Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic shuts down Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export‑control warning
Anthropic disabled access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration, via the Commerce Department, warned that foreign nationals could exploit the systems. The move followed alerts from Amazon and other firms about a potential jailbreak that could aid cyber‑security attacks. Anthropic declined the administration’s request for a voluntary shutdown but complied with the order.
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By the numbers: AMD acquires AI memory‑optimization pioneer Mext
Exclusive: Winn.ai Raises $18M Series A For AI-Powered Real-Time Sales Assistant
Winn.ai, a Tel Aviv‑based AI sales‑assistant startup, closed an $18 million Series A round. The financing was co‑led by Insight Partners, S Capital and Mangusta Capital, raising total capital to $35 million since its 2022 launch. Winn’s real‑time AI co‑pilot guides reps during calls, integrates with CRMs, and reports having tripled ARR in 2025 with 30× growth over two years. The new funds will fuel U.S. go‑to‑market expansion, deeper R&D, and broader targeting beyond account executives.
AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and others have united to launch F/ai, a Paris‑based accelerator for European AI startups. Hosted by Station F, the program runs twice yearly, each three‑month cohort featuring 20 companies building on the partners' foundational models. Startups...
BBC – Live Facial Recognition Trialled at London Railway Station
The British Transport Police have launched a live facial‑recognition pilot at London Bridge railway station, marking the first real‑time biometric surveillance deployment on the UK rail network. The trial uses cameras that match faces against police watchlists as passengers move...
From Click to Conversation – Why India May Define the Next Retail Era
Retail giants such as Target and Walmart are shifting from search‑based e‑commerce to conversational AI, echoing India’s traditional “conversation‑first” shopping habit. Mastercard research shows 51 % of Gen Z trust AI product recommendations, and Fynd’s Kaily assistant has earned 86 % positive ratings,...
Is Your Brand Visible in AI Search Results? Here’s How to Find Out
The article outlines how brands can verify their presence in AI‑driven search results, recommending automated solutions like Semrush’s AI Visibility Toolkit that scan millions of prompts. It highlights the inconsistency of manual queries—100 identical prompts can produce 100 different brand...
AI, Defence and Energy Transition to Drive India’s Next Capex Wave: Chetan Ahya
Morgan Stanley’s Chetan Ahya says India is entering a new capex wave driven by a global industrial cycle revival, stronger non‑tech exports, and three structural trends: AI‑related infrastructure, higher defence spending, and the energy‑transition push. He notes that the Indian...
LiveU Spotlights Three Broadcast Priorities at NAB Show 2026
At NAB Show 2026, LiveU introduced its most extensive IP‑video ecosystem, centered on the new LU900Q field unit with native LiveU IQ connectivity. The company also displayed LiveU Nexus, a universal gateway that normalises IP feeds, and LiveU Studio, a...
Open AI Breakthroughs Unlock Progress Beyond the Breakthrough
There is a moment in AI history I keep thinking about. In The Thinking Game, someone tells Demis Hassabis that AlphaFold could predict every known protein structure in about a month. He looks up and says, “Why don’t we just do that?” That decision...
Human Creativity Thrives Beyond AI's Logical Limits
AI will never replace human creativity because creativity begins where logic ends
What Is Most Likely Machine and How Can I Use It To Teach?
Most Likely Machine is a free, award‑winning, browser‑based teaching platform that lets 10‑14‑year‑olds design and test simple algorithms. The gamified environment uses historical‑figure characters to assign weighted traits, showing how bias and data choices shape outcomes. Piloted in classrooms, it...
Re-Air: Data Teams at the Crossroads: Proving Value in a Changing Business Landscape with Ben Rogojan
In this re‑aired episode, John interviews Ben Rogojan, owner of Seattle Data Guy, about how data teams can demonstrate value amid tighter budgets and rapid AI advances. They discuss shifting from output‑focused metrics like dashboards to outcome‑driven results, the importance...
Developing a Risk-Scoring Tool for Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Biological Design
Researchers at RAND released a risk‑scoring framework to evaluate AI‑enabled biological design threats. The tool separates biological modification impact across five functions—host range, replication, immune evasion, environmental stability, and transmission—and an actor capability dimension that gauges technical skill and AI...
UK Organisations Could Unlock £40bn a Year in Productivity Value by Closing the AI “Grey Zone”
Zellis’ new research shows UK organisations could unlock up to £40 billion a year in productivity and an additional £20 billion in operating‑cost savings by better aligning AI use between leaders and employees. While 94 % of executives say AI tools are deployed,...
DARPA Picks Saronic for Semi-Autonomous Vessel Protection Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Saronic to lead the Pulling Guard program’s Focus Area 2, developing a semi‑autonomous, modular escort vessel for unarmed logistics ships. The platform will feature standardized physical and digital interfaces, allowing rapid integration...
Moderne Introduces Prethink to Give AI Agents the Structured Knowledge They’ve Been Missing
Moderne launched Prethink, a new capability that supplies AI agents with a pre‑computed, structured knowledge layer derived from an organization’s code and architecture. By leveraging a lossless semantic tree, Prethink captures types, dependencies, service boundaries, and other metadata before an...
How AI and Advanced Sensing Are Giving Miners X-Ray Vision
A new wave of AI‑driven analytics combined with advanced sensing—such as hyperspectral imaging, LiDAR, and ground‑penetrating radar—is giving mining companies unprecedented visibility into the subsurface. These technologies fuse massive data streams from drones, satellites, and on‑site sensors to predict ore...
TeamDynamix Now Available in Microsoft Marketplace
TeamDynamix announced that its suite of IT service management, automation, iPaaS, IT asset management and conversational AI solutions is now listed in the Microsoft Marketplace. The move leverages the fact that 85% of TeamDynamix’s customers already operate on Microsoft Azure,...
Vida Expands AI Agent Operating System for Enterprise Scale
Vida unveiled a major expansion of its AI agent operating system, adding omnichannel capabilities and centralized control for enterprise deployments. The platform now supports voice, SMS, email and chat with real‑time observability, usage monitoring, and role‑based access. It offers LLM‑agnostic...
Amazon Launches AI Content Marketplace, Shifting Arms Race to Licensing
Amazon wants to build an AI content marketplace. Publishers would upload their articles. AI companies would pay to train on them. This means less copyright risk, more profit sharing, and fewer lawsuits. The AI arms race is turning into a licensing war.
AI Wins When CEOs Own the Strategy
AI isn’t failing because of technology. It’s failing because of leadership. Everyone keeps saying AI is a technology story. The data says otherwise. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s latest research shows a quiet but massive shift: AI has moved from the IT agenda to...
Engines, Not Experiments: A Real Path to AI in Finance
Financial firms are moving AI from pilot projects to production by adopting application engines that provide a unified environment for data, business logic, and user interfaces. A Gartner survey shows 59% of CFOs use AI but only 10% have production‑grade...
Drones Turn Indoor Strawberry Farming Into Data‑Driven Manufacturing
Strawberries. Indoors. Stacked to the ceiling. Now add drones flying between the rows. In the 4D Bios setup, drones move through vertical shelves and capture high-resolution images of leaves and fruit. Instead of manual inspection, plant health becomes a data...
NetBox Labs Announces General Availability of NetBox Copilot, Delivering Enterprise-Ready AI Grounded in Accurate Infrastructure Data
NetBox Labs has launched the general availability of NetBox Copilot, an AI‑driven assistant embedded directly in the NetBox platform. The agent leverages NetBox’s semantic infrastructure map to deliver contextual answers, automate workflow execution, and even perform write operations such as...
Identy.io Announces Strategic Expansion in Africa
Identy.io, a global biometric authentication firm, announced a strategic expansion into Africa, focusing initially on Kenya and Nigeria. The company will deploy its software‑first Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) that captures biometrics via standard smartphones, reducing hardware costs. To support...
Beyond Chatbots: How Cara Becomes Your Best CSR
In this episode, Nikhil Kansal, Co‑Founder & CTO of Cara, explains how AI can move beyond chatbots to act as a reliable Customer Service Representative (CSR) that completes end‑to‑end insurance service tasks. He highlights Cara’s role as a coordinating layer...
The First Signs of Burnout Are Coming From the People Who Embrace AI the Most
Harvard Business Review reports that embracing AI can inadvertently create burnout. UC Berkeley researchers spent eight months embedded in a 200‑person tech firm where workers voluntarily used AI tools. Without explicit pressure, employees expanded their to‑do lists, letting AI‑enabled efficiency...
AI Agents Boost Platform Growth by Simplifying Data and Code
When thinking through the future of software, it’s helpful to think through what will we produce more of vs. less of in the future due to agents. And what systems are tied to that production or consumption. Whether it’s a new...
AI and Critical Thinking
In this episode, Dr. Frank Hoffman discusses the intersection of artificial intelligence and critical thinking within military education and decision‑making. He defines critical thinking as a disciplined, self‑aware process essential for sound command, and warns that pervasive use of generative...
China’s Top Chipmaker Warns Rushed AI Capacity Could Sit Idle
China’s leading semiconductor manufacturer SMIC warned that a rush to purchase AI chips is prompting companies to build a decade’s worth of data‑center capacity in just one or two years. CEO Zhao Haijun said the rapid build‑out is outpacing clear...
How Social Commerce Became a Real Retail Channel as AI Shapes How People Buy | Reimagining Retail
In this episode, the hosts explore how social platforms have evolved into a genuine retail channel, highlighting the strategies retailers use to make social commerce feel like traditional shopping. They discuss the shift of creators from mere marketing tools to...
Atomico and Project A Back Industrial Supply Startup Andercore in $40m Series B
Andercore, an AI‑powered trading platform for industrial supplies, announced a $40 million Series B round. The round was led by venture firms Atomico and Project A. The capital will accelerate product development and expand the platform’s reach across global manufacturers. Andercore aims to...
BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!
In this episode, Jaan Aru discusses how detailed biological mechanisms—such as dendritic integration and thalamocortical loops—might underpin subjective consciousness and how these insights could inform artificial intelligence. He argues that true machine consciousness is unlikely with current architectures, emphasizing the...
Thrive Market’s Amina Pasha Believes Brands that Focus on Trust Will Win in an AI-First World
Amina Pasha, CMO of Thrive Market, argues that trust will be the decisive advantage for brands in an AI‑first landscape. The online grocery retailer, with over 1.7 million paying members, is leveraging AI to personalize discovery while reinforcing its mission of...
OpenAI's Fidji Simo on Ads in ChatGPT and Ending the Code Red
In this extended interview, Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, explains how the upcoming ChatGPT ad model will resemble Google’s intent‑based system rather than a traditional Facebook‑style feed, with ads remaining a small, transparent part of revenue. She discusses the...
The New Phase of GCCs in an AI-First World: GCC 8.0 and the Evolution of Enterprises
The article outlines the emergence of GCC 8.0, a new maturity stage where Global Capability Centers become AI‑native engines of enterprise innovation. With India alone hosting about 1,600 GCCs—projected to reach 2,400 by 2030—these centers are shifting from cost‑center support to...
Self‑Driving Infrastructure Gains New Runtime Log Tools
Full self-driving infrastructure getting closer every day. Today we shipped: 1️⃣ 𝚐𝚎𝚝_𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎_𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚜 in our MCP server¹ 2️⃣ 𝚟𝚌 𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚜 CLI filters² e.g.: --𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜-𝚌𝚘𝚍𝚎 𝟺𝟶𝟺 --𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝 𝟷𝟶 Just ask Claude Code to fix your crashes. Or trigger an agent when an anomaly alert webhook...
ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks
ByteDance’s AI video platform Seedance 2.0 can ingest multiple media types, allowing users to blend up to nine images, three videos and three audio files into short clips. During testing, the tool’s facial‑to‑voice capability generated a voice nearly identical to...
Singapore Beats Estimates with 5% GDP Growth in 2025 Amid AI Challenges
Singapore’s economy expanded 5% in 2025, surpassing the 4.8% forecast, largely thanks to a surge in AI‑driven manufacturing output. Global demand for artificial‑intelligence‑enabled products lifted factory orders and export volumes. While the growth outperformed expectations, policymakers warned that rapid AI...
Fujitsu to Boost Server Production in Japan, Eyeing Sovereign AI Demand
Fujitsu announced it will begin manufacturing artificial‑intelligence servers at its Ishikawa plant in March 2026, expanding domestic production capacity. The new line emphasizes component‑origin tracking to guard against data‑leak risks, a feature aimed at sovereign AI deployments. This move aligns...
Cisco Looses Splunk to Probe and Tame Its Growing Agentic Menagerie
Cisco announced an AI Agent Monitoring tool for Splunk Observability Cloud, visualising LLM and agent workflows while tracking performance, cost, and behaviour. The tool integrates with Cisco's AI Defense suite, which just became generally available and now includes Model Context...
EDSAFE AI Alliance Says AI Companions Necessitate New Policies
EDSAFE AI Alliance released the *S.A.F.E. By Design* report warning that AI companions—chatbots that simulate friendship and emotional support—are infiltrating K‑12 devices and blurring the line between educational tools and social entities. The report highlights how anthropomorphic design fuels addictive,...
AI Disrupts Financials. Bad Data Misleads On Economy.
Altruist, a wealth‑management startup, rolled out AI‑driven tax‑planning tools, prompting a sharp sell‑off in legacy financial firms such as Charles Schwab, LPL Financial and Morgan Stanley. The reaction reflects investor anxiety that AI could erode traditional advisory revenue streams. Despite...
AI Accounts for Just 7% of January Layoffs
🔴AI is NOT the reason for job market LAYOFFS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) was cited in 7,624 of 108,435 layoffs announced in January, representing 7% of all cuts that month. Since 2023, AI has been referenced in just 3% of all job cuts...
Human Ambition + AI‑First Drives Microsoft Customer Success
How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping @Microsoft customers go further with AI https://t.co/bq306Z1fts @AiqIntelligence @BlackRock @dentsu_global @Ecolab @HeyEpic @harvey_ai @InSilicoMeds @KraftHeinzCo @ManusAI @MercedesBenz @Nasdaq @RalphLauren @SchneiderElec @educacaosp @Telstra @Toyota @nvidia @Azure #WEF26 #Cloud
Former Canva Exec’s Product Mapping Startup, Adora, Designs $9.9 Million Seed Round
Adora, an AI‑powered journey‑mapping platform co‑founded by former Canva product head Omar Salem, closed a $7 million seed round led by Blackbird Ventures. The tool automatically captures screens, interactions and user paths, turning them into live visual maps enriched with analytics...
AI Restrictions Trap Chinese Startups, Hurt US Innovation
“If Beijing forces Chinese AI innovation to remain fully domestic, Chinese startups face permanent capital constraints. If Washington blocks all China-adjacent AI deals, American firms lose access to innovative Chinese technologies.” https://t.co/zD3VCYdTdC
AI‑Driven Sell‑Off Sparks Tech Opportunities on Bloomberg TV
Look forward to discussing this AI driven sell-off and the opportunities in tech on @BloombergTV at 9:40 am with @mattmiller1973 and @daniburgz 🔥🍿📺🐂🏆🎯
Shorooq Deepens Doha Roots as Snoonu Founder Backs Its Growth and AI Funds
UAE‑based Shorooq announced that Hamad Al‑Hajri, founder of delivery platform Snoonu, will invest in both its newly launched late‑stage growth fund and its global AI fund. The growth vehicle is backed by the Qatar Investment Authority, while the AI strategy...
Egypt’s Tactful AI Raises $1 Million Pre-Series A to Scale Agentic CX
Tactful AI, an Egyptian CX platform specializing in agentic AI, secured $1 million in a pre‑Series A round co‑led by Foras AI and M Empire. The funding will bolster growth in Egypt, validate expansion across EMEA, and accelerate R&D to enhance scalability...
Smart Bricks Closes $5 Million Pre-Seed to Automate Real Estate Investing
Smart Bricks, a Dubai‑based proptech startup, closed a $5 million pre‑seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun, with participation from global funds and angels. The company is building an AI‑native infrastructure that automates the end‑to‑end real‑estate investment workflow, compressing a...