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Palladyne AI Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Advance Swarming Capabilities for Integrated Cross-Domain Operations

Palladyne AI secured a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop its HANGTIME program, aimed at unifying autonomous systems across space, air, maritime and land. The effort will deploy the company’s patented SwarmOS™ platform to enable drones, ships...

Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – Unified API for Automating Coding Agents

The Sandbox Agent SDK introduces a Rust‑based server and TypeScript client that let developers run AI coding agents—Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp—inside isolated sandboxes while controlling them over a unified HTTP/SSE API. By normalizing disparate agent interfaces into a single...

‘AI Is There to Support Teachers as an Assistant, Not to Replace Them’: Google VP of Education on How Gemini...

Apera AI Accelerates 4D Vision Deployments with Launch of Apera Vue 9.52 and 4X Faster Apera Forge AI Training

Apera AI unveiled Vue 9.52, adding programmable Autopilot, range‑finding pipelines, and enhanced TCP visualization to streamline 4D Vision robot setup. The release also accelerates its Forge AI training platform, delivering up to four‑fold faster model training in as little as six...

Datatruck Raises $12M to Scale AI-Native Operating System for Long-Haul Trucking

Datatruck Inc. announced a $12 million Series A round led by Avenue Growth Partners to accelerate its AI‑native operating system for long‑haul trucking. The platform unifies dispatch, load management, compliance, accounting and driver communication into a single system of record. Embedded AI...

NovaUCD and CeADAR Open Applications for 2026 AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme

NovaUCD and CeADAR have opened applications for the 2026 AI Ecosystem Accelerator, a six‑month programme aimed at Irish AI‑first start‑ups that have market validation and are seeking to close a funding round in 2026. The accelerator, now in its third...

Apiiro Introduces Guardian Agent to Secure AI-Driven Software Development

Apiiro Ltd. launched Guardian Agent, an AI‑driven application security agent that prevents vulnerable and non‑compliant code generation. The solution continuously monitors software architecture, attack surface, runtime exposure, and policy compliance, rewriting prompts to secure AI coding assistants in real time....

AI that Generates Gives Way to AI that Executes? Genpact Prepares for Autonomous Agents in the Enterprise

Genpact’s "Autonomy by Design" research finds enterprises are eager to move from "AI that generates" to "AI that executes," but only 12% feel prepared. Executives anticipate autonomous AI decision‑making in strategic functions within three years, yet integration complexity and workforce...

Claude Apps: How Anthropic’s New Interactive Apps Can Up Your AI Productivity

In this episode, Jordan Wilson explores Anthropic’s new Claude Apps, interactive tools embedded within the Claude LLM that aim to streamline AI‑driven workflows. He explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that powers these apps, walks through enabling them, and compares...

AI for Wealth Management Firm Zocks Lands $45 Million Investtment

Zocks, a privacy‑first artificial‑intelligence platform for wealth‑management advisors, announced a $45 million Series B round. The round was co‑led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, with participation from Illuminate Financial and existing backers such as Motive Partners, Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée...

Kipu Health Survey: AI Becomes Essential in Behavioral Health

A new Kipu Health survey shows AI moving from experiment to expectation in behavioral health. Adoption jumped 59% year‑over‑year, with 27% of organizations using AI in 2025 and many planning further rollout. Clinicians report that AI frees up to three...

Figure AI Shows Robot that Really Puts Its Hip Into Dishwasher Duty

Figure AI unveiled Helix 02, a humanoid robot governed by a single neural network that controls its legs, torso, arms, and fingers in real time. In a four‑minute kitchen demo, the robot completed 61 autonomous actions, including loading and unloading a...

Amaze To Sponsor SoCom 2026

Amaze Holdings announced its official sponsorship of the second‑annual SoCom Conference, a premier social‑commerce event in Venice Beach on Feb. 26, 2026. The partnership underscores Amaze’s focus on creator‑led retail as the global social‑commerce market heads toward a $5.2 trillion valuation by 2030,...

Crypto Loses Speculative Edge as AI and Robotics Attract Capital: Delphi

Delphi Digital reports that speculative capital is migrating from cryptocurrency to artificial intelligence and robotics, eroding crypto’s traditional role as the go‑to high‑risk asset class. Over the past year Bitcoin fell about 12% while the Global X Robotics and AI...

The Secret to Successful AI Outcomes? It’s Data, Says Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy

Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy says data quality is the single most critical factor for successful AI outcomes, emphasizing robust data governance and context‑aware accuracy thresholds. He warns that many enterprises launch AI pilots without clear goals, leading to wasted...

Hackers Hijack Exposed LLM Endpoints in Bizarre Bazaar Operation

Researchers at Pillar Security uncovered a large‑scale cyber‑crime operation dubbed “Bizarre Bazaar” that hijacks exposed LLM endpoints. Over 40 days they logged 35,000 attack sessions, showing attackers exploit misconfigured AI APIs to mine cryptocurrency, resell access, exfiltrate data, and pivot...

Decart's Lucy 2.0 Transforms Live Video in Real Time Using Text Prompts

Decart unveiled Lucy 2.0, a real‑time video transformation model that operates at 30 fps in 1080p with near‑zero latency. Users can swap characters, insert products, alter clothing, or completely change environments using simple text prompts and reference images while the stream runs....

IXCells and Rosebud Biosciences Partner on Organoid-Based Rare Disease Models

iXCells Biotechnologies is integrating Rosebud Biosciences’ AI‑driven organoid platform with its iPSC‑based iPSCore system to deliver scalable, three‑dimensional human tissue models. The partnership combines iXCells’ modular stem‑cell production with Rosebud’s reproducible organoid generation and characterization capabilities. Together they aim to...

The Gen Z/Boomer Sales Conflict - Can AI Be a Generational Equalizer?

A new Clari‑Salesloft study of 2,000 U.S. sales leaders reveals a $56 billion productivity loss driven by generational conflict between Baby Boomers and Gen Z reps. Boomers cling to relationship‑first, in‑person selling, while Gen Z adopts digital‑first, AI‑heavy tactics, creating friction in communication,...

Molecular Language Model Achieves 100x Faster Quantum Hamiltonian Prediction

Researchers introduced MGAHam, a multimodal molecular language model that predicts quantum Hamiltonian matrices directly from SMILES strings. By aligning SMILES with latent geometric representations and applying a modality‑compensation layer, the model reaches a mean absolute error of roughly 7×10⁻⁵, matching...

Innovaccer and Snowflake to Drive Enterprise AI Adoption Across Healthcare

Innovaccer and Snowflake announced a deep integration of Innovaccer’s Gravity platform with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud and Cortex AI services. The partnership lets healthcare payers, providers, and life‑science firms run production‑ready AI workflows across clinical, revenue‑cycle, and patient‑engagement domains. Gravity...

Manage the Emerging Costs of Agentic Commerce by Taking a Cue From Drop Shipping Strategy

The episode examines the emerging costs of "agentic commerce"—shopping experiences that happen inside answer engines like ChatGPT—highlighting OpenAI’s 4% fee for Shopify merchants and the resulting 7%+ transaction cost when using native checkout. It draws parallels to early drop‑shipping, urging...

Masumi Network: How AI-Blockchain Fusion Adds Trust to Burgeoning Agent Economy

Masumi Network, a collaboration between NMKR and Serviceplan Group, launched as a framework‑agnostic platform that lets autonomous AI agents collaborate, monetize services, and exchange value with verifiable trust. Built on the Cardano blockchain, the network equips each agent with a...

SKADI and HelloGard Robotics Partner to Embed Autonomous Cybersecurity in Robotics

SKADI Cyber Defense and HelloGard Robotics announced a strategic partnership to embed autonomous cybersecurity directly into AI‑powered robots and connected automation systems. The collaboration will co‑develop cross‑platform security solutions for Windows, Android and Linux that protect robotic operating systems, AI...

Gemini 3 Powering Google AI Overviews Globally

Google has made Gemini 3 the default model for AI Overviews on its search engine worldwide. The new model delivers concise, context‑aware answers directly on the results page, replacing earlier pilots of Gemini 3 Pro for complex queries. The rollout starts in English...

From Interviews to Outfit Tips: 5 Ways Gemini Live Can Help with Everyday Tasks

Google’s Gemini Live AI chatbot is evolving from a search companion into a multitasking assistant. It now handles voice‑driven notes, to‑do lists, and calendar scheduling, while also offering real‑time language tutoring and skill coaching. Integrated camera support lets users get outfit...

Mastercard Showcases Agentic Payments in Australia with CBA and Westpac Onboard

Mastercard has rolled out its Agent Pay technology in Australia, following a US launch last year. The first Australian transactions used a Commonwealth Bank debit card to buy cinema tickets and a Westpac credit card to book Thredbo accommodation, both completed...

Emojis in PureRAT’s Code Point to AI-Generated Malware Campaign

Researchers at Symantec and Carbon Black have uncovered a PureRAT trojan campaign that is being authored with artificial‑intelligence tools. The malware is distributed through phishing emails masquerading as job offers and contains code comments and emojis typical of AI‑generated scripts....

Visible2 Launches as Independent AI Visibility Consultancy Focused on AI-Driven Search and Discovery

Visible2 has launched as an independent AI visibility consultancy helping businesses understand how artificial‑intelligence systems interpret, trust, and recommend websites in AI‑driven search. The firm moves beyond traditional SEO, focusing on structural and semantic signals that influence AI recommendation engines....

Waabi Raises $1B From Uber and VCs

The episode examines Waabi, an autonomous trucking startup that just raised a $1 billion funding round, including a $250 million investment from Uber. It highlights Waabi's AI‑first strategy, which relies on advanced simulation to enable rapid learning and generalization across vehicle platforms...

From Triage to Threat Hunts: How AI Accelerates SecOps

AI‑driven SOC agents are moving from hype to practical augmentation, handling every alert with human‑level accuracy. By automatically correlating telemetry from EDR, identity, cloud and network sources, they eliminate the triage bottleneck and achieve near‑zero dwell time. The continuous investigation...

Pace Raises $10m to Automate Insurance Operations

Agentic AI startup Pace announced a $10 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital to accelerate automation of insurance operations. The funding will be used to replace traditional business process outsourcing with AI systems that handle submissions, claims processing and other...

Government Offers UK Adults Free AI Training for Work

The UK government has launched a suite of free and subsidised AI training courses aimed at upskilling the adult workforce. Designed with input from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the programme offers 14 modules that culminate in a virtual badge. The...

AI Security Threats Loom as Enterprise Usage Jumps 91%

Zscaler’s ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security Report reveals a 91% surge in enterprise AI usage, encompassing 989.3 billion transactions across more than 3,400 applications in 2025. Despite this rapid adoption, every AI system examined harbored critical vulnerabilities, with 90% compromised within 90...

Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-VLA as a “Universal Brain” For Robots

Ant Group’s embodied‑AI unit Robbyant has open‑sourced LingBot‑VLA, a vision‑language‑action model designed as a universal brain for robots. The model, trained on over 20,000 hours of real‑world interaction data, can be adapted to diverse platforms—including Galaxea Dynamics and AgileX robots—with...

Mplify Advances Carrier Ethernet Certifications to Meet Accelerating Demands of Business and AI-Era Networking

Mplify has launched an enhanced Carrier Ethernet certification suite, rebranding the existing MEF 3.0 program as Carrier Ethernet for Business and introducing a new Carrier Ethernet for AI certification slated for Q2 2026. The AI‑focused certification aims to validate transport performance for...

AMIQ EDA Gives AI Agents Access to Essential Design and Verification Data

AMIQ EDA launched the Design and Verification Tools (DVT) MCP Server, a new product that exposes a compiled database of semiconductor design and verification data to AI agents. The server connects AI assistants to project‑specific context, supporting Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL...

B-Next and Behavox Join Forces to Advance Capital Markets Compliance

b-next, a capital‑markets surveillance specialist, has partnered with AI‑focused Behavox to embed advanced analytics into its compliance suite. The deal grants b-next a license to Behavox’s artificial‑intelligence engine, enhancing trade surveillance, best‑execution monitoring, conflicts‑of‑interest controls, and personal‑account dealing solutions. Behavox...

Endee.io Open Sources Its High-Performance Vector Database for Scalable AI

Endee.io has launched Endee, an open‑source high‑performance vector database aimed at AI‑driven semantic search, retrieval‑augmented generation, and recommendation workloads. The platform promises high recall, sub‑millisecond latency, and markedly lower infrastructure costs by optimizing memory and compute usage. Endee is positioned...

MIND Launches DLP for Agentic AI to Secure Data Used by Autonomous Systems

Data security firm MIND Security launched DLP for Agentic AI, a data‑centric solution that safeguards sensitive information used by autonomous AI agents across enterprise applications. The service provides visibility into active AI agents, real‑time risk detection, and automated remediation, shifting...

Waabi Raises $1B and Expands Into Robotaxis with Uber

Waabi announced a $1 billion financing round, including a $750 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners and $250 million milestone‑based capital from Uber. The funding fuels a partnership that will place more than 25,000 Waabi‑powered robotaxis on Uber’s ride‑hailing...

MedeAnalytics Appoints David Figueredo as Chief Innovation Officer

MedeAnalytics announced the appointment of David Figueredo as Chief Innovation Officer, bringing over two decades of healthcare technology and AI expertise. Figueredo previously led innovation at Experian and held senior roles at WaveHDC and Change Healthcare, where he drove AI‑powered...

Google Deepmind Gives Gemini 3 Flash the Ability to Actively Explore Images Through Code

Google DeepMind has introduced “Agentic Vision” to its Gemini 3 Flash model, enabling the system to actively explore images by generating and executing Python code. The model follows a think‑act‑observe loop—analyzing a request, planning actions, running code to zoom, crop or annotate,...

Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode

Google announced it is exploring new controls that would let website owners opt out of having their content used in Search’s generative AI features, such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. The move follows the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s...

Copyrighted Art, Mobile Phones, Greenland: Welcome to Our Age of Shameless Theft | Jonathan Liew

Jonathan Liew argues that today’s digital ecosystem normalises petty theft, from copied articles to AI models trained on scraped copyrighted material. He links this cultural shift to broader power imbalances, noting how platforms and political actors profit while creators receive...

N8n Adds Chat Hub to Centralize AI Access Inside Automation Workflows

n8n launched Chat Hub, a built‑in chat interface that lets users query large language models and trigger workflow agents without exposing workflow logic or credentials. The feature introduces a dedicated Chat role, centralizes model and credential management, and supports both...

12 Alternative Search Engines to Try (Instead of Google)

The article lists twelve search‑engine alternatives to Google, emphasizing how each can serve different user needs. It highlights Bing as a standout option, noting its AI‑powered Copilot chat, integrated result sources, and a rewards program that grants points for queries....