
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
Ramsey Theory Capital, led by CEO Dan Herbatschek, unveiled a real‑time AI governance platform to help enterprises meet the new New York RAISE Act and similar state AI safety laws. The solution embeds compliance, risk analytics, and automated documentation throughout the AI lifecycle, moving beyond static reporting. By providing continuous monitoring of model performance, data pipelines, and vendor interactions, the platform aims to reduce compliance burden while preserving innovation speed. The launch positions Ramsey Theory as a strategic partner for regulated sectors such as healthcare and automotive.

Acalvio Technologies has been crowned the "Company to Beat" in Gartner’s 2025 AI Vendor Race for AI‑powered advanced cyber deception. Gartner highlights that AI is removing technical barriers, allowing deception systems to scale, automate traps and adapt to attacker behavior...
Tai Software announced an integration with OpenTrack that embeds AI‑native, end‑to‑end container visibility directly into its transportation management system. The connection streams real‑time milestones, exception alerts, and operational data into Tai’s Shipment Location History and Check Call modules, eliminating manual...

The volumetric video market is experiencing rapid expansion, driven by accelerating AR/VR adoption, AI‑enhanced compression, and surging metaverse demand. Software solutions dominate, with rendering, compression, and playback technologies seeing the strongest growth. North America leads the market, supported by early...
Peter Pru, founder of Option Sellers School, has unveiled ArkPicks, an AI‑powered options research platform that consolidates technical analysis, news summaries, liquidity data, earnings tracking, and trade calculations into a single dashboard. The tool targets systematic options sellers, promising to...

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High interviews Sean Murphy, founder and CEO of DemoHop, about the hidden challenges of innovation in distributed enterprises. Murphy explains how weak ties and siloed work trap ideas, and how DemoHop’s science‑fair‑style demo days...

🏈 This Week's Top SEO & AI Search News from #SEOFOMO [February 8, 2026] 👇 * The first Core Update focused on Discover? Google rolled out the February 2026 Discover Core Update This is a broad update to the systems that...

The United Arab Emirates’ Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released its Falcon family of large language models as open‑source, positioning the nation as a challenger to big‑tech AI dominance. Falcon models emphasize efficiency, with the 7‑billion‑parameter H1R delivering high‑performance reasoning...

Black Duck unveiled BSIMM16, the 16th edition of its Building Security In Maturity Model, analyzing 111 organizations and 91,200 applications. The study finds AI-generated code now dominates application‑security concerns, with a 10% rise in AI‑focused attack intelligence and risk‑ranking. Regulatory...

The guide outlines a step‑by‑step troubleshooting framework for the myriad ChatGPT error messages that users encounter across browsers, apps, and networks. It distinguishes between local issues—solvable with page refreshes, sign‑outs, incognito windows, or disabling extensions—and server‑side failures such as 502,...

Global HealthX, the venture studio of the Global University Foundation, announced it has surpassed $15 million in investments across Indian healthcare and life‑science startups over the past two years. The latest cohort features five companies—TapHealth, Wellytics, Monitra Health, Merry Health and...

In this episode, co‑founders Francesco Iorio and Aaron Szymanski discuss how Augmenta’s AI‑driven Construction Platform (ACP) compresses electrical raceway design from weeks to hours while boosting quality, cost efficiency, and sustainability. They explain the technology’s blend of rule‑based logic, machine...

Novi AI has launched an independent website, rebranding itself as a standalone AI Creation Studio for images, videos, and multimodal content. The platform consolidates leading AI models—including Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling, Nano Banana, and Seedream—into a single workflow, simplifying...
HitPaw, an AI visual‑enhancement provider, announced its integration with Comfy, a global content‑creation platform. The partnership embeds HitPaw’s Image and Video Enhancer APIs directly into Comfy’s workflow, offering creators one‑click super‑resolution, denoising, and generative restoration for photos and frame‑aware video...

The tutorial demonstrates how to treat LLM prompts as first‑class, versioned artifacts and apply rigorous regression testing using MLflow. It builds an evaluation pipeline that logs prompt versions, diffs, model outputs, and metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE‑L, and semantic similarity....
Tanla Platforms’ Wisely AI has been deployed by Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison across Indonesia, analyzing more than 11 billion communications for 100 million subscribers in its first six months. The system identified over 2 billion spam and scam messages, blocked more than 2 million malicious...

The post outlines a roadmap for banks to become "intelligent" by first embedding digital at their core, then embracing open‑banking APIs and modernizing back‑office systems, and finally layering AI‑driven intelligence on high‑quality customer data. It stresses that without clean, actionable...

Allama is an open‑source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It ships with integrations for more than 80 security tools, from SIEMs to ticketing systems, and leverages AI‑powered agents that can enrich,...
AI models like xAI’s Grok still cite deleted articles about a £1 million investment dispute involving Tyron Birkmeir and Lurra Capital. The original reports were removed from EU Reporter, TechBullion, and Big News Network, yet the language model continues to generate...

The Cloud Security Alliance report warns that autonomous AI agents are expanding faster than identity and access management (IAM) frameworks can keep up. Organizations still rely on static credentials such as API keys and shared accounts, while modern workload‑identity standards...

ABB Robotics is highlighting its Autonomous Versatile Robotics (AVR) platform at the SLAS 2026 conference in Boston, demonstrating AI‑driven collaborative robots that increase laboratory throughput and reproducibility. The company showcased three process‑cell demos, including multi‑step analytical workflows with Mettler Toledo...
Enterprises are spending billions on GPU clusters for AI, yet many GPUs sit idle because the data delivery layer between object storage and compute cannot keep pace. F5 argues that the real bottleneck is not the GPUs but the lack...
Vijoy Pandey of Cisco Outshift and Stanford professor Noah Goodman argue that today’s AI agents can connect but cannot truly think together. They propose an "Internet of Cognition"—a three‑layer architecture of protocol, fabric, and cognition engines—to enable shared intent, knowledge,...

Citigroup’s 2026 outlook highlights the resilience of global trade while noting that AI and blockchain are reshaping supply‑chain finance. Shipping volumes have stabilized and firms are diversifying sourcing, with the U.S. increasing imports from non‑Asian regions. The bank reports rapid...

Las Vegas is rapidly converting autonomous technology from pilots to everyday infrastructure, with Amazon‑owned Zoox launching a public robotaxi service on the Strip. Remote‑driving startup Vay now delivers rental cars via teledrivers, while the Regional Transportation Commission runs autonomous shuttles...

The Good Tourism blog gathers senior voices from travel, academia, NGOs and airlines to illustrate how artificial intelligence is reshaping the sector. AI‑enabled tools are turning bespoke climate‑action planning into scalable digital services, while entrepreneurs use large language models to...
95% of my prompts to Claude Code require zero typing, and I’m saving hours per week. I’m either: ☑️ dictating to Claude Code (via fn key with wispr flow on desktop - sometimes I dictate it all at once, sometimes I'm...
Voice AI startups raised more than $650 million in January. The figure goes up if you count startups like Synthesia and Decagon. I am keeping a track of voice AI funding in a post on my newsletter. https://t.co/j5BU7tpGJx
The post argues that AI "skills"—executable English‑written programs—transform conversational agents into operators capable of performing specific tasks. It highlights the rapid growth of public skill repositories, with tens of thousands of community‑built skills amassing thousands of GitHub stars. For consumers,...
We asked every speaker coming to SaaStr AI 2026 one question: 🤖"What's actually working with AI in your business right now?" No theory. No hype. Just what's shipping and what's converting. May 13-15 in SF Bay https://t.co/A02gn7heZm
startups building agent harnesses ran into the same q’s as the labs: how do we limit liability? how do we keep this safe? how do we make $? that’s why none of them struck a nerve openclaw worked because it didn’t care...

Claude Code's skill system transforms generic AI assistance into senior‑engineer‑level DevOps guidance. By encoding best‑practice patterns—Pulumi ESC, component resources, monitoring, security, debugging—skills let Claude generate reliable infrastructure code while preserving context budget. Compared with Model Context Protocol servers, skills load...
Australian AI‑driven workflow documentation startup Fluency announced a $6 million seed round, led by Accel, Atlassian’s first external investor. The round, which also includes DST Global Partners and other venture firms, values the company at roughly $30 million. Proceeds will be used...

The Singapore Airshow 2026 confirmed that drone‑centric forces are now the operational baseline across the Indo‑Pacific, highlighted by the RSAF’s rollout of Orbiter 4 and Hermes 900 UAVs. Indonesia abandoned the US F‑15EX program, opting for a mixed fleet anchored by 42...
Microsoft aired a 30‑second Super Bowl‑adjacent ad highlighting Copilot’s real‑time data and reasoning features within Excel. The spot shows recruiters using AI‑driven filters, charts, and predictive models to pick ideal linebackers. Unlike rivals’ emotionally‑charged AI ads, Microsoft’s message is purely...
Toma, a Y Combinator Winter 2024 startup, raised a $17 million Series A round led by a16z to build an AI platform for underserved sectors such as automotive and healthcare. The company is hiring founding engineers—full‑stack developers familiar with Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript...
I was in a board meeting for a breakout AI B2B leader at $100m+ ARR and the team was excited … but stressed. Why? So many of their largest customers were happy to sign relatively large checks for the AI...

AI content generators can dramatically accelerate the drafting phase of SEO copy, but they are not a shortcut to higher rankings. Effective results depend on precise prompts, structured outlines, and rigorous human editing to meet E‑E‑A‑T standards. Neil Patel’s study...

A fabricated AI image depicting Bad Bunny burning an American flag spread across Facebook and X, despite the artist being on a scheduled break and not performing until after the Super Bowl halftime show. Right‑wing accounts leveraged the hoax to attack...

Startup Fable is using generative AI to recreate the 43‑minute lost footage from Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Founder Edward Saatchi, motivated by personal admiration for Welles, combines live‑action shoots with AI‑generated actors and voices to approximate the...

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has opened Phase 1 of its Caregiver AI Prize Competition, a $2 million federal challenge aimed at bolstering the U.S. caregiving workforce. Up to $2.5 million in prize funding will be awarded to as many as 20...

ByteDance unveiled Protenix‑v1, an open‑source, AlphaFold3‑style foundation model for all‑atom biomolecular structure prediction covering proteins, nucleic acids and ligands. The 368 million‑parameter system matches AlphaFold3’s training data cutoff, model scale and inference budget, and claims superior performance on curated benchmarks. Protenix...
ERC-8004 is supposed to help us trust AI agents. But can it withstand hacks and manipulation? In this @Unchained_pod episode, @DavideCrapis joins me to unpack: 🤖 What the ERC-8004 standard is 🤔 How ERC-8004 works 📝 The project's roadmap 💫 Tips for AI agent builders/businesses Timestamps: 🚀...
Jensen almost bankrupted nvidia to make cuda pre-AI wild that the difference between being the most important company in the world vs just being just another gpu maker came down to whether or not to do cuda a decade ago

Spotify users are increasingly encountering AI‑generated music, prompting backlash over the platform’s content quality. Experts note that AI artists can release dozens of tracks in weeks, lack authentic social‑media footprints, and exhibit generic, repetitive sound signatures. The article outlines three...

Cool microSaaS finding high intent leads on social. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI-powered social listening that alerts you when people are actively looking to buy. > $63K ARR > $26K TTM profit > 2000% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/4n3HSzCddv https://t.co/nou58zuOi3
it's fun to pick a side with codex or claude but the reality is they work really well together and have different strengths and weaknesses like any other team
Lunar Energy announced a $232 million Series C and D financing round, led by Activate Capital, B Capital and Prelude Ventures, with Sunrun among the backers. The capital will fund expansion of its AI‑powered residential energy‑storage system that learns household consumption patterns and enables...
In a statement Feb. 2, SpaceX said it acquired xAI, which develops artificial intelligence technologies and operates the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, as part of its efforts to develop orbital data centers. https://t.co/NxQmbWiybc

CFOs are getting serious about Gen AI and more realistic. Enterprise adoption is moving from pilots to core finance operations, but it takes time. AI in finance is a marathon, not a demo. https://t.co/HdTrLMhHMW @pymnts https://t.co/C6Gpq7tlLO