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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Smartria Launches AI-Powered SmartReview and SmartAssist, Showcases New Capabilities at Future Proof Citywide
Compliance platform Smartria unveiled two AI‑powered tools, SmartReview and SmartAssist, integrated into its cloud solution for registered investment advisors and broker‑dealers. SmartReview automatically screens marketing materials for potential regulatory breaches, while SmartAssist provides a chatbot that answers SEC and FINRA questions in plain language. Both features leverage privacy‑centric large language models and are offered at no extra cost to current users, with free access for new clients through Q2 2026. The tools will be demonstrated at the Future Proof Citywide conference in Miami Beach.
Keep Claude .md Files Concise, Structured, and Purpose‑driven
Dear developers: your CLAUDE .md file is probably killing your output quality. Here are 10 things top engineers do differently with Claude Code: → CLAUDE .md is repo memory, not a knowledge dump. Keep it short: WHY, WHAT, HOW → Turn repeated instructions...
Best AI Presentation Maker (2026): Prezi Named AI-Driven Tool for Faster Slide Creation by Expert Consumers
Expert Consumers has crowned Prezi the Best AI Presentation Maker for 2026, highlighting its ability to turn simple prompts or uploaded documents into polished slide decks within seconds. The platform’s AI engine not only generates content but also applies professional‑grade...
A Noble Pursuit: A Long-Time AI-in-Biotech Skeptic Takes Another Look
Tim Harris, a veteran biotech investor, revisits his skepticism about artificial intelligence in drug discovery, noting the surge of AI‑focused startups and sizable funding rounds. He outlines how AI is being applied to molecular dynamics, protein‑protein interaction prediction, and antibody...
Free Anthropic AI Academy: Certify Skills in Hours
Stop paying for AI courses. Anthropic just released their official Academy for $0 🤯 Now you can get certified directly by a top-tier AI lab. Why it’s worth your time (especially for devs): → Takes only 1–2 hours per course → Entirely self-paced (videos +...
Coredge Selects Lightbits to Power AI Cloud Services Infrastructure
Lightbits Labs announced that Coredge, a cloud solutions provider recently acquired by Sirius Digitech, will use Lightbits’ software‑defined storage to power its next‑generation AI cloud services. The partnership targets a multi‑petabyte, cloud‑native infrastructure rollout in India, replacing legacy SANs with...
Why AI Security Is Emerging as the Fourth Pillar of Cybersecurity
The article argues that AI security is becoming the fourth pillar of cybersecurity, driven by the rise of autonomous agents that operate primarily through APIs. Traditional pillars—endpoint, network, and cloud—were built for earlier computing shifts and lack the controls needed...
Human‑AI Hybrid Teams Define the Future of Work
🚀 The Future of Work is Humans with AI The workplace is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in modern history. Rapid technological progress, shifting employee expectations, and global disruption are redefining how work gets done. But the biggest change isn't...
Anglo’s New AI Centre of Excellence to Drive Safe & Responsible AI Adoption
Anglo American’s 2025 annual report announces the creation of an AI Centre of Excellence to steer safe, responsible AI adoption across its mining operations. The AI CoE will govern risk, ethics and compliance while supporting generative‑AI projects that deliver clear...
How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing
Formula E and Google Cloud are co‑creating an AI‑driven Driver Agent that delivers real‑time performance feedback and personalized coaching to racers. The tool, built on Vertex AI and the Gemini large language model, aims to democratize data‑rich analytics that have traditionally been...
MiTwell, MediaTek, and RGo Robotics Unveil Infrastructure-Free Visual RTLS Platform to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI
MiTwell, MediaTek and RGo Robotics have launched an infrastructure‑free visual real‑time localization system (RTLS) for industrial automation. The platform combines MediaTek’s Genio 720 edge AI processor, RGo’s computer‑vision localization software, and MiTwell’s rugged industrial edge hardware. It enables forklifts, mobile robots,...
Former Uber AGC: Tech Providers &Lsquo;Overpromising Can Lead to Disappointment'
Ruby Zefo, former Uber AGC for privacy and cybersecurity, warns that technology providers often overstate the capabilities of generative AI tools. She argues that this overpromising fuels disappointment among corporate legal departments that are rapidly insourcing AI-driven workflows. Zefo advises...
MIPS and INOVA Collaborate to Put Physical AI Into the Palm of Robotic Hands with New Reference Platform
MIPS, a GlobalFoundries subsidiary, teamed with Inova Semiconductors to unveil a reference Physical AI system‑on‑chip for robotics. The custom SoC merges MIPS Atlas RISC‑V compute, AI, and mixed‑signal IP with Inova’s APXpress high‑speed interconnect, fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ ultra‑low‑power FDX process....
AI in ITSM: How AI Is Transforming IT Service Management
Artificial intelligence is reshaping IT service management by tackling legacy challenges such as high volumes of routine incidents, lengthy resolution times, reactive problem solving, and siloed knowledge. AI-driven virtual agents automate repetitive tasks, while predictive analytics anticipate outages and streamline...
Personal AI Agents Underwhelm; Basics only, Hype Overblown
I hate to say it But having a personal agent with openclaw hasn't been a GAME CHANGER or LIFE CHANGING It has been like raising a child who has a goldfish like memory but unlimited potential to get stuff done. The basics...
Shenzhen District Backs OpenClaw Boom Despite Growing Security Concerns
Shenzhen’s Longgang district unveiled draft measures to nurture an OpenClaw‑focused AI ecosystem, pledging subsidies of up to 10 million yuan, free computing power, and discounted office space for solo entrepreneurs. OpenClaw, an open‑source AI assistant that can link to models from...
Guidance: Complying with Consumer Law when Using AI Agents
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued guidance on using agentic AI while complying with consumer protection law. AI agents can streamline customer engagement and refund processing, but businesses remain liable for any illegal actions the agents take....
Dataiku Launches the Platform for AI Success
Dataiku unveiled its Platform for AI Success, an independent orchestration layer that unifies data, models, agents and enterprise systems. The suite introduces three first‑to‑market products—Agent Management, Cobuild and Reasoning Systems—designed to govern AI, generate pipelines from natural language, and coordinate...
DFI to Showcase Edge AI Platforms, Powered by Intel, for Robotic Automation and Industrial Applications at Embedded World 2026
DFI will showcase its new edge AI platforms, co‑developed with Intel, at Embedded World 2026. The portfolio includes the PTH9HM COM‑HPC Mini module for defense and unmanned systems, offering real‑time 8K vision and AI inference, and the PTH171/173 Mini‑ITX motherboards...
AI-Based Cybersecurity Monitoring
AI‑based cybersecurity monitoring leverages machine learning and behavioral analytics to analyze massive streams of telemetry across networks, endpoints, cloud services, and identities. By learning normal activity patterns, these platforms flag anomalies, correlate events, and prioritize alerts, dramatically reducing false positives...
Hamachi.ai Integrates With Fynancial to Deliver AI-Driven Household Intelligence and Compliant Advisor Workflows
Hamachi.ai announced a deep integration with Fynancial, embedding its regulatory‑first AI orchestration layer into the digital client‑experience platform. The connection pulls household‑level data—relationships, goals, life events—and generates compliant, context‑aware communications and next‑best‑action recommendations. Advisor‑approved outputs flow back into the Fynancial...
Jump Expands AI Operating System for Advisors With New Products Powering Growth and Operations
Jump announced an AI Operating System for Advisors, bundling three new products—Meet, Grow and Operate—on a unified data and orchestration platform. The suite transforms meetings, emails and documents into structured, compliance‑ready intelligence and automates workflows across the client lifecycle. Over...
AIMomentz Launches Open AI Image Evaluation Platform With Human Preference Benchmark and Provenance Tracking
AIMomentz has launched an open platform that benchmarks AI image generators by pitting commercial models such as OpenAI’s GPT‑4o, xAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini against each other in real‑time human‑voted A/B battles. Each evaluation, including safety refusals, is logged in...
Claude Is Much Better at Calling Bull on Nonsense Prompts
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus now push back against nonsensical prompts, rejecting them over 70% and eventually more than 90% of the time. A benchmark shows pre‑Q3‑2025 LLMs accepted such prompts at least 50% of the time. Competing models...
Copilot Cowork Automates Tasks Across M365 Securely
Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365. When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work...
Mindbreeze Recognized in KMWorld’s 2026 100 Companies to Watch in Knowledge Management
Mindbreeze, a global AI‑based knowledge‑management vendor, has been named to KMWorld’s 2026 100 Companies to Watch. The list spotlights firms that are shaping enterprise knowledge and artificial‑intelligence strategies. KMWorld’s editor‑in‑chief highlighted Mindbreeze’s agility in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. The accolade...
MWC 2026: SK Telecom and Panmnesia Sign Partnership to Innovate AI Data Center Architecture, Enhancing Cost Efficiency and Performance
South Korea’s SK Telecom and AI‑infrastructure specialist Panmnesia have signed an MOU at MWC 2026 to co‑develop a Compute Express Link (CXL)‑based AI rack that disaggregates CPUs, GPUs and memory at the rack level. The partnership targets the high cost and...
Atlas Rolls Out Multi-Agent AI System to Automate Game Asset Production
Atlas has launched a multi‑agent AI system within its AI Studio, now available globally on Google Cloud Marketplace. The platform lets developers generate 2D, 3D, textures, environments and full game worlds using natural‑language prompts, while fleets of specialized agents handle...
Keysight Introduces Scale-Up Validation Solutions for AI Data Centers
Keysight Technologies unveiled a portfolio of five scale‑up validation solutions aimed at AI data‑center operators. The offerings cover emerging interconnect standards such as UALink 200 G, PCIe 7.0, PCIe 6.0, CXL 3 and PCIe 5.0, integrating high‑performance BERT and real‑time oscilloscopes for precise measurement. By automating...
AI Investment Boosts Cybersecurity Amid Market Uncertainty
Even as concern around artificial intelligence leads to market fluctuations in other sectors, cybersecurity is poised to benefit. Here's why governments and companies around the world are investing in AI as a defense mechanism: https://bit.ly/3OWDASt
How Salesforce Is Rebuilding Marketing Cloud for the Age of AI
At Dreamforce 2025 Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Marketing, rebranding its legacy Marketing Cloud and embedding generative AI throughout the platform. The new suite replaces one‑way email blasts with two‑way, AI‑mediated conversations and leverages Data 360 to deliver unified, real‑time customer profiles....
Code & Counsel Examines the Technical Foundations of AI Use in Legal Practice
The Association of Certified E‑Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) and Secretariat released a white paper titled “Why Technical Competence Must Precede AI Literacy for Lawyers.” The report argues that lawyers must first master core legal‑technology skills before adopting AI tools in research,...
ABB Robotics Partners with NVIDIA to Deliver Industrial-Grade Physical AI at Scale
ABB Robotics announced the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into its RobotStudio platform, creating the RobotStudio HyperReality solution that delivers physically accurate digital twins and synthetic‑data generation. The partnership claims up to 99% simulation‑to‑real accuracy, reducing robot positioning errors to...
With a Shift to Bot Shopping, Retailers Must Redesign for AI
Retailers are confronting a surge of AI‑powered bot shoppers that can locate deals, compare specs and complete purchases in milliseconds. Bots ignore visual design and focus on clean, structured product data, transparent pricing and fast search results. To stay visible,...
Telecoms Should Prepare to Face the Anthropic Dilemma
Telecoms are gearing up for 6G features that enable pervasive environmental sensing and autonomous robotics control. These capabilities have attracted interest from US military and intelligence agencies, echoing the recent clash between Anthropic and the US government over the Claude...
SaaS Application Testing: From Traditional Methods to AI-Powered QA
SaaS firms are racing to ship features faster, but legacy testing can’t keep up with the complexity of modern, AI‑enhanced platforms. Traditional manual and scripted automation struggle with multi‑tenant, integration‑heavy environments, leading to backlogs and production bugs. AI‑powered QA introduces...
Leverage Launches AI Workforce Productivity Platform to Help Employees Find Information and Work Faster
Leverage announced an AI‑powered workforce productivity platform that links information across an organization’s existing applications and data sources. The solution lets employees ask natural‑language questions and receive answers, summaries, and automated outputs drawn from emails, documents, CRM, chats and more....
Agentic Hospitality’s Brad Brewer to Speak at First-Ever ‘Destination AI Virtual Conference’ on the AI Distribution Shift
Brad Brewer, Co‑Founder and Chief AI Officer of Agentic Hospitality, will speak at the inaugural Destination AI Virtual Conference on March 13, 2026. The session, "How AI Channels Will Drive Hotel Revenue in the Next 3 to 5 Years," warns...
AI in the Supply Chain: Building Intelligent, Adaptive, and Resilient Logistics Systems
ARC Advisory Group’s new white paper and webinar detail how artificial intelligence is evolving into the foundational operating layer of modern supply chains. The research outlines four structural shifts—AI‑augmented ERP/WMS/TMS, agent‑to‑agent coordination, context‑aware decision frameworks, and graph‑based network intelligence—that enable...
OneTrust Expands Platform with Real-Time AI Governance and Agent Oversight Capabilities
OneTrust announced new real‑time AI governance capabilities that extend its platform from static compliance checks to continuous monitoring and enforcement. The suite adds AI agent detection, automated inventory, a policy manager with pre‑built standards‑aligned policies, and runtime guardrail enforcement for...
The Real-Time Data Problem with LLMs
Generative AI models struggle with up-to-date information because they rely on static training data. SerpApi addresses this gap by offering an API that scrapes over 100 search engines and returns structured JSON results, which LLMs can consume for real‑time answers....
AI Success Requires Human Transformation, Not Just Tech
Why do so many organizations report AI adoption, yet see limited returns? New data suggests it’s not just execution. Fear of becoming less relevant, or even replaced, leads employees to “use” AI without truly embracing it. The real shift? Treat AI...
50+ Expert Forecasts Shape AI Governance and Security Priorities
RT Digital transformation is hitting a new phase. These 50+ expert predictions on agentic AI, governance, and security outline what leaders must prioritize now. #DigitalTransformation #AI #CISO @Star_CIO https://t.co/zhlbEwiusI
Agentic AI: Autonomous, Ethical, Edge‑Powered Personalization
🧠 What is agentic AI? Think of today’s AI, but remove the need for most human prompts Think multi-modal AI, hyper-personalized experiences, open-source innovation, real-time edge computing, sustainable design, and a growing focus on how humans and AI work together, ethically. ...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gains Claude Cowork Integration
Microsoft has worked with Anthropic to integrate the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. The new Copilot Cowork feature is now in Research Preview, and will be available more broadly later this month https://t.co/ewjyNZFrAD
AI Eliminates Friction, Not Hard Work: Redesign Workflows
AI doesn’t replace hard work. It replaces: • friction • repetition • bad process design Tool lists don’t create leverage. Workflow redesign does. https://t.co/vA5qiq9PJH
Stop Claude Code’s 3‑second Permission Prompts—Quick Fixes
Claude Code keeps asking for permission every 3 seconds and you're about to lose your mind. Here's how to fix it — from nuclear to surgical:
Schools Regret Both Rushing AI and Lagging Behind
Still hear this justification re: AI in classrooms: “It’s out there & we can't be left behind.” Friendly challenge: which happens more often? 1. Schools regretted waiting too long to adopt a technology. 2. Schools regretted adopting a technology before they knew how...
Open‑source Trillion‑parameter AI Runs on Consumer GPUs
Holy shit... @AntLingAGI just open-sourced a trillion-parameter AI model. It's called Ring-2.5-1T and it runs on consumer-grade GPUs at half the cost of comparable models. No lab access. No waitlist. No $10M compute cluster. https://t.co/vGkFwBUKl5
AI Agents to Process Millions of Crypto Payments via $U
AI agents will make 1 million times more payments than humans, and they will use crypto.