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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.
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By the numbers: Aria Networks raises $125M to expand AI data‑center switching
Imprivata has expanded its Enterprise Access Management platform with context‑aware passwordless authentication, AI‑powered risk signaling, and behavioral analytics. The new suite supports FIDO passkeys, facial recognition, and zero‑trust VPN‑less remote access, aiming to streamline access for frontline staff and knowledge workers. A recent Imprivata survey shows 85% of healthcare IT leaders view passwordless as mission‑critical, yet only 7% have fully adopted it, highlighting the need for integrated solutions. By unifying multiple authentication tools, Imprivata seeks to boost security, compliance, productivity, and reduce total cost of ownership.
Pinterest is shifting from a pure inspiration platform to a measurable commerce driver, according to VP of North America enterprise sales Kate Hamill. The company is leveraging visual search and AI to compress the funnel between discovery and conversion, enabling...
“OpenClaw is overhyped.” Only if you don’t know how to use it. It’s just like having a weapon you can’t wield. Most people are just not using it for max leverage. Here’s how it’s helping from a business standpoint: 1 It’s logged into ClickFlow,...
Jim Cramer highlighted NVIDIA as the primary beneficiary of the massive AI‑focused capital expenditures announced by mega‑cap technology firms. He noted that while some spend will go to Broadcom and Marvell, the bulk will flow to NVIDIA, helping the stock...
Spanish AI software firm Multiverse Computing is negotiating a €500 million financing round. The capital raise would lift its post‑money valuation above €1.5 billion. Sources said the round is slated to close in the first half of 2026 and will introduce new...
Microsoft’s 2026 Global Online Safety Survey reveals that 58% of UK residents encountered a major online risk in 2025, with fraud and cyberbullying topping the list. Generative AI usage has surged to 28% weekly, up from 9% three years earlier,...
Eudia, a Palo Alto‑based legal‑tech startup, closed a Series A round of up to $105 million in February 2025, led by General Catalyst and backed by a slate of prominent investors. The funding follows an 18‑month stealth period and comes as the company...
Upland Software launched AI Conversational Search for its Panviva Sidekick browser assistant, letting frontline agents query enterprise knowledge in plain English. The feature combines Retrieval‑Augmented Generation with large language models, pulling only from approved, compliance‑driven content to curb hallucinations. It...
Square has launched its conversational AI assistant, Square AI, for merchants in the United Kingdom, embedding the tool directly into its payments and commerce platform. The assistant blends in‑house transaction data with external signals such as weather, events and news...
French regional daily La Provence has rolled out La Provence Audio, an AI‑driven suite of four audio products that convert written stories into immersive, personalized listening experiences. The platform uses voice‑cloned actors from French AI lab Kyutai and Mistral’s personalization...
Moburst has unveiled its Growth Labs initiative, a dedicated AI innovation unit that builds, tests, and scales AI‑driven marketing solutions for its clients. The agency has embedded AI across all 29 service offerings with the help of 16 cross‑department AI...
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) released a new position paper titled “AI in Robotics,” outlining a vision where artificial intelligence inhabits its own robot bodies through “Physical AI.” The paper highlights rapid investments from U.S. tech giants, a strategic...
Communications service providers are deploying AI in billing, service configuration and revenue recognition faster than they are building governance structures. McKinsey reports that while eight‑in‑ten firms use generative AI, only one percent consider their AI strategy mature, highlighting a gap...
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s startup Entire secured a $60 million seed round, valuing the company at $300 million, the largest seed financing ever for a developer‑tool venture. Entire offers an open‑source platform that records AI‑generated code, prompts, and decision transcripts, beginning...
'Tis a very odd experience to hear your AI call itself lazy. Claude Code made an error, I caught it, I asked why it was wrong, and it told me, "Because I was being lazy about it." These are the tricky...
In this episode the host shares eight months of experience running 20+ AI agents across SaaStr's go‑to‑market function, generating $4.8 M in additional pipeline and $2.4 M in closed‑won revenue. He explains that the results are additive but require daily hands‑on management,...
Vention launched GRIIP, a generalized physical AI pipeline that automates robot cells in unstructured factories. The system combines Vention’s models with NVIDIA Isaac foundations to deliver end‑to‑end perception, pose estimation, and collision‑free planning without manual tuning. In three months of...
Armis introduced Centrix for Application Security, an AI‑driven platform that unifies vulnerability detection across the entire software development lifecycle. The solution scans source code, dependencies, container images and configuration files in unlimited languages, delivering context‑aware insights tied to the CI/CD...
Volkswagen is reviving its iconic "Drivers Wanted" campaign as a cultural statement that champions personal mobility in an era of ride‑sharing and autonomous tech. The brand’s recent Super Bowl spot reinforces this narrative, uniting dealers, employees, and partners around a...
RegASK unveiled an AI‑Assisted Label Compliance Review that checks packaging labels in seconds across major markets such as the US, EU, UK and China. The tool pairs instant AI analysis with an interactive viewer that highlights violations and links directly...
Similarweb introduced AI Studio, an AI‑powered enterprise intelligence platform built on its massive digital data repository. The solution offers conversational chat, automated deep‑research reports, and AI‑generated dashboards, allowing any employee to retrieve market insights instantly without specialized training. Beta testing...
Capitol AI announced Chester Leung as Vice President of Engineering, bolstering its leadership as the firm pushes AI tools deeper into workflows handling sensitive data. Leung brings a risk‑first mindset and extensive experience building secure, governance‑focused AI platforms, most recently...
WP Engine’s 2025 Website Traffic Trends Report shows bots now generate roughly one‑third of all web requests, with AI‑driven agents consuming up to 70% of the most expensive dynamic resources. Retail marketers must therefore optimize for two audiences: human shoppers...
Newo Inc. announced a $25 million Series A round to accelerate its AI receptionist platform for small and medium‑sized businesses. The solution provides human‑like voice, SMS and chat agents that handle calls, appointment booking, lead qualification, and handoffs using a Zero‑Hallucination Architecture....
Destro AI emerged from stealth to launch its Agentic AI Brain, a cloud‑based intelligence layer that coordinates robots and humans as a single adaptive system. The platform, powered by MothershipOS and VisionOS, provides off‑robot reasoning and on‑robot execution, enabling real‑time...
The University of Sydney’s OurFutures Institute submitted a "Youth Gambling in Australia Evidence Review" to support a $20 million funding request for a school‑based gambling‑prevention program. Senator David Pocock flagged the report as riddled with AI‑generated errors, including 21 broken or...
Versa has upgraded its Universal SASE Platform (v23.1.1) with advanced text‑analysis and OCR capabilities that can spot sensitive data hidden in documents and images, cutting false‑positive DLP alerts. The release also embeds a Model Context Protocol server, letting the Verbo...
In the All Things Product podcast, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explore Claude Code, Anthropic’s local AI coding assistant, and demonstrate how non‑engineers can integrate it into daily workflows. They contrast the browser‑based Claude with Claude Code on a personal...
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg's head of AI strategy, says artificial intelligence is now a core reality for financial services, yet regulatory frameworks lag behind. She emphasizes that responsible AI—transparent attribution, explainability, and robust guardrails—is essential for trust and competitive advantage. Bloomberg...
Nebius Group NV, the cloud‑computing spin‑off from Yandex, announced a $275 million acquisition of Tavily, a specialist in AI‑agent search technology. Tavily’s software equips autonomous agents with real‑time data retrieval for tasks such as software development and financial trading. The deal...
Smart Bricks, a London‑San Francisco proptech, announced a $5 million pre‑seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The AI‑powered platform ingests millions of data points to deliver autonomous valuation, cash‑flow forecasting, and risk modeling for real‑estate deals. It also automates the transaction workflow,...
Square announced the UK launch of SquareAI, a free conversational AI tool that helps merchants interpret sales data and make faster decisions. Blue Payment Agency expanded its services to high‑risk e‑commerce merchants selling restricted items, while Duck Creek Technologies will...
Runway, the AI video generation startup, closed a $315 million Series E round, lifting its valuation to $5.3 billion. The capital will fund the pre‑training of next‑generation world models and broaden product reach into sectors such as gaming, robotics, and climate science. Runway’s...
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Spire.AI announced Knowra, a domain‑aware Contextual AI platform that overlays a knowledge‑graph‑driven intelligence layer onto existing enterprise data and AI stacks. The solution unifies fragmented data, semantics, and business rules to deliver decision‑ready outcomes while preserving governance and explainability. Built...
DXC Technology completed an enterprise‑wide rollout of Amazon Quick, the agentic AI‑powered digital workspace, reaching 115,000 employees in 70 countries. The deployment introduced an AI Advisor used by more than 40,000 engineers, accelerating decision‑making and productivity. DXC also launched the...
IgniteTech introduced Adminio™ AI, a patent‑pending platform that automates meeting scheduling through conversational email assistants. The AI persona operates on the user’s own domain, handling calendar checks, time‑zone conversions, and multi‑party negotiations without booking links. Adminio AI integrates with Microsoft...
AI venture capital in the Middle East and North Africa surged to $858 million in 2025, representing 22% of total regional VC and 29% of all deals. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia dominated funding, absorbing 87% of AI capital,...
Enterprises are moving from speculative AI projects to strategic investments in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Small Language Models (SLMs). LLMs deliver broad, multi‑domain capabilities but demand massive data, compute, and capital, while SLMs offer domain‑specific agility with lower resource...
AI’s rapid development cycles and cross‑border collaborations are reshaping how talent moves, but U.S. immigration categories—EB‑1A (extraordinary ability) and EB‑2 NIW (national interest waiver)—still rely on stable, publicly verifiable records. The article argues that the core tension lies between AI’s...
Coveo unveiled its Hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a secure interoperability layer that links the company’s AI‑Relevance platform to leading large‑language models such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude. The MCP Server lets AI agents query Coveo’s unified content...
AI is reshaping the relationship between HR and IT, prompting record collaboration and even the creation of a new C‑suite title, chief productivity officer, that combines people and technology oversight. Leaders argue that merging the functions can speed decisions and...
A former 33‑hectare sugar refinery near Caen is slated for acquisition by Brown Fields, which plans to transform the derelict site into an AI data center. The project, estimated at €15‑€20 million, benefits from an existing 220 kV power line and a...
AI is rapidly reshaping recruitment by automating screening, scheduling, and candidate communication. SHRM research shows 85% of employers using AI report time savings and efficiency gains, while the State of Hiring 2025 report highlights that 41.2% of candidates abandon applications,...
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AI, VR or AR? What is the future of professional flight simulation & training devices? A recent RAeS Conference explored the issues. https://t.co/ZbRn47azyY https://t.co/1s7khhvPme
ON24 announced the 2025 Digital Engagement Excellence Awards, honoring firms such as Fortinet, Salesforce, and Travel Media Group for outstanding virtual event performance. Winners leveraged the ON24 Intelligent Engagement Platform to drive revenue, accelerate AI adoption, and scale personalized experiences....
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) approved a US$44.96 billion capital budget to expand advanced, mature and specialty technology capacity, upgrade packaging, and build new fabs. The plan includes upgrading its Kumamoto plant to 3‑nanometer production to meet surging AI demand. The...
Researchers benchmarked quantum‑inspired Tensor Network (QTN), Hydrodynamic Schrödinger Equation (HSE), and Physics‑Informed Neural Networks (PINN) against classical GMRES and spectral solvers for the 1‑D Burgers’ equation. The QTN solver delivered a record‑low L₂ error of 10⁻⁷ and showed near‑constant runtime...
