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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EP264 Measuring Your (Agentic) SOC: Two Security Leaders Walk Into a Podcast
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian host Alex Pabst, Deputy CISO at Allianz, and Mike Sinnoh, Director of Detection & Response at Google, to discuss evolving SOC metrics in the age of AI and automation. They critique traditional time‑based metrics like MTTD and MTTR, arguing they can incentivize speed over quality, and propose a layered approach that includes technical, operational, and strategic metrics, as well as quality‑focused measures. The conversation explores how AI‑driven agents are reshaping the SOC maturity model, shifting goalposts from reactive detection to proactive, real‑time intervention, and how organizations can balance automation benefits with human oversight. Key takeaways include the need for evolving metrics, measuring automation impact (e.g., ticket de‑duplication rates), and recognizing constraints such as staffing and regulatory limits.
DeepSeek‑V3 Shows Efficient Scaling Beats Brute‑Force
DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Open Reasoning Models With Efficiency and Precision In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore DeepSeek-V3, a next-generation large language model designed to push the boundaries of reasoning performance while maintaining strong efficiency. Rather than relying...
WisprFlow Leads AI Voice Tools, Now on Android
There are a variety of tools to let you talk to your phone out there. I've been using all of them and @WisprFlow is the most popular, by far, in the AI community. Now out on Android. Using these tools...
Faster Cancer Screening? New AI System Offers a Better Way to Detect Abnormal Cells
Researchers unveiled Whole‑Slide Edge Tomography, an AI‑driven 3D scanning platform that digitizes every cell on a cytology slide and classifies abnormalities with near‑human accuracy. In tests on cervical samples, the system recorded AUC scores from 0.84 for early changes up...
Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding
Researchers from Maryland, Livermore Lab, Columbia and TogetherAI introduced a multi‑token prediction (MTP) technique that embeds a special token into existing LLM weights, eliminating the need for separate drafting models. The method uses a self‑distillation student‑teacher training loop to...
Eastworld Labs: Accelerating AI Agents and Human Interaction
The next frontier for AI Agents? In this Unchained episode, Jansen Teng joins me to break down: 🧏♂️ What Virtuals’ new AI accelerator Eastworld Labs is 💡 How Eastworld Labs fits into Virtuals’ story 🚀 How the accelerator benefits $VIRTUAL...
INTERVIEW: Motive’s Nyanya Joof on Driver Monitoring and Safety
Motive introduced the AI Dashcam Plus, an edge‑AI device powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QCS6490 processor that runs over 30 neural models simultaneously. The dashcam fuses stereo vision, audio, telematics, GPS and motion sensors to deliver real‑time risk detection with reduced latency and...
Spotify Rolls Out AI-Powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and Other Markets
Spotify is extending its AI‑powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Sweden after earlier tests in New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. The feature lets listeners generate custom playlists by typing natural‑language prompts that describe...
Pixel Health Introduces One Thread™: An AI-Powered Experience Layer for Unified Patient Access
Pixel Health unveiled One Thread™, an AI‑powered experience layer that sits above existing EMR and technology stacks to unify patient portals, apps, websites, and contact centers. The platform provides a universal patient identity, personalized interactions, and automated workflow coordination while...
Prompts Boost Productivity Only Within Established Systems
“20 ChatGPT prompts to boost your productivity.” Useful? Yes. Transformational? Only if used correctly. Here’s the nuance most prompt collections miss 👇 1️⃣ Prompts don’t create productivity — systems do GTD, Pomodoro, Eisenhower, Ivy Lee… These frameworks worked before AI....
Tech Update: Zywave Unveils 4 New AI Agents; Cytora, Warren Group Partner to Improve Commercial Property Underwriting
Zywave unveiled four AI agents in its Winter 2026 release, already deployed with more than 35 insurance firms. The agents automate prospect identification, lead scoring, research enrichment, and outreach, while new platform features add TurboRater single sign‑on and expanded Benefits CPQ...
Self‑review, Quality Gates, and Auto‑fix Loop Proven Effective
Anthropic's new research is out, and a few of my hypotheses just got confirmed. 1. Self‑review and quality gates matter. When users get less critical with polished outputs, automated verification layers compensate for that human tendency. 2. The iteration finding also...
Nev. Sheriff Unveils ‘AI Brain'
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill announced two flagship initiatives for 2026: the Meridian project, a 24/7 real‑time counter‑terrorism analysis desk funded by private donations, and the AI‑powered Knowledge Value Network (K.V.N.) that will integrate crime data across the department. He...
Shai-Hulud-Like Worm Targets Developers via Npm and AI Tools
Security researchers have uncovered a supply‑chain worm, dubbed SANDWORM_MODE, spreading through at least 19 malicious npm packages that employ typosquatting. The malware not only steals developer and CI credentials but also injects rogue servers into AI coding assistants such as...
Getting Started with Gemini and CircleCI
Google’s Gemini AI coding assistant can generate functions, debug, and accelerate development, but its output may contain bugs or security gaps. Integrating Gemini with CircleCI’s continuous‑integration platform provides an automated safety net that validates code on every push. The tutorial...
Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology: A Conversation with Andrea Bonime-Blanc
In this episode, Michael Keegan talks with Andrea Bonime‑Blanc, author of *Governing Pandora*, about the unprecedented convergence of generative AI and other exponential technologies and what it means for leadership and governance. Bonime‑Blanc explains her "exponential governance mindset," a five‑part...
Use a Targeted Context Vault, Not Whole Data
Everyone's talking about "second brain" for AI. I added a new layer to mine. I built a context vault with 200-700 line summary docs of big areas of my life (business, 2026 goals, family, friends, a personal constitution). WAY fewer tokens...
Bypass Permissions with Alias, Ship Code 100x Faster
This shortcut has helped me ship way way way faster, I've been using it manually before but now I just run every Claude Code bypassing permissions I was getting sick of answering endless questions and giving permissions, just do the job...
What Retailers Need to Know About AI-Powered Pricing
Retailers are embracing electronic shelf labels that enable AI‑driven dynamic pricing, allowing prices to adjust in real time based on material costs, competitor rates, inventory and demand signals. Machine‑learning models replace static price cycles, delivering 2‑4 % margin gains and reducing...
AI Automates Personalized eBook Generation in Hours
More AI-coded fun things 📕 Yesterday I asked it to build an ePub and PDF generator for my book https://t.co/VEoyhFdCOd I still update and write on it, but every time I had to print the book (it's HTML) as a PDF, and...
Headliner and Hubhopper Partner to Bring AI-Powered Video Clipping to Podcasters
Hubhopper has integrated Headliner’s AI‑powered video‑clipping toolkit, letting podcasters turn full‑length video episodes into up to ten short clips with a single click. The workflow lets creators upload, generate, and schedule clips to YouTube and, soon, Apple Podcasts directly from...
AI Pricing Is Product Strategy: Five Questions Every Product Manager Must Answer Early
AI pricing is no longer a post‑launch add‑on; it must be baked into product strategy from day one. Traditional seat‑based SaaS models falter under AI’s variable compute costs and usage spikes, forcing firms to rethink pricing structures. The article outlines...
AIs Can Generate Near-Verbatim Copies of Novels From Training Data
Recent Stanford and Yale studies show that leading large language models—including OpenAI's, Google’s Gemini 2.5, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7, and xAI’s Grok 3—can generate near‑verbatim excerpts from copyrighted novels, reproducing up to 77% of the original text when prompted. The findings reveal that LLMs...
OpenAI Aims for Stablecoin Market With New EVMbench
OpenAI unveiled EVMbench, an open‑source benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to spot and exploit smart‑contract flaws. The tool draws on 120 vulnerabilities from 40 audits, including scenarios from Stripe‑backed Tempo blockchain, and was released in partnership with crypto investor...
Confessions Of Supply Chain Executives | 2026 Is the Year Supply Chain Technology Stops Being a Prediction and Starts Being...
In this episode, host Chris Walton and Amir Khoshniyadi, VP at Williott, dissect five supply‑chain trends that will define 2026, emphasizing that technology adoption is moving from pilot‑phase hype to mandatory, budget‑driven implementation. They explain "physical AI" as the fusion...
Weill Cornell Intros New System-Wide AI Education Effort
Weill Cornell Medicine has launched the AI to Advance Medicine initiative, an enterprise‑wide program that centralizes artificial‑intelligence projects across clinical care, research and education. The effort includes a bimonthly Dean’s Lecture Series and a seed‑grant program to fund AI tools,...
AI May Cut Taxable Income, Complicate Deficit Outlook
#NABE2026 AI and the federal deficits - Wendy Eldeberg formerly of CBO and now Brookings notes that AI could diminish taxable incomes? Reality nuanced due to taxes on workers could diminish. 🤯 AI boom could create a painful labor market...
Compute Architecture Must Evolve for Modern AI Demands
#Technology #Thread #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Compute The Semiconductor Compute Evolution: 1/ - Compute Architecture Is No Longer Static. - It Continuously Evolves With Workload Demands, Data Growth, And System-Level Complexity. - What Once Worked For General Computing Struggles To Sustain Modern AI, Data, And...
Qdrant 1.17 Supercharges Vector Search with a Variety of Updates
Qdrant has launched version 1.17.0, introducing a Relevance Feedback Query that refines vector‑search results using lightweight model feedback. The release also adds latency‑reduction features such as configurable fan‑out thresholds, an update queue for up to one million pending writes, and an indexed‑only...
AI Will Move From Tool Discovery to Pre‑authorized Governance
My take: MCP increasingly looking like a pre-agentic, pre-runtime view of how AI integrates with systems. It assumes AI needs standardized, reflective tool discovery at run time. But we now see it doesn’t. It can just read the code, schemas, and...
From Blocking Bots to Trusting Agents: Visa‑Akamai Solution
AI agent traffic nearly tripled in a year. 25Billion bot requests in 2 months. The question is no longer how to block bots — it's how to trust them. Visa + Akamai are building the answer. "What it takes to secure...
FIXED: Empty Response Issue with Fireworks.ai Tasks
The Julius Agent using Fireworks.ai’s Kimi K2.5 model returned empty final responses after successful tool execution, confusing users into thinking tasks failed. The root cause was the model’s FinishReason::Stop state delivering an empty response.text field while earlier assistant messages contained...
Turn Your AI Boardroom Into a Battlefield of Multiform Outputs
My AI Boardroom is now an AI Battlefield ⚔️ Way more fun. Reminder: explore outputs beyond text files. Go for pdfs, spreadsheets, code, dashboards, interactive worlds, animations... not just because it tells the data story better, but because it's a f*cking...
C‑Suite and Front‑Line Miss AI Efficiency Gap
The AI efficiency gap: Why the C-Suite and the front line are living in different worlds by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/oDC8OKpx4r @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #TechNews #Sales #Marketing #Culture #Strategy https://t.co/ACegbrqNxG
Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform
Liminal, previously focused on enterprise customers, is extending its secure, multi‑model AI platform to managed service providers (MSPs) targeting small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs). The platform consolidates access to leading large language models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity—while sanitizing sensitive...
OpenAI's 800M WAUs Show Chart
If OpenAI has 800m WAUs then this chart grossly overestimates the number of people who have never tried ai chatbots
Treasury Unveils AI Lexicon and Risk Framework for Finance
Risk says "model risk." Tech says "ML system." Compliance says "automated decision tool." Legal says "algorithm." US Treasury just fixed this: AI Lexicon + Risk Framework for financial services. 230 control objectives. NIST-adapted. "Treasury releases AI lexicon and sector-specific risk framework"...
Supply Chain Cyber Risk Strategies Shift Toward Resilience
Supply chain cyber risk is moving from a pure prevention mindset to a resilience‑first strategy. Third‑party exposure dominates, with 61% of firms reporting a supplier breach in the past year, prompting tighter transparency and governance. AI accelerates both attacks—often under...
Only 5% of CIOs Escape AI Pilot Purgatory
Pilot purgatory is where AI ROI goes to die. 💀 Break the cycle. Learn what the 5% of successful CIOs are doing differently in 2026. Full episode: https://t.co/dJs86sTyRD #CXOtalk #AIValue #CIO https://t.co/n8dG53BcbS
Telecom Shifts From Data Pipes to Real‑Time Intelligence
As 5G, IoT, and Agentic AI converge, telecom networks are no longer passive infrastructure, they’re becoming adaptive, self-optimizing systems that sense, decide, and act in real time. How connectivity is evolving from moving data to orchestrating intelligence ⬇️ Read: ➡️ https://t.co/uwh6kF4fVy #AI...
Breath and Barking Present a Breakthrough in Cancer Diagnosis
SpotitEarly, led by CEO Shlomi Madar, has unveiled a diagnostic platform that pairs trained detection dogs with electronic sensors and artificial intelligence to analyze patients' breath for early signs of cancer. The system can identify lung, prostate, colorectal and breast...
AI as Universal Compute Reshapes All Reality
The Universal Code - Everything Is Compute. A fascinating article by @RaoulGMI. The role of AI is enormous, in his view and could change everything that we know. I discussed this with him on @new_era_finance. https://t.co/42lEZEXlfU
AI Job Futures Mirror Early Deep Learning Uncertainty
Figuring out what the trends will be for AI and employment feels like figuring out how deep learning might influence computer vision in ~2010 - clearly, something significant will happen, but there is very little data out of which you...
Humand Secures $66 Million Series A to Revolutionize the “Deskless” Workforce with AI
Humand announced a $66 million Series A round, co‑led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, to accelerate its AI‑powered platform for the 2.7 billion deskless workers worldwide. The San Francisco‑based startup positions its mobile‑first operating system as a social‑network‑style hub where frontline employees can request...
AI Threatens CAPTCHA and Voice Biometrics Authentication
“AI can defeat CAPTCHA systems and analyse voice biometrics to compromise authentication,” [TR: Never trusted voice recognition, it’s too fuzzy to use for auth in my opinion. Infecting memory is an interesting problem.]
How to Optimize Your Content for LLMs With Semrush
Semrush’s AI Search Optimizer helps marketers re‑engineer existing pages so large language models can cite them confidently. The tool scans a chosen URL, evaluates structure, clarity, E‑E‑A‑T signals and schema markup, then delivers a prioritized list of rewrite actions. Semrush’s...
Reassess AI Bottlenecks: Align Budgets with Current Constraints
Question for your next meeting: "What's the binding constraint on our AI projects right now, and is it the same constraint we assumed six months ago? If the answer has changed and our budget allocation hasn't, we have a problem." What would your...
Monday Memo: “What Matters Next” For Radio?
Kate O’Neill’s new book *What Matters Next* argues that AI itself isn’t the disruptor for radio—human behavior is, and AI merely speeds up its effects. The author warns stations against using AI to double down on sameness, insisting that originality...
Collins and GA-ASI Advance CCA with Sidekick Flight Demonstration
Collins Aerospace successfully demonstrated its Sidekick mission‑autonomy software on a General Atomics YFQ‑42A uncrewed jet, completing a four‑hour autonomous flight controlled from the ground. The test, part of the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, proved seamless integration...
US Consulting Firms See Record AI-Driven Growth
US consulting firms are on track for their fastest growth since the post-COVID boom, with 90% of clients saying they plan to hire consultants to help implement AI https://t.co/NIBF3wa0ti [Reg Req] #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/y20KMT7T8E