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
AI Mahabharata Leaves Fans Enraged, Scene With Modern Bedside Table In Hastinapur Goes Viral
An AI‑generated Mahabharata series, "Mahabharat – Ek Dharmayudh," streaming on JioHotstar, sparked a viral backlash after a modern‑style bedside table appeared in a period‑accurate palace scene. Viewers on X lambasted the show as "terrible," comparing it unfavorably to traditional adaptations on Netflix and classic Indian productions. The series, created by Collective Media Network without actors or physical sets, has released two episodes since its October 25 premiere, with new installments slated for weekly release. The incident underscores glaring technical and cultural authenticity flaws in the AI‑driven production.
Ilya’s Memo Exposes Brockman Feud, Failed Merger, Backs Altman’s Firing
Lots of RTs on my Helen Toner interview today. Over a year later, we hear Ilya’s side of this story. The Brockman beef was unexpected (Ilya wrote a memo on him too), as was the failed Anthropic merger. Interesting that most screenshots...
Prepare Now: 5 Robotics Trends Shaping 2026
Thank you for reading my latest article The 5 Robotics Trends In 2026 You Must Get Ready For Now. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join...
Building an AI Ready Data Foundation for CPG Success - with Dag Liodden of Crisp
In this podcast episode, Dag Liodden, CPO of Crisp, explains how CPG companies can unlock AI value by first building an AI‑ready data foundation through data harmonization and vertical expertise. He highlights how this foundation streamlines workflows—from category and promotion...
Developers Beware: Google’s Gemma Model Controversy Exposes Model Lifecycle Risks
Google removed its Gemma 3 model from AI Studio after Senator Marsha Blackburn accused it of fabricating defamatory statements about her, while keeping the model accessible via API. Google said the pull was to prevent confusion, noting Gemma was built...
Grok Instantly Knows Every X Video’s Content
Hey Grok, what are your favorite Robert Scoble or Elon Musk videos? Everyone is missing how useful Grok has gotten. It knows EVERYTHING in every video uploaded here on X. https://t.co/2spReGRBrT
Kevin Rose’s Simple Test for AI Hardware — Would You Want to Punch Someone in the Face Who’s Wearing It?
Kevin Rose, a general partner at True Ventures, uses a visceral “punch‑in‑the‑face” test to evaluate AI wearables, arguing that devices that feel invasive should be avoided. Drawing on his board experience at Oura and personal use of failed products like...
Large Reasoning Models Likely Possess Genuine Thinking Ability
Large reasoning models almost certainly can think! https://t.co/SkAs290Xx9 #LLMs #LLM #GenAI #AI #artificial_intelligence
Your Guide to OpenAI’s Atlas: The Future of Browsing
The post introduces OpenAI’s Atlas browser, emphasizing its focus on intelligent assistance, deeper content understanding, and fast performance, and serves as a practical guide for users to get the most out of it. It walks readers through key features and...
Act Fast — This AI Platform that Lets You Access Multiple Models at Once Is only on Sale for a...
The article promotes a limited‑time offer for 1min.AI’s Advanced Business Plan, a platform that aggregates dozens of AI models—such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral—into a single interface. For $79.99 with the SAVE20 code, users can secure a lifetime subscription that...
Robots Turn Billionaire Meals Into Everyday Service
Robots will bring billionaire living to a lot more people. I had the blessing to eat with @guysavoy several times. One of the best chefs in the world. He, and other top chefs taught me about the importance of getting fresh...
Google Pulls Gemma From AI Studio After Senator Blackburn Accuses Model of Defamation
Google removed its Gemma model from the AI Studio platform after U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn accused the chatbot of fabricating false rape allegations against her, citing a specific hallucinated response that linked her to a nonexistent 1987 scandal. Blackburn also...
Decentralized Computing Empowers Autonomous, Private, Low‑Cost AI
Why does AI need decentralized computing? I know most AI people aren't paying attention to what's going on in the blockchain-based world, but there's a lot happening there. And same for those in the blockchain-based world (crypto and Web 3). This...
One Day Left: Leaderboard Shifts, Overfitting Warning
One day left to submit to ARC Prize 2025 on Kaggle! Big changes at the top of the leaderboard these past few days, with the rise of teams NVARC and North Stars. Close contest between GiottoAI and ARChitects for the top...
👾 Live From Dreamforce: Marc Benioff on AI's Promise and Limits
At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff balanced optimism about AI’s transformative potential with a realistic appraisal of its current limits, emphasizing that AI augments rather than replaces human work. He highlighted Salesforce’s concrete AI deployment—matching human‑agent satisfaction while reshaping...
Sam Altman Says ‘Enough’ to Questions About OpenAI’s Revenue
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a podcast that the company’s annual revenue is "well more" than the reported $13 billion and is growing steeply, while the firm faces over $1 trillion in compute‑infrastructure commitments for the next decade. He brushed off detailed...
AI Budgets Skew Toward New Tech, R&D, Training
What is the secret allocation of AI budgets? I found the data for you. Check it out and save this post. 💰 What is the average AI budget allocation? New tech and tools = 20-22% Existing tech and tools =...
Meta Has an AI Product Problem
Meta’s latest earnings reveal a $7 billion year‑over‑year rise in operating expenses and nearly $20 billion in capital outlays, driven by an aggressive AI build‑out that includes two new data centers and an estimated $600 billion U.S. infrastructure spend over three years. CEO...
CEOs Must Incentivize Employees to Harness AI Autonomously
Why CEOs Should Incentivise Employees to Replace Themselves With AI A provocative idea: it isn’t just about AI automating roles—but about leaders empowering employees to creatively use AI and transform their work, rather than being replaced by it. Read more...
DeepSeek OCR Cuts Token Usage 10×, Keeps 97% Accuracy
DeepSeek has just unveiled an OCR monster 🤯 DeepSeek-OCR is a 3B-parameter model that redefines document intelligence. It reaches 97% character-level accuracy with 10× input compression, preserving every detail. Most OCR systems require over 6,000 tokens per page. DeepSeek-OCR achieves the same with...
OpenAI Just Made ChatGPT a Corporate Data Expert
The post announces OpenAI’s new feature that lets ChatGPT ingest and analyze corporate documents such as spreadsheets, presentations, and strategy decks, positioning it as a corporate data expert. It argues this upgrade could dramatically boost enterprise productivity by turning a...
NVIDIA Leads AI Factory Blueprint for Government Modernization
NVIDIA and US Technology Leaders Unveil AI Factory Design to Modernize Government and Secure the Nation https://t.co/L2laH0K1Y3 #AI #IoT #CES2026 @nvidia @PalantirTech @CrowdStrike @ServiceNow @LockheedMartin @northropgrumman @dataiku @DataRobot @DominoDataLab @h2oai @EnterpriseDB @Dynatrace @fiddler_ai @jfrog @protopia_ai @TrendMicro @wandb @Canonical @MirantisIT @nutanix @RedHat @spectrocloudinc...
AGI's Solution Will Seem Obvious in Hindsight
When you see the solution to AGI you will find that it was in fact so straightforward as to be obvious, and that it could have been developed decades ago
Semrush Has a New Tool to Help Marketers Win in the AI Age - Make Sure Your Business Doesn't Get...
Semrush unveiled Semrush One, a platform that fuses its traditional SEO analytics with AI‑driven visibility tools that track brand presence in large‑language‑model search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Leveraging a dataset covering more than 808 million domains and trillions...
Debating Sim2Real for New Sprinter Policy
just cooked up a new sprinter policy, do we attempt sim2real? https://t.co/DIDvOrcm23
Politicians Test AI Appeal; 2026 Campaigns May Center On It
Just noting the increasing interest of politicians in AI. My assumption has been this is all a trial balloon to see if voters care enough yet. If they do, AI becomes a major campaign issue in 2026 (AI’s impact on...
AI Researchers ’Embodied’ an LLM Into a Robot – and It Started Channeling Robin Williams
Andon Labs equipped a simple vacuum robot with six leading large language models—including Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4.1, GPT‑5, Gemini ER 1.5, Grok 4 and Llama 4 Maverick—to test how well they could execute a multi‑step office task of fetching butter. The models were scored on perception, planning...
DeepMind Valuation Could Exceed $1 Trillion, Boosting Google
And DeepMind would be $1+ trillion if split off (my opinion based on valuations of xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.). Bullish on Google.
Even Top AI Remains a Black Box, Paper Shows
Excited that our paper "Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability" (link in reply) got accepted to TMLR. We still lack in understanding of how today's strongest AI systems work! https://t.co/X9dhWSiwIf
Stop! Should You Upgrade Your M1 Max Apple Mac to the M5? GPU and Memory Bandwidth Data Reveal the Surprising...
Apple’s M5 chip, introduced in the latest 14‑inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro, trades the M1 Max’s raw GPU power and 400 GB/s memory bandwidth for a 10‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 153 GB/s bandwidth and a 25 W system draw, emphasizing efficiency and AI performance....
Learning to Code Remains Essential Despite AI Assistance
unfortunately i dont agree about “first day” part. people need to learn to code to vibe code properly. AI assisted coding >>>> pure vibe coding. And its not going away anytime soon.
Humanoid Robots Learn by Watching Real‑world Video
Humanoid robotics are racing to train with real-world video, says WSJ's Joanna Stern https://t.co/H0tzNfU6n5 #humanoidrobotics #humanoid #AI #Robotics #Robot @enilev @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut @Khulood_Almani @Nicochan33
The Future of AI Advertising with Ray Jang CEO of Atria AI
The post highlights a podcast episode where host Jaeden Schafer interviews Ray Jang, CEO of Atria AI, about the future of advertising powered by artificial intelligence. Jang explains how Atria AI aims to merge human creativity with AI-driven efficiency, offering...
Optimus May Replace All Factory Workers by 2030
Elon DMd me this morning and said the next @Tesla_Optimus (version 3) can “probably” roll a cigar. Rolling joints is harder. If I was @elonmusk I would put three cameras on every one of his 12,000 workers in @tesla’s Fremont factory. That would...
Linear Attention Makes a Comeback with Efficient LLMs
With the release of the Kimi Linear LLM last week, we can definitely see that efficient, linear attention variants have seen a resurgence in recent months. Here's a brief summary of what happened. First, linear attention variants have been around for...
CrowdStrike & NVIDIA’s Open Source AI Gives Enterprises the Edge Against Machine-Speed Attacks
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA unveiled an open‑source AI ecosystem that pairs CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI agents with NVIDIA’s Nemotron foundation models, synthetic‑data tools, and NIM microservices. The agents continuously ingest telemetry from Falcon Complete’s managed detection and response service, delivering autonomous threat...
New AI Models Hype, but Performance Often Unchanged
Have you seen OpenAI’s Atlas? And googles new update? And and minimax m2!! I just switched to the most recent Qwen model and… it performs the same 😂 This field is quite special to work in. So much hype around so...
Disable ChatGPT’s Em‑dashes with a Custom Instruction
If, like me, you’ve been annoyed AF by em dashes in ChatGPT, here’s how to finally get rid of them for good: 1. Go to 'personalization' 2. Find 'custom instructions'. 3. Select 'enable customization'. 4. Copy-paste this prompt ↓ 'Systematically replace em-dashes (“—”) with a...
YouTube Denies AI Was Involved with Odd Removals of Tech Tutorials
YouTube told creators that recent removals of tech tutorial videos – such as workarounds for installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware – were not the result of automated enforcement, even though many creators experienced instant denials of appeals that appeared bot‑driven....
Pakistan Pursues Sovereign AI Powered by Blockchain
Was a pleasure meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister @CMShehbaz and Minister of State @Bilalbinsaqib & co Look forward to helping Pakistan have Sovereign AI, providing aligned universal AI to all citizens coordinated by blockchain Huge potential for a true leapfrog moment 🇵🇰🚀
AI‑fused Sensor Network Secures Europe’s Borders 24/7
No drone is safe from @delian_ai StrikeWeb fuses any sensor into a single intelligence picture. AI-enabled detection and tracking that works across static towers, observation posts, or mobile deployments. Deployed 24/7 on Europe's borders. https://t.co/8CWK2ngZeB
⚡️ Ship AI Recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — W/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
In this episode, Vercel CTO Malte Ubl walks through the company’s AI‑first infrastructure, highlighting the new AI SDK 6.0, the agent ecosystem, and the Workflow Development Kit that makes serverless functions durable and human‑in‑the‑loop ready. He explains Vercel’s “dogfooding” philosophy, how...
Presenting State of AI Report at Copenhagen AI Summit
🇩🇰 see you in copenhagen this week! excited to be sharing @stateofaireport at the ai in science summit! https://t.co/SNSLDEBUtK
Coding Agents Can Now Control Chrome via DevTools
Forget static prompts. `chrome-devtools-mcp` lets your coding agent (Gemini, Claude etc.) control and inspect your Chrome browser! 🤯 ↳ Network & console debugging ↳ Automated navigation ↳ Deep perf insights ↳ CPU/network emulation 100% free and open-source. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/4oxzczuh1w
Neural Network Finds an Enzyme that Can Break Down Polyurethane
Researchers used AI‑driven protein design tools, including the neural networks Pythia‑Pocket, Pythia and a new graph‑based model called GRASE, to engineer a novel enzyme that degrades polyurethane. The engineered enzyme displayed up to 30‑fold higher activity than the best natural...
People Reject Autonomous Cars—Adoption Inevitable Within Three Years
I did a lot of consumer research more than a decade ago for the auto industry. It drew the most heavy rejection of my career. “If a car drove up without a steering wheel would you take a ride with me?” One guy...
Cursor Introduces Its Coding Model Alongside Multi-Agent Interface
Cursor unveiled Cursor 2.0, an IDE that pairs a new in‑house coding model called Composer with a multi‑agent interface that can run several AI agents in parallel via git worktrees or remote machines. Composer, built with reinforcement‑learning and a mixture‑of‑experts architecture,...
Matrix Oscar Winner: "It Was a Prototype Disguised as a Blockbuster"
John Gaeta, the Oscar‑winning VFX architect behind the Matrix’s bullet‑time, explains how the film’s pioneering capture and simulation techniques became the R&D foundation for today’s game engines, virtual‑production tools, and AI‑driven world models. He traces a 25‑year evolution from the...
Jeremiah's Keynote Sets Stage for My AI Talk
Jeremiah @jowyang just gave a great keynote at @siliconvalleyAI that led into mine. Which is in audio below. https://t.co/H3q42wYKGm
AMD and the US Government Sign $1 Billion Deal for Two Massive Supercomputers - Is the Global AI War Finally...
AMD and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a $1 billion contract to build two next‑generation supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with deliveries slated for early 2026 and 2028. The systems will combine AMD Instinct GPUs,...