorer
Indeed. This is the essence of anti-intelligence. AI doesn’t extend human cognition, it departs from it. At times it outperforms us. At times it falls short. But those comparisons miss the deeper point. AI operates in a different geometry altogether—one that doesn’t...
AI Will Turn Marketplace Supply Into Autonomous Agents
marketplace startups are destined to be massively reinvented by AI. The weak form is already happening, where we use LLMs for customer support, supply/demand matching, etc. That’s easy The strong form is to figure out how much of the supply side...
Huge M&A Deals: Netflix’s Acquisition of AI Film-Tech Company InterPositive
In early March 2026 Netflix announced a landmark acquisition of InterPositive, an AI‑driven filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck, for up to $600 million, largely cash with earn‑out provisions. The deal gives Netflix immediate access to tools that can correct lighting,...
Fast Online RL Upgrades Π-06 with 15‑minute Data
Back in Nov we developed Recap and trained π*-06 with RL. Now, we developed a fast *online* RL method that improves π-06 with as little as 15 min of robot data for precise tasks, using "RL tokens" exposed by our...
Turn Truck Sightings Into Sales Leads With AI
I keep an index card on my desk and write down the names of trucking companies I see out my window... (Yes, it's weird) I now use @claudeai and @ZoomInfo's MCP integration to help. Let me explain. Every time I pass a...
NAB Readies to Scale AI-Based Customer Interaction
National Australia Bank (NAB) is preparing to scale its AI‑driven "customer brain," a platform that now incorporates 3,500 adaptive models and is used by 90 percent of its divisions. The system can generate more than 400 next‑best actions for each client,...
Pigment Co-CEO Eléonore Crespo Wants to Give CFOs Superpowers
Pigment, the Paris‑born AI‑driven business planning platform, is transforming legacy spreadsheet‑based finance with AI agents that automate modeling, analysis, and planning. Co‑CEOs Eléonore Crespo and Romain Niccoli have raised nearly $400 million, driving the company toward $100 million in annual recurring revenue...
JPMorgan Leads Back-to-Back $5.75B EA Loan and $5.3B Qualtrics Debt Sale to Probe Investor Appetite
JPMorgan Chase is marketing a $5.75 bn cross‑border loan for Electronic Arts' $55 bn LBO and a $5.3 bn debt package for Qualtrics' $6.75 bn acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta. The twin transactions test leveraged‑finance appetite amid volatile credit spreads and growing investor scepticism...
The Four AI Prompts That Helped Me Stop Managing Deadlines by Crisis
The post introduces a four‑prompt "Deadline Defence System" that leverages AI to manage complex, overlapping project timelines. It argues that conventional to‑do lists and calendar blocks fail when tasks multiply and interdependencies rise. By feeding AI detailed assignment data, hours,...
Powering the Agents: Workers AI Now Runs Large Models, Starting with Kimi K2.5
Cloudflare announced that Workers AI now supports the frontier open‑source model Kimi K2.5, offering a 256k token context window, multi‑turn tool calling, vision inputs and structured outputs. The company demonstrated a 77% cost reduction compared with mid‑tier proprietary models by running...
Elevenlabs Now Lets You Sell AI Music You Don't Own
Elevenlabs has introduced a music marketplace that lets users upload and sell tracks generated by its ElevenCreative AI model. Creators receive revenue when their songs are downloaded, remixed, or licensed across three tiers—Social Media, Paid Marketing, and Offline. The platform...
MetaClaw: Just Talk -- An Agent That Meta-Learns and Evolves in the Wild
MetaClaw presents a continual‑learning framework for large language model agents that combines instant, text‑based skill injection with scheduled weight updates, eliminating service downtime. The fast loop creates concise behavioral rules from user failures and injects them directly into the prompt....
Sen. Blackburn Lays Out Details for Sweeping AI Proposal
Sen. Marsha Blackburn unveiled a draft bill that obliges public companies and selected private firms to report AI‑related layoffs, role changes, and other workforce effects to the Labor Department each quarter. Non‑compliance could trigger civil penalties of up to $1 million...
AI Agents on PCs Echo 90s Web‑server Hype
This week’s idea that the future of AI is everybody running AI agents locally on their computer reminds me a lot at the moment in the mid 90s when people thought that everyone working in a big company would have...
Two AI Projects, Not Ten, Unlock $200K Career
You don’t need 10 AI DS projects. You need 2 that matter: 1. ML app that predicts something real 2. RAG + agent app that saves time for a team That’s a portfolio that will land you a $200K career. 👉Here's your 1st one: Comment...
Have You Turned to A.I. For Advice on a Romantic Relationship?
The New York Times is running a reader‑submission poll asking whether people have turned to generative‑AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok for romantic‑relationship advice. The questionnaire seeks details about the relationship issue, the specific AI used, whether the advice...
Google Launches Gemini Mac App to Challenge ChatGPT
NEW: Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.’s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/google-begins-testing-gemini-mac-app-to-match-chatgpt-and-claude?utm_medium=email&utm_source=author_alert&utm_term=260319&utm_campaign=author_19842959
X AI Recommendation Algorithm Update Goes Live, Open‑source
Major update to the 𝕏 AI recommendation algorithm rolling out next week. This will be open sourced at the same time.
How Lifepoint Health Is Addressing Incidental Findings at Enterprise Scale
Lifepoint Health partnered with AI‑driven Eon to launch the Eon Breast platform, extending incidental‑finding management across its 80‑hospital network. The solution consolidates screening and incidental alerts, enabling early detection of breast and other cancers and has been deployed in 53...
Future Fun Becomes AI‑Driven Data Collection
in the future, everything is fun and interactive gamified entertainment, carefully designed to generate training data the ai has decided it needs
Claw Normalized AI Chat Across Every Channel
the real impact of claw was normalizing the ability to chat with your ai from any channel
Recursive AI Summaries Spiral Into Meaningless Content
I had Codex build the content accordion from the cautionary tale "don't build the content accordion" inspired by X's new feature which uses AI to summarize X articles written with AI. It takes an X article, summarizes it in a tweet,...
Evolve Digital Ops or Burn Out Talent Amid AI Pressure
RT Layoffs + AI expectations = danger zone. If you're being asked to "do more with less" and deliver AI ROI, you must evolve the digital operating model or you'll burn out your best people before you see results. #CIO #DigitalTransformation...
AI Threatens Traditional Human Judgment in Analyst Roles
Will AI replace the human judgment that has traditionally been at the center of analyst work? https://t.co/9jNgJSBOPk #sustainability #AI #5G #cloud #edge #futureofwork #digitaltransformation https://t.co/sMXNHxEr6K
Build Complete Apps While Taking Real Breaks
Now I can literally stack prompts in @Anything, step outside to touch grass, and come back to a fully built app ☕ Shall we coin it async vibe-coding? 👀 https://t.co/EcLpC3CLWs
AI Won’t Replace Radiologists—Just Redefine Their Role
AI replacing radiologists? @ShafiAhmed5 and I go at. A provocatively playful discussion... https://t.co/3MejjtUgSa #AI #radiology #medicine #digitalhealth https://t.co/GMj9HigoAI
AI‑built Apps Turn You Into Your Own Vendor
Moving from SaaS to AI-generated apps doesn't just change your tech stack—it shifts the risk. ⚠️ When you "build" with AI, you are the vendor. You own every bug, every breach, and every patch. Are you ready to be a software...
AI Saves $10k on HVAC Project Using Claude Code
I have a very similar story on the impact of AI on an HVAC project I just did. Easily $8-10k savings from just sticking everything in Claude Code and managing it there.
Scaling AI to AGI Is History’s Costliest Failed Experiment
Not so, not at all. The most expensive experiment in history is *not* the Metaverse. It is trying to derive AGI from scaling. Far more expensive. So far the results are not promising.
VC Sarah Hess Bridges Silicon Valley, DC on Defense AI
Hot takes on defense, industrial and AI sectors, as well government, from Sarah Hess, one of the few VCs who spends quality time between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. https://t.co/p8btunQFd2
Nvidia Unveils 2028 Rosa‑Feynman AI Hardware Roadmap
Nvidia has spiced up its 2028 AI hardware roadmap with reveals about the future Rosa-Feynman systems. $NVDA https://t.co/vLAotJHTKh