Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic shuts down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export‑control warning
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration, via the Commerce Department, warned that foreign nationals could exploit the systems. The move followed alerts from Amazon and other firms about a potential jailbreak that could aid cyber‑security attacks. Anthropic declined the administration’s request for a voluntary shutdown but complied with the order.
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By the numbers: AMD acquires AI memory‑optimization pioneer Mext
CCI Getting Ready to Act Against Potential Anti-Competitive Ways in AI Space: Chairperson
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) announced it is preparing to intervene against anti‑competitive behavior emerging in the artificial‑intelligence sector, citing risks such as algorithmic collusion, targeted price discrimination, self‑preferencing and opacity. Chairperson Ravneet Kaur highlighted that the regulator has already identified potential concentration points across the AI value chain. CCI also flagged ongoing scrutiny in sports, civil aviation, paints and varnishes, and liquor industries, noting that 90% of its 1,360 antitrust matters have been resolved. The move follows a 2025 market study on AI and competition, underscoring the regulator’s proactive stance.
AI Code Reviews Echo Endless Human Debugging Loops
I really do love these interactions. 1. Claude writes the code. 2. Codex reviews the code and provides feedback. 3. Claude acknowledges the bug and fixes it. 4. Codex says it is not fixed. 5. Claude acknowledges it is still not fixed correctly and fixes...
Why Supply Chain Design Becomes the Differentiator as AI Automates Planning - with Don Hicks of Optilogic
In this episode, Don Hicks, CEO of OptiLogic, explains how AI‑native platforms are reshaping supply chain design by running planning and network design in parallel, turning supply chains from brittle, cost‑centric structures into resilient, flexible networks. He contrasts fast, heuristic‑driven...
Tier IV Starts Level 4 Autonomy Tests Across Three Continents
Tier IV has released hardware‑agnostic Level 4 autonomous‑driving software stacks through the open‑source Autoware platform, offering both hybrid perception‑planning and fully end‑to‑end configurations. The company began real‑world validation tests across three continents, deploying a Toyota JPN Taxi in Tokyo, a Hyundai Ioniq 5...
Deformable Part Models: Pre‑Deep Learning’s Object Detection Gold Standard
📌 The Rise of Deformable Part Models in Object Detection Imagine trying to detect a person walking 👣. Their arms move, legs bend, head turns - rigid detectors couldn’t handle this flexibility. In 2008, researchers introduced Deformable Part Models (DPM), a...
Azure Local Disconnected Looks the Part for Sovereignty. It Isn’t.
Microsoft announced Azure Local Disconnected Operations as generally available, positioning it as the flagship of a new Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud. In reality, the offering is a controlled‑access preview that requires a Microsoft‑approved business need and explicit purchase approval. Technical...
Singapore Universities Deploy AI Grading, Ban Student AI Use
https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/lecturers-in-four-singapore-universities-use-ai-to-grade-students-work University to students: Don’t use AI to do your homework ah. Also the University: (What the Shakespeare. Using AI to grade the Humanities. Wonderful, just wonderful.)
Lucid Unveils Steering Wheel-Free Robotaxi Concept, Taking Aim at Tesla’s Cybercab
Lucid unveiled a two‑seater robotaxi concept without a steering wheel or pedals, alongside new self‑driving subscription plans ranging from $69 to $199 per month. The vehicle promises 40% lower operating costs and an efficiency of about 5.5 miles per kilowatt‑hour,...
The 9 Best AI Coding Tools in 2026
The article ranks the nine leading AI coding assistants for 2026, outlining each tool’s strengths, pricing, and ideal use cases. Cursor leads for complex, multi‑file projects with agentic workflows, while Claude Code shines on massive codebases with a 1 M‑token context window....
Rethinking AEO when Software Agents Navigate the Web on Behalf of Users
The rise of AI‑powered agents that browse the web on users' behalf is eroding the long‑standing assumption that every click, scroll or purchase funnel step reflects a conscious human decision. While the raw data—page views, button clicks, time on page—remains...
Do Neoclouds Mean a World Where Anything Is Possible?
Neocloud providers are emerging as fast‑moving alternatives to the big three hyperscalers by offering GPU‑as‑a‑service compute built on crypto‑mining and liquid‑cooling expertise. They can stand up dedicated GPU clusters in weeks to months, far quicker than the years‑long procurement cycles...
AI Flattens Workplace Pyramid, Threatening Entry-Level Jobs
Tech companies keep blaming layoffs on AI. But the data suggests something more structural: the traditional workplace pyramid is flattening. Routine analytical and administrative work, once done by large junior teams, is increasingly handled by AI, while experienced professionals who use these...
Augmented IQ Unlocks the New Human Advantage
Delivered my first @SXSW keynote in 7 years. It was a proud moment. I promised everyone in the room that I'd upload the deck, and as promised, here you go! "Augmented IQ And The New Human Advantage" ➡️ https://briansolis.com/2026/03/augmented-iq-and-the-new-human-advantage/
Malaysia Strengthening AI, Capabilities to Safeguard Technological Sovereignty
Malaysia announced a comprehensive drive to boost domestic AI, semiconductor and digital technology capabilities, aiming for greater technological sovereignty. Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Chang Lih Kang linked the initiative to lessons from the Middle East conflict, emphasizing national resilience...
Large-Scale Neuroimaging Datasets Often Lack Information Specific to Women’s Health, Constraining AI’s Analysis Potential
Large‑scale neuroimaging studies largely omit women‑specific health information, limiting AI’s ability to model female brain dynamics. Only about 0.5 % of neuroscience papers address women’s health, and few datasets capture menstrual, pregnancy, or menopause data. Recent precision‑imaging work and the Women’s...
AI Keynote Cluster D: The Rise of Autonomous Decision Systems & Human-AI Co-Creation in 2026
By 2026, AI is transitioning from a pure automation tool to an autonomous decision partner across enterprises. The World Economic Forum predicts over 50 % of organizations will embed AI into core decision processes, with autonomous systems handling up to 40 %...
AI Creating More Jobs than Cutting Them, Study Says
A new Snowflake study of 2,050 leaders across ten countries finds AI is generating more jobs than it eliminates, with 77% of firms reporting net hiring and only 46% seeing cuts. The strongest gains appear in IT operations, cybersecurity and...
AWS Marks Twenty Years of Partnerships and Next Phase of AI Growth
Amazon Web Services celebrates its 20‑year milestone by highlighting the pivotal role of its Partner Network, which has expanded from 50 partners in 2012 to nearly 150,000 today. AWS reported a 24% revenue surge in Q4 2025, reaching a $142 billion annualised...
Trump Accuses Iran of Using AI to Spread Disinformation
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Iran is deploying artificial intelligence as a disinformation weapon, citing fabricated images of kamikaze boats, a false attack on the USS Abraham Lincoln, and a non‑existent rally of 250,000 supporters for Iran’s new Supreme Leader....
Evaluating LLMs Turns Into Hands‑On Learning Combat
Is it me or is doing mind numbing evals sometimes the way you learn? Feels like hand to hand combat with LLMs, as you are looking at every answer and learning so much about how things get answered, assumed, right...
AI Product Comparisons Drown in Unverified Self‑published Listicles
Spent hours and hours vibe coding something that pulled answers to prompts like "I'm comparing company A and company B for xyz product or service tell me which is better for my use case" I've been manually doing evals and...
Sanders's Data Center Moratorium Is Risky Strategy for AI Safety
Senator Bernie Sanders announced a bill to halt construction of new data centers, arguing that unchecked AI growth threatens jobs, democracy, and could lead to superintelligent systems beyond human control. Critics contend that a temporary moratorium would barely delay frontier...
ChatGPT Builds Functional Excel Strategy Game, Outshining Claude and Copilot
Hey Excel agents from Claude, OpenAI & MS Copilot: "make me a working strategy game in excel, it should have some form of graphics" Claude made a board and acted as game master, Copilot created a board but no game, ChatGPT...
AI in Finance and Banking, March 15, 2026
The latest semi‑monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici surveys AI’s rapid penetration of finance, highlighting six research strands. It examines how large language models influence bargaining games, maps AI‑driven fiscal actions across 64 countries, and cites Anthropic’s warning that hedge‑fund...
You Need a Private Claude Plugin Marketplace (Cowork Guide)
The post introduces a private Claude plugin marketplace built on a single GitHub repository, consolidating all Claude skills for personal and team use. It details the folder structure, build process, and how to handle public versus private repositories. By centralizing...
How Captain Fresh Is Wiring AI Into a $600-Billion Seafood Supply Chain
Captain Fresh, an Indian unicorn founded in 2020, is using artificial intelligence to overhaul the $600 billion global seafood supply chain. The startup embeds AI in both its acquisition engine—automating due‑diligence and decision‑making—and its proprietary digital operating system that links fishermen,...
Brown Math Department Postdoctoral Position
Brown University’s Mathematics Department has announced a rapid‑turnaround postdoctoral position focused on the intersection of mathematics and artificial intelligence. The role is open to candidates with a PhD in mathematics and welcomes any research that blends math with AI, not...
Accenture's AI Bookings Surge, Fueling Services Upside
$ACN Q2 FY2026 drops Thursday before the bell. Consensus is $2.87 EPS on ~$17.8B revenue. Last quarter, Accenture beat by $0.21 on EPS with $18.74B in revenue, $2.2B in Advanced AI bookings, and $1.1B in Advanced AI revenue. Stock is...
Scientists Discover AI Can Make Humans More Creative
Swansea University researchers found that AI can act as a creative collaborator, not just an efficiency tool. In a study of over 800 participants designing virtual cars, an AI system using MAP‑Elites generated diverse galleries of designs, including intentionally flawed...
Aussie Startup Neosframe Promises To Improve Retail Ad Production
Australian startup Neosframe has launched an AI‑powered creative automation platform that streamlines retail advertising production from asset creation to compliance and multi‑channel versioning. The system promises to increase campaign output by up to ten times without adding headcount, targeting regulated...
Winners and Losers in the AI Workplace
AI laboratories are rapidly releasing new models and workplace‑focused tools, positioning artificial intelligence as a catalyst for productivity gains across the economy. The launch of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork plug‑ins sparked a sharp sell‑off in software equities, signaling that investors anticipate sizable...
Speed of AI Implementation Is the New Competitive Moat
In the AI era, the new competitive moat isn’t brand or scale. It’s speed of implementation. Companies that deploy AI faster gain compounding advantages—lower costs, better service, faster iteration. And the gap widens every month. The AI Business Lab® Mastermind is designed...
12-Year AI Drug Expert Unfamiliar
In my 12 years in AI drug discovery, I have not heard of this company, have you? Original Bloomberg post by @AmberTongPW https://t.co/9C4LY1c5Um and full text by China Dailly https://t.co/z3xG5Y5HBI https://t.co/fnddeGtdEW
Red Hat and NVIDIA Collaborate for a More Secure Foundation for the Agent-Ready Workforce
Red Hat announced a deeper partnership with NVIDIA to embed the open‑source NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and AI‑Q Blueprint into its Red Hat AI platform. The integration adds sandboxed, deny‑by‑default agent execution within Kubernetes, enabling secure, production‑grade autonomous agents. By coupling OpenShell with...
Reimagine Resilience: AI‑Driven Data Protection for Enterprises
The #AI Imperative: Resilience Reimagined-Protecting the Agentic Enterprise & #Data - today's organisations demand more than just incremental improvements to existing data protection strategies; it calls for a wholesale reimagining of resilience itself. https://t.co/TWAXIQbUE0
Upgrade Gstack in Claude Code with Simple /Gstack-Upgrade
Upgrading your gstack setup in Claude Code is now as easy as just calling /gstack-upgrade. "Markdown as code" in action https://t.co/KdLt6hIMCO
Bringing Nemotron Models to the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA
Red Hat announced Day 0 support for NVIDIA’s Nemotron open‑model family, including Nemotron 3 Super, within its AI Factory platform. The integration delivers fully optimized, open‑source generative AI that runs on Red Hat AI Enterprise at the moment of model release. Red Hat will provide...
TinyEngine NPU Expands to Third MCU Family for Sensor Edge
.@TXInstruments has added its home-grown NPU, TinyEngine, to a third MCU family that will go into sensor edge applications. It's not a scaled-down version of the C7, the accelerator in some of TI's bigger processors, which has a DSP component: https://t.co/fZU4XOsdBF
Ecosystem of Reference in AI Essential for Salespeople
#TimTalk – What is a ecosystem of reference in AI and why do salespeople need one? with Bertrand Godillot https://t.co/lrqN7V4Ua0 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #Marketing #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews
AI Boosts Reading Skills Across All Subjects
📚 Reading instruction doesn’t live in one subject area. 🎧 In this post, I share seven ways AI can support student readers across the curriculum. 🧩 The examples show how to pair learning goals with the right tools. https://t.co/wbBHRu0pke
Latent Space: Vectors Unleash Pure Possibility
There is a poetic depth to the term "latent space" that transforms vector coordinates into a frontier of pure possibility
Agent 4 Enables Real‑Time Collaborative Prompting
AI made work lonely. We used to design & code together but now it feels faster to just prompt. But why not prompt together? Well, that’s a hard problem. Who’s prompt go first? What if they’re conflicting? How do you merge? Agent 4 fixes...
New Claude Code Tool Enables Live Copy Variation Cycling
Playing with a new tool that allows you to generate copy variations in Claude Code and cycle between them directly on the page and then apply to save the changes https://t.co/q5bTH4fScm
Three‑quarters of Resumes Stuck Behind AI Screens
75% of resumes never reach a human: the new rules of job searching in the AI era | Fortune https://t.co/Y55ZcLu3fG -> this would be fine if your AI could then get paid to do the job you applied for - otherwise,...
Understanding AI's Real Value: Insights From Manulife
We’re seeing gains from AI, we’re not seeing gains from AI. Which is it? One can be forgiven for feeling confusion over its value. I channel the experiences and advice of Olya Taran, AVP of AI at Manulife. (My latest in...
Full Product Suite Built for Under $15, Replit Agent Optimized
Web app, iOS app, landing page, marketing video, and deck for < $15. If you haven’t noticed, we made Replit Agent way more efficient. https://t.co/ZZOvcOYm7s
AI-Driven Layoffs Surge Since 2025 Reporting Window
AI-Linked Job Losses Newly reported layoffs where AI is either explicitly cited or credibly blamed as a material factor. Reporting window starts January 1, 2025. https://t.co/s6hVMg1I2Q
AI Redefines Asian Wealth Management for Clients and Advisors
The Private Banker in the #AI era – impact for clients, and advisors: How AI is reshaping #WealthManagement in #Asia, key themes emerging so far and the questions clients and bankers should be asking. @WealthBriefing, @WBAsia: https://t.co/qwZEmz6tnc #WealthTech #SoutheastAsia https://t.co/uoVx1NCzNB
One‑Shot Prompt Powers Pi Day Computer Talk
Talked Computer at @PrimeIntellect Pi Day - here’s my slides, and the Computer prompt I used to 1-shot them ✨ https://t.co/QIXfNOwTOp https://t.co/tu8oLSuTwr
Graph AI Accelerates Longevity Drug Discovery in New Alliance
Solve Aging: Biophytis and LynxKite are expanding their alliance to use graph-based AI to speed discovery of new longevity drugs, aiming to map complex aging biology and surface novel targets for age-related disease. The “AI x longevity” stack is quietly...