Today’s Pulse on AI dives into Morgan Freeman’s pushback on AI voice cloning and what “consent, compensation, and control” should look like; Google’s awkward AI-generated Bundesliga tickers; an AI support mishap sending gamers to the wrong Obsidian; a study showing Australia leads per-capita AI use; why GPT-4o’s personality can’t be reproduced across training runs; CMU’s EMNLP highlights on agents, retrieval, safety, and steerability; Oracle’s Autonomous AI Lakehouse and what Iceberg means for data teams; major funding across AI-enabled parking, healthcare agents, BCI, and security; a strange ChatGPT privacy leak surfacing prompts in Google Search Console; Nigerian startups localizing AI and data for sales, support, sports, and creators; Kling AI’s upgraded text-to-video with 3D physical realism; and Birlasoft’s nod to “Agentic AI” in enterprise. We close with three takeaways: prioritize consent and provenance in AI media, automate with human guardrails, and win by pairing robust data plumbing with localized design.

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• ​​Birlasoft Q2 Revenue Rises 3.4% to ₹1,329 Crore; Margin Expands to 16%
• Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool
• Carnegie Mellon University at EMNLP 2025
• Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely
• The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Varied Lineup, Led By Crypto And Parking
• Inside Oracle’s Autonomous AI Lakehouse: Open, intelligent and multicloud by design
• 7 African startups powering sales, sports, support, and settlements
• Kling AI lowers barriers to making AI-powered content creation more accessible
• Why GPT-4o's "personality" can't be recreated
• Is Australia the most AI-obsessed nation in the world?
• Googles KI-Phrasendreschmaschine für Fußball-Ticker
• ‘I enter a room and people say: “God just walked in”’: Morgan Freeman on voicing the divine, meeting Mandela – and his six decades on screen