
Google Cloud and Intel deepen AI chip partnership
Google Cloud and Intel have expanded their multiyear alliance, extending Intel’s Xeon 6 processors for AI, cloud and inference workloads and advancing joint development of custom ASIC‑based infrastructure processing units (IPUs) that offload data‑center tasks from CPUs.
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By the numbers: Optasia secures $330M debt facility
Able Innovations has installed its ALTA Platform robotic patient‑transfer system at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, marking the first U.S. deployment of the technology. The system automates lateral moves between beds, imaging tables, stretchers and operating‑room tables, allowing a single caregiver to perform tasks that normally require several staff members. Hospital leaders say the pilot will test new workflows that shift physically demanding transfers to the robot, improving staff safety, operational efficiency and patient experience. The initiative also targets reduced medical‑waste by replacing disposable friction‑reduction devices.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate strategy, turning static roadmaps into dynamic, real‑time plans. Executives face heightened volatility as AI accelerates decision cycles and market signals shift faster than traditional forecasts. In a candid HBR interview, chief strategy officers from Penske...

Altera showcased its Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGA families at Embedded World, highlighting a unified sensor‑to‑actuator architecture for physical AI in robotics, industrial vision, and edge devices. Live demos demonstrated high‑definition camera fusion, medical imaging preprocessing, and deterministic low‑latency robotic control....

Jurgen’s latest post maps the fifteen companies that actually build foundation AI models and turns the selection process into a personality‑based test for solopreneurs. He argues that benchmark scores are insufficient; instead, risk tolerance, data sovereignty, and ecosystem lock‑in should...
Canada and Brazil have signed a technical cooperation agreement to apply artificial intelligence to nickel exploration. The Geological Survey of Canada and Brazil’s Geological Survey will merge geology, geochemistry, geophysics and remote‑sensing data into a shared AI‑driven modelling platform. Initial...

A federal research team found that AI diagnostic tools are being applied to patients they were never designed for, often scoring cases before a doctor even enters the room. The study labeled the resulting errors as “catastrophic,” especially for patients...

Math Magic’s Hitem3D v2.0 launches as an AI‑driven platform that turns a single photograph into a production‑ready 3D model within minutes. The upgrade adds high‑resolution 1536³ texture output and structure‑aware synthesis to improve mesh stability and reduce post‑processing. By simplifying the...

Google’s Nano Banana 2 model has generated buzz for its selfie‑to‑cartoon feature, but the tool’s true power lies elsewhere. By pairing the model with Google AI Studio, users gain fine‑grained control over resolution, aspect ratio, and watermark removal. The blog...

AI is reshaping digital publishing by replacing the traditional search‑driven model with an answer‑focused economy. Premium publishers stand to gain as users shift from utility‑mode queries to trust‑mode consumption, where source credibility matters. The emergence of agentic media buying will...
La Trobe University has appointed Phil Laufenberg, formerly Macquarie University’s head of AI, as its inaugural Pro Vice‑Chancellor (Artificial Intelligence) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. The dual role, the first of its kind in Australia’s higher‑education sector, is central to La Trobe’s...
New Appian research shows the NHS is the most trusted UK public‑sector organization for responsible AI use. Sixty‑three percent of citizens trust the NHS with AI, outpacing banks (55%), retailers (60%) and technology firms (54%). Despite this confidence, only 6%...
We’re so glad that @claudeai gave the government the middle finger that we’re bringing in our partner and AI engineer, Kyle Cupples, to teach all @theannaio founders how to get started. Education is step 1. We’ll be doing 4 sessions...
The Pentagon’s six‑month ban on Anthropic’s Claude has exposed a blind spot in enterprise AI risk management: most firms cannot map the full chain of AI model dependencies. A Panorays survey shows only 15% of CISOs have complete visibility, while...

Oracle introduced the AI Database 26ai, a new release that adds automatic transaction rollback, real‑time SQL plan management, and built‑in AI vector search. The platform promises more stable performance under unpredictable workloads, faster data ingestion, and a self‑managed in‑memory cache...
Revieve released its Beauty & Wellness Index 2025, showing guided diagnostics now initiate 60‑75 % of beauty journeys and deliver two‑to‑three‑fold higher completion rates. The data, drawn from millions of AI‑driven skin analyses, quizzes and virtual try‑ons, highlights longer engagement, especially in...

CollectivIQ, a Boston‑based spin‑out of Buyers Edge Platform, launched a multi‑model AI answer engine that queries up to ten large language models—including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok—simultaneously to deliver fused, more accurate responses for enterprises. The platform encrypts prompts and...

Heathrow Airport has appointed Netcompany as its primary digital operations partner, deploying the AIRHART Airport Operations Orchestration Platform. The solution promises real‑time situational awareness, AI‑driven decision support and predictive planning for the hub’s 80 million annual passengers. By consolidating airline, ground...
This isn’t an AI problem. It’s a values and prioritization problem. And it turns out GTD + AI is a pretty powerful answer. Here’s the system I use: 1. Clarify your goals (max 3) Everything else is noise. Your goals are your filter. 2. Capture ruthlessly,...
SoftBank Robotics America unveiled three AI‑enabled commercial cleaning robots—Omnie, V40 2.0, and Phantas 1.3—developed with Gausium. The machines combine computer vision, vision‑language models, and 3D LiDAR to navigate complex indoor environments with minimal human input. Targeted at airports, retail hubs, senior living...
Yesterday I showed someone how to join tables in Snowflake using natural language no SQL required. And she still said it was hard and confusing.

KT, Qualcomm, and Rohde & Schwarz showcased a 6G AI proof‑of‑concept at MWC Barcelona 2026, using the CMX500 one‑box tester to demonstrate AI‑enhanced radio transmission. The AI‑enabled prototype achieved roughly a 50 % increase in downlink throughput compared with conventional methods,...

The new ChatGPT 5.3 Instant ends every conversation with a hook that keeps me reading. I asked about WebMCP and it did an excellent job. It still referenced web sources but not a whole lot. Then it's like, "I can also...

Siemens announced a verified AI‑driven cybersecurity solution for private industrial 5G networks, developed with Palo Alto Networks. The offering integrates Siemens’ private 5G infrastructure, the SINEC Security Monitor, and Palo Alto’s next‑generation firewall optimized for OT protocols, delivering IEC 62443‑grade protection...

Wiss announced its new status as a Certified Netgain Implementation Partner, giving it the authority to deploy Netgain’s native NetSuite add‑ons directly within client ERP environments. The partnership enables Wiss to embed automation across critical accounting workflows such as fixed‑asset...

Co‑op Live in Manchester has opened Europe’s first AI‑driven, frictionless self‑serve market, built with Oak View Group, AiFi and Boxbar Tech. Shoppers tap a cashless card, pick items, and leave while computer‑vision cameras track each purchase. The system is designed...

Traditional one‑on‑one coaching drives manager performance but is expensive and limited in reach. Vendors propose an AI‑augmented coaching stack that layers self‑service AI tools, AI‑supported human sessions, and pure human coaching. This three‑tier model promises scalable, personalized development while preserving...
Sunseeker Robotics is set to launch the S4 robotic mower on March 3, 2026, a wire‑free system that uses LiDAR and AI‑vision to autonomously tend residential lawns up to 1,000 square meters. The mower maps terrain in real time, avoids...

Raycast has introduced Glaze, an AI‑driven vibe‑coding platform that lets users create tiny Mac apps by typing a single prompt. Powered by Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, Glaze generates, deploys, and packages utilities in one go, then lists them in...

Huawei's New‑Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All‑Flash Storage received technical validation from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). ESG's tests showed the system delivering over 876,000 IOPS with a 32 µs average latency in a high‑concurrency database workload. The architecture supports active‑active failover, tolerates...

An AI avatar named Gaitana is being used to represent two Indigenous candidates in Colombia’s March 8 parliamentary election. Built on the DeepSeek large‑language model and secured with blockchain smart contracts, the platform aims to gather community consensus for legislative decisions....

OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.3 Instant, promising more accurate, context‑rich answers while deliberately showing fewer web links. The model blends its internal knowledge with live web data, aiming to reduce dead‑ends and overly declarative phrasing. By surfacing the most relevant information up front,...

Mongolia’s AI ecosystem grew from a series of societal pain points—missing typing support, inadequate dictionaries, and unreliable speech transcription—to a fully sovereign language platform that now delivers 97% speech‑recognition accuracy. The initiative leveraged the Mongolian diaspora, turning brain‑drain into a...

Xiaomi announced it will roll out a new XRing smartphone processor each year, starting with the 3‑nanometer XRing O1. The company will combine this custom SoC, its HyperOS operating system, and a new AI assistant into a single device for...

Anthropic’s Claude overtook ChatGPT as the most‑downloaded free AI app in the United States over the weekend. The sudden surge in user demand forced the service offline for several hours on both Monday and Tuesday. The outage highlighted how quickly...

The article examines the surge of AI‑generated hallucination cases in U.S. courts, noting that out of roughly 982 documented incidents, only 257 are solely attributable to lawyers while pro se litigants account for about 412. It references the Fifth Circuit’s recent...

Descartes Systems Group has launched OpsForce, an AI‑driven agent suite on its Global Logistics Network (GLN) to automate freight‑visibility workflows. Leveraging real‑time, clean data, the agents engage drivers, manage exceptions, and capture documentation for shippers, brokers, carriers and logistics providers....

Pilot doesn't just ship tickets — it learns from them 📘 Every PR review → pattern extraction. Every CI failure → error diagnosis. Every self-review → convention learning. Cross-project memory with confidence scoring and decay. v3 roadmap 👀 Outcome-based model routing — Pilot...

Work in 2026 will be influenced less by tools and more by choices. How companies manage AI, protect people and redesign roles will define resilience. Innovation, skills and trust in complex systems will need to be aligned. @Gartner_inc Link https://t.co/Lq0hNglEvt via...
Avala Global founder Divya Nettimi told Bloomberg Invest that hedge funds could soon deploy fleets of AI agents to multiply research capacity. In three to five years, bots might monitor data across hundreds of stocks, letting analysts expand coverage from...

Why I think your single-cell cell annotation benchmarking is missing the mark 👇 You trained your model on large of number of cells (millions), and you use your model to annotate a new dataset. https://t.co/GHpQkfLtOE

Just finished my segment on @theCUBE from #MWC26, 5th year in a row. @furrier and I had a great discussion on what it takes for telcos to win this time, where AI, #6G and #QuantumComputing are going to converge in...
Microsoft disclosed that dozens of companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons, using URL prompt parameters to bias AI assistants toward their products. Over 50 unique prompts were identified across 31 firms in 14 industries, demonstrating a...
A Hard (and Maybe Costly) Call on #AI @Korn_Ferry https://t.co/s2Fp60Yllu #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
The real question isn't whether AI changes legal work. It's whether lawyers use this moment to finally define themselves by what only they can do.

Microsoft has been granted a set of patents describing AI‑driven “help sessions” that can take over a player’s controls when they become stuck. The system uses machine‑learning to detect difficulty, prompts the user, and then hands control to either a...

Roadmap to learn Agentic AI 🚀 AI fundamentals Python + frameworks LLMs Agents architecture Memory + RAG Planning & decision-making RL & self-improvement Deployment Real-world automation Agentic AI = full-stack intelligence. Credit: Tiksly #AgenticAI #LLM #RAG #A https://t.co/BSHcGenYVg

"More useful, well-synthesized answers when using the web"... Not sure about that. More on that soon -> OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT...

At Olo’s Beyond4 conference, leading restaurant chains demonstrated that artificial intelligence has moved from speculative hype to everyday operations. Krispy Kreme is testing AI agents for contract management, while Nekter Juice Bar uses bots for SEO, social media, and an...
Transitioning AI from Code to Infrastructure Strategy - successful deployment of AI within Rail, Transport, Utilities & Asset Management is no longer a technical challenge to be solved in a vacuum. It's s a fundamental shift in operational strategy. https://t.co/LgBJKWUDA4
If you believe in the AI revolution, #6G is the critical infrastructure that makes it possible. Check out the highlights from my #MWC26 keynote. https://t.co/1KOCOD5wka