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
Android Lovers Finally Get Their Taste of the Sora App, and Now We'll See Twice as Much AI Slop
OpenAI has launched its Sora AI video generation app on Android, expanding from an iOS debut that amassed over a million downloads in five days. The app offers a TikTok‑style feed of AI‑generated clips, a Cameo tool for personal videos, and new features like Character Cameos that reuse avatars of pets and objects. OpenAI has tightened its policy on using likenesses, requiring explicit opt‑in consent for public figures and copyrighted characters. With Android powering roughly 70% of smartphones, Sora’s reach could grow exponentially, driving a surge in AI‑produced video content.
CPG Data Challenges to Business Value with Agentic AI - with Jim Johnson of AnswerRocket
In this episode of the AI in Business Podcast, Jim Johnson, President of AnswerRocket, explains how consumer packaged goods (CPG) firms can tackle data complexity and speed up decision‑making using emerging agentic AI. He highlights that AI agents can shorten...
New AI Breakthroughs Spark Major Competition for Tesla
BIG AI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DEMOS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW> OK, I've seen enough to see a major change in the world. They just announced major new video understanding models. I've been talking about this all week. Their autonomous vehicle is credible and is...
Making Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise Work for You - with Matt Berseth and Russell Dixon of NLP Logix
In this episode of the AI in Business podcast, Matt Berseth and Russell Dixon of NLP Logix explain how enterprise leaders can successfully adopt AI collaboration tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise. They outline the essential foundations for rollout, how to...
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AI Tools Are Proving to Be a Massive Help for Financial Firms - but for How Long?
New Xero research shows UK accountancy firms have lifted profits by £338 million and added £10 billion to GDP after adopting AI, with 98% of firms now using the technology. Finance workers spend an average of three hours per day on AI,...
From Logs to Insights: The AI Breakthrough Redefining Observability
Elastic unveiled Streams, an AI‑driven observability feature that automatically partitions, parses and structures raw log data, surfacing critical errors, anomalies and suggested remediation steps. The tool aims to make logs the primary signal for incident investigations, cutting the manual effort...
AI Becomes Energy’s Nervous System, Driving Efficiency
Day 2 at #ADIPEC2025 showcased just how far the convergence of energy and AI has advanced, not just in theory, but in real-world deployments. Across the AI Zone, humanoid robotics, wall-climbing bots, hyperscale platforms like G42’s Project Stargate, and predictive...
The Best Robot Vacuums We’ve Tested for 2025
The Verge’s 2025 robot‑vacuum roundup identifies the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra as the top‑tier, hands‑free model, boasting 10,000 Pa suction, lidar mapping, AI obstacle detection and a self‑emptying dock at a premium price of $1,799.99. For budget‑conscious shoppers, the Tapo RV30...
E190: AI-Powered Women's Health: Closing the Gender Data Gap in Medical Research
In this episode, Sonja Rincon, founder of MenoTracker, explains how AI-driven analytics and real‑world data are closing the gender gap in medical research by detecting overlooked women’s health patterns, building inclusive datasets from apps and wearables, and reducing perimenopause diagnosis...
AI Powers Sustainable Energy Transition, Not Replaces It
What happens when intelligence becomes our most energy-intensive product and our greatest tool for sustainability? Day 1 at #ADIPEC2025 delivered clarity: 🌍 Reinforcement, not replacement (H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber) 🤖 Data centers as "factories manufacturing intelligence" (Sec. Doug Burgum) ⚡ "More energy with...
Agentic AI: Autonomous, Ethical, Human‑Centric Intelligence
🧠 What is agentic AI? Think of today’s AI, but remove the need for most human prompts Think multi-modal AI, hyper-personalized experiences, open-source innovation, real-time edge computing, sustainable design, and a growing focus on how humans and AI work together, ethically. ...
Google Has a ‘Moonshot’ Plan for AI Data Centers in Space
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot effort to create space‑based AI data centers by mounting its Tensor Processing Units on solar‑powered satellites. The initiative promises near‑continuous clean energy, with satellite panels projected to be up to eight times more productive...
He Forced ChatGPT to Lose Its Niceness—Best Move
This guy literally made ChatGPT stop being nice. Best decision he’s ever made. https://t.co/nnNiQRSnX7
Cut LLM Costs Half with TOON Notation
Cut your LLM costs by 50% 🤯 Stop using JSON → switch to TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation). It blends YAML’s readability with CSV’s compactness: ↳ 30–60% less tokens ↳ Built-in field validation ↳ GPT-5, Claude, Gemini. Ace for tabular data. Free and open-source 🧵↓ https://t.co/XIo7bolwHY
Amazon Sends Legal Threats to Perplexity over Agentic Browsing
Amazon has issued a cease‑and‑desist letter to AI search startup Perplexity, demanding that its agentic browsing tool, Comet, stop facilitating purchases on Amazon without clearly identifying itself as a bot. Amazon argues that third‑party agents must disclose their status and...
Video AI Begins Reasoning Like Human Perception
"Video models start to reason."
Tech Giants Mobilize Against Surge in AI Cyber Threats
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic step up fight against rising AI cyber threats! Source: @bsindia https://t.co/JR5KmrPZ7x #AI #CyberThreat #genai #LLM #CyberSecurity
Google’s New Hurricane Model Was Breathtakingly Good This Season
Google DeepMind’s Weather Lab AI model, released in June, outperformed the US National Weather Service’s Global Forecast System (GFS) and even the official National Hurricane Center forecasts in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Across 13 named storms, the DeepMind model’s...
Humanoid Robots: Economic Revolution or Inevitable Failure?
Are humanoid robots on the verge of remaking the economy, or ‘doomed to fail’? https://t.co/yRde77zcL7 #humanoidrobot #Robotics #Robot
Autonomous AI Evolves by Coding Its Own Models
The path to autonomous AI is a system that learns to solve new problems by synthesizing models of them on the fly (as code), and that gets smarter over time by adding new abstractions to its own library (also as...
People Inc Forges AI Licensing Deal with Microsoft as Google Traffic Drops
People Inc., a leading U.S. media publisher owned by IAC, signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, becoming a launch partner in Microsoft’s new publisher content marketplace where AI services pay per use for content. The agreement follows a prior...
AI Filters Boost Top Influencers, Cull Low-Quality Posts
New AI's about to radically change "influence:" I was the first influencer, @biz tells people (he started the Website you are reading me on). I was the first one to get 1,000 followers here on X because back in 2006 I...
Learn to Build Your Own AI Tools—Free 5-Day Course
There's a difference between using AI and building with it. Copy-pasting ChatGPT prompts will only get you so far. I want to help you learn to build personal AI software, automations, and tools that actually solve your problems. The AI Fast Track...
Acer Reveals Its Fanciest Chromebook yet - but Will It Be Enough to Convince Your IT Team to Upgrade You?
Acer announced the Chromebook Plus Enterprise 714 and 514, two 14‑inch ChromeOS laptops aimed at cloud‑first enterprises. The 714 is powered by Intel Core Ultra 5, the 514 can be configured up to an Intel Core 7, both with up to 16 GB LPDDR5X, PCIe Gen4 SSDs,...
Kim Kardashian Blames ChatGPT for Low Law Class Test Scores – Even as OpenAI Dismisses a Rumored Ban of Legal...
Kim Kardashian revealed she relied on ChatGPT for law‑school study and exams, only to fail several tests after the AI gave inaccurate answers. Her admission coincided with circulating rumors that OpenAI had restricted ChatGPT from providing legal and medical advice,...
Microsoft AI’s First In-House Image Generator MAI-Image-1 Is Now Available
Microsoft has launched its first in‑house text‑to‑image model, MAI‑Image‑1, now integrated into Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The model, praised by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman for its photorealistic rendering of food, nature and nuanced lighting, promises faster generation...
Show Real UI to Cut Through AI Hype
Showing the real UI of your AI platform is important and often missed. Business decision-makers are trying to cut through the hype and see what your tool can actually do, how it feels, how technical you have to be to use...
OpenAI and AWS Team up in Potentially One of the Biggest Tech Partnerships Ever Seen - so What Will It...
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have sealed a multi‑year partnership valued at $38 billion, granting OpenAI direct access to AWS’s high‑performance compute, including Nvidia‑based GPUs and EC2 UltraServers, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026. The deal expands the...
World Models Signal Accelerating Race Toward AGI
World Models. Active inferencing. Cognitive architectures. New AI approaches are arriving. @IrenaCronin and I talk about what it means for robotics, virtual beings, and AI agents and sets up the next year. The race to AGI is here. And the next 18...
I Let Gemini Watch My Family for the Weekend — It Got Weird
Google introduced Gemini for Home, an AI layer in the Google Home app that analyzes video from Nest cameras and delivers detailed, written descriptions of activities, plus daily "Home Brief" summaries. In a 72‑hour test, the system generated mostly accurate...
Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s Plan to Put AI Data Centers in Space
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot to launch solar‑powered satellites equipped with Cloud TPUs that form a distributed AI compute network in low‑Earth, sun‑synchronous orbit. The design relies on free‑space optical links that have demonstrated 1.6 Tbps bidirectional speeds on the...
American OS to Counter China’s Robot Data Dominance
How will USA compete with China in robotics? @stash_pomichter and his team have a huge answer. Rip out their OS and put an American-made OS into the Chinese robots. Let's be honest. America is not going to catch up to Chinese robotics companies....
Google’s AI Mode Gets New Agentic Capabilities to Help Book Event Tickets and Beauty Appointments
Google announced new agentic capabilities in its AI Mode, allowing users to book event tickets and beauty or wellness appointments directly through Search. The feature searches multiple sites in real time, curates options, and links to booking pages, building on...
Use AI to Simplify, Align, and Empower Your Day
If you're feeling overwhelmed this week, here are three ways AI can help. (And if you're not overwhelmed, keep scrolling and congratulations.) 1️⃣ Use AI to consolidate everything into one place Take photos of every to-do list, screenshot every task...
Canada’s 2025 Budget Makes AI an Economic Pillar
Incredibly proud to see Canada’s Budget 2025 prioritise AI as a key pillar of the country’s economic future. Cohere will continue championing Canadian leadership in the next generation of AI technology.
Nvidia Is Building an "AI Megafactory" For Samsung with 50,000 GPUs - Could This Be the Start of a New...
Samsung announced an "AI Megafactory" that will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and the Omniverse platform to embed artificial‑intelligence across its semiconductor, mobile and robotics operations. By leveraging Nvidia's cuLitho, CUDA‑X and GPU‑accelerated EDA tools, Samsung says it can...
Nvidia Unleashes Unprecedented Power with Latest Release
.@nvidia is not holding back! https://t.co/JnknFTCs2J
Codex Revolutionizes OpenAI Development, New Models Coming
Codex has transformed how OpenAI builds over the last few months. Have some great upcoming models too. Amazing work by the team!
Predictions 2026: Software Development Goes From Jamming To A Full Orchestra
Forrester’s 2025 Developer Survey shows AI and generative AI have become top priorities in the software development lifecycle, with 48% of respondents using AI for coding and 47% for testing. By 2026, AI‑enhanced development is expected to become the leading...
Deck Your House in Govee’s Smart String Lights, Which Are Cheaper Ahead of the Holidays
Govee’s Christmas Lights 2, a Matter‑compatible smart string‑light system, are on sale ahead of the holidays, with the 66‑foot kit now $69.99 (down from $99.99) and the 99‑foot version $89.99 (down from $129.99). The lights offer over 130 preset effects,...
Databricks Research Reveals that Building Better AI Judges Isn't Just a Technical Concern, It's a People Problem
Databricks unveiled its Judge Builder framework, a workshop‑driven system for creating AI judges that evaluate other AI models by aligning stakeholder quality criteria and capturing domain‑expert insight. The tool tackles the "Ouroboros problem" of AI‑evaluating‑AI by measuring distance to human...
Big YouTube Channels Are Being Banned. YouTubers Are Blaming AI.
Several high‑profile YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers were abruptly terminated after the platform linked them to a single Japanese channel that had previously been banned for copyright strikes. Creators such as Enderman, Scratchit Gaming and 4096 say...
Attention ISN'T All You Need?! New Qwen3 Variant Brumby-14B-Base Leverages Power Retention Technique
Manifest AI unveiled Brumby-14B-Base, a 14‑billion‑parameter model derived from Qwen3-14B-Base that replaces all attention layers with a novel Power Retention mechanism. The model was retrained in 60 hours on 32 H100 GPUs for roughly $4,000 and achieves accuracy on par...
Microsoft Is Finally Clamping Down on Scam Attacks with New "Scareware" Sensor - Here's What You Need to Know
Microsoft is rolling out its Scareware blocker across Edge on Windows and macOS, enabled by default on devices with at least 2 GB RAM and four CPU cores. The AI‑driven, on‑device computer‑vision model detects deceptive full‑screen scam pages that mimic virus...
Grok's Blunt Corrections Are Refreshingly Honest
I appreciate how Grok doesn’t sugar coat corrections. https://t.co/b511QzNASc
Fitbit Still Has a Place in the Smartwatch Era – Just Look at the Apple Watch SE 3
Google announced that new Fitbit devices will launch next year, coinciding with a refreshed Fitbit app that now includes an AI‑driven personal health coach for Premium users. While past years saw feature cuts, discontinued third‑party apps, and a shift toward...
OpenAI Launches Its Sora App on Android
OpenAI has launched its AI video app Sora on Android, making it available in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam via the Google Play Store. The app, which debuted on iOS in September, amassed more than...
Grok Gains Memory: Remembers Past Conversations
Grok now remembers. Tell it something in this post. Then when you talk to it again it will remember what you talked about.
The Firm Behind One of the Best Business VPNs Around Is Launching a Gen AI Tool - Here's What It...
Proton, the Swiss firm behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has introduced Lumo for Business, a gener‑ative AI assistant built on zero‑access encryption that ensures only users can decrypt their conversations. The service integrates with Proton Drive, is hosted in...