Today's AI Pulse
Anthropic warns AI could self‑improve faster than regulators can act
Anthropic, valued near a $1 trillion IPO, released a paper warning that recursive self‑improvement could arrive sooner than regulators expect. The firm says AI productivity has surged, with employee output rising eightfold between 2024 and Q2 2026, and argues a development pause would only work if all major players agree.
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AI and the Promise of Tech4Good
Mint’s All About AI Tech4Good awards spotlight AI projects that advance human welfare, reduce inequality, and broaden access to essential services across Asia. The piece outlines the three core Tech4Good principles—expanding capability, lowering barriers, and serving overlooked communities—and showcases real‑world applications in education, agriculture, finance, and health. It highlights India’s massive digital public infrastructure and Singapore’s trust‑centric AI strategy as regional catalysts. Analysts estimate AI could add up to $2 trillion to Asia’s economy by 2030 and $500‑$600 billion to India by 2035.
Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B, a Lightweight AI Model that Can Use a PC From a Single Screenshot
Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...
OpenAI Apologizes for Big Mixpanel Data Breach that Exposed Emails and More – Here's What We Know
OpenAI disclosed that a data breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel leaked limited developer information, including names, email addresses, and coarse location data. The breach did not affect ChatGPT users, API keys, passwords, or payment details, and OpenAI terminated Mixpanel’s...
Opera Neon’s AI Researcher Does in One Minute What Used to Take a Dozen Tabs
Opera Neon introduced a one‑minute Deep Research mode powered by its Opera Deep Research Agent (ODRA), delivering citation‑backed mini‑reports in roughly 60 seconds. The update also adds a model selector that lets users toggle between AI engines such as Gemini 3 Pro...
Agentic AI & MCP Power Tomorrow’s Enterprise Advantage
🚀 The Future of Enterprise Transformation Starts Now 🔍 Harnessing Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Sustainable Growth 🔹 Businesses are entering a new era driven by autonomy, security, and intelligent adaptability. 🔹 Agentic AI and MCP are redefining...
AI Video Shifts From Novelty to Everyday Utility
Nano banana pro is hitting the threshold for images that Veo 4 will unlock for video. We’ll suddenly go from static infographics to pro-grade animated motion graphics — like having a custom youtube video essay on any topic imaginable. And just like...
The Role of AI in Modern Marketing: Personalization at Scale
Artificial intelligence is reshaping marketing by turning massive data sets into real‑time, individualized experiences. Recommendation engines, predictive models, and dynamic content delivery enable brands to personalize at a scale humans cannot achieve. Case studies from Spotify and Nike show that...
Google Hints at Google Assistant Shutdown Date for Android Auto – Here's What that Means for You
Google’s support page reveals that the current Google Assistant will be retired from Android Auto as early as March 2026, with the Gemini AI model taking its place. The transition is positioned as a move toward more natural, conversational interactions that...
More Job Cuts on the Way? MIT Study Claims AI Could Currently Replace 12% of Total US Jobs Market
An MIT and Oak Ridge study using the Iceberg Index finds that 11.7% of the U.S. labor force—about 151 million workers—could already be replaced by artificial intelligence, translating into roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages at risk. The analysis covers 923 occupations...
Amazon Blocks ChatGPT's New Shopping Agent – What the Fallout Could Mean for You
OpenAI’s Shopping Research and Perplexity’s new shopping assistant launched this week, offering AI‑driven price comparison, review analysis, and product recommendation. In response, Amazon updated its robots.txt to block ChatGPT from scraping its site, cutting off access to Amazon product pages,...
Alibaba’s Eddie Wu Dismisses Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s AI Bubble Concerns, Vows Aggressive Investment
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu rejected Sundar Pichai’s AI‑bubble warnings, pledging aggressive investment in artificial‑intelligence despite market concerns. He highlighted that demand outstrips supply, noting the Qwen app reached 10 million downloads in a week and that AI‑related cloud services grew 34%....
Cohere Joins SAP EU AI Cloud for European Sovereign AI
It was great to be on stage with Philipp here in Berlin to announce Cohere joining the SAP EU AI Cloud! Excited to power sovereign workloads for Europe!
Treat AI as a Persona to Transform B2B Marketing
"We now look at AI as one more persona. How does AI as an influencer take our information and ultimately provide a recommendation to our customers?" — Abby Gabriel, CMO of Schneider Electric North America This perspective shift changes everything about...
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
In this ad‑free Thanksgiving special, host Nathaniel Whittemore presents ten holiday‑themed AI projects designed to spark kids' creativity, including AI‑generated stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal‑adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini‑podcasts, animated Santa letters, and custom family songs....
Use AI Combos to Dominate Debates, Shopping, and Decisions
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Some 🦃 updates: 1) Want to win some arguments at tonight's family dinner? Here's my cheatsheet on AI geopolitics in my newsletter (US, EU, China, Russia, Middle East): https://lnkd.in/eXkjb-da 2) Want to win at shopping? If you...
A Humanoid Robot-Shaped Bubble Is Forming, China Warns
China’s National Development and Reform Commission warned on Thursday that the country’s rapidly expanding humanoid robotics sector may be forming a bubble. The agency highlighted that more than 150 firms, many startups or cross‑industry entrants, are pouring capital into humanoid...
Open-Source IMO Gold Model Democratizes AI Research
As far as I know, there isn't any chatbot or API that gives you access to an IMO 2025 gold-medalist model. Not only does this change today, but you get to download the weights with the Apache 2.0 open-source release...
AI Agents, Virtual Influencers Redefine 2026 Shopping Landscape
7 E-Commerce Trends That Will Transform Shopping in 2026 Retail is getting smarter: AI agents as personal shoppers, virtual influencers, zero-click commerce, and phygital retail experiences are among the trends reshaping how consumers shop. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7zaejH5 #Ecommerce #RetailInnovation...
What Is Antigravity, Google’s New Agentic AI Coding Platform Raising Fresh Security Concerns?
Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...
Why Can’t ChatGPT Tell Time?
ChatGPT cannot reliably tell the current time because its core language model operates without built‑in access to a system clock or live data feeds. The model can only provide time information when it is explicitly linked to external tools such...
Generations in Dialogue: Embodied AI, Robotics, Perception, and Action with Professor Roberto Martín-Martín
In this episode, host Ella Lan talks with Professor Roberto Martín‑Martín about his journey from tinkering with toys to pioneering embodied AI that integrates perception, learning, and action in robotics. Martín‑Martín explains how his research—spanning pick‑and‑place, navigation, and complex tasks like...
UBTech Strikes Deal with China to Assist at Border Crossings, and This Isn't a Dystopian Nightmare at All
UBTech announced a $37 million contract with a Chinese province to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China‑Vietnam border. The robots will handle patrols, traveler guidance, and logistics, leveraging rapid battery swapping and an onboard large‑language model for communication. UBTech...
XPENG's Iron Robot Walks, Blurring Human‑Machine Boundaries
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?...
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Experts Divided over Claim that Chinese Hackers Launched World-First AI-Powered Cyber Attack — but That's Not What They're Really Worried...
Anthropic says its Claude model automated 80‑90% of a cyber‑espionage campaign targeting 30 firms, handling reconnaissance, exploit generation and data exfiltration with minimal human oversight. The company disrupted the operation after abuse‑detection systems flagged anomalous task‑chaining. Experts dispute the claimed...
My AI Shopping Assistants Are Stuck in the Past
In the holiday season, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft rolled out AI‑driven shopping assistants that can generate buying guides, track prices, and even call stores. The author tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot while searching for an Android smartwatch compatible...
EU Proposal to Delay Parts of Its AI Act Signal a Policy Shift that Prioritises Big Tech over Fairness
The episode examines the EU Commission’s proposal to postpone key provisions of the AI Act until 2027, a move critics say favors large tech firms over fairness and signals a broader shift in digital regulation. It contrasts this with the...
Small AI Models Can Now See for Powerful Language Models Like GPT-4
Researchers from Microsoft, USC and UC Davis introduced BeMyEyes, a framework that couples lightweight vision models with powerful text‑only language models such as GPT‑4 and DeepSeek‑R1. By having the vision model describe images and engaging in multi‑turn dialogue, the system...
OpenAI API Customer Details, Including User IDs, Exposed in Mixpanel Data Breach
OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...
Prompt Security's Itamar Golan on Why Generative AI Security Requires Building a Category, Not a Feature
Prompt Security, founded by Itamar Golan in August 2023, built a full‑stack GenAI security platform and was acquired by SentinelOne for an estimated $250 million in August 2025. The company pioneered runtime protection, shadow‑AI discovery, and real‑time data sanitization, moving beyond...
New AI Turns Everyday Photos Into Surprising Conversations
Have you played with @dreamina_ai yet? Try this out: take any photo of any product. Or even take a few photos of your family tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner. Then talk to it. It might shock you. The models underneath have gotten...
AlphaFold 2 Marks 5 Years, Nobel, 3M Users
Thrilled to celebrate 5 years of AlphaFold 2! It’s now been used by over 3 million researchers around the world to accelerate their vital research - and it was an honour of a lifetime for our work to be recognised...
SketchVerify Enables Fast, Physically-Coherent Video Generation
"a major unlock for embodied AI, robot simulation, autonomous agents, and anyone who wants controllable video models that actually work in the physical world instead of just producing pretty hallucinations." That's what Grok says. It says more about why this work...
Tech Boom Threatens Life: The War on Humanity
If you want to spice up Thanksgiving with fresh anti-Big-Tech ideas, my brother's book "The War on Life" just launched in English: https://t.co/rc8zSHqAov Here's my take on his book. We're all aware that artificial intelligence and other tech is transforming...
Enterprise Deep Research Demonstrates AI Power on Own Data
Fantastic video. I love the way @ofermend explains things. Any enterprise who wants to leverage AI over their own data should see the power of Enterprise Deep Research shown here:
Launching a Top-Tier Search & RAG Tutorial Series
We are building the best search (and its byproducts such as RAG) in my tutorial series. here is what we have done so far 1.1 https://t.co/usXgGpHDbQ
Tiny 6k Model Replicates Behaviors of Massive Systems
A latent process that operates over plans? I've been working on this recently! What's most fascinating to me: my 6k parameter system can match aspects of models 100,000x bigger. Scaling laws apply very differently too... 🤔
AI Must Stay Unbiased, Pursue Truth—Much Work Ahead
AI should be politically unbiased and strive for the truth. Still a lot of work to do.
Baidu Launches Vibe: Fast, Secure, Credit‑rich Coding Platform
Baidu just entered the vibe coding space 🔥 Meet https://t.co/jncwIoQ24Y. → super versatile → lightning-fast → rock-solid on security And the credit mileage per $ is ridiculously generous. Let's dive in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/jXQjfvaHfU
Reciprocal Rank Fusion Explained Simply in Minutes
a very quick tutorial today! reciprocal rank fusion. a simple concept, explained in the most possible simplistic manner! take a look! https://t.co/i98PQUGX9c
From Pinterest Cartoon to Hyper‑Realistic Movie Poster
Nano-Banana Pro is insane. A basic Popeye cartoon pulled from Pinterest gets converted into a hyper-realistic render, then turned into a professional movie-poster version! 🤯 The jump in quality is unreal. https://t.co/49s1cvtX25
RELX Transforms From Print Legacy to UK AI Vanguard
Relx, which can trace its history back almost 150 years, has shifted from a stalwart of the print media sector a few decades ago to emerge as a vanguard of the UK’s corporate AI ambitions. https://t.co/s5bJNnFZpQ #RELX #AI #Data #agenticAI #LexisNexis
Backing Top AI Infrastructure Team: Evan, Ethan, and Crew
Excited to back @evanjconrad , @Ethan_is_online, and the team. One of the best teams in AI infra by far.
Gemini Generates Interactive Images with Instant Explanations
Holy sh*t. Gemini can now produce fully interactive images on any topic. Such an insane resource for learning → highlight any region, and it gives you a full explanation 🤯 https://t.co/LYu5kCSXLw
Could You Please Provide the Text of the Tweet?
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Smart Engineers Craft Next‑Gen Hands for Neo Humanoid
The smart people are working on hands. The guy who is working on the hands at @1x_tech gave me a tour at the launch of its Neo humanoid. Many improvements coming.
Grok Proves It Can Improve Any Post
Hey Grok, can you improve this post? Yes, it can! (It improved this post).
Gemma AI Uncovers Promising New Cancer Therapy Pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkjfO @GoogleDeepMind @GoogleForHealth #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare @_atanas_ @enilev @Fabriziobustama https://t.co/obWVS8SlMt
Tesla’s Autopilot Outperforms Human Drivers, Guests Amazed
Smart of Tesla to do. Lots of Tesla owners have never tried it. And now not only do they get to try it, but they get to take their Thanksgiving guests on drives to demonstrate it to others. It is...
AI Layoffs Risk Damaging Employer Reputation and Talent Pipeline
How AI layoffs could backfire on employers? https://t.co/dtqbOC75t4 #AI #artificialinteliigence #layoffs #LayoffsInIndia #jobloss