Your Foreign AI Vendor’s Black Box Is an Ethics Problem, Not a Technical One
Boards and senior leaders are confronting a growing dilemma: critical AI systems supplied by foreign vendors operate as opaque black boxes, delivering efficiency while limiting auditability. Ethicists Vera Cherepanova and Brian Haman argue this is fundamentally an ethical issue of risk and responsibility, not merely a technical one. They advise organizations to articulate their risk appetite, specifying which risks are acceptable for particular benefits. Effective governance, they say, hinges on transparent contracts, third‑party assessments, and clear escalation procedures rather than superficial compliance checklists.
EY: Organizations that Balance Technical Capability and Human-Centered Skills Will Lead in the AI-Driven Future
EY’s Global Assurance Talent Leader Sandra Oliver says the firms that combine AI technical capability with human‑centered skills will dominate the AI‑driven future. EY is investing heavily in upskilling its 130,000‑plus assurance professionals, embedding generative AI tools such as EYQ...
Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner
Harvey has hired Joe Cohen as a legal innovation partner to help law firms reimagine AI‑driven service delivery, business models, and operations. Cohen will work with firm leaders to align AI strategies with long‑term business priorities. He arrives after a...
Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner
Harvey has appointed Joe Cohen as its new legal innovation partner, tasked with helping law‑firm leaders reshape service delivery, business models, and operations through AI. Cohen brings over a decade of legal‑tech experience, most recently directing Advanced Client Solutions at...
Take2 Raises $14M to Power AI Healthcare Hiring
AltaClaro and Verbit Launch DepoSim, an AI-Powered Deposition Simulator for Litigators
AltaClaro, a legal‑training specialist, unveiled DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit.ai. The platform creates realistic, on‑demand deposition scenarios and automatically transcribes witness testimony using Verbit’s speech‑to‑text engine. After each session, litigators receive structured, objective performance metrics and actionable...
Antitrust Lawyers: AI’s Wartime Consiglieres
The piece warns that AI’s high fixed costs, winner‑take‑all dynamics, platform leverage and data lock‑in will drive market concentration, turning antitrust into a primary battleground. Private lawsuits are expected to outpace government enforcement, using timely complaints to stall rivals and...
Intel: Every Second PC Is to Become an AI System, Panther Lake Provides the Leverage
Intel announced that by 2026 it expects one in two PCs to ship as AI‑enabled devices, anchored by its new Panther Lake platform. The chipset embeds a fifth‑generation NPU capable of up to 50 TOPS, aiming to bring on‑device inference for language...
NXP S32N79 Octa-Core Arm Cortex-A78E/12-Core Cortex-R52 “Super-Integration Processor” Targets Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV)
NXP announced the S32N79 “Super‑Integration” automotive processor, featuring up to eight Arm Cortex‑A78E application cores at 1.8 GHz and twelve Cortex‑R52 real‑time cores at 1.4 GHz, plus a RISC‑V accelerator and eIQ Neutron AI NPU. Built on a 5 nm TSMC process, it...
When ‘Market’ Isn’t Market: The New Reality of AI Contract Negotiations
The article argues that the traditional notion of market language in technology contracts no longer applies to AI agreements, where terms are still evolving. Because regulatory, insurance, and liability frameworks remain unsettled, parties craft varied clauses focused on transparency, data...
When Artificial Intelligence Discriminates: Employer Compliance in the Rise of AI Hiring (US)
Employers are rapidly adopting AI for candidate screening, with 88% of firms using such tools by 2025. A California federal case, *Mobley v. Workday*, alleges that Workday’s AI hiring platform discriminates against African‑American, older, and disabled applicants. The court granted...
Ceva IP: Powering the Era of Physical AI
Ceva IP is positioning itself as the core enabler of Physical AI, delivering integrated semiconductor and software IP that brings sensing, connectivity, and on‑device inference to edge devices. By moving AI processing from the cloud to the chip, its solutions...
IP, AI And The Pandora’s Box We Just Opened
The episode examines the clash between AI‑generated video tools like ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and traditional intellectual‑property enforcement, spotlighting cease‑and‑desist letters from Disney and Paramount. It explains how generative AI can produce near‑identical replicas of copyrighted characters, blurring the line between...
Organization's Copilot Use Sparks Tricky Legal, E-Discovery Questions: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Noah Koerner
Microsoft Copilot is rapidly being deployed across enterprises, prompting a deep dive into its legal ramifications. Noah Koerner, director of information governance at Lighthouse, highlighted how AI‑generated content can blur attorney‑client privilege and complicate e‑discovery. He warned that vendor‑provided logs...
Waymo Ojai Spotted in Scottsdale
Waymo’s Ojai engineering vehicle, previously observed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, was photographed in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sighting confirms that Waymo is extending its autonomous‑driving tests beyond California to the Southwest. Scottsdale’s streets provide a new data set of urban...
Sphinx Raises $7M Seed Round for AI Compliance Agents
Sphinx announced a $7 million seed round, led by Cherry Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures and Singularity Capital. The San Francisco‑based startup builds browser‑native AI agents that embed directly into existing case‑management systems, third‑party portals and internal dashboards...
The New Talent Architecture: Building Organizations for the AI Era
The article argues that traditional, role‑centric talent models are obsolete in the AI era and proposes a new talent architecture built on five pillars. It emphasizes shifting to skills‑based inventories, designing explicit human‑AI collaboration layers, embedding continuous learning into daily...
Artificial Labs Introduces AgLabs to Advance Agentic AI in Specialty Insurance
Artificial Labs has created AgLabs, a new division focused on research and product innovation for agentic AI in specialty insurance. The unit targets the pre‑bind interaction layer, using autonomous broker and underwriter agents to share, verify, and standardize risk data....
An Inside Look Into DARPA’s RACER Program
DARPA’s RACER program is advancing high‑speed autonomous vehicles that operate in unstructured off‑road terrain without relying on maps or GPS. The initiative has field‑tested modified Polaris RZR and Textron M5 platforms across the Mojave Desert, Camp Roberts, and Fort Hood....
Axios Could Save Millions with AI
Axios CTO Dan Cox reports that AI‑driven “agent teams” compressed a three‑week engineering project into just 37 minutes, prompting a rapid productivity surge. The company trimmed its product and tech staff from 63 to 43, saving millions in salaries while...
From Citizen Ideas to Bills
The Brazilian Senate launched an artificial‑intelligence platform that automatically matches citizen proposals from the e‑Cidadania database with draft legislation. Unlike the previous system, the tool surfaces ideas even when they lack the traditional endorsement threshold, allowing consultants to embed public...
The Ray-Ban Meta Killer? Samsung Smart Galaxy Glasses Launching in 2026
Samsung announced its first‑generation Smart Galaxy Glasses, slated for a 2026 release, with two variants—SMO2000P and SMO200J—targeting both enthusiasts and casual users. The glasses run on Android XR, feature a Qualcomm AR1 chipset, a 12‑megapixel camera, and a 155 mAh battery,...
Local LLMs, AI Ethics: ID Links 2/17/26
The post curates a set of recent resources spanning local large language models, AI ethics, and learning‑technology research. It highlights practical guides for running open‑source LLMs on personal devices, ethical AI companions that minimize data exposure, and studies showing AI‑generated...
Patchwork Health Launches AI-Powered ‘Preference-Based Rostering’ for NHS Clinicians
Patchwork Health has launched an AI‑driven Preference‑Based Rostering tool for NHS Trusts, instantly converting clinicians' shift preferences and service demand into compliant, fair schedules. The platform claims to meet 98% of negative preferences, cut unfilled shifts by 97% and slash...
Five Ways AI Impacts Geopolitical Risk in Latin America
The episode outlines five ways AI will reshape geopolitical risk in Latin America: massive middle‑class job disruption as AI replaces outsourced service roles; a new extractive dependence on foreign data‑center investments that may boost the economy but keep profits abroad;...
Why Legal AI Fails without Trusted Data: Key Takeaways From Our Denodo Webinar
Legal AI adoption is accelerating, but many firms see pilots stall in production. Errol Rodericks of Denodo explained that the root cause is untrusted, fragmented data rather than weak models. Law firms rely on disparate systems lacking enterprise‑wide governance, forcing...
Harness Engineering
OpenAI’s team spent five months building a "harness" that lets AI agents maintain a production‑grade codebase exceeding one million lines, without a single line of manually typed code. The harness blends three pillars—continuous context engineering, deterministic architectural constraints, and periodic...
AI, AEO, and GEO: Questions Every Hotelier Should Ask
The article advises hoteliers to begin AI adoption by focusing on AI‑driven performance analysis of paid search, hotel metasearch and Google hotel ads, where measurable demand already exists. AI can process large campaign datasets to pinpoint high‑converting markets, eliminate wasteful...
JT/DL: ICE's Surveillance State; the Doorbell Cam Problem; Tracking Court AI
In this episode, the hosts examine ICE’s expanding surveillance apparatus, highlighting recent reports of AI-driven errors, school‑camera collaborations, and the revocation of a Global Entry after facial‑scan detection. They also discuss the broader privacy concerns surrounding doorbell cameras and Iran’s...
You're Probably Automating the Wrong Things
The commercial‑real‑estate (CRE) sector now has a structured tool called the CRE Automation Matrix, which classifies tasks by operational versus strategic nature and by verifiability. By mapping workflows onto four quadrants, the framework helps firms avoid low‑ROI automation and the...
Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs
Recent research uncovers multiple side‑channel attacks that exploit timing, packet‑size, and speculative decoding characteristics of large language model (LLM) services. By monitoring encrypted network traffic, attackers can infer conversation topics with over 90 % precision, fingerprint specific prompts with up to...
Leveraging AI-Powered Training
Restaurant group FB Society partnered with 1Huddle to embed AI into its training program, accelerating content creation and onboarding across multiple concepts. By using AI to generate drafts of games, guides, and workshops, material is now 60‑70% complete, allowing rapid...
Analyst Insight – Generation Next: SAP Ariba’s AI Rebuild (I)
SAP Ariba announced a next‑gen, AI‑native Source‑to‑Pay suite slated for launch in February 2026. The platform is being rebuilt on SAP Business Technology Platform with open APIs, introducing Joule agents that automate bid analysis, RFI summarization, and contract insight. A unified...
Data-Driven Digital Health Businesses Challenged with Balancing AI Advances and Tighter Regulation in 2026
Digital health firms in 2026 face a sharp tension between accelerating AI capabilities and tightening data regulations across the UK and EU. Hyper‑personalised care, driven by wearables and AI‑powered NHS apps, promises better outcomes but raises compliance challenges. New frameworks...
Samsung Bespoke AI Wants to Run Your Whole Kitchen
Samsung unveiled its Bespoke AI kitchen lineup at KBIS 2026, featuring camera‑enabled Family Hub refrigerators, AI‑powered ovens and Bixby‑driven voice control, all linked through the SmartThings platform. The AI Vision system can recognize up to 37 fresh items and 50 packaged...
Launching KORA, the First Public Benchmark for AI Child Safety
In this episode, Mathilde Collin discusses the launch of KORA, the first public benchmark for AI child safety, explaining how her background in tech and concern for youth mental health drove the initiative. She outlines the early challenges of defining...
AI-Intelligentized Naval Mines and U.S. Subsea Access in the Paracel Islands
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy is modeling AI‑intelligentized seabed mines that could hide in the Paracel Islands’ acoustic shadow zones, creating a persistent anti‑access/area‑denial (A2/AD) field. The concept builds on an estimated 50,000‑100,000 existing Chinese naval mines, adding adaptive target...
How AI Can Make Customer Experience More Human with Vinod Muthukrishnan
Vinod Muthukrishnan, Cisco’s VP of Webex Customer Experience, explains how AI is evolving from a simple tool to a collaborative teammate that handles routine tasks and enriches human interactions. By leveraging AI-driven analytics, brands can anticipate issues, personalize engagements, and...
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions
Artificial intelligence has surged up the ranks of elite forecasting tournaments, moving from obscurity in 2024 to challenging top human forecasters. These contests span geopolitics, economics, and pop culture, measuring pure predictive skill rather than domain expertise. Simultaneously, AI is...
DShanPi-A1 AI Education Rockchip RK3576 SBC Features HDMI Input and Output Ports, Dual GbE
The DShanPi‑A1 AI Education SBC is built around Rockchip’s RK3576 octa‑core Cortex‑A72/A53 SoC and can be configured with up to 8 GB RAM and 64 GB eMMC storage. It offers HDMI 2.1 video output, a mini‑HDMI input, dual Gigabit Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces,...
Neural Networks Boost Accuracy of Quantum Simulations for Complex Materials
Researchers at ETH Zürich have introduced a neural‑based selected configuration (NQS‑SC) method that outperforms the traditional NQS‑VMC approach for electronic structure calculations. In benchmark tests on molecules with strong static correlation, NQS‑SC reduced ground‑state energies by an average of 0.027 Hartree...
Epic's AI Road Map Should Concern Insurers
Epic Systems, which commands over 35% of the U.S. hospital IT market, is extending its AI capabilities into the payer space through a stack that relies heavily on Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. The article warns that this architectural dependency creates...
EBay Appoints VP of AI Transformation to Catch up in Agentic Race
eBay announced the appointment of Michelle Warvel as Vice President of AI Transformation, signaling a strategic push to accelerate its agentic AI capabilities. The marketplace is simultaneously launching a hiring campaign for specialized AI design and research roles while tightening...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Aircraft Engine MRO
Aircraft jet engines are increasingly being repurposed to generate power for AI data centers, creating a new demand stream beyond aviation. Simultaneously, the industry faces a shortage of new engines and spare parts due to reliability issues with Pratt &...
Xcert AI Wants to Save Human Experts Time, Not Replace Them
Swiss startup Xcert AI has built an artificial‑intelligence assistant aimed at easing aerospace certification and compliance paperwork. The platform does not claim to replace human experts; instead it augments them, delivering expert‑level output in roughly half of the cases tested....
Learning Context and AI: A 1EdTech Labs Live Webinar
1EdTech Labs will host a live webinar on Feb. 26, 2026 to examine how learning context differs from raw data and how AI systems interpret it. The session builds on insights from a Microsoft‑hosted BETT UK event and proposes treating context...
Ai Avatars For Shopify: How Smart Merchants Are Using Them To Sell More In 2026
The episode explains how Shopify merchants can leverage AI avatars to produce scalable, high‑quality product videos that boost conversion rates by up to 80% while cutting production costs to roughly 10% of traditional methods. It outlines five high‑impact use cases—product...
FutureLaw 2026: The Gig Economy, AI Agents, and the Survival of the South African Law Firm
The South African legal market is shifting from traditional lockstep firms to a gig‑economy model, propelled by AI agents and alternative legal service providers. Lawyers are moving to merit‑based pay and using platforms like Umbiie.com to serve international clients, while...
All About Feature Stores
Feature stores have moved from niche tools to core infrastructure for operational machine‑learning, providing a single source of truth for features used in both training and online inference. The concept was coined by Uber in 2017 and commercialized by Tecton...
The Sinister Question Spotify Has Not Answered About Its AI: What Did They Train On?
Spotify announced it is building a proprietary music‑generation AI platform that can produce remixes, covers, and other derivative works. The company has provided no details on the recordings or datasets used to train the models, leaving open the possibility that...
