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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From Gaming Analytics to Creative Intelligence: Aggero’s Pivot to AI-Powered Video Performance
Aggero, originally a gaming‑focused analytics firm, has shifted to a creative‑intelligence platform that predicts short‑form video performance across industries. Backed by a seed round and partnerships, it now leverages over seven million hours of content and 42 billion comments to deliver granular, frame‑level insights. The SaaS solution operates in the US and Western Europe and supports more than 100 languages, targeting marketers and agencies that need data‑driven creative decisions. By identifying drivers and drainers of engagement, Aggero aims to replace intuition with measurable outcomes.
Codex App SSH Beats OpenClaw with Codex 5.3
Using OpenClaw + Codex 5.3 doesn't come close to using the Codex App with Codex 5.3. What am I missing? In fact my standard workflow is to use Codex App to SSH into my Linux box and do the work...
Anthropic's Brand Pivot Makes Claude #1 App
I talk a lot about Brand Storytelling - and getting to a distinctive story.... And, admittedly, it gets really esoteric at times... It can be really hard to see how all the pieces fit together... But - look out... Anthropic...
A Real Day in the Life of a ML Engineer.
The post demystifies a machine‑learning engineer’s routine, showing it’s less about glamorous model training and more about disciplined workflow. The author starts early, clears email inbox, applies a five‑minute rule for quick actions, and parks larger tasks in a physical...
GenAI Trustworthiness Takes Another Hit
Yet one more nail in ye olde coffin for GenAI "trustworthiness" in general.
Replace SaaS with Claude, Save Thousands in One Day
As a brand owner you should be using claude to save $1000s on costs by building AI tools to replace all the different SaaS products you’re using. Here's 6 tools that you can easily build in one day. 1. Organic...
ASML Plans to Expand Beyond Chip Lithography Into Advanced Packaging
ASML, the sole supplier of EUV lithography machines, announced plans to move into advanced packaging, a technique essential for AI chips and high‑bandwidth memory. The company will spend the next 10‑15 years researching equipment for chiplet stacking, bonding, and larger‑die...
AI‑Driven Earnings Surge Shapes Tech Market This Week
The Week Ahead in Technology for March 2, 2026: MWC Barcelona opens with @Qualcomm @Nokia @CiscoSystems @HPE showcasing 5G/6G and AI networking. $AVGO reports with $73B AI backlog in focus. $MRVL and $CRWD also report. @Apple should launch sub-$600...
Shop the Look. Don't Ignore the Creator.
Instagram is piloting a "Shop the Look" feature that automatically adds AI‑generated product recommendations to creators' posts without their knowledge. The rollout is invisible in creator analytics, stripping them of control over which items are promoted. With 58% of consumers...
OpenAI Steals $200M Contract in Anthropic Vs. Pentagon Battle
The episode delves into the heated dispute between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense, where the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk and canceled a $200 million contract, only for OpenAI to step in and claim the deal. Host Jaden...
SAPinsider 2026 Awards Finalists Announced Ahead of Las Vegas Event
SAPinsider has announced the finalists for its 2026 Awards, covering seven categories that recognize measurable business outcomes through SAP‑based AI, cloud, ERP, and cybersecurity initiatives. The shortlist includes global enterprises such as BRG Sports, HP Inc., Microsoft, and the U.S....
AI Uncovers True Reasons for Lost Deals, Bypassing Bias
Every quarter, management teams walk into the board meeting with a “Closed Lost Analysis” slide. It typically shows the top 5 reasons deals didn’t close. Pricing. Missing feature. No budget. Chose competitor. The problem? Much of that data is incomplete,...
AI's Seven-Stage Journey Reaches Agent Era
🎯 Scaling Ascent Peak: The Seven Summits of Artificial Intelligence 📈 From Symbolic AI to LLMs and now AI Agents, we’ve reached a pivotal stage. These systems don’t just generate information—they act, learn, and orchestrate complex workflows across digital ecosystems....
Nanoparticles and AI Can Help Researchers Detect Pollutants in Water, Soil and Blood
Researchers have merged infrared‑enhancing nanoparticles with machine‑learning spectroscopy to spot trace pollutants in water, soil and blood. The nanomaterial amplifies the light absorbed by contaminant molecules, allowing a handheld spectrophotometer to capture distinct spectral signatures. Custom AI algorithms then deconvolute...
Free Tool to Identify High-Leverage AI Recruiting Use Cases
Wondering how to approach AI automation in your recruiting efforts? Here's a free tool to help you diagnose some of the most high-leverage use cases. https://redefiningwork.substack.com/p/i-went-down-an-ai-rabbit-hole-and
Leaders Admit AI Layoffs Will Disrupt Jobs
The “vibe shift” on AI is here: As @ChipCutter reports in the @WSJ, now that the long-anticipated AI-driven layoffs are happening, a backlash is brewing. AI messaging from business and tech leaders has been mostly about how beneficial AI will...
Contributor: Personalized Heart Risk and How AI-Powered Plaque Analysis Is Changing Prevention
AI‑enhanced coronary CT angiography (CCTA) now quantifies total and non‑calcified plaque, delivering risk information that calcium scoring alone misses. Large studies show that incorporating AI‑driven plaque metrics reduces heart attack or cardiac death risk by up to 41% and boosts...
Assess IT Spend ROI Amid AI‑Driven FinOps
Are you getting a return from your IT investments or just burning cash? Tomorrow, I'll be participating in a webinar with @Apptio and SunStream Business Services about the realities of FinOps in a dynamic market. Apptio will share its latest...
ISSCC 2026: Rebellions Details Industry's First Quad-Chiplet AI Solution with UCIe Interconnects — Claims Rebel100 AI Accelerator Equals the Power...
South Korean AI‑inference specialist Rebellions unveiled the Rebel 100, a quad‑chiplet accelerator built on Samsung’s SF4X process and linked with UCIe‑A interconnects. The SiP integrates four 320 mm² NPU dies, each with a 12‑Hi HBM3E stack, delivering 2 FP8 PFLOPS (1 FP16 PFLOPS) at a 600 W...
Turn AI Into a $500‑hour Research Analyst
Market research firms charge $30,000 for insights I get from Claude in 30 minutes. Here are the 7 prompts to turn AI into your $500/hour research analyst:
Virginia Lawmakers Propose Guardrails for Artificial Intelligence Use in Education
Virginia lawmakers are advancing two bills to regulate artificial intelligence in K‑12 classrooms. Senate Bill 394 would launch a pilot program and require the State Board of Education to issue safety, ethical and equity guidelines, with an annual report due...
Eltropy Launches Agentic AI Platform for Credit Unions
Eltropy unveiled the industry’s first Agentic AI platform designed specifically for credit unions, offering a secure environment where AI agents can be created, governed, integrated, and deployed. The solution ties together credit unions, FinTech developers, and core system providers through...
Telecom Operators Accelerate AI Monetisation with New Revenue Models, Says GSMA Intelligence
Telecom operators are moving AI initiatives from internal cost‑saving projects to revenue‑generating services, according to a GSMA Intelligence report unveiled at MWC 2026. The study identifies three emerging monetisation models—AI Connectivity Provider, AI Compute Provider, and AI Solutions Partner—backed by...
NeuralTrust Recognized by Gartner® Market Guide for Guardian Agents
NeuralTrust has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Guardian Agents, highlighting its role as an Agent Risk and Security Specialist. The firm’s platform provides runtime protection, automated red‑team testing, continuous evaluation, and observability for AI agents...
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[Webinar] Firefighting Vs. Foresight: AI and the Industry 5.0 Shift in Food & Beverage
Frost & Sullivan and Aptean are hosting a webinar on March 26, 2026 to discuss the Industry 5.0 shift in food and beverage. The session highlights how AI‑embedded, unified platforms can replace fragmented, reactive processes across production, quality, supply chain, and finance. Speakers will illustrate...
Intel Arc Pro B70 Pro-Viz GPU Tested with BMG-G31 Die
Intel confirmed its upcoming Arc Pro B70 “Battlemage” GPU, built on the long‑rumored BMG‑G31 die, featuring 32 Xe² cores, 32 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256‑bit bus, and roughly 4,096 FP32 cores—double the B60’s capacity. A smaller Arc Pro B65 will use the same...
Smack Technologies Raises $32M for Defense AI
Smack Technologies announced a $32 million seed and Series A round to create the first AI lab dedicated to national security. Led by Geodesic Capital and Costanoa Ventures, the financing backs the development of its Omega and Alpha platforms, which aim to...
‘It’s Not Just All the Big Companies’: Warehouse Robotics Use Expands
Warehouse robotics are moving beyond Amazon and Walmart as subscription‑based models lower entry barriers. A 2025 MHI study shows robot usage in warehouses jumped to 48%, with 64% of respondents adopting robotics‑as‑a‑service (RaaS) or SaaS solutions. Mid‑size firms like Superior...
AI Drafts Bulk Product Copy; Humans Ensure Accuracy
I was discussing how to migrate 460 tree nursery product descriptions to a new website. The team's first instinct was to just copy everything over and tweak it manually. That's... a lot of tweaking. We landed on a different approach: export all...
Measuring AI's Real Impact on Work and the Economy
Stanford economist Nick Bloom presented new empirical evidence on AI adoption and its effect on jobs and productivity. By merging firm‑level surveys, payroll records, and real‑time usage data, his team quantified how generative AI is being deployed across industries. The...
Should You Be Using AI for Performance Reviews?
AI tools are rapidly moving from recruitment to real‑time performance management, with at least 70 % of knowledge‑economy workers already using AI at work. Traditional annual reviews are criticized for subjectivity and inconsistency, prompting organizations to adopt algorithms that analyze workflows,...
Eskom to Rationalise AI Pilots as Costs Rise
State-owned utility Eskom is trimming its portfolio of artificial‑intelligence experiments after identifying 220 active pilots across the company. Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Len de Villiers stressed that each AI initiative must be backed by a solid business case and...
Upright Launches New ESG Due Diligence Solution for Investors
Upright unveiled an AI‑driven ESG due‑diligence platform that generates sustainability assessments from a company’s website URL. The solution expands analysis beyond disclosed data to include value‑chain risks, supply‑chain dependencies, and end‑use market exposure. It supports multiple reporting frameworks such as...
Storage News Ticker – March 2
Snowflake expanded its Cortex Code CLI to run in local environments, enabling AI‑assisted coding across dbt, Apache Airflow and other non‑Snowflake data sources under a subscription model. London‑based Cristie Software introduced FSBlocker, a lightweight kernel driver that locks down files...
Updating Data Architecture for 2026 with Informatica, Dataiku, Qlik, and CData
The DBTA webinar highlighted that 85% of subscribers plan to modernize data platforms by 2025, driven by the rapid rise of GenAI and large language models. Vendors such as Informatica, Dataiku, Qlik and CData outlined a shift toward modular, AI‑driven...
Who’s Working for Whom?
The article argues that generative AI tools often hand users a polished draft that masks deeper errors, forcing professionals to spend more time correcting than they would have created the content themselves. This inversion turns the user into an administrative...
New ClickFlow AI Visibility Tracks Brand Presence Across Platforms
Happy to announce that we just added our AI Brand Visibility feature in ClickFlow. It tracks how brands appear across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity: ranking position, mention type, sentiment, and competitor comparison. ClickFlow is our *quality* content generator and...
Business-Driven AI Demands New Accountability Partnerships
"The democratization of AI is shifting technical capabilities directly into the hands of business functions, but this expansion of shadow AI requires a new model of partnership centered on accountability." #AIGovernance #ShadowAI #CIO #ITLeadership https://t.co/8OLLAWNSNL
Why HR and Tech Must Co-Lead AI Transformation
AI is reshaping enterprise priorities, prompting HR and technology leaders to co‑lead digital transformation. In a discussion with Workday CIO Rani Johnson and Box SVP and chief people officer Jessica Swank, the article highlights how AI is as much a people...
Tech Giants Quiet, AI Capex Soars, Building Phase Begins
Every major tech player lost momentum this week. Google 93%. OpenAI 92%. Anthropic 91%. But AI capex hit $700 billion. The headline writers see decline. I see the building phase starting. When everyone goes quiet at the same time, they haven't stopped. They've...
AI‑generated Slop Makes up 21% of New Shorts
AI-generated slop accounts for 21% of YouTube Shorts shown to new users. Here's what this means for marketers and where your content is most protected. https://t.co/bPFCSffiUD via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal
Inside the DM Economy: Cam McMaster on Providing AI Infrastructure for Creator Inboxes
Australian entrepreneurs Cam McMaster and Chris McLoghlin launched InboxAgents.ai and Guardii.ai in 2025 to give creators a unified AI‑powered inbox and abuse‑filtering layer. The tools aggregate direct messages and emails, surface high‑value brand inquiries, and quarantine harassment, helping creators recover...
Nvidia Co‑optimizes Every Vendor Component, Not Off‑the‑shelf
Worth pointing out, no third party vendor $NVDA works with will be an off the shelf implementation into their designs. Everything will be co-optimized and intentionally designed into their platforms/systems. Relevant when thinking about the $LITE and $COHR plays.
Enable ChatGPT Ads via Shopify: Choose “Ads on Other Platforms”
How to enable ChatGPT ads with @Shopify Step 1: Select 'Ads on other platforms' when you create a Shop Campaign. That's it.
Looking Beyond AI Implementation at HIMSS26
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf announced that the AI track at HIMSS26 will move beyond pure deployment discussions. The conference will spotlight AI governance frameworks, the impact on clinical and administrative workflows, and concrete methods for calculating return on investment. By...
Biologists Using AI Will Outpace Those Who Don't
1/ AI won't replace you. But a biologist who uses AI will. Especially in bioinformatics, where the questions never stop coming. https://t.co/q2OHzntcoV
AI Pathology for Cancer Markers Hindered by Shortcut Learning
AI of whole slide images for cancer molecular markers is not ready for clinical use due to confounding and biases ("shortcut learning"), supported by multiple examples @natBME https://t.co/zG8uVIxrJf https://t.co/hQ0tjiapIJ
Claude Projects vs NotebookLM : Research Notes & Buildable Workflows Compared
Artificial intelligence now powers specialized productivity platforms, with Claude Projects and NotebookLM representing two distinct approaches. Claude Projects turns data analysis into automated, actionable workflows, while NotebookLM excels at organizing research and generating structured visual content. The article compares their...
Consultancies Remain Vital Despite AI Developer Tools
Yes, systems integrators and global consultancies need to make big changes. But a dev armed with Claude doesn't replace their value overnight. This post (and graphic) reminds us of how deep these vendors are with their clients ... https://t.co/KYjcwTYoxd https://t.co/RTDrMZUI3V
Claude 4.6 Reveals Blueprint for Perfect Prompts
This guy literally shared the anatomy of the perfect prompt in Claude 4.6 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/V10gEBOOvP