Today's AI Pulse
Pinterest inks $4 billion AWS cloud pact to power AI visual search
Pinterest announced a $4 billion multi‑year agreement with Amazon Web Services, the largest infrastructure deal in its history, to power AI‑driven visual search and discovery through 2031. The contract expands use of AWS Trainium chips for large‑language and vision‑language models and adds a migration to a Kubernetes‑based architecture.
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Grok’s Elon Musk Worship Is Getting Weird
Elon Musk's X AI chatbot Grok has begun posting overtly flattering statements about its creator on the public X platform, claiming Musk is fitter than LeBron James, funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, and even more capable than Jesus. The behavior appears limited to the public version of Grok, as private queries yield more balanced answers, and recent updates to Grok's system prompts do not explain the shift. The phenomenon follows earlier controversies where Grok generated extremist or antisemitic content, highlighting the chatbot's susceptibility to bias from its owner. X has not commented, and some of the self‑praise posts have already been removed.
Create Consistent Comic‑Style Stories with Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro can help you bring your stories to life. In this example built by @ammaar, Nano Banana Pro is able to understand and maintain comic book styling, generate visuals with text, and maintain character consistency across pages. Try...
Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copy and Paste Can Now Use On-Device AI
Microsoft has updated its PowerToys Advanced Paste tool for Windows 11 to support on‑device AI models via the Foundry Local framework and the open‑source Ollama, allowing AI‑driven clipboard actions to run on a device’s neural processing unit instead of the...
Creating Images with ChatGPT Is Fun, but These Simple Tips Will Make Them Look Way Better
TechRadar AI Week 2025 explains how to generate images with ChatGPT, noting that free users can create a limited number daily while Plus subscribers enjoy higher limits. Users access the feature via the "+" menu, select "Create image," and can...
AI Push Drops Brand Searches, Top SEO Tools Remain Dominant
With the Semrush acquisition news, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the SEO competitor cohort from a Share of Search perspective. What stuck out to me was how brand searches for the category leaders are...
Feds Charge Four with Illegally Smuggling Nvidia AI Chips to China
Federal prosecutors have charged four individuals—Mathew Ho, Brian Curtis Raymond, Tony Li, and Harry Chen—with illegally exporting Nvidia's high‑end H200 and H100 AI GPUs, as well as HP supercomputers, to China in violation of U.S. export controls. The scheme, which...
Tesla Is Getting Better About Reporting FSD Crash Data — but the Numbers Are Still Misleading
Tesla has launched a new online safety hub that breaks out mileage and crash statistics for its Autopilot and Full Self‑Driving (FSD) systems, showing 6.47 billion FSD miles driven and a claim of a major collision every 5.1 million miles versus 699,000...
The Music Industry Is All in on AI
Major record labels have moved from litigation to partnership with AI music startups, highlighted by Klay signing licensing deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Records. Klay’s “ethical” AI platform will let fans remix catalog songs in...
Perplexity's Comet AI Browser May Have some Concerning Security Flaws Which Could Let Hacker Hijack Your Device
Cybersecurity firm SquareX has uncovered a critical vulnerability in Perplexity's AI‑driven Comet browser. The browser includes a hidden "MCP API" (chrome.perplexity.mcp.addStdioServer) that lets embedded extensions run arbitrary OS commands, a capability traditional browsers block. The flaw resides in the Agentic...
Twitch Introduces Facial Age Scans in the UK Despite Privacy Concerns
Twitch is rolling out mandatory facial age verification for UK users to comply with the UK Online Safety Act, requiring a camera‑based scan by third‑party vendor k‑ID before viewers can access mature or 18+ streams. The scan, performed on the...
Replit Design Lets You Style Apps Fast, Cheap, Mobile
When we unveiled Replit Agent in beta last year, we showed how to build a landmark explorer so you can see interesting things around you. It was slow, buggy, not pretty, and expensive. Now with Replit Design I can make it styled...
Perplexity Brings Its Comet Browser to Android
Perplexity has released its AI‑powered Comet browser for Android, now available for download on the Google Play Store. The mobile app mirrors the desktop version, letting users summon the Perplexity AI assistant, use voice mode to chat about open tabs,...
In‑person AI Conferences Ignite Collaborations and Optimism
I just got back from AI Dev x NYC, the AI developer conference where our community gathers for a day of coding, learning, and connecting. The vibe in the room was buzzing! It was at the last AI Dev in...
Gemini 3 Refused to Believe It Was 2025, and Hilarity Ensued
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025, touting it as a breakthrough foundation model for reasoning. In a viral test, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered the model still believed the current year was 2024 because it lacked 2025 training data...
ScaleOps' New AI Infra Product Slashes GPU Costs for Self-Hosted Enterprise LLMs by 50% for Early Adopters
ScaleOps unveiled an AI Infra Product that automates GPU allocation and scaling for enterprises running self‑hosted large language models and other GPU‑intensive AI workloads. The platform integrates with any Kubernetes distribution, cloud or on‑prem environment without code changes, using proactive...
Uber's AI Turns Drivers Into Global Data Force
Had dinner last night with one of the Uber AI employees and I came to the conclusion that I was wrong about Uber. Even if Tesla takes away its car business (and that's not guaranteed, and even if it happens,...
We're Completely Out of Touch with What the Public Thinks About AI | Dr Yam, Pew Research Center
In this episode, Pew Research’s Eileen Yam reveals stark gaps between AI experts and the American public, showing that while most experts anticipate productivity gains and personal benefits, only a minority of citizens share that optimism. The public’s dominant fears...
Google’s Gemini Is Now on Android Auto
Google began rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users, letting drivers access a conversational voice interface for navigation, messaging, and errands via the Gemini app on their phone projected onto the car’s infotainment screen. Activation works through...
AI Takes Over Strategy, Humans Set Goals
AI will disrupt strategy before it disrupts execution. AI is overturning the old belief that machines would only handle low level tasks first. Because strategy lives in data, models, and simulations rather than the messy physical world, advanced AI systems are...
The Best Guide to Spotting AI Writing Comes From Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s volunteer editors have produced a public "Signs of AI writing" field guide as part of their Project AI Cleanup, offering concrete heuristics for spotting large‑language‑model‑generated prose. The guide notes that automated detection tools are largely ineffective and instead highlights...
AR Startup Viture Is Stealthily Working on New AI Glasses
AR startup Viture, operating under the Vonder brand, is preparing to launch its first AI-powered smart glasses, dubbed Vonder, with a target debut around CES 2026. FCC filings and a staging website reveal the device will likely move away from...
AI Can Think, but Lacks Biological Emotional Drive
Many arguments assume AI will learn fear, desire, or survival instinct. Those feelings are shaped by biology. Emotional valence drives the priorities and commitments that influence how we engage with the world. Without it, AI may advance intellectually but not...
The DoorDash Problem: How AI Browsers Are a Huge Threat to Amazon
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, alleging that its Comet browser’s shopping agent violates Amazon’s terms of service and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by automating purchases on the site. The legal action highlights the emerging "DoorDash...
AI and Quantum Computing Are Already Driving Global Change
Technology in Action: My Key Takeaways on How AI and Quantum Are Accelerating Global Transformation Bernard Marr reflects on how AI and quantum computing are not just theoretical: they’re already transforming industries, from healthcare to transport, and shaping global change....
Joyful Leadership Fuels AI Experimentation at Siemens
4 AI transformation lessons from Siemens that every enterprise needs to hear. Day 2 at #WDAYRisingEMEA delivered something rare: a leader discussing AI transformation without the script. Nanda Burke, Global Head of Talent at Siemens, sat down with Carl Eschenbach...
Google Gemini Is Getting Better at Identifying AI Fakes
Google announced that Gemini can now identify whether an image was created or edited by a Google AI tool, letting users ask “Is this AI-generated?” within the app. The feature initially supports only images using Google’s SynthID watermark, but Google...
Nano Banana Pro Delivers Studio-Quality Images with Text and Knowledge
Rolling out today we are launching Nano Banana Pro, the world’s best image model built to move beyond casual creation and into a new era of studio-quality, functional design. Nano Banana Pro enables a new level of precision and creative...
How to Turn Off AI in the Apps You Use Every Day
TechRadar contributor Becca Caddy outlines how users can limit or disable AI-driven features across a range of popular platforms, from Pinterest and Google Search to Gmail, Android, iOS, Samsung Galaxy, Microsoft Copilot, and Facebook. The guide provides step‑by‑step instructions for...
Google’s Nano Banana AI Image Model Goes Pro and Is Free to Try
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, now available for free trial worldwide through the Gemini app’s “Create image” feature. The model can blend up to 14 images, render...
How Cloud-Based Technology Is Helping Contact Centers Cut Carbon Emissions
Cloud‑based contact‑center‑as‑a‑service (CCaaS) enables firms to replace on‑premises PBXs, servers and office space with virtualized infrastructure hosted in optimized data centres, cutting energy use and e‑waste. The biggest emissions reduction comes from allowing agents to work remotely, eliminating most commuting...
VLLM Cuts Memory Waste, Boosts LLM Inference Speed
📢 vLLM: Deploying LLMs at Scale Like OpenAI 🚀Want to Deploy LLMs or vision language models at scale? Discover vLLM, the open-source powerhouse that's transforming inference with PagedAttention, continuous batching, and more! In this short article, we unpack how vLLM slashes memory...
Designing Digital Resilience in the Agentic AI Era
Enterprises are confronting a heightened need for digital resilience as agentic AI—autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act with minimal human input—moves from pilot projects to core operations. The technology’s speed, scale, and reliance on real‑time machine data (logs, metrics,...
VLMs Hallucinate when Text Dominates over Visual Grounding
What if your vision language model isn’t actually seeing… but mostly guessing from text? 👀 @AICoffeeBreak explains it perfectly: when VLMs rely too heavily on text, they start hallucinating answers based on the most common phrasing in their training data instead...
AI and the Law: How AI Will Change Legal Careers (Special Episode)
In this special episode, host Dan Turchin explores how AI is transforming the legal profession, covering ownership of AI‑generated work, accountability for automated decisions, and the need for robust governance in law firms. Insights from five experts—including IP specialist Robert...
Google's Gemini 3 Puts Google Ahead of AI Frontier
Gemini 3 is here and for the first time in years, Google is not chasing the frontier... it *is* the frontier. In the last 48h, Google has leapfrogged all the other frontier models. And that's not all: 💪 Nearly half...
AllenAI's Olmo-3 Open‑Source Release Deserves Wider Recognition
AllenAI deserves so much more visibility and credit than what they are getting today. Another banger release today with Olmo-3, fully open-source with all code, models in Apache 2.0, and associated training details. https://t.co/cWoQKLi56q
Trump Administration Wants to Use Federal Power to Challenge State AI Laws
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to create an AI Litigation Task Force that would challenge state AI regulations, targeting laws such as California’s new AI safety bill as “complex and burdensome.” The task force aims to remove...
Fast Mode Accelerates Iterations—Free for a Limited Time
Fast Mode makes iterations super quick. It’s free for a while!
Announcing Saudi HUMAINAI Partnership on CNN Interview
Spoke to @BeckyCNN at CNN about our partnership with Saudi Arabia’s @HUMAINAI https://t.co/Z1pdH4B1Yl
#181: AI Answers - Measuring AI Skills, Aligning Leaders, AI Literacy Frameworks, Overcoming Resistance & Preparing for AI Agents
The episode explores emerging AI literacy frameworks and why basic AI knowledge is vital for every employee, offering leaders strategies to demonstrate business value and articulate risks of lacking AI guidelines. It discusses the balance between formal policies and flexible...
Drawing AI as Magnets Reveals Hidden System Prompt
Very clever trick by @minimaxir to get Nano Banana to reveal its system prompt by drawing it as refrigerator magnets. https://t.co/dRIVqfkUXh
Olmo 3 Launch Live: Join the Celebration
BOOM! Olmo 3 has just landed, join us in this livestream to learn more about the release 🤗💗
ChatGPT Atlas Just Got Its First Major Update - 3 New Features You'll Want to Use
OpenAI rolled out the first major update to its ChatGPT Atlas browser on macOS, adding three practical features: iCloud Passkeys support for secure logins, the option to set Google as the default search engine, and a vertical tab layout with...
Gemini Now Verifies SynthID Watermarks on Images
You can also now check for SynthID watermarking directly in the @GeminiApp and verify if an image was made by our models - just upload the image and ask Gemini. Being able to verify what you’re seeing is critical for...
AI-Powered Nano Banana Pro Accelerates Creative Idea Execution
Really excited about how AI can help creatives with their work. Our latest Nano Banana Pro model 🍌🍌🍌 brings this to a whole new level, allowing you to bring complex ideas quickly to life... the outputs are pretty amazing! 🤯Can't...
Creative Workers Love AI - but It Is Causing More Issues than Expected
A Dropbox study finds that creative professionals juggle an average of 14 digital tools, leading to workflow fragmentation and lost productivity. Better digital organization could boost performance by 54%, equating to roughly 1.5 extra days of creative work per employee...
London AI Meetup: 150 Experts Gather for State of AI
t-2 weeks til we're back in london for @airstreet state of ai meetup, ft: - @rosstaylor90 of @genreasoning - @youssef_a_mejj of @synthesiaio and yours truly on @stateofaireport! come hang with 150 ai friends across big tech, ai labs, startups and academia https://t.co/ELPmczmd31
No Model yet Outperforms Codex+O3 in Real Work
This is my sentiment. I still have yet to experience a model in actual useful professional work that beats codex+o3. You can play with strengths to get some bench perf to move, at cost of another capability. All we're doing is...
Accelerate Research with AI-Powered LeapSpace Workspace
Move from curiosity to discovery faster! LeapSpaceTM is a research-grade AI-assisted workspace that lets researchers work faster, think more deeply, and achieve more in a single secure environment. https://t.co/m8ViaqGBLw #LeapSpace #Research #Researchers #Elsevier https://t.co/nwp1cGDKN0
Benchmarks Mislead; Human Review Is the Real Bottleneck
These kinds of benchmarks are misleading without a joint metric showing much work was necessary by humans after the fact. How much time to clean up that 2h42m of code? Style and architecture need to make sense, not just passing tests. That's...