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
Building a Healthcare Robot From Simulation to Deployment with NVIDIA Isaac
NVIDIA released Isaac for Healthcare v0.4 with an end‑to‑end SO‑ARM starter workflow that takes developers from mixed simulation and real‑world data collection through fine‑tuning and real‑time deployment of surgical assistant robots. The pipeline fine‑tunes GR00T N1.5 on predominantly synthetic data (over 93% synthetic) using roughly 70 simulated and 10–20 real episodes, supports dual‑camera vision and TensorRT optimization, and requires Ampere‑class GPUs (≥30 GB VRAM) and 6‑DOF SO‑ARM hardware. By tightly integrating simulation, training, evaluation and deployment, the workflow aims to cut development time, reduce costly real‑world trials, and accelerate safe Sim2Real adoption in medical robotics.
Europe's AI Boom: 40 Startups Secure $50M+ Funding
40 European AI startups that raised $50M+ in 2025. Most are hiring. From open-weight models to robotics, defence, quantum, and healthtech. 1/ @MistralAI 🇫🇷 – $1.7B open-weight models 2/ @HelsingAI 🇩🇪 – $600M defence & security AI 3/ @IsomorphicLabs 🇬🇧 – $600M AI for...
IBM's Open Source Granite 4.0 Nano AI Models Are Small Enough to Run Locally Directly in Your Browser
IBM unveiled four Granite 4.0 Nano open‑source language models—two hybrid‑SSM variants (350 M and 1.5 B parameters) and two transformer variants of similar size—available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The smallest models run on a modern laptop CPU with 8–16 GB...
Secure Vibe Coding: I’ve Done It Myself And It’s A Paradigm Not A Paradox
The article warns that “vibe coding” – using AI tools like Cursor to generate applications without reviewing the code – produces functional but insecure software, as demonstrated by missing input sanitization, lack of rate limiting, poor error handling, and exposed...
Mappa’s AI Voice Analysis Helps You Find the Best Job Candidates and Will Show Off Its Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Mappa, an AI‑powered behavioral intelligence platform founded in 2023, uses voice‑pattern analysis to gauge traits such as empathy and confidence and then ranks job candidates by role compatibility. The startup has raised $3.4 million in a seed round led by Draper...
Super Teacher Is Building an AI Tutor for Elementary Schools — Catch It at Disrupt 2025
Super Teacher, founded by ex‑Google product manager Tim Novikoff, offers an AI‑powered tutoring app for elementary students at $15 a month (or $10 with an annual plan) and has signed up roughly 20,000 families, with public schools in New York, New Jersey...
Speedy AI Launches Sacrifice Safety for Profit
Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) on the race to build AI faster, and the risks that come with it. “Companies want to move fast to maximize profits and be first to market, but that often means jumping over guardrails meant for safety.” “We’ve seen...
How Many ChatGPT Users Discuss Suicide with the AI? The Number May Shock You.
OpenAI’s blog announced that its new GPT‑5 model can better detect mental‑health crises, but disclosed that even rare signals translate into large absolute numbers given its 800 million weekly users. The company estimates 0.07% of users (≈560,000) show signs of psychosis...
Data Centers in Spaaaaace - Space Tech Firms Want to Take Nvidia H100 GPUs Into Orbit to Power the Next...
Redmond‑based Starcloud, backed by Nvidia Inception, and cloud‑computing firm Crusoe are partnering to build the first orbital data centers, launching Nvidia H100 GPUs aboard a Starcloud satellite in November 2025 with limited AI compute services expected by early 2027. The...
Generative AI Now Daily Tool, Delivering ROI For
You need to read the third annual AI Adoption Report from Wharton Human-AI Research. ↓↓↓ - 82% use generative AI weekly (up from 72% in 2024 and 37% in 2023) - 46% use generative AI daily (+17pp YoY) - nearly 75% already see...
Testing Inference-Scaling Techniques to Shape Upcoming Chapter
On that note, I am currently running a large-scale experiment on the upcoming inference-scaling chapter: A) Parallel Sampling - Self-Consistency (Majority Vote) - Rejection Sampling - Best-of-N (Verifier-Based) B) Sequential Refinement - Self-Refinement - Power Sampling - MCMC (Simple) - MCMC (Block as in "Reasoning with Sampling" paper) - Tree-of-Thought ......
Fortanix and NVIDIA Partner on AI Security Platform for Highly Regulated Industries
Fortanix Inc. and NVIDIA unveiled a joint turnkey AI platform that leverages NVIDIA’s confidential‑computing GPUs to run agentic AI in on‑premises or sovereign environments, targeting highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance and government. The solution integrates Fortanix’s Data Security...
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Have a ‘Legitimate AI Researcher’ by 2028
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company aims to create an AI system capable of functioning as a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028. The roadmap hinges on two pillars: continued breakthroughs in core algorithms and a dramatic increase in...
Six Key LLM Insights Every Leader Must Know
🎙️ New article published: “𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀” At the core of today’s most powerful AI applications are Large Language Models (LLMs). We use them daily—often without realizing it—but how many truly understand what powers...
Elloe AI Wants to Be the ‘Immune System’ for AI — Check It Out at Disrupt 2025
Elloe AI founder Owen Sakawa pitched his platform as an “immune system” for artificial‑intelligence, a layer that sits on top of any large language model to filter bias, hallucinations, errors, misinformation and compliance breaches. The startup, a Top 20 finalist in...
AI Forces Brands to Rebuild Marketing Funnels From Scratch
Almost every brand will need to rebuild their marketing funnel from the ground up. Alex Sherman, CEO of @Bluefish_AI, explains how brands are adapting to AI: “Marketers have always split budgets between organic and paid, but AI is forcing a rethink. What’s...
VC Vinod Khosla Says the US Government Could Take 10% Stake in All Public Companies to Soften the Blow of...
Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, proposed that the U.S. government acquire a 10% equity stake in every public company and redistribute the proceeds to citizens as a way to share the wealth generated by artificial general intelligence (AGI). He...
OpenAI Pivots to Consumer Glasses and Phones.
Jony Ive is having to eat his words, I learned from an industry leader last night who has inside connections to @OpenAI. Can't disclose who it is, but he says that OpenAI is readying a full court consumer products push...
Human Workers Fuel Next Robot Breakthrough
Robot breakthrough. This is why the 12,000 workers at @Tesla's Fremont Factory are so important. I hear groups of them are training the robots, doing tasks over and over to give its simulator enough data to help it build very advanced...
GitHub's Agent HQ Aims to Solve Enterprises' Biggest AI Coding Problem: Too Many Agents, No Central Control
GitHub unveiled Agent HQ at its Universe 2025 conference, turning the platform into a unified control plane that lets enterprises manage AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI and others within a single interface. The service, bundled with...
MiniMax-M2 Boosts Performance with Full Attention and Per‑Layer QK‑Norm
Just saw the MiniMax-M2 benchmarks, and the performance is too good to ignore :). So, I just amended my "The Big LLM Architecture Comparison" with entry number 13! 1️⃣ Full attention modules: As shown in the overview figure below, I grouped...
Impending Unitree IPO Could Spark Robotics Investment Boom
A huge robotics bubble forming? Learned last night at the @1x_tech party from an investor that @UnitreeRobotics is preparing a public offering, but that USA investors are being rebuffed. The guy I talked to wanted to put in $200 million and...
Predictions 2026: The “Agentic Commerce” Race – And Some Potential Regrets – In Digital Commerce
Forrester forecasts three pivotal 2026 trends in digital commerce driven by generative AI. First, five leading US or European brands will build unified "agentic commerce" experiences that handle returns, exchanges, logistics, payments and product recommendations in a single AI‑driven interface,...
Architecture and Data Trump Size in Small Language Models
In this AI Chitchat episode, we sit down with Fernando from Liquid AI to unpack the rise of small language models (SLMs) and why architecture + data now matters more than raw parameter counts. We cover hybrid transformer/convolutional designs, neural...
Live Q&A: Nonprofit Controls, LLC Transforms to PBC
Jakub and I are going to do a livestream and answer questions today at 10:30 am pacific. We have a lot of things to talk about--of course we will cover our new corporate structure, but we will also discuss our new...
LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be the Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back
At LocWorld54 in Monterey, localization leaders argued that the function is moving from a cost center to a strategic AI powerhouse, showcasing sessions on making large language models reason like linguists, SPA‑RAG for targeted generation, and operationalizing enterprise‑scale AI translation....
OpenAI Completed Its For-Profit Restructuring — and Struck a New Deal with Microsoft
OpenAI has finalized its for‑profit restructuring, converting its for‑profit arm into a public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group PBC) while the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation retains an equity stake valued at roughly $130 billion and continues oversight. The restructuring is paired with a...
Agentic AI & MCP Power Next‑Gen Enterprise Growth
🚀 The Future of Enterprise Transformation Starts Now 🔍 Harnessing Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Sustainable Growth 🔹 Businesses are entering a new era driven by autonomy, security, and intelligent adaptability. 🔹 Agentic AI and MCP are redefining...
The Download: Microsoft’s Stance on Erotic AI, and an AI Hype Mystery
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the company will never build a sex robot and warned that chatbots that appear human risk misleading users, even as Microsoft unveiled new expressive and helpful features for its Copilot assistant. At the same time,...
Governing the Machine Book Launch – Miriam Vogel, Paul Dongha, and Ray Eitel-Porter
The post announces a special episode of the *In AI We Trust?* podcast where EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel and co‑authors Paul Dongha and Ray Eitel‑Porter launch their new book *Governing the Machine*, outlining their motivation and the book’s core lessons...
Intuit Learned to Build AI Agents for Finance the Hard Way: Trust Lost in Buckets, Earned Back in Spoonfuls
Intuit unveiled Intuit Intelligence, an AI orchestration layer for QuickBooks that deploys specialized agents for tasks like tax compliance and payroll, querying verified financial data from native, third‑party and user‑uploaded sources instead of generating text. The system embeds explainability UI...
AI Research Agents Deliver Deep, Cited Analyses Faster
Ever tried using ChatGPT or Gemini for research, only to hit a wall when you need real multi-step analysis or technical synthesis? That’s why I tried OpenAI’s $200/Month plan for their research agent! After wasting hours piecing together reports and technical...
ARC Prize Seeks Backend Engineer for AGI Evaluation
The ARC Prize foundation is hiring a backend engineer. If you're a builder with a strong track record and you're passionate about our mission of building the best AGI evals possible, please apply ⬇️
You Can Tell Adobe Express’s New AI Assistant to Edit Your Designs for You
Adobe has launched a public beta of an AI Assistant for its Express design platform, offering a chatbot‑style interface that lets users create or edit visuals through natural‑language prompts. The tool can handle vague requests like “make this pop,” specific...
I’m Unable to View the Linked Content, so I Can’t Create a Headline.
https://t.co/JtEZw7NKPj
Introducing the Future Name for AI-Powered Software
Writing about where AI-powered software is going and I’ve come up with a new name for what we’re all going to end up building. Essay coming later today.
Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s New AI Tools Can Instantly Edit More of Your Work
Adobe unveiled a suite of generative‑AI upgrades at its Max event, letting Photoshop’s Generative Fill run on third‑party models such as Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 Kontext alongside Adobe’s own Firefly. The company also introduced a web‑based AI Assistant for...
TED2025 Promise Fulfilled: Humanoid Robots Arrive at Home
When I brought 1X to TED2025 they promised something insane - people in the audience would have a humanoid robot in their homes within a year. Now these mad lads are delivering. Huge congrats Bernt, Dar, Eric and team! Order...
Exploring New Control Features in Generative Video Tools
Trying the new “control” features in generative video tools https://t.co/vRDrz0B7zf
Screens Now Track Your Movements in Virtual Worlds
your screen now understands how you move in virtual worlds
Open‑source AI: Essential Foundation, Calls for Global Expansion
Great to see the shoutout from Jensen @nvidia for open-source AI & @huggingface. Open-source is the foundation of AI and we need much more of it in the US & around the world! https://t.co/kFtBAPbqZi
AI Multiplies Impact; Quality Data Determines Success
AI is a multiplier, not a miracle. Your data makes or breaks it.
AI Tools Shift From Research to Infrastructure when Delivering Value
If an AI tool creates motion without movement, it’s research. When it compresses a release cycle, trims spend, or expands revenue, it becomes infrastructure.
Seeking Reliable AI Face‑Swap Solution After Deepfake Setback
Best face swap method in ai right now? Progress got nuked during the deepfake drama and I have about 6 minutes of generated footage with a slightly off face that needs a reliable fix
AI Breakthroughs Imminent; Watch Videos for Insight
I'm hearing the same. That we are in a lull right now and that breakthroughs are coming. I'm uploading two videos with @blevlabs right now. He has one, and there are others. The videos are long, but worthy to see...
AI‑trained Unitree G1 Pulls 1,400 Kg Car
Researchers at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) trained a Unitree G1 to pull a 1,400 kg car. https://t.co/uC9Xxw5Jap #unitreeg1 #Robotics #humanoid #AI @RLDI_Lamy @Ronald_vanLoon @baski_LA @labordeolivier @TysonLester
ChatGPT Go Launches in Brazil for R$39.99 per Month
1/ Hey Brazil, ChatGPT Go is now available for just R$39,99 per month — a more affordable way to use our advanced AI tool. https://t.co/UcfuEreIhg
OpenAI Shifts to Public Benefit Corporation Status
OpenAI conversion to PBC https://t.co/3tdPRWR4DU
Amazon's 750k Robots Replace Thousands of Warehouse Workers
🇺🇸 Amazon has more than 750,000 #Robots working in all their #warehouses. Each picking robot in the warehouse can replace 24 #workers #amazon #Robotics #humanoid @mvollmer1 @vinod1975 @helene_wpli @KirkDBorne @jeffkagan https://t.co/ylFLhlV6d7
AR + Generative AGI Enables Instant Expert Performance
Augmented reality + generative AGI means people can suddenly do expert-level work they never trained #AR #MR #XR #VR #GenAGI #GenAI #AugmentedReality #AI @anand_narang @antgrasso @Khulood_Almani @AlbertoEMachado @baski_LA https://t.co/dFrCsWVSh0