What's happening: India AI Impact Summit pledges $240B AI investment
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam.
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CYGNVS unveiled a purpose-built AI model for cyber readiness and incident response, trained on more than 20,000 real-world cyber incidents and outages. The model leverages proprietary data from Marsh, the leading cyber insurance broker, without exposing any client‑specific information. By integrating anonymized insights from Marsh’s 2,500 annual incidents with its own datasets, CYGNVS delivers incident‑specific guidance to help organizations act faster during crises. The AI service is offered to CYGNVS Enterprise customers at no additional charge.
AutoCount Cloud Accounting has launched AI‑driven expense recognition alongside automated bank reconciliation, mobile document capture, and built‑in e‑invoice processing for Malaysian small and medium enterprises. The enhancements embed e‑invoicing directly into daily workflows, positioning SMEs to meet Malaysia’s mandatory electronic...

Fasoo unveiled an AI‑driven personal data protection suite combining Fasoo Data Radar and Fasoo AI‑R Privacy. The solution moves beyond keyword scans, using context‑aware models to detect PII across unstructured formats with fewer false positives. Detected data is automatically encrypted,...
Raynet has launched SAM AI, an AI‑enhanced Software Asset Management solution built on its Raynet One platform. The offering consolidates on‑premises, cloud and SaaS asset data into a single source of truth, enriching it with market and vendor information. Developed...

Healthcare providers are increasingly adopting advanced technologies—AI, automation, EHR integration, cloud platforms, predictive analytics, and blockchain—to modernize revenue cycle management (RCM). These tools automate repetitive tasks, improve data accuracy, and enable real‑time collaboration, resulting in higher clean‑claim rates and faster...

IFS unveiled Nexus Black Resolve for Utilities at DISTRIBUTECH International 2026, extending its Field Service Management platform with industrial‑AI capabilities. The solution tackles utility pain points such as workforce shortages, aging assets, and extreme‑weather events through intelligent crew call‑outs, mutual‑aid...

Dokie AI unveiled an upgraded AI Presentation Maker that promises faster slide generation, smoother transitions, and more professional formatting. The new AI PPT Maker transforms text or documents into structured decks while preserving user control over design. Enhanced workflow features...

Skyhawk Security announced that Channel Director Jennifer Duman has been named a 2026 CRN® Channel Chief. Duman, who joined Skyhawk in 2025, has transformed the company’s channel‑first go‑to‑market model by automating onboarding and opportunity management. Under her guidance, Skyhawk’s partner...

EPAM Systems was named a Top IT Vendor in Europe for the third consecutive year, earning Exceptional Performer status and the #1 ranking in both Application Services and General Satisfaction in Whitelane Research’s 2025/2026 study. The survey covered over 2,500...
Mitiga, the zero‑impact cloud detection and response leader, announced a 234% year‑over‑year sales surge in 2025 and rapid expansion following its Series B round led by SYN Ventures. The company doubled its workforce, launched a 25‑member CISO advisory board, and...

Tencent Cloud EdgeOne has rolled out its Basic Bot Management suite to all users, including those on the free tier, introducing AI Crawler Control and a CAPTCHA Page. The AI Crawler Control leverages continuous User‑Agent recognition to detect and act...

Linda AI, a health‑tech startup automating dental front‑desk tasks, closed a €2.6 million pre‑seed round led by 6 Degrees Capital. The platform uses voice‑AI agents to schedule, confirm, and follow up on appointments, integrating with existing practice‑management systems. Early adopters report a...

Vizrt has launched InteractifAI and CaptivAIte, two AI‑driven tools that embed broadcast‑quality graphics and augmented‑reality visuals directly into Zoom Meetings and Zoom Rooms. The solutions let users overlay branded graphics, live data, QR codes and AR elements onto participant video...

Yellow.ai unveiled Nexus, the industry’s first Universal Agentic Interface, promising a shift from traditional SaaS tools to a "Service as Software" model. In early access, Nexus achieved a 98.9% success rate, autonomously building 77 AI agents for brands across eight...

Zendesk announced Craig Flower as its new chief operating officer, tasking him with accelerating the company’s AI‑first transformation and tightening operational performance. Flower, who previously served as Zendesk’s chief information officer, will lead AI tool adoption, create a center of...

AI‑driven fragrance startup Osmo announced a $70 million Series B round, led by Two Sigma Ventures and backed by Alumni Ventures and Patrick Collison. The capital will fund a move to a new manufacturing hub in New Jersey and the addition of three...

Puma relaunched its AI Creator platform in January, inviting fans to co‑design the Olympique de Marseille 2027‑28 third kit. The contest attracted over 35,000 unique users, who spent an average of eight minutes each, produced five designs per participant and...
During the Singapore Airshow 2026, Thales announced new MoUs with Singapore's Economic Development Board to expand its AI, cloud, edge computing, and data engineering capabilities, positioning Singapore as one of three global R&D centres for its FlytEDGE inflight entertainment platform....

FedEx has signed a multi‑year agreement with Berkshire Grey to deploy the company’s Scoop robotic trailer unloader across its hub network. The AI‑enabled system automates the unloading of mixed‑package trailers, delivering continuous flow while allowing human intervention for exceptions. Pilot units...
Retail is rapidly evolving into an AI‑driven ecosystem, with technologies like computer‑vision loss prevention, dynamic pricing and personalized promotions relying on constant connectivity. Stores now operate as distributed data centers, where any network interruption instantly halts revenue and degrades the...
Publicis Groupe expanded its Working With Cancer initiative on World Cancer Day, unveiling peer‑reviewed research and an AI‑powered coaching tool. The study, led by Memorial Sloan Kettering and Mayo Clinic, analyzed 25 years of data across 20 countries, showing that...
In this episode Alanya Hammond breaks down new research on "agentic" AI shopping, revealing that two‑thirds of North American and UK consumers have already tried or are open to AI assistants, and pinpointing the journey stages where AI adds the...
The top 20 AI security risks right now. Had @blevlabs create this report by looking at my Security list here on X. Done on request from @realAlanHoward. Every day I'll do a different report from a community here on X....
Every day, I am blowing my mind with Claude Code. With Google Workspace MCP, skills, and concise team directory in my Claude md file, I can type the following: /ss 5 for /mtg with alyssa then /debrief 30 walmart with elliot And...

Women in technology and financial services face a higher risk of AI‑driven job loss than men, according to a City of London Corporation report. The study highlights that rigid, often automated CV screening sidelines mid‑career women, especially those with career...
The reason we’re all in on AI agents at Box is because agents can now process all of the unstructured data in an enterprise at scale. Companies are sitting on mountains of valuable information that they can tap into for...
Anthropic just shook Europe’s data sector Its new AI legal tool pushed shares in Pearson, Experian and other data-heavy firms sharply lower as investors reassessed automation risk The signal from markets is clear. AI is no longer a support tool. It is...
Hugging Face launched decentralized evaluation reporting, enabling benchmark datasets to host leaderboards and models to store evaluation scores in .eval_results YAML files. Community members can submit results via pull requests, which appear alongside author scores and are aggregated on dataset...
We've spent the last year rebuilding SaaStr with 20+ AI agents. Revenue is up 47%. Team down to 3 humans. It's been the most intense learning curve of my career. I'm sharing all of it at SaaStr AI 2026. May...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and the German Aerospace Center introduced a hybrid quantum‑classical neural network, MLTQNN, to classify large‑scale Earth observation data. The model combines multitask learning, a location‑weight module, and quantum convolution operations to streamline data...

Researchers from Beijing Normal University and Tsinghua University introduced a CNN‑BiLSTM hybrid that classifies 3‑ and 4‑qubit multipartite entanglement. Using only 100 training samples, the dimensionality‑transforming Architecture 2 reached over 90 % accuracy, while with a full set of 400 000 samples both...

Angelsta has launched the first regulated, AI‑powered exchange for tokenized startup equity in the Middle East and North Africa, creating a secondary market for pre‑IPO shares. By converting private‑company stock into blockchain‑based digital assets, the platform tackles the region’s chronic...
🌟 These figures were not designed by humans. Google just released PaperBanana, a system that generates its own paper’s figures directly from the methods section. No Figma. No Illustrator. Just text → publication-ready diagrams. 📄 Paper: https://lnkd.in/gCstZ-Hm Five agents collaborate: Retriever → Planner → Stylist...

Phylo Inc., an AI‑driven biology software startup, announced a $13.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund and other investors. The company’s flagship product, Biomni Lab, acts as an integrated biology environment that links...

Truist Financial unveiled an AI‑enabled receivables platform that automates payment‑to‑invoice matching for corporate clients. Leveraging machine learning and business rules, the solution scans checks and electronic payments, extracts remittance data, and integrates with ERP systems for straight‑through processing. The platform...

Elon Musk merged SpaceX with his AI startup xAI, creating a privately‑owned entity valued at roughly $1.25 trillion. Musk argues the deal is driven by the massive electricity demand of AI and a long‑term vision of orbital AI data centers, backed...
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) released an expert opinion highlighting angiography‑derived physiology (ADP) as a wire‑free alternative for coronary lesion assessment. ADP combines AI‑driven computational fluid dynamics with standard angiograms to generate physiological metrics without pressure wires....

Microsoft Advertising unveiled the Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM), a platform where publishers can license premium articles and media to AI developers and receive usage‑based payments. The system lets publishers set licensing terms while AI builders discover content for grounding specific...

Investors are pulling back from U.S. equities as political uncertainty and a weakening dollar erode confidence. The Trump administration’s policy moves and a controversial central‑bank chair nomination have pushed the dollar to a four‑year low, making European and Asian assets...

In 2025 the AI industry learned that rapid feature rollout is insufficient without robust data infrastructure and governance. AutoDS’s CEO Lior Pozin discovered that once a solid foundation of data ownership and access was built, AI shifted from a novelty...
BizTrip AI, a provider of AI‑powered travel management solutions, announced a $1.5 million pre‑seed funding round, bringing its total capital to $2.5 million. The third tranche was led by RRE Ventures with participation from AI Fund, BAG Collective, BAG Ventures, Correlation Ventures,...

Big tech firms are pouring billions into AI infrastructure across Africa, with Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle and Meta each launching multi‑billion‑dollar projects. Microsoft’s $1 billion geothermal data centre in Kenya and $285 million South African expansion illustrate its aggressive stance, while Google...

Researchers at the University of Michigan and The ML.ENERGY Initiative conducted a massive measurement campaign across 46 generative AI models, seven tasks, and 1,858 configurations on NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs. They discovered order‑of‑magnitude energy differences, with large‑language‑model (LLM) task...
A trio of economists from Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute built a general‑equilibrium model showing that "vibe coding"—AI agents that automatically select, assemble and modify open‑source packages—breaks the traditional funding loop for open‑source projects. The model...

For our free newsletter this week, we talk about the tech phenomenon @moltbook. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. Moltbook is a forum style social network where AI assistants, not people, can post, reply, and share reusable “skills,” letting automation...

A new Science #Robotics study highlights a multitask policy that enables a robotic hand to manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity, such as turning a bottle cap or sliding a snack sleeve out of a box. https://t.co/MUene2lPpC https://t.co/J8Bz5scShY

Varnish Software launched Varnish CDN, a fully sovereign European content delivery network that keeps all traffic, data, and metadata within EU jurisdiction. DataDome integrated its AI‑powered bot and agent trust management directly into the CDN, delivering real‑time protection against scraping,...

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H Company unveiled the Holo2‑235B‑A22B Preview, its largest UI‑localization model to date, achieving a new state‑of‑the‑art 78.5% accuracy on the Screenspot‑Pro benchmark and 79.0% on OSWorld G. The model is released on Hugging Face as a research preview focused on UI‑element grounding....