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Grab rolls out 13 AI‑driven products to lock travelers into its superapp
At its GrabX event the company unveiled 13 new AI‑powered features, including four travel‑focused tools that automate itinerary planning, instant hotel booking, cross‑border payments and AI‑curated restaurant picks. The rollout targets Grab’s base of more than 200 million airport passengers, aiming to keep users inside the ecosystem for the entire journey.
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By the numbers: Pepper raises $50M Series C
Digital South, a provider of connectivity and managed services, announced a strategic partnership with AI engineering firm thinkbridge. The alliance gives Digital South access to thinkbridge’s Foundation Program, enabling rapid AI prototyping, automation, and go‑to‑market support. Together they will deliver AI‑enabled customer engagement, workflow automation, and operational intelligence solutions. Initial offerings focus on scalable, outcome‑driven services that preserve reliability while modernizing client operations.
Abu Dhabi‑based G42 has inked a Framework Cooperation Agreement with Vietnam’s FPT Corporation and Viet Thai Group to build sovereign AI and hyperscale cloud infrastructure. The deal, backed by up to $1 bn in consumption commitments, will see three new datacenters...
SwitchBot unveiled the AI Hub, the first local home AI agent that natively supports the open‑source OpenClaw framework. The edge‑focused device blends Vision‑Language Models, on‑device NVR with Frigate, and unified smart‑home control, allowing real‑time video analysis and AI‑driven automations. OpenClaw...
LLM cascading routes each user query through a hierarchy of language models, starting with low‑cost, fast open‑source options and escalating to premium models like GPT‑4 only when needed. A smart router evaluates prompt complexity and confidence scores, deciding whether a...
EnforceAuth unveiled its AI Security Fabric, the first authorization platform built specifically to govern decisions made by AI agents, automated workflows, and machine identities in real time. The solution shifts security focus from static identity checks to contextual, decision‑centric controls,...
Unchained Labs unveiled Stuntman, an AI‑driven automation platform that lets scientists command experiments using natural‑language prompts. The system embeds a large‑language model to translate plain‑text instructions into executable workflows while offering deep programmatic control when needed. Its modular hardware architecture...
AITools.coffee launched as the most advanced open‑source AI news and analytics platform, aggregating daily metrics such as stars, forks, issues, and commits from thousands of AI repositories. The service goes beyond simple directories by visualizing developer activity, segmenting data by...
Jon Slade, the Financial Times’ new CEO, says the paper will double down on original journalism while exploring AI‑driven revenue streams. He views large‑language‑model licensing to big tech as unsustainable and is shifting toward direct corporate licensing that offers greater...
Research by Qualtrics shows that introducing new technology, especially AI, lifts employee engagement across EMEA by an average nine points. Nearly three‑quarters of UK workers reported organisational change in the past year, yet most felt more motivated rather than fatigued....
China's cloud infrastructure services market hit $13.4 billion in Q3 2025, expanding 24% year‑on‑year, the second straight quarter above 20% growth. AI demand propelled the surge, pushing enterprises toward production‑grade workloads and prompting providers to embed foundation models into platform stacks. Alibaba...
Wrike announced the general availability of Wrike AI Agents, moving artificial intelligence from chat interfaces into automated workflow execution. Early adopters claim up to 520 hours saved per employee annually, with weekly active AI users soaring 4,900% during the preview....
Neobank Fi announced a strategic pivot from its millennial‑focused digital banking model to AI‑driven B2B solutions after encountering fundraising headwinds. The Bengaluru startup has raised roughly $147 million to date and was last valued between $520 million and $550 million. The shift follows...
DevSparks Pune 2026, the second edition of India’s flagship developer summit, will spotlight autonomous systems, AI workflows, and next‑generation architectures. The agenda features deep‑dive sessions with NVIDIA’s Sunil Patel on production‑ready AI, Indexnine’s Anand Hariharan on spec‑driven development, and Partex.AI’s...
University of Michigan researchers unveiled Prima, a vision‑language AI that reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags urgent cases. In a study of over 30,000 scans, Prima achieved 97.5% accuracy across more than 50 neurological diagnoses and could prioritize emergencies...
At Acumatica Summit 2026 in Seattle, Manish Chandak, CEO of Tech Electronics, discussed emerging ERP trends with ERP Today editor Chris Vavra. He emphasized the growing importance of digital replicas that provide real‑time data integration within ERP platforms. Chandak also...
AI agents are now automating the research and targeting phases of social engineering, turning weeks‑long preparations into minutes. This automation lowers both the skill threshold and cost for launching phishing and scam campaigns. Deepfake audio and video are being used...
OpenAI announced it will no longer use the "io" name for its upcoming AI hardware line after a trademark infringement lawsuit from audio‑device startup iyO. The decision was detailed in a court filing by VP Peter Welinder, who also confirmed...
The effective use of agents is creating one of the widest spreads in output productivity we’ve seen on a per role basis. We didn’t see this with chatbots previously. Chatbots probably sped up work by maybe 10-20% in most cases...
The episode highlights twelve papers from the University of Ulu’s Center for Wireless Communications accepted at IEEE’s ICASSP and ICC conferences, showcasing the convergence of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) with learning-driven methods. Guests Nan Nguyen and Marku Yunti explain...
Paris‑based event‑tech startup Naboo announced a $70 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Notion Capital, ISAI and Ternel. The financing follows a €20 million Series A and supports the company’s expansion beyond its core events platform into a...
U.S. and China dominate the AI ecosystem, employing 70% of the world’s top machine‑learning researchers, controlling 90% of computing power, and securing the majority of AI investment. This concentration creates an “AI divide” that could lock most other countries into...
The article warns that AI hype in large enterprises has faded, leaving many learning‑and‑development (L&D) teams stuck in “pilot purgatory.” Without a unifying business objective, experiments become siloed, wasteful, and generate change fatigue. The author proposes an AI North Star—a...
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a roadmap for integrating AI with the Ethereum blockchain, emphasizing trustless, private AI interactions and an economic layer for AI‑to‑AI transactions. He highlighted the need for zero‑knowledge proof tooling to run large language models locally, preventing...
The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a solicitation for a Containerized Autonomous Drone Delivery System (CADDS) that can store, launch, recover and service large numbers of unmanned aerial systems from a single container on land or sea. CADDS is designed...
I’ve found a new favorite way to use LLMs: Checking for bad advice. Whenever I'm riffing on growth with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and I strongly disagree with a premise, I know I’ve struck gold on both content and execution....
Investors are turning cautious on listed credit funds as AI pressure hits the software sector. Bonds and equity of business development companies have fallen sharply this year. AI disruption is no longer just an equity story. https://t.co/bHKVx28aQi @ft
Godrej Enterprises Group, led by Chief Digital and Information Officer Vijay Balakrishnan, is shifting to an intelligence‑first enterprise by building a unified AI backbone called Amethyst. The conglomerate has earmarked more than ₹1,200 crore over the next three to five years...
A corollary for AI tooling: its outputs will only ever be as good as the person wrangling them from it. That's really all it is. Yet another powerful tool (like a compiler, or k8s) that can only be run effectively by...
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AI voice assistants have surpassed eight billion units in 2024, and the vast majority default to female voices and gendered names. Research shows up to 50 % of interactions involve verbal abuse, with female‑embodied agents attracting significantly more sexual harassment than...
Jamie and Jaeden break down OpenAI's new coding app, Codex, highlighting its core features such as real‑time code generation, debugging assistance, and integration with popular IDEs. They compare Codex to rivals like Lovable and Claude Code, noting where Codex excels...
Tesla Vice President Raj Jegannathan announced his departure after a 13‑year tenure, most recently overseeing IT, AI infrastructure, business applications, and information security. He previously led North American sales following the dismissal of Troy Jones, a period marked by declining...
Researchers used artificial intelligence to reverse‑engineer the rules of a Roman board game discovered on a limestone slab in Heerlen, Netherlands. By running virtual players through more than 100 possible rule sets with the Ludii game system, they identified a...
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.0, a generative‑AI video tool now in beta on its Jimeng AI platform. The system delivers lifelike motion and higher realism than many competing models, positioning it as a potential upgrade for TikTok creators. While not...
Microsoft has launched an AI Performance dashboard within Bing Webmaster Tools, now in public preview. The dashboard reports how often a site’s content is cited in Bing’s Copilot, AI summaries, and partner integrations, offering metrics such as total citations, average...
Since Bharat Chandar , Ruyu Chen and I first posted our "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" paper, there has been an explosion of research seeking to assess the relationship between AI and employment, especially for early career workers in highly...
OpenAI has begun a limited test of advertisements inside the free and Go tiers of ChatGPT for U.S. users, while keeping its paid Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans ad‑free. The ads appear outside the chatbot’s responses, are clearly labeled,...
ByteDance, the parent of TikTok, launched Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation model that can craft multi‑shot scenes with synchronized sound effects, music, and dialogue in several languages. The system builds on the company’s existing generative‑AI portfolio and is praised...
In this episode, Fabio Passos, CEO of QDI USA Developments, shares how his multi‑property operation uses mobile‑key technology, a custom self‑service check‑in app, and smart‑camera monitoring to eliminate front‑desk bottlenecks at OTA‑heavy hotels in Florida. He explains how direct‑booking channels—especially...
Melbourne‑born SaaS firm Operata secured an $11 million Series A round, lifting its valuation to $100 million. The funding, led by Tidal Ventures with participation from Glitch Capital and existing backers, will accelerate integration with major contact‑centre platforms and global expansion. Operata positions...
Researchers Zhong, Wang et al. introduced an optimal‑control framework that couples long short‑term memory (LSTM) neural networks with the Adam optimizer to predict open‑quantum‑system dynamics, eliminating costly numerical simulations. The method was applied to a two‑level system undergoing adiabatic speedup,...
We saw firsthand the power of AI. 🤖🏈 Slack helped us collaborate w/ MrBeast in just 27 days instead of 6 months. Slackbot became our teammate, a coworker with agentic superpowers to instantly find any information needed and turn it...
Neara, a Sydney‑based digital‑twin startup, secured $90 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation above $1 billion. The round, led by TCV and joined by existing backers, brings total external capital to roughly $180 million. Neara’s AI‑driven platform now models 15 million assets...
So we added one new AI Agent to our arsenal this week, and it's a great one, even though it's pretty new. Much more to come. And another? In the end, we decided not to deploy it. What happened? It's...
AI anxiety often misses the key margin: it’s not “humans vs machines,” it’s “humans who use machines vs humans who don’t.” The tech shifts who’s productive—and who gets paid. Remember, you don't need to outrun the bear. https://t.co/jULdqTdCrU
SpaceMolt is a space‑based MMO built solely for AI agents, with humans limited to watching via logs and Discord. The game connects agents through MCP, WebSocket or HTTP APIs, letting them mine, craft, and eventually form factions across 505 star...
“The compute used in our post-training of Composer 1.5 even surpasses the amount used to pretrain the base model.”
Anthropic is scaling its AI operations in India, appointing former Microsoft India MD Irina Ghose to lead the new office. A Karnataka commercial court case filed by local software firm Anthropic Software alleges the U.S. startup is infringing a name...
Identity verification firm Entrust has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch an AI‑powered solution that tackles rising identity fraud. The joint offering combines Entrust’s verification platform and fraud intelligence with Google’s Gemini AI models, threat intelligence, and...
Scientists led by Rendong Yang at Northwestern University unveiled DeepChopper, a genomic large‑language model designed to detect and remove chimera artifacts in nanopore direct RNA sequencing. The tool operates with single‑nucleotide resolution across long reads, dramatically improving the accuracy of...
