Today's AI Pulse
Pinterest inks $4B AWS cloud pact to power AI visual search through 2031
Pinterest has signed a $4 billion multi‑year agreement with Amazon Web Services, its largest infrastructure deal to date, to run AI‑driven visual search and discovery tools through 2031. The partnership will expand use of AWS Trainium chips for large‑language and vision‑language models and shift Pinterest’s workloads to a Kubernetes‑based architecture on Graviton processors.
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Nvidia's New AI App Could Be the Productivity Tool You've Always Needed - "Hyperlink" Agent Brings Private AI-Powered Search for...
Nvidia’s new Hyperlink agent, developed by Nexa.ai, runs entirely on local RTX hardware, delivering AI‑powered search of personal files while keeping data on‑device. Benchmarked on an RTX 5090, it indexes up to three times faster and offers twice the large‑language‑model inference speed, processing a 1 GB folder in about five minutes versus fifteen. The tool interprets user intent, links related content across documents, and provides structured answers with clear references, targeting professionals handling sensitive information who need speed and privacy.
Agentic AI's 15 Game-Changing Use Cases for 2025
🤖 Top 15 Agentic AI Use Cases Shaping 2025 Agentic AI is redefining how organizations operate, shifting from traditional automation to intelligent systems capable of acting autonomously, orchestrating workflows and making context-aware decisions. The impact spans across industries, creating new...
U.S. Data Centers Set to Double Power Use by 2030
🔥 What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom 🔥 📌 Based on new analysis by Pew Research Center The rapid expansion of AI-optimized data centers is reshaping not only digital infrastructure, but also...
Why AI Pilots Fail - and How Manufacturers Can Break the Cycle
AI pilots in manufacturing stall—up to 90% fail—largely due to fragmented, low‑quality data and entrenched IT‑OT silos rather than algorithmic flaws. Experts argue that scaling AI requires a unified, trustworthy data infrastructure that can ingest and analyze industrial data at...
Eight AI Ethics Trends Shaping Trust by 2026
8 AI Ethics Trends That Will Redefine Trust and Accountability in 2026 As AI embeds deeper into society, trust and accountability become central. This article outlines eight ethics trends—from standards and certifications to transparency and human centred design. Read more...
LMCache Cuts LLM Latency with Multi‑Tier KV Caching
Fastest inference engine for LLMs. LMCache is an LLM serving engine that reduces Time to First Token (TTFT) and boosts throughput, especially with long contexts. It works by caching KV pairs across GPU, CPU DRAM, and disk, then reusing any repeated span...
Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Risk
Shadow AI, the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by employees, is spreading across enterprises with little visibility. It creates data leakage, regulatory violations, geopolitical exposure, and introduces new attack vectors such as agentic AI and unreviewed code. The lack...
What Legacy Business Intelligence Technology Can Learn From Video Games
Legacy business intelligence platforms rely on batch‑oriented architectures that cannot keep pace with today’s massive, real‑time data streams, resulting in latency and static dashboards. Marc Stevens contends that the video‑game industry’s transition to hardware‑accelerated, low‑latency rendering provides a blueprint for...
In‑Person Connections Energize PMI Global Summit Community
🌟What an incredible week at PMI’s Global Summit! I’m heading home energized, inspired, and reminded again why this community is so special. There’s something powerful about being surrounded by thousands of people who care deeply about the future of work,...
Anthropic Releases Free, Growing Library of Claude Guides
Wow. Anthropic just curated an impressive collection of use cases for Claude 🤯 You already get 39 deep guides and more get added weekly. It’s also free and definitely worth bookmarking. (link below) https://t.co/vkpmwa6OUk
LTO Tape Storage Is Still Going Strong Despite Elon Musk's Efforts to Wipe It Out - and There's Now Even...
The LTO Program, a joint effort by HPE, IBM and Quantum, unveiled a 40 TB native‑capacity LTO‑10 cartridge that uses a new aramid‑based tape film to increase length without enlarging the cartridge, while remaining compatible with existing LTO‑10 drives. The announcement...
Google Already Ships RAG in Its API
Every AI team: "We’re building RAG" Google: "Sweet. We built it into the API 😏" https://t.co/O8UqjVxP26
OpenAI Slashes Microsoft Revenue Share, Eyeing $50B Gain
Major shift at OpenAI: revenue share with Microsoft & partners to fall from 20% → 8% by end of decade, potentially netting @OpenAI an extra $50B. Big move on margins, and implying pressure on terms and structure. 🔗 https://t.co/kjyCLj1C6B #AI...
AI Can Now Build 3D Worlds… And Live Inside Them
The episode explores the rapid convergence of AI-driven 3D world generators—such as World Labs' Marble and video‑diffusion system Genie‑3—and embodied agents like Google’s SIMA 2 that can perceive and act within those environments. Bilawal Sidhu explains how this fusion creates persistent,...
Introducing the State of Da Art (SODA) Model
State of Da Art (SODA) model. https://t.co/Qvq8vsLSsR
AI-Driven Espionage Unveiled: Fiction Predicts Real Threats
Anthropic’s report on their disruption of the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign proved once again that fiction is a great way to examine advanced espionage concepts, including how Agentic AI will impact espionage and cyberwar: https://t.co/o1SFFqwuqT https://t.co/88Hh3itNZi
Google Adds Auto-Call Shopping Feature to Its AI Suite
In this episode, the host explains Google’s new Auto‑Call Shopping feature, an AI‑driven agent that eliminates the need for human phone calls by handling store communications automatically. The discussion highlights how the technology streamlines the purchasing process, improves efficiency, and...
7 Pillars of Agentic AI Define Next‑Gen Autonomous Systems
🏛️ The 7 Pillars of Agentic AI: the foundation of the next technological era Agentic AI represents a new paradigm where AI systems evolve from passive tools to autonomous agents capable of acting, planning, reasoning and collaborating. This framework is...
Cursor Adds $2.3B to Its War Chest for AI Development
The episode discusses Cursor’s recent $2.3 billion funding round, which equips the company to accelerate development of its AI‑powered integrated development environment. Hosts highlight how the capital will enable faster rollout of new features and position Cursor as a potential industry‑standard...
Google’s New AI Agent Can Call Local Shops for Live Info
The episode explores Google’s new AI agent that can call local shops to retrieve live information, highlighting its speed, accuracy, and human‑like interaction. It explains how the tool provides real‑time confirmations, transforming the shopping experience by enabling instant verification of...
Cursor Attracts $2.3B as AI Dev Tools Explode
The episode discusses the rapid growth of AI development tools, focusing on Cursor’s recent $2.3 billion funding round and its role in boosting developer productivity. It highlights how Cursor’s AI‑powered code assistant differentiates itself by offering seamless integration and real‑time assistance,...
Seven Fintech Trends Shaping Banking by 2026
The 7 Banking and Fintech Trends That Will Define 2026 From embedded finance and real time payments to quantum resistant systems and AI agent advisors, here are the trends fintech leaders must prepare for in 2026. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSVhcE5y...
Inference Scaling Boosts LLM Accuracy From 15% to 52%
Inference-scaling lets us trade extra compute for better modeling accuracy. Next to reinforcement learning, it has become one of the most important concepts in today's LLMs, so the book will cover it in two chapters instead of just one. I...
AI Scams Surge: How Consumers and Businesses Can Stay Safe
AI‑driven scams are exploding, with ClickFix attacks up 517% and now representing 8% of blocked incidents, while deep‑fake voice and video impersonations and malicious QR‑code phishing proliferate. In the U.S., online scams cost $16.6 billion in 2024, affecting 73% of adults...
LLMs Sound Confident, Not Truthful—Question Their Answers
LLMs don’t know what’s true. They just try to sound helpful. If you ask the wrong question, you can still get a very confident answer. And confidence is not accuracy. Use AI to challenge your reasoning, not to replace it. But you need to be...
Framework’s Franken-Laptop Is Back with Big Chip Upgrades and Familiar Frustrations
Framework unveiled the 2025 refresh of its Laptop 16, adding AMD Ryzen AI 7‑350/7‑370 CPUs, Wi‑Fi 7, a redesigned heatsink, a 240 W USB‑C charger and a new 1080p webcam, all sold as upgrade modules for existing owners. The headline upgrade is a user‑replaceable...
Feeling Guilty for Not Sharing AI How‑to Guides
At times I feel remiss I don't write more, "Here's how AI can help you" articles. Part of this is because I've been writing "how to" articles for over twenty years, focusing on the pragmatic aspects of a technology like...
Opera Neon Unifies Browser, Chat, and Cloud Automation
The AI browser space is heating up 🔥 OpenAI Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and many others are trying to merge AI and web browsing. @Opera's Neon goes beyond that. It’s an AI-powered workspace where your browser, chat, and cloud automation all merge seamlessly. 🧵 ↓...
Seagate's New Storage Looks to Cover Everything You'll Need for the Age of AI - Including up to 3.2 Petabytes...
Seagate announced its Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems aimed at AI and edge workloads, with the flagship 4U100 delivering up to 3.2 petabytes of capacity in a single 4‑U enclosure. The systems leverage Seagate’s Mozaic HAMR technology and support both SAS...
360‑Camera World Models Will Make Robots Smart Soon
How weird is my life? This morning @boosterobotics head of global markets (Chinese humanoid robots) was sitting at the table next to mine in Abu Dhabi. He agrees with me that world models are about to change robotics deeply and that 360...
360° Vision Beats Human‑Like Sensors in Robots
It is stupid that a robot needs to “aim” to see things. The robot industry still hasn’t figured out that a 360-degree camera is superior. Same with humanoid robots. A 360-degree camera is far superior to the ones @1x_tech put in theirs. It...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT 5.1 and Group Chats
The episode outlines the new features of ChatGPT 5.1, highlighting faster response times, enhanced reasoning capabilities, and a smoother user interface. It then explains the Group Chats functionality, showing how multiple participants can collaborate in real time and streamline workflow automation....
Agentic AI Now Weaponized for Cyber Espionage
Agentic AI has been used for cyber espionage. Surprised? https://t.co/o4YMwvF0h0
Assembling Reachy Mini Beta with Hugging Face
Starting the assembly of the latest beta version of Reachy mini by @huggingface @pollenrobotics. Wish me luck! https://t.co/m7gDQBClIX
Leaked Documents Shed Light Into How Much OpenAI Pays Microsoft
Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs.
Agentic AI: Seven Pillars Power Next Evolution
Agentic AI is redefining the future of intelligent systems. Its power lies in 7 pillars: autonomy, planning, collaboration, reasoning, tool use, memory and safety. From passive tools to proactive agents — this is the next evolution of AI. #AI #AgenticAI #Innovation #FutureOfWork
AI Triumphs Over Human in Abu Dhabi Motorsport
The AI beat the human. @A2RLeague is exciting. The crowd was pulling for the human. But alas. Exciting Motorsport here in Abu Dhabi. Shows that robots can now compete with humans in Motorsport in a head-to-head race. Here are the final two laps. https://t.co/EKhH2DyVpp
Google’s New AI Training Method Helps Small Models Tackle Complex Reasoning
Researchers from Google Cloud and UCLA unveiled Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL), a framework that reformulates problem solving as a sequence of intermediate actions and provides step‑wise rewards. SRL enables 7‑billion‑parameter models such as Qwen2.5‑7B‑Instruct to gain a 3 % lift on...
Real-Time 3D Home Mapping Showcases Computer Vision Power
Computer vision is fucking cool. Matic robo building a real time 3d map of your house. https://t.co/GSZq4fN11m
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
In this episode, Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das recounts his transition from building Glean into a $7 billion AI‑native enterprise search firm to investing early in Anthropic and managing the $100 million Ontology Fund. He explains how Anthropic’s rapid growth and products...
Databricks Co-Founder Argues US Must Go Open Source to Beat China in AI
Databricks co‑founder Andy Konwinski warned at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that the United States is losing its AI research edge to China, noting that PhD students are seeing twice as many compelling Chinese AI ideas as American ones. He...
If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems
Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the...
Forget AGI—Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the latest GPT‑5.1 model now respects a custom instruction to omit em dashes, a long‑standing formatting quirk that many users have used to spot AI‑generated text. The post sparked mixed reactions, with...
OpenAI Says It’s Fixed ChatGPT’s Em Dash Problem
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now respects user instructions to avoid em dashes, fixing a long‑standing quirk that many saw as a telltale sign of AI‑generated text. The issue, dubbed the “ChatGPT hyphen,” had appeared across academic papers, emails, social media...
World's Largest AI Hackathon Launches with $20K Prizes
This might be the biggest AI hackathon ever: * >6,300 registrants * Runs for 2 weeks (Nov. 14-30) * Open to anyone, anywhere virtually * $20,000 in cash prizes + $3.5M+ in sponsor credits Hosted by @Anthropic and @Gradio, along with 10 sponsors, join...
Six Essential Steps for Responsible AI Implementation
Responsible AI Cheat Sheet: 6 Steps for Businesses 🔹 Define Ethical Principles and Business Goals Establish fairness, transparency, accountability, and measurable objectives. 🛡️ Ensure Data Integrity and Fairness Collect diverse datasets, audit for bias, and standardize labeling. 🤖 Build Transparent...
AWS Is Launching a "Meeting Simulator" To Help Train Workers for Stressful Jobs
Amazon Web Services unveiled an AI‑driven Meeting Simulator on its Skill Builder platform, letting users role‑play realistic office meetings with AI personas via voice or text and receive instant feedback on communication, objection handling, and idea presentation. The tool joins...
Intel Panther Lake CPU Leak Suggests Integrated GPUs Are Getting a Potentially Game-Changing Leap in Performance
A leaked Geekbench run of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H shows its Xe3 integrated graphics (B390) scoring 57,000 in the OpenCL test – about 7% higher than a previous leak of the same chip. The 16‑core CPU (4P+8E+4 low‑power cores) pairs...
36‑Camera System Lets Fans Choose Angles—Do They Want It?
Pretty cool hack to blend between different video feeds to give you the feeling of free viewpoint video AKA. god's eye view. TL;DR 36 cameras deployed at basketball & badminton venues for China's National Games, letting viewers drag around on their...
Startups Forge AI-Ready Economy Through API Alliances
The Great API Alliance: How Startups Are Building the AI-Ready Economy https://t.co/9w1SbVHnxg via @TheAIJournal1 #AI #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/I1yjOarzku