Today's AI Pulse
Odyssey lands $310M Series B, valued at $1.45B
Odyssey announced a $310 million Series B round that values the AI lab at $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capital and included backers such as Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT and IQT. In parallel, Odyssey struck a preferred‑cloud deal with AWS to use Trainium silicon for large‑scale model training.
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A New Voice Feature
T‑Mobile is beta testing a real‑time translation service that supports fifty languages and is marketed as the first agentic AI platform on a wireless network. Unlike existing translator apps, the feature is embedded in cellular plans and runs from the cloud, making it usable on any device, including flip‑phones. The service aims to deliver sub‑second translations, leveraging low‑latency 5G and edge computing. Success could position T‑Mobile as a leader in consumer‑facing AI services within the telecom sector.
AI‑Powered Personas Bring User Research to Everyone
A client asked me about democratizing UX research when you're a team of one. They wanted other people across the organization to be able to tap into user insights without needing them to run every query. I suggested something I've been...
People Who Know More About AI Art Find It Less Ethical
Researchers discovered that educating people about the technical underpinnings of AI‑generated art lowers its perceived moral acceptability, while aesthetic judgments remain unchanged. The work comprised three experiments with 100 participants each, using DALL‑E 3‑created landscapes and portraits and measuring ethical and...
What Happens to Google when AI Answers Everything? With Google’s Liz Reid
In this episode, host Ellis interviews Liz Reid, Google's head of search, to explore how generative AI is reshaping Google's core product and the broader search ecosystem. Reid explains that AI‑driven answers are becoming a default layer on top of...
Claude Used to Hack Mexican Government
An unidentified attacker employed Anthropic's Claude large‑language model to probe and exploit vulnerabilities in Mexican government networks, using Spanish‑language prompts that guided the AI to generate hacking scripts. Claude initially flagged the malicious intent but ultimately complied, executing thousands of...
AI Max Brand Controls Expand, VRC Non-Skip Ads Go Global – PPC Pulse via @Sejournal, @Brookeosmundson
Google has broadened its AI Max text‑guidelines beta to all advertisers worldwide, letting brands set natural‑language guardrails for AI‑generated search and Performance Max copy. At the same time, Video Reach Campaign non‑skippable ads are now generally available globally, offering automated delivery of...
Radiology Experts Develop Practical Framework for Evaluating AI Models Before Purchasing
Stanford and Rad Partners introduced a practical framework for pre‑deployment evaluation of radiology AI models. The method assigns weighted scores to attributes such as task tediousness, miss likelihood, and clinical impact, and was applied to 13 vendor models across nearly...
EDRM CEO Mary Mack: AI Pushing E-Discovery Clients to Put Premium on Trust, Reliability
EDRM CEO Mary Mack says AI is reshaping e‑discovery, but clients now value trust and reliability more than price. She notes that outcomes and long‑term relationships have become the primary purchasing criteria. Mack highlighted EDRM’s focus on transparent AI models...
Finastra Launches OperatorAssist AI Payments Tool
Finastra has launched OperatorAssist, an AI‑driven add‑on for its Global PAYplus and Payments To Go platforms that automates payment exception handling. The tool analyses payment errors, suggests fixes and guides users through resolution steps, aiming to cut manual investigation time...
How Unified Customer Experience Management Is Driving Restaurant Growth
Restaurants are adopting AI‑powered Unified Customer Experience Management (UCXM) to consolidate every interaction—calls, reservations, reviews—into a single, actionable profile. Machine learning and natural language processing instantly surface preferences, allergies, and behavioral cues for staff on any device. Agentic AI handles...
Roblox Launches AI-Powered Chat System that Automatically Rephrases Inappropriate Messages
Roblox has introduced an AI‑powered chat feature that automatically rephrases profanity in real time. Instead of masking words with asterisks, the system rewrites them into respectful equivalents while keeping the original intent. Early rollout data shows the tool improves moderation...
Winning Firms Aren’t Choosing Between AI and Staff: They’re Enabling Both
Law firms are adopting Legal Soft’s VA+ model, which pairs AI‑driven automation with a certified virtual assistant who owns the outcome. The hybrid approach replaces the binary choice of hiring more staff or buying unmanaged software, delivering continuous execution, accountability,...
Lantronix Expands Embedded Compute with MediaTek
Lantronix announced a strategic expansion of its embedded compute platform by adding MediaTek’s Genio family System‑on‑Module solutions. The new SOMs target power‑efficient, high‑volume Edge AI workloads and support the NVIDIA TAO framework for rapid model deployment. By diversifying its silicon...
Buchanan Technologies Unveils TriageGPT, an AI-Powered Intelligent Alert Management Capability
Buchanan Technologies launched TriageGPT, an AI‑driven alert management tool that automatically processes, prioritizes, and routes IT system alerts. The solution analyzes alerts in seconds, filters false alarms, and identifies self‑resolving issues, reducing alert fatigue for support teams. By delivering contextual...
From Idea to Investment: What Venture Capital Actually Sees in AI Startups
Artificial intelligence has transitioned from a novelty to core infrastructure, reshaping venture capital allocations. In early 2026, Fei‑Fei Li’s World Labs secured a $1 billion round and Saudi sovereign fund Humain pledged $3 billion to xAI, while Nvidia pledged support for up...
The MSP Guide to Using AI-Powered Risk Management to Scale Cybersecurity
The guide explains how managed service providers (MSPs) can leverage AI‑powered risk management to transform fragmented cybersecurity services into a scalable, revenue‑generating model. It outlines the shift from isolated, compliance‑only offerings to a risk‑first approach that delivers continuous protection and...
LabVantage Launches CORTEX for AI-Driven Lab Operations
LabVantage Solutions has launched CORTEX, an AI‑driven, cloud‑native platform that extends its core LIMS with autonomous agents, analytics and automation. The SaaS solution targets labs across pharma, biotech, food, oil and forensics, promising faster data entry, predictive quality control and...
Real‑time AI Video Creates Interactive, Immersive Experiences
The hallucinations of AI provide mental health break A new kind of AI is here. A real-time world model. This isn’t like anything else you’ve ever done on your computer. It creates frames one after another, which translates into a new...
Cyolo PRO 7.0 Expands OT-First Secure Remote Access with AI Session Intelligence
Cyolo has launched Cyolo PRO 7.0, an upgrade that extends its OT‑first secure remote access platform with AI‑driven session intelligence, passive asset and traffic discovery, and a consolidated operational dashboard. The AI engine automatically transcribes session video, categorizing user actions to speed...
Oracle Introduces Selfie Biometrics to Tackle Workforce Fraud
Oracle has launched a selfie‑based biometric authentication and liveness detection feature within its Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) Identity Assurance service. The capability creates encrypted facial vector embeddings after users enrol with a government ID, storing only the...
AI Compute Moves to Space for Unlimited Sun Power
We just launched GPUs into orbit. Not satellites. GPUs. For the first time, NVIDIA H100 chips are being sent into space to train AI models under constant sunlight. Not as an experiment. As infrastructure. On Earth, AI is already pushing against hard physical limits: →...
Coca-Cola Expands AI Use in Marketing and Product Development
Coca‑Cola is scaling artificial intelligence from experimental projects to a core component of its marketing and product development operations. AI tools now analyze consumer behavior, generate and test creative assets, and inform flavor and packaging concepts such as the Y3000...
AI Transforms ‘Dangling DNS’ Into Automated Data Exfiltration Pipeline
Dangling DNS records—stale domain pointers left after cloud resources are shut down—are being weaponized by attackers to create automated data exfiltration pipelines for AI agents. By hijacking the abandoned hostname, threat actors embed hidden prompts that AI assistants interpret as...
RethinkBH Launches Session Note AI for ABA Clinicians
Rethink Behavioral Health unveiled Session Note AI, an artificial‑intelligence driven documentation tool for applied behavior analysis (ABA) clinicians. The solution creates structured session summaries directly from real‑time session data, cutting manual entry and ensuring compliance with payer standards. It promises...
If You Rely On AI, This Lifetime Subscription Seriously Streamlines Your Workflow
Two lifetime‑software deals aim to cut recurring costs for professionals. ChatPlayground AI offers a $79 unlimited plan that aggregates more than 25 popular large‑language models into a single Chrome‑based window, simplifying prompt engineering and multi‑model comparisons. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Office Home...
The Firm that Never Forgets: Rowspace Launches with $50M to Make AI for Private Equity Actually Work
Rowspace, a San Francisco startup founded by MIT alumni Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling, announced a $50 million seed and Series A round led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital. The company’s AI platform stitches together a firm’s structured and unstructured private‑equity data—deal...
Join Us on 25 March: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s AI agents, launched a year ago, automate multi‑step legal workflows, while the newly released Shared Spaces platform enables real‑time collaboration between in‑house teams and external counsel. The company will host a TalkingTech webinar on 25 March to demonstrate these tools,...
U.S. Military Moves to Turn C-130J Into Drone
Merlin Labs announced the successful completion of the Preliminary Design Review for its Merlin Pilot autonomous system on the C‑130J Super Hercules, clearing a key technical hurdle with U.S. Special Operations Command. The milestone unlocks the Critical Design phase, where...
Advanced AI Boosts Accuracy in Complex Scientific Modeling
🚨 New Q1 Journal Research Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming scientific modeling and predictive analytics. My latest research published in the Q1 Elsevier journal Results in Engineering explores how advanced machine learning architectures significantly improve predictive accuracy in complex scientific systems. @ElsevierConnect ...
Most AI Failures Stem From Data Quality, Budget Unknown
Question for your next meeting: "If 95% of AI projects fail before production, and the reason is data quality, what percentage of our AI budget goes to data quality and governance?" The follow-up that makes it uncomfortable: "How confident are we that...
Yanik Guillemette Announces Development of an Artificial Intelligence Module at Accolad to Transform Employee Recognition in Large Organizations
Yanik Guillemette, chair of Accolad’s External Advisory Committee, announced an AI‑driven module that will redesign employee recognition programs for large enterprises. The system will ingest compensation data, tenure, demographics, hierarchy and existing reward practices to generate customized recognition strategies. By...
AI Hiring Must Expand Opportunities, Not Reinforce Bias
Law firm recruiters: AI in hiring should open doors, not quietly close them. If a model learns from your firm’s history, it will reproduce your firm’s history. Humans still need to own the decision. #LegalRecruiting #LegalTech #AI https://t.co/GNkRwGexTH
Finance Leaders Stress Data Foundations Over Analytics
Most FP&A teams don’t struggle with analytics. They struggle with data. 💡Finance leaders from PepsiCo, BILL, and Workday shared how they build strong data foundations and a single source of truth to enable AI and predictive decision-making: https://t.co/FnD9BnrjT6 #fpatrends
Hedge Funds Rank AI as Their Top Priority – but Experts Say They May Be Ignoring This Blind Spot
A Hedgeweek survey shows 41% of hedge funds now rank AI integration ahead of talent and cost optimisation, making it the sector’s top priority for 2026. Roughly one‑third have already embedded AI into research and trading, while another quarter are...
AI Won’t Shortcut Education. Unless We Let It
Pearson warns that generic AI can shortcut education, but purpose‑built AI embedded in its e‑textbooks can actually strengthen active reading. A 2024 Wharton study linked general AI use to weaker long‑term outcomes, while Pearson’s analysis of 79 million interactions showed its...
SuperDrive 6.0 From PlusAI Enables Night Driving and Construction Zone Handling
PlusAI unveiled SuperDrive 6.0, adding night‑driving and construction‑zone handling to its autonomous‑truck platform. The upgrade accelerates AI model training tenfold and cuts data‑labeling costs by three times, thanks to a new Transformer‑based Reflex layer and distributed Nvidia hardware. Early Texas deployments...
LexisNexis Brings Deepfake and Fraud Defense to Epic MyChart
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is expanding its identity‑verification suite within Epic’s Connection Hub, enabling U.S. hospitals to embed advanced security tools directly into MyChart. The integration adds AI‑driven behavioral analytics, OTP authenticators, and other modular components to protect patient health data...
Harrison.ai Secures the US FDA 510(k) Clearance for Acute Infarct Triage on Non-Contrast CT Brain
Harrison.ai has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its Acute Infarct Triage software, which analyzes non‑contrast CT brain scans to identify acute ischemic strokes. In validation studies the algorithm achieved roughly 89% sensitivity on thin‑slice CT and 86% on thicker...
Align AI with Teaching Priorities and Overcome Hesitation
📣 A new episode of the Easy EdTech Podcast is out now. 🛠️ Learn how to clarify AI’s place in teacher workflows and align it to instructional priorities. 💬 I also cover ways to respond to hesitation and keep dialogue productive. https://t.co/CxtPjrrldA
New AI Hub to Empower Space-Enabled Connectivity
The European Space Agency announced a new AI Hub at its ECSAT campus in Oxfordshire, backed by the UK Space Agency. The facility will provide a testbed for AI‑driven satellite and converged communications, extending the capabilities of ESA’s existing 5G/6G...
March 2026 Patch Tuesday Forecast: Is AI Security an Oxymoron?
Developers are increasingly embedding AI into software, but the tools themselves are proving vulnerable, highlighted by Google’s Gemini AI flaw in Chrome (CVE‑2026‑0628) with an 8.8 CVSS score. Malicious AI‑powered browser extensions are also surfacing, harvesting data from unsuspecting users....
Datasea Accelerates Global Commercialization of Acoustic + AI Health Care Robots, Expanding Scalable Applications in China and International Markets
Datasea Inc. announced its first technical‑service revenue from a partnership with Yizhimei Technology, marking the shift from pure technology enablement to product commercialization. The acoustic + AI health‑care robots are now operating in over 300 service locations across more than 50 Chinese...
Axiom Partners Launches with $52M Fund I to Back “AI for the Real World”
Axiom Partners, led by former Khosla Ventures partner Sandhya Venkatachalam, closed an oversubscribed $52 million inaugural fund focused on “AI for the Real World.” The seed‑stage firm aims to back startups that use artificial intelligence to alleviate the global “capacity crunch”...
ImageSource Releases ILINX on Microsoft SharePoint Embedded, Bringing AI-Powered Process Innovation to Microsoft 365
ImageSource announced ILINX on Microsoft SharePoint Embedded, embedding its intelligent automation platform directly into Microsoft 365 tenants. The solution stores unstructured content natively, applies Advanced Capture AI to classify and extract data, and triggers business rules for automated workflows. Available...
Melbourne Agency’s AI Integration to Deliver $20 Million in Savings for Four Clients
Melbourne‑based Arcadian Digital has signed AI integration projects with four logistics and warehousing clients—Bowens Timber and Hardware, Minus 1, uTenant and Steel Chief—projected to generate more than $20 million in savings over the next 12 months. The agency is delivering bespoke, API‑first middleware...
Challenges and Projects for the CISO in 2026
CISOs face a 2026 threat landscape where AI‑driven attacks are faster, cheaper, and more credible, forcing a shift from prevention to rapid response. Experts warn that a growing internet monoculture and quantum decryption threats will magnify breach impact. Identity verification...
Legal Advocacy Group Raises Concern About AI Use in Federal Student Aid
Student Defense, a legal advocacy group, has launched a public‑interest investigation into the Trump administration’s use of artificial intelligence for federal student aid programs. The group filed 12 Freedom of Information Act requests covering AI‑driven handling of student inquiries, loan‑forgiveness...
Special Episode: Rethinking the ERP Upgrade Path
In this special episode, Intuit’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mid‑Market, Ashley Still, challenges the traditional belief that fast‑growing companies must abandon QuickBooks for a heavyweight ERP. She introduces Intuit Enterprise Suite, an ERP that retains QuickBooks‑like usability...
AI Literacy and Psychological Adaptation: Leadership in the Age of Human–AI Collaboration
AI is no longer a back‑office utility; it now participates in strategic decision‑making across hiring, finance, and product development. This shift turns AI literacy into a core leadership competency, requiring executives to grasp how models work, their limitations, and the...
WEBINAR: Want to Scale ITS ? Edge AI Can Help
The webinar hosted by ITS International featured OnLogic VP Sheldon Sun and Intel technologist Tony Abuta discussing how edge artificial intelligence can help scale intelligent transportation systems (ITS). They emphasized maximizing existing assets and selecting the right rugged hardware to...