
Nutanix pivots to an “agentic infrastructure” platform for AI workloads
Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says the company is shifting from a hyper‑converged hardware vendor to a platform that runs today’s apps and tomorrow’s AI workloads, stressing higher GPU utilization and cost‑per‑token economics. A strategic partnership with AMD is part of the move to tighten integration with a growing partner ecosystem.
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OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a full‑service commerce platform by expanding its Instant Checkout feature and launching the open‑source Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). The company has integrated payments through Stripe and PayPal and added grocery ordering via Instacart, initially supporting single‑item U.S. purchases. ACP standardizes AI‑merchant interactions, allowing secure catalog access and tokenized payments. OpenAI’s roadmap includes multi‑item carts, international rollout, and broader merchant onboarding, signaling a new revenue stream beyond subscriptions.

As AI Agents Take on Tasks in the Real World, New Risks Emerge By 2026, human website visits drop 20% while machine-initiated traffic surges 40%. Zero-click economy emerging where personal AI negotiates on your behalf. Banks must authenticate agents, not just...

Policloud, a French AI‑focused cloud startup, announced a plan to deploy up to 1,000 sovereign micro‑data centers by 2030, delivering more than 250,000 GPUs. The company has already installed eight sites across France, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United...

A new study by the University of Surrey and Tsinghua University shows AI‑driven sleep modes, intelligent hardware, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces can dramatically reduce 5G network emissions. The research demonstrates that granular sleep states and “cluster zooming” in cell‑free massive...

Feature stores have moved from niche tools to core infrastructure for operational machine‑learning, providing a single source of truth for features used in both training and online inference. The concept was coined by Uber in 2017 and commercialized by Tecton...

Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google Brain and Anthropic engineers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, closed a $300 million Series A and a $35 million seed round, totaling $335 million, at a $4 billion valuation within four months of launch. The startup builds an AI‑driven...
I could work with 1 single Claude Code tab if it responded 100x as fast But now it takes 1-3 minutes sometimes Once that's 1-3 seconds it's fast enough for me to just keep going in a single tab But now I get...

I did some digging with the help of ChatGPT and Claude Here are 4 tech areas you can still explore in 2026 backed by data: • AI/ML – Data Analytics falls here • Cloud & Infrastructure • Security & Governance • Data Engineering Let me...
The construction sector is leveraging 4D BIM as a storytelling tool that merges models with schedules to visualize project timelines. Real‑world cases show staging time reductions of up to 66% and optimized material delivery sequences, especially on constrained sites. Bentley...
Cooked? We've already restructured for this. AI handles our creative asset generation for brands with bulky products or no in-house studio. We use it for double-checking spreadsheets and finding growth targets from long data sets too. It’s great for forecast...
Also I added this shortcut, and I just run it with "cc" It's essentially how OpenClaw runs, it just keeps going and it really saves having to give permissions endlessly (makes you slow) I run this only while working on Hoodmaps on...

SK Hynix unveiled H³, a hybrid architecture that couples high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) with high‑bandwidth flash (HBF) on a single interposer to accelerate large‑language‑model (LLM) inference. HBF provides up to 16× the capacity of HBM while maintaining comparable bandwidth, serving as...

Finally trying 4x Claude Code's on server in one @TermiusHQ, really nice and you don't have to fiddle with shortcuts, just drag your existing terminal tabs into this and arrange it Nicer to work for me cause I can work on...
Someone just asked me what type of work I'm doing most these days and I explained it as this: I'm a fractional editorial lead of sorts right now: the point person who works closely with either a content engineer, in-house content...
Spotify announced it is building a proprietary music‑generation AI platform that can produce remixes, covers, and other derivative works. The company has provided no details on the recordings or datasets used to train the models, leaving open the possibility that...
I want you to spend your next 24 hours being 10x more vigilant on the things around you that AI is not amazing at today (and/or would be hard or expensive to overhaul in process improvements). Why? There are still...

In mid‑2025 Snowflake rolled out its GTM AI Assistant to roughly 6,000 sales and marketing users, handling over 330,000 questions by year‑end. The project grew from a single data scientist to a multi‑disciplinary team, using a phased launch that prioritized...

it’s kind of wild that clawdbot, clearly named after @anthropicai’s mascot claw’d, went viral at the same time claude code was getting lots of attention… got away with changing from clawd to (open)claw which then openai was able to acquire, and can...

Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/31uzXeX8YJ 1️⃣ He Built OpenAI's Competitor in One Month Then Joined Them - @steipete 2️⃣ Leaving Parties at 9:30 for Agents - @nikunj 3️⃣ Sega's Criminal Origin Story - Bradford Morgan White 4️⃣ Finance Can't Figure Out AI - @BrookerBelcourt 5️⃣ Cognitive Debt...

Cendyn has released a downloadable guide titled “Is Your Hotel Website Ready for AI‑driven Travelers?” that outlines how hotels must redesign their sites for both human guests and AI search engines in 2026. The guide details UX, content structuring, trust‑building...
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round, led by GIC and Coatue, pushing its post‑money valuation to $380 billion. The financing includes more than 30 investors, among them Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and major sovereign and institutional funds. Proceeds will accelerate frontier...

One thing I'm realizing as I get more in the weeds with @claudeai (+ now @AirOpsHQ) is how important things like detailed brand kits are if you want quality outputs. This week's newsletter is about how to make sure you're...
AM Group, the green‑energy conglomerate behind AM Green, announced a $25 billion investment to build a 1‑gigawatt high‑performance compute hub powered entirely by renewable energy. The first two phases – 150 MW and 200 MW – will be sited in Uttar Pradesh, with 350 MW...
Thinking a lot about AI security vs traditional security. Do we actually need a separate AI policy, or should this live inside the security and governance structures we already have? To answer this we need to consider how AI and...
The latest EDRM weekly letter highlights two pivotal court rulings: client‑self‑help AI documents were deemed non‑privileged and AI hallucinations prompted Rule 11 sanctions. It also promotes the ComplexDiscovery Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey, which benchmarks AI‑driven pricing models. Upcoming webinars and podcasts...

Backbase and Plaid have announced a partnership that embeds Plaid’s secure, real‑time financial data connectivity into Backbase’s AI‑powered Banking Platform. The joint solution tackles data fragmentation, streamlines onboarding, and delivers a 360‑degree view of customers’ financial health. It replaces fragile...

AI video generators have matured from glitch‑filled demos to production‑grade tools, and five platforms now dominate 2026. Seedance 2.0 lets creators act as directors by blending images, video, and audio inputs for photorealistic physics. OpenAI Sora 2 focuses on social‑media...
Seedance 1.0: The Next Leap in AI Video Generation In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore Seedance 1.0, a new foundation model from ByteDance that is pushing the boundaries of AI-generated video. Positioned at the top of...

Ottonomy introduced its Made‑in‑India autonomous delivery ecosystem at the India AI Impact Summit. The solution combines Level‑4 Ottobot delivery robots, Arrive AI’s smart storage “Arrive Points,” and Skyeair Mobility’s drone logistics. Powered by an AI‑driven autonomy stack, the system can...
Tesla’s much‑hyped Robotaxi pilot in Austin has stalled, fielding only about 42 Model Y vehicles instead of the promised 500. Availability sits at roughly 19% of operating hours, and the service shuts down in rain, while crash rates are nine times...

Jacaruso Enterprises unveiled Lead Shark, an AI‑driven SaaS platform tailored for hotel sales teams. The tool consolidates prospecting, verified contact intelligence, market data and competitor analysis to accelerate outreach. Built on two decades of hotel sales experience, it serves both...

Talksign, a Nigeria‑UK AI startup, unveiled Talksign-1, a foundation model that converts American Sign Language (ASL) into speech and text in under 100 milliseconds and vice‑versa. The system recognises 250 ASL signs via a standard webcam, achieving 84.7% accuracy on...
🚨 Track your brand's real consideration and demand in AI search. 🚨 This is, without a doubt, the biggest Storybook product release, and one I've been developing since I first launched the platform. The question of AI search has come...
cloud models will always be more intelligent, so the end-game for local models is something small that knows how to get the information it needs a tool-calling model just smart enough to get the information it needs and act

Rank Street Marketing has launched a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) service suite aimed at helping local businesses secure visibility in AI‑driven answer engines such as Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The offering expands traditional local SEO by optimizing Google Business Profiles,...
Underestimated moment of agency/leverage is that many systems are being redesigned for AI & fluid for the first time in a long time (how do you hire? How does scientific publishing work?) That creates an opening for small groups to set...

This is where #AI + #IoT + #robotics become mission-critical. Robots that understand their environment don’t just move faster, they save lives. MIT just unveiled a breakthrough that lets search-and-rescue robots rapidly map large, unpredictable spaces in real time. @MITAeroAstro @MITEngineering #MWC26...

Microsoft has launched a public‑preview Security Dashboard for AI, consolidating posture and real‑time risk signals from Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Purview into a single interface. The tool inventories AI assets—including models, agents, and third‑party applications—and surfaces AI‑related security risks in...

Gemini’s split-screen upgrade is here, and it's not just for tablets anymore Gemini can now read your other apps in split screen — no overlay needed. ✅ Details and demo - https://t.co/pl9uA5FBL4 https://t.co/yrbjwraKjP

When the LLM rewrites the radiology report, patient understanding is increased and clinical accuracy is maintained. @LancetDigitalH @curtlanglotz @smrabd https://t.co/q2UHebBQG7 https://t.co/IwZAx59brY
In this episode, Andrea Iorio explains that AI is more likely to automate individual tasks than whole jobs, prompting leaders to rethink role design and workflow. He highlights a global HR survey showing 93% of HR leaders now prioritize soft...

Precision treatment with artificial intelligence assisted subtyping enhances therapeutic efficacy in HR+/HER2− breast cancer: The LINUXtrial https://t.co/UF4Lt3g5QK https://t.co/LWuJYD2qGh
The real fear is not replacement. It’s ownership of knowledge. AI systems are capturing workflows, decisions and expertise that once lived inside employees’ heads. The strategic question is no longer who loses a job, but who controls the institutional intelligence being built....

Researchers at LayerX uncovered 30 malicious Chrome extensions masquerading as AI assistants, collectively amassing over 260,000 downloads. These extensions embed attacker‑controlled iframes that capture user prompts, emails, and webpage data, then relay them to remote servers while returning plausible AI...
Most AI companies spend millions on R&D, then hide the results in dusty PDFs. The real winners? Publish research → turn it into blog posts, videos, social posts → distribute relentlessly. Visibility > velocity. https://t.co/PNytCOQeuq

AI applications have the capacity to revolutionise the way we produce & consume energy Today AI is helping power utilities optimise operations like equipment maintenance & replacements, as well improving fault prevention & detection More 👉 https://t.co/j1qWzqgCEL @IEA #AI #IoT #5G #MWC26

Resecurity, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, showcased its AI‑driven threat detection suite at AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026, an event held under President Abdel‑Fattah El‑Sisi’s patronage and organized by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. In partnership with Alkan CIT/Alkan Telecom, the company...
Docker Sandboxes introduced a new "shell" sandbox type that provides an interactive Ubuntu microVM with preinstalled development tools. The guide demonstrates running the Claude‑powered NanoClaw WhatsApp assistant inside this sandbox, isolating its filesystem and credentials. By mounting only a workspace...
My son showed me one of the overflow vulnerabilities found in FFmpeg by Google/Deepmind’s security AI agents. I was thinking about how hard these things are to find, and at least this one didn’t seem deep — just required enormous...