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
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI for Finance, Integrates with Excel to Rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Excel, embedding its AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and linking it to live market data through new partnerships with Aiera, Third Bridge, Chronograph, Egnyte, LSEG and Moody's, complementing earlier integrations with S&P Capital IQ, FactSet and others. The rollout includes six pre‑configured Agent Skills that automate common finance workflows such as DCF modeling, comparable‑company analysis and earnings‑call summarization, with the Sonnet 4.5 model achieving a record 55.3% accuracy on the Finance Agent benchmark. Early deployments at Bridgewater’s AIA Labs, Commonwealth Bank, AIG and Norges Bank Investment Management claim up to 20% productivity gains, positioning Anthropic as a direct competitor to Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI in the trillion‑dollar financial services sector.
AI Automation Boosts Value of Handcrafted, Human-Made Experiences
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Even if a robot can cook better than Thomas Keller, you’ll still want to eat at the French Laundry, because you know Thomas Keller made the meal.” As AI floods the web with generated content, Runway (@runwayco)...
True Tech Expertise Requires Hands‑on Tesla FSD Experience
Good morning. Totally agree with @YunTaTsai1 below where he says robotics researchers shouldn't call themselves experts if they haven't had direct experience with @Tesla's FSD 14. In fact I'd go further. You can't call yourself a technology expert if you...
Pinterest Experiments with New AI-Powered Personalized Boards
Pinterest announced a rollout of AI‑powered upgrades to its boards, starting in the U.S. and Canada and expanding globally in the coming months. The new "Styled for you" collage lets users mix and match saved fashion pins to create personalized...
AI Tools Now Learn From Creators, Fueling a Creative Loop
For a decade, creation meant learning the tools. Now the tools are beginning to learn from the creators. As @billpeeb, who leads Sora at OpenAI, put it: “Seventy percent of our users are creating content even to this day, a week and a...
Experts Warn Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents Are Being Hijacked to Steal OAuth Tokens
Datadog Security Labs identified a new phishing method called CoPhish that hijacks Microsoft Copilot Studio agents (called Topics) to present fake login or consent flows, tricking users into granting OAuth permissions and handing attackers tokens that provide access to email,...
Gold Rush Or Fool’s Gold? How To Evaluate Security Tools’ Generative AI Claims
Forrester released a new research report, *Panning For Gold: How To Evaluate Generative AI Capabilities In Security Tools*, outlining three dimensions—utility, trust, and cost—to assess AI‑driven security products. The report emphasizes trust, detailing methods such as crowdsourced QA, golden datasets,...
If You Can’t Afford a Vacation, an AI App Will Sell You Pictures of One
AI‑driven "manifestation" apps are letting low‑income users generate personalized fake vacation photos as a form of digital escapism, with products like Meta designer Laurent Del Rey’s Endless Summer creating fictional travel scenes from three user‑supplied selfies. The trend was highlighted by former...
‘Clinical-Grade AI’: A New Buzzy AI Word that Means Absolutely Nothing
Lyra Health unveiled a so‑called “clinical‑grade” AI chatbot aimed at helping users manage burnout, sleep issues and stress, but the phrase has no FDA or legal definition and the company says it falls outside medical‑device regulation. Industry analysts and legal...
2027 AI Path: Align Now or Lose Humanity
🚨 From Agent-1 to Superintelligence: The AI 2027 Scenario The AI 2027 Report outlines one of the most thought-provoking trajectories for artificial intelligence: a rapid evolution from simple assistants (Agent-1) to autonomous, adversarially misaligned systems (Agent-4) and ultimately to Agent-5 —...
Discussing AI Report and 2025 Biotech Trends in NYC
It was such a pleasure to spend a Saturday morning with @RecursionChris recording this pod in NYC to talk about the @stateofaireport and biotech in 2025🦎 👀
Import AI 433: AI Auditors; Robot Dreams; and Software for Helping an AI Run a Lab
Researchers unveiled two advances that could accelerate AI-driven physical science and robotics: Ctrl‑World, a controllable generative world model initialized from a 1.5B Stable‑Video‑Diffusion model, lets robots “dream” simulated environments to evaluate and improve policies—post‑training on Ctrl‑World synthetic data raised instruction‑following...
Workers Are Scamming Their Employers Using AI-Generated Fake Expense Receipts
Companies are facing a surge in AI‑generated fake expense receipts that are increasingly indistinguishable from real documents, forcing businesses to rework expense verification. AppZen says AI‑generated expenses rose to 14% of fraudulent submissions in September 2025 from 0% in 2024,...
Humanoid AI Soldiers Could Redefine Future Warfare
AI-powered soldiers: Are humanoid robots the future of warfare? https://t.co/jN4Kskwjd2 #warfare #humanoidrobotics #Robot #Robotics #humanoid @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang
AI Meetups Expand to Zurich and Munich in 2026
new zurich and munich events added to the @airstreet ai meetup calendar for 2026! stopping in a city near you soon - subscribe at luma(dot)com/airstreet https://t.co/2JYV1TVNOt
Google Cloud Takes Aim at CoreWeave and AWS with Managed Slurm for Enterprise-Scale AI Training
Google Cloud launched Vertex AI Training, a managed Slurm service that gives enterprises access to large-scale GPU fleets, data science tooling and support for bringing or building models from scratch, targeting long-running training jobs that span hundreds to thousands of...
WormGPT: A Chatbot That Never Refuses Hackers
Meet WormGPT: The Chatbot That Doesn’t Say “No” to Hackers! https://t.co/YEKDzS6nvS via @The420in #WormGPT #GPT #hacker #chatbots @RagusoSergio @Shi4Tech @SpirosMargaris @vinod1975
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery with Unmatched Precision
How AI is making drug discovery faster and more precise? https://t.co/UXYvnEpx1L #DrugDiscovery #drug #AI @enilev @Fisher85M @sonu_monika @Fabriziobustama
Huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning
Hugging Face has released huggingface_hub v1.0 after five years of development, positioning the library as the mature Python backbone for its Hub and the broader ML ecosystem. The package now powers roughly 200,000 dependent libraries and provides access to more...
Context Engineering Supersedes RAG in Agentic AI
Is #RAG Dead? The Rise of Context Engineering and Semantic Layers for Agentic AI | Towards Data Science https://t.co/0CTp1H8711 #ContextEngineering #AI #AgenticAI #AIAgent @ingliguori @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut @Khulood_Almani
Streaming Datasets: 100x More Efficient
Hugging Face announced major backend improvements to its datasets and huggingface_hub libraries that make streaming multi‑TB training data far more efficient and reliable using the same load_dataset(streaming=True) API. Changes—including a persistent data files cache, optimized resolution logic, Parquet prefetching and...
Great Products Begin as Toys, Evolve Into Infrastructure
This single statement explains every great consumer product ever made: They all start as toys. Every breakout product follows the same path: Want → Need → Utility. It begins as novelty. It becomes habit. It ends as infrastructure. Once you see that curve, you start to notice...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Gets a Major Pay Rise - but Will Its Increasing AI Focus Be Enough to Continue...
Microsoft said CEO Satya Nadella will receive $96.5 million in total compensation for fiscal 2025, a 22% increase from the prior year, with $84 million in performance‑based stock awards emphasizing long‑term value creation. The raise comes amid blockbuster company results...
Embodied AI Learns From Human Experiences, Not Just Data
In a few hours @IllusionOfLife is having a Holloween party in San Francisco. Mostly for kids. I'm not going. I made a bunch of videos of @okpasquale and his cofounder Kevin Fischer last week and editing them is taking longer...
AI Drives Structural Transformation in Transportation and Mobility
🚀 Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future of transportation — from predictive maintenance and smart mobility, to logistics, infrastructure, and customer experience. In my latest article, I explore how AI is becoming a strategic lever for CEOs and entrepreneurs, helping organizations...
“This Is Where We Start to Move Beyond the Hype Cycle” - Slack Tells Us Why It Can Be the...
At Dreamforce 2025 Slack pitched an upgraded Slackbot and an agents-first vision that positions Slack as the workplace operating system and front end for Salesforce’s Agentforce/CRM stack. The company says Slackbot’s contextual awareness—pulling team and channel data—lets agents live alongside...
Free AI Summit Shows How to Reclaim 15 Hours Weekly
I’ll be joining @TonyRobbins, @deangraziosi, and seven AI experts for what could be the biggest AI event of 2025. Wanna come? ➡️ The AI Advantage Summit is on November 6-8 It’s 100% free and 100% remote and 99% fun (okay, fine 100%). This event...
AI Book Crosses Language Barrier with Korean Translation
My book Building LLMs for Production just got translated into Korean. …and I can’t even read it to proof it. 😅 Still, it feels incredible. A Korean publisher reached out last year asking to translate the book, and now it’s available in Korean...
OpenAI Reportedly Developing New Generative Music Tool
OpenAI is reportedly developing a new generative music tool that can create music from text and audio prompts, potentially adding accompaniment to vocals or scoring videos. Sources say the company is using annotated scores — reportedly working with Juilliard students...
AI Reshapes Search, Forces Ad Revenue Reinvention
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: If AI gives users the answer at the top, no more scrolling through 10 blue links, Google’s math changes fast. “From a monetization standpoint, one unit of revenue now needs to replace the ten they used to...
Brands Must Tailor Content for Humans and AI
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: As AI takes over more of our searching, reading, and shopping online, brands face a new question: Who are they really creating content for... humans or machines? Alex Sherman, CEO B@Bluefish_AI, says we’ve been here before: “Remember when brands...
Chrome for iOS and Android Just Got a Quick AI Mode Shortcut
Google has added a prominent “AI Mode” shortcut to Chrome’s new‑tab page on iOS and Android, putting Gemini‑powered search one tap below the search bar alongside an incognito button. The change removes the need to remember a URL or bookmark...
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery Breakthroughs
AI transforming drug discovery.
Blend Many Influences, Don’t Copy—Create Truly Original Art
copying another artists style will only dilute you and elevate them. it’s cheap now mixing with 500 other styles you love to result in something completely new, that’s taste, & that’s the good stuff so sayeth the ai artist who knows all...
ICE Is Building a Social Media Panopticon
Federal immigration enforcement is expanding online surveillance: ICE has paid $5.7 million to contract Zignal Labs’ AI‑driven social media monitoring platform, which the company says can analyze more than 8 billion posts a day in 100+ languages and surface geolocated...
AI‑Powered Sales Teams Generate $60M Pipeline Fast
What if your sales team could have 50,000 intelligent conversations at once? @Salesforce did this and generated $60M in pipeline in 3 months. I spoke with their CMO Ariel Kelman at Dreamforce about the Agentic Revolution Full conversation: https://t.co/qhZjcHAHAN #Marketing #Agentforce #Dreamforce #SalesforcePartner
LLMs Forget Context: Understanding the Memory Problem
The Memory Problem: Why #LLMs Sometimes Forget Your Conversation? https://t.co/xK4el2s1Fh #LLM4Code #genai @CurieuxExplorer @Eli_Krumova @enilev @ingliguori
Expect Two New Babies Next Year—Wife’s Heroic Journey
Looks like we're going to welcome two more Hugging Faces to the family next year. My wife is a hero! 💛💛💛@ReginaSil2 https://t.co/wRBqXeQHUI
1:1 3
You can capture reality with remarkable fidelity - here’s a 1:1 3d gaussian splat perfectly aligned with reality. Once Meta layers in a scalable version of their codec avatar tech - this stuff is about to get trippy. Literally transcending time...
Hand Dexterity Limits Humanoid Robot Advancement
The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the #Humanoid Revolution! https://t.co/2lNrn44Nww #humanoidrobotics #AI @enilev @HaroldSinnott @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut
Experts Warn AI and Robot Futures Arrive Later than Hype
When is the future arriving? This post says that the ML researchers are far more bearish than most who talk on X. Same is true about generalized humanoid robots. Most tell me somewhere around seven years. Even in China. Tesla...
Due Diligence Essential for Unverified AI Speed Claims
If he is right this would bring America back to the top in AI. In a big way. The problem is I can't judge whether he is right. So I'm presenting this as an example of how I judge people who...
Wabi Revives Playful Discovery in Modern Software
Every few years, something quietly rewrites the rules of how we interact with technology. You don’t always see it when it starts. It begins as something playful. Something that feels small, even strange. But it carries an energy you can’t quite...
From AI Hype to Measurable Business Outcomes
🚀 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 At 𝗛𝘂𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, themed “All Intelligence”, I had the privilege to follow the keynote delivered by Mr. Leo Chen, Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales at Huawei. This was not just...
Just-in-Time AI Ads Will Predict Your Scroll
Just-in-time AI advertising is near. Here are the early signs. Even if these massive data center build outs don’t amount to AGI - you best believe personalized ads will be generated for you just a few videos before you scroll...
Polarity Safeguards Code, Boosts Teamwork in AI Era
Developers: Meet @polarityco which catches bugs and makes your agentic systems better. But deeper, makes your code work in enterprise systems and makes it better for working with a team. Keeps people from getting fired for using AIs to code. And,...
Prioritize Real Human Experiences Over Artificial AI Screens
One of the biggest CEOs in the world just shared the importance of human-centered experiences in the AI age. The CEO of Airbnb Brian Chesky said at Masters of Scale: “The other thing I’ll say about AI is the term...
LLMs Follow Instructions, Not Truth—Verify Your Assumptions
When you use an LLM, remember this: it’s been trained to follow instructions, not to know what’s true. That means if you don’t know what you’re talking about, you might just be confidently guiding it toward your own mistakes — and it...
Thanking Jupyter's Founders for AI Notebook Revolution
Hanging out with Project Jupyter co-founder @ellisonbg. If not for him and @fperez_org we wouldn’t have the coding notebooks we use daily in AI and Data Science. Very grateful to him and the whole Jupyter team for this wonderful...
Manual Curriculum Yields First Walking Gait in KScale KBot
Finally getting a semblance of a gait for the kscale kbot in mjlab sim! Ended up essentially manually managing a curriculum of first balance, then forward vector walking. https://t.co/UTuZUSF4dz