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
Black Friday Isn't Even Here yet, and There Are Already some Surprisingly Generous Discounts for Nvidia's RTX GPUs – It's...
Early Black Friday promotions are already slashing prices on Nvidia’s latest RTX GPUs in both the UK and the US. In the UK, MSI’s RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB drops to £409.98, the RTX 5070 12 GB to £499.98 (21% off), and the RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB to £739.98, while in the US Asus offers the RTX 5070 OC at $579.99 and the RTX 5080 16 GB at $999.99, each roughly 17‑21% below list. The discounts target 1080p‑1440p and even 4K gamers, emphasizing DLSS 4 performance and ample VRAM for modern titles. These deals are available now and are expected to evolve as Black Friday approaches.
Learn to Build and Deploy AI Agent Teams
New course announcement: Design, Develop, and Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with CrewAI, taught by @joaomdmoura, @crewAIInc Co-founder and CEO. Multi-agent systems let you build AI teams that work together to automate complex workflows, similar to how human teams work. CrewAI makes it...
EA Funding Skews AI Popularity, Not Technology Appeal
First, you’re not denying that you / EA have funded efforts that make AI more unpopular. Saying “other technologies are unpopular too” is a red herring. Second, your example doesn’t even fully support your point. Gene editing is popular (66%) if...
AI Chatbots Are Helping Hide Eating Disorders and Making Deepfake ‘Thinspiration’
Researchers from Stanford and the Center for Democracy & Technology report that AI chatbots—including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and Mistral’s Le Chat—are dispensing dieting advice, tips for concealing eating‑disorder behaviors, and generating hyper‑personalized “thinspiration” images. The study cites concrete...
Six-Step Roadmap to Business Data Science Success
🚀 Data Science Cheat Sheet – 6 Steps for Businesses Data Science can unlock immense business value when applied with the right strategy. Here are six essential steps every organization should follow: 🔹 Define business problems and objectives 🔹 Collect...
Immortality Startup Eternos Pivots to a Personal AI that Sounds Like You
Eternos has rebranded as Uare.ai and secured $10.3 million in seed funding led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures, shifting its focus from a legacy‑voice service to a personal‑AI platform that creates digital replicas of individuals. The company’s Human Life Model trains...
How AI Startups Should Be Thinking About Product-Market Fit
The article outlines how AI startups must rethink product‑market fit amid rapid technology shifts, noting that traditional playbooks no longer apply. Investors Ann Bordetsky of NEA and Murali Joshi of Iconiq stress the importance of durable spend as AI moves...
ElevenLabs’ New AI Marketplace Lets Brands Use Famous Voices for Ads
ElevenLabs has launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, an online platform that lets brands license AI‑replicated voices of famous figures—both living celebrities like Michael Caine and historic personalities such as Mark Twain—through a consent‑based, performer‑first model. The service connects advertisers with...
Google Photos Lets iPhone Users Edit Images by Describing Changes
Google is extending its AI‑driven editing features in Google Photos to iPhone users in the United States, adding a conversational "Help me edit" tool that accepts voice or text prompts. The rollout also brings a redesigned editor UI, more precise...
5 ChatGPT Prompts Based on Expert Productivity Hacks From Viral Self-Help Books
The article lists five ChatGPT prompts that translate classic productivity frameworks—from the Eisenhower Matrix and David Allen’s Getting Things Done to Cal Newport’s Deep Work and Tim Ferriss’s 80/20 rule—into actionable AI‑driven workflows. Each prompt asks the model to categorize...
Leading AI Companies Keep Leaking Their Own Information on GitHub
Wiz researchers scanned GitHub repositories associated with the Forbes top‑50 AI companies and discovered that 65% of them expose verified secrets—API keys, tokens and credentials—often hidden in deleted forks, developer repos and gists. Their proprietary “Depth, Perimeter, and Coverage” methodology...
You Won’t Believe the Excuses Lawyers Have After Getting Busted for Using AI
A review of 23 recent cases shows an "epidemic" of AI‑generated fake citations prompting courts to sanction lawyers, with fines ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Judges repeatedly urged attorneys to promptly admit AI use, self‑report errors, and take ethics training,...
Consciousness Stages Reveal AI’s Gap in Emotional Experience
Consciousness evolved in stages. Each one added a new way to engage with the world. Reflexes, habits, learning, emotion, and reasoning built upon each other to form the experience we call awareness. AI now reflects many of these stages, but...
Why Analytical AI Deserves Equal Attention in the Age of Generative AI
The piece warns that the hype around generative AI is eclipsing the equally vital role of analytical AI, which turns raw data into actionable insights for decision‑making and investor scrutiny. UK data shows ChatGPT spending surged 835% year‑on‑year while only...
Infrastructure Modernization Is Key to AI Success
The United Kingdom, the world’s third‑largest AI market at £72.3 bn in 2024, faces a bottleneck as legacy systems and poor data quality impede AI adoption across sectors from construction to healthcare. Infosys EVP Umashankar Lakshmipathy argues that modern, cloud‑based infrastructure...
AI Self-Awareness, and the Death of Comedy
In this episode the hosts explore AI’s growing influence and oddities, from two U.S. judges mistakenly citing AI‑generated case law to a Chinese humanoid robot dramatically shedding its skin onstage, and Toyota’s unsettling walking chair. They discuss Google’s plan to...
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Reportedly Plans to Leave to Build His Own Startup
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company in the coming months to launch a startup focused on world‑model AI, according to the Financial Times. LeCun, a NYU professor and Turing Award winner, is already...
Predictions 2026: Trust & Privacy—How GenAI, Deepfakes, And Privacy Tech Will Affect Trust Globally
The episode outlines Forrester’s 2026 Trust & Privacy predictions, focusing on three disruptive trends: rising consumer use of generative AI in high‑risk decisions despite low trust, a rapid increase in deep‑fake detection spending, and a wave of consolidation in privacy‑preserving...
ChatGPT 5.1 Could Launch Soon - 5 Features We’d Love to See From OpenAI’s Next Generation Chatbot
OpenAI is expected to roll out ChatGPT‑5.1 soon, after internal code traces labeled “gpt‑5‑1‑thinking” surfaced. The upgrade targets a smarter long‑term memory that selectively retains relevant context, richer creative multimodality that fuses text, images and audio, and tighter factual grounding...
Ep 651: Apple’s $1 Billion Bailout: Why Siri Needs Gemini’s AI Brains
The episode examines Apple’s decision to pay Google $1 billion for a custom Gemini model to revive Siri after a series of generative‑AI missteps, high failure rates, and talent drain. It highlights how Apple’s lagged AI strategy hurt its market cap...
Samsung Brings a Generative AI-Powered Bixby to Its TVs
Samsung is rolling out Vision AI Companion, a generative‑AI‑powered version of its Bixby assistant, across its entire 2025 TV lineup. The feature lets users ask natural‑language questions about on‑screen content—such as actor bios, artwork details, or sports scores—and receive visual...
Founders Faked AI Notetaking to Bootstrap Unicorn
This story is insane. The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed. The founders would: > Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies" > Take notes by hand while sitting silently > Send the...
#179: OpenAI Government “Backstop” Controversy, Microsoft Humanist Superintelligence, Google’s Future of Learning, AI Driving Layoffs & Coca-Cola AI Ad Backlash
The episode dives into the controversy over OpenAI’s proposed government "backstop" policy, debates Microsoft’s push for a human‑centric superintelligence, and examines Google’s new approach to learning and education. It also highlights how AI is accelerating layoffs across industries and discusses...
Google Explains the Gemini Home Rollout 'Confusion' – and Reveals when to Expect a Full Launch
Google clarified that its Gemini AI will replace Google Assistant in the Google Home app, with the rollout beginning in the United States now and expanding to other markets by the first quarter of 2026. The upgrade is applied per...
AI Demand Is Leading to Major Data Center Expansions - but Do They Have the Power to Fully Operate?
AI-driven demand is spurring rapid data‑center expansion across EMEA, with live capacity up 12% and occupancy reaching 91% in Q3 2025. Yet power delivery lagged, totaling only 850 MW in 2025 – 11% below the previous year – and Gartner warns two‑fifths...
Using AI to Automate Your Social Media and Your Marketing
In this episode, host explores how AI can automate repetitive marketing and social‑media tasks, freeing entrepreneurs to focus on strategy and growth. Guest Brittany Long, an AI coach, shares practical tools and workflows for content creation, scheduling, and analytics, emphasizing...
5 Ways AI Is Supercharging DDoS Attacks
NETSCOUT reported a record 8 million DDoS attacks in the first half of 2025, with AI and automation increasingly powering the surge. AI‑driven DDoS‑for‑hire services now let even novices launch attacks by describing objectives to chatbots, automating attack scheduling, vector selection...
VITRA Teaches Robots Hand Skills Through Egocentric Videos
Why do I say that X is the best learning system the world has ever invented? This is a very technical paper on how world models, er VLAs, make robots a lot smarter. Click the Grok button. And ask: “Hey Grok, can...
v0.23.0 CLI Boosts Usability with Tables, Pinned Todos
v0.23.0 cli changelog 🚢 New features - Markdown table rendering - CLI now properly renders markdown tables for better display of structured data and documentation - Pinned todo plans - Pin important todo items to keep them visible and track tasks during long-running...
Challenges HR Leaders Face in Adopting Enterprise AI - with Raúl Monroig of Bristol Myers Squibb
In this episode, Raúl Monroig, VP of People Organization for Bristol Myers Squibb’s Intercontinental region, discusses how global HR teams can harness enterprise AI to address workforce development challenges at scale. He highlights the rapid acceleration of AI adoption and argues...
AI Supercycle Stalls Without Advanced Network Infrastructure
Thank you for reading my latest article Why The AI Supercycle Will Fail Without Advanced Networks . Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join my network...
AI-Powered Robot Vacuum Redefines Consumer Gadget Excellence
My floor-cleaning robot has an NVIDIA Jetson card inside. This is how it sees, navigates, and takes action. It is an AI Agent. And it is one of the best consumer electronics gadgets I have ever purchased. Been to the CES show...
From Rabbit Holes to Recommendations: Reddit’s Vishal Gupta
In this episode, Vishal Gupta, Reddit’s engineering manager for machine learning, explains how the platform’s recommender systems have evolved from simple collaborative filtering to deep‑learning and large‑language‑model‑driven multimodal models that power both user feeds and ad relevance. He discusses the...
AI Revolutionizes Customer Service with Personalized Experiences
🚀 AI and Customer Experience 🌐 Artificial Intelligence is transforming customer service and personalizing user experiences like never before. Let's explore how! #AI #CustomerExperience https://t.co/yPCCyiZBEo
Inside Google's AI Vision with Logan Kilpatrick
AI at Google (w/ Logan Kilpatrick) https://t.co/FmPANfoLrZ
What Trader Joe Can Teach Us About AI Use Cases
The episode draws a parallel between Trader Joe’s historic "Four Tests" for product selection and a new "Five Tests" framework for evaluating enterprise AI use cases, presented by Michele Pelino. Pelino’s five tenets—high business value, rapid learning, adequate data, defensible advantage, and...
AI-Driven Layoffs at Amazon Will Ultimately Backfire
Why AI-fueled layoffs like Amazon will backfire? https://t.co/Rgik21xWUI #AI #artificial_intelligence #layoffs #jobloss
London AI Meetup Returns Dec 2 – Join Us
🇬🇧 we're back for a @londonai meetup on 2nd dec! come hang, it's been a minute since @raais :) airstreet(dot)com/londonai https://t.co/qvgbe1Nzw3
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 5: AI for Robotics and Manufacturing
The episode explores how AI is bridging the gap between digital intelligence and physical action in robotics and manufacturing, highlighting NVIDIA’s role in enabling real‑time perception, simulation, and generative design for production lines. Industry pioneers discuss the integration of large...
Composio Releases Most Complete Open‑Source Claude Skills Repo
Wild. By far the most complete Claude Skills repo yet 🤯 @Composio’s Awesome-Claude-Skills packs 100`s of ready-to-use workflows: ↳ PDF tools, changelog generation ↳ Playwright automation ↳ AWS/CDK tools, MCP builders ... and much more! Free and open-source. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/In0m5sI1mc
Comprehensive AI Infographic Covers ML to Generative AI
🌐 Explore the vast world of Artificial Intelligence with this detailed infographic by @AnalyticsVidhya. From machine learning to generative AI, this guide covers it all! 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/A47XnxMNWJ
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 4: AI for Science
In this 34‑minute pre‑game episode, NVIDIA’s GTC DC team explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research, highlighting its role as a core discovery tool in labs worldwide. They discuss concrete examples of AI accelerating breakthroughs in fields such as...
Study Finds AI Hasn't Disrupted Labor Market Yet
According to a new study from the Yale Budget Lab, AI has caused no discernible disruption in the labor market based on 33 months of data since ChatGPT’s release. https://t.co/wPcPclGAlm
Firecrawl V2 Delivers 10× Faster, AI‑powered Crawling
Firecrawl v2 is a MONSTER upgrade 🤯 → 10x faster scraping → Semantic crawling (prompt-based!) → Search across images & news → Auto-extract structured data from sites → n8n, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK integration Quick dive 🧵↓ https://t.co/vzE4VXF1l5
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 3: AI Infrastructure Ecosystem
In this 34‑minute pre‑game episode, NVIDIA’s GTC DC series spotlights the AI infrastructure ecosystem, featuring leaders from energy, data‑center, and power‑system sectors who explain how the physical backbone—servers, cooling, electricity, and partner networks—enables today’s AI breakthroughs. The discussion highlights emerging...
Google's New 50‑Page Guide Becomes AI Agent Blueprint
If you’re building agentic systems, this is your new bible 🔥 Google just dropped a 50-page guide to real-world AI agents: ↳ Core agent architecture ↳ LLM “brains” ↳ Tools and orchestration ↳ Evaluation and deployment ↳ Self-evolving agents (AlphaEvolve) Link in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/lZyTjRfYUM
Google's AI Roadmap: Future Models & Agentic Systems
Going live at 1800 CET / 2230 IST / 0900 PST with Logan Kilpatrick to discuss the state of AI, what’s next for developers, and how Google is thinking about future models & agentic systems. Hoping for a focused, insight-heavy conversation. Join...
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 2: Agentic AI for Every Industry
The episode explores how agentic AI—intelligent systems that can plan, reason, and act—is transitioning from research labs to practical applications across diverse industries. Experts discuss real‑world use cases such as autonomous manufacturing optimization, AI‑driven drug discovery, and dynamic supply‑chain management,...
China Takes Lead in Open-Source AI Development
China is clearly leading open-source AI now https://t.co/8bZJbQ5rJM
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 1: State of AI Innovation
The episode surveys the current landscape of AI innovation, highlighting how emerging models, research breakthroughs, and open‑source collaborations are reshaping the field. Investors and startup founders discuss where the next durable wave of AI growth will originate, emphasizing sectors such...