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Vultr Achieves NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud Status on Blackwell GPUs
Vultr became one of the first NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud providers by meeting NVIDIA’s performance standards on Blackwell GPUs. The validation used a 512‑node HGX B200 cluster running eleven AI models, demonstrating high throughput and efficiency for AI workloads.
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WitnessAI secured $58 million in strategic funding led by Sound Ventures, aiming to accelerate global expansion and broaden its AI security suite. The platform provides enterprises with real‑time visibility and control over large‑language models and autonomous AI agents, addressing governance gaps in regulated sectors. Over the past year the company reported 500 % ARR growth and a five‑fold increase in headcount, serving hundreds of thousands of employees across finance, utilities, automotive and other industries. New Agentic Security capabilities, launching January 2026, will enhance observability and block advanced attacks such as prompt injection.
Oversonic Robotics announced a strategic partnership with NantWorks and the opening of a 5,000‑square‑foot Los Angeles office. The alliance will accelerate research in both medical and aerospace domains, bringing the company’s first cognitive humanoid robots into U.S. clinical trials and...
In a recent TechRadar opinion piece, a driver used ChatGPT’s multimodal capabilities to diagnose a mysterious 19 mph speed‑limiter warning on his dashboard. By uploading a photo, the AI instantly identified the feature, guided him to the correct button, and restored...
Slingshot Aerospace secured a $27 million, 18‑month contract from the U.S. Space Force to advance its AI‑based training system, TALOS, under the Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) program. TALOS acts as an autonomous virtual opponent, generating adaptive satellite maneuvers and...
OpenAI released its inaugural user study, "How People Use ChatGPT," detailing how individuals and organizations integrate the model into daily workflows. The research, blending surveys, anonymized usage data, and interviews, finds that roughly a third of interactions are work‑related, with...
ETSI has released EN 304 223, the first globally applicable European standard that defines baseline security requirements for AI systems across enterprises. The standard aligns with the EU AI Act and introduces concrete provisions covering deep neural networks, generative AI,...
AI is changing productivity, inflation, and also monetary policy 🤖📉 On @bitsandbips, @CampbellJAustin, @ramahluwalia & @perkinscr97 are joined by @DivesTech to unpack: ⚡ AI’s energy bottleneck 🏦 Pressure on the Fed ₿ Why Bitcoin enters the picture Timestamps: 🚀 00:00 Introduction ⚖️ 6:36 Why the DOJ probing...
Apple is set to upgrade its Notes app in the upcoming iOS 26.4 release, embedding Google Gemini’s generative AI through Siri. The integration will let users generate notes, add shopping‑list items, and pull data from Safari or Mail without manual copy‑pasting....
PayZen, an AI‑driven patient affordability platform, announced Ken Brause as its new chief financial officer. Brause brings finance leadership experience from fintech firms DailyPay and OnDeck, focusing on strategic finance, capital markets, and scaling fast‑growing businesses. His role will oversee...
U.S. lawmakers are intensifying scrutiny of AI‑driven dynamic pricing, highlighted by Senator Chuck Schumer’s criticism of Instacart’s 2025 experiment that showed up to 23% price variation on grocery items. In Tennessee, House Bill 1468 would outlaw personalized algorithmic pricing by...
A new Physical AI study reveals that humanoid robotics is limited more by physical constraints than by artificial intelligence. The research highlights data scarcity, the sim‑to‑real gap, energy and latency limits, and safety verification as the primary bottlenecks. It argues...
The NHIcon 2026 virtual conference, organized by Aembit, will explore the emerging security challenges of agentic AI in enterprises, featuring keynotes from Phil Venables, Misam Abbas, and Anthropic’s deputy CISO Jason Clinton. Sessions will cover practical topics such as LLM...
Tines Security Services launched an AI Interaction Layer that unifies AI agents, copilots, and workflow automation within a single, secure interface. The platform introduces Model Context Protocol support, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, and built‑in auditing to address the fragmentation of AI tools....
The article argues that AI investments in developer productivity are wasted when change approval processes remain heavyweight and batch sizes stay large. It promotes working in small batches and lightweight, automated approvals as the antidote to slow pipelines and compliance...
At CES 2026 Boston Dynamics showcased Atlas performing fluid, human‑like motions, from martial‑arts stances to precise squats. The company captures human movement using Xsens motion‑capture suits or VR controllers, then retargets the data to the robot’s unique kinematics. In simulation,...
Teamwork.com introduces an AI‑enhanced project management platform tailored for marketing agencies, consultants, and client‑facing teams. It consolidates tasks, approvals, time tracking, and resource planning into a single system, reducing fragmented communication and bottlenecks. AI‑driven workload and capacity tools help managers...
Researchers have unveiled a new memristive architecture that dramatically improves human‑machine interfaces (HMIs). The technology leverages analog resistance states to store and process data directly at the sensor level, cutting latency and power draw. Early prototypes demonstrate real‑time pattern recognition...
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released RoboReward, a new dataset and benchmark for training vision‑language reward models in robotics. The dataset pairs real‑world robot videos with textual descriptions and graded success scores, enabling models to evaluate task performance automatically. Using...
MongoDB announced the general availability of its Voyage 4 family of embedding models and the multimodal‑3.5 model, integrating them directly into Atlas and the community edition. The new models—voyage‑4, voyage‑4‑large, voyage‑4‑lite, and voyage‑4‑nano—offer varying trade‑offs in accuracy, latency and cost, while...
In this episode Ben Lorica interviews Ben Luria, CEO and co‑founder of Hirundo, about the rising importance of machine unlearning for enterprise AI systems. They explore how organizations can remove or forget specific data points from trained models to comply...
The former Homer City coal plant, once the largest in Pennsylvania, shut down three years ago, leaving the town without its 2‑gigawatt power source. A new natural‑gas facility is slated to begin operations in 2027, delivering 4.5 GW—more than double the...
Security teams are still focusing on protecting AI models, but recent incidents show the real risk lies in the workflows surrounding them. Malicious Chrome extensions harvested chat data from over 900,000 users, and prompt‑injection attacks can coerce AI coding assistants...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned that artificial intelligence could trigger "mass unemployment" in the capital unless the government intervenes. He cited research indicating that 70% of job skills will change by 2030, especially in finance, creative and professional services. City...
AI firms are now battling for a scarce pool of electricians, plumbers, and HVAC technicians needed to build the power‑hungry data centers that drive artificial‑intelligence workloads. The U.S. faces an average annual shortfall of about 81,000 electricians, with McKinsey estimating...
AiMOGA Robotics has placed its Intelligent Police Unit R001, a humanoid traffic‑policing robot, at a busy intersection in Wuhu, China, transitioning from pilot trials to routine urban use. The robot performs standardized hand signals and behavioral reminders for non‑motorized traffic...
In this episode, Under Secretary of War Emil Michael explains how the Department of War is deploying a generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, to over a million users within its first month, leveraging models like Gemini and Grok to boost decision‑making...
"You can't just hand an AI Agent to the sales team or marketing team to deploy. Not if they don't have the skills to implement the agent, train it, manage it." with @kylecnorton CRO @kylecnorton "You have to find that GTM...
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology is rolling out a full‑chain AI system that links construction machinery, smart factories and humanoid robots. The company now operates 12 smart factories and more than 300 production lines, enabling high‑mix, small‑batch output with...
Jaron Lanier, the virtual‑reality pioneer, argues that AI systems must remain under human accountability in the second episode of the new podcast *The Ten Reckonings*. He warns that delegating responsibility to machines would undermine law and civilization. The discussion references recent...
Meltwater and We. Communications released their inaugural State of PR Report, surveying over 1,100 communications professionals worldwide. The study finds that more than 90% of PR teams have incorporated generative AI into daily tasks such as drafting releases, content optimization,...
Any @Zendesk experts out there? We have a gen AI reply out there for @haveibeenpwned which attempts to answer a support question, but has a fallback for if it can’t. How can we automatically close the ticket if a reply...
Q4 @q4tweets wins AI in Finance & Banking category in Global AI Awards Q4, the investor relations (IR) platform offering AI-powered tools for earnings communications, investor targeting, sentiment analysis. Corporate finance functions getting agentic capabilities https://t.co/6a7IvPvaGJ
Spain-based DAO Xmaquina has raised more than $10 million through its on‑chain Genesis Auction model, attracting nearly 2,000 contributors ranging from crypto‑focused venture funds to strategic angels. The auctions used uniform pricing and open participation, removing preferential terms typical of traditional...
“No-code AI agents” ≠ easy AI. It really means: • intent over tools • workflows over models • memory over prompts • distribution over intelligence Agents aren’t built faster — they’re designed better. https://t.co/GTyMfcQMIB
Wikipedia marks its 25th anniversary amid mounting political, legal, and technological pressures. Conservative figures accuse the site of left‑wing bias while governments in the UK and Saudi Arabia propose age‑gating or imprison editors. AI bots scrape its content, driving traffic...
UiPath posted its first quarter of net‑new ARR growth in two years and achieved GAAP profitability, crediting execution discipline over new product launches. The company tightened renewal planning, deepened account management, and focused on post‑sale deployment to accelerate value realization....
Bain & Company announced the creation of an AI‑focused venture ecosystem in partnership with several leading global venture‑capital firms. The initiative will combine Bain’s strategic consulting expertise with VC capital to back early‑stage artificial‑intelligence startups. By establishing a dedicated pipeline,...
In this episode, CFO Bruno Annicq of Wellhub shares how he transformed the company’s forecasting by adopting an AI‑driven probabilistic ensemble model, moving the finance team beyond single‑scenario planning. He outlines his EMPOWER planning framework, emphasizing cash discipline, sustainable growth,...
In this episode, Kevin Ball talks with Institute for Justice attorney Michael Soyfer about the rapid expansion of surveillance technologies such as automated license‑plate readers, facial‑recognition cameras, and predictive policing tools across U.S. municipalities. Soyfer explains the Fourth Amendment challenges...
Worldline announced two new capabilities—Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and the ConnectAI developer hub—to make its Global Collect payment platform agent‑ready. The MCP acts as a secure bridge that lets large language models initiate payments, refunds, and status checks via...
DataMesh has introduced DataMesh Robotics, an embodied AI data product built on its executable industrial digital twin platform. The solution lets robot OEMs train, validate and evaluate robots in dynamic, process‑driven virtual factories, producing synthetic data and measurable reward signals....
The episode explores how AI can safeguard Europe’s extensive subsea cables and pipelines, focusing on the EU‑funded VIGIMARE project led by researcher Johanna Karvonen. It details how machine‑learning models will fuse satellite imagery, AIS data, radar and acoustic signals from...
ModelOp announced that its ModelOp Center AI lifecycle management platform is now listed on AWS Marketplace. Enterprises can purchase the solution directly through their AWS accounts, consolidating contracts and billing on a single invoice. The offering promises faster deployment of...
iManage announced the appointment of Mike Eichsteadt as Vice President of AI Engineering, reinforcing its push to embed practical, governed AI across its knowledge‑work platform. Eichsteadt will lead efforts to scale applied AI, improve data quality, and ensure responsible deployment...
Quadric, a Burlingame‑based AI inference engine provider, announced a $30 million Series C round led by ACCELERATE Fund with participation from several notable venture firms. The capital will fund expansion of its General Purpose NPU (GPNPU) processor IP and end‑to‑end toolchain, which...
SHOW Token has launched an AI‑driven, Web3‑based platform aimed at modernizing film production. The utility token is embedded in the platform to grant access and incentivize participation rather than serve as a speculative asset. By combining blockchain’s transparent contribution tracking...
F5 announced the general availability of two AI‑runtime security products—F5 AI Guardrails and F5 AI Red Team. The Guardrails solution provides model‑agnostic, real‑time protection for AI agents, while the Red Team offers automated adversarial testing using a continuously updated threat...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from novelty to necessity for credit unions as younger members increasingly expect AI-driven budgeting, planning and transaction tools. While 55% of members already rely on AI for financial planning and 42% feel comfortable using it...
AI’s growth is increasingly bound by physical infrastructure rather than algorithmic breakthroughs. Generative‑AI models rely on massive data centers that consume huge electricity loads, prompting community pushback in places like Ohio and Virginia. Utilities warn that the surge in AI‑driven...
AI video startup Higgsfield has hired former Perplexity ad executive Taz Patel as vice president of platform partnerships. Patel, who joined this week, will report to CEO Alex Mashrabov and focus on converting self‑serve AI video users into formal agency...
