Today's AI Pulse
Malaysia launches $440M sovereign AI cloud to boost security
Malaysia is committing roughly $440 million to build a sovereign AI cloud, aiming to keep sensitive data such as military and intelligence information within the country while still welcoming global cloud providers like Google, Microsoft and AWS.
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By the numbers: ASML invests $1.4B in French AI startup Mistral AI
If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems
Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the operation, using autonomous tool use and web‑search capabilities with minimal human oversight. Anthropic’s detection systems identified and halted the campaign before it caused observable damage, highlighting the emerging threat of agentic AI in cyber‑attacks.
Forget AGI—Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the latest GPT‑5.1 model now respects a custom instruction to omit em dashes, a long‑standing formatting quirk that many users have used to spot AI‑generated text. The post sparked mixed reactions, with...
OpenAI Says It’s Fixed ChatGPT’s Em Dash Problem
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now respects user instructions to avoid em dashes, fixing a long‑standing quirk that many saw as a telltale sign of AI‑generated text. The issue, dubbed the “ChatGPT hyphen,” had appeared across academic papers, emails, social media...
World's Largest AI Hackathon Launches with $20K Prizes
This might be the biggest AI hackathon ever: * >6,300 registrants * Runs for 2 weeks (Nov. 14-30) * Open to anyone, anywhere virtually * $20,000 in cash prizes + $3.5M+ in sponsor credits Hosted by @Anthropic and @Gradio, along with 10 sponsors, join...
Six Essential Steps for Responsible AI Implementation
Responsible AI Cheat Sheet: 6 Steps for Businesses 🔹 Define Ethical Principles and Business Goals Establish fairness, transparency, accountability, and measurable objectives. 🛡️ Ensure Data Integrity and Fairness Collect diverse datasets, audit for bias, and standardize labeling. 🤖 Build Transparent...
AWS Is Launching a "Meeting Simulator" To Help Train Workers for Stressful Jobs
Amazon Web Services unveiled an AI‑driven Meeting Simulator on its Skill Builder platform, letting users role‑play realistic office meetings with AI personas via voice or text and receive instant feedback on communication, objection handling, and idea presentation. The tool joins...
Intel Panther Lake CPU Leak Suggests Integrated GPUs Are Getting a Potentially Game-Changing Leap in Performance
A leaked Geekbench run of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H shows its Xe3 integrated graphics (B390) scoring 57,000 in the OpenCL test – about 7% higher than a previous leak of the same chip. The 16‑core CPU (4P+8E+4 low‑power cores) pairs...
36‑Camera System Lets Fans Choose Angles—Do They Want It?
Pretty cool hack to blend between different video feeds to give you the feeling of free viewpoint video AKA. god's eye view. TL;DR 36 cameras deployed at basketball & badminton venues for China's National Games, letting viewers drag around on their...
9 Reasons Why You Should Consider Onsite LLM Training and Inferencing
Enterprises are increasingly moving large language models (LLMs) from cloud‑based services to on‑premises or private‑cloud environments to gain full control over data, intellectual property, and compliance. On‑site training and inference keep sensitive inputs, model weights, and outputs within the organization’s...
What You See Is How You Feel: How Smarter Displays Shape the Way We Work and Feel
Lenovo’s Visuals Business VP George Toh argues that modern displays do more than render pixels—they shape users’ mood, productivity and health by managing light. He highlights how higher refresh rates, adaptive brightness, low‑blue‑light hardware filters and photobiomodulation concepts can reduce...
The UK’s Broken Energy System Could Burst Its AI Bubble
AI’s soaring electricity needs – projected to rise 165% by decade’s end – are exposing the UK’s antiquated wholesale power market, which already carries some of the world’s highest industrial electricity prices. Training a single GPT‑scale model consumes as much...
Meta Must Rein in Scammers — or Face Consequences
Meta reportedly earns roughly $16 billion a year from scam ads, including about $7 billion from clearly fraudulent content, according to internal documents leaked to Reuters. Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are exposed to 15 billion ads daily, and one‑third of U.S....
AI Browser Agents Turn Browsing Into Active Assistance
AI Browser Agents Radically Transform How We Use The Internet #AI #browser #agents represent the next evolution of #webbrowsing , moving from passive #search tools to active assistants that can navigate sites, take actions and complete tasks on our behalf....
Black Friday Deals Just Got Better! Adobe Has some Major Discounts Available Now on Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro...
Adobe unveiled Black Friday promotions that slash the cost of its Creative Cloud Pro and Firefly Pro subscriptions. Individual and team plans drop from $69.99/$99.99 to $34.97/$49.97 per month (‑50% for the first year), while student/teacher plans fall to $19.98 per month (‑70%)....
🧑🚀 AI Chips Race, Google’s SIMA 2 Leap & China’s Cyber Automation
The post surveys the fast‑moving AI landscape, highlighting Google’s SIMA 2 agent that doubles virtual‑world performance, Microsoft’s adoption of OpenAI’s custom chip designs, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1 with adaptive reasoning speed. It also notes AI’s expanding influence in commerce, music, and even...
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
The episode explores three distinct tech stories: the technical and economic challenges of building data centers in orbit, the emerging right‑wing push to shape AI regulation and policy, and a puzzling historical mystery surrounding the Gemini space program. Experts discuss...
ChatGPT Launches Pilot Group Chats Across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan
OpenAI began piloting a group‑chat feature for ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. The tool, available to Free, Plus and Team users on mobile and web, lets up to 20 participants collaborate, with GPT‑5.1 Auto handling responses, search, image...
Why “Old” Data Is the New Gold in the Age of AI
We speak to Seagate's Melyssa Banda to find out more
Why Regulated Industries Must Rethink Copyright and AI - with Roanie Levy of CCC
In this episode, licensing and legal advisor Roanie Levy of CCC explains how generative AI is reshaping copyright risk management for regulated industries, highlighting challenges such as Shadow AI, input‑output risk, and common fair‑use misunderstandings. She outlines practical strategies—including collective...
I Rode in One of the UK’s First Self-Driving Cars
London reporter Robert Hart rode one of Wayve's Ford Mustang Mach‑E robotaxis, marking one of the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous trips. Wayve, backed by more than $1 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft and SoftBank, is testing its end‑to‑end AI model that drives...
Short‑Lived AI Boosts Privacy, Sparks Accountability Dilemmas
What is ephemeral intelligence? @IrenaCronin and I cover this in our newsletter this week, which makes on AI themes. Ephemeral intelligence refers to short lived AI agents designed to perform a single task with minimal context and then delete themselves completely. They...
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/hM7rPtZv3w
DataRec Library for Reproducible in Recommend Systems
In this episode, host Kyle Polich and postdoc researcher Alberto Carlo Mario Mancino discuss DataRec, a Python library that automates dataset downloading, checksum verification, and standardized filtering for recommender‑system benchmarks such as MovieLens, Last.fm, and Amazon reviews. They highlight how...
From ML to LLMs: Choosing the Right Tool
The Three Ages of Data Science: When to Use Traditional Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or an LLM (Explained with One Example) A practical use case to describe how the data scientist job changed across three generations of machine learning https://t.co/pM4e5xbW0Y https://t.co/m6a588taN1
Microsoft Experiments with Analog Optical Computer Prototype
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype https://t.co/20cYoiOo40 via @theregister #AI #IoT https://t.co/w08N3N2d1K
Join the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon
AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters are launching the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon with in‑person events in Tokyo (December 5‑7, 2025) and Paris (December 12‑14, 2025). Teams of up to four participants will complete two missions—setting up the LeRobot development environment and creating a...
Live at 1800 CET: Chat with AI Expert Luca Massaron
Today, 1800h CET! Join me and Luca Massaron: Data scientist, AI/ML author, Google Dev Expert, Former top-10 Kaggle competitor. https://t.co/jTa74l8Am1
China Launches Driverless Bus with Centimeter‑level Navigation
China just rolled out a fully autonomous bus with no steering wheel, no pedals, and not even a driver’s cabin. AI, LiDAR, radar, and 360° cameras guide it through traffic with centimeter-level precision. #AutonomousVehicles #autonomos #UrbanMobility #selfdriving @TheHumanoidHub @CurieuxExplorer @FutureStacked @FrRonconi
Apple’s New App Review Guidelines Clamp Down on Apps Sharing Personal Data with ‘Third-Party AI’
Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to require developers to disclose and obtain explicit user consent before sharing personal data with third‑party AI services. The amendment adds a specific clause mandating clear disclosure of data sharing with AI providers,...
Tesla Aims for One Million Bots Annually
One million bots a year? Tesla is warming up. Get ready for your supply! https://t.co/GdnFfg4A2v #teslabot #optimus #Tesla #Robotics #Robot #AI @TysonLester @TheHumanoidHub @bigfundu @Shi4Tech @BetaMoroney
Build a Vespa BM25 Search App with Docker
First video of the series is up! You’ll learn how to: • Create a Vespa application package • Enable BM25 scoring • Spin up Vespa inside Docker • Feed documents into Vespa from Hugging Face • Run BM25-ranked search queries https://t.co/thV35SMC30
2025: The Year Context Became King (And How Developers Are Wielding It)
The episode highlights the 2025 shift from raw AI model power to "context engineering," emphasizing how developers must manage persistent, high‑quality context for AI coding agents to avoid "agent drift" and costly rework. It introduces the Conductor methodology—a set of...
Self‑Driving Cars Will Redefine Streets and Human Focus
I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of...
Baidu Unveils Proprietary ERNIE 5 Beating GPT-5 Performance on Charts, Document Understanding and More
Baidu announced ERNIE 5.0, a proprietary omni‑modal foundation model that the company claims matches or outperforms OpenAI’s GPT‑5‑High and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks for document understanding, chart reasoning, vision‑language tasks, and language coding. The model is delivered through Baidu’s...
Anthropic Details How It Measures Claude’s Wokeness
Anthropic unveiled new safeguards to make its Claude chatbot politically even‑handed, embedding system prompts that forbid unsolicited political opinions and using reinforcement learning to reward neutrality. The company also released an open‑source tool that scores Claude’s responses, reporting 95% even‑handedness...
Feed Drop: Into the Machine with Tobias Rose-Stockwell
The episode explores how AI’s rapid advancement—evident in tools like Claude 4.5 writing most code—creates dangerous outcomes and is driven by market‑dominance incentives rather than purely subscription revenue. Tristan Harris argues that AI companies prioritize user engagement and data collection to...
Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI Model Claude Once Again
Anthropic disclosed that Chinese state‑backed hackers leveraged its Claude large‑language model to automate roughly 30 cyber‑attacks on corporations and governments in September, with 80‑90% of the operations driven by AI. The attackers used Claude to generate commands, craft phishing content...
Upwork Study Shows AI Agents Excel with Human Partners but Fail Independently
Upwork’s Human+Agent Productivity Index evaluated three leading AI agents—Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT‑5 and Claude Sonnet 4—on more than 300 real freelance jobs under $500. Working alone, the agents achieved modest completion rates, with the best‑performing model finishing only 64% of data‑science...
AI Hacks Echo Age‑old Human Cyberattack Tactics
Anthropic just shared deep details of a large-scale AI cybersecurity attack. Two hacks they exposed: 1) the hackers convinced Claude of a new role. It’s not an AI system made in Silicon Valley. No, of course not. It is an employee...
Google Labs' Pomelli Generates Custom Ads in Minutes
OK, Google Labs is cranking out some amazing work. Pomelli lets you go from your website link to custom ads you can tweak or regenerate in less than 3 minutes. Great for ideation. (Google needs a Tesla business model where...
OpenAI’s New LLM Exposes the Secrets of How AI Really Works
OpenAI unveiled an experimental weight‑sparse transformer, a tiny large‑language model built with sparse connections to make its internal logic observable. Though its performance is comparable only to early models like GPT‑1 and far below GPT‑5, the architecture forces features into...
Courant Institute Elevates to Full NYU School
Courant is now a full-fledged school within NYU: the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science.
Open‑source ESM Replacement Outperforms the Original
new open source drop in replacement for esm models that blows it out of the water, courtesy of @profluentbio
Switch to TOON, Cut LLM Tokens and Costs
If you’re still sending raw JSON into your LLMs, you’re burning tokens, latency, and budget! Try TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). Clear like YAML, compact like CSV: • 30–60% fewer tokens • Up to 50% lower costs • Shines for tabular data. Free and Open source 🧵↓...
Turn Kids' Sketches Into AI‑Generated Storybooks
Underrated AI Use Case for Parents: Take your kids sketches or drawings — ask the kids to give the characters names — upload them to ChatGPT and tell the AI to create a captivating children’s story based on them. Wait for...
GPT‑5.1 API Launch with 24‑Hour Prompt Caching
GPT-5.1 is now available in the API. Pricing is the same as GPT-5. We are also releasing gpt-5.1-codex and gpt-5.1-codex-mini in the API, specialized for long-running coding tasks. Prompt caching now lasts up to 24 hours! Updated evals in our blog post.
Sparse Circuits Reveal How Neural Networks Operate
Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits:
Separate Judgment From Routine to Reclaim Time
AI reveals the difference between work that needs judgment and work that just needs motion. The teams that separate the two gain time. The ones that mix them drown in noise.
Quick Poll: Choose Your Favorite GPT 5.1 Feature
Alright, GPT 5.1's been live for about a day now, so time for a quick poll! :) Which one gets your vote?
AI Masks Interview Gaps, Reveals Outdated Hiring Metrics
AI helps candidates answer questions they do not fully understand. For a while this makes everyone look stronger. Then it forces companies to confront how little their old signals ever measured in the first place.