About the desk

The pulse of an industry that will not sit still.

AI pulse daily is a small newsroom that publishes one thing: a daily reading of where artificial intelligence is going, and who is steering it. We started because the signal-to-noise ratio in AI coverage kept dropping, and the people doing the building deserved a paper that took them seriously.

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Editorial desk at the AI pulse daily newsroom — The desk — version 0.4, still in beta.

01 — Mission

What we publish, and why.

Read the paper the lab read.

Pre-prints, evaluations, dataset releases, capability tests, evals — we read what the researchers read and tell you what they took from it before the press release lands.

Follow the money and the people.

Funding rounds, executive shuffles, regulators in flight. AI is a labor story and a capital story before it is a technology story, and we cover it in that order.

Chart the everyday consequences.

City councils, school boards, hiring managers, hospitals — the people being handed the consequences of this technology before anyone asked them about it.

02 — By the numbers

A small desk, a wide reach.

Stories filed: 4,200+
Daily readers: 180k
Years on the wire: 6
Sources on speed dial: 240

03 — Editorial principles

How the work gets done.

i.
Source the lab, not the launch.
We read the paper before the press release. If a lab's claims do not survive a careful read of their own methodology, you hear about it.
ii.
Name names, keep receipts.
Quotes on the record, quotes on background, anonymized quotes only when a source's job or safety makes it necessary. Anonymity is a tool, never a default.
iii.
Translate before you interpret.
Transformer, agent, embedding, guardrail, RLHF — we explain the term before we tell you whether it actually matters.
iv.
Right the record in public.
Corrections are dated, attached, and visible at the top of the original story. The first version of any story is a draft; we publish our errata the same week.

04 — On the wire this week

What we have been filing.

Newsletter

Build Mode, week 41

Build Mode is a survival guide for early-stage AI teams in the post-deploy era — funding, hiring, infra choices, what we got wrong last cycle, and what the next one is shaping up to be.

Investigations

The Anthropic files

Business Insider reports that Anthropic is in late-stage talks on a compute lease that would more than double its current training capacity — and how that reshapes the next model cycle, who supplies it, and what changes for everyone else in the queue.

Policy desk

NYC Council releases AI procurement draft

The New York City Council just released a draft of its municipal AI procurement rules — the first U.S. city to write down, in plain language, what a public agency owes the public when it buys a model.

Field reports

When the agent goes rogue

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have triggered four new incident reports in the last fortnight. We read each report in full; here is what they share, what they do not, and the one pattern nobody at the labs wants to talk about yet.

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