Daily episode of Pulse on AI: Max and expert Jonah Armitage cover Walmart’s HP OmniBook 5 AI-PC deal; Intel’s Panther Lake (18A node, NPU 5 up to 180 TOPS, US fab strategy); Samsung SAIL’s Tiny Recursive Model beating larger LLMs on ARC-AGI-style tasks; a Nigerian study on kids’ perceptions of computers, coding, and AI; the seahorse emoji hallucination as a lesson in model calibration; Nigeria’s AI future hinging on political will and talent pipelines; OpenAI’s ChatGPT Go expansion across 16 Asian countries and platform shift; app store safety reality and user defenses; Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated actor, and ethical guardrails; Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model for UI-native agents and safety loops; Supermemory’s universal memory API for long-term context; India’s surging AI ecosystem across sovereign models, health imaging, and GPU infra; and the Reactive Transformer (RxT) for stateful, event-driven dialogue. Three takeaways: specialized small models excel in structured reasoning; agents are moving from APIs to UI control with safety-first design; and policy, languages, and low-cost access determine who wins from AI.

Sources:

• The 9 Indian Startups Eating All of India’s AI Money
• Reactive Transformer (RxT) -- Stateful Real-Time Processing for Event-Driven Reactive Language Models
• Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
• Young founder’s Supermemory raises $2.6M from Cloudflare and Google execs
• Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere
• Why Nigeria’s AI future depends on politics, not just policy
• OpenAI’s affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia
• What AI-generated Tilly Norwood reveals about digital culture, ethics and the responsibilities of creators
• Tiny AI model outperforms o3‑mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro in ARC‑AGI benchmark
• What do Nigerian children think about computers? Our study found out
• App stores are not as safe as you might think
• ChatGPT dreht bei der Frage nach Seepferdchen-Emoji ab
• Los nuevos chips Panther Lake de Intel tienen una misión casi imposible: salvar a la compañía de la peor crisis de su historia
• This solid midrange HP laptop is still almost 50% off at Walmart