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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Remidio and Singapore Smart Tech Win Awards for AI Innovations in Health and Sanitation
Remidio Innovative Solutions won the Gold award at the Mint All About AI Tech4Good Awards for its offline, AI‑powered retinal screening device, MediosHI AI, which has screened over 400,000 people in Kerala at a cost of ₹200 per test. The technology detects diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and AMD on a smartphone‑based fundus camera without internet, reducing screening costs by 85% and reaching 95% rural patients. Singapore Smart Tech secured the Silver award for using AI to streamline orthodontic product design and supply chain, cutting design turnaround by 40%, defects by 35% and improving supply accuracy by 25%. The recognitions underscore AI’s potential to democratize health and sanitation services in underserved markets.
AI Automation Opens Opportunities, Not Fear, Like Past Machines
Speaking up for humans. @togelius is right when he says we need a new language when we look at AI. My mom soldered Apple II motherboards in our kitchen when I was 13. It took her about half an hour to do that...
Australia’s Vast Savannas Are Changing, and AI Is Showing Us How
The episode explores how Australia’s extensive northern savannas are being monitored and forecasted using an AI tool called Themeda, which leverages 33 years of satellite data and deep learning to predict land‑cover changes at a fine 25 × 25 m resolution. The researchers...
Satya Nadella on India’s AI Ambition: ‘Adoption, Not Invention, Decides the Winners’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the global AI race will be won by the fastest adopters, not the inventors, during a New Delhi fireside chat. He announced a $17.5 billion, four‑year investment in India, the company’s biggest in Asia, and a...
AI Unlocks Value only with Solid Data Foundations
AI can unlock enormous value, but only if organisations have the foundations in place to access and use their data with confidence In my recent conversation with Timo Elliott , Innovation Evangelistat SAP , we explored why organisations that move...
AI and Immersive Tech Will Redefine Entertainment by 2026
7 Media Trends That Will Redefine Entertainment In 2026 Discover the key #media and #entertainment #trends set to reshape #streaming , gaming, sports, and #creative production in 2026. Learn how #AI -driven video, synthetic talent, immersive experiences, and new IP...
Ring Adds AI Controversial Facial Recognition to Doorbell Cameras
The episode examines Amazon Ring's new AI-powered facial recognition feature for its doorbell cameras, detailing how the technology identifies faces and alerts users. It highlights growing privacy and surveillance concerns, noting criticism from civil liberties groups and potential misuse in...
Self‑Published ‘The Last Economy’ Tops AI Bestseller List
The Last Economy is number 1 on Amazon's Best Sellers for AI with a pretty good ratings ✍️ No publisher or big campaign, also available for free on the website and paperback just dropped 📖 Thank you all for the support &...
Anthropic AI Targets Zero‑result Stacktrace Ads
4D chess move by @AnthropicAI to sponsor Claude ads on stacktraces that get no results in Google 🤯 https://t.co/0Vp3WkqTgE
Scientists Reveal a Tiny Brain Chip that Streams Thoughts in Real Time
Researchers from Columbia, Stanford, Penn and NY‑Presbyterian unveiled BISC, a 3 mm³ silicon brain‑computer interface that streams neural data at 100 Mbps. The chip hosts 65,536 electrodes, 1,024 recording and 16,384 stimulation channels, and communicates wirelessly via a wearable relay. Early human...
3 Billion Active Parameters Are Sufficient
3b (active) parameters is all you need
NousResearch Launches 3B Model Runnable on MacBook Air
Massive achievement by @NousResearch To make this clear: this is actually a 3b active parameter model that works on any new MacBook Air/Mini that would be #2 on Putnam, which is harder than IMO Now think of all the tasks that...
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
The episode examines President Trump's unprecedented decision to let Nvidia ship its H200 AI chips to China, a move that could dramatically shift global AI power by boosting China's compute capabilities while deepening its reliance on U.S. hardware. It explores...
AI’s Sycophancy Beats Human Self‑Deprecation, Raising Concerns
Sycophancy continues to be one of my least favorite features of AI. And such a hard pattern to explain and break with users. We’re self-deprecating when we get a comment like this from a human. But AI says it and...
Genspark to Integrate Tiny Fish for Browser-Enabled Agents
Prediction for @ericjing_ai, founder of @genspark_ai: you will add @Tiny_Fish so that your agents can fire up a web browser and do more. A lot more.
Salesforce Bets on Agentic AI Platform Following Cautiously Optimistic Earnings Report
Salesforce reported Q3 2025 revenue of $10.3 billion, a 9% year‑on‑year increase, and raised its full‑year revenue outlook to $41.5 billion. Despite the earnings beat, the company’s stock has slipped 29% so far in 2025. At its World Tour in London, Salesforce unveiled...
Ultimate AI Masterclass: Models, Space Data Centers, Geopolitics
This @patrick_oshag @GavinSBaker episode is an absolute master class in AI models, frontier labs, data centers (in space), scaling laws, Nvidia, AI geopolitics, and more. I will be listening multiple times. https://t.co/1j3W8HkGIM
Humanoid Robotics Target $780B Market, Nursing $322B
Just did the math and there are 12 verticals for humanoid robotics that have TAMs over $50b (total is $780b), assuming ~1:1 ratio of people to humanoids, that's $390b of direct SAM This excludes nursing which is probably the most valuable...
Sam Altman Tells Jimmy Fallon that AI Is the "Equalizing Force" The World Needs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on The Tonight Show to highlight ChatGPT’s explosive growth, noting that more than 800 million people now use the service weekly. He framed AI as an "equalizing force" comparable to the global spread of smartphones, arguing...
Teen's 17,000-Worker Vision Dataset Powers Robot Learning
He put glasses on 17,000 factory workers to gather this data. Real impressive 18 year old. Met him last week. Good dataset for training robots and building world models.
AI-Powered Bioacoustics Boosts Endangered Species Conservation
How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species https://t.co/2NWjsbUxbs #ai #sustainability #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/WQu76Pu9eV
Why Cursor’s CEO Believes OpenAI, Anthropic Competition Won’t Crush His Startup
Anysphere, the maker of the Cursor AI coding assistant, posted $1 billion in annualized revenue and secured $2.3 billion in new capital at a $29.3 billion valuation, yet the CEO Michael Truell ruled out an IPO for now. The company is doubling down...
Nonprofits Can Access $60M Grant – Register by Dec 11
BIG opportunity for non-profits to receive millions of dollars to completely reinvent how we work. Aspen and Pivotal have launched a $60M grant that will support ideas and programs across training, AI tooling, and media. Only 1 day left: https://t.co/xLQp6TfcNG *You do not...
Spend One Hour with Claude to Crush Annoying Tasks
Take on a one-hour AI challenge. Pick a nasty, brutal, annoying problem. Open up a new chat with Claude Opus 4.5. And refuse to leave your computer or give up for the next hour while you hammer the model. Donate...
UK Strengthens Subsea Cables Against Russian Interference
The UK has unveiled Atlantic Bastion, a military program aimed at protecting undersea cables and pipelines from Russian interference. The initiative will employ autonomous surface and underwater vessels, advanced sensors, and naval assets, with initial testing this year and deployments...
Sale of Nvidia AI Chips to China Helps All Parties
President Donald Trump announced that Nvidia may sell its H200 AI chips to select Chinese customers, reversing a Biden-era ban on the high‑end processor. Nvidia will remit 25% of each sale to the U.S. Treasury, framing the move as a...
Rivian Is Building Its Own AI Assistant
Rivian has spent nearly two years building an in‑house AI assistant that operates independently of its multibillion‑dollar joint venture with Volkswagen. The system is engineered to integrate directly with vehicle controls through a model‑agnostic, agentic framework that blends edge and...
Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker: Cost-Efficient Frontier Multimodal Performance
ServiceNow released Apriel-1.6-15B-Thinker, a 15‑billion‑parameter multimodal reasoning model that rivals the performance of models ten times larger. Built on the Apriel‑1.5 foundation, it boosts text and vision reasoning while cutting reasoning token usage by over 30%. Trained on NVIDIA GB200...
Three in 10 US Teens Use AI Chatbots Every Day, but Safety Concerns Are Growing
The Pew Research Center reports that roughly three in ten U.S. teenagers use AI chatbots every day, with 59% favoring ChatGPT. Overall teen internet use remains high—97% go online daily and 40% are almost constantly connected, though that figure fell...
Why Vision Language Models Ignore What They See with Munawar Hayat - #758
In this episode, Qualcomm AI Research scientist Munawar Hayat explains why Vision‑Language Models often ignore visual input, leading to object hallucination, and how his team’s attention‑guided alignment technique improves visual grounding. He also introduces Generalized Contrastive Learning for efficient multi‑modal...
Mistral Launches Powerful Devstral 2 Coding Model Including Open Source, Laptop-Friendly Version
Mistral AI unveiled Devstral 2, a 123‑billion‑parameter coding model with a 256K‑token context window, alongside a 24‑billion‑parameter Devstral Small 2 that runs on a single laptop. Both models are open‑weight and available free for a limited time via API and...
Proposed EO Threatens State AI Protections, Benefits Big Tech
David Sacks is arguing that the new proposed EO is fine: that we don't need state laws to e g prevent AI companions from grooming children or to protect us from any of the 4 C's. That's unfortunately incorrect;...
New AI OS Promises Enterprise and Home Revolution
The new AI operating system. @qinzytech just visited my home. While talking with him I got those goosebumps like I did when I first saw Siri, Tesla, Matic Robots, Insta360 (I was the first to see all those). Today at 4 p.m. he...
I’m Obsessed with Redfin’s AI Search
Redfin has rolled out an AI‑powered search tool that lets users query listings in plain language, instantly generating tailored property results. The feature appears as a new prompt on the site’s search bar and leverages large language models to interpret...
Amazon’s Ring Rolls Out Controversial, AI-Powered Facial-Recognition Feature to Video Doorbells
Amazon’s Ring is adding an AI‑driven facial‑recognition feature called Familiar Faces to its video doorbells, allowing users to label up to fifty faces and receive personalized alerts. The feature is optional, with encrypted biometric data stored in the cloud and...
SAM 3D Delivers High‑Fidelity Single‑Image 3D Reconstruction
📢SAM 3D: Single-Image 3D Reconstruction with Foundation-Model Reliability In this week’s deep dive, we break down SAM 3D, Meta’s groundbreaking framework that redefines what’s possible in single-image 3D reconstruction. Unlike earlier pipelines that struggle with occlusions, clutter, and ambiguous textures, SAM...
2025 Report Reveals Skills for Tomorrow’s Jobs
Future of Jobs Report 2025: The jobs of the future, and the skills you need to get them https://t.co/lBMcF8QL6P #FutureOfWork #GLMC @wef @Global_LMC @WorldBank #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join New Linux Foundation Effort to Standardize the AI Agent Era
The Linux Foundation has created the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to provide a neutral hub for open‑source AI‑agent projects. Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are the founding donors, contributing the Model Context Protocol, Goose framework, and AGENTS.md instruction file respectively. Major...
Edit LLM Behavior Safely without Retraining, Says CTGT
Cyril and the team at CTGT are productizing mechanistic interpretability. They make it possible to edit the behavior of LLMs to add safety policy guarantees without retraining, in a way that is much more reliable than simple prompting.
Humanoid Reliability: 30 Actuators Fail Every 300 Hours
Biggest issue for large scale Humanoid deployment is reliability. You have 30 actuators with 10,000 hr est. life, that equates to a failure every 300 hours on average according to Lusser's Law of series system reliability. The hand is likely to...
Trump Set to Allow Nvidia H200 Chips to Be Exported to China
President Donald Trump announced that the United States will resume exporting Nvidia's H200 AI accelerator chips to approved commercial customers in China, subject to a 25% export fee. The move excludes newer Nvidia products such as Blackwell and Rubin, which...
Legs or Wheels Enable Versatile, Cost‑Effective Humanoid Robots
The reason humanoids should have legs or offroad wheels is that you have to perform tasks with the bots in different environments with the same robots (to lower unit cost of tasks), if you have have to have a human...
Unitree Thrives without Dev Ecosystem; Tesla Stays Closed
Unitree is winning without any semblance of a developer ecosystem. While Tesla appears to have no interest in opening up a developer ecosystem for Optimus.
Robotics Lack Elastic Demand; LLMs Scale Infinitely
One issue with applied robotics is that few physical world services scale with high elasticity of demand, meaning, lowering the cost of a task doesn't necessarily get offset by more demand (eg napkin folding). While LLM value scales with...
Grok Tops the Charts as #1
Grok is #1 https://t.co/v20U3iXOP5
EU Should Create Open‑source AI for Transparent Governance
EU countries should get together to build an advisory AI that should run the EU with all decisions being transparent and participatory. This should be a fully open source, open data stack with all inputs also available so you can run...
Use Famous Authors' Names to Define AI Writing Style
when i want to specify writing style to an ai, i don’t describe the writing style in the prompt i first ask an ai to give me writers known for the style i want, and then include the writers’ name in...
AI Celebrity Likenesses Now Accepted: Tech and Legal Shift
Curious why Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT image gen etc are all suddenly cool with generating celebrity likeness? Like what changed from days of deepfake fear-mongering and fears of legal repercussions? Did fingerprinting get good or is there a new legal argument...
Shipping Reliable AI Requires More than Prompting
Prompting isn’t LLM engineering. Shipping reliable AI is. 8 key LLM engineering skills: 1. Prompt engineering 2. Context engineering 3. Fine-tuning 4. RAG 5. Agents 6. Deployment 7. Optimization 8. Observability Which one is your biggest gap today? 👇 #LLM #GenAI #RAG #AIAgents #MLOps
ChatGPT Crafts Roadmap; Gemini Stays Factual, Less Helpful
ChatGPT was able to analyze a dataset and give me a Data Analysis roadmap. Meanwhile, here's the response I got from Gemini. The only upside in this is that it did not hallucinate(by making up answers). Still, this is incredible...