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
Too Burned Out to Travel? This New App Fakes Your Summer Vacation Photos for You
Designer Laurent Del Rey launched Endless Summer, an iPhone photobooth app that uses Google’s Gemini Nano‑Banana image model to generate AI‑created “vacation” photos of users and recently added seasonal themes like Halloween. The app lets users produce a limited free set of images before a paywall (pricing: $3.99 for 30 images, $17.99 for 150, $34.99 for 300), offers optional auto‑generation and auto‑save features, and claims simple account deletion and privacy controls. Beyond novelty, the product commercializes staged lifestyle imagery to meet demand from burned‑out consumers wanting the appearance of leisure, while raising questions about authenticity, monetization of generative models and consumer privacy.
Layoff Sparks Reassessment of Work, Family Balance
Yesterday my wife @maryamie was laid off. @VMware and @broadcom have been very good to us for eight years. In a way it was a quiet sponsor of what I do, she was very well compensated. I am very grateful for...
AI Races Ahead, Leaving Institutions and Users Scrambling
AI is moving faster than institutions, slower than expectations, and sideways to almost everyone’s plans. Enterprises are still debating “AI strategy” while startups ship new agents every week. Researchers are sprinting ahead while regulators write think pieces. And users? They’re experimenting in...
WhatsApp Changes Its Terms to Bar General Purpose Chatbots From Its Platform
Meta-owned WhatsApp updated its Business API terms to bar general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform, effective January 15, 2026, prohibiting AI providers from using the API to distribute assistants whose primary function is conversational AI. The change targets recent unanticipated...
Reward Hacking with Mjlab's Seamless Wandb Integration
We do a bit of reward hacking. Enjoying mjlab's robust wandb integration for tracking runs and storing chkpts Always a fan of wandb but usually too lazy to do the integration for the stats/files like this We'll see if I ever actually make...
Open Datasets Explosion Empowers Everyone to Train Models
I love the diversity of trending open datasets these days. There’s no excuse anymore not to train your own models! - Fineweb and a shuffle of it by @karpathy - Webscale-RL, a large-scale reinforcement learning dataset from @salesforce - SVQ, an audio...
'Much Like Apple': Elon Musk's "Macrohard" Project Will Take a Leaf Out of Cupertino's Book as It Takes on Microsoft...
Elon Musk announced “Macrohard,” a new xAI initiative to build an AI‑driven software and platform ecosystem that sets standards, licenses software and defines system requirements while outsourcing physical manufacturing to partners much like Apple. Backed by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer and...
Tiny Robots Swarm, Adapt and Self‑Heal
These Tiny #Robots Can Swarm, Adapt, and Heal Themselves https://t.co/Uze63KNzpO @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani @tewoz @chidambara09 @IsabellePiel29 @ClementIsa @SvetBnov @mallys @jeancayeux @aure79lien @EricTIXADOR...
UAE to Automate Work Permits Entirely via AI
Work permits in #UAE soon to be fully approved, and issued by #AI without human involvement! https://t.co/BmK7lnlLzx #workpermit #artificial_intelligence #AIAgent #agenticAI @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli...
Abstract or Die: Why AI Enterprises Can't Afford Rigid Vector Stacks
The rapid proliferation of vector databases—ranging from pgvector and DuckDB VSS to Pinecone and Milvus—has created mounting stack instability and costly migration risk for enterprises deploying AI. The piece argues that rather than chasing a single “perfect” backend, companies should...
Silicon Valley Spooks the AI Safety Advocates
Prominent Silicon Valley figures — White House alum David Sacks and OpenAI official Jason Kwon — drew widespread online backlash this week for dismissive comments about organizations advocating for AI safety. Their remarks reignited tensions between tech insiders and safety...
RBI Launches DPIP AI to Preempt Digital Fraud
RBI’s New Weapon- ‘DPIP’ The AI Platform That Will Spot Digital Fraud Before They Can Happen! https://t.co/Pp1Cn0qKSS via @The420in #RBI #DPIP #fraud #scam #AI #CyberSec #artificial_intelligence @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves...
Enterprise Virtual Employees: The Future of Workforce
Introducing enterprise virtual employees.
🧑🚀 ONE HUNDRED WAYS TO USE AI
The post introduces a hands‑on playbook titled “100 Ways to Use AI,” designed to turn readers into AI power users through 100 practical, ready‑to‑try examples covering personal, work, and creative tasks. Each entry details the use case, benefits, step‑by‑step instructions,...
Facebook’s New Button Lets Its AI Look at Photos You Haven’t Uploaded Yet
Meta is rolling out an opt-in Facebook feature in the US and Canada that scans users’ phone camera rolls, uploads unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and suggests edits and collages to make images more “shareworthy.” Meta says the uploaded media...
AI as Junior Pair‑Programmer Mirrors Engineer’s Iterative Loop
We've learned the same things as @maccaw points out in this thread about using AI to generate 100% of the code. The engineers at @CrazyEgg follow a similar process. They use AI like a junior pair-programmer. Fast, tireless, sometimes wrong and always...
Developers Can Now Add Live Google Maps Data to Gemini-Powered AI App Outputs
Google has launched 'Grounding with Google Maps' for its Gemini API, letting developers embed live Google Maps data—covering over 250 million places—into Gemini-powered AI responses to provide factual, location-specific details like hours, reviews and venue photos. The feature is available...
AI Agents Get Self‑Driving Safety Testing with Scorecard
Exclusive first look: I sat down with Darius Ani, @dariusemrani, CEO of Scorecard, a company that’s bringing self-driving car safety logic to the world of AI agents. Darius shared how his experience as an engineer at @Waymo inspired a system...
Senate Republicans Deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X Hasn’t Taken It Down
Senate Republicans posted a deepfaked video of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on their X account and the platform has not removed it, despite policies banning deceptively shared synthetic or manipulated media likely to cause harm. X’s rules explicitly prohibit...
Google Unveils Wave of AI Tools and Updates
It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google...
Veo 3.1 Empowers Creators with Richer Audio and Video Control
Meet Veo 3.1 👋 With Veo 3.1, you can generate videos with richer audio, better narrative control, and enhanced realism. This new update also comes with a suite of additional features built for creative control. Including the ability to: — Extend your videos...
This Week in AI Engineering
This week’s AI engineering roundup highlights three developments reshaping developer workflows and compute economics: OpenAI launched Agent Builder, a no-code drag-and-drop tool that lets non-developers assemble multi-agent workflows alongside ChatKit, Evals and reinforcement fine-tuning; NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark, a...
AI Turns Everyone Into a Product Builder
Dylan Field says we're all product builders now. Figma CEO shared new data showing how AI is merging roles like designer, engineer, and PM: • 72% of workers say AI tools are expanding their roles • 56% of non-designers now complete...
Season Finale: Join AI Chat Series Before Nov 15
ill end the first season of ai chit chat series soon. if you want to be a part of it or if you want me ask someone to be a guest, let me know asap :) im fully booked till...
Meta Unveils New Parental Controls For Its AI Companions
Meta announced new parental controls for its AI companions, adding PG‑13 moderation, parent-accessible chat summaries, the ability to restrict teens to specific avatars or block avatar interactions entirely (while retaining access to the AI assistant). The move follows an August...
AI Success Lies in Resegmenting, Not Creating New Categories
Most AI products aren’t creating new categories. They’re resegmenting existing ones. Understanding the difference shapes everything about how you build, market, and scale. Resegmentation means taking a job people already understand and making it faster, clearer, or more accessible. Category creation means...
Scalable AI Agents Need Observability and Orchestration
LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Nancy Xu (@nancycxu), VP of @Salesforce AI, on scaling agents and the next frontier of AI scaffolding. “During peak tax season, customers like 1-800 Accountant handled millions of tax queries and achieved a 90% deflection rate. That predictability...
Teachers Get an F on AI-Generated Lesson Plans
A study analyzing 311 AI-generated civics lesson plans (2,230 activities) from ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot found the tools largely produce rote, “recite-and-recall” instruction: 90% of activities targeted lower-order thinking and just 6% included multicultural content. The plans tended to omit...
Verbalized Sampling Ends Prompt Engineering, Solves Mode Collapse
💥 Stanford just killed Prompt Engineering — and that’s a good thing. A single paper just changed how we understand alignment, diversity, and creativity in AI forever. --- 🔥 RIP Prompt Engineering ☠️ A groundbreaking new Stanford paper just made it obsolete — with...
HuggingChat Omni Unites 100+ Models for Optimal Answers
The main breakthrough of GPT-5 was to route your messages between a couple of different models to give you the best, cheapest & fastest answer possible. This is cool but imagine if you could do this not only for a couple...
These AI Glasses Promised to Make Me Smarter, and All I Got Was Clippy for My Face
A Verge review of Halo Glass — an always-listening AI companion running on Even Realities G1 prototype hardware — finds the product underwhelming in practice, plagued by firmware glitches, awkward interaction (you must tilt your head 15–40° to trigger the...
Secure AI Agents with Trust‑first, Least‑privilege Approach
How do you secure AI agents that work autonomously? At #Dreamforce, I spoke with Marla Hay, SVP at @Salesforce, about securing the agentic future with new #Agentforce security and compliance capabilities. Key insights: 🔐Salesforce’s Trust Layer protects from day one 🎯 Apply least privilege...
AI Will Become Our Proactive AR Sales Assistant
LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Silvio Savarese (@silviocinguetta), Chief Scientist at @Salesforce, on the future of human–AI interaction. “Imagine a sales rep preparing for a customer meeting — AI can provide all the right documentation and context beforehand, and real-time insights during the...
World's Largest Open-Source Multimodal Dataset Delivers 17x Training Efficiency, Unlocking Enterprise AI that Connects Documents, Audio and Video
Encord today released EMM-1, the largest open-source multimodal dataset with 1 billion paired examples and 100 million data groups across five modalities (text, image, video, audio and 3D point clouds), paired with an EBind training methodology that emphasizes data quality...
AI Shifts Us Toward Complex, High‑Liability Work
Is AI actually freeing us up to actually do the highest value tasks available? Or... Just the ones with the highest amount of complexity, ambiguity, and liability? All too often, I hear people say that AI's core job is removing the drudgery...
Atlassian Launches Rovo Dev: AI Coder Integrated with Team Tools
This one’s big. Atlassian just dropped something a lot of us have been waiting for. Rovo Dev is an AI coding assistant that finally fits how @Atlassian teams actually work! 🔥 Think Claude Code, but with some unique twists: → Built-in integration with @Jira,...
This Startup Thinks Slime Mold Can Help Us Design Better Cities
Cambridge startup Mireta has built an algorithm inspired by slime mold’s natural network-building to optimize urban infrastructure—claiming it can improve transit times, reduce congestion and factor in constraints like flood zones, traffic patterns and budgets. The team translated observable slime...
Seven Cybersecurity Trends Defining 2026
The 7 Biggest Cyber Security Trends of 2026 That Everyone Must Be Ready For From AI-driven attacks to quantum cryptography and zero-trust architectures, these are the security shifts that will define how we protect data in 2026. Read more 👉...
Proactive AI Delivers Work Before You Even Ask
There is something so pleasing (for now) about seeing proactive AI work output that requires ZERO new input. Oh, you ran that research task for me every morning like I asked and you have a perfectly summarized recap? Aww, thanks...
From Slop to Sotheby’s? AI Art Enters a New Phase
Generative AI is moving from novelty to institutional recognition as artists using tools like Midjourney and Runway gain large followings, museum placements and auction sales—most notably an AI-generated bitcoin NFT by Henry Daubrez that sold for $24,000 at Sotheby’s and...
Voice‑Chat GPT Cuts My Phone‑Screen Addiction
Okay, I’m clearly addicted to my phone. But one thing is helping. Usually I’m constantly checking and replying to texts and emails and socials, scrolling AI articles, reading papers. But when I’m rushing to get ready, it makes me late for...
Simulon Delivers Superior Real‑time AI Lighting Estimation
I like light probes and I cannot lie. Especially when they’re being hallucinated by AI. Simulon is building a much higher quality version of image-based lighting estimation the Vision Pro or ARCore does in real time.
Anthropic Connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
Anthropic has integrated its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365—including SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook and Teams—allowing Claude to surface and analyze documents, emails, chats and meeting summaries directly in conversations. The Microsoft 365 connector, built on Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol,...
OpenAI and Sora Enable Perfectly Secure Computer Design
Designing the perfectly secure computer, thanks to OpenAI and Sora: https://t.co/uWqIMhSSj4
Browser‑Based Viz Makes Training Progress Easy Anywhere
exceptionally easy install and demo at least. Didn't realize viz ran via browser immediately makes it easy to visualize training progress from a personal computer while processing occurs on a server/workhorse machine true test will be trying this on custom problem and...
AI-Powered Grok Democratizes Exposure for Creators and Startups
No more shouting into the void. Grok is listening. Democratizing X with AI will be great for small-time creators and young startups. Getting noticed is the hardest part of any new venture.
Energy Costs May Shape Future AI Dominance
Great conversation w @ZachBDell of @basepowerco on Energy markets Surprisingly fast solar adoption Batteries and next-gen distributed grids Do regional energy costs drive future AI dominance? Energy as an input to everything humanity does https://t.co/N7y4oAw9Oc
Boost Your Career with IBM’s Free AI Courses
Start learning today and stay competitive. 👉🏻 @IBM 's free AI courses #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Tech https://t.co/spcfIpNOYr https://t.co/j83FAGEPJX
Silicon Valley Execs Spend Fortunes on High‑IQ Embryos
Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession with Having Smarter Babies Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. ‘They want to raise high-performing children.’ Read 👉 https://t.co/eC8HTcXPr6 @WSJ #AI #IoT https://t.co/yXYu192VXg
JSON Prompting Turns Vague Ideas Into Structured, Reusable Layouts
What makes JSON prompting great? Structure. It turns a vague idea into a clear, inspectable layout. You can isolate changes, copy sections, reuse logic easily. Gemini Flash 2.5 (Nano Banana) handles JSON prompting flawlessly. Prompt in 🧵↓ https://t.co/SsisTHWW1y