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
Fitbit Is Working on Hypertension and ‘Unusual Trend' Detection for Pixel Watch Owners – Here's How You Can Sign up...
Fitbit is expanding its AI‑powered personal coach app with two new experiments for Pixel Watch users: a Hypertension Study Lab and an Unusual Trend Detection tool, both run through the Fitbit Labs program. The hypertension trial, limited to US participants, seeks up to 10,000 Pixel Watch 3 owners to wear the device for 180 days and use an ambulatory blood‑pressure cuff, offering a $25 gift‑card as compensation. The Unusual Trend Detection experiment alerts users to health metric deviations, letting them log symptoms and receive recovery guidance. These features are being tested exclusively on the Pixel Watch 3, with broader rollout pending further data.
EU AI Act Takes Effect: Compliance Roadmap Starts Now
🚨 EU AI Act – Compliance Roadmap Has Officially Begun On August 1st, 2024, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act enters into force. Companies developing or using General-Purpose AI (GPAI) or High-Risk AI systems must start preparing now for a structured compliance...
Black Friday Could Be the Right Time to Buy a New Nvidia GPU as RTX 5000 Super Refreshes Are Rumored...
Nvidia is rumored to have scrapped its planned RTX 5000 Super refresh, including the RTX 5070 Super and RTX 5080 Super, because a shortage of 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules forces the company to allocate scarce chips to higher‑margin AI GPUs. The scarcity also drives up the...
5 Ways to Make Gemini Your Everyday AI Art Teacher
TechRadar contributor Eric Hal Schwartz tests Google Gemini as a personal art tutor, outlining five practical ways the AI can help beginners improve drawing skills. Gemini provides detailed critiques, step‑by‑step technique lessons, style‑translation suggestions, visual storytelling guidance, and even translates...
The AI-Native Generation Is Coming, Are You Ready?
The UK government is rolling out a £187 million "TechFirst" initiative to embed AI education across the curriculum, from primary schools to university master’s programmes, aiming to produce a generation of AI‑native graduates. This talent pipeline will arrive with fluency in...
Compare Rapidly Evolving AI Agent Platforms Every Few Months
There are developer AI’s for AI agents like @FactoryAI or @cursor_ai. More than 1,000 of this on my lists here on X. Then there are more generalized platforms like @genspark_ai, @ManusAI, @n8n_io, @flowith_ai, @Pokee_AI which are better for running agents for...
Ship Fast, Optimize Later: Top AI Engineers Don't Care About Cost — They're Prioritizing Deployment
Leading AI teams at companies like Wonder and Recursion are de‑emphasizing compute cost in favor of rapid deployment, low latency and scalable capacity. Wonder finds AI adds only a few cents per order but is now hitting cloud‑capacity limits, prompting...
Mobile AI Apps Are Reviving Consumer Innovation
I am flying to Abu Dhabi tomorrow. So bummed I am missing this. But today I got one of the best interviews of my career with @ekuyda. Video up tomorrow. Her new app on iPhone, @wabi is so awesome. Let’s you build...
MCP Celebrates One Year with Virtual Hackathon
MCP might have been one of the biggest most recent new developments in AI. We're celebrating its one year anniversary with @AnthropicAI @gradio hosting a legendary virtual hackathon in a week. Gonna be fun! https://t.co/pZi7icSz1P
Are We In An AI Bubble? In Defense of Sam Altman & AI in The Enterprise | EP99.24
In this episode, Michael and Chris debate whether the current hype around AI constitutes a bubble while defending Sam Altman’s role and the practical value of AI in enterprise settings. They share personal experiments, from AI‑generated music to prank calls,...
Even Billion‑Dollar Labs Stumble Against Kimi Moonshot
Can you imagine being a "frontier" lab that's raised like a billion dollars and now you can't release your latest model because it can't beat @Kimi_Moonshot ? 🗻 Sota can be a bitch if thats your target
AI Adoption Soars: 29% Use, 44% Plan, Apps Evolve
🌟 Salesmate: - 29% use autonomous AI & 44% plan to - Generative AI is embedded in everyday apps - Key trends include improved reasoning - Multimodal & no-code platforms - Responsible governance https://t.co/34jVOXyasg #AI2025 #AgenticAI #IoT #5G https://t.co/JzYYX4dPpI
👾 Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft
The post profiles two Microsoft AI and quantum researchers, Trista Chen and Flavio Griggio, detailing their daily routines, research focus, and personal motivations. Chen leads work on AI trust, emphasizing live‑person authentication, anti‑spoofing, and the broader pipeline needed for responsible...
Year-End AI Roadmap: Kimi‑K2, GPT‑5.1, Gemini 3.0, More
The end of the year is going to be packed! 👀 - Kimi-K2 Thinking ✅ - GPT-5.1 ⏳ - Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview ⏳ - DeepSeek-V4 ⏳ - laude 4.6 Sonnet and Opus ⏳ - Arcee/PI Trinity models ⏳
Robots Master New Skills in Minutes, Not Weeks
"Robots now learn new skills in tens of MINUTES (not weeks)"
Acer's New Workstation Brings a Frankly Ridiculous 1 Petaflop AI Performance to Your Desktop - Get an Nvidia Grace Blackwell...
Acer unveiled the Veriton GN100 AI mini‑workstation, a 1.2 kg desktop that packs Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and claims up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The unit offers up to 128 GB of LPDDR5x unified memory, 4 TB of self‑encrypting NVMe storage, and...
XPeng Unveils Most Human-Like Humanoid Robot Yet
This is an insane leap! The most human-like humanoid robot in history! Designed by the Chinese company #XPENG https://t.co/RtcYunTeOL #humanoidrobotics #humanoid #AI #Robot #humanoidrobotics @enilev @efipm @FutureStacked @sulefati7 @Fisher85M
AI Is the New Engine Driving Industrial Revolution
What is an AI factory and why it matters? At @NVIDIA GTC, Anne Hecht (Sr Director Product Marketing for Enterprise) gave me an answer that changed how I think about AI infrastructure. AI is not a tool, it's a transformation engine that...
Building a Visual AI Platform | Brian Moore, CEO of Voxel51
In this interview, Voxel51 CEO Brian Moore explains how visual AI goes beyond traditional computer vision and why managing image and video data is uniquely challenging. He highlights common dataset pitfalls, the trade‑offs between data quality and storage costs, and...
Laude Institute Announces First Batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI Grants
The Laude Institute unveiled its inaugural Slingshots AI grant cohort, funding 15 research projects that tackle the notoriously hard problem of AI evaluation. The program supplies resources—cash, compute, and engineering support—in exchange for deliverables such as startups, open‑source codebases, or...
Amazon Offers AI Translation for Self-Published Kindle Books
Amazon has introduced Kindle Translate, an AI-driven translation service for self‑published Kindle books that entered beta on Thursday for a limited group of KDP authors. The tool currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English translations at no cost, letting authors select target...
Researchers Claim ChatGPT Has a Whole Host of Worrying Security Flaws - Here's What They Found
Security firm Tenable identified seven prompt‑injection vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑4o, collectively dubbed “HackedGPT,” ranging from indirect injection via trusted web sites and 0‑click search exploits to persistent memory injection that can embed malicious commands in saved chats. The researchers demonstrated...
Amazon Launches an AI-Powered Kindle Translate Service for E-Book Authors
Amazon announced Kindle Translate, an AI‑powered translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors that currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English pairs in beta and is offered for free. The tool lets authors preview AI‑generated translations, set pricing and publish directly from...
Google's Gemini Adds Visual Landmarks to Navigation
Google is now using Gemini to cross-reference ~250M places with Street View imagery to identify visible landmarks for turn-by-turn nav. Think iconic buildings, gas stations and restaurants. So instead of "turn right in 500 feet" you get "turn right after the...
Senators Call on Trump to Continue Banning Nvidia From Selling Its Best Chips in China
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Chris Coons and Tom Cotton urged President Donald Trump to maintain export controls that bar Nvidia from selling its flagship Blackwell AI chips to China. The resolution, co‑sponsored by Amy Klobuchar and...
Bombshell Report Exposes How Meta Relied on Scam Ad Profits to Fund AI
Meta’s internal documents reveal the company deliberately kept high‑value scam advertisers active because they generate billions of dollars, projecting $16 billion—about 10% of its 2024 revenue—from fraudulent ads, including $7 billion from “high‑risk” ads alone. The firm allowed accounts with hundreds of...
New US Senate Bill Calls for Agencies and Companies to Be Forced to Report AI-Related Job Cuts
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley have introduced the AI‑Related Job Impacts Clarity Act, which would compel federal agencies, publicly traded firms and certain private companies to file quarterly reports with the Department of Labor detailing AI‑driven layoffs, new AI‑related...
Control Your Data to Unlock AI Agent Value
AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful. This is why I increasingly try to select software that lets me control...
Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking Emerges as Leading Open Source AI, Outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Key Benchmarks
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model that activates 32 billion parameters per inference and is released under a modified MIT license on Hugging Face. In third‑party benchmarks it posted 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 60.2% on BrowseComp, 71.3% on SWE‑Bench...
Clear Step‑by‑Step AI Mastery Roadmap for 2025
🚀 AI Mastery Roadmap – Your GPS to mastering artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to become an AI architect, this roadmap from Mindstream is one of the clearest, most actionable visual guides I’ve seen....
Meta Brings Its Short-Form Video Feed of AI Slop to Europe
Meta announced the European rollout of Vibes, a short‑form video feed in the Meta AI app that exclusively showcases AI‑generated clips, just six weeks after its U.S. debut and days after OpenAI unveiled its own AI video platform, Sora. The...
Government Should Fund AI, Requiring Shared IP
Yesterday I said the government shouldn't invest in OpenAI. There's another side to that coin, of course. My mom always taught me to be able to argue both sides of an argument. And we are competing with China, which has...
AI Strategies for Overwhelm, Leadership, and Human Connection
My conversation with @melrobbins is officially live 🎤 We talked about using AI to better handle overwhelm, run a team with no help, and even ways to use AI to have more meaningful human-to-human in-person interactions. Our interview was 2.5 hours long...
Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun by Crabs
Google is planning a large, undisclosed AI data center on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as part of a cloud‑computing deal with the Australian Defence Force. The site, located 220 miles south of Indonesia, would give...
Export Restrictions Threaten US AI Leadership and Global Innovation
Everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way to win a technology race is to get the most users and developers on your platform. Yet the anti-export lobby in Washington keeps inventing reasons why America’s friends and allies shouldn’t be...
Should B2B Brands Embrace Reddit?
Reddit has partnered with review platform G2, embedding G2 data into Reddit business profiles and licensing Reddit content to AI models. With 115 million daily active users and a high proportion of tech decision‑makers, Reddit is emerging as a pivotal channel...
Automate Video Learning with AI Agents, Skip Watching
Do not watch this video. Instead: 1. Click the Grok button on this post. Wait for it to get done with its three points. Then ask it "what did you learn by watching this video?" 2. Sign up for @Pokee_AI, give it...
QE Prize Honors Us, Calls for Shared AI Responsibility
It’s an honor to have received the @QEPrize along with my fellow laureates! But it’s also a responsibility. AI’s impact to humanity is in the hands of all of us.
Google Finance Offers Gemini AI Tools to Stock Traders
Google announced that its Google Finance app will soon include a "Deep Search" feature powered by Gemini AI, delivering fully‑cited, multi‑step research answers and a visible reasoning plan. Users can opt into early access via Google Labs, with usage caps...
MCP Code Execution Cuts AI Agent Token Usage 98.7%
Wow. Anthropic’s latest piece shows MCP code execution slashes token usage in AI agents by 98.7% 🤯 https://t.co/erzyhFhRG0
Boost Colab Training Speed 4‑5× with TPU and Steps_per_execution
If you're using Colab and you feel like training your model on GPU is slow, switch to the TPU runtime and tune the "steps_per_execution" parameter in model.compile() (higher = more work being done on device before moving back to host...
Essential Testing Tips for Your Gradio App
Best practices for testing your Gradio app 👇
Constraints Fuel Chinese AI: 100× Compute Savings
Necessity is the mother of invention Also - training optimally on small amounts of chips with focus on data means the Chinese models take 10-100x less compute to run as well & have that cost advantage $150/mGPT 4.5 vs $0.5/m DeepSeek v3...
Google Open‑Sources MCP Toolbox: Unified DB Backend for AI Agents
Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases is now open source! 🔥 A single backend for connections, security, and schema-aware SQL tools, built for AI agents. Compatible with Python, JS, Go, LangChain, and more. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/F4PSWLY3J9
AI Assistants Reach the ‘They’ll Fight You’ Phase
Excited to be at the "then they fight you" stage of intelligent assistants acting on your behalf.
AMD's Deep Learning Gap Stems From Software Deficit
can anyone actually explain, with hard facts, how it's possible AMD still doesn't meaningfully compete in the deep learning space? I understand they lack certain pieces of software. I do not understand how they could reasonably still lack it though.
AI Investment Soars, yet only 1% Achieve Maturity
Almost all companies invest in AI, yet only 1% say they’re mature. @McKinsey 's 2025 workplace report reveals 92% plan to ramp up AI spending and employees expect about 30% of their work to be automated. https://t.co/Y1vEOJyoKk ...
Google Announces Game‑Changing AI Infrastructure Expansion
Google is making HUGE moves in AI infrastructure. I got the press release this morning that @TeksEdge shares. It is one of the most stunning press releases I've ever gotten and I get a lot.
AI Hype: Bubble or Superintelligence? Both Unlikely.
The two biggest narratives about AI right now are that (1) it’s a massive bubble (i.e. totally fake) and (2) about to give rise to superintelligence (i.e. totally real). Both narratives can be fake (which is what I believe) but...
No U.S. AI Bailout; Competition Will Fill Gaps
There will be no federal bailout for AI. The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place.