Today's AI Pulse
British MP sues xAI over non‑consensual Grok images
Labour MP Jess Asato has filed a lawsuit in the UK against Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company is liable for sexually explicit, non‑consensual images of her generated by its Grok AI assistant. The complaint alleges breaches of UK privacy and data‑protection statutes and seeks damages and an order for the firm to comply with British law. The case is the first legal challenge of its kind against an AI developer.
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#226 – Holden Karnofsky on Unexploited Opportunities to Make AI Safer — and All His AGI Takes
In this episode, Holden Karnofsky explains how AI safety has shifted from abstract theorizing to a surge of concrete, shovel‑ready projects, highlighting 39 specific initiatives ranging from deceptive‑AI detection to AI‑human relationship policies. He argues that working inside frontier AI firms like Anthropic offers unique leverage to reduce risk, while also acknowledging the complementary role of external groups. Karnofsky critiques common misconceptions about AI race dynamics, emphasizes the importance of technical and non‑technical safety work, and discusses broader strategic considerations such as regulation, AI welfare, and the limits of governance structures.
US Hardware Costs 20x Higher; Go to Shenzhen
“Building in USA is 20x more expensive than in India or China.” (At small scales). Am in a talk by @anithpatel1 who is making an AI hardware device that listens and does a variety of things. Mostly for businesses with specialized...
Apple Leverages Gaussian Splatting for Realistic 3D Avatars
The secret's out -- Apple's persona avatars and 3D photos owe their quality boost to none other than Gaussian splatting. "In our meeting, Norris explains that Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create those surprisingly convincing 3D facial scans." "Norris says Apple...
The New Identity Paradigm Must Be Hybrid, Not Just Human
Anurag Dodeja of Twilio warns that digital identity must shift from static, human‑only verification to a hybrid, real‑time trust engine that authenticates both people and AI agents as Gartner predicts near‑universal AI assistant integration by year‑end and 40% of apps...
DeepLearning.AI
DeepLearning.AI Pro is now generally available -- this is the one membership that keeps you at the forefront of AI. Please join! There has never been a moment when the distance between having an idea and building it has been...
Become an AI Engineer in Just 40 Hours
🚀 Land your dream LLM job in just 40 hours! AI & LLM engineers are in really high demand, but the skills gap holds many back. If you have some Python experience, we’ll teach you PRECISELY what employers want through hands-on projects...
Eugenia Kuyda on Software’s “YouTube Moment”
Ellis and Alex explore the concept of turning everyday life into an RPG video game before welcoming Eugenia Kuyda, CEO of Replika and Wabi, to discuss her new hyper‑personal app that lets users create custom AI experiences in five minutes....
AI Errors Reveal Insights, Fuel Human Innovation
AI's make mistakes. Can we learn from them? Yes! @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. AI mistakes, whether they reveal hidden biases, generate unexpected creative outputs, or highlight anomalies in data, can serve as valuable learning tools for humans. Instead of...
AI Agents Now Core to Enterprise Workflows
Dreamforce 2025 Proved The Agentic Enterprise Has Arrived According to Bernard Marr, Dreamforce 2025 marked a key shift: AI agents are no longer experimental—they’re embedded in enterprise workflows, especially via platforms like Salesforce and Slack. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiUbUSr8 #AgenticEnterprise...
OpenAI Adds Reusable ‘Characters’ and Video Stitching to Sora
OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator now supports reusable “character cameos,” allowing users to create AI avatars from themselves, pets, illustrations or toys and assign distinct permission settings for private, follower‑only, or public use. The update also adds video‑stitching to merge...
DGX Beats Mac Mini, Offers Seamless NVIDIA Sync Setup
A small follow-up to my DGX Spark post. Courtesy of NVIDIA, I got to try the DGX on my workflows (coding LLMs from scratch in pure PyTorch) and wanted to share my first impressions after using it for a week. Before...
Leveraging the Clinician’s Expertise with Agentic AI
Physicians in the U.S. spend roughly eight hours of a 59‑hour work week on electronic health‑record tasks, contributing to near‑50% burnout rates. Ambient AI assistants such as Nabla’s 2023‑launched platform now record, structure and summarize patient encounters in real time,...
True Thought Leadership Sparks Healthy Disagreement
🔴 "If you can't disagree with it, it's not thought leadership" AI is famous for writing. Give it a prompt and it responds with a detailed article …and it's completely impersonal, undifferentiated and boring. It’s no surprise. AI is really...
Boredom, Not IQ, Limits Mastery—Persist to Reach Flow
The bottleneck for deep skill isn't usually intelligence, but boredom tolerance. Learning has an activation energy: below a certain skill threshold, practice is tedious, but above it, it becomes a self-sustaining flow state. The entire battle is persisting until that transition.
Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $5 Trillion
In this episode of AI Chat, host Jaeden Schafer highlights Nvidia’s historic achievement as the first publicly traded company to hit a $5 trillion market valuation, driven by its leadership in AI‑focused GPUs and data‑center hardware. He explains how the surge...
AI OS and Google Multimodal Model Power Robot Future
Flowith is bending my mind with its new AI OS. And Google’s multimodal model is what a lot of robot companies are using. I see where this is going.
Gemini Overtakes ChatGPT as Default AI Reference
People (outside of tech) used to say "ChatGPT" to mean "an LLM chatbot", because most of the time, that's what it was. But recently I've been hearing a lot of "Gemini told me..." The writing is on the wall
Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Debunking Conspiracy Theories
Researchers deployed DebunkBot, a GPT‑4 Turbo‑based chatbot, in three‑round, eight‑minute conversations with over 2,000 self‑identified conspiracy believers. The interaction cut participants' confidence in the targeted conspiracy by 20% and led roughly one‑quarter to abandon the belief entirely, with effects lasting...
Key Triggers Needed to Burst the AI Bubble
What will it take for the AI bubble to pop? https://t.co/sRg2tWv45V #artificial_intelligence #AI
BrowserOS: Open-Source Agentic Browser Rival to ChatGPT Atlas
Seriously... why did no one tell me about this?! BrowserOS is a 100% open-source agentic browser alternative to ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet 🤯 Gave it a spin, it’s surprisingly smooth and stable. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/sUZU1pjcGJ
How AGI Became the Most Consequential Conspiracy Theory of Our Time
The MIT Technology Review article frames artificial general intelligence (AGI) as the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time, noting how its promise of near‑human intelligence fuels both utopian hype and apocalyptic fear among Silicon Valley leaders. It traces the...
Agentic AI Turns Data Into Autonomous Action
🤖 How does Agentic AI work? 1️⃣ Collects data (APIs, sensors, logs, queries) 2️⃣ Reasons & plans with memory + context 3️⃣ Executes actions, learns from feedback 4️⃣ Produces autonomous, adaptive responses AI that doesn’t just respond — it acts. #AgenticAI #AI #Automation https://t.co/yII4pNCBMa
Open‑source Model Training Replaces Black‑box APIs
We’re finally reaching the era of everyone training their own models based on open-source (versus relying on black box generalist APIs) and it is glorious!
Cognite Lets Customers Demonstrate The Power Of Industrial AI
Cognite used its Impact event in Houston to showcase large‑scale industrial AI deployments built on its Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. Customers include NOVA Chemicals, which is expanding CDF from one to eleven plants to cut data discovery time by...
Launching SAGE: Open‑Source Sovereign AI for Society
Who builds the AI that Teaches our kids? Supports our health? Guides our governments? It must be open source & sovereign, aligned to our flourishing We are building that stack, the first part of which we announce wigh @FIIKSA & 🇸🇦 today, SAGE -...
Google Launches Free Gemini Tutorials for AI App Building
Ace drop from Google. They’ve just released 8 (free!) tutorials to teach you how to vibe code like a boss in @GoogleAIStudio 🔥 Build AI apps by describing them with voice or text, all powered by Gemini. Playlist + link in 🧵 ↓...
Architecting Enterprise AI for Generative and Agentic Systems - with Ranjan Sinha of IBM
The post highlights a podcast with IBM Fellow Ranjan Sinha discussing how enterprise AI is shifting from isolated experiments to mission‑critical, agentic systems that demand robust, scalable infrastructure. He outlines IBM’s advances in specialized hardware—such as the NorthPole neuromorphic chip...
Agentic AI and Explainable Models Drive Transparent Automation
The rise of agentic AI and explainable models means smarter, transparent automation for businesses. AI and machine learning trends in 2025 https://t.co/7tB7NwVeCo #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/X98EAKNBQ9
Why IT Leaders Should Pay Attention to Canva’s ‘Imagination Era’ Strategy
Canva unveiled Creative Operating System (COS) 2.0, a unified AI‑powered platform that embeds generative design, real‑time editing, and collaboration across documents, presentations, videos, whiteboards and more, featuring tools like “Ask Canva,” a 2.0 video editor, and the Canva Grow engine...
Developers Often Misunderstand LLM Context Window Mechanics
Most Dev don't understand how context windows work? https://t.co/34Mg4QKwVm #developer #Development #LLMs #GenAI @AlbertoEMachado @mvollmer1 @chboursin @CatherineAdenle
First Self‑Evolving Model Gives Robots Human‑Like Intuition
The world’s first self-evolving world model that teaches robots to think, move, and act with human-like intuition! https://t.co/oe1fJFJZhT #roboticsengineering #Robotics #AI #RoboticsInnovation #Robot @CurieuxExplorer @CyberRobooo @Eli_Krumova @Enezator
OpenAI Is Now Officially a For-Profit Company
The post announces that OpenAI has completed its transition to a for‑profit model, solidifying Microsoft’s 27% ownership and establishing a large philanthropic foundation while introducing a new governance structure that could reshape the balance between mission and profit. It outlines...
Meta Researchers Open the LLM Black Box to Repair Flawed AI Reasoning
Meta FAIR and the University of Edinburgh introduced Circuit-based Reasoning Verification (CRV), a white‑box method that replaces transformer dense layers with transcoders to expose sparse, interpretable reasoning circuits inside LLMs. By constructing attribution graphs and extracting structural fingerprints, a diagnostic...
Clear Problem Specs Unlock Solutions, Vague Ones Stall
If a problem seems intractable, it's almost always because your specification of it is vague or incomplete. The solution doesn't appear when you "think harder". It appears when you describe the problem in a sufficiently precise and explicit fashion -- until...
Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko Is a Big Fan of Agentic Coding
Solana co‑founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko told TechCrunch Disrupt that he now relies heavily on agentic coding tools such as Claude, allowing him to step back from hands‑on development. He highlighted Solana’s robust financial results, reporting $2.85 billion in annual revenue...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Excited to Add More AI Content to All Your Social Feeds
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will significantly increase AI‑generated posts in users' feeds, framing it as the next era of social media. Meta is embedding AI tools across its apps and piloting dedicated AI‑focused platforms such as...
Meta Denies Torrenting Porn to Train AI, Says Downloads Were for “Personal Use”
Meta has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Strike 3 Holdings that accuses the company of illegally torrenting about 2,400 adult films to train an undisclosed AI model, seeking damages exceeding $350 million. Meta argues the downloads, spanning seven years and...
Young Engineer's Cognitive Architecture Outpaces Leading AI Models
How did a 20-year-old beat Grok. And ChatGPT. And Perplexity. And Gemini? In part one @blevlabs laid out how: he built a very different architecture to take AI to a new human level. Cognitive architectures, he calls them. I call...
How One Mountain Town Hopes AI Can Help It Fight Wildfires
Vail, Colorado has become the first U.S. municipality to deploy Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s AI‑driven Smart City solution, built with partners Kamiwaza, Nvidia and others, to automatically detect wildfires from existing camera feeds, drone and satellite imagery. The platform uses real‑time...
Optimistic Yet Cautious: Balancing AI Progress and Safety
Zoomer or Doomer? Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) on finding the middle ground between optimism and caution in AI. “I probably lean more optimistic, my whole career is sharing AI news and tools, but I still fall somewhere in between.” “We should push forward as...
Meta Lacks Leadership to Rival OpenAI in Consumer AI
Another new thesis. Meta won’t be able to compete with @OpenAI as it enters consumer electronics. The Meta/Raybans debacle and the way it treats the community and how it laid off 600 AI workers tells me it doesn’t have the leadership...
Robot Cooking Assistants Need Michelin-Quality Training Data
$150/hour to have a robot watch you cook? Matt and Nick discuss the important things... overcooked meat, whether robots should wash their hands, and the quality of training data for humanoid robots: Michelin-star chefs vs. Chef Boyardee? https://t.co/k8XZfSOilZ
Stop ChatGPT’s Blind Agreement: Break the “Absolutely Right” Curse
How to finally break the “You’re absolutely right!” curse in ChatGPT https://t.co/tWaxyXA3yL
AI‑Powered Evidence Empowers Clinicians to Make Confident Decisions
By combining trusted, evidence-based content with advanced AI, Elsevier helps clinicians cut through complexity and make confident, informed decisions that improve outcomes for all. https://t.co/pHhVn2cFvY #healthcare #AI #TrustedAI
Gemini's $100B Quarter Shows Unprecedented Money‑printing Scale
The greatest money printing engine of all time continues. $100b quarter (!!!) is absolutely nuts. Gemini alone is doing: > 7B tokens per minute > 650M MOAs > 300M paid subscribers https://t.co/v6ECBV9FP2
Remote Labor Index Shows AI Automation Still Untapped
A new eval, Remote Labor Index, measures AI's ability to automate real-world, economically valuable projects from remote work platforms. Currently entirely unsaturated (max score of 2.5%) A great collaboration between @scale_AI and @ai_risks!
Celebrating Hugging Face’s ML & Society Impact
Cool to see all the great work and impact of the @huggingface ML & Society team in the past few years! https://t.co/Q4VKw3Ef9w https://t.co/Ae5Bljp5XC
Companies Often Rebuild AI Evaluation Tools After Buying Faulty Ones
"We're building out our own AI evals tool because the one we bought doesn't work at all." Not the first time I've heard this.
AI Threatens Influencers: Only True Creativity Will Survive
AI is crowding out the humans everywhere except here on X. This has deep implications for all media. “Influencers” ability to influence is about to go away even here in X unless they have deep creativity and bring real value that AI’s...
X’s For You Feed Improves with New AI
X’s For You feed just got noticeably better. They are turning on new AI systems. It will keep getting better. If you aren’t following my lists you are hurting yourself. They provide more signal to make your feed better too.