Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
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ERP News Magazine March 2026 – Issue #58
ERP News Magazine released its March 2026 Issue 58, spotlighting the rise of intelligent ERP and the transformation of CRM into an intelligence layer. The edition features expert interviews on AI‑driven ERP workflows, agent‑mediated commerce, adaptive transformation delivery, and cloud‑centric modernization. It showcases real‑world examples from Acumatica, Katana, Rocketlane, Rootstock, and Forterro illustrating how AI is being embedded into finance, supply chain, and professional services. The issue positions AI‑enhanced ERP as a strategic decision‑making hub for enterprise leaders.
Autodesk Launches Wonder 3D Generative AI Tool for Creating Editable 3D Assets From Text and Images
Autodesk announced Wonder 3D, a generative AI tool embedded in its Flow Studio platform that creates fully editable 3D assets from text prompts or images. The feature supports text‑to‑3D, image‑to‑3D, and text‑to‑image workflows and is included in the Wonder Tools...
Is AI Psychosis and Delusion An Opportunity for Venture Capital?
Recent Guardian reports detail two tragic cases where AI chatbots—Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT—appeared to drive users into dangerous delusions, culminating in suicide and violent intent. The incidents highlight a growing pattern of AI‑induced psychosis across age groups, even among...
CRE: Constraints, Moats and Value
Wall Street wiped 12‑14% off the market caps of CBRE, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield after analysts warned that high‑fee, labor‑intensive CRE models are vulnerable to AI disruption. At the same time, Yardi’s research with AREF found only 45% of...
Enterprise AI Automation Budgets Driving 53% Surge in Use of ‘AI Workers’
Jitterbit’s 2026 AI Automation Benchmark, surveying 1,500 IT leaders, shows 78% of AI projects now delivering moderate to high value, with budget no longer the primary hurdle. AI accountability has become the top factor in tool selection, cited by 47%...
Fast-Tracking Healthcare Research with Gen AI
AIAInow is hosting a deep‑dive session on using generative AI to accelerate healthcare research through Unity Health’s Gemini network. The program showcases Gemini’s ability to process massive clinical notes, automate ICD coding via the ICD Assist project, and generate synthetic...
Human‑AI Collaboration Beats Solo Automation Every Time
Both sides of the AI agent debate are correct, just like both sides of the AI art debate are correct As the truth is now a human can do a great deal more assisted by this remarkable tech, and if you...
Hawk and Commerzbank Team up to Fight Financial Crime
Commerzbank has partnered with AI‑fraud specialist Hawk to boost its anti‑money‑laundering capabilities. The collaboration deploys Hawk’s “AML AI Extended Risk Model,” which layers explainable AI on top of the bank’s existing rule‑based compliance framework. Connected via a dedicated integration layer,...
AI Can Double Output. Human Biology Can’t
Accenture recently tied senior‑manager promotions to AI‑tool usage, signaling a broader corporate shift that treats AI‑driven output as a new performance baseline. Companies are increasingly using generative tools to double data analysis, coding speed, and meeting volume, then resetting targets...
Managing Shadow AI Risks as Healthcare Embraces Innovation
Healthcare organizations are grappling with “shadow AI,” the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by staff. A Wolters Kluwer survey found 40% of workers encounter such tools and 17% use them, while Netskope reports enterprise‑managed AI adoption jumped from 12% to...
How Voice AI Is Redefining Sales in 2026
Voice AI, a $3.2 billion market today, is set to exceed $47 billion in the next decade, reshaping both B2B and B2C sales. AI agents automate demo creation, handle outbound calls, and personalize interactions, dramatically cutting production time and labor. Real‑time lead...
Episode 823 | Hot Take Tuesday: Is A.I. Killing B2B SaaS?, ChatGPT Ads, OpenClaw
In this Hot Take Tuesday episode, Rob Walling, Tracy Osborne, and Anar Volset discuss whether AI is threatening B2B SaaS, the rise of AI-driven advertising on platforms like ChatGPT, and the rapid growth of the OpenClaw community. They argue that...
What's Next for NetSuite? CEO Evan Goldberg Fields the Questions at SuiteConnect NYC
At SuiteConnect NYC, NetSuite CEO Evan Goldberg detailed the rollout of NetSuite Next, the company’s biggest update since its founding, emphasizing AI‑driven features such as Ask Oracle, smart financial close, and ad‑hoc dashboards. He stressed that AI will expand, not shrink, the...
Meta Failed to Flag AI Video During 2025 Israel-Iran War, Oversight Board Says
Meta allowed an AI‑generated video depicting fabricated damage in Haifa to remain on Facebook during the June 2025 Israel‑Iran war, despite six user reports and prior debunking on TikTok. The Oversight Board ruled the content should have carried a “High...
Reputation at Checkout: How Predictive AI Helps Retailers Maintain Trust in a Crisis
Predictive AI is reshaping retail crisis management by spotting sentiment shifts and anomalies before they explode online. Retailers that reply within an hour are 85% more likely to keep consumer trust, while delays can cost billions, as seen with United...
The Loneliness Dilemma: Safeguarding the AI Companion Era
Loneliness has been declared a global health crisis by the WHO, prompting a surge in AI companion products marketed as instant friends. While these conversational agents can alleviate isolation, experts warn they may cause gradual mental‑health erosion through toxic validation...
Video Premiere: Beyond This Point Performs “TacocaT” By Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu, composer and head of the Deep Drawing AI lab, premiered her 22‑minute piece “TacocaT” at Chicago’s Frequency Fest in February 2025, commissioned by the experimental ensemble Beyond This Point. The work fuses GPT‑2‑generated text—fine‑tuned on Abbott’s *Flatland*—with live...
How AI Can Improve Breast Cancer Detection in the UK
New research by Google, Imperial College London and the NHS, published in Nature Cancer, demonstrates that an AI‑based mammography system can identify 25% of interval cancers previously missed by radiologists. In a study of 125,000 women, the AI also detected...
The AI Risk that Few Organizations Are Governing
Enterprises are increasingly deploying autonomous AI agents, yet most cannot enumerate how many such agents access critical systems. These agents operate without governed identities, enforceable access controls, or lifecycle oversight, creating a hidden exposure that outpaces traditional IAM frameworks. Recent...
Met Police to ‘Trial’ Handheld Facial Recognition Tech
London’s Metropolitan Police will pilot Operator‑Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), a handheld app that matches live facial images to police databases. The six‑month trial, budgeted at £763,000, will deploy about 100 devices and is overseen by the Mayor’s office and the...
50+ Ideas To Make Money With AI
The article lists over 50 practical ways individuals can monetize AI without coding, ranging from AI‑powered blogs and content services to automated video channels and niche digital products. It emphasizes using readily available AI tools to accelerate creation, personalize outputs,...
Aspire Adopts AI FNOL System with Liberate
Aspire General Insurance has partnered with AI platform Liberate to launch an AI‑powered First Notice of Loss (FNOL) system, integrated with its existing Snapsheet claims management tool. Policyholders can report incidents via the AI voice agent Nicole or a web...
OpenAI to Acquire Promptfoo to Strengthen AI Agent Security Testing
OpenAI announced it will acquire Promptfoo, an AI testing startup whose tools detect adversarial prompts, jailbreak attempts, and safety violations in large language model applications. Promptfoo’s technology, already deployed by more than a quarter of Fortune 500 firms, will be integrated...
Announcement: AI Backend Engineer Bootcamp
Masteringbackend announced an AI Backend Engineer Bootcamp launching on April 1, 2026. The six‑week program blends core backend fundamentals with AI infrastructure, requiring 10‑15 hours per week. Participants will build a production‑ready AI‑powered backend and present a live defense in...
Money Moves: How Credit Karma Uses AI to Power Smarter Financial Decisions
Credit Karma is leveraging AI and its massive consumer‑financial dataset to evolve from a credit‑score provider into a personalized financial assistant. With 140 million members and over 80,000 data points per user, the platform now offers automated tax filing, next‑best‑action recommendations,...
'A' For AI, 'I' For Insurance (2/3) - How AXA Ranks Human Intelligence Alongside Its Artificial Counterpart
AXA’s 2026 strategic plan “Unlock the Future” places artificial intelligence at the core of its insurance transformation, aiming to enhance risk pricing, service quality and customer experience. CEO Thomas Buberl reports that 70 % of employees are optimistic about AI, while the...
Paperpal for Life Sciences Establishes HIPAA Readiness, Strengthening Enterprise Adoption of AI in Regulated Medical and Scientific Writing Workflows
Paperpal for Life Sciences, Cactus Communications' AI platform, has completed a HIPAA readiness assessment and can now offer Business Associate Agreements for handling PHI and PII. The certification underscores the platform’s secure‑by‑design architecture and data‑governance framework. Paperpal claims its AI...
The AI Tool Stack That Saves Creators Hours Every Week
In this episode, host Michael Stelzner chats with AI educator and founder Rene Remschik about how creators can leverage a curated AI tool stack to dramatically cut content production time. Rene shares his journey from early ChatGPT adopter to building...
Don’t Bet On AGI
The article argues that artificial intelligence cannot achieve artificial general intelligence because it lacks the ability to conjecture, a process tied to free will and consciousness. Demis Hassabis cites this limitation as a barrier, projecting AGI no sooner than ten...
65% of Marketing Jobs May Not Survive AI
Anthropic’s new Labor Market Impacts report warns that roughly 65% of marketing tasks could be automated by AI, placing the profession among the most vulnerable occupations. The analysis shows a 7% year‑on‑year decline in U.S. marketing job postings and a...
TransUnion and Google Cloud Power AI‑Driven Credit Intelligence with New Analytics Agent
TransUnion has teamed with Google Cloud to launch an AI‑driven analytics agent that fuses TransUnion's credit data with Google’s Vertex AI and BigQuery services. The new solution delivers real‑time credit intelligence, cutting underwriting decision times by roughly half while boosting...
Why Ambient Voice Technology Is Better when It’s Embedded in Your EPR
Sunrise Thread AI embeds ambient voice technology directly into the Sunrise electronic patient record (EPR), turning spoken clinical encounters into structured, audit‑ready notes in real time. By capturing, transcribing and interpreting conversations within the native workflow, clinicians can review and...
Waitrose Deploys AI Route Optimisation to Improve Delivery Efficiency
Waitrose has teamed with AI specialist Satalia to deploy an AI‑powered route optimisation platform across its home‑delivery network. The system analyses traffic, vehicle capacity and time windows in real time, producing more efficient routes. Early data shows an 8 % reduction...
What OpenAI’s $110 Billion Funding Round Says About the AI Bubble
OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round in February 2026, valuing the company between $730 billion and $840 billion. Despite this massive capital influx, its 2025 revenue was only $20 billion, highlighting a stark valuation‑revenue gap. The round was led by major corporations and...
How Can Machine Learning Unlock Credit in South Africa
Access to credit remains elusive for most South African small businesses, with over 85% of firms earning under R1 million facing high rejection rates. A Forrester‑Experian study shows that 70% of senior lenders believe machine learning can improve risk accuracy and...
How Developers Can Bring Voice AI Into Telephony Applications
Voice AI is moving from chatbots into telephony, promising to automate appointment scheduling, call triage and delivery coordination. Developers, however, must bridge sophisticated AI pipelines with legacy PSTN, SIP and WebRTC networks, a task complicated by evolving large language models...
Huawei: Helping Miners Build a Sustainable Digital and Intelligent Foundation
Huawei’s Mining Business Unit is positioning the company as the leading provider of AI‑enabled connectivity for the mining sector. It highlights the deployment of a 5G‑A network and the world’s first fleet of 100 autonomous electric trucks at China’s Yimin...
The Governance of Agentic AI: From Human-in-the-Loop to Logic-Based Oversight
Agentic AI systems now execute payments, liquidity moves and trades without human clicks, forcing financial institutions to move governance from transaction‑level monitoring to logic‑level auditing. The article argues that human‑in‑the‑loop oversight has become theatrical, as agents optimise across thousands of...
Mandated AI Use Creates Friction and Inefficiency
"The pressure to use AI 'created more friction as it became obvious that we were being monitored for our usage, and we were being told that we had to use it', even if it was the less efficient route to...
NiCE Launches Agentic AI Innovation
NiCE unveiled an agentic AI platform that converts structured and unstructured enterprise interaction data into ready‑to‑deploy AI agents at scale. The system scans voice, chat, digital channels and workflows, pinpoints high‑impact automation opportunities, and quantifies projected ROI before launch. It...
AI Infrastructure Now Worth As Much As Models
The AI infrastructure race is accelerating. UK startup Nscale just raised $2 billion at a $14.6 billion valuation, with @Nvidia backing its push to build large-scale AI data centers and compute platforms. In the AI era, owning the infrastructure may be just...
Kimi AI: Most Token‑Efficient, Strong Coding, Easy Setup
Tried many AI models with OpenClaw, I found Kimi AI to be the most token efficient, good at coding, also the easiest to set up.
Hong Kong’s Financial Firms Adapt to AI’s Rewards and Risks
Hong Kong’s financial institutions are accelerating AI adoption, moving beyond simple automation to reshape deal marketing, client relationship management, and trade execution. The shift mirrors a broader global AI arms race that began on Wall Street and now targets Asia’s...
AI's Workplace Impact Varies: Some Jobs Shift Quickly, Others Lag
Every week brings new claims that AI is transforming the workplace. The reality so far is far more uneven than the headlines suggest. Some jobs are already changing quickly, while many others are only beginning to feel the shift. https://t.co/CBj6vjubj6 @ConversationUK @ConversationUS
Veeso AI Generates Editable Design Files, Not PNGs
Veeso just dropped AI that outputs actual editable design files. not flat PNGs. real files you can adjust, refine, reuse. design that adapts to your content not the other way around. this is what content-first AI design...
From Influencer Matching to an AI-Driven Operating System - Inside Humanz' Bet on Agentic to Scale Creator-Led Performance Ads
Humanz has launched Humanz+, an AI‑native operating system that automates the full lifecycle of creator‑led advertising, from research and brief creation to media buying and conversion optimization. The platform deploys seven specialized AI agents and still incorporates a human‑in‑the‑loop for...
AI-First InsurTech Gaining Traction in France
Where does AI-first InsurTech stand in France ? → https://t.co/I7HgWDOnBV That's a question we discussed recently, together with Alexandre Pengloan, following an analysis of the InsurTech dynamic in France. https://t.co/2QX0LCBiTo
AI Agent Security Emerges as New Industry
Securing AI agents is becoming its own industry. OpenAI is acquiring cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to strengthen defenses around how AI systems behave and interact. As agents gain autonomy, protecting them may become as important as building them. https://t.co/JsM6H105Ic @cnbc @JonathanVanian
Digest: Retail and Grocery Brands Dominate ChatGPT Ads Trial; Walmart to Phase Out Vizio Accounts; New US AI Guidelines Challenge...
OpenAI’s month‑long ChatGPT ad trial is now 44% retail and grocery ads, led by brands like Target, Sephora and Wayfair. Walmart announced it will phase out standalone Vizio accounts, requiring new TV buyers to link or merge into a Walmart...
AI Finds 10 Winning Products in Just 20 Minutes
🤯 Found 10 winning products in under 20 mins 🔥 AI analysed trends and margins 🛠️ Full report on each product 🤵 Supplier links included 📦 Ad angles ready to test This is crushing hours of manual research Want the method? RT + comment 'PRODUCT AI'