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
OpenAI and AWS Team up in Potentially One of the Biggest Tech Partnerships Ever Seen - so What Will It...
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have sealed a multi‑year partnership valued at $38 billion, granting OpenAI direct access to AWS’s high‑performance compute, including Nvidia‑based GPUs and EC2 UltraServers, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026. The deal expands the existing Bedrock integration, letting developers and enterprises run OpenAI’s models on AWS infrastructure, a capability already used by firms such as Peloton, Thomson Reuters and Verana Health. By coupling OpenAI’s frontier AI workloads with AWS’s scalable cloud backbone, the alliance aims to accelerate training and inference for tools like ChatGPT while promising faster, more responsive services for end users. The scale of the agreement also raises questions about energy consumption, cost structures and the concentration of AI capabilities within a single cloud provider.
World Models Signal Accelerating Race Toward AGI
World Models. Active inferencing. Cognitive architectures. New AI approaches are arriving. @IrenaCronin and I talk about what it means for robotics, virtual beings, and AI agents and sets up the next year. The race to AGI is here. And the next 18...
I Let Gemini Watch My Family for the Weekend — It Got Weird
Google introduced Gemini for Home, an AI layer in the Google Home app that analyzes video from Nest cameras and delivers detailed, written descriptions of activities, plus daily "Home Brief" summaries. In a 72‑hour test, the system generated mostly accurate...
Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s Plan to Put AI Data Centers in Space
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot to launch solar‑powered satellites equipped with Cloud TPUs that form a distributed AI compute network in low‑Earth, sun‑synchronous orbit. The design relies on free‑space optical links that have demonstrated 1.6 Tbps bidirectional speeds on the...
American OS to Counter China’s Robot Data Dominance
How will USA compete with China in robotics? @stash_pomichter and his team have a huge answer. Rip out their OS and put an American-made OS into the Chinese robots. Let's be honest. America is not going to catch up to Chinese robotics companies....
Google’s AI Mode Gets New Agentic Capabilities to Help Book Event Tickets and Beauty Appointments
Google announced new agentic capabilities in its AI Mode, allowing users to book event tickets and beauty or wellness appointments directly through Search. The feature searches multiple sites in real time, curates options, and links to booking pages, building on...
Use AI to Simplify, Align, and Empower Your Day
If you're feeling overwhelmed this week, here are three ways AI can help. (And if you're not overwhelmed, keep scrolling and congratulations.) 1️⃣ Use AI to consolidate everything into one place Take photos of every to-do list, screenshot every task...
Nvidia Is Building an "AI Megafactory" For Samsung with 50,000 GPUs - Could This Be the Start of a New...
Samsung announced an "AI Megafactory" that will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and the Omniverse platform to embed artificial‑intelligence across its semiconductor, mobile and robotics operations. By leveraging Nvidia's cuLitho, CUDA‑X and GPU‑accelerated EDA tools, Samsung says it can...
Predictions 2026: Software Development Goes From Jamming To A Full Orchestra
Forrester’s 2025 Developer Survey shows AI and generative AI have become top priorities in the software development lifecycle, with 48% of respondents using AI for coding and 47% for testing. By 2026, AI‑enhanced development is expected to become the leading...
Deck Your House in Govee’s Smart String Lights, Which Are Cheaper Ahead of the Holidays
Govee’s Christmas Lights 2, a Matter‑compatible smart string‑light system, are on sale ahead of the holidays, with the 66‑foot kit now $69.99 (down from $99.99) and the 99‑foot version $89.99 (down from $129.99). The lights offer over 130 preset effects,...
Databricks Research Reveals that Building Better AI Judges Isn't Just a Technical Concern, It's a People Problem
Databricks unveiled its Judge Builder framework, a workshop‑driven system for creating AI judges that evaluate other AI models by aligning stakeholder quality criteria and capturing domain‑expert insight. The tool tackles the "Ouroboros problem" of AI‑evaluating‑AI by measuring distance to human...
Big YouTube Channels Are Being Banned. YouTubers Are Blaming AI.
Several high‑profile YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers were abruptly terminated after the platform linked them to a single Japanese channel that had previously been banned for copyright strikes. Creators such as Enderman, Scratchit Gaming and 4096 say...
Attention ISN'T All You Need?! New Qwen3 Variant Brumby-14B-Base Leverages Power Retention Technique
Manifest AI unveiled Brumby-14B-Base, a 14‑billion‑parameter model derived from Qwen3-14B-Base that replaces all attention layers with a novel Power Retention mechanism. The model was retrained in 60 hours on 32 H100 GPUs for roughly $4,000 and achieves accuracy on par...
Microsoft Is Finally Clamping Down on Scam Attacks with New "Scareware" Sensor - Here's What You Need to Know
Microsoft is rolling out its Scareware blocker across Edge on Windows and macOS, enabled by default on devices with at least 2 GB RAM and four CPU cores. The AI‑driven, on‑device computer‑vision model detects deceptive full‑screen scam pages that mimic virus...
Fitbit Still Has a Place in the Smartwatch Era – Just Look at the Apple Watch SE 3
Google announced that new Fitbit devices will launch next year, coinciding with a refreshed Fitbit app that now includes an AI‑driven personal health coach for Premium users. While past years saw feature cuts, discontinued third‑party apps, and a shift toward...
OpenAI Launches Its Sora App on Android
OpenAI has launched its AI video app Sora on Android, making it available in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam via the Google Play Store. The app, which debuted on iOS in September, amassed more than...
The Firm Behind One of the Best Business VPNs Around Is Launching a Gen AI Tool - Here's What It...
Proton, the Swiss firm behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has introduced Lumo for Business, a gener‑ative AI assistant built on zero‑access encryption that ensures only users can decrypt their conversations. The service integrates with Proton Drive, is hosted in...
Personal AI Firewalls Guard Local Models From Data Leaks
I'm evolving my thinking about privacy. Each of us has stuff that we don't want to "leak" into models. Intellectual property. Personal mental illness issues. Finances and investments. So how will we protect it all? A variety of new ways,...
Shopify Says AI Traffic Is up 7x Since January, AI-Driven Orders Are up 11x
Shopify reported that AI‑driven traffic to its merchants’ stores has surged seven‑fold since January and AI‑generated orders have risen eleven‑fold, underscoring the company’s push into "agentic commerce" after partnering with OpenAI, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. The e‑commerce platform highlighted its...
One of the Most Devious Malware Strains Might Have Been Cracked - and It's All Thanks to Gen AI
Check Point Research used generative AI, specifically ChatGPT, to semi‑automate the reverse‑engineering of the evasive XLoader infostealer, a malware family active since 2021 and derived from Formbook. By coupling cloud‑based static analysis of IDA Pro outputs with AI‑assisted runtime debugging, the...
I Spent a Week with the Samsung Galaxy XR and Apple's Vision Pro Has Nothing to Worry About – Yet
Samsung’s new Galaxy XR mixed‑reality headset retails for $1,799 – roughly half the price of Apple’s Vision Pro – and offers a lighter, more comfortable form factor built around a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, 16 GB RAM and a 3552 × 3840 dual...
Debunking AI Marketing Myths to Overcome Algorithm Aversion
Using AI to generate marketing assets is becoming the norm, but it creates a challenge called algorithm aversion. Even if the content is high quality, consumers devalue or distrust content they believe was produced by AI. Here are the three...
ChatGPT Go Is Now Free in India – and U.S. Users Are Wondering if They’re Next
OpenAI has launched a 12‑month free promotion for ChatGPT Go, its lower‑priced, lightweight alternative to ChatGPT Plus, exclusively for users in India. The service bundles extended GPT‑5 access, image generation, file uploads, advanced data analysis and longer memory, though it offers fewer...
Ask Your Zero‑Click AI Search Questions for Webinar
"What’s your top question about zero-click marketing and AI search?" Post one quick question here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gVg2Cpxm Asking because I'm doing a webinar on this topic with Dale Bertrand and Margarita Loktionova of Semrush on Nov 19th. Share a question...
Apple's New AI-Powered Siri Will Reportedly Be Powered by Google Gemini
Apple is set to overhaul Siri by integrating Google’s Gemini large‑language model, hosted on Apple’s private‑cloud infrastructure. The revamped assistant will use Gemini for query planning and summarization, complementing Apple‑built knowledge‑search components to deliver more personalized, context‑aware responses. Apple aims...
Understanding = Ability to Act Appropriately in Any Situation
For me, what it means to "understand" something can be characterized purely behaviorally. You understand a thing if you have the ability to act appropriately in response to situations related to the thing. You understand how to make coffee if you...
Google Maps Can Tell Polestar 4 Drivers when to Merge Lanes
Google Maps is introducing live lane guidance for Polestar 4 electric vehicles, using the car’s front‑facing camera to detect lane markings and road signs and feed that data to Google’s AI. The system delivers real‑time audio and visual cues on...
Anthropic Projects $70B in Revenue by 2028: Report
Anthropic forecasts up to $70 billion in revenue and $17 billion in cash flow by 2028, driven by rapid uptake of its AI models through API sales and a growing roster of enterprise partners such as Microsoft, Salesforce, Deloitte and Cognizant. The...
Run AI Locally: Offline ChatGPT with Llama.cpp
When you run AI on your device, it is more efficient and less big brother and free! So it's very cool to see the new llama.cpp UI, a chatgpt-like app that fully runs on your laptop without needing wifi or sending...
Privacy and Trust Are Crucial for Home Robots
The real problem for robots and virtual beings: Privacy. They will find your guns and your sex toys. Most humans are not ready for that and aren’t educated about how AI works to trust it. Trust. Am studying companies who are building these things...
Microsoft Warns a Key OpenAI API Is Being Exploited to Launch Cyberattacks
Microsoft’s incident‑response team has identified a new malware family, SesameOp, that abuses OpenAI’s Assistants API as a covert command‑and‑control channel. The backdoor stores and retrieves encrypted commands and exfiltrated data via the API, enabling long‑term persistence for espionage‑type operations. Microsoft...
Snowflake Builds New Intelligence that Goes Beyond RAG to Query and Aggregate Thousands of Documents at Once
Snowflake unveiled Snowflake Intelligence at its BUILD 2025 conference, featuring Agentic Document Analytics that lets users run SQL‑like queries across thousands of unstructured documents. The new capability treats documents as queryable data sources, extracting and indexing content via Cortex AISQL...
Microsoft Is Investing $15.2 Billion in the UAE to Expand AI and Cloud Operations
Microsoft announced a $15.2 billion investment in the United Arab Emirates through 2029, adding $7.9 billion to the $7.3 billion already spent on equity, capex and operating costs. About $5.5 billion will fund AI and cloud infrastructure, including the deployment of roughly 81,900 Nvidia...
World Models Give Robots Unique, Human‑Like Experiences
World Models are exponential learning engines. I learned yesterday in San Francisco that they lead to a system that behaves “conscious.” And it is running on melted sand. And consciousness isn’t the goal. Your robot will have a personality and life experiences that will...
Human Programmers Remain Essential Despite AI Advances
Myth or Reality: Will AI Replace Computer Programmers? Explores whether software development is at risk of being fully automated, and why human programmers may remain essential despite advances in AI coding tools. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dDPXa9px #Coding #FutureJobs #AIInProgramming #BernardMarr
The Nano Banana Camera Will Let You Edit Photos in Real Time Using Just Your Voice, and I Can’t Wait...
Caira, the new Nano Banana camera from Camera Intelligence, is a Micro Four Thirds mirrorless body that magnetically attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and streams photos directly to the iPhone’s Photos app. It features a 4/3" Sony dual‑native ISO sensor,...
Codex Revolutionizes OpenAI Development, New Models Coming
Codex has transformed how OpenAI builds over the last few months. Have some great upcoming models too. Amazing work by the team!
Grok's Blunt Corrections Are Refreshingly Honest
I appreciate how Grok doesn’t sugar coat corrections. https://t.co/b511QzNASc
Nvidia, Deutsche Telekom Strike €1B Partnership for a Data Center in Munich
Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom have inked a €1 billion partnership to build an “Industrial AI Cloud” data center in Munich, deploying more than 1,000 Nvidia DGX B200 systems and up to 10,000 Blackwell GPUs that will raise Germany’s AI compute capacity by roughly...
Grok Gains Memory: Remembers Past Conversations
Grok now remembers. Tell it something in this post. Then when you talk to it again it will remember what you talked about.
AI Agent Economy Poised to Spark Multi‑Level Chaos
The AI agent economy is going to create chaos on so many levels.
5 AI Tools to Get Your SMB Online Fast
Owain Williams outlines five AI-driven solutions that enable small‑and‑medium businesses to launch a full online presence rapidly: AI website builders (e.g., Wix, Hostinger, Squarespace) that auto‑generate templates and copy; AI content writers such as CopyAI and HubSpot for bulk page...
Comprehensive AI Agent Security Book Boosts Humanity’s AI
Ken Huang and Chris Hughes have done is all a great service here by capturing the most comprehensive book on AI Agent security available today. Will help us all accelerate artificial intelligence into service for humanity. https://t.co/6DBCsghnKy
AI Boom Fuels Demand for Genuine Human Interaction
The rise of AI creates an increased demand for realness. People want to know you're real + not just an automated AI zap writing replies to 500 different X accounts daily. https://t.co/dd5YluOM5H
ClickUp Adds New AI Assistant to Better Compete with Slack and Notion
ClickUp unveiled version 4.0, adding two AI agents—a channel‑wide assistant that proactively answers questions using internal knowledge and external sources, and a general‑purpose assistant called Brain that can generate ideas, schedule meetings, draft content and interact with tools like Google Drive, OneDrive,...
World Models, Not LLMs, Will Drive Next‑year AGI
I'm more and more convinced after visiting with AI geniuses in San Francisco that LLMs are not the way forward. World Models are. Or this. Or cognitive archiectures. All of which we will call "AGI" when they arrive next year.
ChatGPT Recorder Still Terribly Slow, Feels Like Wheel of Death
chatgpt recorder feature is still soooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow at generating the transcript once you hit finished call @OpenAI @nickaturley it's the new instantiation of the WHEEL OF DEATH
Alexa+ Comes to the Amazon Music App
Amazon announced that its AI‑enhanced assistant, Alexa+, will be integrated into the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, initially available to users in the Alexa+ Early Access program across all subscription tiers. The new assistant supports natural‑language conversations, enabling...
Exploring Emerging Alternatives to Standard Large Language Models
My new field guide to alternatives to standard LLMs: Gated DeltaNet hybrids (Qwen3-Next, Kimi Linear), text diffusion, code world models, and small reasoning transformers. https://t.co/ZpWugAccgQ https://t.co/255yQXaDcM
Zoom Is Building a Major New Data Center in the UK
Zoom announced it will build its own data centre in the United Kingdom, slated to open in the first half of 2026. The facility will host the full suite of Zoom services—including Meetings, Webinars, Rooms, Team Chat, Phone, Notes, Docs...