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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Ten63 Therapeutics Secures New Funding
Ten63 Therapeutics, an AI‑driven drug‑discovery firm spun out of Duke and TTIC, announced a strategic investment from Chugai Venture Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing total capital to over $45 million. The company leverages its BEYOND generative‑chemistry platform to design novel molecules, focusing on an internal oncology pipeline while seeking partnerships across other indications. Headquartered in Durham’s Research Triangle, Ten63 aims to accelerate development and expand its collaborative network.
Chyron Paint 10.3 Adds New Visualization Features for Live Action
Chyron has launched Paint 10.3, adding AI‑driven active graphics, a flexible speedometer tool, and an enhanced zone blur feature for live sports production. The active graphics layer can animate visuals using AI player‑tracking or manual key‑framing, reducing manual effort. The...
Emerson Redefines Scalable Reliability with AI-Driven APM
Emerson’s Aspen Technology unveiled the latest version of its Mtell asset performance management platform on Jan. 22, adding AI-driven capabilities that extend from basic health monitoring to predictive failure analytics. The upgrade features industry‑specific templates, AI‑powered alert grouping, direct integration with...
Figma Monetizes AI Credits, Boosting Stock Surge
Figma is a rare bright spot amidst the SaaSpocalypse. The driver: a new AI monetization strategy that sent the stock price surging. Let's get into it. 1. Figma introduced an AI credit model last December, but they didn't actually enforce...
This Week's AI Upgrades: Intelligence, Visuals, Music, Real Estate
Channeling the Fire Horse energy this week 🔥🐎 here’s what we launched: — Gemini 3.1 Pro, a step forward in core intelligence that helps you tackle complex workflows and projects — Photoshoot, a new feature for Pomelli by @GoogleLabs that transforms...
KPMG Named SAP Global Strategic Service Partner
KPMG has been elevated to SAP’s Global Strategic Service Partner tier, positioning its cloud‑native Velocity platform as a core delivery engine for large‑scale ERP transformations. The partnership emphasizes modular accelerators and an AI‑first approach that streamline design, configuration, and testing...
Engineer‑style AI Marketing Tour: Live Demos Worldwide
I'm going on the WORLD TOUR 🌍 I've spent the last few months building marketing skills for Claude Code — automating the work I've done with 60+ startups over the last two and a half years. The repo has over 8,400+ stars...
Microsoft: ‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons Used To Poison AI Recommendations via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Microsoft’s Defender Security Research team unveiled a new threat called “AI Recommendation Poisoning,” where website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI” embed hidden prompt‑injection instructions. Clicking these buttons feeds AI assistants a URL‑encoded command that tells the model to remember the...
On the Radar: The Role of T-Glass in AI
T‑glass, an ultra‑thin glass fiber fabric with low thermal expansion, is becoming essential for AI chips in smartphones and data‑center servers. Its high tensile strength and heat‑dissipating properties stabilize substrates as chips grow larger and more power‑dense. Nitto Boseki dominates...
AI Call Transcripts Are Everywhere—Establish Clear Usage Rules
At this point, in any call, it is likely someone is AI transcribing, whether they tell you (& whether that is legal or not). We really need clear norms & rules about how these transcripts can be used, since AI makes...
AI Empowers Cyber Criminals. Could It Also Help Schools Fight Them?
School districts are experimenting with generative and agentic AI to bolster cybersecurity, but results are mixed. While vendor‑built AI features provide more reliable insights than generic models, many districts still rely on traditional tools due to staffing and budget constraints....
Massachusetts Guardsman Advances AI Innovation Through Fellowship
Massachusetts National Guard Senior Airman Matthew Wright completed a five‑month MIT AI fellowship, part of the Department of the Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator. Selected from fewer than 3% of applicants, he was the first junior enlisted Airman to join...
Napster, Scaling Up Launch AI-Powered Coaching
Napster, an embodied AI firm, announced a partnership with Scaling Up to embed its AI platform into the global executive‑coaching network. The collaboration will generate AI‑driven digital twins of Scaling Up’s seasoned coaches, delivering the proven growth framework 24/7 in multiple languages....
AI Coaching Nullifies Behavioral Interviews; Use Live Scenarios
AI Made Your Behavioral Questions Useless Every candidate you’re interviewing has been coached by AI — and your behavioral questions can’t screen for that anymore. The shift the best hiring teams are making: ditch ‘tell me about a time’ and replace it...
XPENG's Humanlike Robot Erases the Uncanny Valley
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Agentics Day: MCP + Agents
Agentics Day at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 spotlights the Model Connectivity Protocol (MCP) and AI agents, moving them from experimentation to production. The half‑day, community‑driven event features over ten talks on real‑world deployments, governance, and security. It targets platform, SRE, infrastructure...
SI‑Model Alliances Bring Trusted AI to Regulated Enterprises
Big signal for enterprise AI 👇 @AnthropicAI + @Infosys are moving AI agents straight into regulated industries: Telecom, financial services, compliance-heavy environments. It’s all about making AI operational with the latest proven practices. Why this matters: Enterprise AI adoption was never blocked by model...
FlashLabs Announced the Launch of FlashAI 2.0
FlashLabs unveiled FlashAI 2.0, an enterprise‑grade voice AI platform designed to deliver human‑level conversational agents for contact centers, sales automation, and customer experience. The solution replaces fragmented API stacks with a fully integrated speech infrastructure, eliminating robotic tones, latency, and complex...
Pre‑filled LLM Prompts Drive Smarter Brand Traffic
Most marketers right now are trying to figure out how to get the LLMs to send them more Web traffic. Maybe the pro move is to do the opposite. Check out what Amplemarket HQ is doing. And when you press...
FBI’s AI, Biometrics Boom Is Accelerating, but Paperwork Isn’t Keeping Up
The FBI’s AI inventory more than doubled from 19 cases in 2024 to 50 in 2025, with nine high‑impact tools embedded in law‑enforcement workflows such as facial recognition and data triage. The rapid expansion outpaces the DOJ’s transparency requirements under...
IT Leaders Discuss AIs Impact on SaaS at India AI Impact Summit
At the India AI Impact Summit, senior IT executives warned that AI agents will transform SaaS and enterprise services but not eliminate them overnight, emphasizing agility, orchestration, and real‑world problem solving. Salesforce India’s CEO highlighted the need for workflow‑centric SaaS,...
AI Threat to Doctors Explored in Slick Video
Watch @alexmhogan's latest STATus Report video for a slickkkkk video transition and to catch up on the "AI replacing doctors" conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGm3BZTf4A
Claude Code Achieves Full Automation, Coding Considered Solved
Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny : "A 100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. In February last year, when we released it it, was writing maybe...
Your Own Voice Could Be Your Biggest Privacy Threat. How Can We Stop AI Technologies Exploiting It?
Researchers at Aalto University warn that AI-driven voice analysis can extract sensitive personal data—from political views to health conditions—simply from speech patterns. Their study, published in IEEE Proceedings, highlights risks such as price‑gouging, discriminatory profiling, and stalking if corporations or...
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A Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation. RDT-1B is a 1B-parameter (largest to date) imitation learning Diffusion Transformer pre-trained on 1M+ (largest to date) multi-robot episodes. GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dUmGRibU ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
AI Impact Summit: Meet ‘LuSI’, the ‘Made in India’ AI-Integrated Robotic Baby Revolutionising Medical Training
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Maverick Simulation Solutions unveiled LuSI, a 2.5 kg AI‑integrated robotic newborn that replicates real‑time respiratory conditions for high‑fidelity medical training, already adopted by AIIMS, AFMC and PGI. The same event highlighted PhonePe's launch of...
Stacks AI
Stacks AI develops purpose‑built artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise accounting, automating the most manual and error‑prone finance workflows. The platform enables finance teams to close books faster and redirect effort toward strategic initiatives. It is already trusted by public companies...
HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI
HSBC warned investors that AI‑generated code is unlikely to dethrone entrenched enterprise software giants. The bank cited India’s decades‑long experience customizing SAP and Oracle, noting that despite a massive engineering workforce, no home‑grown challenger has emerged. HSBC argues that success...
Athenahealth Launches Agentic Patient Comms Tools Across Provider Network
athenahealth unveiled the next generation of its AI‑native patient engagement suite within athenaOne, adding text and voice virtual assistants that let patients schedule appointments and ask routine questions 24/7. The texting feature is in alpha and will roll out broadly...
PortKey Raises $15M Series A to Scale AI Control Platform
AI infrastructure startup PortKey announced a $15 million Series A round led by Elevation Capital with participation from Lightspeed. The funding will accelerate its unified control‑plane platform that monitors, governs, and cost‑optimizes enterprise AI model usage. PortKey’s AI gateway centralizes traffic, enforces...
AI Agents Still Need Humans to Teach Them
Researchers introduced SkillsBench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents across 84 tasks in 11 sectors. Results show agents supplied with curated, human‑provided skills outperform those with no skills by an average of 16.2 percentage points. Self‑generated skills offered no measurable benefit,...
CharterUP Partners with Holon to Deliver Scalable Autonomous Mobility Solutions
CharterUP has teamed up with Holon to fuse Holon’s autonomous vehicle ecosystem with CharterUP’s AI‑first mobility platform and nationwide network. The deal enables CharterUP to roll out Holon’s self‑driving shuttles across campuses, airports, transit agencies and community settings. By offering...
YC Team Turns Week‑Long Research Into 12‑Minute Live AI Sprint
Holy shit... a YC-backed team just compressed 1 week of research into 12 minutes. It's called Spine Swarm, and it runs a team of AI researchers on any question while you watch them work and steer in real time. No black box....
Health Leaders Need Operational Agentic AI Strategies
Health leaders: your AI strategy may exist… but is it operational? Here’s how organizations are actually deploying agentic AI: https://t.co/iAzZysMNQp Meet NTT DATA at #ViVE2026 🤝 @NTT_DATA_NA #AgenticAI #HITSM
Army Using AI to Update Doctrine
The U.S. Army’s Combined Army Doctrine Directorate is training doctrine writers to use generative AI tools to accelerate the creation and revision of field manuals. Internally‑developed applications now let authors search hundreds of texts in hours and automatically check grammar...
5.3‑Codex‑Spark Delivers Lightning Speed on OpenClaw
5.3-codex-spark is insanely fast at responding on openclaw. not as friendly but actually a big experience step up
Smart, Narrow, Trusted AI: Prenosis Sepsis Test Approved
Healthcare AI doesn’t need to be louder. It needs to be smarter, narrower, and trusted. Prenosis’ FDA-authorized sepsis diagnostic shows what that looks like in practice. 🔗https://t.co/JQBRCOKfO3 @PrenosisInc #patientsafety #HITSM
Amazon Q Developer for AI Infrastructure: Architecting Automated ML Pipelines
Amazon Q Developer, a generative‑AI assistant, now automates the end‑to‑end provisioning of machine‑learning infrastructure on AWS. By interfacing with the Cloud Control API, SageMaker, and CDK, it creates IaC for GPU clusters, VPC‑only pipelines, and serverless inference stacks. The tool...
Users Find OpenAI 5.2 Too Slow and Unfriendly
which openai model are people liking for their openclaw? is 5.2-thinking is too slow and unfriendly?
Instant USD‑to‑BRL Transfers Powered by Claude AI
Demo Friday: realtime @claudeai assisted 🇺🇸 USD → 🇧🇷 BRL in seconds using @Lightspark Grid. Magic money movement available to everyone and in 60+ countries. We recorded this in one shot. So easy. https://t.co/6tOqsVxo9R
Guest: Fab Brasca of Kinaxis on Who Is Leading in AI Adoption; The Top Five Freight Bottlenecks; A New Data...
The podcast features Fab Brasca, Kinaxis senior VP, discussing how AI is reshaping supply chains and which firms are leading adoption. It also reveals the American Transportation Research Institute’s ranking, naming Chicago as the nation’s most severe freight bottleneck. Additionally,...
Envisioning the Next Generation of Frontier AI Labs
Thinking a bunch about frontier AI labs and what a new kind of lab might look like.
Six Tips to Test AI’s Leadership Capability
Human management may be messy at times, but is AI any better? Here are six tips from business leaders and questions to weigh whether AI has what it takes to lead. (My latest in @forbes) https://t.co/zSHyx8Su64
Video: Caterpillar Demos In-Cab AI Voice Assistant on Excavator
Caterpillar showcased its Intelligent Cab Assistant, an AI‑driven voice interface installed in an excavator, allowing operators to query controls, retrieve manuals, monitor machine health, and order parts hands‑free. The system can set safety ceilings, warn of overhead obstacles, and provide...
AI Accountability Demands Direct P&L Mapping in 2026
2026 is the year AI accountability gets real. No more hiding behind "pilot mode." If you can’t map AI spend to the P&L, your seat at the table is at risk. 💺🔥 See the roadmap: https://t.co/dJs86sTyRD #CXOtalk #Leadership #FutureOfWork
AI Panic Is Stalling Hiring Like Economic Recession
Just as fear and panic will cause businesses pull back spending and bring about a recession, the fear and panic being spread about AI is causing managers to pull back on hiring. (My latest in @forbes) https://t.co/5oeVL6Kwyj
PartnerOne Continues Investment in AI with XYPRO Applied AI Technology
XYPRO, a PartnerOne company, launched Lionel, an AI‑powered assistant that centralizes institutional knowledge for HPE Nonstop Compute environments. The tool tackles fragmented documentation, support tickets, and expert expertise by delivering verified answers from internal and external sources. Early results show...
Chief AI Officer Becomes Essential in Modern Enterprises
This new C-suite role is more important than ever in the AI era - here's why https://t.co/5dBV9IFx4d via @ZDNET
AI Tool Sets New Standard in Diagnosing Rare Diseases
A new multi‑agent system called DeepRare, built on the DeepSeek‑V3 large language model and over 40 specialized tools, outperformed 15 competing AI models and human physicians in diagnosing rare diseases. Across 6,401 cases covering 2,919 rare conditions, it achieved a...
Why Real-Time Voice AI Is Harder than It Sounds
Real-time voice AI remains a tough engineering problem despite advances in deep learning. Companies like Deepgram highlight that latency must stay under 500 ms and speech variability—from accents to background noise—keeps error rates high. End‑to‑end models have lifted accuracy, yet enterprise...