Today's AI Pulse
Pinterest inks $4 billion AWS cloud pact to boost 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 partnership will expand use of AWS Trainium chips for large‑language and vision‑language models and migrate Pinterest workloads to a Kubernetes‑based architecture. The deal also increases reliance on AWS Graviton processors.
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NestAI Lands €100M, Partners with Nokia for Defense AI
The episode details NestAI's recent €100 million funding round, highlighting its significance for Europe's emerging defense‑focused AI industry. It examines the strategic partnership with Nokia, explaining how combined expertise could speed the development of secure, battlefield‑ready AI systems. The discussion also touches on market implications, potential use‑cases, and the broader push for sovereign AI capabilities in European defense.
Function Health Raises $298M for Healthcare AI at $2.5B Valuation
The episode examines Function Health's $298 million Series B round, highlighting its impact on the burgeoning longevity and diagnostics market and the company's move into unicorn status. It outlines how the funding will be used to scale the AI-driven health platform, accelerate...
SEO Tactics Boost AI Visibility; Conversions Drive AI Recommendations
"Well...um. My shortest answer... What's good for traditional SEO is good for AI visibility. What's good for conversion optimization is good for AI recommendations. You have to do both." Thanks, Theresa , for capturing this moment on the Semrush webinar...
AI Should Enable the Impossible, Not Just Save Money
I enjoyed getting into both the technical and the inspirational sides of AI with JetBrains’s Kris Kang. I believe that the best use of AI isn’t about pinching yesterday’s pennies; it’s about doing the previously impossible. Sign up for the...
Introducing AnyLanguageModel: One API for Local and Remote LLMs on Apple Platforms
The post announces AnyLanguageModel, a Swift package that lets Apple developers swap the Foundation Models import for a unified API supporting local (Core ML, MLX, llama.cpp, Ollama) and cloud (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Hugging Face) LLM providers with minimal code changes. By...
AI‑Driven siRNA CTRO‑1013 Advances to IND for MASLD
I'm thrilled to celebrate a major milestone for insitro: advancing CTRO-1013, our therapeutic siRNA targeting IRS1, into IND-enabling studies for MASLD. What makes this moment so meaningful is not just the progress toward the clinic, but how we got here....
Gemini 3 Pro Transforms Handwritten Recipes Into Multilingual Digital Cookbooks
Gemini 3 Pro is the best model in the world for multimodal understanding. One of its most exciting capabilities is document understanding and reasoning. This means you can convert information in any format and into the medium that works best...
AMD's FSR Redstone for Supercharged Gaming Debuts on December 10 – but It's RX 9000 only, Leaving Older Radeon GPUs...
AMD announced that its next‑generation upscaling suite, FSR Redstone, will launch on December 10 and will be supported exclusively on the upcoming Radeon RX 9000 (RDNA 4) GPUs. The AI‑driven features—Ray Regeneration, Radiance Caching, and Frame Generation—are designed to boost ray‑traced...
AI Will Dominate Cloud Revenue by 2026
My interview with @danprimack for the @axios dealmaker summit yesterday 0:44 We are in an LLM bubble 🫧🫧 2:13 Does it create risks for AI in general 2:57 Why is open-source important? 4:33 Why haven't we raised recently? 6:45 Is China winning not only in...
Nvidia Says Its AI GPUs Are Sold Out, Grows Data Center Business by $10B in a Single Quarter
Nvidia reported a record $57 billion in revenue for Q3 2026, driven by a $10 billion jump in its data‑center segment, which posted $51.2 billion—a 66% year‑over‑year increase. CEO Jensen Huang said the company has sold out of its Blackwell AI server chips, with the...
Workday Launches EU Sovereign Cloud and AI Action Strategy
🎯 Amazing first day at #WDAYRisingEMEA in Barcelona, where Workday unveiled an impressive strategy targeting European sovereignty, midsize market expansion, and the shift from AI insights to AI action. #WorkdayPartnership Here's what dropped today: 1. EU Sovereign Cloud Full EU...
AI Extracts NVIDIA Earnings Data with Near‑perfect Accuracy
I just dumped the latest NVIDIA 10-Q earnings report, released an hour ago, into Agentic Document Extraction, and the results are really accurate! Left side of the image shows the original PDF; right side shows the extracted info, including...
Google’s New Scholar Labs Search Uses AI to Find Relevant Studies
Google announced a limited‑beta AI‑driven search tool called Scholar Labs, designed to surface the most relevant scholarly papers by analyzing full‑text content, authorship, venue and citation recency rather than relying on traditional metrics. In a demo, the system returned a...
'Spicy' AI Chatbot And Image Generator Left Millions Of Photos Exposed
Secret Desires, an erotic AI chatbot and image generator, inadvertently exposed nearly two million photos and videos—including private images of influencers, public figures, and ordinary users—by leaving cloud‑storage containers unsecured, according to 404 Media. The leaked content, much of it...
Open LLMs Could Slash Costs by 70%, Save $24.8
New research from @MIT! The following is going to change in my opinion as more people and companies realize the advantages of open models: "Closed models dominate, with on average 80% of monthly LLM tokens using closed models despite much higher...
Critics Scoff After Microsoft Warns AI Feature Can Infect Machines and Pilfer Data
Microsoft announced Copilot Actions, an experimental agentic feature for Windows that can automate tasks such as file organization, meeting scheduling, and email composition. The company warned that the feature is vulnerable to known large‑language‑model flaws, including hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks...
LLMs Lose Context After 100k Tokens, Need Frequent Resets
People working on basic code and reset their Agent chats every 4-5 replies I envy you. Having to work on deep context design work and at about 100k tokens, LLMs start to get lazy / confused. I resorted to giving them...
Meta Cracks 3D Data Bottleneck with RLHF‑style Ranking
Meta just dropped SAM 3D, but more interestingly, they basically cracked the 3D data bottleneck that's been holding the field back for years. Manually creating or scanning 3D ground truth for the messy real world is basically impossible at scale. But what...
Drone Maker Lets Robot Fly Drone to Prove It's Easy to Use and Scare the Heck Out of Us
Drone maker Antigravity showcased its new 360-degree A1 drone being piloted by Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot, demonstrating the drone’s intuitive Motion Controller and 8K immersive video capability. The $21,000 G1 robot, equipped with LiDAR and Intel RealSense depth sensors, appears...
OpenAI Debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Coding Model and It Already Completed a 24-Hour Task Internally
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, a new agentic coding model that replaces GPT‑5.1‑Codex as the default in its Codex developer environment. The model introduces a compaction mechanism that enables long‑horizon reasoning across millions of tokens, cutting token usage by about 30%...
Users Demand GPT‑5.1: Obedient, Adaptive, Proactive, Discovery‑driven AI
This seems small but is actually a huge win for GPT-5.1 🏆 When I talk to business users of ChatGPT, what they want is: 1) for ChatGPT to follow instructions, even negative ones - if you say ‘never say the...
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 AI Could Put Malware on Your PC
Microsoft announced new agentic AI features for Windows 11 Insider builds that can automate tasks such as email drafting and file sorting, but these capabilities are disabled by default and require user opt‑in. In a security advisory, the company warned that...
OpenAI Announces New ChatGPT for Teachers
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Teachers, a dedicated workspace that gives educators unlimited access to the latest ChatGPT 5.1 Auto model, including search, file uploads, connectors, and image generation. The service, already deployed to 150,000 teachers across U.S. districts, features education‑grade privacy and...
Beyond Note-Taking with Fireflies
In this episode, Krish Ramineni, co‑founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, walks listeners through the evolution of AI‑powered meeting assistants—from early BERT‑based prototypes to today’s real‑time transcription and knowledge‑automation tools like Live Assist. He highlights key lessons about product‑market validation, the...
The Google Search of AI Agents? Fetch Launches ASI:One and Business Tier for New Era of Non-Human Web
Fetch AI announced a trio of products—ASI:One, Fetch Business, and Agentverse—aimed at building an "Agentic Web" where personal AI assistants can securely coordinate with verified brand agents to execute multi‑step transactions. ASI:One serves as an orchestration layer that stores user...
Amazon Is Trialing Using AI to Generate Recaps for some of Your Favorite Prime Video TV Shows
Amazon Prime Video is beta‑testing a new AI‑driven “Video Recap” feature for select U.S. original series, including *Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan*, *Fallout*, *The Rig*, *Bosch* and *Upload*. The tool uses Amazon Bedrock models to analyze episodes, extract key scenes, and stitch them together...
Amazon’s Prime Video Is Getting AI-Generated Video Recaps for some TV Shows
Amazon Prime Video announced the beta rollout of AI-generated video recaps for select Prime Originals such as Fallout, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Upload. The generative‑AI system stitches together narration, dialogue, and music to produce theatrical‑quality season summaries, building on last year’s text‑based...
⚡️ 10x AI Engineers with $1m Salaries — Alex Lieberman & Arman Hezarkhani, Tenex
Alex Lieberman and Arman Hezarkhani discuss Tenex's AI‑first consulting model that pays engineers by story‑point output instead of hours, enabling some to earn $1 million and delivering ten‑fold productivity gains. They explain how this incentive structure spurred rapid prototyping—building complex vision...
AI-Driven Digital Grid Powers Ultra-Efficient Energy Future
What does an electrified, digitalized, AI-powered future look like? Here are 5 key takeaways from @SchneiderElectric Innovation Summit: 1. One Digital Grid: Adding 1,000-2,000 TWh of electricity per decade. Platform on Azure reduces outages 40%, cuts interconnection timelines 25% with AI-powered intelligence. 2....
Sunday Robotics: Scaling the Home Robot Revolution with Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Sunday Robotics co‑founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi about the emerging "GPT moment" in AI robotics and their flagship product, Memo, a general‑intelligence home robot. They explain how diffusion policy, ACT/ALOHA frameworks, and...
Open‑Source II Agent Hits State‑of‑the‑Art Benchmark
Buried the lede a bit but our fully open source II Agent framework is now state of the art in Terminal Bench 2 using just Gemini 3! Congrats to team for amazing work & more coming the pipeline The best agents will...
Grok Fast 4.1 Outperforms Agents 10‑20× Faster
This looks crazy good, will run evals now on our sota II-Agent The cost and speed of grok fast 4.1 are way higher than comparable agentic AI models, even top notch ones from the numbers here - 10-20x better in some...
Generative AI Set to Transform Music’s Future
Music team @StabilityAI is amazing, was a privilege to build it up and see how they came together It’ll be super interesting to see how music evolves with generative AI from technology to form to expression itself
US Government Draws Policy Ideas From State of AI Report
👀 the US Government getting policy inspo from @stateofaireport 🔮 see our prediction #10 https://t.co/lLCww4bNRG
Creating Datasets to Power Robotic World Models
This company is building datasets to build world models for robotics. Only has 39 followers.
New System Prompt Unlocks Sora 2’s Stunning Video Generation
This guy literally built a system prompt that makes Sora 2 create mind-blowing videos. (prompt in 🧵 ↓) https://t.co/FDqN6qSR2I
Prioritize Real-World Performance Over Benchmark Scores
i dont want models better on benchmarks. i want models that are better in real world scenarios
New Codex Model Marks Major Performance Leap
New Codex model is a significant improvement!
AI Growth Is Ongoing Waves, Not a Bubble
The AI bubble is not a bubble. It is a series of waves. Tried to tell you. The waves will continue for years. Surf is up. Catch the waves that you can. They are coming in tight sets today.
Visualizing Karpathy’s Key Idea
i liked this @karpathy post from a few months back, and put together a quick slide to show this visually https://t.co/cQCkYxmQsB
ChatGPT Goes Free for U.S. Teachers for a Year
1/ We’re making ChatGPT free for every teacher and school district in the U.S. for more than a year. Teachers are already some of the most creative AI users – this gives them space to explore, experiment, and bring those ideas...
New Example Illustrates Key Findings From Our Paper
@dileeplearning Here's another example. See our paper for details. https://t.co/LvU16Oe45g
Humans and LLMs Jointly Infer Grid Transformation Rules
@dileeplearning As a fun example, here is one task from our study, where we asked humans and LLMs to both generate an output grid and the rule that describes the transformation. https://t.co/oNSXVyCzg8
AGI's Multimodal Nature Treats Reality as Its Dataset
"AGI is multimodal and reality is the dataset of AGI"
AI Beats Humans on Tasks, Humans Still Lead Multimodal Reasoning
AI now exceeds human performance in most technical tasks — but humans still lead in multimodal reasoning 🧠 The next frontier isn’t about replacing humans, but amplifying how we think across data, images & language. Source: Stanford AI Index 2025 #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork...
Custom Subagent Models Added in Latest Droid Update
droid changelog custom models for subagents are IN full changelog here: https://t.co/c5pzDR734B https://t.co/bS5sOOuzrQ
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BCIs Could Amplify Parent-Child Telepathy for Deeper Connection
One gift of parenthood is becoming so attuned to your child that you develop what feels like mild telepathy. How might brain-computer interfaces potentially allow us to expand and enrich this for the purpose of greater love and understanding? A...
Gemini 3 Builds Sign Language App in 5 Minutes
Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me. Vibe coded a sign language recognition app with video enabled, confidence scores, sampling settings, and tips in under 5 minutes. Code written with Gemini-3. Gemini-2.5 handling detection. Video is sped up 2x. https://t.co/QT8TgjX8k9
Microsoft Launches Tool for Enterprise AI Agent Oversight
Microsoft Unveils Tool to Help Companies Control, Track AI Agents | World DNA https://t.co/7eETFvDiA6 #AIAgent #artificial_intelligence #AI #Microsoft