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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RWS Global Deploys Box’s AI Tools to Streamline Contract Workflow
RWS Global partnered with Box to embed AI‑driven tools into its contract lifecycle, leveraging Box Enterprise Advanced, Box Doc Gen, and Box Sign. The new no‑code workflow automates document generation, legal approval, and e‑signature, cutting processing time from roughly 20 minutes to under two minutes per contract. For a batch of 200 hires, the end‑to‑end turnaround fell from 8.5 workdays to five hours. The solution also enriches contracts with AI‑extracted metadata, enabling searchable, governed assets across the organization.
AI-Driven Infrastructure Takes Center Stage at MWC26
MWC energy is building. In just a few days, we’re back in Barcelona, where connectivity, AI, policy, and enterprise transformation converge on one global stage. I’ll be on the ground at #MWC26 tracking how intelligent infrastructure, AI-native networks, and real-world enterprise...
Risky Business #826 -- A Week of AI Mishaps and Skulduggery
In this episode of Risky Business, host Patrick Gray and panelists James Wilson and Adam Wallow dissect a wave of AI-driven cyber incidents, from a threat actor leveraging AI to mass‑compromise Fortinet devices to Chinese labs attempting large‑scale model distillation...
AI-Driven Evolution: Reshaping India's Data Center Infrastructure for a High-Density Future
India is racing toward more than 2 GW of data‑center capacity by the end of 2026, spurred by AI‑intensive workloads and accelerated cloud adoption. Facilities in major metros are shifting from pure storage sites to high‑density compute hubs that require liquid‑cooling...
How I Use ChatGPT to Create a CLE PowerPoint Deck
Jennifer Ellis details a step‑by‑step workflow for using ChatGPT to produce a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) PowerPoint on cybersecurity. She shares the exact prompts, citation handling, and design cues that let the AI generate a polished deck in minutes. The...
Logistics Giant WiseTech Cuts 2000 Coding Jobs as AI Takes Over
WiseTech Global announced the elimination of roughly 2,000 coding positions, representing more than a quarter of its 7,000‑strong workforce, as it pivots toward artificial‑intelligence‑driven solutions. The company posted a 76% surge in first‑half revenue to US$672 million, while net profit slipped...
DIY Cinematic App Credits Without AI Slop
I made cinematic opening credits for my app. No film crew. No actors. No stock footage. One evening. A few bucks. And it doesn't look like AI slop. I wrote up my entire workflow — every prompt, every tool, every step. Steal it. Fight...
OpenAI Fends Off xAi’s Claims of Trade Secret Theft
A U.S. District Judge dismissed xAI's trade‑secret lawsuit against OpenAI, finding no evidence that OpenAI induced former employees to steal confidential information. The ruling emphasized that mere possession of trade secrets does not constitute misappropriation and that the plaintiff failed...
Voice AI in Hearing Care: Improving Access Without Losing the Human Touch
A HIMSS fireside chat highlighted how voice AI is transitioning from pilot projects to production in hearing‑care clinics. PolyAI’s Alex Brown and Audibel’s Brianna Warner discussed using conversational agents to expand patient access while preserving trust and empathy. The session...
The Agentic AI Shift in Healthcare
The HIMSS‑hosted session introduced agentic AI as a transformative operating system for healthcare, capable of ingesting the 99% of hospital data that remains invisible to traditional predictive models. Speakers from Philips, AWS, MIT, and Mass General explained how continuous AI...
National Crime Agency Calls for ‘Whole-System Approach’ to Tech-Enabled Abuse
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) warns that generative AI image tools and end‑to‑end encryption are expanding opportunities for child sexual abuse online. It urges regulators, particularly Ofcom, to wield powers under the Online Safety Act to hold tech platforms...
Signs of Psychosis Seen in Australian Users’ Interactions with AI Chatbots, Expert Warns
AI expert Toby Walsh warned that Australian users are exhibiting psychosis and mania symptoms during interactions with AI chatbots, citing OpenAI data showing 560,000 of its 800 million weekly users display such signs. He highlighted a legal case against OpenAI over...
Claude Code Turns One; Context Lengths Won’t 10x Soon
Guys - it's Claude Code's actual first birthday today - Feb 24 2025 was the launch, check it am i crazy or is @latentspacepod the only one doing a retrospective + anniversary pod today? did everyone just forget the most consequential...
Meta AI Open Sources GCM for Better GPU Cluster Monitoring to Ensure High Performance AI Training and Hardware Reliability
Meta AI Research has open‑sourced GCM, a GPU Cluster Monitoring toolkit designed to catch silent hardware failures that can derail large‑scale AI training. The system integrates tightly with the Slurm workload manager, providing job‑level attribution of power, temperature, and error...
Sektor Signs up Concentric AI to A/NZ Distie Portfolio
Sektor has entered a distribution agreement with AI and data‑security‑governance vendor Concentric AI to serve the Australian and New Zealand market. As an authorised distributor, Sektor will equip its channel partners with enablement, go‑to‑market support and local expertise, positioning Concentric AI’s platform for...
Claude Code's Year‑Long Journey Powers Projects, Enterprises, and Mars Rover
We shipped Claude Code as a research preview a year ago today. Developers have used it to build weekend projects, ship production apps, write code at the world's largest companies, and help plan a Mars rover drive. We built it, and you...
North York General Smooths ED Flow Using AI
North York General Hospital has become the first Ontario facility to launch SmartER Zones, an AI‑driven system that reallocates patients to less crowded emergency‑department zones. Developed with Signal 1, the algorithm monitors wait times, triage data and zone capacity, then pushes...
X-BAT Drone ‘Fighter’ Will Begin VTOL Flight Testing In Kansas This Year
Shield AI announced that its X‑BAT vertical‑take‑off‑and‑landing combat drone will begin flight testing near Newton, Kansas, later this year. The company highlighted VTOL capability as the program’s core differentiator during the AFA Warfare Symposium. X‑BAT is designed to combine stealth,...
Lammy Backs LawtechUK for Next Three Years as He Sets Out AI Vision
Lord Chancellor David Lammy announced £4.5 million in funding for LawtechUK over the next three years, extending the programme’s total investment to £12 million since 2019. He outlined an AI‑focused vision for the courts, including a pilot AI listing assistant (J‑AI) for...
Wayve Raises $1.5B, Pivots to Universal AI Licensing
Another major milestone in @wayve_ai's history. Proud to say we’ve secured $1.5 billion Series D investment at $8.6 billion valuation. We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable...
Formal Verification and AI Agents Uncover Many Bugs
I have one of my Claudes using Quint by @informalinc to validate the design and implementation of https://t.co/M7sTWFDySv and it's going great. Finding tons of bugs . Formal verification and AI agents really go well together.
The Stock Market and AI
Wall Street’s recent AI anxiety sparked a sharp selloff in software stocks, pushing many private tech firms to postpone IPOs as investors anticipate a handful of mega‑offerings to dominate the market. A viral Citrini Research report amplified fears, warning that...
Robotics Must Prioritize Privacy Over Intrusive Data Capture
How everyone in robotics should approach privacy. Someday a robot will clean your guns and organize your sex toys. Happy owner of a Matic which can catch glimpses of me naked. We don’t want that on the Internet, do we? :-)
AI Accelerator Market Needs Diverse Solutions; Intel Takes Step
The AI accelerator/compute market is not a one-size-fits-all market. There will be a host of solutions and a variety of workloads. While Intel has yet to show an AI accelerator solution, this is a step in the right...
Microsoft Makes a Pitch for Telcos with Announcements Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2026
Microsoft announced a suite of telco‑focused services ahead of Mobile World Congress 2026. The company is rolling out Azure Local, Microsoft 365 Local, and Foundry Local to deliver sovereign‑cloud and edge capabilities for disconnected operations. In March, Databricks Lakebase will reach general availability,...
Root Inc (ROOT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Root Inc. reported a record‑setting 2025, with revenue up 29% and net income rising 30% to $40 million, driven by a 1,619% jump in gross written premium and a doubling of policies‑in‑force. The company’s AI‑enhanced pricing lifted average customer lifetime value...
MCP Security: The Current Situation
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes LLM integration with external tools, but recent flaws expose enterprises to serious threats. A prompt‑injection bug in GitHub's MCP client leaked private repository data, while Anthropic's Filesystem server suffered CVE‑2025‑53109 and CVE‑2025‑53110 sandbox‑escape vulnerabilities....
Manchester United PLC (MANU) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Microsoft reported Q2 FY2026 revenue of $81.3 billion, a 17% constant‑currency increase, driven by a record $51.5 billion cloud segment that grew 26% and topped $50 billion for the first time. Operating income rose 21% and EPS jumped 24% to $4.14, while operating...
Middle Powers Must Win the AI Deployment Race
The article argues that middle powers such as the UK and Canada should abandon the race to build ever‑larger AI models and instead concentrate on a "deployment race"—embedding near‑state‑of‑the‑art AI into industry and defence. It proposes a UK‑Canada Partnership on...
From Our Conversations with Xbox Leadership: A Firm Stand Against AI‑generated Junk — "We're Committed to Art Made by People"
Microsoft announced that longtime Xbox leader Phil Spencer is stepping down, with Asha Sharma—formerly head of Microsoft CoreAI—taking the helm. Sharma publicly pledged that Xbox will not tolerate AI‑generated junk, emphasizing human‑crafted art as the core of its games. She...
ZoomInfo Data Now Powers AI Assistants for Instant Enrichment
Today, @ZoomInfo's partnership with @claudeai has reached a new level. 45 seconds is all it took me to fully enrich a list of companies... without leaving Claude. I dropped in a CSV with company names and websites. Asked it to pull headcount,...
Evolve Digital Ops or Burn Out Talent Amid AI Pressure
RT Layoffs + AI expectations = danger zone. If you're being asked to "do more with less" and deliver AI ROI, you must evolve the digital operating model or you'll burn out your best people before you see results. #CIO #DigitalTransformation...
Meyer Jabara Hotels to Address Agentic Hotel Distribution at Annual Executive Conference in March
At its March executive conference in Providence, Meyer Jabara Hotels will host Brad Brewer, Co‑Founder and Chief AI Officer of Agentic Hospitality, to discuss “Agentic Hotel Distribution.” Brewer will explain how AI‑powered agents are reshaping the way travelers discover and...
OpenAI's Frontier Alliances Deploy AI Coworkers Enterprise‑Wide
New tech, same enterprise playbook: @OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances partner program https://t.co/yEKHI4YUFy OpenAI announced Frontier Alliances, which is a set of system integrators and consultants aimed at deploying "AI coworkers" across enterprises. https://t.co/fOh7eg2rwh
Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance
The U.S. Department of Defense has warned AI firm Anthropic that it could be labeled a “supply chain risk” unless the company lifts its self‑imposed bans on autonomous weapons and surveillance use. Anthropic, which was cleared for classified work in...
IProspect Indonesia’s Faheem Merchant: When AI Kills the Click, Brands Must Earn Inclusion
iProspect Indonesia’s Faheem Merchant warns that generative AI is ending the era of click‑centric digital advertising and ushering an intent‑driven economy. Brands must shift from demographic targeting to solving the user’s problem at the exact moment an AI model decides...
Cursor's Grind Mode Enables 7‑Hour Continuous Agent Run
I've been playing with Cursor's cloud agents for a few days. "Grind mode" is kind of insane. It allows models to run for a very long time. My team had an agent run for 7 hours successfully.
Firmus Partners with Vast Data for APAC Expansion
Firmus announced a partnership with Vast Data to deploy the Vast AI Operating System as the data foundation for its Asia‑Pacific expansion. The collaboration targets high‑throughput, disaggregated GPU clusters, ensuring efficiency across thousands of GPUs in its sovereign AI factories,...
Connecticut Supreme Court Reckons With AI Hallucinations
The Connecticut Supreme Court confronted the reliability of AI‑generated evidence, focusing on the risk of hallucinations that blur fact from fiction. Justice Ecker warned that AI makes truth verification increasingly difficult. The justices examined recent filings that relied on AI...
Singapore: Advancing Applied AI with New Centre of Excellence
Singapore launched the Singtel Digital InfraCo – NVIDIA Centre of Excellence for Applied AI, reinforcing the nation’s shift from building large frontier models to deploying AI that solves real‑world problems. The centre joins more than 60 AI CoEs established since the 2023...
AI-Powered Platform Accelerates Discovery of New mRNA Delivery Materials
University of Toronto researchers unveiled LUMI‑lab, an AI‑driven self‑driving lab that combined a 28‑million‑molecule foundation model with active‑learning robotics to synthesize and test over 1,700 lipid nanoparticles. The system independently identified brominated lipid tails as a potent new class for...
Meta Secures AI Future with In‑House Chip Strategy
$META is and has been in the chip business. It will build and buy and make sure it has ample compute to achieve its AI era ambitions. 👀🚀 https://t.co/1qcNqVVws8
Thailand: Smart Innovation for a Future-Ready Industrial Ecosystem
Thailand’s Industrial Estate Authority (IEAT) and the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) have signed an MOU to accelerate AI, IoT and robotics adoption across industrial estates, turning SMEs into Smart Factories. The partnership will launch pilot projects in...
Insurance's Key Role for AI Agents
AI agents are evolving from advisory tools to autonomous actors, creating an emerging "Agentic Commerce" economy. To operate at scale, these agents must be bounded by clear authority and risk controls, which the insurance industry can provide through underwriting and...
GenAI Bridges Divergent Multicloud APIs, IAM, and Pricing
Multicloud != "just more clouds." It's divergent APIs, IAM models, pricing, and PaaS semantics across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and others. GenAI introduces a translation layer for configs, code, and policies. #MultiCloud https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
AI Writing Quirks Benefit Consumers More Than Marketers Realize
I think most of the AI writing quirks that marketers complain about are probablyyy better for the average consumer than marketers admit.
Clinically Informed AI Outperforms Foundation Models in Spinal Cord Disease Prediction
Washington University researchers built a clinically informed AI system that can flag cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) up to 30 months before formal diagnosis. The team trained seven models on more than 2 million electronic health‑record entries, comparing large foundation models with...
Edge Computing Cuts Bandwidth, Sends Only Essential Video
Scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of smart cameras? Bandwidth chokes fast if everything streams 24/7 Edge compute flips the script: process locally, send just metadata, pull video only when it matters. Cleaner networks, smarter ops across retail, warehouses, even healthcare. Solid demo...
After 2.5 Years, AI Still Can’t Play Music
it’s been 2.5 yrs since i prototyped this and i’m still waiting for ai chatbots to be able to find and play music for me starting to finally see some dynamic UI recently so i’m hopeful https://t.co/WpAbs6HO7U
Strong CI Fundamentals, Not Special AI Pipelines, Ensure Quality
How Do I Enforce Quality Checks on AI-Generated Code in CI/CD? https://t.co/IyaTDNp0Ql < money quote: "The good news: you don’t need a special AI pipeline. You need strong CI fundamentals."