Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic shuts down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export‑control warning
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration, via the Commerce Department, warned that foreign nationals could exploit the systems. The move followed alerts from Amazon and other firms about a potential jailbreak that could aid cyber‑security attacks. Anthropic declined the administration’s request for a voluntary shutdown but complied with the order.
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By the numbers: AMD acquires AI memory‑optimization pioneer Mext
What to Read This Week: Katrina Manson's Terrifying Project Maven
Katrina Manson’s new book, *Project Maven*, chronicles the U.S. military’s decade‑long push to embed artificial intelligence in drone surveillance, beginning with the 2017 initiative that automated video analysis. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, the work reveals a hidden ecosystem of roughly 800 Pentagon AI projects and situates the effort alongside similar deployments by Israel and Ukraine. Manson argues that AI‑driven targeting is no longer speculative future warfare but a present reality, raising urgent ethical and policy questions. The book offers a rare, inside look at how AI reshapes combat and defense procurement.
Patreon CEO Calls AI Companies’ Fair Use Argument ‘Bogus,’ Says Creators Should Be Paid
Patreon CEO Jack Conte told SXSW that AI companies’ reliance on creator content under a "fair use" defense is "bogus" and should be compensated. He emphasized that while AI is an inevitable disruption, creators must receive direct payments for the...
Elevate Podcast: Dr. Brian Haas, National Medical Director, Ascend Hospice, and Creator, Hospice Intelligence
In the latest Elevate Podcast, Hospice News interviews Dr. Brian Haas, national medical director of Ascend Hospice and CEO of Wellspring Healthcare. Haas explains how artificial intelligence can both help and hinder clinical documentation in hospice and palliative care. He...
AI Outbound Fails without Clean, Accurate Data
Last week I got an outreach email congratulating me on our Series D. Ahrefs has never raised a single dollar. We're bootstrapped. So someone's AI agent pulled the wrong data, mashed it together, and confidently sent me a "personalized" message that was...
Unlocking Spectrum Dominance With AI and Cognitive EW
In this episode Ken Miller talks with Dr. Karen Haig, a cognitive EW and AI expert, about how artificial intelligence enables truly cognitive electromagnetic warfare—systems that sense, decide, act, and learn in real time with minimal human input. They explain...
AI Agents Poised to Capture Up to 25% E‑Commerce
J.P. Morgan & Mirakl Nexus Unveil AI Agent Checkout A first-of-its-kind solution designed to enable secure AI agent checkouts for enterprise merchants. J.P. Morgan’s tokenization and fraud protection to allow agents to move from "browsing" to "buying" within a regulated framework....
Real AI Agentic Workflows vs Hype in Customer Success
When you open this app you immediately feel behind. Everyone is replacing their teams with AI agents and agentic workflows. Of course, that's just performative agentmaxxing. "Look what I built that may work in theory." Cool, bro. Want to know how Agentic Workflows...
Tesla Says FSD Was Off Before Cybertruck Crash — but the Video Tells a Different Story
A Tesla Cybertruck equipped with Full Self‑Driving (FSD) crashed into a concrete barrier on Houston’s 69 Eastex Freeway on August 18, 2025, after the autonomous system failed to navigate a sharp curve. Driver Justine Saint Amour disengaged FSD four seconds before impact, but the...
1Password Launches New Platform to Rein in Companies’ AI Agents
1Password unveiled its Unified Access Platform, a security layer designed to monitor and control AI agents within corporate environments. The solution automatically discovers AI‑driven tools, secures exposed credentials, and enforces continuous authorization. It also records every action taken by both...
The AI Revolution Will Be Open-Sourced
At CES 2026 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI will only scale when open innovation extends to infrastructure. Kubernetes, long used for AI, is gaining first‑class support through Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) that reached GA in version 1.34. New...
Want a Job at OpenAI? Take This Online Challenge Today
OpenAI announced the Model Craft Challenge, a global online competition designed to recruit its next generation of AI researchers. The multi‑round contest will test participants on real‑world problems such as Parameter Golf, where candidates build efficient small models under strict...
A Number of US Cities Are Pulling the Plug on Flock Safety's AI Cameras
A wave of municipal backlash is forcing Flock Safety, the Atlanta‑based AI camera vendor valued at roughly $7.5 billion, to lose contracts in dozens of U.S. cities. In the past six months, 38 cities have terminated agreements, bringing the total to...
Small Team, Big Game: How We Built Mr. Beast’s AI-Powered Puzzle in 27 Days
Salesforce built an AI‑powered puzzle for MrBeast’s $1 million game in just six weeks, handling over 275,000 registrations and processing 4.5 billion tokens. The team deployed 78 production orgs and engineered a multi‑org sharding architecture capable of 1.5 million concurrent users without downtime....
Rippling AI Revolutionizes Payroll for 5K‑Employee Company
Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees. Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job,...
The Developer’s Guide to LLMs: From Magic to Math
The post demystifies large language models (LLMs) by framing them as massive next‑word prediction engines rather than knowledge databases. It explains core concepts such as tokenization, showing that 1,000 tokens roughly equal 750 words, and how embeddings turn tokens into...
Choose AI or Deterministic Solutions Based on Accuracy Needs
Questions when starting an AI project: * Do I need a perfectly accurate result every time? ➡️ Use deterministic solution * Is a perfectly accurate result too costly, expensive, or even impossible? ➡️ Use AI to get closer to the result faster...
Can AI Strengthen Democracy? Italy’s Parliament Offers a Test Case
Italy’s parliament is launching a pilot program to embed artificial intelligence across its legislative processes, joining a growing but fragmented global trend. The initiative mirrors diverse international experiments, from Chile’s bill‑drafting assistance to Brazil’s citizen‑participation platforms. The Inter‑Parliamentary Union warns...
Fortinet’s AI-Driven Defense for a Machine-Speed Era
At Fortinet Accelerate 2026, the company unveiled FortiOS 8.0 and previewed FortiSOC, its cloud‑delivered Security Operations Platform. The new OS adds AI‑aware controls, deep OCR‑based DLP, expanded SASE capabilities and built‑in post‑quantum cryptography to protect the growing shadow‑AI surface. FortiSOC consolidates...
Human/AI Collective Intelligence for Deliberative Democracy: A Human-Centred Design Approach
The authors introduce Collective Intelligence for Deliberative Democracy (CI4DD), a framework that leverages AI to augment citizen deliberation. They argue that a human‑centred design approach is essential to ensure trustworthy, inclusive processes. The paper outlines a co‑design methodology that maps...
Palantir Integrates AI Into Stratospheric ISR Systems
Palantir Technologies has partnered with Ondas and World View Enterprises to build an AI‑driven, multi‑domain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system that spans stratospheric balloons, autonomous drones and ground assets. The collaboration leverages Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform, World View’s high‑altitude...
SD Times News Digest: SmartBear BearQ, Chainguard Agent Skills — March 18, 2026
SmartBear unveiled BearQ, an autonomous QA system that explores how applications function and adapts to code changes, positioning it as a next‑generation alternative to brittle test scripts. The launch follows a SmartBear survey showing 90% of developers use AI coding...
Unified AI Architecture Bridges Knowing‑Doing Gap
AI is falling short because most organizations haven’t built the architecture to turn insight into action. In my latest @Forbes article, I explore why closing the gap between knowing and doing requires unified AI, data, workflows, and governance. This makes...
AI Slides That Prioritize Thinking Over Aesthetics
I've tested literally every AI presentation tool on the market. They all make the same mistake: they focus on making slides look good. This is the first one I've seen that focuses on making the THINKING good. Built by ex-McKinsey + ex-Apple AI....
What Are Test Hooks in AI-Native Development?
Test hooks attach existing test and lint commands to deterministic lifecycle events in AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor. When the event fires, the command runs automatically and a non‑zero exit code blocks the agent, forcing an...
Trustworthy, Transparent AI Agents Redefine Future Work
The future of work isn't just AI agents. It's AI agents you can trust. Fully observable. Fully editable. Finally.
Only Practical, Defensible AI Solutions Will Endure
The Unglamorous Moat: The Truth About What Will Survive The #AI Bubble by Katy Wigdahl @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/TGm6ejRgoC #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL https://t.co/WbOmruLTMm
The Rise of Agentic Execution: Rocketlane CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan on AI’s Next Phase in Professional Services
Rocketlane has launched Nitro, the first agentic execution platform for professional services, enabling AI agents to perform repeatable implementation tasks such as configurations, data migrations, testing, and documentation. The platform promises up to a 50% reduction in delivery effort for...
Coding Agents Combine LLMs, Prompts, and Tools in a Loop
A coding agent is basically an LLM + system prompt + tools in a loop. @simonw spells this out in another great guide about how coding agents work. https://t.co/ywlRRAU3VY
Switch to Fiscal AI—A No‑Brainer Solution
If this is happening to you as well... Switching to @fiscal_ai is a no brainer.
AI in Science
The paper by Agrawal, McHale and Oettl frames artificial intelligence as an augmentation tool that expands scientists' ability to search combinatorial spaces, rather than fully automating research. By dissecting the knowledge‑production process into stages, the authors reveal a “jagged frontier”...
AI Flattening Organizations Threatens Traditional Middle Management
What happens to middle management when AI flattens your organization? https://t.co/mDJARBQNMZ #AI #management #business #technology #leadership
AI Race: Choose Your Role, Not Victory
A tough take on the AI race. For most countries, it may already be out of reach. Backing local players that will never be first could end up wasting time and capital. So maybe the real game is not winning it, but...
How CPAs Can Build Relevance with Continuous Upskilling
Artificial intelligence is reshaping accounting, turning routine tasks into data‑driven insights and raising expectations for analytical fluency. Jen Cryder of PICPA argues that continuous, forward‑looking upskilling is essential for CPAs to remain relevant and to convert technical expertise into strategic...
Desktop AI Vell
Holy shit... someone just built an AI that lives on your desktop, has its own email, its own accounts, and actually does things while you sleep. It's called Vellum and it's actually secure. I can't imagine going back to the way I...
AI Agents Now Reliably Verify Physics Calculations
In late 2025, tools Like Claude Code crossed a threshold. Like hyperactive master's students, their physics calculations can now be made more reliable with domain expertise and some scaffolding. Check out Tobias Osborne's talk on using a swarm of...
Generative AI Summit Austin, 2026
The Generative AI Summit Austin 2026 is announced by the AI Accelerator Institute, but full details are gated behind a membership portal. Prospective attendees must sign up or log in to view the agenda, speaker lineup, and registration information. The...
Nine Best AI Assistants Reviewed and Ranked
RT @MktgtTechAI Review: The Top Nine AI Assistants https://t.co/06xJrOKkuP [NEW POST] Here's a research-based review of the top nine tools showcased in the #AI Assistants category on https://t.co/rakLQNhaZp. https://t.co/aROJqBIDhM
Google Tests Discover Tab and UI Overhaul in Gemini
Google is quietly testing a Discover tab in Gemini app, alongside a host of UI changes We found changes to the sidebar, overlay controls, and how Gemini shows its thought process in our latest APK teardown. ✅ Details & screenshots - https://t.co/Nvgp3p6CTS...
The Next-Gen Admin: In Conversation With Ishrat Bhatti
Salesforce administrators are transitioning from ticket‑centric technicians to strategic stewards of AI‑driven enterprise systems. In a new interview series, MVP Ishrat Bhatti highlights how admins must now interpret complex data flows, govern autonomous agents, and ensure responsible AI outcomes. She...
Overhyped AI Orchestration Pitch Sparks Fatigue
"Context-aware orchestration layer between humans and AI agents" If I hear this pitch one more time, I can’t guarantee anything.
AI Budgets Miss the Real Cost: Inference Expenses
Hot take: most AI budgets are measuring the wrong thing. They track licenses and model access fees. They're not tracking inference costs, the operational expense that compounds with every query, every workflow, every automation. That's where the real AI ROI gap is hiding....
The Next-Gen Admin: In Conversation With Tony Nguyen
The interview with Tony Nguyen highlights how Salesforce administrators are transitioning from traditional, fix‑it technicians to strategic stewards of data, security, and AI‑driven processes. Nguyen stresses that modern admins must master a broad skill set—including security architecture, data modeling, DevOps,...
Google Adds Opt‑out for Generative AI in Search
Whoa, opting out of AIOs and AI mode could very well happen (for pubs that want that) -> From Google today: "We are developing further updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt-out of generative AI features in Search."...
Google Docs AI Misjudges Its Own AI Usage Guidelines
Ironic that the Google Docs AI provided bad style feedback on the section of an assignment prompt setting out my standards for AI use. https://t.co/QOZtxgEU2Z
"Lost in the Middle" Replicates
A recent replication using a quantized Llama‑2 7B model confirmed the "Lost in the Middle" phenomenon reported by Liu et al. The experiment employed the multi‑document question‑answering benchmark derived from Natural Questions, testing three gold‑document positions (first, middle, last) across...
Pay‑only for AI Agent Compute with Deeplake
Agent usage is spiky so stop paying for 24/7 databases. 🚨 @Activeloop just dropped Deeplake to fix AI memory economics: → Instant sandboxed Postgres → Built for agent workflows → Handles text/vectors/video natively Only pay for the compute your agent swarm actually uses 👀
AI Revives Lost Voices From Old Recordings
You can now clone a parent's voice from old phone recordings. Upload voicemails, family videos, even Instagram clips. Pantio builds an AI persona that talks, jokes, and gives advice exactly like them. Your kids can meet grandparents they never got to know.
Accessibility, Inclusivity, and AI Sovereignty Drive Global AI Governance Dialogue
Accessibility, inclusivity, and AI sovereignty lead a rapid roundtable of global stakeholders at @ITU’s online forum setting the stage for the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance at the #AIforGood Global Summit, the @UN’s leading AI event. July 7–10, 2026 @AIforGood...
Grok 4.20 Impresses; Weekly Major Upgrades Continue
What are your initial impressions of Grok 4.20? Major upgrades are still landing every week.
CastDotApp Trims MCP, Favoring Leaner AI Integration
Why @CastDotApp Is Narrowing MCP’s Role for Select Agent Use Cases https://t.co/Jq0BDGaXCA AI agents don’t need more tools; they need smarter, leaner integration surfaces. #MCP #AI #AIagent #agenticAI https://t.co/e2P38yodQL