Know What's Happening in AI
Know What's Happening in AI
Grab launches 13 AI-powered products to lock travelers into its superapp
Grab unveiled a suite of 13 AI-driven offerings at its GrabX event, including four travel‑focused tools that provide personalized itinerary planning, instant hotel bookings, cross‑border payments and AI‑curated restaurant suggestions. The rollout aims to keep users within Grab’s ecosystem throughout their journey, leveraging a base of over 200 million airport passengers.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Aria Networks raises $125M to expand AI data‑center switching
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.19 million in Phase II SBIR grants to eight small businesses across seven states. The funding supports research in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, semiconductor, quantum and other advanced technologies, with each award ranging around $400,000. Projects span AI‑driven imaging for biopharma, quantum‑dot photon sources, PFAS exposure wristbands, and energy‑load optimization tools. Grants run for 24 months and are intended to move toward Phase III commercialization.
Out of all the things we've shipped recently, this one has been my biggest wow moment. Instant feedback from any type of user... → Create a persona that matches your real users and buyers. → An AI agent takes on...
Will China be competitive in robotics and physical AI? It sure appears that way. RynnBrain is Alibaba’s foundational AI model designed specifically for embodied intelligence—the field of AI that powers robots to interact with the physical world. Developed by Alibaba’s DAMO Academy,...
Legalgain released a whitepaper titled "Integrity Meets Intelligence" outlining structural requirements for reliable AI legal research. The report identifies three core pillars: high‑integrity legal data, domain‑specific model architecture, and agentic multi‑step workflows. It argues that many current legal AI tools...
In 2020, I hired McKinsey to teach me about the global energy transition. I learned a lot, but it cost me more than $2M. After that experience, I decided to build my own internal research project at Social Capital called Learn...
Retail is moving from a competition‑based model to an eligibility framework driven by AI shopping assistants. These assistants collapse discovery, consideration and trust into a single instant decision, asking which retailer best matches a shopper's intent. Reputation debt, lack of...
Generative AI video has leapt forward, illustrated by the “Will Smith eating spaghetti” benchmark. A recent Reddit post shows Kuaishou Technology’s Kling 3.0 producing a cinematic scene where Smith converses over spaghetti, marking a stark improvement over the pixelated 2023 ModelScope...
Kong introduced Context Mesh, a new component of its AI Connectivity platform that automatically discovers enterprise APIs, converts them into Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolkits, and deploys those tools through the AI Gateway with built‑in governance. The service leverages existing...
Bonsai Robotics unveiled four new autonomous weeding and spraying solutions on its Amiga platform at the World Ag Expo, highlighting the Amiga Flex and Amiga Max, the latter a 2026 Top 10 New Product Award winner. The roll‑out leverages partnerships with...
Retailers are pouring capital into AI to accelerate decisions, planning cycles, and cross‑functional alignment, but the technology’s effectiveness hinges on the quality of underlying data. Research from Ardent Partners shows 48% of chief procurement officers need better data visibility and...
University of Toronto researchers unveiled El Agente Quntur, a hierarchical multi‑agent AI that acts as a research collaborator for quantum‑chemical simulations. The system reasons over ORCA 6.0 documentation and scientific literature, planning, executing and analysing calculations ranging from geometry optimisations to excited‑state studies....
AutomationDirect’s Issue 58 (2026) spotlights how artificial intelligence is poised to deliver tangible ROI on plant floors, with expert Bill Makley outlining five growth avenues. The issue also promotes headless HMIs as a flexible, cost‑effective alternative to traditional panel‑mounted interfaces. Additional focus...
Mathematics for Machine Learning (47-page) An introduction from UC Berkeley Linear Algebra Calculus and Optimization Probability [📍SAVE FOR LATER] https://lnkd.in/dgziZ3xS —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
Leah, the creator of Leah Agentic OS, has teamed up with PwC UK to embed its enterprise‑grade, domain‑native agentic AI platform into global business services. The partnership combines PwC's industry and functional expertise with Leah's OS to design, deploy, and...
CFOs are reshaping 2026 budgets to favor growth‑driving functions, technology and artificial intelligence, according to Gartner’s survey of over 300 finance leaders. More than half plan higher spending on sales and IT, with 28% targeting double‑digit growth, while marketing follows...
A new study of 1,601 Americans finds that labeling a message as AI‑generated does not reduce its persuasive power compared with human‑authored or unlabeled content. Across four policy topics, AI‑crafted arguments shifted opinions by roughly 9.7 percentage points, and 92 %...
HN Companion is a free, open‑source web extension that adds AI‑generated summaries directly to Hacker News comment threads. It understands thread hierarchy, highlights key debates, and lets users jump to specific comments via a summary panel. Users can choose from...
Emberos’ AI Influence Index reveals that several Super Bowl 60 commercials are ranking highly inside AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, even when their social‑media engagement lags. The study shows social activity accounts for only 30‑45 % of...
Lunos spent $3,500 to stage a cowboy lasso stunt in front of Manhattan’s Wall Street bull, using the spectacle to promote its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable automation. The move reflects a broader trend where AI startups, amid a market of over 90,000...
The post argues that a well‑crafted creative brief is the missing link for producing higher‑quality AI‑generated images. By supplying AI tools with detailed project context, goals, audience, and visual guidelines, users can achieve results that match human designers’ expectations. The...
Precisely introduced StreetPro Discover, a dataset that converts complex street attributes into human‑readable text for large language models. The offering replaces cryptic codes with clear, searchable descriptions, enabling plain‑language queries across delivery, risk, and urban‑planning use cases. By delivering "Agentic‑Ready"...
The article presents an architecture that replaces manual ticket dispatch with a machine‑learning core and a real‑time workload scheduler. Historical ticket data is vectorized with TF‑IDF and classified via Logistic Regression to predict the best resolver. Availability is verified through...
AI adoption on the plant floor is accelerating in 2026 as edge processors, standardized data pipelines, and emerging governance frameworks remove long‑standing barriers. Manufacturers can now run deep‑learning models locally, achieve millisecond decision times, and integrate clean, contextual data via...
Saga.xyz, originally a blockchain scaling protocol, is pivoting to AI by creating licensed AI agents that embody well‑known film, TV and video‑game characters. The company plans to launch agents for major IP through licensing deals, initially targeting video‑game versions of...
Over 20 no‑code AI app builders were evaluated, with seven emerging as production‑ready. Platforms like Zite, Bubble, FlutterFlow, Figma Make, Base44, ToolJet and Glide each excel in specific use cases, from business workflows to native mobile apps. Zite stands out...
Rowboat is an open‑source, local‑first AI coworker that continuously harvests email, calendar and meeting‑note data to build a persistent knowledge graph stored as plain‑text Markdown. The system uses that graph to generate context‑aware artifacts such as slide decks, meeting briefs,...
Linkup announced a $10 million seed round headed by Gradient, with participation from Elaia, Seedcamp and several angel investors. The San Francisco‑Paris startup offers an API that feeds AI systems with real‑time, verifiable web information, moving beyond static training datasets. Founded by...
A new artificial‑intelligence model has been unveiled that dramatically improves the detection of microbial and chemical contaminants in food products. Leveraging multimodal imaging, hyperspectral data, and deep‑learning algorithms, the system reports a 98% detection accuracy across a range of common...
Airrived has been named a Gartner Tech Innovator in Agentic AI, highlighted for its composable multi‑agent architecture and domain‑specialized cybersecurity agents. The company’s Agentic OS offers a no‑code platform with pre‑built agents and tools such as RAG, RLHF and LoRA...
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite AI, announced a $75 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from existing backers and new investor TIAA Ventures. The capital will fuel expansion of its AI‑driven compliance platform, which automates high‑volume...
Insilico Medicine and China Medical System Holdings (CMS) announced a multi‑project partnership to apply Insilico’s Pharma.AI platform to drug discovery for central nervous system and autoimmune diseases. The AI system promises to deliver preclinical candidates within 12‑18 months, a dramatic...
For our free newsletter this week, we talk about the significance of World Models. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. World Models are AI systems that learn how an environment changes over time so an agent can predict what happens...
"Coding will be practically solved for everyone within six months." That's the most important line in this talk. It will continue to unleash unbelievable acceleration in what people can build. But it's going to lead to tons of AI...
Mozilla announced that Firefox 148 will let users enable or disable individual AI features such as translation, tab grouping, and chatbot sidebars. The move is part of a broader “rebel alliance” strategy outlined in the State of Mozilla report, aiming to...
Vega Security announced a $120 million Series B round, lifting its valuation to $700 million. The Boston‑based startup aims to overturn the traditional SIEM model by analyzing security data where it already resides—in cloud services, data lakes, and existing storage—using an AI‑native platform....
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says AI coding assistants haven’t accelerated enterprise software delivery because developers spend only 10‑20% of their day writing code. The remaining 80‑90% involves reviews, pipeline runs, security and compliance checks that remain untouched by AI. GitLab’s...
Former GitHub CEO launches Entire, a developer platform built for AI agents, backed by a $60 million seed round led by Felicis. The company’s first offering is an open‑source CLI that records agent context as versioned "Checkpoints" alongside Git commits. Entire...
Supply chain network SPS Commerce launched MAX, an agentic AI suite embedded in its platform, to automate and coordinate retail trading workflows. MAX offers Chat, Monitor, and Connect capabilities that surface risks, guide resolutions, and interact with external systems via...
Safer Internet Day 2026 spotlighted the safe, responsible use of AI, prompting VPN leaders to embed privacy into generative tools. Proton introduced Lumo, an open‑source chatbot that encrypts every conversation and refuses to train on user data. ExpressVPN announced ExpressAI,...
There is a strategic difference between creating advantage and assuming responsibility. Mission-critical systems of record are designed to manage compliance, auditability, and operational consistency across industries. Replacing them with AI-built alternatives transfers that responsibility to internal teams for the life...
The decentralized AI revolution that @openclaw started has gotten a ton of innovation kicked off. @Team9_ai is a great example of the ripple effects.
Robo.ai Inc. and DaBoss.AI Inc. have signed a definitive joint‑venture agreement to create a distributed embodied‑intelligence data platform headquartered in the UAE. The venture will tackle data scale, acquisition cost and compliance challenges by deploying a dual‑engine methodology that blends...
Yeah, in an ideal world, we would use AI to enable experts to do higher-quality work. But in the real world, they are also expected take on a wide range of additional responsibilities that detract (& distract) from their core work.
Most office work is boring... AI is already making it fun again. Not only is it helping automate work, but people are also gamifying work. Have seen people build sales leaderboards with Replit and video games to help you clear...
Alibaba Tongyi Lab unveiled Zvec, an open‑source, in‑process vector database designed for edge and on‑device retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) workloads. Marketed as the “SQLite of vector databases,” it runs as a library inside the host application, eliminating the need for external...
About 65% of $SPGI's (down >20% over past month) pre-tax earnings come from ratings & indices. The potential challenge that AI poses to S&P's analytics/consulting/intel business is something I get. But I don't understand AI's bear case for ratings & indices,...
Openclaw tip: ask it to build a chrome extension for you - then you can easily send page info, screenshots, cookie information, you name it, right to your agent while browsing the web. Super helpful to turn inspo into roadmap.
Mistral AI has re‑engineered its alerting pipeline by treating monitoring definitions as code, using Terraform as the single source of truth. The approach automatically generates synthetic checks for every model capability, tags them for ownership, and enforces deterministic routing. By...
Software earnings have been quite resilient, yet prices have collapsed over AI worries. As a result, multiples are the cheapest they've been since 2014. Sometimes things are cheap for a reason, but what if this is another DeepSeek moment? Nice charts...
The Zettlab D6 Ultra is a six‑bay NAS built around an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H processor, offering dual 10 GbE and USB4 connectivity and optional 32 GB DDR5 memory. Its ZettOS platform supports Docker, VMs, and local AI model hosting via Intel AI...
