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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We Asked Experts About the Most Responsible Ways to Use AI Tools – Here’s What They Said
The Guardian surveyed AI experts to outline responsible ways to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Adoption is rising, with a Pew survey showing one‑third of U.S. adults—58 % of those under 30—using ChatGPT. Experts advise treating AI as a thought partner for brainstorming, preliminary research, skill‑building and information organization, while stressing human judgment and verification. They also warn against over‑reliance, plagiarism and hallucinations, urging transparency and clear goals.
AI Scheduling Tools Tackle Transit Driver Shortages
Transit agencies are turning to AI‑driven scheduling platforms to combat a global shortfall of roughly 2.4 million bus drivers. The tools let operators model alternative roster scenarios, communicate schedules in real time, and curb unscheduled overtime that fuels fatigue and turnover....
AI and the Diffusion of Responsibility: Dispatches From the Road
Senior leaders across sectors are experimenting with generative AI, yet a hidden governance flaw is emerging. Organizations rely on cross‑functional committees, IT sign‑offs, or employee trust, which collectively diffuse responsibility for AI risk. This diffusion leaves no single owner accountable...
Malaysian SMEs Grapple with a Growing “Confidence Gap” In AI Adoption
Malaysian small‑and‑medium enterprises (SMEs) are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence, with 81% reporting at least one AI tool in use. Yet the Xero‑commissioned report uncovers a widening "confidence gap": most firms lack strategic certainty, with 82% seeking more education before they...
How a Home Remodeling Company Builds on AI
West Shore Home appointed Eppie Vojt as its first chief data and AI officer to accelerate automation across its remodeling operations. The company, already using lidar scanning and 3D visualizers, introduced an AI‑driven scheduling tool called Sapos that can generate...
Acalvio Launches 360 Deception to Break AI Attack Automation
Acalvio unveiled 360 Deception, a next‑generation cyber‑deception platform designed to break AI‑driven attack automation. The solution creates a high‑uncertainty environment by dynamically orchestrating decoys and making real assets appear deceptive, forcing attackers to reveal intent early. In a U.S. Navy...
HyperLight Releases 400G-per-Lane TFLN Photonic ICs
HyperLight Corporation has launched a new family of 400‑gigabit‑per‑lane thin‑film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits. The PICs deliver low insertion loss, low drive voltage, and ultra‑wide electro‑optic bandwidth, enabling energy‑efficient 400G optical links for AI‑focused networking. Built on HyperLight’s...
M-Files Boosts Microsoft 365 Copilot with Context-First AI
Document management leader M-Files announced new deep integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Copilot Agent Builder. The integration embeds M-Files’ metadata‑driven, permission‑aware content directly into Microsoft 365, allowing users to retrieve and act on trusted documents without leaving the...
As Agentic Voice Adoption Surges, Cloudonix Earns Global Recognition
Cloudonix announced it has secured multiple global awards for its agentic voice and AI‑driven communications platform, underscoring its expanding role in the emerging voice‑AI market. In 2025 the company integrated more than 15 AI voice platforms and recorded a 525%...
X Square Robot and 58.com Pilot Home Cleaning Robot Service in Shenzhen
X Square Robot and 58.com have launched China’s first home‑cleaning robot service in Shenzhen, offering a hybrid solution that combines autonomous robots for repetitive chores with human cleaners for complex tasks. The pilot aims to gather real‑world performance data and...
Cytora Unveils End-to-End AI Automation for Insurers
Cytora launched Autopilot, an agentic AI platform that automates end‑to‑end insurance risk workflows without human input. The system links fragmented data from multiple channels, maintains persistent context, and executes tasks from submission through claim adjudication. Underwriters and claims handlers can...
Tencent's 2025 Revenue Beats Estimates as Chinese Tech Giant Ramps up AI Investment
Tencent reported 2025 revenue of 751.8 billion yuan, slightly above analysts' 750.7 billion yuan estimate. The company invested 18 billion yuan in AI products last year and announced plans to double that spend in 2026. Gaming drove an 18% year‑on‑year revenue rise, while...
Fisent Technologies Introduces Tabulate Spreadsheet Standardization Capability to Its Applied GenAI Process Automation Platform
Fisent Technologies has added a new Tabulate capability to its BizAI platform, enabling automatic extraction and standardization of spreadsheet data. The feature tackles the variability of financial documents and large‑scale tables that strain traditional LLM context windows. By embedding transformation...
This Viral Video of a Child Grieving a Fallen US Service Member Was Generated by AI
A video showing a toddler crying over a flag‑draped coffin went viral, amassing over 1.1 million views before experts identified it as AI‑generated. Digital‑forensics specialists from UC Berkeley, Northwestern and the University of Michigan flagged visual anomalies and confirmed deep‑fake characteristics. The...
The Story of One Failed Digital Transformation
An 18‑month field study of a Chinese construction site shows why digital transformation initiatives often collapse on the frontline. Executives promoted a “Digital Engineering” platform with high‑level storytelling, but mandatory daily data entry added physical workload, causing fatigue, frustration and...
Rewst Launches RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, Making Automation Easier for MSP Teams to Build and Manage
Rewst introduced the RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, letting managed service providers (MSPs) craft and edit automation workflows through natural‑language conversation inside the Rewst platform. The AI generates fully configured, ready‑to‑run automations—including triggers, tasks, and code—in minutes, cutting manual build steps....
Hearing Targets Risks to U.S. Infrastructure From Chinese AI and Robotics Systems
On March 17, the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing to assess national‑security threats posed by Chinese artificial‑intelligence, robotics and autonomous‑sensing technologies. Lawmakers focused on firms such as DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics, warning that their systems...
POET and LITEON to Co-Develop Optical Modules for AI Applications
POET Technologies and Taiwan‑based LITEON Technology have announced a strategic partnership to co‑develop optical communication modules for AI‑driven data centers. The collaboration will combine POET’s patented optical interposer platform with LITEON’s optoelectronic and power‑management expertise to produce compact, thermally optimized...
Michael Robbins Testifies Before Congress on Risks of Chinese Robotics and AI
Michael Robbins, CEO of AUVSI, testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee warning that China is executing a state‑backed plan to dominate the global robotics and physical AI market. He argued that massive subsidies enable Chinese firms to flood markets...
Exclusive: AI Cybersecurity Startup RunSybil, Founded by OpenAI’s First Security Hire, Raises $40 Million Led by Khosla Ventures
RunSybil, an AI‑driven cybersecurity startup founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, closed a $40 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Anthropic’s Anthology Fund, Menlo Ventures and notable angels. Its flagship AI agent, Sybil, conducts continuous autonomous penetration...
Rollout of Ambient Voice Technology Across UHL-UHN to Speed up Care and Improve Communication for Patients
The University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) have become the first NHS trusts to jointly deploy AI‑powered Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) through Accurx Scribe. The rollout will equip more than 10,000 clinicians with voice‑captured scribing...
What Communicators Get Wrong About AI-Assisted Measurement
Communicators using generative AI for measurement often overlook prompt engineering, leading to unreliable insights. AMEC Managing Director Johna Burke emphasizes that AI can accelerate pattern detection but cannot replace critical thinking or define strategic relevance. She advises starting with data...
Datalign Advisory Opens Custom AI Agent Platform for Wealth Management Firms
Datalign Advisory has opened its Halo agentic AI platform to wealth‑management firms, letting them build custom, branded AI agents that operate within a compliance‑by‑design framework. The platform draws on each firm’s investment philosophy, proprietary content and client data, and is...
What Happens when You Use ChatGPT to Sell Your Home?
A South Florida homeowner, Robert Levine, sold his house using ChatGPT for marketing copy, pricing guidance, and document drafting, claiming cost savings. Real‑estate brokers and loan officers cautioned that AI cannot replace the nuanced negotiation and emotional intelligence of licensed...
AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power
In this episode, Jacob Helberg, Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, discusses how AI, hardware, and secure supply chains have become central to U.S. economic and national security. He outlines the administration’s three‑front strategy to win the AI race: superior...
Basis Global and AnswerRocket Launch Strategic Partnership to Redefine Market Research in the Age of AI
Basis Global has teamed up with AI consultancy AnswerRocket to overhaul market‑research delivery, launching a Researcher + AI model for brand tracking. The partnership blends Basis’s two‑decade research pedigree with AnswerRocket’s enterprise‑grade AI engineering to analyze massive data sets, test hundreds of...
China Is Mobilizing Thousands of One-Person AI Startups
Chinese municipal governments are rolling out aggressive incentives to attract “one‑person companies” that rely on AI tools. Benefits include free apartments, office space, discounted cloud compute and special loans, with cities like Suzhou pledging 1,000 solo startups by 2028 and...
Orange Business Targets AI Trust, Sovereignty
Orange Business unveiled four new enterprise services at its 2026 Summit, centering on trust in AI, communications and infrastructure. Live Intelligence Studio adds agentic AI design, monitoring and cost‑control features built on LangChain technology. A trusted caller ID and branded...
Mitsubishi Heavy Integrates Hivemind AI Into Drone
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries completed flight demonstrations of AI‑powered mission autonomy for its ARMD UAV using Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise platform. The full development cycle—from AI design and training to hardware integration and flight—was finished in just eight weeks. Demonstrations took...
AI Is Coming for Your Office Productivity Suite, Too
Generative AI and AI agents are set to upend the $58 billion office‑suite market within the next year, challenging entrenched products like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Gartner notes that core interfaces have barely changed since the 1990s, but AI‑driven creation...
Kingfisher Partners with Google Cloud to Roll Out AI-Powered Shopping Across Europe
Kingfisher has entered a multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud to embed Vertex AI across its B&Q, Castorama and Brico Dépôt e‑commerce platforms in Europe. The collaboration replaces traditional keyword search with AI‑driven, conversational discovery and introduces agentic assistants that can...
Amazon vs Perplexity: The Court Ruling that Just Put Agentic Commerce on Trial
A federal judge granted Amazon a preliminary injunction preventing Perplexity’s Comet browser agent from accessing Amazon’s systems, citing likely violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The court distinguished user permission from platform authorization, ruling that even with a...
AI‑Powered Playable Worlds Transform Active Learning
🎮🌍 Genie 3 & the Rise of Playable Worlds AI is evolving—from generating content to creating interactive worlds you can explore. Not just watching… 👉 but playing, testing, and experiencing learning. 🎯 Why it matters: • Active learning > passive watching • Makes abstract concepts real •...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Can't Stop Talking About Tokens. Here's What They Are and How They're Reshaping AI Budgets.
At Nvidia's GTC, CEO Jensen Huang highlighted AI tokens as the new unit for measuring and pricing machine‑learning workloads. Tokens are fragments of text—roughly four characters each—and AI providers bill customers based on the number processed. Huang suggested future engineers...
Pi Labs Leads $7M Round in VerbaFlo for AI Real Estate Platform
VerbaFlo, a conversational AI platform for residential real estate, secured a $7 million seed round led by Pi Labs, bringing its total financing to roughly $9 million. The startup automates leasing, operations, and resident engagement through purpose‑built AI agents that integrate with...
I Ran Qwen3.5 Locally Instead of Claude Code. Here’s What Happened.
The author tested Qwen3.5 models locally using LM Studio and the Continue extension for VS Code on a desktop equipped with an RTX 5060 GPU and 32 GB RAM. Three variants—a 9.5‑billion‑parameter 5‑bit model, a distilled 9‑billion‑parameter 4‑bit model, and a 4‑billion‑parameter...
Vision Transformers Boost Real Time FFF Quality Monitoring
Researchers at LSU and Auburn University introduced a Vision Transformer (ViT) system that fuses 2D laser‑generated depth maps with self‑attention to detect FFF 3‑D‑printing defects in real time. The approach classifies normal, under‑extrusion, over‑extrusion and void regions, delivering predictions in...
Noru Raises €560K to Develop an Agentic Compliance Platform
Stockholm‑based startup Noru has closed a €560,000 pre‑seed round led by Ampli Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund and other Nordic investors. The company is building an AI‑native “agentic compliance” platform that embeds regulatory requirements directly into development...
Making the World’s Fastest Racket Sport Even Better: A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence-Based Objective Player Performance Assessment in Badminton
Recent systematic review of 51 AI studies (2018‑2025) maps badminton performance assessment into four dominant methodological schools: computer‑vision stroke tracking, movement‑pattern recognition, spatio‑temporal rally analysis, and multi‑modal data integration. While many reports claim high classification accuracy, few share validation datasets...
Axero Transforms Enterprise Collaboration with AI Engine to Build Custom Internal Applications
Axero announced the Axero App Manager, an AI‑driven engine that lets the company’s engineers create and deploy custom internal applications directly within its digital workplace platform. The solution aims to curb SaaS sprawl by consolidating disparate tools into a single,...
Trustero AI Reimagines Compliance Evidence Management with Unified, Multi-Agent System
Trustero AI has relaunched its Evidence Management platform as a unified, multi‑agent system that automates evidence collection, centralizes storage, and adds AI‑driven analysis. The solution pulls data from sources such as AWS, Jira, SharePoint and Google Drive, then uses machine...
AI Is Flooding Online Replies, Soon Undetectable
It’s not X — it’s Y I cannot unsee how so much of the writing on this site (and online, in general) is increasingly AI-generated. It’s still pretty easy to recognize. Probably not for long tho Just alarming that ppl outsource even...
PingAnGPT-Qwen3-32B Beats GPT‑4o, Leads CNFinBench
Ping An's PingAnGPT-Qwen3-32B Tops CNFinBench: Strong Reasoning, Accuracy and Wide Deployment Topped CNFinBench leaderboard (March 15, 2026), beating GPT-4o + Claude Sonnet 4 on this benchmark. Evaluated across 5 dimensions: financial expertise, business understanding, reasoning/computation, compliance/risk control, application security. Deployed in...
AI Race Accelerates, Demand for Premium Seats Soars
'AI companies are building the plane while it's still flying. Turns out they need more business-class seats.' @axios single best sentence i have seen on AI.
AI Discipline Outperforms Strategy in Toxic Environments
AI Discipline Will Beat AI Strategy Every Time FULL STORY => https://t.co/C0zwPGiAlu The current global climate is littered with the remains of ambitious AI pilots that failed to scale, not because the technology was flawed, but because the environment was toxic to...
Build AI Agents Without Docker or Code
MuleRun is making AI easier for everyone by removing hard technical steps. You don’t need Docker or Node.js. You just use a simple, powerful interface to build your own AI agents.
Nvidia Leads AI Revolution, Discussed on CNBC
Great to be on @CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia with @cherykang and @MartinSoong discussing Nvidia and the AI Revolution 🏆🎯📺👇🐂🍿 @CNBCi https://t.co/cNfS9qm10M
Own AI Stocks, Not Bonds, Says Howard Marks
Oaktree's Howard Marks says investors are probably better off buying stock in AI-focused companies rather than lending them money. “If you’re taking fundamental business model risk, shouldn’t you get paid for it by being an owner rather than a fixed-income...
Akamai Launches First Global Nvidia AI Grid Deployment
.@Akamai Inference Cloud deploys Nvidia AI Grid https://t.co/L2i6iabxJ7 Nvidia GTC 2026 is turning out to be a bit of a coming-out party for Akamai's Inference Cloud. Akamai's Inference Cloud is the first global implementation of Nvidia AI Grid, which routes...
AI Governance Shifts to Enforcement and Operational Readiness
AI Governance Trends 2026 From guidance to enforcement: • EU AI Act → enforcement begins • Agentic AI → governance gap • ISO 42001 → required in procurement • US → patchwork enforcement Governance is now operational readiness. https://t.co/3HljzCodIc via @DioOmega @quepasachico #AIGovernance #AgenticAI #AILaw #ISO42001