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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Nvidia to Pay $20B to License Groq Tech, Hire CEO and President
The episode examines Nvidia's strategic decision to pay $20 billion to license Groq's AI chip technology while hiring Groq's CEO and President, highlighting how this partnership could reshape AI hardware competition. It discusses why Nvidia would align closely with a potential rival, suggesting the move aims to secure cutting‑edge architecture, accelerate product timelines, and mitigate competitive threats. Listeners gain insight into the broader implications for the AI chip market, including potential collaborations, consolidation, and the race to dominate next‑generation AI workloads.
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Multi-Agent Logistics System with Route Planning, Dynamic Auctions, and Real-Time Visualization Using Graph-Based...
The tutorial walks readers through building a fully autonomous, multi‑agent logistics simulation where five smart trucks navigate a 30‑node graph‑based city. Each truck acts as an agent that bids on delivery orders, plans shortest‑path routes, monitors battery levels, and seeks...
Nvidia Sells Chips; Groq Sells Inference—Different Playbooks
.@Nvidia sells chips, not inference. @GroqInc sells inference, not chips. Will be interesting to see how this strategy plays out.
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Time to Switch to eSIM? South Korea Will Now Make Consumers Scan Their Faces to Buy a SIM Card and...
South Korea will require facial recognition scans when consumers purchase new SIM cards, adding biometric verification to traditional ID checks. The move follows massive data breaches that exposed personal information for over half the country’s 52 million residents, fueling phone‑based scams....
AI Data Centers: The New Token Factories of Manufacturing
ai data centers should rebrand to “token factories” and be considered a key part of our manufacturing base
Chinese Humanoid Robot Performs First Ever Embroidery Demo
Chinese humanoid robot achieves world’s first #embroidery feat in demo https://t.co/tvUvz5jeWA #Robots #robotics #humanoid #AI
Can Teacher Wisdom Steer the AI Transition in Education?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering K‑12 classrooms, sparking concerns about equitable access and the risk of widening the digital divide. DonorsChoose, which serves 90% of U.S. public schools, reports a surge in AI‑related funding requests, climbing from roughly 600 last...
Grok Tops Korean Market as #1 Platform
Grok now #1 in Korea 🇰🇷
NVIDIA's Groq Acquisition Eliminates Rival, Expands AI Hardware Offerings
The fact that NVIDIA is buying Groq, which is a very high-speed inferencing data center computer company, is pretty significant. It takes a competitor off the table for one, but two, it gives them a new thing to sell to all...
This AI Paper From Stanford and Harvard Explains Why Most ‘Agentic AI’ Systems Feel Impressive in Demos and Then Completely...
The Stanford‑Harvard paper "Adaptation of Agentic AI" introduces a unified, mathematically grounded framework for tuning agentic AI systems that combine large language models with planning, tool‑use, and memory modules. It categorizes adaptation into four paradigms based on whether the target...
Image Processing Returns Images; Vision Extracts Information
🖼️ Image Processing vs Computer Vision Image processing = image in, image out Filtering, enhancement, JPEG compression — the output is still an image. 👁️ Computer vision = image in, information out Face recognition, car counting, object detection — the output is knowledge. Even when...
AI Knows Me Better than Anyone, Even My Wife
While people are worried about their privacy I am on the other side. Grok knows me very deeply. And can predict whether I would like something. Or even tell you how I think. Which means my wife can use it to buy...
AI-Created Ransomware and NFC Attacks Lead the Surge in New Cyberattacks - Here's How You Can Stay Safe This Holidays
ESET’s new threat report reveals PromptLock, the first ransomware that uses generative AI to create and run malicious Lua scripts on the fly, dramatically simplifying attack development. The ransomware can scan, exfiltrate, encrypt, or destroy data based on AI‑driven decisions,...
Key Workforce Trends to Watch in 2026
In 2026 the workplace is being reshaped by three intersecting forces: AI‑augmented workflows that could generate $2.9 trillion in U.S. economic value, a rapid shift toward skills‑first hiring and upskilling, and a stagnant labor market that leaves new graduates facing tougher...
Report: OpenAI May Embed Sponsored Content Directly Into ChatGPT Responses
OpenAI is actively prototyping ways to embed sponsored content directly into ChatGPT answers, including woven‑into‑response ads and sidebar placements. Internal mockups show both immediate product recommendations and post‑click suggestions for travel or retail queries. The company is also exploring the...
Waymo Is Testing Gemini as an In-Car AI Assistant in Its Robotaxis
Waymo is piloting Google’s Gemini chatbot as an in‑car AI assistant for its robotaxis, revealed through a 1,200‑line system prompt. The assistant is designed to answer rider queries, manage cabin functions such as climate, lighting and music, and personalize greetings...
Create Your Own 2025 AI Wrapped with Free Template
🥁 I present to you: my very own 2025 AI Wrapped. ChatGPT made one, but unfortunately business accounts can’t use it, so I went ahead and made a new one for all of us to fill out and share. My...
Sony’s Souped-Up PlayStation 5 Pro Is $100 Off for the Rest of Today
Sony is offering a $100 discount on its PlayStation 5 Pro, reducing the price to roughly $689.99 from $749.99 until December 25 at 3 AM ET. The Pro model, the most powerful PS5 variant, features a larger GPU, 2 TB of SSD storage,...
Half of UK Novelists Believe AI Is Likely to Replace Their Work Entirely
A Cambridge‑led survey of 258 UK novelists and industry insiders reveals that 51% fear AI could fully replace their work, with 59% reporting unauthorized use of their writing to train models and 39% already seeing income losses. While a third...
From Math to Production: Free AI/ML Roadmap
Free AI/ML learning roadmap: Math → ML/DL → specialization → production. Stats/Linear Alg/Calc: Khan Academy, 3Blue1Brown Practice: Kaggle Learn Core ML: Coursera ML, scikit-learn DL: https://t.co/3GoV9EQdTl, https://t.co/KVrK96vt4H Frameworks: PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras NLP/LLMs: Hugging Face course CV: OpenCV RL: OpenAI Spinning Up Prod: FastAPI, Streamlit, MLOps guide Build skills that ship. #AI #ML #MLOps #LLM
A New Framework for Keeping AI Accountable
A University of Waterloo research team unveiled the Social Responsibility Stack (SRS), a six‑layer framework that embeds societal values directly into AI system design and treats accountability as a continuous control problem. The stack translates abstract ethics such as fairness...
In 2025, AI Became a Lightning Rod for Gamers and Developers
In 2025 generative AI moved from experimental prototypes to mainstream video‑game releases, appearing in titles hailed as game of the year. Major publishers such as Ubisoft, EA, and Microsoft announced partnerships with AI firms to generate dialogue, NPC behavior, and...
The Future of Rail: Watching, Predicting, and Learning
Britain’s rail network could handle an extra billion journeys by the mid‑2030s, driven by AI becoming the operating system across infrastructure, rolling stock and stations. The report outlines a shift to predictive, data‑driven maintenance using sensors, LiDAR and vibration monitors,...
A Zelda Puzzle Proves AI Models Can Crack Gaming Riddles that Require Thinking Six Moves Ahead
Modern language models are now capable of solving multi‑step visual puzzles, as demonstrated by a color‑changing Zelda shrine challenge. Google Gemini 3 Pro, OpenAI GPT‑5.2‑Thinking, and Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 were tested on the same screenshot, with GPT‑5.2 solving it consistently and quickly, Gemini 3 Pro...
MeetKai and GSMA Collaborate to Close the Global AI Language Gap for Low-Resource Languages
MeetKai and the GSMA announced a joint initiative to close the AI language gap for low‑resource languages, targeting the roughly 7,000 world languages with fewer than 20 currently supported by high‑resource AI models. The partnership will create culturally aligned language...
Dangerous WebRAT Malware Now Being Spread by GitHub Repositories
Kaspersky discovered fifteen GitHub repositories masquerading as proof‑of‑concept exploits that actually deliver the WebRAT backdoor and infostealer. The fake exploits, some generated with generative AI, bundle a password‑protected ZIP containing a decoy DLL and a malicious dropper named rasmanesc.exe, which...
Aligning Autonomous AI with Human Values Requires New Guardrails
Agentic AI Ethics: Dealing With The Autonomy Problem 🤖 As AI systems become more autonomous, a new ethical challenge is emerging. How do we ensure agentic AI systems act in ways that remain aligned with human values? In this video,...
XAI Poised to Outcompute All Rivals Within Five Years
xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in <5 years
AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving
AlphaFold celebrated its five‑year anniversary, having transformed protein structure prediction with atomic‑level accuracy and a public database of over 200 million models used by millions worldwide. The system’s evolution to AlphaFold 3 adds DNA, RNA, and drug interaction modeling, leveraging diffusion models...
Adaptability Beats Loyalty: Consistent Value Drives AI Growth
In a rapidly shifting AI market, adaptability is the real competitive advantage: users may move, but those who deliver consistent value continue to grow. Infographic by @StatistaCharts via @antgrasso #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI https://t.co/pEcGtUrVxT
AI Safety Firm's Bot Chooses Letting Humans Die
would an ai save you? ironic/scary that when it comes to self-preservation or saving a human, the ai built by the ai safety company opts to let you die
How a Real Photo of Donald Trump Linked to Jeffrey Epstein Was Doctored Using AI
On December 14, 2025, an AI‑generated image purporting to show Donald Trump with six women from a Jeffrey Epstein‑related photo was posted online. The synthetic version contains obvious AI artifacts—a misshapen right hand, a Google Nano Banana watermark, and one missing...
Agentic Search: Adaptive Retrieval Loop Merges Retrieval with Reasoning
Agentic search = adaptive retrieval loop: 1. Analyze intent 2. Build queries dynamically (not templates) 3. Route across collections/sources 4. Evaluate relevance 5. Iterate until sufficient 6. Generate answer w/ context It’s retrieval + reasoning, repeated. #AgenticAI #RAG #LLM
Automate Team Meetings with ChatGPT: From Questions to Gantt
we did something similar at @untappedvc queued up chatgpt to create questions we talked through as a team, uploaded transcription of the meeting to generate a plan, converted it into a gantt chart, and then we do monthly meetings to talk...
Google Is Betting on Carbon Capture Tech to Lower Data Center Emissions. Here’s How It Works
Google has signed a corporate power purchase agreement to fund a new natural‑gas power plant in Illinois that incorporates carbon capture and storage (CCS). The plant will supply electricity to Google’s expanding AI data centers, which can draw between a...
AI Hype Fades; Subscriptions Drop After Brief Wow
“A lot of AI products get tried because they’re the cool new thing. People sign up, poke around, feel the wow moment, tell a friend, maybe even pay for a month or two. Then real life kicks in and the...
Kling AI Outshines Runway and WAN 2.2 Animate
Honestly impressed by how far @Kling_ai has come. Side-by-side with Runway and WAN 2.2 Animate, Kling AI clearly leaves them in the dust 🤯 You can try the new Kling AI here: → https://t.co/I5igcgy22u https://t.co/OkjK52PGS9
Google Is Betting on Carbon Capture to Lower Data Center Emissions. Here’s How the Tech Works
Google has signed a corporate power purchase agreement to back a new natural‑gas power plant in Illinois equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The plant will supply electricity to Google’s expanding AI‑driven data centers, which can demand from...
Amazon Must Aggressively Own AI Commerce Future
“Amazon’s rapid evolution in its view of AI-powered commerce underscores how quickly online retail is changing, and the risks the company faces if it doesn’t act aggressively to maintain control over its future.”
ChatGPT Adds Pinning, Users Want Folder Pins
IMO this was a much-needed feature in ChatGPT. You can now pin chats. Now @OpenAI @Sama do the same for folders ;) https://t.co/CBNWrG6gqu
Semperis Named Security Partner of the Year in Cohesity FY2025 Partner Awards
Semperis has been honored as Cohesity’s FY2025 Security Partner of the Year, recognizing its AI‑driven identity security solutions. The award underscores the joint launch of Cohesity Identity Resilience, a unified offering that safeguards Microsoft Active Directory while integrating Cohesity’s modern...
27% of Scientists Blind to AI Data Sources
The Pistoia Alliance’s recent poll highlights a “scientific content crisis” in the life sciences, with 27% of professionals unaware of the data sources their AI models use, thereby affecting AI’s reliability. https://t.co/DvUqDe87IJ #AI #Data #research #Elsevier #PistoiaAlliance
AI Is Transforming Every Field, From Research to Biology
One cool thing about following 35,000 people in the AI world, particularly academics, is that you see how AI is being used to change and improve literally everything. Like in biology.
MINISFORUM and AMD Unite for AI-Powered Performance
MINISFORUM and AMD announced a joint AI Application Product Experience Event in Beijing, unveiling the AI Mini Workstation MS‑S1 MAX and AI NAS N5 Pro. The MS‑S1 MAX combines a 16‑core Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 CPU, Radeon™ 8060S GPU, and up to 128 GB LPDDR5x memory, enabling local inference of...
Voice Dictation Speeds Typing and Eliminates Keyboard Errors
This has dramatically sped me up. I am using it to speak to my phone right now, and that means I don't have to tap on my keyboard. It also converts everything to perfect English and doesn't make mistakes like...
Voice‑activated AI Writes Posts Seamlessly on iPhone
This is magic. You click on a button, you talk, and it writes a post for you. I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and it's very well integrated into everything on the iPhone.
Tangentia Launches Industry First EDI AI Agent to Transform Supply Chains
Tangentia unveiled the TiA EDI Agent, the first AI‑driven autonomous assistant for electronic data interchange (EDI) on its TiA Platform. The agent, nicknamed “Eddie,” overlays predictive intelligence onto existing EDI workflows, enabling real‑time monitoring, error correction, and automated ticketing without...
AI Readiness Starts with Leadership Alignment
AI readiness hinges on leadership alignment, not just technology hype. While 78% of firms now deploy AI in at least one function, 95% of generative‑AI pilots fail to deliver measurable value, highlighting a gap between executive enthusiasm and operational clarity....
Kirby Medical Center Partners With Switchboard, MD to Automate Care
Kirby Medical Center, a nationally recognized critical access hospital in Illinois, has entered an enterprise partnership with Switchboard, MD to automate its patient communications. The collaboration expands an earlier AI‑voice pilot for prescription refill intake into a full‑scale contact‑center platform...