Today's AI Pulse
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network for exploiting Gemini AI in massive scam campaign
Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the Outsider Enterprise network that used its Gemini AI to automate scam text messages. The operation ran 9,000 fake websites, registered 1 million fraudulent domains and sent 2.5 million texts in two weeks, scamming hundreds of thousands and causing multi‑million‑dollar losses.
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Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
In this episode, Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable, explains how AI‑assisted coding has moved from early GitHub experiments to core production infrastructure, marking 2025 as the tipping point for "vibe coding" and positioning 2026 as the year for AI‑enabled builders who can conceive, plan, and ship software end‑to‑end. He discusses the shift from prototype‑only tools to enterprise‑grade workflows, the rise of personal and ephemeral software, and the new skill set—strategic thinking and AI orchestration—that will matter as AI takes over the mechanical aspects of development. The conversation highlights how companies are rethinking SaaS models and leveraging AI to accelerate delivery from months to days.
Your Final Gift of 2025 Can Make a Lasting Impact
The episode highlights the Center for Humane Technology's 2025 achievements in raising awareness about AI's impact on relationships, youth, mental health, and society, while fostering dialogue with leaders and advancing policy for AI accountability and product liability. It emphasizes the...
Labour Must Learn Lessons From History as Automation Hits Jobs Market | Richard Partington
Automation is reshaping Britain’s retail sector, with self‑service checkouts, AI cameras and other machines replacing low‑paid staff. Retail vacancies fell 6 % in November, the lowest level in a decade, while the industry reports a 10 % rise in employment costs and...
Microsoft CEO Nadella Tells Managers Copilot's Gmail and Outlook Integrations ‘Don't Really Work’ and Steps in to Fix Them
Satya Nadella publicly criticized Microsoft Copilot’s Gmail and Outlook integrations as “not smart,” and has taken a hands‑on role to fix them. He now leads weekly technical reviews with senior engineers, sends bug reports, and issues direct instructions to improve...
Liquid AI’s LFM2-2.6B-Exp Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning RL And Dynamic Hybrid Reasoning To Tighten Small Model Behavior
Liquid AI released LFM2-2.6B-Exp, an experimental checkpoint that adds a pure reinforcement‑learning (RL) stage to its 2.6 billion‑parameter LFM2 model. The RL fine‑tuning targets instruction following, knowledge retrieval, and math without altering the hybrid convolution‑attention architecture. Benchmark results show the model...
Claude Anthropomorphizes; 5.2T Offers Stark, Non‑conscious Stance
if you run the same thread through ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking you get a far more sensible take. Here’s what 5.2T thinks of Opus 4.5’s response and how they compare My read on what’s going on rhetorically Claude’s answer is trying to...
Robot Smashes Badminton World Record in China
Badminton-playing robot breaks Guinness World Record in China https://t.co/2WZDHIS31H via @YouTube #badminton #GWR #WorldRecord #AI #Robotics #Robotics #humanoid @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani @tewoz...
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parra and AAIF Leads From OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
The episode reviews the first year of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), tracing its evolution from a local experiment to a universal standard adopted by major AI firms and enterprises, and its recent transition into the Agentic AI Foundation under...
Tesla Fails to Reroute Around Real‑time Road Closures
Here's why I know AGI isn't here yet: there was just a major road blockage at Cottle Road and Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose. There is some sort of major police and fire action going on that has...
Unlock ChatGPT's Power with 32 Prompt Operators
Most people don’t realize ChatGPT understands operators, which can completely change the quality of its answers. Here's a 32-shortcut cheatsheet for sharper prompting 🔥 Example: /ELI5: [topic] → explain this topic like I’m five Full list + free sheet in 🧵↓ https://t.co/kMSXk4GWsu
How to Build Production-Grade Agentic Workflows with GraphBit Using Deterministic Tools, Validated Execution Graphs, and Optional LLM Orchestration
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a production‑grade, agentic workflow for customer‑support ticket triage using GraphBit. It starts by configuring the GraphBit runtime, defining typed ticket data, and registering deterministic tools for classification, routing, and response drafting. These tools are...
OpenAI Dramatically Raises the Stakes in AI
OpenAI is upping the ante massively https://t.co/MmMAdIF7GL via @ft https://t.co/TzGP54ChBh
New Prompt Makes ChatGPT Sound Surprisingly Human
This prompt makes ChatGPT (or any LLM) sound way more natural. Copy–paste it below ↓ https://t.co/j67L10YTzv
Get an Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas? Discover the 3 Features that Revolutionized My Smart Home Setup
The article showcases three Alexa-driven features—Routines, Hunches, and Alexa Guard—that turn an Amazon Echo Dot into a smart‑home command center. It explains how custom routines automate lighting, climate and entertainment based on schedules or sensor triggers. Hunches learn user habits and make...
AI Review Caught Hidden Unit Conversion Bug Before Release
Hell yeah I’m taking part in @Coderabbitai’s `Share the Bug` challenge with an app I’m building 🤘 The app is a wallpaper calculator for one of my wife’s online businesses (shameless plug → https://t.co/gvh0L0jKzl), so ppl can easily calculate how many rolls of...
Tiny AI-Embedded Objects Enable Deterministic Enterprise Software
When Salesforce says the enterprise needs deterministic systems, @massoudmaestro lays out what it is talking about. It took a while to get him to really explain what he's building, a new kind of object-oriented programming, which he used to build...
AI Is Getting Better and Better at Generating Faces — but You Can Train to Spot the Fakes
A recent Royal Society Open Science study shows that AI‑generated faces are indistinguishable from real ones, even for super recognizers, who performed no better than chance. Typical observers performed worse than chance, routinely mistaking fakes for genuine photos. A brief...
Using Claude Supports Unethical Data Theft
Where “AI agents” use systems built or empowered by authorial data taken without permission or consent from the authors those systems are irresponsible and support theft. This means any work done using Anthropic is irresponsible. I’m not interested in anyone...
AI Should Be a Chess Partner, Not a Replacement
Maybe a good analogy for how we should use AI in a sustainable way is chess. Chess engines surpassed human players decades ago, yet professional chess played by humans is still active and thriving. I am not a chess expert, but...
OpenAI Seeks New "Head of Preparedness" For AI Risks Like Cyberattacks and Mental Health
OpenAI announced a new senior position, Head of Preparedness, to oversee safety risks associated with its AI models. The role will address threats ranging from cyber‑attack facilitation and mental‑health impacts to the dissemination of biological knowledge and self‑improving systems. It...
Resemble AI Drops Chatterbox Turbo, an Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that Clones Voices in Five Seconds
Resemble AI has launched Chatterbox Turbo, an open‑source text‑to‑speech model that can clone a voice from just five seconds of audio. The model claims superior quality to Elevenlabs and Cartesia while producing the first audio chunk in under 150 ms, making...
10 AI Prompts to Supercharge Your Learning
AI isn’t just for producing answers — it’s a learning accelerator if you use it deliberately. This framework shows 10 high-leverage ways to learn anything faster with AI: 1. Explain like I’m 5 → simplify tough concepts 2. Examples &...
Hiring Head of Preparedness to Safeguard AI Risks
We are hiring a Head of Preparedness. This is a critical role at an important time; models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges. The potential...
China Publishes Draft of Regulations for Human-Like AI Tech
China’s Cyberspace Administration released draft interim measures regulating anthropomorphic, emotionally interactive AI services. The rules impose full‑lifecycle responsibility, mandatory AI identity disclosure, and strict consent requirements for using interaction and sensitive data. Providers must undergo tiered risk assessments, security reviews,...
AI Advances Highlight Real Job Replacement Risks
New Study Reveals True AI Capabilities — And Job Replacement Risk AI’s rapid advances come with real implications for the job market. This article explores what new research says about what AI can actually do — and where human skills...
AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver
AI‑driven data centers are hitting a "copper cliff" as GPU‑to‑GPU bandwidth pushes toward terabit‑per‑second rates, forcing copper cables to become thicker and shorter. Startups Point2 Technology and AttoTude propose radio‑frequency and terahertz‑band cables that deliver 1.6 Tb/s over 10‑20 m with far...
Meta's Pixio Proves Simple Pixel Reconstruction Can Beat Complex Vision Models
Meta AI unveiled Pixio, a masked autoencoder that learns solely through pixel reconstruction. By enlarging masked regions, adding multiple class tokens, and deepening the decoder, Pixio achieves superior depth estimation and 3D reconstruction despite having only 631 million parameters. In head‑to‑head...
London Eye Architect Proposes 14-Mile Tidal Power Station Off Somerset Coast
Julia Barfield, the architect behind the London Eye, has unveiled an £11 bn proposal for a 14‑mile West Somerset Lagoon tidal power station. The design calls for 125 underwater turbines delivering up to 2.5 GW, enough for roughly two million homes and...
Make Your AI Bills Disappear Forever with This One AI Hub
1min.AI launched the Advanced Business Plan, offering lifetime access to multiple AI models and tools for a one‑time $74.97 fee, down from $540. The plan consolidates writing, image, video, audio, and document AI functions into a single hub. It includes...
Fujifilm's Epic 40TB Tape Cartridge Is Here - Despite What Elon Musk Says, the Future of Offline Data Storage Looks...
Fujifilm has launched the LTO‑10 40 TB magnetic tape cartridge, delivering up to 100 TB compressed capacity and a 400 MB/s native transfer rate. The cartridge fits existing LTO‑10 drives, eliminating the need for new hardware, and features a thinner base‑film and refined magnetic...
Claude Launches AI Agent Chrome Plugin, Beware Security Risks
The episode explains the rollout of Claude's Chrome plugin to all paid users, highlighting how it can streamline everyday tasks by bringing conversational AI directly into the browser. It then delves into the security and privacy concerns of browser‑based AI...
I Asked ChatGPT and Gemini to Invent a New Winter Holiday — Here’s What They Came up With
TechRadar writer Eric Hal Schwartz asked ChatGPT and Gemini to invent winter holidays that avoid existing celebrations. The models created two distinct concepts: "Thawmark," a low‑key day focused on small repairs and mindful warmth, and "The Clatter," a chaotic February...
AI Tool of the Week: Gemini's New Feature Creates Interactive Tools in Chat
Google Gemini unveiled a new capability called mini‑apps, powered by its Opal framework, that lets users generate interactive tools directly within a chat session. By simply describing a desired calculator, planner, tracker, or prototype, Gemini builds a functional app without...
VCs Choose Deals Based on Founder ‘Specialness’
Most founders lose VC deals before the first slide. Before they even enter the room. Here’s the single line from Chamath’s Groq memo that explains why. The $10M check into Groq’s $25M valuation Series A — an investment that will...
Nearly Kept BabyAGI Closed, Then Opened Source
i almost didn’t open source babyagi
Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
Steve Yegge argues that traditional IDEs and current AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor are already obsolete, urging developers to shift to "vibe coding"—orchestrating fleets of AI agents via dashboards such as his VC (VibeCoder). He emphasizes a...
From Lookup to Autonomous Reasoning: RAG Evolution
RAG → Self-RAG → Agentic RAG AI retrieval is evolving fast — from simple lookup to autonomous reasoning. Great visual comparing all 3 approaches. Credit in image. #RAG #AgenticAI #AI #LLM #GenAI https://t.co/8NFynMyHJz
LLMs Still Struggle With Reasoning, Knowledge, Understanding, Execution
Four important limitations of LLMs: 1. Reasoning 2. Knowledge or expertise 3. Understanding 4. Planning and execution Learn more: https://t.co/qs7PYuNc2I @mitsmr #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/LoDCvxxMNf
Can AI Help Solve the Power Problem It Created?
Artificial intelligence is accelerating demand for electricity, exposing the limits of the United States' aging power grid. While AI offers tools for smarter energy use—such as precise demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, and real‑time cooling—these capabilities alone cannot close the capacity...
Future AI Must Blend Tech and Human Skills
Artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence must have technohuman competencies.
All Four Machine Learning Types Visualized in One Cheat Sheet
The 4 types of Machine Learning — Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement, and Semi-Supervised — explained in one clean visual. Great cheat sheet for anyone learning ML or working in AI. Credit in image. #MachineLearning #AI #DataScience https://t.co/1gPD08OMd6
Rodeo Is an App for Making Plans with Friends You Already Have
Rodeo is an AI‑powered iOS app that transforms social‑media posts, screenshots, or chat snippets into ready‑to‑book events, handling venues, showtimes and calendar invites automatically. The service was launched by former Hinge executives Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan to solve the friction...
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2025 Deepfake Surge Signals Looming Identity Threats
Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next https://t.co/T2Z9rTlKPB #deepfake #identitytheft #safety #tech #FutureTech
Humanoid Robot Dazzles IIT Techfest, Fans Dub ‘Chitti Dakait’
Humanoid robot dances to ‘Fa9la’ at IIT Bombay Techfest 2025; netizens name it ‘Chitti Dakait’ | Trending News - The Indian Express https://t.co/FWVYgE4yRo #humanoidrobot #humanoid #FA9LA #techfest #IIT #Robot #Robotech
AI Shows Fingerprints Aren’t Unique, Shattering Century‑Old Forensic Assumption
Artificial Intelligence Proves That Fingerprints Are Not Unique: A 100-Year-Old Forensic Rule Just Collapsed https://t.co/28SRcIvKgL via @defencereview #artificialintelligence #AI #forensics #techno #fingerprint
Agent Systems Are Just a Model Revision Away
I pretty much zone out when people pitch agent or memory or orchestration systems. These are all a model rev away from built-in.
Generative AI Boosts Dev Productivity, but Guardrails Prevent Debt
Generative AI can boost developer productivity by up to 55%, but rushing deployment can pile up serious technical debt. Clear guardrails, disciplined debt management, and responsible AI training are essential to avoid costly system failures. https://t.co/CNOtgbmqBc @mitsmr #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G
Personal Voice Trumps AI: Writing Remains Human‑Only
I’ve stopped using AI to write things for me. Conveying my thoughts accurately is too important.