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Grab launches 13 AI‑driven products to keep travelers inside its superapp
Southeast Asia’s leading superapp Grab unveiled 13 new AI‑powered features at its GrabX event, including four travel‑focused tools that offer personalized itinerary planning, instant hotel bookings, cross‑border payments and AI‑curated restaurant suggestions. The rollout aims to retain users throughout their journey, leveraging a base of over 200 million airport passengers.
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By the numbers: Pepper raises $50M Series C
Palladyne AI announced the first flight of IntelliSwarm, its integrated SwarmOS autonomy software and BRAIN X2 flight computer, on the Banshee loitering‑munition UAV. The three‑week integration demonstrated autonomous collaboration with Red Cat drones, proving decentralized edge AI in a heterogeneous multi‑vehicle scenario. The test validates the tamper‑proof, NDAA‑compliant stack for GPS‑denied environments and positions IntelliSwarm as a ready‑to‑field solution for UAS and attritable‑munition OEMs. Palladyne plans to commercialize the technology for broader defense adoption.
AI coding agents have exploded onto the tech scene, promising rapid, autonomous software creation. In practice, they falter when confronted with the complex data‑governance, security, and audit requirements of large enterprises. Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy argues that most agents are...
Operant AI announced Agent Protector, a real‑time security platform for autonomous AI agents. The solution delivers shadow‑agent discovery, zero‑trust enforcement, inline threat detection, and secure enclaves to protect both managed and unmanaged agents across cloud, SaaS, and development environments. It...
Stanford and Princeton researchers unveiled MedOS, the first AI‑XR cobot system designed to act as a real‑time clinical co‑pilot. The platform fuses smart glasses, collaborative robotic arms and a multi‑agent AI that builds a 3‑D world model, enabling perception, planning...
Intruder released research exposing critical security gaps in Moltbot, an open‑source, self‑hosted AI assistant. The study shows that default deployments often lack firewalls, credential validation, and sandboxing, leaving cloud instances exposed. Attackers are exploiting misconfigurations to harvest API keys, conduct...
Security researcher Sygnia uncovered a coordinated network of more than 150 cloned law‑firm websites used in an AI‑powered fraud scheme. The domains are spread across multiple registrars, each with its own SSL certificate and often hidden behind Cloudflare to evade...
Fin will now literally manage your docs for you - it'll let you know what's wrong, out of date, duplicated, or missing. It'll also write the docs for you too. All you need to do is approve the changes and...
Latent AI announced it will demonstrate an interoperable, MOSA‑aligned edge AI ecosystem at AFCEA West, partnering with Sigma Defense and Abaco Systems. The showcase highlights plug‑and‑play AI that runs on multiple rugged hardware platforms, delivering real‑time intelligence in denied, degraded,...
United Rentals has launched a Business Intelligence Agent built on Snowflake Intelligence, enabling employees across more than 1,600 branches to query financial and operational data using natural language. The solution unifies fleet, telematics, pricing, contracts, and accounting information on a...
University of Texas at Dallas researchers unveiled a fully optical deep photonic neuromorphic network that learns unsupervised, online Hebbian updates using phase‑change material synapses. The system bypasses electronic‑optical‑electronic conversions, delivering 100 % accuracy on a non‑trivial letter‑recognition task on a commercial...
Basler AG will exhibit at LogiMAT 2026 in Stuttgart from March 24‑26, showcasing its full machine‑vision portfolio for logistics. The highlight is the debut of the new Basler Stereo mini 3D camera, a lightweight, cost‑efficient stereo sensor designed for object...
Nvidia's 2026 State of AI in Financial Services report finds 89% of surveyed professionals see AI driving revenue growth while cutting costs. AI adoption has risen sharply, with 65% of firms actively deploying AI, up from 45% last year, and...
Torq, an agentic security operations platform, announced the hiring of former Virgin Atlantic CISO John White as Field CISO. White, who led a multi‑year transformation of Virgin Atlantic’s cyber defenses using Torq’s AI SOC platform, joins the company after its...
SymphonyAI introduced Always‑on Compliance, a self‑updating RegTech platform that transforms continuous compliance into a real‑time, learning ecosystem. The solution leverages agentic AI to ingest regulatory changes, enrich threat intelligence, and automate AML, sanctions, fraud and KYC workflows. Its cloud‑native, evergreen...
Supply chain leaders are confronting volatile markets, rising costs and looming recession, prompting a shift from legacy tools to cognitive platforms. A recent Blue Yonder report finds 82% cite outdated technology as a barrier, while 74% see AI already reshaping...
Washington‑based SENAI, an online video intelligence platform, closed a $6.2 million seed round led by 10D Ventures, with participation from FS Ventures, 1948 Ventures and investor Jonathan Kolber. The company transforms unstructured online video into geo‑specific, real‑time intelligence to counter security...
Rubrik announced the promotion of Jesse Green to Chief Revenue Officer, succeeding Brian McCarthy. Green, a 25‑year go‑to‑market veteran who previously led Rubrik Americas, will now oversee the global revenue organization. The move follows a record‑setting third quarter and a...
Feltsense Holdings announced a $5.1 million seed round led by Draper Associates, with participation from Precursor Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures and several prominent founders. The capital will fund the development of AI agents designed to act as fully autonomous founders—ideating, building,...
Freshworks is leveraging its workflow‑automation roots to capture mid‑market organizations, now approaching $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. Its employee‑experience suite generates $480 million, growing 24%, while AI add‑ons are paid by 6,000 of its 75,000 customers. The company has broadened Freshservice...
Murata Manufacturing has published a technology guide titled “Optimizing Power Delivery Networks for AI Servers in Next-Generation Data Centers.” The guide details power‑delivery‑network (PDN) strategies that improve power stability and cut losses as AI workloads push data centers toward higher...
First‑party data is now the most powerful lever for AI‑driven advertising, according to Julie Warneke of Found Search Marketing. By feeding CRM‑derived signals into Google’s AI bidding, advertisers can boost conversion quality, revenue, and ROAS even as CPCs rise. Performance...
Researchers Govender and Sinayskiy derived analytical upper and lower bounds on the generalisation performance of quantum kernel‑assisted support vector machines (QSVMs) under local depolarising noise. Their work shows that noise erodes the QSVM margin, a key predictor of how well...
Google is testing AI-generated “Good to Know” labels on hotel photos in its Google Hotels listings. The labels provide brief descriptions summarizing the photo content and related user reviews, and appear on both owner‑uploaded and visitor images, though not on...
🚀 AI Search: Where are we so far and how to win in the current landscape - My presentation at Women in Tech SEO updated with the latest data and shifts: Here are the immediate SEO implications from these key AI...
Meta announced that its new AI model, codenamed Avocado, has finished the pretraining phase, making it the company’s most capable base model to date. The memo claims Avocado outperforms the best freely available models in knowledge, visual perception, and multilingual...
Elastic announced integration of two Jina reranker models—v2 and v3—into its Elastic Inference Service (EIS), a managed GPU‑accelerated inference platform. The models provide low‑latency, high‑precision multilingual reranking for hybrid search, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI workflows. v2 emphasizes scalable,...
Kentico announced the AIRA Agentic Marketing Suite, expanding its AI‑powered Xperience platform. The suite introduces specialized AI agents, starting with a Content Strategist, that automate tasks across the marketing lifecycle. Built directly into the platform, the agents eliminate the need...
IBM has made an undisclosed investment in Anima, a generative‑AI startup that turns UI designs into production‑ready code, to strengthen its push into the emerging "vibe coding" trend. Anima’s platform integrates with tools like Figma, Adobe XD and Sketch, allowing users...
Smart toothbrushes have evolved into data‑driven oral‑care devices featuring Bluetooth, AI guidance, pressure sensors and high‑frequency sonic vibrations. Premium models cost around €400, roughly the price of a basic smartphone, and promise to improve brushing technique and prevent enamel damage....
Global venture capital funding surged to $55 billion in January 2026, more than doubling the year‑ago level and rising over 50 percent from December. The United States accounted for roughly 70 percent of the capital, with AI‑focused startups receiving 57 percent of all funding....
London‑based legal‑tech firm Lawhive announced a $60 million Series B round, led by Danaher co‑founder Mitch Rales and backed by investors such as GV, Balderton Capital and TQ Ventures. The capital will accelerate Lawhive’s AI‑native platform rollout across the United States, where...
In this episode, Lukas Biewald explores the evolving AI ecosystem through a series of interviews with founders and CEOs of leading AI infrastructure and application companies, including Axiom, Rerun, Runway ML, Baseten, CoreWeave, Surge AI, Glean, DeepL, GitHub, and Cursor. The conversations...
"Discipline Is a Transferable Skill" 🎙️ Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder & CPO of FORGIS , a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial automation: In this episode, Camilla shares a founder journey shaped long before robotics. She...
Enterprises are grappling with an explosion of AI tools embedded in SaaS, browsers, and shadow applications, yet most security programs still rely on legacy, perimeter‑focused controls. The new Buyer’s Guide for AI Usage Control highlights that AI risk resides in...
Zyxel Communications will unveil its AI‑powered management platform Zyxel One, preview Wi‑Fi 8, and showcase 50 G fiber solutions at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. The Wi‑Fi 8 demo highlights ultra‑low latency for real‑time and IoT use cases, while the NeoX 50 G...
Calgary‑based AgTech startup Brilliant Harvest announced a $4 million USD seed round, led by returning investors Builders VC and AltaML and joined by FTW Ventures, Alpaca VC, Automotive Ventures, SVG Ventures and NYA Ventures. The AI‑driven platform, which parses technical manuals...
On‑device AI is shifting computation from cloud servers to edge devices, delivering privacy, instant responsiveness, offline capability, and better battery life. By embedding dedicated AI chips, smartphones, laptops, and IoT gadgets can process data locally, eliminating network latency and data...
Why More AI Dashboards Don’t Mean Better Oversight A few years ago, when AI systems were still something of a novelty in most organisations, oversight felt tangible. Models were fewer, pipelines were simpler, and the distance between a data scientist...
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Enterprises are rapidly integrating generative AI into core workflows, but security models have not kept pace. Sensitive data now flows through AI inference requests—prompts containing source code, contracts, PII, and strategic logic—yet these streams sit outside traditional visibility and control...
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric announced the formation of a U.S.-based robotics subsidiary, FF EAI‑Robotics, and unveiled three robot products—a pair of humanoids and a quadruped—at the NADA show in Las Vegas. The company says it has secured paid, non‑binding deposits...
Enterprise security leaders confront a convergence of U.S. state privacy laws, the EU's DORA and AI Act, and exploding AI data demands, all of which amplify permission sprawl. With 91% of offboarded employees still retaining file access, the attack surface...
NeuBird AI, an agentic AI SRE platform, reported that its autonomous incident‑response agent resolved 230,000 alerts in 2025, delivering $1.8 million in engineering‑time savings and cutting MTTR by up to 88 %. The company earned Gartner’s Cool Vendor distinction, was listed among...
Click-Ins and Insurtech Fuel have partnered to fuse Click-Ins' smartphone AI damage detection with Insurtech Fuel's WePayClaims workflow engine, creating a fully autonomous, one‑click motor insurance claim process. The AI uses computer vision and 3D modelling to isolate vehicle damage,...
Indian IT services firm Coforge unveiled Forge‑X, an AI‑native delivery platform that embeds autonomous agents throughout the software development lifecycle. The platform combines Coforge’s industry domain expertise with tools such as CodeInsightAI, BlueSwan, NORTHSTAR and EvolveOps.AI to accelerate product delivery,...
Data Direct Networks (DDN) has named former Cisco and Groq executive Mohsen Moazami as vice chairman, a move seen as positioning the high‑performance computing firm for a public offering. The appointment follows a $300 million Blackstone investment and a strategic shift...
Lloyds Banking Group aims to generate more than £100 million of value from artificial‑intelligence initiatives by 2026, doubling the £50 million realised in 2025. The bank is moving from generative AI projects to "agentic" AI, deploying autonomous agents that can act on...
Level AI has been placed on the CMP Research Prism as a Pioneering provider for both Automated Quality Assurance/Quality Management (QA/QM) and Customer Analytics. The Prism evaluated 22 QA/QM solutions and 19 analytics platforms, sorting vendors into five tiers based...
Bluerate AI Agent is a privacy‑first, AI‑driven mortgage marketplace that connects borrowers directly with NMLS‑licensed loan officers without selling personal data. The tool leverages large language models and live loan‑origination systems to deliver real‑time, personalized rates from over 100 lenders....
The insurance sector is emerging as a major weak point in global anti‑money‑laundering (AML) defenses, with life and investment‑linked policies flagged by the FATF for heightened risk. Regulators have already seized tens of millions linked to drug‑trafficking through insurance products,...
