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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
OpenAI has begun testing advertisements inside ChatGPT for logged‑in adult users on the Free and Go tiers in the United States. Ads are labeled as "sponsored," matched to conversation topics, and do not affect the model’s answers. Higher‑priced tiers such as Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education remain ad‑free. Users under 18 and sensitive subjects are exempt, and free users can opt out by accepting fewer daily messages.
Joseph Lazzarotti warns that AI‑driven notetakers, while promising efficiency gains, are spawning a wave of HR challenges. In his Fortune commentary, he highlights privacy concerns, consent gaps, and potential discrimination liabilities when recordings are mishandled. He argues that without clear...
Reltio, a context‑intelligence platform, earned the Amazon Web Services Financial Services Industry Competency, confirming its secure, compliant data solutions for banks, insurers, and capital‑markets firms. The badge follows prior competencies in Travel & Hospitality and Life Sciences and validates Reltio’s...
Researchers unveiled a quantum‑inspired tensor‑train defence that safeguards clinical prediction models from privacy attacks while retaining predictive accuracy and interpretability. Experiments on logistic‑regression and shallow neural‑network models, including the public LORIS immunotherapy predictor, showed severe data leakage under white‑box access...
Amazon Web Services announced a $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan through 2026, with networking as a primary focus to support its AI push. The company is trialing hollow‑core fiber in a handful of locations to extend latency‑critical inter‑zone links, while a newly...
You wrote something important. Your team pasted it into AI and asked what you meant. And that bothers you. Here's why. You're writing for people who don't exist. The ones who sit down, read 20 pages, absorb it, and execute...
Three upcoming events worth checking out for anyone building or investing: 🤖 Lead Your Team With AI - February 24, virtual A practical session on how founders can effectively use AI to lead their teams. Featuring Doug Peete, CPO at https://t.co/Wcl0Ro2nMv 🤝...
Investors are confronting a new capital‑allocation landscape as hyper‑scale cloud firms pour record capex into AI infrastructure, squeezing the cash traditionally earmarked for share buybacks. The article argues that despite this shift, the market’s largest shareholder – passive index funds...
Kudos to Ohio for the potential for a bill to declare AI systems nonsentient. Not a big fan of using the term Apartheid in any way in reference to the bill, however as you can't deny rights to non sentient...
In this 27‑minute episode, Braille instructor and consultant Robyn Hughes shares her professional background and personal journey as a Braille reader, highlighting how AI and large language models are transforming accessibility for the visually impaired. She explains the ways AI...
Snapchat has introduced an AI‑powered Lens in partnership with luxury fashion house Gucci, allowing users to transform their selfies into six distinct Gucci outfit styles. The generative‑AI experience goes beyond traditional AR overlays by fully reimagining the user’s image rather...
UK chip startup Fractile announced a £100 million expansion across its Bristol and London sites, creating a national industrial hardware engineering hub and adding 40 new roles to its 70‑person team. The company claims its in‑memory compute architecture can run AI...
Waymo announced a $16 billion financing round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $126 billion. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and other heavyweight firms. Alphabet...
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Harvey, the legal‑AI startup, is reportedly negotiating a $200 million raise that would push its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore’s GIC. This follows a rapid funding series: a $300 million Series D at $3 billion, a $300 million Series E at $5 billion, and...
Carrier has launched “Tell Me More,” a generative AI add‑on to its Abound Insights platform that translates predictive alerts into plain‑language explanations, recommended actions, and impact assessments. The feature is built on AI models trained with technical manuals and real‑time...
Baran Ozkan, CEO of Flagright, argues that financial‑crime compliance must evolve from rule‑heavy checklists to an AI‑native operating system that delivers real‑time risk decisions. By giving compliance teams controllable, transparent workflows, Flagright reduced false‑positive alerts from 99.1% to 15.3% and...
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇 As a founder, I was drowning in information: • Scrolling Twitter for hours • Checking 20+ sites for tech news...
Google is beta-testing a Gemini feature called “Import AI chats” that lets users upload conversation histories from ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, preserving context for continued interactions. The tool would store imported chats in the user’s Gemini activity and...
Segway Navimow unveiled its 2026 X4 series, adding LiDAR‑based navigation and the proprietary Xero‑Turn mechanism to handle tight pivots without damaging grass. The CEO, George Ren, said the market’s new benchmark is "senseless intelligence," meaning robots must act like invisible gardeners...
UAE fintech Omnispay closed a $2 million pre‑Series A round led by Infinity Value Capital to accelerate its AI‑native SME finance platform. The company, which cut settlement times to 24 hours, has doubled its customer base, quadrupled processing volume and lifted revenue 5.5‑fold...
Oracle Corp.’s shares jumped up to 12% on Monday, marking the stock’s strongest intraday gain since September 10. The rally was sparked by news that U.S. tech giants, led by Amazon’s $200 billion capex commitment for data centers and chips, are accelerating...
Researchers have introduced Consensus‑Entanglement‑Aware Scheduling (CEAS), a framework that jointly optimizes consensus protocols and entanglement allocation for distributed quantum neural networks. By weighting model updates with fidelity estimates and treating Bell pairs as a schedulable resource, CEAS achieves theoretical convergence...
Arrow Electronics reported a strong Q4 2025, with sales climbing 20% to $8.746 billion and net income nearly doubling to $195 million. Full‑year revenue reached $30.85 billion, up 10%, while net income rose 46% to $571 million. Executives said AI, edge computing and data‑center...
A SALT.agency study of 2,318 URLs cited by Google’s AI Mode found no correlation between a text’s above‑the‑fold position and its likelihood of being quoted. Researchers measured pixel depth across travel, e‑commerce and SaaS verticals and observed citations from deep...
Anthropic is nearing the close of a $20 billion financing round that values the AI startup at $350 billion, more than double its original target. The bulk of the capital is expected from strategic partners Nvidia and Microsoft, alongside a slate of...
Deutsche Telekom has opened an Nvidia‑powered AI factory at the Polarise data centre in Munich’s Tucherpark, installing roughly 10,000 Blackwell GPUs including DGX B200 and RTX PRO systems. The facility, branded the Industrial AI Cloud, underpins the ‘Germany Stack’ – a sovereign...
OpenAI has surfaced a detailed ad‑settings panel for ChatGPT, revealing separate History and Interests tabs, privacy safeguards, and user‑controlled personalization toggles. The interface assures advertisers never access chat content, IP addresses, or personal identifiers, and lets users delete ad data...
Mastercard’s Decision Intelligence Pro (DI Pro) uses a sub‑300 ms recurrent neural network to assign risk scores to each payment transaction in real time. The platform treats fraud detection as an "inverse recommender" problem, comparing current merchant behavior to historical patterns. By...
Artificial intelligence has moved from experiment to consumer expectation in retail, with AI agents, search, and checkout now standard features. However, MIT research shows 95% of generative AI pilots fail because of fragmented product data, leading to poor recommendations. Inaccurate...
Edge provider Pulsant has completed a £10 million expansion of its Milton Keynes data centre, adding a 1.2 MW data hall optimized for high‑density AI workloads. The new facility is part of the company’s platformEDGE network, which now spans 14 edge sites...
Alphabet announced a $175‑$185 billion AI‑focused capital plan for 2026, positioning artificial intelligence as the backbone of its commerce, cloud and enterprise offerings. The company highlighted intense compute constraints as it scales Gemini, which now handles over 10 billion tokens per minute...
InfiniMind, a Tokyo‑based startup founded by former Google Japan executives Aza Kai and Hiraku Yanagita, is building enterprise‑grade video‑intelligence infrastructure to turn petabytes of unused footage into searchable data. The company raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by UTEC and...
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Manufacturing, a suite of pre‑built AI agent templates designed for manufacturers. The solution promises to scale operations without adding headcount by automating routine ERP tasks. Achyut Jajoo, Salesforce’s SVP and GM, highlighted the necessity for ERP systems...
I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...
Lawmakers are evaluating whether the federal government should intervene to mitigate AI‑related risks to workers. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Bradford Kelley of Littler argued that the low number of lawsuits over...
It's 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most things...
The episode explores how product‑driven brands can treat audio as a conversion‑focused asset, highlighting the emotional trust and memory benefits of the human voice over static visuals. It explains practical tactics such as repurposing top blog posts into narrated clips,...
Haply Robotics announced a $11.75 million USD (CAD $16 million) seed‑plus financing round, led by Sound Media Ventures and backed by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund, Hanwha, Two Small Fish Ventures, and BDC Capital. The Montreal‑based startup builds high‑precision haptic controllers—such as the Inverse3...
Dexory unveiled a next‑generation autonomous robot and a new Storage Health software feature, both aimed at boosting real‑time warehouse visibility. The robot’s scanning range expands to 60 feet, delivering richer data across complex rack configurations, while Storage Health uses AI‑driven computer...
2026 is shaping up as a pivotal year for AI copyright litigation. The New York Times’ ongoing suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, along with high‑profile cases such as Getty Images vs. Stability AI and Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, highlight mounting pressure on AI...
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs Grok vs Perplexity — different tools, different strengths. There’s no single “best AI”, only the right AI for the job: ChatGPT → creative work, coding, problem-solving, versatile workflows Gemini → deep integration with Google...
Discord will launch a global age‑verification system next month, automatically placing every user in a teen‑appropriate mode unless they prove they are adults. Unverified users will lose access to age‑restricted servers, stage channels, and will face stricter content filters and...
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openclaw might be an interesting new backend primitive: it's a server that configures itself. instead of wrapping chatgpt to build your product, can your AI just interface with your customers directly?
NASA employed Anthropic’s Claude AI to generate waypoints for Perseverance, enabling the rover to travel 456 meters over two days without human control. The AI processed HiRISE orbital images and digital elevation models to identify hazards and plot a safe path....
Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work. What do you even teach them?
You can also use @ahrefs Brand Radar to look at specific URLs that have lost SEO visibility - in this case, 2 specific self-promoting listicle URLs - to see the change in AI search citations to the page AIO/ChatGPT/Copilot citations also...
A corporate position that workers should "just use AI to do stuff" has never been enough. AI use in companies is a leadership problem that involves answering fundamental questions about what people should do with their time, how work is...
Every Monday I get a deep AI analysis of our metrics across every product area to enjoy with my coffee. Anomalies, growth, trends, recommendations. AI spots patterns human analysts easily miss. I can @ the agent for further questions. AI will soon...
