Today's AI Pulse
HR leaders urged to treat AI as a purpose‑driven redesign, not just a productivity tool
Ethan Mollick warned HR leaders at UNLEASH America 2026 that AI is a general‑purpose technology demanding a purpose‑driven redesign of work, not merely a productivity boost. He called for experimentation, risk‑taking, and second‑order thinking to anticipate long‑term impacts, noting many HR teams feel overwhelmed and risk treating AI like ordinary IT.
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By the numbers: ASML invests $1.4B in French AI startup Mistral AI
From Automation to $1.3B: Scribe’s AI Success Story
In this episode Jamie and Jaeden break down how Scribe achieved a $1.3 billion valuation by building AI‑powered workflow automation tools for enterprises. They explore how individuals can turn their expertise into AI consulting gigs and stress the growing importance of data‑driven metrics for measuring impact. The hosts also highlight practical resources, such as their Skool community and a curated AI model bundle, to help listeners get started in the AI hustle.
The Future of Google Maps: AI Features Every User Should Know
In this brief episode, hosts Jaeden and Jamie break down the latest AI-powered enhancements to Google Maps, highlighting the integration of Gemini and Vertex AI to boost navigation accuracy and personalized recommendations. They explain how these features streamline user experience...
Google Gemini 3 Sparks Unprecedented AI Community Buzz
How big a deal is Google Gemini 3? Haven’t seen a release get so much attention across the community of 35,000 in AI as this one has. Use X Pro and lists. Way better to watch the whole community: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ (I have...
Gemini 3 Spreads Across Platforms Amid Cloudflare Outage
Are you trying Google Gemini 3 on Genspark? Or on Flowith? Or Cursor? Or just raw dogging it on Google AI studio? Just a few that have already added Gemini, my whole feed is Gemini this morning. Oh, and welcome...
Google’s Sundar Pichai Warns of “Irrationality” In Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned that the AI investment frenzy, now worth over $1.4 trillion, shows signs of irrational exuberance reminiscent of the late‑1990s Internet bubble. While acknowledging that no company, including Google, is immune to a potential correction, he highlighted...
Gemini 3 Tops Benchmarks and Excels in Everyday Tasks
We’ve been intensely cooking Gemini 3 for a while now, and we’re so excited and proud to share the results with you all. Of course it tops the leaderboards, including @arena, HLE, GPQA etc, but beyond the benchmarks it’s been...
Training Vs. Inference: Break‑Even at 25 Million Queries
What should we focus on, (more) LLM training or inference scaling? (A question I got asked multiple times now, so here are some thoughts.) Training is usually very, very expensive, but it is a one-time cost. Inference-scaling is comparatively cheap, but...
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
The episode breaks down Google’s rollout of Gemini 3, the latest large‑language model, highlighting its new multimodal capabilities, faster reasoning, and tighter integration with Google services. Executives Demis Hassabis and Josh Woodward explain the technical breakthroughs, safety measures, and the product’s...
Gemini 3 Unveiled
Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
Gemini 3 Launches as World’s Most Intelligent Multimodal Model
Today we’re taking a big step on the path toward AGI and releasing Gemini 3— our most intelligent model yet. With Gemini 3, you can bring any idea to life. It is state-of-the-art in reasoning, the best model in the...
Google Is Launching Gemini 3, Its ‘Most Intelligent’ AI Model Yet
Google launched Gemini 3 Pro today, its most advanced multimodal AI model that can process text, images and audio simultaneously. The model is being rolled out to all users in the Gemini app and to paid subscribers within Google Search’s...
Your Favorite Microsoft 365 Apps Are Getting a Load More Copilot AI Agents - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint All Get...
Microsoft unveiled a suite of new Copilot AI agents for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook at Ignite 2025, enabling users to generate content, charts, summaries, and presentations through natural‑language prompts. The agents engage in follow‑up questions to refine output and...
Microsoft’s Office Apps Are Getting Even More Free AI Features
Microsoft announced that a suite of free AI capabilities will be added to Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for all Microsoft 365 subscribers, with a preview slated for March 2026. The enhancements include an expanded Copilot Chat that can scan an...
Writer's AI Agents Can Actually Do Your Work—Not Just Chat About It
Writer, a San Francisco AI startup, launched Writer Agent, a unified chat‑plus‑automation platform that lets non‑technical employees create and run multi‑step business workflows across apps like Salesforce, Slack and Google Workspace without coding. Users can issue plain‑language requests, have the...
Microsoft Remakes Windows for an Era of Autonomous AI Agents
Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that Windows 11 will become an "agentic OS" by embedding native infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, including new platform primitives such as Agent Connectors, an on‑device registry for the Model Context Protocol, and a...
Microsoft's Fabric IQ Teaches AI Agents to Understand Business Operations, Not Just Data Patterns
Microsoft unveiled Fabric IQ at its Ignite conference, a semantic intelligence layer that embeds ontologies into the Fabric data platform to map datasets to real‑world entities, relationships and operational rules. The technology upgrades Power BI’s 20 million semantic models into enterprise‑wide ontologies,...
Google Unveils Gemini 3 Claiming the Lead in Math, Science, Multimodal and Agentic AI Benchmarks
Google unveiled Gemini 3, its latest proprietary AI model family—including flagship Gemini 3 Pro, Deep Think reasoning mode, Gemini Agent and the Antigravity developer environment—across Search, the Gemini app, AI Studio, Vertex AI and other developer tools. Independent benchmarks (Artificial Analysis, LMArena) rank Gemini 3 Pro as the global...
How AI Data Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Enterprise Storage - Ep. 281
In this episode, NVIDIA’s Jacob Liberman explains how AI Data Platforms integrate GPUs directly with storage to accelerate enterprise workloads, turning data into a compute resource. He outlines the architecture of the GPU‑accelerated storage solution, its performance benefits, and how...
Google Defies Doubters, Leads AI with Video Data
You are an AI OG if you can remember the days when everyone said Google was doomed and would never lead in AI. They aren’t saying that anymore. And who has the most video data to build world models, which will run...
Read “What Is Consciousness” First for Context
I recommend reading my article, What is Consciousness before reading the following The range of ideas shared in the comments to this most recent post is terrific and warrants some further discussion. With that in mind, here are some of...
Organizations Must Own the Right to Their Cloud Compute, or Innovation Will Suffer
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has ruled that the public‑cloud market is no longer competitive, highlighting that three hyperscalers dominate 70% of Europe’s market and create costly lock‑in that prevents most firms from switching providers. Less than 1%...
Vibe Coding to Vibe Hacking: Securing Software in the AI Era
Matt Moore, co‑founder and CTO of Chainguard, warns that AI‑assisted "vibe coding"—where developers generate code via generative AI—could account for 40% of new business software within three years, dramatically accelerating development and boilerplate creation. While the speed and refactoring benefits...
Genome LLM Makes a Super-Virus, and Should AI Decide if You Live?
The episode explores the dark side of AI, highlighting a genome‑trained language model that can design a super‑virus and debating whether AI copies of ourselves should make life‑or‑death decisions. It also covers quirky AI culture, from a woman marrying a...
Key Marketing Metrics for the AI‑Agent Era
The Marketing Metrics That Will Matter Most in the Age of AI Agents When AI agents become part of the decision making chain, marketing metrics shift. This article covers which metrics matter most when you’re marketing to machines and humans...
AI Success No Longer Requires Academic Publications
Many people still believe you need to publish research to succeed in AI. That might’ve been true a few years ago, but things have changed 👇 I’ve done research during my Master’s and PhD. Most of my work never made it to...
Stack Overflow Is Remaking Itself Into an AI Data Provider
Stack Overflow wants to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format.
Seeking Deeper Analysis of Intriguing Solve Logs
Fascinating results. Can we get more eyes and analysis on the solve logs to try to understand: https://t.co/ovW1IG4vGL ?
Voice Takes Over: Win a Monokey Keyboard‑Free Device
https://t.co/GRTnUAe9ZD
Zoox Will Let Public Riders Use Its Robotaxis in San Francisco
Zoox is getting closer to a full launch of its robotaxi service in San Francisco. Last month, the Amazon-owned company started allowing select riders to hail its toaster-shaped, four-passenger vehicles for the first time. And today, Zoox is finally inviting...
Gemini 3 Pro Leaps Ahead in Multimodal Fidelity
Best outputs from Gemini 2.5 Pro, vs 3 Pro, this example nicely illustrates the fidelity jump with 3 Pro, through strong multimodal understanding and 3D reasoning https://t.co/0aM8oSgmFA
Gemini 3 Generates Voxel Art From a Single Image
Amazing test of Gemini 3’s multimodal reasoning capabilities: try generating a threejs voxel art scene using only an image as input Prompt: I have provided an image. Code a beautiful voxel art scene inspired by this image. Write threejs code as...
How AI Tax Startup Blue J Torched Its Entire Business Model for ChatGPT—And Became a $300 Million Company
In the winter of 2022, as the tech world was becoming mesmerized by the sudden, explosive arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Benjamin Alarie faced a pivotal choice. His legal tech startup, Blue J, had a respectable business built on the AI...
Google's Gemini 3 Launch Impresses the Community
Congrats to Google on Gemini 3! Looks like a great model.
Recreate Your Site’s Early‑2000s Look Using Gemini 3
highly recommend generating an early 2000's version of your website with gemini 3 https://t.co/J5fWuq6akB
ChatGPT Is Down - Everything We Know About the Latest AI Outage Impacting OpenAI
OpenAI products including ChatGPT and Sora are experiencing major outages.
Using Gemini 3 with Codex Extension in VSCode
How can I use gemini 3 with codex extension in vscode? 😂
Gemini 3 Sets New Standard in Multimodal AI
Gemini 3 is here ... and it's INSANELY good. → best model in world for multimodal understanding → beats Claude sonnet 4.5, GPT 5.1 on *almost every* benchmark → wildly good at agentic tool use and vibe-coding → SOTA at complex reasoning → great at zero-shot...
A Massive Cloudflare Outage Is Affecting X, ChatGPT, and Even Downdetector
Cloudflare, a networking company that provides DDoS protection and internet content delivery services for many companies around the globe, is working to fix a major outage that’s taking down sites across the web. Users are running into an error message...
Gemini 3 Pro Delivers More Intelligence per Token
The most interesting thing testing Gemini 3 Pro has been how *efficient* it is from tokens to tool calls The intelligence per token of models is increasingly rapidly even as prices fall, its quite something
Gemini 3 Hits 31.1% on ARC‑AGI‑2 Benchmark
Gemini 3 scores 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2. Impressive progress.
The Download: AI-Powered Warfare, and How Embryo Care Is Changing
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The State of AI: How war will be changed forever —Helen Warrell & James O’Donnell It is July...
Waymo Expands to Five New Cities, Scaling Fivefold Annually
Waymo is adding 5 new cities: Miami, Dallas, Houston, Orlando. Waymo has been growing about 5x per year since it started scaling its service in 2023.
Seeking Updates and Projects Using OpenAI's Agent Builder
I have heard nothing about Agent Builder since OpenAI Dev Day. Any building with it? What are you building? Feel free to DM instead.
The Pharmome Map: A Comprehensive Public Dataset for Drug-Target Interaction Modeling
EvE Bio has released the “pharmome map,” the largest public drug‑target interaction dataset to date. It measures 1,397 FDA‑approved small‑molecule drugs against nuclear receptors, GPCRs, and protein kinases using standardized high‑throughput assays. The dataset is openly accessible, refreshed bi‑monthly, and...
Google Poised to Pop AI Capex Bubble
it's in google's strategic interest to burst the ai capex bubble, i think sundar knows this and will act accordingly
LLM Clones: Spot Identical Models for Cash
LLMs often sound oddly alike. @The_GridAI turned that idea into a fun little challenge with 10,000 $ (!!!) in rewards for the top 3 players. The rules: Two replies pop up, you tell if it is the same model. 🧵↓ https://t.co/ftbGvKu3Wx
ChatGPT Free vs Paid: Will Upgrading Actually Improve Your Experience?
You can use ChatGPT for free, but depending on how much you want to use it, it could be time to upgrade to a paid-for version.
AI Data Centers Boom in Water‑Stressed U.S. Regions
@AndyMasley @Leonardonclt @dinabass “More than 160 new AI data centers have sprung up across the US in the past three years in places with high competition for scarce water resources, according to a Bloomberg News analysis…That’s a 70% increase from...
Intuit Signs $100M+ Deal with OpenAI to Bring Its Apps to ChatGPT
Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options, or managing business finances.
The CEO Behind the Fastest-Growing AI Inference Company | Tuhin Srivastava
In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Lukas Biewald talks with Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and founder of Baseten, one of the fastest-growing companies in the AI inference ecosystem. Tuhin shares the real story behind Baseten’s rise and how the market finally...