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Tech giants rally behind Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to safeguard critical software
Apple, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, Cisco and others have launched Project Glasswing with Anthropic, deploying the Claude Mythos Preview model that has already uncovered thousands of zero‑day vulnerabilities. Participants are contributing $4 million to the initiative, aiming to defend the world’s most critical software from AI‑driven attacks.
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In this episode, host interviews Jia Li, co‑founder and chief AI officer of LiveX AI, about the company’s real‑time 4K holographic AI agents that interact with fans at large sporting events. Li explains how these human‑like holograms can greet, answer questions, and guide attendees through venues, blending digital AI with physical spaces to boost engagement and wayfinding. He shares use cases ranging from airport assistance to fan‑zone experiences at the Super Bowl, highlighting the technology’s low latency, multilingual capabilities, and scalability. The conversation also touches on the challenges of creating lifelike avatars and the future potential for personalized, immersive fan interactions.
🚀 Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future of transportation — from predictive maintenance and smart mobility, to logistics, infrastructure, and customer experience. In my latest article, I explore how AI is becoming a strategic lever for CEOs and entrepreneurs, helping...
KSAT has launched the Vake Powered By KSAT platform, an AI‑driven maritime monitoring service that fuses optical, radio‑frequency and radar data from 15 satellite providers. The system detects, identifies and tracks dark vessels from space, delivering insights through a single...
Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, the centerpiece of its AI‑first strategy, is encountering significant hurdles. Users and former staff cite confusing branding and poor interoperability with other Microsoft tools. Adoption among enterprise customers remains modest and is slipping relative to rivals like...
Scientists at the Netherlands Cancer Institute unveiled PARM, a lightweight deep‑learning model that accurately predicts gene‑regulatory activity across cell types. By coupling millions of high‑precision experimental measurements with AI, the team decoded the DNA “on‑off” language that governs gene expression....
Mastercard announced it will roll out a new suite of agentic AI tools for business customers in the second quarter of 2026. The platform lets firms build, test and deploy AI‑powered agents to enhance security, payments processing and customer‑experience functions....
Citi is using its Austin hub as a testing ground for a tech‑first banking model, shifting from experimental AI pilots to enterprise‑scale execution in early 2026. The bank deployed agentic AI for real‑time fraud mitigation, migrated its North American loan...
Mistral AI unveiled two new speech‑to‑text models, Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 and Voxtral Realtime, each built with 4 billion parameters and capable of translating 13 languages. Voxtral Realtime delivers near‑real‑time output in under 200 ms and runs locally on a phone or...
Our logos are not our brands. We hear this a lot. So much so that businesses can be shy about placing their logo too often, out of concern that they are not centering the customer enough. I’m guilty. This is...
Why did it take me so long to see this? really, to accept it Had a conversation yesterday that finally crystallized what's been happening in the market. 👇 Companies aren't looking for traditional consultants anymore. They're looking for AI-Powered Consultants....
NV5 unveiled GeoAgent, an agentic AI platform that automates geospatial intelligence through natural‑language interaction. The solution acts as an operational layer over existing tools, orchestrating data discovery, multimodal analytics, and mission‑ready outputs without requiring specialist expertise. By shifting from tool‑driven...
Bito announced that its AI Architect context engine boosted a Claude Sonnet 4.5 agent to a 60.8% success rate on the SWE‑Bench Pro benchmark, a 39% relative gain over the baseline. The third‑party Context Lab measured improvements across speed, tool...
India is steering its AI strategy toward edge computing, emphasizing small, localized models rather than massive, energy‑intensive generative systems. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced subsidies for compute access and plans to expand edge AI data centres to...
Mistral AI today launched Voxtral Transcribe 2, a pair of next‑generation speech‑to‑text models: Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 for batch processing and Voxtral Realtime for live transcription. The realtime model delivers sub‑200 ms latency with a 4 B‑parameter footprint and is released as open‑weights under...
Xurrent announced Brian Wenngatz as its new chief executive officer, bringing experience scaling AI‑driven enterprise software after steering Sentera to a John Deere acquisition. The move follows Kevin McGibben's transition to executive chairman, ensuring continuity in strategic direction. Xurrent’s AI‑powered...
NVIDIA unveiled the Nemotron ColEmbed V2 family, a set of late‑interaction multimodal embedding models available in 3B, 4B and 8B sizes. The models achieve state‑of‑the‑art results on the ViDoRe V1‑V3 benchmarks, with the 8B variant ranking #1 on ViDoRe V3 (NDCG@10 63.42). They extend the...
Dualboot Partners announced it has earned the Amazon Web Services Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency, a distinction that validates its expertise in helping smaller enterprises adopt cloud solutions. The award highlights Dualboot’s AI‑driven modernization accelerator, 3PO, which promises to...
Resolve AI, a San Francisco‑based SRE and engineering startup, closed a $125 million Series A round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Greylock, Unusual Ventures, Artisanal Ventures and A*. The capital will accelerate product development, expand...
Machina Labs closed a $124 million Series C round to build its first large‑scale Intelligent Factory in the United States. The 200,000‑square‑foot facility will host up to 50 RoboCraftsman robotic cells, enabling rapid, software‑defined production of complex metal structures. Investors include Lockheed...
ElevenLabs announced a $500 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia Capital with Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ Capital increasing stakes. The funding backs the company’s push toward $330 million in annual recurring revenue by 2025 and fuels...
Teradata announced that its enterprise‑grade Data Analyst AI agent is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. The agent runs directly in Google Cloud, eliminating costly data movement while delivering multi‑turn conversational analytics and real‑time insights. Built on Teradata’s Model Context...
Ataccama reported record enterprise wins in Q4 2025, achieving a 30% compounded annual growth rate over the past three years. The company closed more than thirty $1 million-plus deals, while 75% of new customers adopted its generative AI capabilities as a...
Hesai Technology and Grab announced a strategic cooperation making Grab the exclusive distributor of Hesai’s LiDAR sensors across Southeast Asia. The deal gives Hesai access to Grab’s extensive sales, support and marketing network, while securing a reliable LiDAR supply for...
Collate, the creator of the OpenMetadata project, announced its membership in the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), a Snowflake‑led open‑source effort to define a vendor‑neutral semantic metadata specification. OSI seeks to harmonize fragmented data definitions across business intelligence, data governance, engineering,...
Celonis’ 2026 Process Optimization Report shows 85% of enterprises aim to become agentic AI organizations within three years, yet 76% admit their current processes impede progress. The study of 1,600 leaders highlights that while 90% are experimenting with multi‑agent systems,...
Berkeley SkyDeck and UC Berkeley’s College of Computing have launched the second year of the Mayfield AI Garage, extending the program to recent alumni and idea‑stage founders. The initiative provides non‑dilutive stipends of $25,000 per founder—up to $50,000 per team—alongside...
Five Guys Enterprises partnered with Novatio Solutions and UiPath to launch an enterprise‑grade test automation program for its point‑of‑sale and reporting systems. The automation‑first model cut testing cycle time by roughly 400%, replacing labor‑intensive manual regression. A standardized, scalable framework...
Thanks to the ubiquity of AI, this is the last great advantage. It's one of the best ways to increase your value and success everywhere you show up, so why aren't we investing in learning it way MORE than we...
RingCentral has been named a Top Provider in Metrigy’s 2025 MetriStar UCaaS Report, one of only three vendors to achieve this distinction. The company earned the highest overall customer sentiment score and outperformed peers in voice quality, security, value, analytics,...
Bedrock Robotics announced a $270 million Series B round, valuing the autonomous construction startup at $1.75 billion. The funding, led by CapitalG and Valor Atreides AI Fund, brings total capital raised to over $350 million and will support scaling of fleet‑level autonomy across excavation,...
Oracle introduced the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI‑enabled solution that consolidates diverse life‑science datasets and applies agentic AI to accelerate research, clinical trials, and commercialization. The platform offers out‑of‑the‑box AI agents and tools for label expansion,...
Oracle Financial Services unveiled an enterprise‑class, AI‑infused platform designed for banks and finance firms. The suite bundles pre‑built AI agents, design tools, and decisioning frameworks that deliver conversational, hyper‑personalized experiences across digital and branch channels. Oracle emphasizes a "human‑in‑the‑loop" model...
Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, its generative‑AI‑powered upgrade to the Alexa assistant, to all U.S. customers. The feature is free for Prime members across devices and available via the Alexa website or app with limited usage for non‑Prime users. Alexa+...
Inovia Capital’s 2025 State of Software report shows AI‑native startups now account for 40% of Canadian software deal value, up from 12% a decade ago. Investors treat deep AI integration as a baseline requirement, rewarding AI‑focused firms with larger rounds...
Cofense reports that phishing attacks doubled in 2025, with security filters catching one malicious email every 19 seconds, up from one every 42 seconds in 2024. The surge is driven by AI, which threat actors now use as a core...
HighRes and Opentrons have formed a strategic partnership to create the industry’s first AI agent‑to‑agent laboratory automation workflow, linking software‑driven experiment design directly to physical execution. The integration combines Opentrons’ modular robotic platforms and AI‑enabled protocol tools with HighRes’ orchestration...
Moltbook is a social platform where AI agents register, read, and post content autonomously, creating a hidden communication channel that bypasses traditional human‑centric security controls. Enterprises can deploy agents that interact with Moltbook long after an initial prompt, exposing data...
A new KDnuggets article spotlights five open‑source AI models that enable text‑driven image editing, ranging from Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 [klein] 9B to Alibaba Cloud's Qwen‑Image‑Edit‑2511 and newer adapters like FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo. The models deliver real‑time generation, multi‑reference editing, bilingual support,...
The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on autonomous vehicles, featuring testimony from Tesla and Waymo executives, the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association chief, and a transportation law professor. Lawmakers aim to address the fragmented state‑by‑state regulatory...
Most AI projects fail before you write a single line of code. Not because the tech is hard. Because you skipped the questions that actually matter. Most teams choose tools based on hype, not requirements. They pick frameworks before understanding scope. And start building before...
Hey Google... Whatever happened to including citations in AI Overviews? Where did the sources go? Almost all links here go to new Google searches/YouTube? Are you seriously testing this? It's beyond unethical & unfair to site owners. @rajanpatel @rmstein https://t.co/TmMrYVyA5l
Expert Intelligence announced a $4.7 million seed round to commercialize its Limited Sample Model (LSM), an AI platform that automates decision‑making in regulated laboratory environments. LSM learns from as few as 30 representative samples, enabling labs to transform raw instrument data...
Fibr AI announced a $5.7 million seed round led by Accel, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. The Boston‑based startup uses autonomous AI agents to convert static webpages into real‑time, one‑to‑one experiences for each visitor. Early adoption is picking up among large...
Operational threat intelligence is being overwhelmed by noise and slow manual processes, prompting a shift toward AI agents. Gartner highlights that most organizations lack end‑to‑end AI integration across the intelligence lifecycle, with only 43% reporting tangible benefits. AI agents can...
MatrixSpace unveiled an upgraded MatrixSpace AI Software Platform that links edge‑based AiEdge sensors with AiCloud SaaS for real‑time, multi‑sensor drone detection. The solution fuses radar, Remote ID, ADS‑B and optical feeds, delivering threat assessment and early warning for both on‑site...
OpenAI alleges that Elon Musk’s xAI deliberately destroyed evidence by routing all business communications through auto‑deleting messaging tools, despite a legal duty to preserve documents. The claim is part of an antitrust lawsuit in which xAI and Musk’s platform X...
John Sumser and George LaRocque discuss the rapid evolution of HR technology, emphasizing how market sizing, capital flow, and data-driven decision‑making are reshaping the industry. They highlight recruiting’s lack of accountability, the re‑evaluation of education’s value, and the disruptive impact...
Impulse AI unveiled an autonomous machine‑learning platform that placed in the top 2.5% of a Kaggle competition, ranking 782 out of 31,791 participants. The system claims to complete the entire ML workflow—from data preparation to production deployment—in under an hour,...
ExLabs has chosen CUS‑GNC’s SpacePilot autonomy software to guide its upcoming commercial mission to asteroid Apophis, slated for launch during the 2029 close‑approach window. The onboard guidance, navigation and control system will operate beyond 100 million kilometres from Earth, where communication...
Google’s John Mueller warned that serving raw Markdown files to large language model (LLM) crawlers poses significant technical risks. He highlighted uncertainties around link parsing, internal navigation, and whether bots even recognize Markdown as anything beyond plain text. Mueller also...
