
Anthropic unveils Mythos AI model in cybersecurity push
Anthropic previewed its new Mythos model under the Project Glasswing initiative, targeting code‑vulnerability scanning. More than 40 partners—including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Palo Alto Networks—are testing the model, which has already flagged thousands of security issues.
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The Media Trust (TMT) announced a partnership to bolster digital trust and safety within Microsoft’s advertising ecosystem. Leveraging TMT’s proprietary AI detection, global infrastructure, and malware‑analysis teams, the collaboration will deliver real‑time threat detection and mitigation for malware, redirects, and cloaked ads across Microsoft‑owned and operated publishers. The solution aims to protect users while preserving legitimate advertiser revenue, enhancing the overall quality of Microsoft’s ad environment. This move underscores TMT’s two‑decade leadership in securing digital ad inventory for global brands.

Oligo Security announced Shira Bendkowski as its new Vice President of Product. Bendkowski, formerly VP of Product at Aqua Security and head of product at XM Cyber, will steer Oligo’s product vision for runtime security across applications, cloud, workloads, and...
AskUCP, launched on January 11 2026, is a global AI shopping search built on the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). UCP, an open standard co‑created by Google and Shopify, lets applications query product data across e‑commerce platforms without traditional APIs or integrations. At...

CoreSite, an American Tower subsidiary, has launched native 400 Gbps Amazon Web Services Direct Connect at its Chicago data‑center campus, delivering ultra‑high bandwidth and low‑latency connectivity for AI, enterprise and GPU‑optimized workloads. Early adopters, including a cybersecurity firm, are using the...

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OpenCog Hyperon, an open‑source neural‑symbolic framework from SingularityNET, positions itself as a bridge between narrow large language models and artificial general intelligence. Its core combines probabilistic logic, symbolic reasoning, evolutionary program synthesis, and a metagraph called Atomspace to enable dynamic,...

BOSGAME unveiled two AI‑focused mini PCs, the VTA‑439 and VTI‑490, slated for global release in Q1 2026. The VTA‑439 runs on AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics, while the VTI‑490 leverages Intel’s Core Ultra X9 388H and an Arc B390 GPU....

SEON introduced an AI‑powered Identity Verification solution that combines document validation, biometric liveness detection, proof‑of‑address checks, and optional government database queries within its unified risk platform. The service draws on more than 900 real‑time fraud signals to evaluate both the...

SIOS Technology’s Vice President of Customer Experience, Cassius Rhue, outlined a forward‑looking vision for high‑availability (HA) and disaster‑recovery (DR) solutions through 2026. He predicts HA will evolve from pure uptime guarantees to a strategic pillar for hybrid‑cloud resilience, cybersecurity, AI...

Network International has signed a processing agreement with Saudi Sudanese Bank to expand digital payment services across Sudan. The partnership will provide acquiring, issuing, and fintech solutions, enabling merchants to accept card payments and facilitating cross‑border transactions. By leveraging Network...
Machine unlearning is emerging as a scientific discipline that lets organizations delete specific data points from trained AI models without full retraining. The approach addresses GDPR’s Right to Erasure and growing copyright demands, which treat model outputs as personal or...

ParaScript won the 2026 BIG Innovation Award for Product Innovation with its patented embedded signature verification solution that enables real‑time check fraud detection. The technology embeds an encrypted, invisible signature at issuance, allowing instant verification across ATMs, teller lines, remote...

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European governments are pouring hundreds of millions of euros into AI programs to reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants, while labs across the continent chase a "DeepSeek of Europe" breakthrough. The push emphasizes open‑source model development, hoping collaborative research can...
The 2026 cybersecurity roadmap highlights seven priority projects for CISOs, ranging from AI‑aware identity and access management to advanced email protection, autonomous code‑vulnerability discovery, and enterprise‑wide zero‑trust adoption. Leaders emphasize extending IAM controls to non‑human agents, leveraging small language models...
At its 2026 virtual summit, Wildix emphasized AI as the catalyst moving its channel‑only model from simple resale toward advisory services that design, govern and optimize unified communications workflows. The company showcased the Wilma AI layer in live customer deployments...
Alorica Inc. has been named an Innovative Organization winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards, recognizing its ability to scale artificial intelligence across enterprise customer‑experience operations. The award highlights Alorica IQ, the company’s AI innovation engine, and evoAI, its conversational‑AI...
CompuChild, a STEM‑certified after‑school franchise, announced the expansion of its artificial intelligence and machine learning curriculum for elementary and middle‑school students. The new suite includes four courses—AI and ML for Young Innovators, AI Game Creator, Video Game Design with ML,...
Seela has launched an all‑in‑one AI creative platform that combines text‑to‑image, image‑to‑image, and a multi‑model chatbot comparison workspace. The platform lets users submit a single prompt and receive side‑by‑side answers from LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, while...

Genesco, the owner of Schuh, announced a strategic overhaul of its IT operating model to boost speed, scalability and AI‑enabled innovation. The transformation is designed to align technology capabilities with the retailer’s new business model and support long‑term growth. Genesco...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) demonstrated its MQ‑20 Avenger executing a fully autonomous aerial intercept using government‑reference autonomy software. The jet employed an Anduril infrared search‑and‑track sensor to locate, track, and compute a simulated kill‑shot against a manned aggressor without...

Nous Research unveiled NousCoder-14B, a competitive programming model built on Qwen3-14B and fine‑tuned with execution‑based reinforcement learning. On the LiveCodeBench v6 benchmark, the model achieved a Pass@1 score of 67.87%, outpacing the Qwen3-14B baseline by 7.08 points. Training leveraged 24,000...

India’s four largest IT outsourcers – HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro – have essentially halted hiring in the latest quarter, adding only 3,910 staff year‑to‑date, a stark contrast to their usual 10,000‑plus quarterly hires. Revenue growth remains modest, with HCL...

Avocados From Mexico is forgoing a traditional $8 million Super Bowl TV spot in favor of an AI‑driven Prediction Pit that delivers real‑time football forecasts and custom guacamole recipes. The experience features a realistic Rob Riggle avatar powered by a predictive AI...
AI agents built on large language models are now completing full purchase flows on WooCommerce stores, bypassing traditional referral links. PayLayer’s free plugin introduces the x402 protocol, letting bots discover products, verify price and stock, pay, and receive a signed...
The best B2B companies are now running with 30% humans and 70% AI agents. Or even higher. The old GTM playbook is dead. At SaaStr AI 2026, we're going deep on what the new playbook actually is. And what really...

OpenAI is quietly testing a major ChatGPT web update slated for rollout in the next few weeks. The preview, dubbed “Salute,” adds a task‑creation interface with file uploads and progress tracking. Additional changes include a model‑preference flag aimed at hospitality‑specific...
At NRF 2026, technology vendors emphasized moving AI from hype to practical applications in retail back‑office functions and store operations. They argue that AI’s potential—automated inventory management, demand forecasting, and labor scheduling—can only be realized if retailers first modernize their...

World announced its Italian market debut on January 15, expanding its human verification network to a fifth EU country. The company now serves nearly 38 million users, with over 17 million verified identities across six continents. Recent upgrades include NVIDIA‑powered hardware, an...

Sequoia Capital is poised to join a multibillion‑dollar financing round for Anthropic, the AI startup that recently unveiled its agentic "Cowork" feature for Claude. The round, led by Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC and Coatue, aims to raise at least $25 billion...
There are millions of dollars sitting in your team’s heads waiting to get unlocked. Since the advent of the modern economy, innovation in business primarily relied on engineers. And efficiency was outsourced to SaaS tools and consultants, which often created...

A new artificial‑intelligence algorithm can identify low bone mass, a precursor to osteoporosis, directly from routine X‑ray images. The system was trained on over 200,000 annotated radiographs and achieved more than 90% sensitivity in clinical validation. By flagging at‑risk patients...
The AI boom consists of three distinct layers—wrapper companies, foundation‑model providers, and infrastructure—each with its own risk profile and timeline. Wrapper startups that merely repackage APIs are expected to implode first, as large platforms absorb their functionality and margins evaporate....
$100M to $200M ARR in just two months....Higgsfield is now the fastest scaling GenAI company in history. Here’s why it's worth paying attention to👇 In under 9 months, Higgsfield reached a $200M ARR. That pace puts them ahead of companies...

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Lume 0.2 is an open‑source VM runtime that runs macOS and Linux on Apple Silicon using Apple’s Virtualization Framework, delivering near‑native performance. It ships as a single binary offering both a CLI and an HTTP API for headless VM creation, automated...
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eBay executives outlined three AI-driven transformations for its marketplace: continuous verification to embed trust, AI‑powered tools that boost the sale of pre‑loved items, and accelerated product development through AI‑assisted debugging. By 2026, AI is expected to handle translation, compliance, payments,...
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Researchers at NDSS 2025 unveiled a systematic study of bit‑flip attacks targeting deep‑learning executables compiled by modern DL compilers. Unlike prior work that focused on flipping weights within frameworks, the new approach exploits publicly known model structure embedded in the...

Vercel has launched the open‑source agent‑skills package, a plug‑in style manager that turns curated React, Next.js, and web‑design best‑practice playbooks into reusable capabilities for AI coding agents. The initial release bundles three core skills—react‑best‑practices, web‑design‑guidelines, and vercel‑deploy‑claimable—each containing dozens of rule‑based...
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It’s really cool to see “legacy” players in geospatial like ESRI adopt 3D gaussian splatting in ArcGIS. Radiance fields are v. complementary to point clouds and textured 3D meshes — exceedingly human readable and much closer to reality than anything else....

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