Know What's Happening in AI
Know What's Happening in AI
SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda launch $7.2B Japanese AI venture
SoftBank, NEC, Sony Group and Honda have each taken over 10% stakes in a new joint venture aimed at building high‑performance, Japanese‑made AI. The firm will seek up to ¥1 trillion (≈$7.2 billion) in government support from NEDO starting fiscal 2026 to develop “physical AI” technologies.
Also developing:
By the numbers: OpenAI raises $12B Series funding
Create Music Group has adopted Astronomer’s managed Apache Airflow service to orchestrate more than 600 data pipelines that feed real‑time streaming and revenue analytics. The switch from legacy cron jobs and Cloud Composer to Astro has accelerated pipeline development by roughly 60% and cut infrastructure‑management effort by half. By consolidating feeds from Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music and Amazon Music into a single platform, the company now offers artists and labels instant performance and earnings dashboards. The team also plans to extend Astro’s capabilities to AI‑driven marketing and tour‑location recommendations.
AI may become one of the biggest leadership opportunities for women in decades. As AI reshapes business, the real advantage will not come from the technology alone, but from who builds the governance, sets the direction and turns capability into responsible...
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Notion co‑founder Simon Last about the company’s evolution from a writing assistant to a platform that lets users create autonomous AI agents capable of building integrations and writing code. Simon explains the technical...
AI shopping assistants drove $67 billion in Cyber Week 2025 sales, representing one in five digital purchases. However, 82 % of AI failures are hallucinations—confidently wrong answers that erode trust. Traditional QA misses these errors because it tests ideal scenarios, not real‑world shopper...
A new gig‑economy niche in Los Angeles pays workers to wear head‑mounted cameras while performing everyday chores, creating video data that trains physical‑AI and humanoid robots. Companies such as Instawork, Sunain, Encord and Scale AI coordinate thousands of contributors, offering roughly $80...
Google researchers used its Gemini large language model to scan 5 million news articles, extracting 2.6 million flood reports and building the geo‑tagged “Groundsource” dataset. Leveraging this baseline, they trained an LSTM network that ingests global weather forecasts to produce flash‑flood probability...
Google announced Platform 37, a new King’s Cross headquarters slated to open later this year, alongside The AI Exchange, a public space for AI education. The building’s name references DeepMind’s iconic Move 37 from AlphaGo, symbolizing Google’s AI heritage. Platform 37 will host...
Bridge Data Centres, backed by Bain Capital, announced an investment of up to SGD 5 billion (approximately $3.9 billion) to accelerate AI research and development in Singapore. The funding will support high‑density computing, advanced cooling, energy‑storage solutions, and sustainable data‑centre design. The company...
🚨 A single GitHub repo just replaced every paid LLM course on the internet. It's called LLM Course by Maxime Labonne and it takes you from zero to fine-tuning, merging, quantizing, and deploying your own models completely free. The structure is ruthlessly...
Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are negotiating a joint venture with Anthropic to embed the startup’s generative‑AI technology across their private‑equity portfolios. The partnership would follow a Palantir‑style model that blends software licensing with consulting services to accelerate AI adoption...
Agentic AI is moving from experimental chatbots to autonomous digital deputies that execute trade‑finance workflows without human prompting. In 2026 treasurers see agents handling document orchestration, real‑time payment interventions, and cross‑system data writes, dramatically speeding up back‑office operations. The technology...
Barcelona‑based Delfos Energy closed a €3 million seed extension, bringing its total funding to €10 million. The round, led by new investor Vox Capital/COPEL alongside existing backers, supports the company’s AI “virtual engineer” platform that now monitors over 1,000 renewable‑energy sites across...
.png)
AI adoption has surged, embedding itself in SaaS platforms and daily workflows. Organizations are scrambling to implement AI governance to ensure visibility, accountability, and security. The guide outlines core principles, a step‑by‑step framework, and references standards such as NIST AI...
This guy literally just gave Claude (freaking) superpowers. Meet "Superpowers", a open-source framework that forces Claude Code to code with discipline 🦾 How it works: ✦ Refuses to blindly start typing ✦ Asks Socratic questions first ✦ Teases out a rock-solid design spec The workflow: #1. You...
MerQube announced a strategic partnership with Noonum, a purpose‑built AI engine that applies machine reasoning to billions of data points for thematic investment analysis. The collaboration merges Noonum’s agentic, semantic knowledge engine with MerQube’s institutional index calculation and governance platform,...
Perplexity has launched Personal Computer, an AI‑driven digital proxy that runs on a Mac mini and automates tasks such as research, email composition, and morning briefings. The service integrates multiple large‑language models—including Claude, Gemini, and Grok—and operates in a secure,...
ISAAC Instruments unveiled ISAAC InView, an AI‑powered video safety system that pairs dash‑cam footage with telematics to deliver fewer, more relevant alerts for heavy‑duty fleets. By integrating AI event detection, a rugged DVR, and contextual vehicle data on a single...
Zapier’s chief people and AI transformation officer Brandon Sammut built an AI‑driven accountability agent using Cursor and Zapier MCP. The agent scans his Slack, Google Docs, calendar and other work apps each week, then produces a concise report comparing actual...
Haut.AI has been named a finalist in the Innovative World Tech category at SXSW Pitch 2026, joining 44 other startups selected from more than 600 applications. The company’s CTO and co‑founder, Konstantin Kiselev, will present its AI‑driven skin intelligence platform...
NVIDIA is debuting OpenClaw at its GTC conference, letting attendees build personalized, always‑on AI assistants called “claws.” Participants can customize personalities and grant tool access, running the agents on cloud resources or locally on DGX Spark and GeForce laptops. The company...
SoftBank Corp unveiled a multi‑AI agent platform that automates telecom operations, from policy formulation to base‑station integration. The system passes analysis results between specialized agents, enabling end‑to‑end decision‑making and execution without human intervention. SoftBank plans to extend the automation to...
Instructional protocols—structured routines like Critical Friends Groups—have become core tools for collaborative learning and professional development in K‑12 classrooms. Originating in the 1980s and popularized by organizations such as NSRF, EduProtocols, and EL Education, they standardize discussion, reduce teacher planning...
The UK government warned that the concentration of frontier artificial intelligence development in a handful of overseas jurisdictions creates strategic risks for Britain’s security and freedom of action. Defence Minister Luke Pollard highlighted that most advanced AI capability is currently...
In this episode, DeepMind engineers Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev explain their new File Search tool, a fully managed Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) service built into the Gemini API. They discuss how the product simplifies the traditional RAG stack—removing the need...
AI services are currently offered at unusually low prices, driven by venture‑capital subsidies and strategic compute discounts. However, as leading LLM companies prepare for IPOs, they will need to raise prices to achieve profitability. While advances in inference chips from...
A new RAND report examines a proposed $10 billion U.S. government investment aimed at AI trustworthiness, safety, and security. Using break‑even analysis, the authors assess potential benefits, costs, and trade‑offs without relying on disputed catastrophe probabilities. The study finds that, across...
The first quarter of 2026 is being labeled the year of AI efficiency, highlighted by the SaaSpocalypse that erased roughly $300 billion in SaaS valuations. High‑profile moves like Jack Dorsey's 40 percent cut at Square signal executives see AI as a structural...
Amey is rolling out FYLD’s AI‑enabled risk assessment platform to more than 2,500 field workers after a three‑month pilot that covered over 500 jobs. The pilot showed 95% of tasks used AI‑driven risk assessments and 85% of users stayed consistently...
Zalando is positioning itself for an AI‑driven e‑commerce future, where analysts expect AI agents to handle 15 % of online sales by 2030. The retailer, which has been experimenting with AI for fifteen years, now creates 90 % of its marketing content...
Nordic Semiconductor unveiled its first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) enabled system‑on‑chip, the nRF54LM20B, expanding its ultra‑low‑power edge AI portfolio. The integrated NPU accelerates TensorFlow Lite models up to 15 times faster than the Cortex CPU and delivers up to sevenfold...
The problem with AI is not only what it can do. It is also where it should step back. When someone is stressed, stuck or vulnerable, efficiency is not enough. Sometimes the real need is not an assistant that offers help,...
congatec announced six new variants of its Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series COM Express 3.1 Type 6 Compact modules, expanding core counts from four to twelve and graphics units from two to sixteen. The modules leverage 4‑nm Zen 5/5c CPUs, RDNA 3.5 GPUs...
Short‑term rental operators are facing a new wave of AI‑driven fraud, where criminals use deepfakes, synthetic identities, and automated bots to bypass traditional gut‑based screening. Ela Mezhiborsky’s experience with a $20,000 loss led to the creation of Autohost, a platform...
Meta Platforms announced a rapid rollout of four custom AI accelerators—MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450 and MTIA 500—targeted for deployment by the end of 2027. The MTIA 300 is already powering smaller‑model training for ranking and ad recommendation, while the MTIA 400 has cleared lab...
Grammarly has discontinued its AI‑powered Expert Review feature after criticism that it leveraged the names and personas of living and deceased writers without consent. The tool, launched in August, let users select specific authors to generate feedback, prompting backlash from...
Codoxo has launched Deepfake Detection, an AI‑driven solution that scans medical documentation, diagnostic images and claim context in seconds to flag synthetic or manipulated records. The tool embeds explainable risk scores into payer fraud‑prevention workflows, enabling health plans to intercept...
Big news from Tokyo 🇯🇵 @Uber and @NissanMotor and @wayve_ai have signed an agreement to deploy supervised robotaxis in Tokyo from late 2026, bringing the Nissan Leaf powered by the Wayve AI Driver to riders through Uber. This is what scalable autonomy...
Gensler’s 2026 Global Workplace Survey of 16,400 office workers across 16 countries finds that AI power users—about 30 % of respondents—spend less time alone and more time learning and interacting with colleagues, contradicting the notion that AI isolates workers. These users...
At CES 2026 the spotlight shifted from prototype showcases to production‑ready connected vehicles, underscoring the convergence of robotics, AI and automotive electronics. Qualcomm announced a partnership with Chinese startup Leapmotor to equip the D19 with a dual Snapdragon Elite platform, marking the...
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP Scott Hanselman propose a software preceptorship model that pairs junior developers with senior mentors to work alongside AI coding assistants. Borrowing from nursing, the approach treats mentorship as a year‑long, equal partnership where...
Banks and payment networks are deploying artificial intelligence to reshape credit‑card rewards, moving the battle from the checkout to an AI‑driven offers feed. By mining transaction histories and behavioral signals, issuers can generate merchant discounts and category bonuses that match...
AI could become one of the most powerful tools in the fight against financial crime, not by expanding surveillance, but by rebuilding integrity into digital systems. If AI can create stronger evidence chains that connect documents, actions and transactions, it can...
Brands need to be visible to AI search, not just consumers. For lesser-known brands, algorithmic attention is a game-changer for visibility and getting on the map, just like SEO was in the past. #AIMarketing #BrandVisibility https://t.co/z0KsyjshT3
A unified, domain‑aware anomaly detection pipeline maps retail transaction and network traffic streams to a common event schema, enabling real‑time monitoring of rare, high‑impact events. The approach extracts temporal features (e.g., time‑since‑last‑event) and contextual typicality without data leakage, then trains...
AI is dramatically accelerating core scientific discovery outside the tech industry. From 3D mesh creation to optimizing algorithms like AlphaDev and improving weather prediction, AI is boosting efficiency and innovation in fundamental science. #AI #Science #Innovation https://t.co/6AkXWqW8ds
MyPOV: a great visual by @Allianz on what the corporate LLM trap looks like. Great presentation by Benno Schindler @cognigy @NICELtd #Nexus2026 https://t.co/9nxfiwfTUm
Bluente has released an open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents translate documents while preserving original formatting. The server, available on GitHub under an MIT license, supports over 120 languages and a range of file types, from...
#ThisDayInTechHistory. March 9, 2023. @ElonMusk founds xAI and officially announced the artificial intelligence company on July 12, 2023. (ABC 7 Chicago) #AI https://t.co/0JnnnqO4yT
I've been having such an amazing time with Claude Code I wanted you to be able to have my *exact* skill setup: Introducing gstack, which you can install just by pasting a short piece of text into your Claude code...
The exploration of AI chatbots reveals a diverse landscape, from friendly conversations to more intimate interactions. The evolution of these technologies reflects changing user preferences and ethical dilemmas in AI design. https://t.co/slAsp3X521
