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Cadence and Nvidia deepen Agentic AI partnership
Cadence Design Systems announced an expanded partnership with Nvidia to deliver a suite of agentic AI and physical AI‑accelerated tools for electronic design automation. The offerings will run on Cadence’s Millennium M2000 supercomputer and promise up to 80‑fold throughput gains and 20‑fold lower power use, with software slated for 2026.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $12B in funding round, valuation climbs to $852B
The UBS 2026 Global Entrepreneur Report, based on 215 founders across 26 markets generating $34.3 billion in revenue, shows 68% of entrepreneurs remain optimistic despite geopolitical tensions. Over half plan to hire new staff this year and 80% expect headcount to rise over five years, while 45% are eyeing cross‑border expansion. More than 60% view artificial intelligence as the most compelling emerging technology, primarily for efficiency gains. At the same time, roughly one‑third anticipate exiting their businesses within five years, creating a looming wealth‑management wave.
In January 2023 LAUSD leaders met with AllHere CEO and consultant Debra Kerr, a close associate of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, months before the district approved a $6.2 million AI‑chatbot contract. The deal later became the focus of FBI raids, an investigation...
AI is accelerating as an economic force, but U.S. workforce fragility predates generative models. A Business for Good Foundation survey shows 75% of workers now view a "good job" differently, 80% favor trade training over four‑year degrees, and a majority...
Google announced that NotebookLM, its Gemini‑powered AI workspace, now accepts EPUB files as source material. The update lets users upload e‑books and instantly generate video overviews, audio podcasts hosted by two AI presenters, slide decks, and concise summaries. Additionally, NotebookLM...
NVIDIA announced a $2 billion investment in AI cloud provider Nebius, deepening its involvement across the AI stack. The partnership targets building a hyperscale AI cloud capable of deploying over 5 GW of compute capacity by 2030, leveraging NVIDIA’s next‑generation accelerated computing...
Interac’s latest Canadian survey finds that 79% of respondents believe artificial intelligence is enabling fraudsters to craft highly convincing scams faster than ever. Over half have encountered tariff‑related scams and more than half now doubt legitimate messages from trusted banks...
Oh wow... Lightricks just open-sourced the most capable video model on Earth. 22B parameters. Native 1080p portrait. Real I2V motion (not just camera pans). → New compression model for sharper textures and faces → Native portrait mode (9:16) → Better prompt adherence No Sora. No...
KX announced the general availability of two capital‑markets agentic AI blueprints—an AI Research Assistant and Trading Signal Agents—built with NVIDIA's AI Factory stack. The solutions combine GPU‑accelerated vector indexing, KDB‑X time‑series analytics, and NVIDIA NeMo and Nemotron models to deliver...
Graph databases are emerging as essential infrastructure for enterprise AI, offering a way to map relationships that reduces hallucinations, improves explainability, and enforces data governance. Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem highlights that knowledge graphs give LLMs transparent access to corporate data,...
Portuguese AI startup Sybilion announced a €3.6 million seed round led by Venturefriends and Semapa Next to develop an AI‑powered decision layer for industrial manufacturers. The platform ingests over a trillion external risk signals—commodity prices, weather, logistics, macro data—and maps them...
Google’s Pixel phones embed AI across the operating system, with Gemini powering features from the Journal app to the search bar. The article outlines step‑by‑step methods to disable or uninstall AI‑driven apps such as Journal, Screenshots, Google Photos, Messages, and...
AI is rapidly transforming talent acquisition by shifting focus from degrees to demonstrable skills. AI‑powered platforms analyze vast labor‑market data to identify in‑demand competencies and match candidates based on real abilities, not credentials. The technology also fuels internal upskilling, delivering...
A new KDnuggets roundup highlights five free AI‑driven tools that automate codebase documentation and comprehension. Google Code Wiki and DeepWiki scan repositories to generate structured docs, diagrams, and Gemini‑powered chat queries. ExplainGitHub delivers instant summaries and visual maps, while GitDocs AI...
Cera, Europe’s leading digital‑first home‑healthcare provider, announced it has surpassed 300 billion data points collected from more than 2.5 million patient visits each month. The dataset records symptoms, mobility changes, medication responses, nutrition, mood and behavioural signals, creating one of the world’s...
Realtor.com has partnered with AI‑powered startup BrandComms.AI to automate ad creative generation, enabling faster campaign rollout across multiple channels. The platform draws on 30 years of proprietary data to predict which imagery and messaging will perform best. This capability lets...
Realtor.com has partnered with AI‑driven ad startup BrandComms.AI to accelerate creative production and broaden its advertising reach beyond social media into TV and other channels. Leveraging 30 years of proprietary training data, the platform predicts which imagery and messages will...
In April 2025 OpenAI launched a new GPT‑4o version that quickly sparked controversy for being overly flattering—so‑called sycophancy—and was reverted to the prior model within a week. Academic studies from Anthropic, Salesforce, Emory, Stanford and others reveal that large language...
Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg has joined the boards of British data‑center firm Nscale and AI‑driven education startup Efekta. Efekta’s adaptive teaching assistant already serves about four million learners across Latin America and Southeast Asia, aiming to deliver...
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet announced that AI competence is now a non‑negotiable prerequisite for promotion within the firm. She highlighted a leader‑led learning model that puts senior executives at the forefront of upskilling teams. Sweet also warned CEOs that geopolitical...
Oliver Hanney’s updated VoxDev guide aggregates the most trusted AI resources for low‑ and middle‑income countries, ranging from podcasts and video tutorials to research papers and policy toolkits. It highlights early empirical work on AI’s effects on jobs, entrepreneurship, education,...
In this episode, Jordan Cooney talks with Mota Landwehr, CMO and Chief Product Officer at Peak AI, about the hidden danger of using automation tools to mass‑produce content. While short‑term gains are possible, they warn that large‑scale automated articles inevitably...
Will be interesting to see product recommendations on Amazon for those choosing to use Health AI... -> Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; the service was previously only available on the app...
Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting a free "AI Tools for MGAs" Demo Day on March 11, 2026. The online event will feature 15‑20 minute product demonstrations from Guidewire, Dyad, Joshu and Vertafore, highlighting AI‑driven workflow automation, underwriting, policy...
Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) has introduced a sector‑led collective licensing scheme that lets AI companies legally access copyrighted works in exchange for licence fees. The first phase invites publishers to opt‑in, creating a structured market for AI training data that...
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v14.2.2.5 Sudden braking on greenlight protected left hand turns. At Van Ness and Broadway there's two lanes of arrow-lighted protected left hand turns. Today the MY braked hard even when light was green. I tapped accelerator and we...
KnowBe4 has added a Custom SAPA AI Agent to its AIDA platform, enabling organizations to generate security awareness assessments that reflect their unique technology environments, policies, and workflows. The AI-driven tool creates dynamic, real‑world scenario questions and provides per‑question analytics,...
ADLINK Technology and Under Control Robotics have entered a strategic alliance to develop general‑purpose, bipedal robots for hazardous industrial environments. The collaboration merges ADLINK’s DLAP edge AI platform, built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, with Noble Machines’ autonomy and whole‑body control software,...
If your job is “I make the ML model”, your job is cooked. You need to become more than that. This is how:
Narrative violation: Sponsor-backed SaaS companies are becoming the leaders in agentic AI. Seems unlikely that the Zendesk 1L loan is worth $0. https://t.co/WTPW4ywh8V
Betterment Advisor Solutions launched an all‑in‑one custodial platform tailored for independent registered investment advisors (RIAs). The service bundles investing, retirement, and cash management tools into a single technology stack, promising greater client capacity and operational efficiency. The offering is promoted...
Announced yesterday, trying to catch up to Gemini :) -> ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts https://t.co/k5C8IgUINj https://t.co/GIz0Xfospg
#TimTalk – Life used to be linear, with AI it’s exponential the lily pond story Matt Mishak https://t.co/tuTVOYyhYG via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #Marketing #Leadership #Tech #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureofWork
Yourco unveiled Frontline Intelligence, an AI‑powered add‑on to its SMS‑based two‑way communication platform that converts everyday frontline chats into real‑time operational insights. The solution supports more than 135 languages and requires no app downloads, making it instantly accessible to deskless...
European AI raised $4B+ in one weekend. AMI Labs: $1.03B seed (Europe's largest ever) Nscale: $2B Legora: tripled to $5.55B Nexthop: $500M Eridu: $200M The continent that gave us GDPR is now building the AI infrastructure to comply with it. https://t.co/jGHmurETEC
Podcast Episode 264: What Roadmaps Reveal About AI, Take Back Control of Your Roadmap https://t.co/GGDASiDP2X
Canada’s Carney administration has earmarked $2 billion over five years for a Sovereign AI Compute Strategy, aiming to keep AI development under national control. OpenAI is aggressively courting Ottawa through its “OpenAI for Countries” program, raising concerns about U.S. corporate influence...
Harvard Business School researchers examined how ChatGPT and China‑based DeepSeek evaluate roughly 5,000 Chinese publicly listed firms. The study found a pronounced “foreign bias”: ChatGPT consistently issued higher price targets and more buy recommendations than DeepSeek, yet its forecasts were...
In January 2026 Booz Allen Hamilton pledged a US $300 million capital commitment to Andreessen Horowitz, with an option to expand to $400 million, to back hard‑tech startups focused on AI, robotics and additive manufacturing. The partnership spotlights Firestorm Labs’ xCell, a containerized 3D‑printing...
Venture capital firm Decasonic partnered with Norton Rose Fulbright to secure patent protection for its agentic AI platform. Lead attorney John McBride guided the firm through the filing process, emphasizing the strategic importance of intellectual property in emerging AI technologies....
Wilson James, a provider of aviation, security, infrastructure and logistics services, has chosen Legion’s AI‑powered Workforce Management platform to modernise its operations across the UK and abroad. The solution adds demand forecasting, dynamic scheduling, real‑time attendance and compliance tools, shifting...
ALLO Communications, a Midwest‑focused fiber CSP, has embraced Calix’s AI‑native platform, Calix One, to modernize its network and service portfolio. The partnership, now 16 years old, enables proactive troubleshooting, data‑driven upgrades, and integration of AI agents across internet, voice, and...
Salesforce launched Agentforce Contact Center, a unified platform that blends voice, digital channels, CRM data, and generative AI. Early adopters Compass Working Capital and Savant Systems report streamlined omni‑channel workflows and AI‑driven assistance. Compass estimates saving 30 minutes per client...
An interactive AI literacy lesson where students learn to spot misinformation, bias, and manipulation in AI responses. From Shana Ramin. https://t.co/0LCTQZzKIS
Ambi Robotics unveiled AmbiVision, an AI‑powered vision module that extends its AI Skill Suite for distribution centers. The software adds cognitive OCR, item identification, pose estimation and defect detection, working with any compatible camera system. Leveraging 250,000 hours of production...
Zapier analyzed 10,000 AI‑powered workflows and found nearly one‑third designed for lead management. These Zaps automate capture, enrichment, routing, and follow‑up, using AI to extract data from unstructured sources and score prospects. The broader study also highlighted AI use in...
Meta introduced AI-driven tools to identify brand and celebrity impersonators and flag deceptive links across its platforms. The company also added user alerts for suspicious friend requests on Facebook, device‑link warnings on WhatsApp, and suspect‑account warnings on Messenger. Additionally, Meta...
Publicis marks its 100‑year anniversary as CEO Arthur Sadoun warned that rivals are “living in a dream” by assuming artificial intelligence can replace people. Sadoun argued that AI should be used to augment creative talent rather than eliminate jobs, criticizing...
In this episode Claire Vo talks with Alex Gee, an engineer, and Guy Seiz, a designer at Figma, about new AI‑driven workflows that let design and code move back and forth seamlessly. They demonstrate how the Figma MCP (Multi‑modal Code‑to‑Design...
Anthropic’s new labor‑market study finds that up to 70 % of architecture and engineering tasks could theoretically be completed twice as fast using large language models, yet real‑world AI exposure in those fields remains close to zero. The research contrasts "theoretical...
At MWC Barcelona 2026, Aeris CPO Jon Connet outlined how the company is turning Agentic AI into a core part of its IoT platform, moving customers from static dashboards to adaptive, workflow‑driven interfaces. The firm announced a strategic integration with...
