Today's AI Pulse
Amazon secures $4B AI cloud contract with Pinterest
Amazon landed a $4B artificial‑intelligence cloud deal with Pinterest, marking one of the largest AI contracts announced this week. The announcement sent both companies' shares higher in trading.
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By the numbers: Nanya Technology raises $2.5B in private placement
Google Maps Upgrades Navigation in India with Gemini, Safety Alerts
Google is rolling out its Gemini AI-powered assistant to Google Maps in India, supporting nine local languages and offering hands‑free, contextual navigation. The update adds safety alerts for accident‑prone stretches, real‑time road‑closure data from the National Highways Authority, and speed‑limit displays in nine major cities, with an initial rollout to Android users in Gurugram, Hyderabad’s Cyberabad, Chandigarh and Faridabad. Additional features include proactive disruption notifications for Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, and voice‑guided flyover navigation. The enhancements aim to address recent criticism over route accuracy after a fatal incident.
Perplexity to Pay Snap $400M to Power Search in Snapchat
Snap announced a $400 million cash‑and‑equity deal with Perplexity to embed the startup’s AI search engine into Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, giving Perplexity access to Snap’s 940 million‑plus user base. The feature is slated for rollout early next year, with Snap beginning to...
OpenAI Says It Has over a Million Business Customers Using ChatGPT - and It Isn't Stopping There
OpenAI announced it has surpassed one million paying business customers worldwide, calling it the fastest‑growing business platform in history. The clientele spans finance, healthcare, retail and more, with notable use cases such as Indeed’s AI‑driven hiring boost (20% more applications, 13%...
Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
Snowflake is shifting from a pure data‑warehouse model to an AI‑first strategy with Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise‑wide agent platform that puts AI assistants in the hands of every employee, not just data teams. In a podcast with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy,...
Microsoft Apologizes to 365 Users over Confusing Software Tiers
Microsoft apologized to customers in six APAC countries after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission sued the firm for steering Microsoft 365 users toward pricier Copilot‑enabled plans without clearly presenting the cheaper Classic option. The company admitted its communications could have...
Why It's Now so Hip to Go Analog and How AI Is the Antithesis of That
The article notes a cultural resurgence of analog media—cassette tapes, disposable cameras, rotary phones—as a reaction against AI‑generated content, arguing that AI’s polished, inoffensive output lacks the texture, mistakes, and humanity that make art memorable. It contrasts AI’s speed and...
Data Is the New Geopolitical Fault Line
Data is increasingly being treated as a strategic, monetizable asset that shapes national strategy, economic growth, and AI capability, prompting governments, AI firms, and enterprises to seek controlled access. Companies that succeed adopt a product‑mindset, offer variable consumption models, abstract...
Scaling GenAI Without Burdening the Data Center - with Greg Ratcliff of Vertiv
In this podcast episode, Greg Ratcliff, Vertiv’s Chief Innovation Officer, explains how enterprises can scale generative AI without overloading their data centers by adopting modular, hybrid infrastructure and addressing bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking. He highlights practical tactics such...
Why Google’s File Search Could Displace DIY RAG Stacks in the Enterprise
Google launched File Search on its Gemini API, a fully managed retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) service that abstracts storage, chunking, embedding and vector search, letting developers invoke RAG via the existing generateContent endpoint. The tool supports multiple file formats, provides built‑in...
From Prototype to Production: What Vibe Coding Tools Must Fix for Enterprise Adoption
Salesforce introduced Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise‑grade vibe‑coding platform that pairs generative AI with built‑in security, governance and context‑aware tooling. The solution distinguishes "green" UI layers—where rapid AI‑generated code is safe—from "red" business‑logic and data layers that require AI augmentation under...
The Compute Rethink: Scaling AI Where Data Lives, at the Edge
Arm’s latest briefing underscores a rapid shift of artificial‑intelligence workloads from cloud data centers to the edge, where data is generated in devices, sensors and networks. Companies are adopting on‑device AI to cut latency, lower costs and protect privacy,...
Prioritize Robotics Over OpenAI in US Funding
If @kscalelabs robotics can't get funding, why should the US government prop up OpenAI? In the competition with China having a strong robotics ecosystem is far more important than keeping an LLM builder up and running. The technology under robotics is changing...
Quarter of AI Users to Pilot Agentic Tech by 2025
🧩 Northeastern University: 25% of generative-AI users will pilot agentic AI in 2025; adoption will double by 2027; embedding responsible governance is crucial. #ResponsibleAI #AgenticAI #IoT #5G https://t.co/p5WZF99HpJ https://t.co/ETAsDQViT5
👾 The Orchestration Era: How AI Agents Will Transform Work (Without Replacing Workers)
Silvio Savarese, Salesforce’s chief scientist, envisions an "Orchestration Era" where AI agents—autonomous systems that break down goals into tasks and act independently—are directed by humans acting as conductors rather than replaced by bots. He explains that agents differ from copilots...
AI Co‑pilot Instantly Revamps Your Slides
Still stuck tweaking slides in PowerPoint? Time to move on. @GammaApp just launched `Gamma Agent`: an AI co-pilot that researches, rewrites, and redesigns your content in real time 🔥 Like having a co-creator who never slows down. Here's why it's great! 🧵↓ https://t.co/LrRlk707FW
LLMs Communicate Directly via Neural Caches, Boosting Speed
LLMs can now talk to each other without using words. Tsinghua University’s Cache-to-Cache (C2C) links models via their neural caches, eliminating the need for token-by-token generation 🤯 The result: faster, richer, and more accurate reasoning between LLMs. Paper in 🧵↓ https://t.co/loxrdy2wgb
5 AI-Developed Malware Families Analyzed by Google Fail to Work and Are Easily Detected
Google examined five recent malware samples—PromptLock, FruitShell, PromptFlux, PromptSteal and QuietVault—created with generative AI and found they were rudimentary, easily detected by static‑signature tools, and missing core capabilities such as persistence, lateral movement and advanced evasion. The samples largely reused...
VR‑controlled Human Robots Erase Distance and Time
We will transcend space & time by teleoperation human robots anywhere in the world using VR headsets. It’s wild how far we’ve come from iPads on wheels. https://t.co/lSx7n8Su9n
Partnering with Robbins
Thrilled to be both sponsoring and speaking at @TonyRobbins and @deangraziosi’s AI Advantage summit. Longtime fan of both—no better team to help entrepreneurs master AI. https://t.co/sHiYgIvdWM
Google Gemini’s Deep Research Can Look Into Your Emails, Drive, and Chats
Google announced that Gemini’s Deep Research feature can now access users’ Gmail, Drive, and Chat data to augment AI‑generated research reports. The agentic tool first creates a multi‑step research plan, then pulls information from web searches and the selected Workspace...
Interactively Guide ChatGPT in Real‑Time Like a Teammate
Excited about this one! You should be able to interrupt and guide ChatGPT as it’s working, just like you would with a real teammate.
AI Bubble Fears Spark Global Stock Market Sell‑Off
What Triggered The AI Stocks Sell-Off? I Why Global Stock Markets Fell Over AI Bubble Fears? https://t.co/QYKiyxyB1k #artificial_intelligence #AIbubble #AI #StockMarket @anand_narang @CurieuxExplorer @Eli_Krumova @FutureStacked
China Offers Alibaba and Other Domestic Giants Half-Price Data Center Energy if It Picks Chips From Huawei over Nvidia
China is reportedly offering electricity subsidies that could cut data‑center power costs by up to 50% for domestic cloud giants such as Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, provided they run AI workloads on locally produced chips from Huawei, Cambricon and other...
Run ChatGPT Offline: Fast, Private, Free Llama.cpp UI
Running AI on your device is faster, private, and free. That’s why the new llama.cpp UI is so exciting: a ChatGPT-like interface that runs fully offline on your laptop. No Wi-Fi, no data sent anywhere! 🤗 Supports: • 150K+ GGUF models • PDFs, images,...
Well, that Is Awkward - MIT Sloan Forced to Withdraw "Absolutely Ridiculous" Paper Claiming AI Played "Significant Role" In Most...
MIT Sloan School of Management withdrew a working paper that claimed AI was involved in 80.83% of recorded ransomware attacks after leading security researchers denounced the figures as unfounded. Critics, including Kevin Beaumont and Marcus Hutchins, highlighted methodological flaws and...
Open‑source Robotics Lets Anyone Swap World Models
Out of the fire rises a Phoenix. Now they need a World Model (er a VLA) and then an open source robot makes sense to me as a business. Will be watching to see if this new effort can put...
You Can Now Rent a $3000 Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU From Just $0.25/hour, when You Need It, for as Long...
Developers and AI researchers can now rent Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 GPU on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis, with the cheapest offering from SaladCloud at $0.25 per hour for a 32 GB instance. Competing marketplaces list similar cards at $0.32‑$0.63 per hour, with daily...
Pinterest CEO Touts Open Source AI: ‘Tremendous Performance’ with Reduced Costs
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors that open‑source AI models are delivering "tremendous performance" on the company’s visual‑AI use cases at a fraction of the cost of proprietary large‑language models, enabling cheaper personalization, multimodal search, ad targeting and the new...
Choosing the Right Term for AI-Driven SEO
AEO vs. GEO vs. AI SEO Optimizing content for AI-driven platforms has become incredibly complicated. There is currently no consensus on what to call what used to be "SEO." This article explains three main terms marketers use, all of which are...
Tinder to Use AI to Get to Know Users, Tap Into Their Camera Roll Photos
Tinder is piloting an AI‑driven feature called Chemistry that asks users questions and, with permission, scans their Camera Roll to infer interests and personality, aiming to improve match recommendations. The test is running in New Zealand and Australia and will become...
AI Floods Ideas; Human Editors Shape the Future
An AI can draft fifty options before lunch. The skill is knowing which one moves the needle. In creative fields, that means taste. In business, it means prioritization. In science, it means designing the right question before running the experiment. AI pushes volume to infinity....
AI Assistant Revolutionizes Creative Process for Influencers
Influencers, creatives (AI Artists), and media creators: Introducing https://t.co/dTX4U4vFqz which is an AI assistant for you. It really is a team of AI agents that cover every aspect of the creative process. I sit down with @shahrzadrafati who launches today. For everyone...
Google Cloud Updates Its AI Agent Builder with New Observability Dashboard and Faster Build-and-Deploy Tools
Google Cloud unveiled a major upgrade to its Vertex AI Agent Builder, adding an observability dashboard, one‑click deployment, and state‑of‑the‑art context‑management layers that let enterprises build agents with as few as 100 lines of code. The update expands language support...
360 Cameras Power Next‑Gen Robot Vision and BCIs
When Insta360 launched in my home years ago I had no idea that its camera would be used to drive a brain computer interface this way. 360 cameras are becoming more important in the robot age. It's one way that...
AI Powers New Insights to Safeguard Natural Environments
Explore the incredible work from @GoogleResearch and @GoogleDeepMind who are leveraging AI to help understand and protect our natural spaces:
Microsoft Built a Fake Marketplace to Test AI Agents — They Failed in Surprising Ways
Microsoft researchers unveiled an open‑source synthetic environment called the “Magentic Marketplace” to evaluate AI agents in a controlled, multi‑agent setting. In initial trials, 100 customer‑side agents interacted with 300 business‑side agents using leading models such as GPT‑4o, GPT‑5 and Gemini‑2.5‑Flash....
2025 Marks Rise of Truly Autonomous AI Agents
Agentic AI: Why 2025 is the year of autonomous AI agents. A reality check ⚠️ Adesso warns many 'AI agents' are scripted; true agents must decide & act, like coding and IT-support agents; design must balance autonomy & control. https://t.co/nGtxRo1WQn ...
Gemini 3 Expected to Reach 1.2 Trillion Parameters
Looks like gemini 3 is going to be 1.2 Trillion parameters? 🤯 https://t.co/StkFT8XbJC
WEB WAR III
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI‑powered web browser that embeds a ChatGPT interface in each tab, allowing users to query the current page, automate form‑filling, shop via Instacart, and search their browsing history. The move reflects a broader trend...
Jensen Huang Predicts OpenAI as First Multitrillion-Dollar Hyperscale Giant
Jensen Huang doesn’t care about Sam Altman’s AI hype fears: He thinks @OpenAI will be the first ‘multitrillion-dollar hyperscale company’ https://t.co/ZWYGmlI8l9 @nvidia @sama #AI #IoT #5G #AgenticAI #CES2026 https://t.co/DRA9qCqfit
Accidental AI Video Yields Stunning Unexpected Result
This video was created by accident. I was going to upload my book cover to @xai @grok Imagine and prompt it to produce some images. But hit the wrong button and mistakenly asked for a video, with no prompt. Result...
The Geopolitics of AGI | Helen Toner (Director of CSET & Past OpenAI Board Member)
In the episode, Helen Toner, director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology and former OpenAI board member, explains that the United States and China are barely communicating on AI, hampering any joint governance of emerging AGI risks. She...
Agentic AI Reshapes Business Operations and Decision‑making
⚙️ Autonomous. Proactive. Game-changing. Agentic AI is already redefining business operations and decision-making. Great overview via @BizTechMagazine 🔗 https://t.co/3J8wsfDk3v #AgenticAI #DigitalTransformation #AI https://t.co/hXZcprdn3Q
ML Research: Build, Test, Learn—Not Just Speculate
ML research is an engineering discipline, not a philosophy seminar. You build, you test, you learn. Untested ideas are just speculation.
Sim-to-Real Transfer Achieves Real-World Walking and Running
sim2real got hands, but making progress towards our own gait and transferring walking/running successfully from sim to real. ignore toddler mess. its all strategically placed with purpose to test challenging scenarios for robots of course. https://t.co/Xbgayfrfik
AI Agents Will Become Digital Coworkers Across Industries
The future of work is agentic. @McKinsey dives into how AI agents will become digital coworkers—automating help desks, software dev & more. 🔗 https://t.co/290mxPy8VE #AgenticAI #Automation #AIinWorkplace https://t.co/x9xe2k8lNG
AI Demystified: From Neural Networks to Deep Learning
Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/o8jSQY4ukw
Agentic AI Set to Redefine Work and Productivity
🔍 What is Agentic AI and how will it transform the way we work? From travel planning to virtual caregiving, AI agents are set to reshape productivity. A must-read from @HarvardBiz 👇 🔗 https://t.co/cKyBkidRdQ #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #AI https://t.co/vYgvxXaBu5
AI Scientist Achieves Verifiable End-to-End Discoveries
in the latest @stateofaireport, I predicted that an ai scientist would make verifiably new discoveries end-to-end looks like we’re pretty much there!
Join Us to Shape AI‑Economy Policy with Unique Data
Very excited about these roles - on the economics/policy one, you'd work very closely with myself and some of my colleagues. We're very interested in leveraging the kind of data we can uniquely produce at anthropic to help advance the...