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
Anthropic Will Invest $50 Billion in Building AI Data Centers in the US
Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment to build AI data centers in the United States, partnering with Fluidstack to launch facilities in Texas and New York with additional sites planned. The centers are slated to become operational throughout 2026 and are expected to create about 800 jobs. Anthropic says the spend is needed to meet rising demand for its Claude chatbot and to keep its research at the technology frontier. The move aligns with the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan to preserve U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence and strengthen domestic tech infrastructure.
Structured Prompts Unlock AI’s Web Design Potential
We ran 180 AI web design prompts to see what actually works. Everyone says these tools can design full websites in minutes. I wanted to see if that was true. Across Base 44, Bolt, Figma Make, and Lovable, we tested every...
Avoid These Seven Fatal Mistakes in AI Adoption
Despite massive investment, many organizations are still missing the mark with AI adoption. Why? In this article I wrote for Fortune , I share seven critical mistakes that derail AI initiatives, and what leaders can do differently. Key takeaways: ✅...
Mayor Matt Mahan on How AI Is Changing City Life in San Jose - Ep. 280
In this episode, Mayor Matt Mahan and NVIDIA’s Jumbi Edulbehram discuss how San Jose is leveraging AI to make city operations smarter, from optimizing transit routes and providing real‑time meeting translation to upskilling municipal staff. They highlight concrete examples of AI‑driven...
Six Steps to Implement Sovereign AI for Businesses
🚀 Sovereign AI Cheat Sheet: 6 Steps for Businesses 🌍🤖 🔹 1. Define Sovereignty & Strategic Objectives Clarify goals, regulations, and align with business strategy. 🔹 2. Assess Data Localization & Compliance Needs Map storage/flows, apply residency rules, ensure compliance....
Deploy N8n on Cloud Run for Scalable AI Automation
Easy AI workflow automation: Deploy n8n on Cloud Run n8n is redefining how teams build and scale AI-powered automations. 🚀 With just a few commands, you can now self-host n8n on Google Cloud Run — a simple, secure, and cost-effective...
Waymo Is Hitting the Highway — but Can It Handle the Speed?
Waymo announced that its fully driverless robotaxis will begin offering highway routes in Phoenix, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, initially to early‑access riders, while extending its Bay Area service to San Jose with 24/7 curbside access at both...
Anthropic Announces $50 Billion Data Center Plan
Anthropic announced a $50 billion data‑center partnership with U.K. neocloud provider Fluidstack, targeting custom facilities in Texas and New York that will come online in 2026 to power its Claude AI models. The investment aligns with the company’s internal forecast of...
Vulnerability Underpins Sentience, Defining AI's Moral Limits
If sentience is the ability to feel happiness or suffering, vulnerability is its foundation. Human emotion arises from biology, shaping our ethics, relationships, and sense of justice. AI can represent these values but cannot feel them. That difference defines the...
Read Offline First, Then Code to Master LLM Books
I often get questions from readers about how to read and get the most out of my book(s) on building LLMs from scratch. My advice is usually based on how I read technical books myself. This is not a one-size-fits-all...
5 Things I Love About Amazon’s New Echo Shows — and 3 Things I Don’t
Amazon unveiled the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11, featuring a sleeker design, faster AZ3 Pro processor, 13‑MP camera, Wi‑Fi 6E, Thread, Matter and Zigbee support, and a fabric‑wrapped speaker system. Both devices run the updated Vega OS with Alexa Plus, delivering more responsive...
Read Offline First, Then Type and Run Code
I often get questions from readers about how to read and get the most out of my book(s) on building LLMs from scratch. My advice is usually based on how I read technical books myself. This is not a one-size-fits-all...
Bridging the Two‑Tier AI Economy Gap
The Two Tier AI Economy: Why Half of Companies Are Being Left Behind — And How to Close the Gap A growing divide is forming in the AI era: some firms are leaping ahead with strategic reinvention, while others are...
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Speeds up the World Model Race with Marble, Its First Commercial Product
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei‑Fei Li, has launched Marble, its first commercial world‑model product, offering freemium and paid tiers that turn text, images, video or panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments. Unlike competitors that generate worlds on the...
AI Set to Revolutionize GPU Programming and Adoption
“So what is really happening is that the enormous gains AI has provided to general-purpose programming are now coming to GPUs. While it's not fully there today, I am deeply, deeply convinced that a significant amount of GPU programming is...
From Symbolic AI to Agents: Leaders’ Roadmap
🎯 Scaling Ascent Peak: The Seven Summits of Artificial Intelligence In my latest article, I chart the evolution of AI—from the early days of symbolic logic to today’s autonomous agents, and what lies beyond. This journey is more than a history...
🧑🚀 Untouchable ASML, SoftBank’s NVIDIA Sale & Meta Talent Shake-Up
The post highlights major AI‑related moves: Yann LeCun’s exit from Meta to launch a world‑model startup, SoftBank’s full sale of its $5.8 B NVIDIA stake to fund new AI bets, and Meta’s open‑source Omnilingual ASR supporting 1,600+ languages. It also notes...
2026 Manufacturing: AI‑Driven Human‑Machine Collaboration Redefines Production
The 6 Defining Manufacturing Trends Of 2026 #Manufacturing transforms from Industry 4.0 fascination to practical human-machine collaboration in 2026, with #AIagents autonomously managing factory operations while generative design moves from #prototype to #production . The revolution extends beyond automation to...
I Founded an Intelligent Phone Startup and Here’s How AI Agents Are Going to Change the Way We Do Business
Mahyar Raissi, co‑founder and CEO of Quo, argues that AI agents are moving beyond the enterprise‑only arena and becoming affordable tools for small and growing businesses. He notes that while 90% of Fortune 500 firms already use AI, just over half...
Can't Be Bothered to Read that PDF? Gemini Can Now Give You an Audio Overview
Google has added an AI‑powered “Audio Overview” feature to the web version of its Drive PDF viewer, letting Gemini generate conversational, podcast‑style audio summaries of long, text‑heavy documents such as contracts. Users click a new button, wait a few minutes...
It's Official - Using AI at Work Really Can Help You Be Happier and More productive...for Now
PwC’s latest workforce study finds only 14% of employees use generative AI tools every day and a mere 6% rely on agentic AI, yet daily users report markedly higher outcomes – 92% say productivity improves versus 58% of non‑daily users,...
Join AI Talk with Data Scientist Luca Massaron
🚨New AI Chitchat Alert🚨 This friday at 6pm cet / 10.30pm ist / 9am pst, I will be sitting down with Luca Massaron. Luca is a data scientist with more than a decade of experience and author of best selling AI...
Improving VMware Migration Workflows with Agentic AI
VMware-to-cloud migrations, once hampered by manual dependency mapping and legacy code rewrites, are being reshaped by recent licensing changes and the rise of agentic AI tools that automate migration workflows. The shift comes as cloud‑native adoption accelerates—CNCF’s 2024 survey shows...
Creativity, Measurement, Brand, Creators, Video: B2B's New Essentials
What an inspiring day at #B2Believe Munich! Huge thanks to #LinkedIn for inviting me to keynote, take part in the fireside chat, and let me join the incredible executive dinner. We explored how B2B marketing is being transformed. Here’s what...
Beyond Hype: When and How to Deploy GraphRAG
Do You Really Need GraphRAG? A Practitioner’s Guide Beyond the Hype A perspective on GraphRAG design best practices, challenges and learnings 1️⃣ When is GraphRAG needed? What factors would help you decide? 2️⃣ If you decide to implement GraphRAG, what...
Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management Solutions In Asia Pacific, Q4 2025
The episode highlights the rapid evolution of fraud in Asia Pacific, driven by instant payment systems, stablecoins, and AI‑powered scams, and introduces Forrester’s Q4 2025 Wave evaluating nine enterprise fraud‑management vendors. It underscores five critical capabilities institutions now demand: generative and agentic...
Anthropic Miscast as Chatbot Maker, Actually API Powerhouse
the year is 2025 and some still refer to anthropic as a chatbot maker 🤔 especially weird bc the company is actually known for its api and code products … https://t.co/TkTXz2YzBe
AI Now Drives Majority of Cloud Provider Revenue
What percentage of the cloud providers revenue is AI-related now? People thought we were crazy three years ago when we said that at some point the majority of their revenue would be AI-related.
Meta’s SPICE Framework Lets AI Systems Teach Themselves to Reason
Researchers at Meta FAIR and the National University of Singapore unveiled SPICE, a self‑play reinforcement‑learning framework where a single model assumes two roles—a Challenger that crafts problems from a large document corpus and a Reasoner that solves them without access...
Russia's Inaugural AI Humanoid Robot Stumbles at Moscow Debut
Russia’s first #AI humanoid #robot falls during #Moscow debut https://t.co/Nwifxq0fit
Exploring AI and TechBio's Future Landscape
tune into my convo on the state of ai and techbio with @recursionchris 👀 https://t.co/pXrmKBbUVX
Building Your Dream PC Is About to Take Longer and Cost More - Shortages See some Shops Now Limiting SSD,...
Japanese PC retailers in Akihabara have begun capping sales of SSDs, HDDs and RAM as inventories dwindle amid a global shortage of storage and memory chips. The shortage is driven by AI data‑center demand, prompting manufacturers to shift production toward...
Researchers See AI Reshaping Future Research Landscape
Elsevier last week shared the results of its global Researcher of the Future survey, offering fresh insights into how researchers view the rapidly evolving research landscape. https://t.co/FUvlDx3BPw #Research #Researchers #Elsevier #AI
Transformers Rank #4 in GitHub Octoverse, AI Dominates
Cool to see transformers number 4 top open-source project by contributors in 2025 in that latest @github octoverse! With vLLM, Codex, Ollama, llama.cpp all deeply integrated with transformers, it's an AI take-over of github this year! https://t.co/BiPl4ViJSf
Whisper It - Microsoft Uncovers Sneaky New Attack Targeting Top LLMs to Gain Access to Encrypted Traffic
Microsoft disclosed a new side‑channel attack dubbed “Whisper Leak” that can infer the topics of user conversations with large‑language models (LLMs) by analyzing the size and timing of encrypted packets sent during streamed responses. The technique exploits the incremental token...
Consider Sharing Anduril’s Behind‑Scenes Development Learnings
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Disco Mic Demo Shows AI Models Will Evolve
me, my disco microphone, and why ai models are going to get better
SoftBank’s Nvidia Sale Rattles Market, Raises Questions
SoftBank sold its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia holding—32.1 million shares at $181.58 each, about 14% below the chipmaker’s all‑time high—to free up capital for a planned $30 billion commitment to OpenAI and participation in a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona. The transaction...
Free OpenAI Guide Shows Efficient Context Engineering for AI Agents
OpenAI just published an ace 28-page guide on context engineering for AI agents. Instead of throwing more memory at LLMs, it shows how to engineer context: when to trim, summarize, prevent drift, and defend against context poisoning. 100% free. Link to the...
MIT Tool Lets You Visualize and Edit Impossible Objects
MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects https://t.co/0lHT0TIJ9m @MIT #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/rc5ABt27Xe
Only 9% of Developers Think AI Code Can Be Used without Human Oversight, BairesDev Survey Reveals
BairesDev’s Q4 Dev Barometer surveyed 501 senior developers and 19 project managers, finding that 65% expect AI to reshape their roles by 2026, moving from hands‑on coding to solution design and architecture. Sixty‑one percent plan to embed AI‑generated code in their workflows,...
AI Builders Clone Games, Only Rename—Ethical Question
not sure how i feel about ai app builders cloning existing games and just letting users change the name… (maybe this is okay cuz it was a tutorial meant to be cloned/learned from?) https://t.co/dYWJZ0E2Dk
Exploring Whether Machines Can Achieve True Creativity
Can Machines Be Truly Creative? https://t.co/IQjvCCVr6n #machine #Robotics #Robot #AI #humanoid #roboticssolution @codewithimanshu @FutureStacked @Fisher85M @CyberRobooo
Google Is Introducing Its Own Version of Apple’s Private AI Cloud Compute
Google announced Private AI Compute, a cloud‑based platform that extends on‑device AI capabilities while preserving user privacy. The service routes demanding AI tasks from Pixel phones, Chromebooks and other devices to a secure, fortified cloud environment where data is accessible...
AI Agents Create New Hacking Threats
AI agents open door to new hacking threats! https://t.co/k627jBLVjC #AIAgent #AI #artificial_intelligence #hackers #CyberSecurity #CyberSec
AI Fuels Record Unicorn Surge in 2025
Ranked: Top-Valued Startups in 2025 The AI surge has propelled numerous tech ventures to billion-dollar valuations this year. Known as unicorns, these firms are growing more frequent as entrepreneurs leverage #AI to transform software and automation capabilities. This visual ranks...
Pixel Phones Are Getting Notification Summaries
Google is rolling out a December update for Pixel 9 series phones (excluding the 9A) that introduces AI‑powered notification summaries limited to longer chat conversations, aiming to provide concise context and reduce errors. The same update adds automatic sorting and...
Seamless 3D Digital Twins: Merging Data, Unlocking Value
One of the coolest 3d real estate demos I've seen in a while. Treedis brings together gaussian splats for area understanding → BIM data to check which units are available → Matterport for indoor views → and image editing AI...
From NASA to Gemini: AI Evolution for Developers
Had a fun chat with Logan Kilpatrick. We discussed his incredible journey; from early work in machine learning at NASA and Apple, to shaping developer tools at OpenAI, and now pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Gemini, Google’s flagship...
Top Robotics Influencers and Companies to Watch
a list of people and companies to watch for robotics