Today's AI Pulse
Meta builds AI agents for WhatsApp to unlock new revenue streams
Meta is developing AI‑driven agents for WhatsApp to turn the messaging platform into a revenue engine. The agents will embed large‑language‑model capabilities that can book appointments, handle shopping and provide customer support directly in chats, aiming to boost business‑to‑consumer interactions and generate commerce‑fee income.
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Inside Ring-1T: Ant Engineers Solve Reinforcement Learning Bottlenecks at Trillion Scale
Ant Group unveiled Ring-1T, which it calls the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion parameters, optimized for math, logic, code generation and scientific problems and supporting up to 128,000 tokens. To train at trillion-parameter scale the company developed three new reinforcement-learning and scaling techniques—IcePop, C3PO++ and ASystem—that stabilize MoE training, parallelize rollout processing and enable asynchronous SPMD control, improving GPU utilization and training stability. In benchmarks Ring-1T ranked second to OpenAI’s GPT-5 and led all open-weight models (93.4% on the AIME 25 leaderboard and strong coding performance), underscoring China’s accelerating investment in large models and intensifying competition with U.S. AI leaders for technological and geopolitical advantage.
World Models Advancing Fast—Key for Robotics and Gaming
The innovations in World Models are continuing to drop at a rapid rate. Worth paying attention to, and if you are in robotics, you are probably already using them, or want to use them soon. Tomorrow I will share one that...
Snap Seeks $1 Billion Fundraise for AR Glasses
The episode examines Snap's aggressive push into augmented reality, revealing that CEO Evan Spiegel is courting investors—including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund—to secure at least $1 billion for its AR glasses division. It discusses the strategic importance of this capital raise...
RAND Warns AI-Fueled Cyber Chaos in “Robot Insurgency” Report
RAND Warns of AI-Driven Cyber Chaos in New ‘Robot Insurgency’ Report - Decrypt https://t.co/BSKFrJhTFR #cyberchaos #CyberSecurity #Robot #Robotics @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee...
China Launches Sub-$1,400 Humanoid Robot, the Cheapest Yet
China unveils world's cheapest humanoid robot under $1,400 https://t.co/MLzrJe4VhW #humanoidrobotics #humanoidrobot #AI #humanoid #Robotics #Robot @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli @faustospain @Whats_AI @kaifulee @demishassabis @marek_rosa @AndrewYNg...
Do We Need AI Browsers? What Are Claude Skills? - EP99.22
The post introduces episode 99.22 of the "This Day in AI" podcast, where hosts Michael and Chris Sharkey debate whether AI‑powered browsers are necessary and unpack the concept of Claude’s skill system. They blend light‑hearted commentary with hands‑on experiments, sharing both...
95% of Generative AI Pilots Miss Real Business Impact
AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfQMH The Times of India https://t.co/ztGfBIlt3B
Google Turns Geospatial Data Into Everyday AI
Google just took another big step towards becoming ChatGPT for planet earth. I can’t overstate how important this is — geospatial AI commodified. Here’s what it can do: https://t.co/QjfwbEMXoy
LeRobot v0.4.0: Super Charging OSS Robotics Learning
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.4.0, a major upgrade to its open‑source robotics stack that introduces LeRobotDataset v3.0 (chunked episodes and streaming to handle OXE‑scale datasets >400 GB), new VLA models (PI0.5 and GR00T N1.5), and a plugin system for easier...
Meta Cuts AI Talent, X Snaps Them Up
Meta laid off AI geniuses. X is hiring them.
OpenAI Launches Company Knowledge in ChatGPT, Letting You Access Your Firm's Data From Google Drive, Slack, GitHub
OpenAI has launched "company knowledge" in ChatGPT for Business, Enterprise and Edu subscribers, allowing the model (powered by a GPT‑5 variant) to query and synthesize data from workplace apps like Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Gmail and HubSpot and return answers...
Researchers Show that Training on “Junk Data” Can Lead to LLM “Brain Rot”
Researchers from Texas A&M, UT and Purdue quantified an “LLM brain rot” effect, showing that continual pre‑training on high‑engagement, short or sensationalist “junk” tweets degrades large language model performance on reasoning and long‑context memory benchmarks. Using two junk-data definitions drawn...
EA Partners with Stability AI for ‘Transformative’ AI Game-Making Tools
Electronic Arts is partnering with Stability AI to co-develop AI models, tools and workflows intended to accelerate game content creation, including tools to generate photorealistic Physically Based Rendering materials and to pre-visualize full 3D environments from prompts. EA says the...
Instagram Users Can Now Use Meta AI Editing Tools Directly in IG Stories
Meta has integrated its AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly into Instagram Stories via a new “Restyle” menu, letting users enter text prompts to add, remove or change elements in photos and videos and apply preset effects like outfit...
A Two‑Minute AI Demo Can Spark Big Learning
I went to Madison Square Park and held a FREE AI training. Here’s how it went. One of the first folks to stop by had heard of ChatGPT but hadn’t used AI yet. So we jumped into how to open...
Robots Poised to Replace Human Security Patrols
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: Garrett Langley (@glangley), Founder & CEO of @Flock_Safety, says drones, robotic guards, and even humanoid robots like Figure could take on many of today’s routine security tasks. “I have a hard time imagining that in 10 years...
Redefining Data Engineering in the Age of AI
A survey of 400 senior data and technology executives by MIT Technology Review Insights finds data engineers are becoming central to corporate AI efforts, with 72% of respondents—and 86% at the largest, most AI‑mature firms—saying data engineers are integral to...
Meta's Soft Tokens Yield Modest Gains on GSM8k
This paper from Meta about "Soft Tokens" in RL is interesting; it allows LLMs to invent their own non-discrete (recursive) representations in order to solve problems better... Results are mixed though: it's only a few percent better on GSM8k from pass@4...
AI Dev 25 NYC: Real‑World Lessons on Building Production AI
The full agenda for AI Dev 25 x NYC is ready. Developers from Google, AWS, Vercel, Groq, Mistral AI, SAP, and other exciting companies will share what they've learned building production AI systems. Here's what we'll cover: Agentic Architecture: When orchestration...
Amazon’s New AI Shopping Tool Tells You Why You Should Buy a Recommended Product
Amazon launched “Help me decide,” an AI-driven recommendation feature that analyzes a shopper’s searches, browsing and purchase history to suggest products and explain why a specific item fits their needs. The tool, built on large language models and AWS services...
AI Upskills Teams, Boosts Accuracy Without Layoffs
Can AI elevate your workforce instead of replacing it? #SalesforcePartner At Dreamforce, Rohit Khanna (CCO @Smarsh) shared their people-first approach to Agentforce: ✅46% deflection rate, 92% accuracy ✅Zero layoffs - upskilled L1 → L2/L3 support ✅76% adoption (they named their AI “Archie”) Thriving in highly...
TinyML on Arduino: AI Runs on Microcontrollers
🚀From Blink to Think: Deploying ML on Arduino! At LearnOpenCV, we’ve always believed that AI shouldn’t be limited to powerful GPUs or cloud servers. It should run everywhere - even on the tiniest boards. Our latest article of the edge devices series,...
Android Chief Sameer Samat on Google Pixel and the Path to AI Glasses
Ellis and Alex discuss their weekend adventures and OpenAI's Atlas browser before interviewing Google Android chief Sameer Samat, who explains how headsets are a stepping stone toward AR glasses and how Gemini could evolve into a Jarvis-like AI assistant. Samat...
Proof of Humanity Can Replace Invasive ID Checks
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Too many services ask for personal info just to prove you’re not a bot.” Uploading your driver’s license to book a golf tee time or join a social network shouldn’t be considered normal. Adrian Ludwig (@adrian_ludwig), Chief Architect...
AI Kills Cover Letters—Signal with Something Else
There are next-level life hacks hidden everywhere - and here’s a new book that’s full of them. Even better: it’s written by my favorite Economics professor from Wharton, Judd Kessler ! He told me over lunch something that most job...
Research Finds that 77% of Data Engineers Have Heavier Workloads Despite AI Tools: Here's Why and What to Do About...
A survey of 400 senior tech executives by MIT Technology Review Insights and Snowflake finds 77% of data engineers report heavier workloads despite widespread AI tool adoption, with 83% of organizations using AI data tools and engineers' time on AI...
Use RAG for Dynamic Facts, Fine‑tune for Stable Expertise
Most people still mix up RAG and fine-tuning. Many of our clients start by wasting time fine-tuning when RAG would've worked. Here's the real difference:👇 ✅ RAG = Your model's external brain It doesn't change the model at all. Just connects it to a...
Strong CTAs Amplify Your Entire Marketing Strategy
🔴 Because a great CTA makes all of your marketing more effective... Lead generation is a chain. It starts with the traffic source and ends on the thank you page. Each step in that process is a link in the...
We Let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” Surf the Web for Us—Here’s What Happened
OpenAI this week debuted Atlas, a ChatGPT‑integrated browser with a preview Agent Mode that can click, scroll and perform multi‑step web tasks for users. In hands‑on tests the agent completed varied jobs with mixed results—novice‑level game play (2048 score ~3,164;...
UK ChatGPT Users Will Finally Have a Say in Where Their Data Is Stored
The UK government has struck an agreement with OpenAI to offer UK-based data residency for ChatGPT from October 24, 2025, allowing British customers and developers to store content—files, images, conversations, code interpreter outputs, ChatGPT Memory and custom GPTs—on UK servers...
Ask Us Anything 2025
In their annual Ask Us Anything podcast, Center for Humane Technology leaders Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin argue that the AI race has accelerated into a dominance-driven flywheel—frontier labs pour capital into bigger models, users, and compute not merely for...
Transparency in AI Builds Trust Through Visible Thinking
When people trust humans, they trust intent. When they trust AI, they trust transparency. The best AI agent interfaces will reveal complexity with clarity. A good experience helps people see how an agent thinks, not just what it does. That’s how confidence...
AI-Driven OSINT Set to Transform U.S. Intelligence Missions
I've had a front row seat watching how the the U.S. Intelligence Community has evolved in using Open Source Intelligence. Early in my career, the biggest contribution of "open source" was translations of foreign press. Then with the birth of...
What Enterprises Can Take Away From Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's Shareholder Letter
In his annual shareholder letter, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out a multi-decade strategy positioning Microsoft to shape enterprise AI through investments in security, hybrid-scale infrastructure, agent-based workflows, unified data platforms, and responsible-AI practices. He cited concrete moves — 34,000...
Single‑Task Robots Can Feed the World, Not Just Humanoids
The single task robot maker. If we want to automate the world we will need a lot more than humanoids. Andrew @a_andlyu caught my eye in my tours through @fdotinc in San Francisco. He is building a robot and AI to pick up...
AI Tool Explosion Demands Centralized Aggregators to Curb Paralysis
Huge day for AI with a bajillion amazing tools coming out For the sake of our limited time and limited brains, please let hubs like @krea_ai @HelloCivitai @Scenario_gg etc aggregate them all together Lack of interest is probably just choice paralysis at...
Finally, the Long‑awaited Feature Lands in ChatGPT
I've been patiently waiting for this in ChatGPT for what feels like a decade now. https://t.co/LSMc1VpOvh
OpenAI Welcomes AriX Sky Team, Integrating Desktop AI
Excited to welcome @AriX and the Sky team to OpenAI. They’ve built one of the most thoughtful AI experiences on desktop, and we can’t wait to bring their craft into ChatGPT. More here: https://t.co/3zXOBVesoj
CrusoeAI Secures $1.4B to Power Infrastructure Boom
👀 @ChaseLochmiller and team @CrusoeAI are an unstoppable force that’s enabling the greatest infrastructure buildout of our lifetime. And it’s still early innings! $1.4b in fresh capital, let’s go! https://t.co/p8Hp8XVdGA
AI Firms Launch Browsers to Dodge Scraping Liability
The reason AI companies are rushing to release browsers: they don't want the responsibility / liability of scraping on their servers. They need to push that to the users! We'll be moving into an ever more gated internet soon...
PlayCanvas Introduces LOD Streaming for World‑Scale Splatting
I like big splats and I cannot lie. PlayCanvas's new LOD streaming system for 3D Gaussian Splatting is a big deal. It's a key step towards splatting the world and making it explorable. Check out a live demo below in your...
ChatGPT Performance Lagging for Users Today
is it just me or chatgpt is super slow for everyone today?
Top 9 Must-Read AI Guides From OpenAI, Google, Anth
AI guides are flooding the scene, but these top 9 picks from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are the ones you can't miss 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/X3jx1XLnGF
Multilingual YouTube Video on Vibe Coding with Google AI Studio
You can watch my latest youtube video in many languages now! I talk about vibe coding using google ai studio :) https://t.co/6dwo8ArGn3
Massive Funding, yet Just a Fine‑tuning API
Step 1: get $2B in funding Step 2: build a fine tuning api 🤦🏽♂️
Robots Require Digital Twins via Reality Capture to Scale
Robots need a digital twin of the world to train inside. Reality capture techniques like radiance fields & surface reconstruction are crucial for robotics to scale in the real world — and this thread beautifully illustrates why.
Prompt Hacks Make ChatGPT Perform Far Beyond Expectations
This guy literally gaslit ChatGPT into performing insanely better with a few prompt tricks https://t.co/DgIoIwNW8w
AI Simulates Expert Coaching for Better Public Speaking
Hey Grok can you simulate Robert Scoble and teach me how to give a great speech? (I gave two so far this week?) Grok’s answer is pretty good: https://t.co/KtiWPVQQNq But the simulation could be better:
Musk Predicts AI Job Loss Won’t Lower Living Standards
#AI And #Robots Will Take All Jobs, But Standard Of Living Won’t Fall: Elon Musk’s Bold Theory | Explainers News - News18 https://t.co/RzGdryX1DF #elonmusk #futurestrading #Future
Is True AGI Already Here? Explore the Evidence
Has Artificial General Intelligence already happened? https://t.co/TyIi3KHzRw #AGI #artificial_intelligence #AI #tech