The AI Pulse
All the latest Enterprise AI news from the last week.
- When Architecture Decisions Actually Apply
- As a pediatrician, loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI
- Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
- Why process excellence will become the competitive advantage in the AI economy
- Over 1,500 npm packages exposed by Trusted Publishing validation flaw
- 6 IT wins to deliver before the year ends
- ‘Unfinished business’: the people who want their AI chatbots to ‘live on’ after they die
- Stop sending me engineers: what OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft misread about enterprise AI
- SpaceX Buys More Spectrum, Musk and Market Structure, Distributed Cellular
- Flock is facing a surveillance backlash. Meanwhile, its drone business is booming
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
- The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners
- The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
- How to Hire a Grok Bot: Your First AI Employee 🤖
- Microsoft will soon run its services primarily on custom chips
- Chip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to ‘casino’
- SAP customers seek renewed control over their ERP fate
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
- AI’s hidden choices — and why getting them right avoids lock-in
- Local AI on NPUs: Building a zero-cloud photo deduplicator with OpenCLIP
- Screencasting in the AI era
- AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
- The best place to run AI agents
- AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
- Meta’s Muse AI agent is a clever little bastard
- UK Regains Early Access to AI Models After Reported White House Reversal
- In the age of agentic AI, how does the 'shared responsibility' model work?
- AI minister talks up tech independence
- Foundation AI model pioneers commit to ICO demands
- MoJ - attracting and developing diverse talent essential to its work
- £50 million Government investment into quantum tech
- AI Minister deploys AI to protect against AI attacks
- Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations
- Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
- IMF warns global economy ‘could soon test the limits of resilience’
- David Pocock concerned senior Albanese adviser ‘vetted’ bipartisan AI letter that was sent to PM
- Meta Wonder 🤖, X's resurgence 📈, why WebMCP matters 🌍
- 39-year-old unvaccinated woman becomes 6th measles death in Pennsylvania
- Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model
- After a 10-year redemption arc, No Man's Sky is coming to the iPhone and iPad
- Cisco Announces Webex AI Agents for Meetings and Customer Service
- How to Build an AI-Ready Technology Workforce for 2027
- Congress wants to keep AM radio in every new car
- WHO report on Russian lab worker death highlights "key uncertainty"
- French supermarkets hacked: Danfoss vulnerabilities blamed
- PC Prices Could Stay High Through 2027: What Buyers Should Know
- Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
- Keeping Cold Chains Running When the Internet Goes Down
- AI, Simulation and Digital Adoption: The Future of Enterprise Software Training
- Meet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy
- Nano Banana Pro vs Nano Banana 2.1: Technical Architecture, Capabilities, and Workflow Routing
- Computer Vision in Cultural Artifact & Antiquities Authentication: Can AI Detect Forgeries Online?
- Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
- Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him
- Anthropic Draws a Line on Claude Abuse: What Counts as Going Too Far?
- 5 Google Chrome Features for Studying, Including Gemini Quizzes
- Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
- Claude sent a false homicide tip to police – and it’s part of a troubling AI pattern
- Burnham says ‘public will be the boss’ in any future decision about closer relationship with the EU – as it happened
- When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer
- WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
- Muse Wonder Puts Meta Back at the AI Frontier
- Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port
- Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring
- Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
- Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
- This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
- Google Adds Android Enterprise AI Controls: What IT Teams Can Manage
- Reading AI Exposure Scores: What the Numbers Actually Measure
- Fitbit Edge is Google’s middle ground between Fitbit Air and Pixel Watch
- Volkswagen’s China Partner Taps UBTECH to Test Humanoid Factory Robots
- Tesla Drops Full Self-Driving Name in Europe Amid Regulatory Scrutiny
- Trump Honors Musk, Huang, and Tech Leaders as US Unveils $2.4B Science Push
- F1 in Singapore: There's a new fastest car now
- Silicon Valley responds to Trump’s hands-off approach to AI regulation at Tech Week
- Smart ring maker Ultrahuman to roll out biological-age model across UAE
- STACKUP: The Stack's weekly tech startups and funding wrap
- OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers, Then Defends Decision Amid Oversight Dispute
- Dystopian and dehumanising: that’s what it felt like when I was interviewed by an AI assistant | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
- Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development
- Cyber-attack similar to OpenAI Medicare breach seems likely in UK, says minister
- Google announces the Fitbit Edge, a middle ground between Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air
- Google’s new Fitbit Edge solves my biggest gripe with the Pixel Watch
- Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
- Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
- 📈 What is bigger than AI?
- These ARE the droids you’re looking for
- Research: When Being Authentic Undermines Your Leadership
- Researchers bypass 6 AI agent frameworks with a simple ‘Repeat-After-Me’ prompt
- Your Company Needs a Plan for the First 72 Hours After a Cyberattack
- As US medical debt grows, AI will be used more to collect it
- One essential ingredient for AI safety? Democracy | Matthew Botvinick
- Indonesia’s 640MW AI Campus Faces Water Supply Review After Construction Halt
- Designing Websites for People and AI Agents with WebMCP
- Revolut is building its own Meta Muse & Grok Bot, betting that owning the card beats owning the model 🤖💳; FIS just built an AI CFO for large companies 🤖📊
- 12 standout CIO skills every company wants
- ‘I’ve become significantly more cautious’: six parents on limiting their kids’ social media and AI use
- Learning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots
- Personal Day
- Lyft’s historic wage theft settlement fixes the past but ignores the future
- The great AI pricing reset is coming. Are you ready?
- From Injury to Recovery Planning: How AI and Predictive Data Science Are Transforming Personal Injury Evaluations
- "Talk more politics" - Munich's CDO on open source in the public sector
- Data centers produce heat year-round. Here’s how to save it for winter
- Start vibe-coding your own iPhone Shortcuts already
- How to use AI for a ‘voice of the customer’ analysis
- Your AI governance model is already obsolete
- Is your software product ready for the Cyber Resilience Act?
- Why data work is one step behind on AI
- Hands-on agentic development with Google’s Antigravity IDE
- HSBC Group CTO Mario Shamtani on rationalising container platforms and "hollowing out" mainframes
- The Trump administration wants to take greater control of scientific grants. Here’s why that’s a terrible idea
- The Economics of Social Media Growth: How AI and Bot Detection Are Reshaping Follower Services
- The 7 biggest issues CISOs and security teams face today
- Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus Timeline: Robots Targeted for 2027 Launch
- AI: Faster than the speed of safety
- AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
- GDS set out principles for prototyping public services
- Defra farms AI to scale digital learning
- Digital Welsh language support paves way for UNESCO
- Infrastructure planning gets situational awareness
- Silence 95% of spam calls and text scams with these 3 simple tweaks
- The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
- Inside Muse 🤖, Apple HomeView 🏠, AI experimentation 👨💻
- Asset management 2026: Plenty for the few?
- Meesho: Making e-commerce everyone’s business
- UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts
- Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?
- Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start
- Nubank walks away from £10B Monzo deal after 10% share drop 👋📉; Did AmEx and Perplexity just launch an AI CFO for small businesses? 🤖📊
- 48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next
- Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films
- The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
- Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
- TechCrunch Mobility: A roadblock clears for self-driving trucks
- Dawn Myers is making it easier to style, detangle, and care for curly hair
- Feelgood factor of human interaction | Brief letters
- Efferon wants to eradicate the devastating toll of pediatric sepsis
- Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
- What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale
- These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet
- Context Language Models: Self-Managing Context to Improve Performance and Reduce Compute Costs
- The list of AI insiders sounding the alarm on their own companies keeps growing
- US’s Reagan-era economic promises return as Trump’s AI-fueled growth fantasy
- I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
- Can AI be moral without being sentient?
- Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation | Simon Tisdall
- ‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
- 🔮 AI & Math 2.0, Pakistan’s solar hedge & who controls computing++
- Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
- Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
- Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe
- Black Box: The Chatbots | The Line | Ep 5 - podcast
- Petra Power looks to modernize energy for data centers and defense vehicles
- Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model
- Runtime: Anthropic throws open source a token gesture
- 3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream
- Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
- AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
- One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
- Googlebooks mark the end of the old Google
- UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
- Jon Davis on job titles in the age of AI – cartoon
- This free tool fixes your copy-paste headaches
- Can Apple keep its AirPods from becoming ‘PervertPods’?
- Ring’s new smart lock has a manual fallback that can’t lock you out – how it works
- Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing
- Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
- ‘Gaza is a moral tear in the universe’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
- 🔮 The end of screen time
- Elon Musk intensifies attack on Ambani over Starlink India launch delay
- Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
- Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
- Long live the mechanical keyboard
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
- Agentic AI just got very real
- A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
- The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
- NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
- What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
- OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers after dispute over AI risks
- AI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say
- AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
- An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
- Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
- Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
- Governed context: The key to scaling enterprise AI
- The best new features in Python 3.15
- 4 ways Amazon’s new Alexa tablets eclipse the Fire line – starting with Google Play
- The 15 best Luddite horror films
- Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers
- PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
- AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
- Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
- Trump’s AI rebrand raises an awkward question for OpenAI
- Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
- Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program
- ‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him
- Two years of Valkey: The road to 10.0
- Android Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring
- 2026.41: It’s Not You, It’s Me
- LumenUs helps automate tedious paperwork in times of grief
- Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
- Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
- We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
- Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities
- Tesla renames ‘Full Self-Driving’ to ‘Tesla Assisted Driving’ in Europe
- Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities
- Natura’s $99 AI Ring Wants to Put Multiple AI Agents One Press Away
- Remember Orkut? Its founder wants to bring it back
- Journalists now have an AI reputation and PR is keeping track
- Ransomware consultant said he would decrypt data, is accused of paying ransoms instead
- a16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
- OpenAI reports three new incidents of misalignment
- OpenAI reports three new incidents of misalignment
- Why CIOs should choose Samsung Galaxy Enterprise Edition
- Automattic interim CFO resigns just weeks after boardroom shakeup
- Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors
- Google’s New Gemini Agent Can Handle Work Across Multiple Apps
- FBI seizes Chinese hacking tools used for cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure
- Nvidia’s $1 Billion Research Plan Targets AI, Quantum Computing and Medicine
- Beyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties & Networking You Can’t Miss
- Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite
- Citrix issues its weekly critical security patch for NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway
- Microsoft takes MXC, its agent management layer, GA
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days — lock in your pass savings of up to $100 before prices rise
- Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows
- Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
- Exposed Nvidia GPU monitors can reveal AI infrastructure secrets
- Sustainability Reporting Isn’t the Same as Risk Preparedness
- As AI agents grow, vendors carve out decision-making as a separate model layer
- Who Owns the Customer in the Age of AI Agents?
- Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live
- AI won’t empty the software factory: Why the new engineers act like foremen
- AI is a great coding gateway drug, but tread carefully, says Linus Torvalds
- Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
- AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
- Your AI foundation must extend without surrendering control
- Intent, Not Identity
- America’s next family car might look a lot like a golf cart
- The real agent risk that Replit’s database deletion revealed
- Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
- As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators
- You’re measuring AI adoption. You should be measuring AI abandonment
- Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
- How to Make Claude Limitless ♾️
- When building an AI-native security program, start with outcomes
- Neoclouds and the enterprises that need them
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
- AI is your newest hire. Manage it like one
- OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected
- Kindle page-turn buttons are back
- Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10
- No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds Games From Your Ideas
- Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
- Citrix NetScaler warning - NCSC
- MHRA AI in health recommendations accepted by government
- Admin a burden - NHS staff survey finds
- London Fire Brigade standardise finance and procurement
- Last Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation
- British households would be £5,000 richer if we were more innovative. Let’s unleash our talents | Gordon Brown
- Firmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company
- AI model developers have ‘no justification’ for failing to comply with privacy law
- The shockingly easy fix for your Gmail low-storage nightmare
- Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
- Google wants to be the gatekeeper for enterprise AI agents
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
- As the world order turns, leading companies are keeping pace. Here’s how
- The six strategy roles a CEO must not delegate
- SpaceX mobile 🛰️, Touchscreen MacBook 💻, Claude Code mods 👨💻
- For CPG companies, agentic AI’s real payoff is growth
- President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation’s highest science prizes
- Trump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans
- SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
- Amazon’s New Alexa Tablets Start at $229: What’s Changing for Fire Owners
- Hark Launches Free AI Assistant to Handle Tasks Before You Ask
- 3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?
- ChatGPT Teen Safety Report Finds Gaps in Parental Alerts
- Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
- Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
- Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
- Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
- Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
- R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
- Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
- Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
- Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches
- A teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue
- She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate
- RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
- Growing PQC at the edge belies deeper quantum-readiness challenges
- Got a Microsoft 365 subscription? Your storage is about to shrink
- An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
- Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal
- Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
- Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months
- OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected
- Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses