Iran War Spikes Energy Prices – UK Homes Ditch Fossil Fuels Fast
UK homeowners are accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels as energy price spikes tied to the US‑Israel‑Iran conflict drive demand for solar panels, heat pumps, and electric‑vehicle chargers. Octopus Energy reported record March enquiries, with solar sales up 54% and heat‑pump sales up 51% month‑over‑month, while EV‑charger interest rose 20%. The company’s fast‑track program can replace oil boilers with heat pumps in as little as ten days, and East Anglia tops the nation in installations. Consumers cite energy independence and cost stability as primary motivations.
Google Rolls Out AI Upgrades Across Audio, TV, Translation, Robotics
Here’s a recap of everything we released this week: — Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, delivering our highest-quality audio experience yet with improved reasoning and latency for more natural voice interactions — An update to @GeminiApp on desktop that enables you to seamlessly...
Upcoming Opus and GPT Updates Amid Current Performance Decline
The new Opus version and GPT version have to be coming out soon. I have seen some areas of performance dropping in current versions recently
Winter Power Gaps Demand Clean‑Firm Energy and Grid Scale
Solar and wind are making remarkable progress. The day/night cycle will be solved by current economic battery trends. The real long term challenge has always been winter: Those dark winter days or weeks when the wind also fails. For that...
FOLIO Launches New AI-Powered Tools for Categorizing and Tagging Legal Information
FOLIO introduced an AI‑driven suite that automatically categorizes and tags legal documents using a shared ontology. The tools integrate via APIs with existing case‑management systems, requiring no code changes. Pricing starts at $199 per month, with enterprise options for on‑premise...
Proving GEO ROI Sparks New Scaling Demands
You can't make this up. Client hired a new marketing leader and pressed me to "prove the value of GEO" and why they should continue investing. I put together a presentation to demonstrate the value based on what we've accomplished....
28 New Fast EV Charging Stalls Launched In San Diego
EVgo has opened a new hub in San Diego featuring 28 fast‑charging stalls, adding to its more than 5,000 fast chargers nationwide and the 1,200 it installed last year. The addition raises San Diego’s fast‑charger count to roughly 290 out...
Don’t Pick Classification Thresholds Based on F1 Score
Stop using F1 score to choose your classification threshold. I made this mistake for too long. Here's the fix:
Meta Acquisition of Moltbook Signals Shift to Agentic Commerce Infrastructure
Meta has acquired Moltbook and folded its agent‑to‑agent directory into Meta Superintelligence Labs, signaling a pivot from experimental autonomous buying to a core commerce infrastructure. The integration eliminates traditional human‑behavior signals at checkout, replacing them with "agentic telemetry" that validates...
LearnUpon Announced the Launch of Create+
LearnUpon has launched Create+, an AI‑native content authoring tool fully integrated into its LMS after acquiring Courseau. The solution instantly transforms PDFs, videos and other documents into interactive courses, cutting development time from months to minutes. It enables internal subject‑matter...
Portugal Positions Itself as a Strategic Hub for Data Center
Portugal’s Council of Ministers approved a new data‑center strategy that streamlines licensing, creates pre‑approved development zones, and designates AICEP as a single investor contact. The plan leverages the country’s abundant renewable energy and extensive submarine‑cable network to position Lisbon as...
BSidesSLC 2025 – LLM-Assisted Risk Management For Small Teams & Budgets
At BSidesSLC 2025, cloud architect Connor Turpin presented a framework for leveraging large‑language models (LLMs) to streamline risk management in security‑constrained environments. He demonstrated how open‑source LLMs can automate vulnerability triage, threat‑intel summarization, and ticket generation for teams with limited...
IndexCache, a New Sparse Attention Optimizer, Delivers 1.82x Faster Inference on Long-Context AI Models
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Z.ai introduced IndexCache, a sparse‑attention optimizer that cuts up to 75% of redundant indexer computation in DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) models. The technique delivers a 1.82× speedup in time‑to‑first‑token and a 1.48× boost in generation...
Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Two New Associate Members
The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) announced the addition of Astrolab and Zeno Power as associate members. Astrolab builds multi‑purpose rovers for lunar and Martian surface operations, while Zeno Power develops radioisotope batteries for extreme‑environment power. Both companies aim to strengthen...
Improving Remote Dermatology Care, Diagnosis, and Clinical Trial Diversity: James Song, MD
Teledermatology is emerging as a core component of skin‑care delivery, especially for patients requiring frequent monitoring such as those on isotretinoin. Virtual visits excel at follow‑up appointments, safety checks, and prescription renewals, but current imaging technology cannot reliably diagnose pigmented...
Combat Drones Are Pivoting Into Green Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Combat drones and emerging ground robots are increasingly being powered by green hydrogen fuel cells, a shift driven by Ukraine’s rapid adoption and U.S. defense interest. Startups such as Sesame Solar have created mobile nanogrid refueling stations that can be...
ESA to Decide by June on Europe’s Gateway Contributions
NASA has halted work on the lunar Gateway, forcing the European Space Agency to rethink its Artemis contributions. ESA’s portfolio includes the European Service Module, the I‑Hab habitation module, the Lunar View refueling unit and the Lunar Link communications system,...
Skullcandy Taps Riskified for Fraud Prevention
Skullcandy partnered with Riskified via the Shopify app to overhaul its fraud‑prevention workflow. By adding a secondary review layer and recalibrating AI‑driven thresholds, the retailer cut its fraud‑decline rate to about 0.1% and kept chargebacks around 0.06% over 12 months....
The Next Playbook? Fuel Rationing, Bird Flu, Digital IDs & the War on Freedom W/ Jon Fleetwood
In this episode, host Seth Holhouse talks with investigative journalist John Fleetwood about how governments use crises—first COVID‑19, now fuel shocks and the looming bird‑flu threat—to expand surveillance, enforce travel and fuel restrictions, and embed digital health certificates into permanent...
GPT Can’t Trace an Attack Chain. A Purpose-Built Cybersecurity LLM Can.
Cybersecurity teams face a chronic talent gap, with 4.8 million positions unfilled and 71% of SOC analysts reporting burnout. General‑purpose LLMs like GPT‑4 can summarize alerts but fail to trace attack chains or correlate data across dozens of tools. Purpose‑built cybersecurity...
USPTO Launches AI Examination Tools – What This Means for Trademark Applicants
On March 19, 2026 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unveiled Class ACT, an AI‑driven tool that instantly assigns international classes, design‑search codes, and pseudo‑marks to trademark filings. The automation compresses a process that once took up to five months...
MiniMed Unveils MiniMed Flex, Its Smallest Insulin Pump Yet
MiniMed secured FDA clearance for the MiniMed Flex, its smallest insulin pump yet, featuring a fully smartphone‑controlled, screenless design. The pocket‑sized device is roughly half the size of the 780G and holds a 300‑unit insulin reservoir while integrating continuous glucose...
Makita Fans Can Save Nearly $50 On This Tool During Amazon's Spring Sale
Amazon's Big Spring Sale is offering the Makita 12V max Cordless Multi‑Cutter kit at a 30% discount, bringing the price down to roughly $106 – about $50 off its regular list price. The handheld cutter handles single‑wall cardboard, thin leather,...
Foyer, Nayya Bring Homeownership to Employee Benefits
Foyer and Nayya announced a partnership that embeds Foyer's 401(k)-style homeownership savings account into Nayya's AI‑driven employee benefits platform. The new benefit lets workers set down‑payment goals, access credit‑building tools and receive advisor support alongside health and retirement options. It...
RSAC 2026: Sonar Shares Why Code Security Must Shift Before CI
At RSAC 2026, Sonar’s VP of Code Security Jeremy Katz warned that traditional CI/CD checkpoints are no longer sufficient as AI‑assisted, agent‑driven development accelerates code creation. He highlighted a critical gap: security must be applied before code reaches CI, with...
Integrate AI Now to Halve Ecom Workload and Dominate
How to run an ecom brand in 2026 using AI for half the work: - Use AI to generate 10x more ad creatives than UGC creators can produce - Build a custom GPT trained on your customer service FAQs so new...
Cohere Releases Open Source Model that Tops Speech Recognition Benchmarks
Cohere has launched Transcribe, an open‑source automatic speech recognition model that now leads the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate. The 2 billion‑parameter system also records the highest throughput, processing audio 525 times faster than real...
GPT‑5.4 Slower yet Corrects
Aligns with my experience with gpt-5.4, it is waay slower but catches up a lot of silly mistakes from Opus 4.6
Compact Foldable Helicopter Storable in Car Trunk
Foldable Helicopter That Fits in Your Car Trunk by @tweetciiiim #EmergingTech #TechForGood #Innovation #Technology #Tech https://t.co/h80oHBCqCn
Midjourney's Profitability Faces Google Rivalry and VC Pressure
Midjourney Is Profitable and Chasing Hardware Dreams. But Can It Survive Google? The competition around founder David Holz has intensified, and his plans greatly exceed his initial creation, an AI image-making tool beloved by artists. He may even have to do...
H100 GPUs Skyrocket in Price, Supply Remains Scarce
Lots of SKUs of H100 commanding much higher prices. Inference has moved to N-2,3 etc compute hardware. And we don’t have nearly enough.
Aging Silences Brown Fat's Heat Genes via Epigenetics
Brown fat loses its heat-producing function with age due to epigenetic changes that reduce activity of key genes like PGC1A, with specific enhancers playing a critical role in maintaining this function. https://t.co/Dnnawd5r41
Imagining an Extraordinary Future for Our Children
A filmmaker about to become a father sat down with AI leaders and asked one question: What kind of world is my child going to grow up in? My response was: What if that world could ACTUALLY be extraordinary? The AI...
New Gemini Skill Dramatically Boosts Model Performance
The difference between a "vanilla" request to the Gemini model and enabling this new skill? Pretty dramatic. More to do, but we'll all keep learning the best way to apply these to our agents and tools. https://t.co/Qh459zzQQr https://t.co/MUppwHGUry
TotalEnergies Drops 2050 Net‑zero Goal
French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will no longer aim to reach net zero emission targets by 2050 https://t.co/oJaqzNTGaQ
ChatGPT Turns Simple Metaphor Into Pedantic Lecture
Ever have ChatGPT get annoyingly pedantic with you? I just asked if taking a bun from a large mound of dough was an okay metaphor and it was like, "No, because when you BAKE something, yadda yadda..."
AI's Impact Depends on Intentional Cultural Management
AI Is Only as Good as the #Culture It Operates Within https://t.co/Vf17CPNQC9 #AI has the power to transform #customerexperience. But if ur not managing its impact intentionally – across strategy, data, ethics, execution – it can just as easily damage...
Get a Discounted SEO Audit for Your Site
It's been quite a long time since I last managed an e-commerce website. Who wants some SEO work done for their site? I'll audit yours at a discounted rate to get things going.
ARC AGI 3 Shows AI Scoring Under 1% Versus Humans 100%
.@arcprize launched ARC AGI 3. AI scores less than 1%, humans get 100%. Is this the ultimate benchmark? https://t.co/ZlB7BWfXJQ
AI Redefines Healthcare Search: Visibility Over Clicks
Search isn’t broken. It’s evolving. AI is changing how healthcare brands show up— visibility doesn’t always mean clicks anymore. Lacey Reichwald breaks down what’s changing in healthcare search—and what isn’t. 👀 👉 https://t.co/gVeYqeWbe3 @ahamediagroup #marketingstrategy
Apple’s AI Router Turns Siri Into Revenue Engine
$AAPL just turned Siri into an AI router. That’s the endgame: Apple owns the interface, everyone else pays the toll. iOS 27 = services margin expansion 🚀 This is the bull case for Apple.
Never Lose a Deal: Over‑Prepare Your Presentation Tech
Founders: The sales presentation tech stack: 1. Portable hotspot backup 2. All adaptor types 3. Presentations cached offline 4. Mini projector 5. Remote slide advancer No deals lost to tech issues. Be over-prepared.
Abbott-Inspired Solar Farm Finally Built After Long Delay
“We had to wait for the grass to grow:” How an Abbott-inspired community solar farm finally got built #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/FyMlwewTJL https://t.co/KsrPUKRTPP
AI Generates Personality-Driven Sub‑Agents That Self‑Improve
Let's see if this works. Had Claude Code create sub-agents, each with their own personality, and then told it to just keep improving [think I'm working on] until the sub-agents are impressed. https://t.co/HjEuy5XKoN
Raw Compute and Data Will Outpace Bio
The Bitter lesson from AI applied to today's Bio AI models tells us most will be washed away with raw compute and data. Today's Startups and Academics will (mostly) fight it but that too will fall. Raw compute and data is what...
Key Friday Reads: Cloud Capex, AI PR, Diesel Surge
🆓 Friday links: hyperscaler capex, AI's PR problem, and the impact of rising diesel prices. https://t.co/vyzAil00hZ image: https://t.co/roRgnqXJTw https://t.co/3uyUX25bxd
Data Cleanup: Underrated Barrier to Enterprise AI Success
good notes on the real challenges/opportunities for enterprise AI. the data clean up one is one that everyone knows but underestimates. The data issue also being an org issue around ownership and access that startups need to navigate is spot...
Expressive Robot Faces Enhance Human-Machine Interaction
Robots with expressive faces could improve human-machine interaction. What do you think? 😕😠😅 https://t.co/XUfFCrkEBV @IntEngineering https://t.co/YoSy5a2mQ2
DoD Can Outsource Custom AI, Conflict Publicized
Yes. Ultimately, DoD can pay x or Palantir or someone else to develop custom AI models for them, for example. The most important part of the Anthropic - DoD conflict was elevating some of the issues to the public, the...
Sleep While AI Builds Your App—Async Power Unleashed
Async AI at its peak. Literally going to sleep while @Anything builds my app 🦾 💥