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
AI Digital Twins Aim to Protect Astronaut Mobility on Deep Space Missions
West Virginia University researchers are creating AI-powered digital twins that replicate each astronaut's movement and muscle activation patterns to monitor neuromuscular health during long‑duration microgravity missions. By combining motion‑capture, wearable sensors, virtual‑reality tasks and physics‑based simulations, the models can predict degradation and suggest autonomous exercise adjustments. Funded by a $750,000 NASA award, the system aims to operate without constant Earth‑based support, guiding countermeasures from launch through landing and rehabilitation. The technology also shows promise for remote health monitoring on Earth, linking space‑medicine advances to broader public‑health benefits.
AI Agents Improve Instantly with Each Compute Boost
We've had a pretty wild new AI Agent feature that we've almost released twice, but then right as we get close, a new technical breakthrough makes the agent substantially better than before. The pace of new best practices emerging in...
ImmuniWeb Reports Double-Digit Growth and Platform Advances
ImmuniWeb reported an all‑time sales record for 2025, maintaining double‑digit year‑over‑year growth while staying profitable. The company rolled out four major AI Platform updates, adding AI‑specific testing for web, mobile, API, LLM vulnerabilities and post‑quantum encryption readiness. Independent ISO 9001 and...
NSFOCUS Unveils Enhanced AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix for Holistic AI Security Governance
NSFOCUS announced an upgraded AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix, adding 14 new threat categories that focus on AI agent, multimodal, and Multi‑Agent Communication Protocol (MCP) vulnerabilities. The matrix expands coverage across identity, application, model, data, and infrastructure security throughout the...
Questom (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineer
Questom, a YC‑backed startup building AI‑driven sales agents, is hiring a founding engineer with a $125K‑$150K salary and 0.75%‑1.5% equity. The role focuses on building high‑performance systems that integrate CRMs, communication channels, and agentic workflows, rather than mastering a specific...
AI-Enabled Scams Rose 500% in 2025 as Crypto Theft Goes ‘Industrial’
TRM Labs reports a five‑fold surge in large language model‑powered scams in 2025, propelling AI‑generated deepfakes, voice clones and synthetic images into mainstream fraud. Crypto theft amounted to $35 billion, a slight dip from 2024, while illicit crypto wallet inflows jumped...
OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store
OpenMind has launched a dedicated App Store for robots, positioning it as a software distribution layer for quadruped and humanoid platforms. The marketplace, built on the company’s OM1 modular operating system, aims to close the gap between rapidly evolving hardware...
Barq Group and Elroy Air to Establish $200 Million Joint Venture in Abu Dhabi to Manufacture Autonomous Aircraft
Barq Group and U.S.‑based Elroy Air have signed a $200 million joint‑venture agreement to build a manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi for the Chaparral autonomous hybrid‑electric VTOL cargo aircraft. The facility will serve commercial and humanitarian customers across the MENA region,...
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks Partner to Launch Operator-as-a-Service Platform Across Africa
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks have announced a joint venture to launch an Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform across Africa. The cloud‑native solution will enable telecom operators and new entrants to provision network services without heavy infrastructure investment. Targeting more than 30...
PredIG: A Clear Predictor for T-Cell Epitope Immunogenicity
Researchers introduced PredIG, an interpretable machine‑learning platform that predicts T‑cell epitope immunogenicity with higher accuracy than existing tools. The model integrates peptide sequence, structural conformation, and immune‑environment context, and was validated across multiple independent cohorts. By revealing the biological drivers...
Ep. 205: How to Use AI for B2B Storytelling Without Losing Your Brand | Nick Usborne
In this episode, Nick Usborne explains how B2B marketers can harness AI for scalable content while preserving their brand’s unique voice. He stresses that the only defensible moat is a company’s authentic story, not generic narratives or tone, and reveals...
Scaling AI Developer Infrastructure: Lessons From Meta’s Internal Agent
Office Hours: Building Developer Infrastructure at Scale with Jim Everingham In the world of AI, how do the very best companies build their developer infrastructure? To answer that question : On Tuesday, February 24, I’ll be hosting an in-person fireside...
VCs Can't Fund Ex‑OpenAI Founders Indefinitely
“VCs can’t just keep giving OpenAI employees billions of dollars to start a new company forever” VCs: https://t.co/lVyo5wnDoI
Wunderkind + Klaviyo: Turning Anonymous Traffic Into Our Next Growth Chapter
In this episode, the hosts announce Wunderkind’s integration into the Klaviyo App Marketplace, turning the former competitor into a strategic partner. The discussion explains how Wunderkind’s real‑time identity resolution and AI‑driven decisioning layer can be embedded directly within Klaviyo’s email...
Reviving BabyAGI Amid Surge of Build Energy
it’s been so fun watching the build energy this past week, i had to start rebuilding babyagi again last night :)
Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Investors are pulling back from software company bonds as rapid AI advances raise doubts about business model stability. High‑profile moves like Google’s AI assistant launch and funding for Decagon AI have intensified fears, driving bond prices lower worldwide. While some...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers are fueling a surge in U.S. natural‑gas power development, with projects that could add up to 252 GW of gas‑fired capacity—nearly a 50 percent increase in the nation’s gas fleet. More than a third of this new demand is directly...
Decagon AI Raises $250M at $4.5B Valuation to Scale AI Concierge Platform
Decagon AI announced a $250 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding, led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, will accelerate the rollout of its AI concierge platform, which leverages large‑language models across chat, email and voice...
We 'Want to Encourage Other People in Our Generation to Be the Types of People Who Do Not Even Want...
Gabriela Nguyen, a 24‑year‑old Harvard graduate, quit smartphones and founded Appstinence, a nonprofit that helps people disengage from addictive technology. The organization promotes a "5D Method"—Decrease, Deactivate, Delete, Downgrade, Depart—to guide users toward a tech‑free lifestyle. Appstinence offers free coaching,...
Dynatrace Intelligence Aims to Advance Autonomous Software Operations
Dynatrace announced Dynatrace Intelligence, an agentic operations system that blends deterministic, real‑time intelligence with AI agents to push enterprises toward autonomous software operations. Built on the Grail data lakehouse and Smartscape, the platform delivers explainable insights that act within predefined...
AI Brand Rankings Unreliable; Track Mention Frequency Instead
Ranking position in AI responses is meaningless. Across repeated runs of the same prompt, LLMs almost never return the same list of brands in the same order. In many cases, they don’t return the same list at all. New research...
Reinforcement Learning Achieves Quantum Technology Advances in Few and Systems
Scientists have demonstrated that reinforcement learning (RL) can be harnessed to optimise quantum technologies, covering tasks such as state preparation, high‑fidelity gate design, and automated circuit construction. Experimental implementations show RL‑derived control pulses that are up to twice as fast...
Worldcoin Surges 25% as OpenAI Considers Its Biometric Technology
Worldcoin’s native token WLD jumped 25% within minutes after Forbes reported that OpenAI is evaluating biometric verification solutions, potentially leveraging Worldcoin’s iris‑scan technology. The AI firm is reportedly building a social platform that would require users to prove personhood via...
Microsoft Shrugs Off AI Bubble Fears Again with Strong Financial Results
Microsoft reported second‑quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $81.27 bn, topping the $80.32 bn consensus, and earnings of $4.14 per share versus $3.92 expectations. Azure cloud revenue grew 39% year‑over‑year, keeping the AI‑driven cloud segment robust despite a slight slowdown in overall cloud...
Elon Musk Teases a New Image-Labeling System for X… We Think?
Elon Musk announced that X will begin labeling edited images as “manipulated media,” extending the platform’s legacy policy on inauthentic content. The rollout details are sparse, leaving it unclear whether the label applies to all edits or only AI‑generated alterations....
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed Palantir’s generative AI tools to automatically sort, translate, and summarize immigration‑enforcement tips submitted through its public tipline. The system, operational since May 2 2025, produces a “BLUF” (bottom line up front) summary using...
Why Predictable AI Will Finally Fix Customer Experience
John Sabino argues that the CX crisis stems from measuring activity rather than outcomes. Companies are moving toward hybrid AI‑human models that prioritize resolution quality, personalization, and revenue impact. In 2026, the focus shifts to predictable AI, with assurance layers...
Credibly Snags New Patent to Scale SMB Financing Platform
Credibly announced a newly issued patent that embeds AI deep into its SMB financing platform, automating affordability evaluation, offer structuring, and complex underwriting workflows at scale. The patent bolsters the company’s intellectual‑property portfolio and signals a shift from experimental add‑ons...
Prioritizing Guided Onboarding for Complex Data Platform
I spent 2025 building out the best product I could for brand and category tracking, and my current next product focus is making sure that I surround it with a strong onboarding and training experience. The double-edged sword of adding...
MBZUAI Releases K2 Think V2: A Fully Sovereign 70B Reasoning Model For Math, Code, And Science
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) unveiled K2 Think V2, a fully sovereign 70‑billion‑parameter reasoning model built on the K2 V2 Instruct base. The model extends the base's 512k‑token context capability and is fine‑tuned with a GRPO‑style RLVR...
Intercom's AI Pivot Redefines SaaS Economics
Intercom has pivoted from traditional SaaS to AI better than any company I can think of. I spoke to the CFO behind the customer support juggernaut, and the outcome based product Finn. Dan Griggs is mastering the new economics of...
ServiceNow Inks Another AI Partnership, This Time with Anthropic
ServiceNow has signed a multi‑year agreement with Anthropic, making the Claude family of models the default AI engine across its workflow platform and internal tools. Claude now powers the ServiceNow Build Agent and Claude Code is being rolled out to the...
Base AI Agent Deployers Rally as CLAWD Surges
AI agent tokens on Base surged after Austin Griffith launched the CLAWD agent, a Claude‑based self‑regulated AI that can deploy smart contracts and run on‑chain experiments. CLAWD’s market cap briefly hit $40 million, propelling related tokens BANKR (+34%) and CLANKER (+24%)....
Now That's a Team-Up: Samsung and Nvidia Expected to Join Forces to Feature 'Revolutionary' HBM4 Memory Modules in Upcoming Vera...
Samsung Electronics and Nvidia are set to embed Samsung’s next‑generation HBM4 memory into Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI accelerators, with mass shipments slated for February 2026. The HBM4 modules operate at 11.7 Gb/s and are built on Samsung’s 4 nm logic base die, giving the...
AI Local Visibility Is up to 30x Harder than Ranking in Google: Report
SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index reveals that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity surface far fewer business locations than Google’s local 3‑pack. Only 1.2% of 350,000 locations appear on ChatGPT, 11% on Gemini, and 7.4% on Perplexity, compared...
Unprecedented 3D Views of Sensory Cells Accelerate Hearing Research
University of California San Diego researchers unveiled Vision Analysis StereoCilia (VASCilia), an AI‑driven tool that creates high‑resolution 3D visualizations of cochlear hair‑cell stereocilia. By applying five deep‑learning models, VASCilia accelerates image analysis by roughly 50‑fold compared with manual methods. The...
Customer Service Is Emerging as the Proving Ground for Enterprise AI, Says Zendesk CEO
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier says enterprise AI is shifting from pilot projects to full‑scale production, with customer service emerging as the primary proving ground. Companies that achieve over 50% automated resolutions are reporting higher satisfaction scores, faster response times, and...
Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts
Browser Code is a new browser extension that equips Claude, an AI coding agent, with a virtual‑filesystem view of any web page. It lets the agent generate, edit, and persist userscripts through Chrome’s userScripts API (and Firefox’s equivalent), automatically running them...
Nori AI: Simple, All‑In‑One Family Planner
Clawdbot, now called @moltbot, is hot, but sometimes you just want a simple family planner, and don’t want to buy a new Mac Mini and nerd out for the weekend just to get a family planning system running. Nori is...
Gmail Enters The Gemini Era: What Actually Changes For Email Marketers?
The episode breaks down Gmail’s new Gemini‑powered AI features and explains why they don’t upend email marketing fundamentals. While AI‑driven priority ranking and summarization will surface low‑engagement messages faster, the core rule remains: send clear, relevant emails with a single...
WhatsApp Will Now Charge AI Chatbots to Operate in Italy
Meta will begin charging developers for AI chatbot responses on WhatsApp in Italy, following a regulator‑mandated reversal of its ban on third‑party bots. Starting February 16, the fee is $0.0691 (≈€0.0572/£0.0498) per non‑template message. The pricing applies only where law...
AI Success Shifts: From Language Masters to System Designers
We’re seeing the real-time shift in who wins with AI. Here’s my winners list. ↓ ↓ ↓ 2023 - English majors. They understood that the model is a language machine before it is anything else. Their expanded vocabulary and precise...
Unbox Robotics Raises $28M to Scale Modular Warehouse Robots
Unbox Robotics announced a $28 million Series B round led by ICICI Venture, with participation from F‑Prime and other investors. The funding will fuel expansion of its engineering and leadership teams, accelerate development of its modular, swarm‑intelligence warehouse robots, and...
AI Ended Dropshipping; Human Strategy Wins 2026
AI just Killed Dropshipping... Here's What's Replacing it Today Watch here 👉 https://t.co/ZExaWfvw02 AI has turned dropshipping into a race of copycats. In this video, I explain how automation is pushing beginners into competing on the same products, killing stores before...
Giving AI the Ability to Monitor Its Own Thought Process Could Help It Think Like Humans
Researchers led by Ricky J. Sethi have introduced a mathematical framework that gives large language models a metacognitive state vector, enabling them to monitor and regulate their own reasoning. The vector captures five dimensions—emotional awareness, correctness evaluation, experience matching, conflict...
Clean Customer Data Powers Personalized LLM Responses
Tealium gives LLMs what they usually lack: real customer context. Things like cross-channel behavior, lifecycle stage, affinities, and history flow into prompts and workflows, so AI responses stop feeling generic and start feeling more like they’re written for one person....
ChatGPT Could Power Universal Price Comparisons via Shopify Catalog
I saw a Q&A that mentioned @Shopify's Catalog MCP provides a "List of shops selling the product with specific prices" along with a Universal Product ID. Does that mean a shopper could use chatgpt for easy price comparison shopping across...
New Study Identifies the Top Internal Audit Priorities for 2026
The episode highlights Gartner's new survey of 119 chief audit executives (CAEs), revealing that building a culture of innovation and leveraging data analytics and generative AI are the top internal audit priorities for 2026. While 83% of audit functions are...
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2026 Enterprise Security Trends: What Leaders Must Prepare For In An Interconnected Risk Landscape
Enterprise security in 2026 is defined by the merging of cyber and physical domains, the rise of AI as both an attack accelerator and defense multiplier, and the recognition that cloud outages are now security incidents. Recent incidents like the...
LinkedIn Flags AI‑generated Images with New Content Label
I made this image on ChatGPT and added it to LinkedIn. Never seen this "Content credentials" label appear before - looks like LinkedIn is telling people when images are 100% AI-generated. 🤔 (Sorry if not new, it's new to me!) https://t.co/ZXENZmGKox