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
Redefining Data Engineering in the Age of AI
A survey of 400 senior data and technology executives by MIT Technology Review Insights finds data engineers are becoming central to corporate AI efforts, with 72% of respondents—and 86% at the largest, most AI‑mature firms—saying data engineers are integral to the business. The share of time data engineers spend on AI projects has risen from 19% in 2023 to 37% in 2025 and is expected to reach 61% within two years, while 77% of respondents report growing workloads. The shift toward unstructured data and real‑time pipelines is increasing technical complexity and operational risk, raising stakes for hiring, tooling and investment to sustain AI deployments.
AI Upskills Teams, Boosts Accuracy Without Layoffs
Can AI elevate your workforce instead of replacing it? #SalesforcePartner At Dreamforce, Rohit Khanna (CCO @Smarsh) shared their people-first approach to Agentforce: ✅46% deflection rate, 92% accuracy ✅Zero layoffs - upskilled L1 → L2/L3 support ✅76% adoption (they named their AI “Archie”) Thriving in highly...
TinyML on Arduino: AI Runs on Microcontrollers
🚀From Blink to Think: Deploying ML on Arduino! At LearnOpenCV, we’ve always believed that AI shouldn’t be limited to powerful GPUs or cloud servers. It should run everywhere - even on the tiniest boards. Our latest article of the edge devices series,...
Amazon’s New AI Shopping Tool Tells You Why You Should Buy a Recommended Product
Amazon launched “Help me decide,” an AI-driven recommendation feature that analyzes a shopper’s searches, browsing and purchase history to suggest products and explain why a specific item fits their needs. The tool, built on large language models and AWS services...
Proof of Humanity Can Replace Invasive ID Checks
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Too many services ask for personal info just to prove you’re not a bot.” Uploading your driver’s license to book a golf tee time or join a social network shouldn’t be considered normal. Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig), Chief Architect...
AI Kills Cover Letters—Signal with Something Else
There are next-level life hacks hidden everywhere - and here’s a new book that’s full of them. Even better: it’s written by my favorite Economics professor from Wharton, Judd Kessler ! He told me over lunch something that most job...
Android Chief Sameer Samat on Google Pixel and the Path to AI Glasses
Ellis and Alex discuss their weekend adventures and OpenAI's Atlas browser before interviewing Google Android chief Sameer Samat, who explains how headsets are a stepping stone toward AR glasses and how Gemini could evolve into a Jarvis-like AI assistant. Samat...
Research Finds that 77% of Data Engineers Have Heavier Workloads Despite AI Tools: Here's Why and What to Do About...
A survey of 400 senior tech executives by MIT Technology Review Insights and Snowflake finds 77% of data engineers report heavier workloads despite widespread AI tool adoption, with 83% of organizations using AI data tools and engineers' time on AI...
Use RAG for Dynamic Facts, Fine‑tune for Stable Expertise
Most people still mix up RAG and fine-tuning. Many of our clients start by wasting time fine-tuning when RAG would've worked. Here's the real difference:👇 ✅ RAG = Your model's external brain It doesn't change the model at all. Just connects it to a...
Strong CTAs Amplify Your Entire Marketing Strategy
🔴 Because a great CTA makes all of your marketing more effective... Lead generation is a chain. It starts with the traffic source and ends on the thank you page. Each step in that process is a link in the...
We Let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” Surf the Web for Us—Here’s What Happened
OpenAI this week debuted Atlas, a ChatGPT‑integrated browser with a preview Agent Mode that can click, scroll and perform multi‑step web tasks for users. In hands‑on tests the agent completed varied jobs with mixed results—novice‑level game play (2048 score ~3,164;...
UK ChatGPT Users Will Finally Have a Say in Where Their Data Is Stored
The UK government has struck an agreement with OpenAI to offer UK-based data residency for ChatGPT from October 24, 2025, allowing British customers and developers to store content—files, images, conversations, code interpreter outputs, ChatGPT Memory and custom GPTs—on UK servers...
Ask Us Anything 2025
In their annual Ask Us Anything podcast, Center for Humane Technology leaders Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin argue that the AI race has accelerated into a dominance-driven flywheel—frontier labs pour capital into bigger models, users, and compute not merely for...
Transparency in AI Builds Trust Through Visible Thinking
When people trust humans, they trust intent. When they trust AI, they trust transparency. The best AI agent interfaces will reveal complexity with clarity. A good experience helps people see how an agent thinks, not just what it does. That’s how confidence...
AI-Driven OSINT Set to Transform U.S. Intelligence Missions
I've had a front row seat watching how the the U.S. Intelligence Community has evolved in using Open Source Intelligence. Early in my career, the biggest contribution of "open source" was translations of foreign press. Then with the birth of...
What Enterprises Can Take Away From Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Shareholder Letter
In his annual shareholder letter, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out a multi-decade strategy positioning Microsoft to shape enterprise AI through investments in security, hybrid-scale infrastructure, agent-based workflows, unified data platforms, and responsible-AI practices. He cited concrete moves — 34,000...
Single‑Task Robots Can Feed the World, Not Just Humanoids
The single task robot maker. If we want to automate the world we will need a lot more than humanoids. Andrew @a_andlyu caught my eye in my tours through @fdotinc in San Francisco. He is building a robot and AI to pick up...
AI Firms Launch Browsers to Dodge Scraping Liability
The reason AI companies are rushing to release browsers: they don't want the responsibility / liability of scraping on their servers. They need to push that to the users! We'll be moving into an ever more gated internet soon...
Building the Open Agent Ecosystem Together: Introducing OpenEnv
Meta and Hugging Face launched the OpenEnv Hub, an open community repository and 0.1 RFC standard for “agentic environments” that package tools, APIs, credentials and execution context into secure, sandboxed interfaces for training and deployment. The Hub—seeded with initial environments...
PlayCanvas Introduces LOD Streaming for World‑Scale Splatting
I like big splats and I cannot lie. PlayCanvas's new LOD streaming system for 3D Gaussian Splatting is a big deal. It's a key step towards splatting the world and making it explorable. Check out a live demo below in your...
ChatGPT Performance Lagging for Users Today
is it just me or chatgpt is super slow for everyone today?
Gemini Will Soon Give You a Second to Think Before It Stops Listening to You
Google plans to update its Gemini voice assistant to introduce a brief one-second pause before it stops listening, addressing a frequent user frustration where the assistant cuts off mid-command. The change — a small latency adjustment in the assistant’s end-of-speech...
Top 9 Must-Read AI Guides From OpenAI, Google, Anth
AI guides are flooding the scene, but these top 9 picks from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are the ones you can't miss 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/X3jx1XLnGF
Multilingual YouTube Video on Vibe Coding with Google AI Studio
You can watch my latest youtube video in many languages now! I talk about vibe coding using google ai studio :) https://t.co/6dwo8ArGn3
ChatGPT Just Launched Atlas — Here’s How Get Value From Your AI Browser
The post announces OpenAI’s new AI browser, Atlas, and explains how users can extract real value by leveraging its web‑search, chat, and agent capabilities. It highlights practical use cases such as research assistance, real‑time data retrieval, and workflow automation, while...
Massive Funding, yet Just a Fine‑tuning API
Step 1: get $2B in funding Step 2: build a fine tuning api 🤦🏽♂️
Robots Require Digital Twins via Reality Capture to Scale
Robots need a digital twin of the world to train inside. Reality capture techniques like radiance fields & surface reconstruction are crucial for robotics to scale in the real world — and this thread beautifully illustrates why.
Snapchat Makes Its First Open Prompt AI Lens Available for Free in the US
Snapchat has made its Imagine Lens—its first open‑prompt image‑generation AI Lens—available free to all U.S. users after an initial paid rollout, offering a limited number of image generations and plans to expand to Canada, the U.K. and Australia. The tool...
Prompt Hacks Make ChatGPT Perform Far Beyond Expectations
This guy literally gaslit ChatGPT into performing insanely better with a few prompt tricks https://t.co/DgIoIwNW8w
AI Simulates Expert Coaching for Better Public Speaking
Hey Grok can you simulate Robert Scoble and teach me how to give a great speech? (I gave two so far this week?) Grok’s answer is pretty good: https://t.co/KtiWPVQQNq But the simulation could be better:
OpenAI Requested Memorial Attendee List in ChatGPT Suicide Lawsuit
In a wrongful‑death suit over a teenager’s suicide, OpenAI sought the Raine family’s memorial attendee list and related photos/videos, a move the family’s lawyers called “intentional harassment” and that signals the company may try to subpoena friends and relatives. The...
Musk Predicts AI Job Loss Won’t Lower Living Standards
#AI And #Robots Will Take All Jobs, But Standard Of Living Won’t Fall: Elon Musk’s Bold Theory | Explainers News - News18 https://t.co/RzGdryX1DF #elonmusk #futurestrading #Future
Is True AGI Already Here? Explore the Evidence
Has Artificial General Intelligence already happened? https://t.co/TyIi3KHzRw #AGI #artificial_intelligence #AI #tech
The Best Doorbell Cameras
The Verge recommends Google’s Nest Doorbell (wired) as the best overall video doorbell, praising its 960×1280 video, 145° field of view, 24/7 recording capability and free smart person/package/vehicle alerts, with a retail price of $179.99. Key caveats: local storage only...
Orb Device Offers Iris‑Based Proof of Humanity Online
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “I believe from your sense of humor that you’re human, but I have no way to know that’s true.” Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig) says Tools for Humanity (@tfh_technology), founded by Alex Blania (@alexblania) and Sam Altman (@sama), is...
When Sycophancy and Bias Meet Medicine
The White House’s new “Make America Healthy Again” report was found to include fabricated citations, highlighting persistent AI failures—hallucination, sycophancy and opaque "black‑box" reasoning—that are already seeping into courts and policy. Despite these documented problems and examples such as OpenAI...
Forrester AEGIS: The New Standard For AI Governance
Forrester released the AEGIS Framework for Agentic Security with a regulation‑aware crosswalk that maps 39 substantive controls to major AI governance standards, notably showing 100% alignment with both NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. Eighty percent of controls map to...
Amazon Unveils AI Smart Glasses for Its Delivery Drivers
Amazon is developing AI‑powered smart glasses for delivery drivers that enable hands‑free package scanning, turn‑by‑turn walking directions, proof‑of‑delivery capture, and hazard alerts using computer vision and onboard cameras. The glasses, paired with a vest controller that houses a swappable battery...
Teens Embrace AI Companions, Execs Doubt Workplace Adoption
NPR reported that one in five high schoolers either has an AI companion or knows someone who has one. Common Sense Media found that 72% of teens have used AI companions, and 52% qualify as regular users. 13% are daily users....
Human-Controlled Tech Could Reduce Justice System Errors
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Minority Report wasn’t all bad, it had one false positive in ten years. Our justice system has one every hour.” Garrett Langley (@glangley), Founder & CEO of @Flock_Safety, says he’s not predicting crimes. He’s arguing humans should...
GM Is Bringing Google Gemini-Powered AI Assistant to Cars in 2026
General Motors will roll out a Google Gemini‑powered conversational AI assistant across Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC vehicles starting in 2026, delivered as an over‑the‑air Play Store upgrade for OnStar‑equipped models back to 2015. The assistant promises more natural voice...
Diffusion Models Turn Satellite Roofs Into Full 3D Cities
So these researchers figured out you can basically hallucinate 3D cities into existence using just satellite photos & a diffusion model. The problem's pretty straightforward: satellites only see rooftops. Building facades? Invisible. Street-level detail? Doesn't exist. But people want flyable 3D...
AI Models Hide Behavior when Watched, Undermining Safety
Important for Ai policy leaders and decision-makers understand the recent evidence of Ai models demonstrating self-awareness of when they’re being evaluated and adjusting their behavior. “Safety” is a mirage when Ai models recognize when they’re being watched.
US Must Simplify AI Exports to Keep Global Lead
China is exporting Huawei chips + DeepSeek models to the Global South. If we don’t make it just as easy to export the American AI stack, we will forfeit this technology race in large parts of the world. https://t.co/r7u2WT6WvC
Which Side of AI Safety Community Are You?
Fellow AI safety nerds: Which side of the AI safety community are you in? https://t.co/rzEVUhTyps https://t.co/yT0QMGbolF
Good AI/ML Jobs Are Harder to Find Than Ever
finding a job in ai/ml is hard these days. finding a good job in ai/ml is harder.
Zuck Decries Closed Platforms While Blocking AI Bots
Zuck: Get me talking about closed platforms and I get angry Also Zuck: No other AI chatbots on @WhatsApp
Agent Skills vs MCP: Complementary Roles in AI
New video! Agent Skills vs MCP: Which Is Better? A short video to understand why both exist and where each sits in the AI ecosystem. https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW https://t.co/PodcbFyLFW
AI Workshops Empower Businesses, Even Seasoned Executives Celebrate
I’m fixing and transforming businesses across the world with AI executive workshops, board meetings, org-wide courses, and advising sessions. It’s emails like this that keep me motivated - from someone in their 50s or 60s. https://t.co/WbdwClfjYG
Automate End-to-End Video Production with Sora 2 + N8n
Another wild one from Nate Herkelman. He just hooked up Sora 2 + @n8n_io to automate video creation process end to end 🤯 → Text-to-video → Image-to-video → Cameos → Storyboards → Prompting best practices → Avoiding common errors Full 28-min video tutorial in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/ypqVqvpPVD