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Tech giants unite on Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to secure critical software
Apple, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, Cisco and other leaders have formed Project Glasswing with Anthropic to protect the world’s most critical software. The coalition will deploy Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model, which has already uncovered thousands of zero‑day vulnerabilities. Participants are contributing $4 million to the effort.
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By the numbers: Eclipse Capital raises $1.3B fund to back physical AI startups
Cyclotron announced the launch of a new Strategy Office dedicated to AI‑driven transformation, pairing an Innovation & Strategy pillar with an AI Engineering & Delivery pillar. Led by Susan Moyer and Davis DeFontes, the office offers workshops, roadmap creation, and end‑to‑end AI architecture implementation. The service builds on Cyclotron’s award‑winning Microsoft partnership and its suite of security, compliance, and data‑governance products. It promises enterprises clearer AI roadmaps, reduced risk, and faster, measurable ROI.
Researchers have introduced an enhanced voting strategy to classify nutrient profiles in date palm crops more accurately. The ensemble approach merges spectral imaging, chemical assays, and machine‑learning classifiers, lifting overall accuracy to roughly 94 percent. Validation across multiple orchards showed...
ConcertAI unveiled Accelerated Clinical Trials (ACT), an enterprise platform powered by its CARAai agentic AI, to automate end‑to‑end trial processes. The solution claims to shorten overall trial timelines by 10‑20 months and cut design and amendment costs by roughly half....
Miro announced its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a bidirectional integration that connects the visual collaboration workspace with AI‑powered coding environments. Developed with Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google and Windsurf, the server links Miro canvases to 11 AI coding platforms such...
Snowflake announced a $200 million multiyear partnership with OpenAI, bringing OpenAI’s generative AI models directly into its data platform. The agreement makes OpenAI models native to Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence, allowing customers to run AI workloads on governed data...
A team from Johns Hopkins has demonstrated an autonomous retinal vein cannulation (RVC) system that combines two Steady‑Hand Eye Robots with deep‑learning vision models. The workflow uses three convolutional neural networks to guide a 100‑µm needle and a medical spatula...
Lyric Health announced the hiring of Bill Schmitt as its inaugural Chief Growth Officer, a newly created role designed to steer strategic growth across the company’s AI‑driven virtual‑care platform. Schmitt will direct demand generation, partnership development, and customer success while...
Cognizant and Uniphore have announced a strategic partnership to build industry‑specific AI solutions using small language models (SLMs) and AI agents. The collaboration will initially target the highly regulated Life Sciences and Banking & Capital Markets sectors, leveraging Uniphore’s Business...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude AI to map a 450‑meter route for the Perseverance rover on Mars. By feeding Claude years of mission data, the system generated Rover Markup Language commands that covered 10‑meter segments and...
Blockchain analytics firm Nansen has launched its AI Agent on a web platform, extending the mobile‑first tool to desktop users. The conversational interface lets traders and analysts query on‑chain data, generate smart alerts, and even prepare swaps, with manual confirmation...
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service upgraded its Virtual Assets Intelligence System for Trading Analysis (VISTA) with an automated detection algorithm that can identify price‑manipulation windows without human input. The new sliding‑window grid search scans every sub‑period in trading data, reproducing...
Researchers have unveiled AI-driven models that accurately predict and redesign protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequences for a wide range of CRISPR‑Cas enzymes. The platform leverages deep learning on millions of natural and synthetic PAM datasets, achieving up to 40% reduction...
Thought leadership should be a sales tool, feed search results, and build authority. That's a lot. But what if AI could help you surface and scale that internal expertise? By pairing AI tools with intentional workflows, you can capture unique...
Nano‑vLLM is a minimal Python implementation that reproduces the core features of the widely‑used vLLM inference engine, including prefix caching, tensor parallelism, and CUDA‑graph optimizations. Benchmarks show it matches or slightly exceeds vLLM’s throughput despite its 1,200‑line codebase. The architecture...
Shield Technology Partners announced a $100 million investment from Thrive Holdings to accelerate its AI‑first IT services platform. The funding will boost product innovation, expand the company’s national partner network, and fund strategic M&A. Shield’s AI‑driven tools, Sentinel and Spectre, have...
Google Ads has replaced its traditional support form with an AI‑driven chat agent, accessible via the usual support URL. The chatbot introduces itself as an AI advisor, prompting users to describe issues before offering assistance or escalating to human help....
DeepL announced the general availability of its Voice API, a cloud service that streams audio and delivers real‑time transcription plus translation into up to five target languages. The API is aimed at contact centers and BPO providers, allowing agents to...
Celesta Capital’s founding partner Sriram Viswanathan explains that abundant capital and a shrinking pool of high‑quality deep‑tech deals are fueling a surge in secondary‑market transactions. Investors are using secondaries to gain liquidity as private exits stretch, especially in AI‑driven hardware...
London‑based startup 01C has launched Amara, an AI‑powered platform that lets designers, game developers and 3D artists generate complete, production‑ready 3D environments from simple text or photo prompts. The tool is built natively for Unreal Engine and plugs directly into...
PDFgear has launched TextaVoice.com, a completely free text‑to‑speech platform. The service converts up to 2,000 characters per request into natural‑sounding audio without sign‑up, ads, or usage caps. It offers over 30 languages, 236 voice styles, adjustable speed, pitch, emotion, and...
HMRC has awarded SAP a contract to replace its legacy Enterprise Tax Management Platform with a cloud‑native solution built on SAP Business Technology Platform and RISE with SAP. The migration moves £800 billion of annual tax revenue processing to a UK...
Google has dramatically increased ad presence on search results that feature AI Overviews, jumping from 5.17% in March 2025 to 25.56% by October—a 394% rise. The growth is uneven across placements, with bottom‑of‑SERP ads now appearing on roughly a quarter...
Jerry Tworek, a former OpenAI researcher behind the o1 and o3 reasoning models, argues that today’s AI systems cannot learn from their own mistakes, a flaw he sees as a major obstacle to artificial general intelligence. He left OpenAI to...
A proposal by David E. Weekly suggests a new HTML attribute on the element to label AI‑generated sections of a page. It aims to meet the EU AI Act Article 50 requirement for machine‑readable AI content disclosure, addressing the gap...
Researchers at Aalto University introduced "molecular Hamiltonian learning," a machine‑learning framework that infers the full Hamiltonian of single‑molecule magnets directly from set‑point‑dependent scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STM‑IETS) data. By training on a library of theoretical spectra that include crystal‑field, Coulomb and...
Orbiit Services Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Recovery Ecosystem that interprets everyday mobile‑device interactions to monitor addiction recovery. The platform creates a behavior‑derived intelligence profile, generating real‑time Sober and Risk scores that clinicians can view on a unified dashboard. Interventions are...
AI is reshaping financial decision‑making by moving from pure automation to augmentation, but human judgment remains essential. Professionals are pairing AI‑driven insights—such as scenario modeling and stress‑testing—with personalized advice from financial planners, especially in high‑cost regions like California. This hybrid...
Oslo‑based AI startup Watchdog announced a $600,000 seed round led by venture studio Askeladden & Co and angel investors from OpenAI, Encube and Riff. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered invoice verification tool that automatically cross‑checks invoices against...
Menotracker, an AI‑powered menopause‑tracking app, has launched with privacy‑tech firm ConsentKeys to ensure user data is never stored or sold. The platform lets women log symptoms, connect wearables, and generate doctor‑ready reports while assigning pseudonymous identities that protect against breaches....
Richtech Robotics has teamed with Microsoft’s AI Co‑Innovation Labs to embed Azure‑powered agentic AI into its flagship Adam robot. The upgrade adds vision, voice and contextual reasoning, letting the robot factor in time of day, weather, promotions and equipment status....
Coder, a self‑hosted AI development platform, introduced a free AI Maturity Self‑Assessment and accompanying AI Maturity Curve. The tools let engineering teams benchmark AI adoption across development practices, operational controls, and governance readiness. By mapping questionnaire responses to the maturity...
In this interview, Ph.D. candidate Zijian Zhao discusses his work on labor management in transportation gig platforms using reinforcement learning, covering order dispatch, pricing, and the challenges of large state and action spaces. He highlights novel MARL and single‑agent RL...
Ring, an Amazon subsidiary, debuted a 30‑second Super Bowl ad unveiling its new Search Party for Dogs feature. The tool leverages AI‑driven image recognition and opt‑in Ring cameras to coordinate neighborhood searches for missing pets. The spot, Ring’s first linear‑TV...
The FTC is signaling a shift toward treating both traditional acquihires and reverse‑acquihires as subject to the same antitrust standards that govern full mergers. Reverse‑acquihires—where a firm takes a minority stake or no money but hires key talent—have historically avoided...
ACTFORE announced the USPTO has granted its second patent for a Template Identification and Matching technology that fingerprints documents at the pixel level. The solution converts each page into image‑based signatures, enabling detection of structural similarities across massive, unstructured breach...
4 practical AI lessons from sport. Sport is one of the best stress tests for AI, because decisions are fast, public, and high stakes. Here are 4 AI lessons every executive can steal from elite sport 👇 4) Fan Engagement...
A decentralized AI computer is an exponential learning machine. Each node can discover a way to improve itself. Test its theories. And report its results with each other. The whole network will improve together. Exponentially quickly. If you are going to compete with it...
The Center for Humane Technology announced Julie Guirado’s promotion from COO to Executive Director, positioning her to lead the organization through a pivotal year for AI. Daniel Barcay, who guided CHT during the rise of generative AI, will transition to...
Pega announced Notes to Blueprint™, a specialized extension of its AI‑driven Blueprint platform aimed at modernizing legacy Lotus Notes applications. By leveraging assets from the recent Adopteq acquisition, the solution can analyze, extract, and re‑architect Notes databases into cloud‑native workflows....
Anthropic has signed a multi‑year deal with the Atlassian Williams Formula 1 team, naming its Claude chatbot the “Official Thinking Partner.” Claude will be used by engineers and strategists for race strategy, car development, and operational decisions, with branding appearing on the...
Physical AI notetaking devices are gaining traction as an alternative to software‑only transcription services, offering hands‑free recording for in‑person meetings. Products like Plaud Note, Mobvoi TicNote, Comulytic Note Pro and Anker Soundcore Work combine multiple microphones, on‑device AI and mobile apps...
NVIDIA released Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-NVFP4, a 30‑billion‑parameter LLM quantized to 4‑bit NVFP4 while preserving BF16 accuracy. The model combines a hybrid Mamba2 Transformer Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture with a Quantization Aware Distillation (QAD) pipeline that replaces task loss with KL divergence to a frozen...
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iManage has upgraded its Ask iManage AI assistant to answer natural‑language questions across the entire iManage Work platform, delivering structured, cited responses without pre‑selecting documents. The feature, now generally available at no extra charge, adds instant summaries, side‑by‑side comparisons and...
Barcelona‑based health AI firm Biorce closed a $52 million Series A round, led by DST Global Partners and supported by existing backers Norrsken VC, YZR Capital and Mustard Seed Maze. The financing brings total capital raised above $60 million and will fund the...
Open‑source AI pentesting tools are reaching production‑grade performance, with BugTrace‑AI, Shannon, and the Cybersecurity AI Framework (CAI) each demonstrating distinct strengths in a lab test. BugTrace‑AI acts as a low‑noise reconnaissance assistant, flagging likely flaws without launching exploits. Shannon takes...
Choosing The Right AI In 2026 Is No Longer About Choosing The Right Model In 2026, choosing the right #AI comes down to matching #capability profiles to specific tasks, risk levels and business outcomes, rather than chasing benchmark winners. This...
CES 2026 demonstrated that robot hardware has reached a performance plateau, with machines easily executing complex movements like dancing and back‑flipping. The real challenge, according to IntBot, is now social intelligence—robots must understand context, people, and environments autonomously. IntBot highlighted its...
Are you a business person using Claude Code or Claude Cowork? Cool, grab my lazy hack. Rant, rant, rant, and rant some more. Describe your day. Describe your blockers. Share what you've tried. Give your criteria. Rattle off your resources....
My most productive AI workflow is literally just complaining to Claude for 3 paragraphs then typing "help me fix this plz." 👉 Rant about your day and ask for help prioritizing. 👉 Rant about a project and ask for blindspots. 👉 Rant about...
