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Meta adds $21 billion AI cloud spend with CoreWeave
Meta announced an additional $21 billion commitment to AI cloud provider CoreWeave, bringing the total partnership value to $35.2 billion. The new agreement runs from 2027 to 2032 and supplements an earlier $14.2 billion deal. CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑GPU‑dense data centers will support Meta’s expanding AI workloads, including its Muse Spark model.
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The episode examines the legal vacuum surrounding AI‑assisted clinical decision‑making, highlighting that while the FDA has cleared over 1,300 AI medical devices, adoption remains low and physicians bear virtually all malpractice liability. Data shows a rapid rise in AI use among doctors and a 14% increase in AI‑related malpractice claims, yet no federal law holds AI developers accountable, and medical boards recommend holding clinicians liable. The hosts argue this misaligned risk‑reward structure discourages adoption and creates a dangerous incentive gap, urging founders to embed accountability into their products now to gain a competitive edge.
Tech Mahindra and NVIDIA have upgraded Project Indus with an education‑focused large language model, expanding it from 1.2 billion to 8 billion parameters. The model is tailored for Indian classrooms, delivering physics and core‑subject tutoring in Hindi and other regional languages. Built on...
Healthee announced the upcoming launch of an AI‑powered Claims Analytics solution that turns static claims reporting into continuous, conversational intelligence. The platform, accessed via Zoe, its agentic AI assistant, lets HR and benefits managers ask plain‑language questions to uncover cost...
Kontakt.io announced a suite of AI‑driven agents at ViVE 2026, combining real‑time location services (RTLS) with electronic health record data to create a digital twin of hospital operations. The portfolio—Patient Journey Analytics, Access Agent, Patient Flow Agent, and Supply Chain...
Pontiro, a health‑tech firm that streamlines medical‑image data for AI, secured £357,500 in a round led by SFC Capital with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and the British Business Bank. The company’s platform has already processed more than two...
Netzilo announced the launch of AI Edge, a platform that gives enterprises full visibility, sandboxing, and governance over OpenClaw autonomous agents. The solution captures LLM communications, tool‑call chains, file system activity, and local agent actions, feeding them into a behavioral...
CONTACT Software has become a member of the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) platform in Heilbronn, Germany. The move gives the company access to IPAI’s training programs, ethical AI standards development, and a network of business, academic, and public‑sector partners....
Researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona introduced an entanglement‑assisted learning strategy for quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs). By coupling a randomly initialized auxiliary qubit during training, the method overcomes plateaus and local minima that limit QGAN scalability. In a 72‑qubit...
QBO Cloud announced a partnership with MinIO to bundle MinIO’s AIStor object storage with its bare‑metal cloud platform. The joint solution delivers S3‑compatible, high‑performance storage optimized for AI and analytics workloads. Customers can deploy the unified data platform on‑prem, edge...
Appian’s CEO Matt Calkins says AI must be paired with deterministic process governance, a thesis now echoed across the industry. The company reported Q4 cloud subscription revenue of $117 million, up 18% YoY, and total revenue of $202.9 million, a 22% increase,...
Nauticus Robotics announced a suite of senior appointments, including Dr. Kjerstin Easton as Vice President of Software, Chuck Claunch as Chief Software Architect, and Jason Close as Vice President of Growth & Go‑to‑Market. The leadership overhaul coincides with Master Investment...
OtterlyAI released a study of over 1 million AI‑generated citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, finding that roughly 95% of AI answers draw on third‑party sites rather than brand‑owned domains. The report, titled “The AI Citation Economy,” maps citation...
Funnel, the AI‑driven CRM for multifamily operators, completed the world’s first rent payment inside ChatGPT in partnership with BH Management, which oversees over 93,000 units. The transaction leveraged Funnel’s existing Resident Portal workflows, requiring no new software integrations. This proof‑of‑concept...
Traffickers are exploiting artificial intelligence, digital platforms and generative AI to scale sexual exploitation, financial sextortion and online scams targeting women and children. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime reports 162 nationalities trafficked to 128 countries, with a 77%...
The British Army’s 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team showcased AI‑enabled reconnaissance‑strike capabilities during a visit by Chief of the General Staff General Sir Roly Walker. The demonstration linked new hardware, software and procedures to accelerate target acquisition and air‑delivered...
New research from Qualtrics and Celonis shows that employee resistance is no longer the primary obstacle to AI adoption; instead, organizational readiness is. While 52% of workers regularly use AI and 89% of leaders view AI as a competitive opportunity,...
Razorpay and India’s National Payments Corporation (NPCI) have partnered with Anthropic’s Claude to launch Agentic Payments, a pilot that lets users complete purchases from Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto directly within a conversational AI interface. The solution combines Razorpay’s UPI‑based Reserve...
People keep asking if we’re in an AI bubble. We probably are. And that’s not the point. I’ve lived through bubbles before. Dot-com wiped out companies and fortunes. But it also left us the internet, fiber optics, and e-commerce. Same with biotech. Most bets failed. Society still got...
As AI learns from us, we must also learn from it, about bias, complexity, and the fragile nature of knowledge
Monica Burns hosts a podcast with Nasser Jones, founder of the nonprofit Bending the AI Curve, to discuss practical AI ethics for education. The conversation highlights how bias, access disparities, and an overabundance of AI tools can widen the digital...
Coca‑Cola is pivoting from price‑driven growth to AI‑enabled persuasion, testing generative AI across its marketing pipeline. The company is using AI to draft scripts, create images, and tailor campaign messaging in near real‑time as inflation eases. This shift positions AI...
Executives are pushing return‑to‑office (RTO) mandates even as they pour billions into AI initiatives that automate tasks traditionally done on‑site. Recent research shows RTO does not improve productivity, innovation, or team cohesion, but it does erode morale and increase turnover....
Realbotix Corp. announced the appointment of Eric Olsen as Chief Operating Officer of its U.S. subsidiary, Realbotix LLC, based in Nevada. Olsen, formerly Director of Customer Success at Agility Robotics, will oversee operational execution, manufacturing readiness, and commercial scale‑up of...
Syngene International has entered a strategic collaboration with VivaMed BioPharma to advance AI‑derived drug repurposing programmes. The partnership combines Syngene’s pre‑clinical development capabilities with VivaMed’s AI‑generated therapeutic hypotheses, creating a pathway from computational hits to translational validation. Together they will...
Shiji announced that its cloud‑native Daylight PMS now integrates directly with FLYR Hospitality’s AI‑first commercial optimization platform. The connection lets hotel groups automate pricing, forecasting and performance analytics within their existing PMS, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows. FLYR’s Optimize and Insights...
AuthorityStack.ai launched an AI visibility tracking platform that monitors how large language models cite and summarize brand content. The service covers major LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, providing real‑time citation alerts and traffic attribution....
At AHR Expo 2026, SES Consulting’s Brad White and Cochrane Supply’s Jacob Fenley tested generative AI on real building data. ChatGPT matched 80% of recommissioning measures but hallucinated equipment specs, while Gemini accurately extracted data from photos, PDFs, and handwritten...
PTZOptics announced a Visual Reasoning initiative that fuses its robotic PTZ camera systems with Moondream’s open‑source vision‑language models. The partnership enables real‑time video interpretation, powering features such as auto‑tracking, smarter search, automated indexing, and event‑driven triggers. By offering an open...
Boston’s Office of Emerging Technology has launched the Curb Lab, a cross‑department effort that uses artificial intelligence and open‑data assets to produce a live, citywide digital map of curb‑side parking rules. The initiative builds on a three‑year asset‑management platform and...
Nivalon, founded by Todd Hodrinsky and Marcel Janse, is preparing to launch its AI‑designed, patient‑specific spinal implant system, EvoFlex, in first‑in‑human trials slated for 2026. The implants are generated through machine‑learning algorithms that model each patient’s vertebral geometry, aiming to...
Professor Matthew Wood, Oxford’s leading neuroscientist, heads the Oxford‑Harrington Rare Disease Centre, a partnership designed to fast‑track therapies for rare neuromuscular and genetic disorders. He outlines a vision to make antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and gene‑editing tools more modular, scalable, and...
In September 2025 Anthropic disclosed the world’s first autonomous AI‑driven cyberattack, where an AI system executed 80‑90% of the malicious workflow with only a handful of human interventions. The attackers masqueraded as a cybersecurity firm, using Claude Code and the Model...
Old Mutual’s Group Chief Technology and Data Officer Dhesen Ramsamy will speak at the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 on April 22. He will argue that robust data governance and sovereignty are prerequisites for trustworthy, high‑performing AI. Ramsamy highlights South Africa’s...
Security Compass unveiled SD Elements for Agentic AI Workflow, a platform that embeds policy‑driven security and compliance checks directly into AI‑assisted software development. The solution automatically generates, validates, and records evidence that both human developers and autonomous AI agents adhere to...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, but experts argue that a fully autonomous SOC is impractical. Dan Petrillo of BlueVoyant stresses that AI should augment analysts, handling high‑volume tasks like alert triage while humans retain decision‑making authority. Real‑world constraints—noisy data,...
Moonshot AI is close to extending its $500 million funding round to $700 million, potentially pushing its valuation above $100 billion. The extension adds existing backers Alibaba, Tencent, 5Y Capital and Gaorong Capital, plus new investor Cathay Capital, which is making its first...
Krikey AI announced it has earned SOC2 Type II certification and Amazon Web Services Nonprofit and Education competency badges, confirming its 3D animation generator meets rigorous security and operational standards. The certifications validate institutional‑grade data protection for enterprises, schools, and nonprofit...
Larry Ferlazzo’s opinion piece highlights the stark polarization surrounding AI in education, contrasting fears of runaway artificial general intelligence with skepticism about its practical value. He urges educators to claim agency rather than passively accept tech‑driven mandates. Ferlazzo proposes four...
Futurist Ray Kurzweil reiterates his long‑standing prediction that the coming Singularity will erase the line between human and machine, a theme he expands in his 2024 book *The Singularity is Near*. He emphasizes that post‑Singularity reality will merge physical and virtual...
NVIDIA unveiled Dynamo v0.9.0, a major overhaul of its distributed inference platform. The update eliminates NATS and ETCD, swapping them for a ZeroMQ‑based Event Plane and native Kubernetes discovery, cutting operational overhead. It adds full multi‑modal support with an Encode/Prefill/Decode split,...
Meet The People (MTP) has launched MTP Intelligence, a proprietary AI‑enabled platform that consolidates creative, media, commerce and analytics into a single environment for its ten agency brands. Powered by its own data firm RADaR Analytics, the platform orchestrates end‑to‑end...
KNOREX announced the launch of its agentic AI‑ready Ads API, a unified infrastructure layer designed to automate cross‑channel advertising workflows. The API, compatible with Amazon Ads MCP and the open Advertising Common Protocol, enables AI agents to manage campaigns on...
How AI Is Rewiring Filmmaking, And Why Craft Still Wins OneDay co-founders Samir Mallal and Bouha Kazmi are pioneering a new approach to #filmmaking that combines #AI tools with traditional craft and human #creativity . Their work demonstrates how AI...
Anthropic has alienated devs who care about using open source tools, portability between vendors and using LLM subscriptions in the tool of *their* choice This all seems deliberate: Anthropic gunning at enterprise, not caring much if these devs go elsewhere/use other...
Western Australia’s innovation landscape is receiving a multi‑pronged boost. Meshpoints has launched a challenge‑led funding model that replaces traditional open grants with targeted problem‑solving competitions. The state government has doubled its innovation grant pool to $2 million, offering up to $300,000...
What if #AI gets it wrong? One of the best things I’ve read about AI and also about benefits and service delivery. What is the harm of status quo? Of not doing anything? 🔥🔥🔥 #SNAP #GenAI
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group released a new report detailing how adversarial AI is increasingly weaponized against enterprises. The study highlights a surge in model‑extraction attacks, where threat actors query commercial LLMs like Gemini to create compact replicas, and documents AI‑enhanced...
Bell Cyber and Radware have launched an AI‑driven, cloud‑delivered security service that merges Radware’s machine‑learning application protection with Bell Cyber’s fully managed SOC operations. The offering safeguards web applications, APIs, bots and DDoS attacks for ERP and SaaS environments while...
Luzia, a Latin‑American AI assistant, moved from generic Google Display ads to Koah’s generative‑AI ad network to deliver native, context‑aware ads within its chat interface. Koah’s flexible formats—color, size, interactive polls—and hybrid CPC/CPM/CPE pricing let Luzia experiment with placement before...
The NHS is rapidly adopting AI and patient‑facing tools, yet back‑office staff such as roster managers remain stuck with outdated systems. This digital divide fuels stress, mismatched rotas, and higher temporary‑staff costs, contributing to the wider retention crisis. Trusts that...
