Rise of AI in Recruitment Creating Trust Gap Between Employers and Jobseekers, Study Finds
A new Omni RMS study of 739 UK candidates shows that AI is reshaping recruitment, with 47% of jobseekers now using AI tools to craft CVs and prepare for interviews. Employer adoption has risen sharply, as 31% of organisations employ AI in hiring, up from 16% in 2022, while 42% of candidates still prefer human‑led processes. The research highlights a growing trust gap, especially among Gen Z, who are most likely to abandon applications if AI is perceived as overused. Candidates demand human oversight and transparent AI use to maintain confidence.
Infinity Nikki and Love and Deepspace Dev: "AI Lacks the Soul to Replace Human Creators"
Infold Games CTO Ji Zhang told IGN Japan at GDC that AI, while useful, lacks the soul to replace human creators in game development. He warned that the current surge in RAM prices could make next‑generation hardware prohibitively expensive, but...
American Airlines Deploys 20 Dormakaba Biometric Boarding Gates at Dallas Fort Worth
American Airlines has deployed 20 Dormakaba Argus Air XS eGates at Dallas‑Fort Worth International Airport, marking the carrier’s first large‑scale rollout of biometric boarding technology. The gates feature optional facial‑recognition modules designed to reduce identity‑theft risk and speed passenger flow. Dormakaba,...
Why Specialized AI Is Winning in 2026
Vertical, industry‑specific AI is poised to dominate value creation in 2026 as firms embed narrow models into core workflows. Investors are shifting away from concentrated horizontal model labs toward diversified vertical niches in legal, finance and procurement, where funding is...
AI in Law: Cutting Through the Noise
Legal Futures highlights that AI is now unavoidable for law firms, but successful adoption hinges on ethical, transparent, and workflow‑integrated solutions. The article warns that many vendors offer buzz‑word‑driven tools that add complexity, raise GDPR and cybersecurity risks, and can...
Nokia, Nvidia and Orange Put Heads Together on AI RAN
Nokia, Nvidia and Orange have launched a joint effort to develop an AI‑native radio access network (AI‑RAN) that leverages GPU‑based radio processors and advanced machine‑learning algorithms. The collaboration will focus on improving spectral efficiency, cutting energy consumption, and enabling new...
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain
Project Maven, Palantir’s AI‑powered intelligence platform, has become the Pentagon’s central kill‑chain tool, now backed by a $1.3 billion contract and integrated large‑language models like Anthropic’s Claude. The system can process up to 5,000 targets per hour, enabling rapid strike decisions...
The Deepfake Dilemma: From Financial Fraud to Reputational Crisis
Deepfake technology has moved from a niche curiosity to a cheap, widely accessible threat, with a 2025 Gartner survey showing 43% of cybersecurity leaders encountering audio deepfakes and 37% facing video deepfakes in the past year. The fraud potential is...
The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
A new analysis by WIRED and Indicator shows deepfake sexual abuse has spread to at least 90 schools in 28 countries, affecting more than 600 students. Since 2023, roughly 30 incidents have been reported in North America, with additional cases...
Sapia.ai Launches “Ask Sapia.ai” To Bring Transparency to AI-Driven Hiring
Sapia.ai unveiled Ask Sapia.ai, an AI‑driven chat tool that lets organizations and candidates query how its hiring algorithms work. The feature positions the platform as a “glass box,” offering plain‑language explanations of scoring, fairness metrics, data usage, and validation. By allowing...
2026 AI Index Report Released
The Stanford AI Index released its ninth edition on April 13, 2026, offering a data‑driven snapshot of AI progress across nine domains, from technical performance to public opinion. The report highlights that AI capability is accelerating, with 80% of university...
Recruitment in the AI Era: Welcome to the Jungle Launches New People-First Hiring Suite
Welcome to the Jungle has unveiled the Welcome Hiring Suite, an AI‑native, end‑to‑end recruitment platform that consolidates employer branding, sourcing, an applicant tracking system and job‑matching tools. The suite claims to cut up to six hours of recruiter time per...
Ordnance Survey Works with Snowflake to Tackle Flood Risk
Ordnance Survey has teamed with Snowflake to launch Intelligent Flood Readiness, an AI‑driven model that blends building, deprivation and flood‑risk data to pinpoint vulnerable properties across England. The analysis reveals that 1.2 million people live outside existing flood‑protection schemes, with 68%...
Saudi Judiciary Integrates AI for Justice Services Transformation
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Justice announced a new AI‑driven transformation, establishing a Supreme Committee to steer the technology’s rollout across judicial and administrative functions. The initiative builds on a recently‑implemented governance framework and performance‑measurement system designed to boost operational discipline....
AutoTrader in AI Push as Fuel Prices Drive EV Shift
AutoTrader is accelerating its AI push with the November 2025 launch of AutoTrader Intelligence, an in‑house platform that analyses three decades of market data to auto‑generate listing insights and personalised vehicle recommendations. The South African marketplace reports diesel enquiries down 18%...
Inside Revolut's PRAGMA: The Foundation Model Trained on 40 Billion Banking Events 🧠
Revolut has unveiled PRAGMA, a transformer‑style foundation model pre‑trained on roughly 40 billion banking events covering 25 million users in 111 countries. The single shared backbone delivers dramatic gains—up to 130 % lift in credit‑scoring PR‑AUC and 64.7 % improvement in fraud recall—while also...
Mobility's New Big Three: Tesla, Waymo and Uber
The autonomous mobility sector is coalescing around Waymo, Tesla, and Uber as the new “Big Three.” Waymo leads robotaxi operations with 500,000 weekly paid trips and 200 million driverless miles, backed by $16 billion in fresh capital. Uber leverages its ride‑hailing platform...
Scientists Turn AI-Generated Proteins Into Smart Molecular Sensors
An international team led by Queensland University of Technology used artificial intelligence to engineer tiny "smart" proteins that activate only when they bind a chosen molecule. Published in Nature Biotechnology, the AI‑designed switches produce color, light or electrical outputs, and...
Google Is Migrating Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max
Google is migrating its Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) into AI Max, the AI‑driven hub for Search advertising, and has taken AI Max out of beta for worldwide use. Voluntary migration begins this week, with an automatic upgrade of all DSA,...
‘There Is No Silver Bullet’: How 2 Colleges Use AI to Support Nontraditional Learners
Colleges targeting adult, nontraditional learners are turning to artificial intelligence to boost enrollment and improve outcomes, but leaders stress that AI must be guided by a clear strategy. Southern New Hampshire University and the University of Phoenix shared that successful...
Microdrama App Uses AI to ‘Reimagine’ Chaplin’s The Kid
British microdrama platform TattleTV has leveraged its own artificial‑intelligence pipeline to transform Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 classic *The Kid* into a 9:16 vertical video series. The AI not only crops but hallucinates new top and bottom visual information, preserving the original...
Portco Data Concerns Flagged in Williams Lea Survey as GPs Look to Leverage AI; SaaS Pricing Model Shake-Up
Williams Lea’s latest survey reveals that many private‑equity portfolio companies struggle with dirty, inconsistent data, jeopardizing AI‑driven value creation. The report warns that without clean, compatible data, AI initiatives will falter at scale. Simultaneously, the survey notes a shift in...
Honor Launches Yoyo Claw to Position PCs as AI Partners
Honor introduced Yoyo Claw, an on‑device OpenClaw AI agent built into its MagicBook notebook line, after a closed beta that began on March 27. The software ships with five core agents and 23 sub‑agents covering education, work, research, content creation and general...
“World’s Most Watched Surgeon” Publishes His Transformative Book Exploring the Future of AI in Healthcare
Renowned surgeon Prof Shafi Ahmed has launched his new book, INTELLIGENT: The Evolution of AI Transforming Healthcare, offering a deep dive into how artificial intelligence is reshaping medicine. Drawing on three decades of NHS practice and his reputation as the “world’s most...
How AI Is Improving Accuracy in Motor Insurance Claims Assessment
AI-powered computer‑vision is reshaping motor‑insurance claims by delivering objective, data‑driven damage assessments. Traditional adjusters often produce estimates that differ by hundreds of dollars, creating reserve volatility, policyholder disputes, and fraud exposure. By training on millions of real‑world images, AI systems...
Public Utilities Rely on Sovereign AI Solutions From Deutsche Telekom
Thüga AG has signed a framework agreement with Deutsche Telekom to deliver sovereign Enterprise‑GPT solutions for public‑energy and water utilities. The AI runs on Deutsche Telekom’s German T‑Cloud Public, ensuring all data stays within the European legal framework. The service automates repetitive...
AI Identifies Early Risk Patterns for Skin Cancer
Swedish researchers used nationwide registry data from over 6 million adults to train AI models that predict melanoma risk. The most advanced model reached 73% accuracy, far above the 64% baseline of age‑sex only methods, and identified sub‑populations with a 33%...
BBFC Deploys AI Tool to Classify HBO Max Library
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has rolled out its first AI‑driven tool to help classify the entire HBO Max library for the UK market. The system flags compliance issues such as violence, nudity and language, while final age...
AI-Driven Threats Outpace Traditional Defences
Qualys will showcase its Agent Val platform at the ITWeb Security Summit JHB 2026, highlighting how autonomous exploit validation and risk remediation can keep pace with AI‑driven attacks. The company’s ROC framework and Enterprise TruRisk Management aim to shift security from issue...
Phyron Brings AI-Powered VIN-Level Video Ads to TikTok
Phyron is launching an AI-driven solution that generates video ads for every vehicle in a dealer’s inventory, targeting TikTok’s automotive audience at the VIN level. The product, integrated with TikTok’s new Automotive Ads for Inventory, is currently in a closed...
M&S to Usher in New Era of AI-Driven Sparks Loyalty
Marks & Spencer is allocating roughly £200 million (about $254 million) to revamp its Sparks loyalty program with AI and a digital‑first architecture. The new system will issue personalized money‑off rewards each Tuesday through a digital wallet that works across food, fashion,...
Could AI Help Protect the UK's Million 'Undefended' Properties From Rising Flood Risks?
A new AI‑driven flood‑readiness model has identified more than one million buildings across England that lack any formal flood protection, many of them in the nation’s most economically deprived areas. The model combines high‑resolution topographic data, historic flood records and...
AI Crowns the Most Beautiful Artworks of All Time for World Art Day
DAIVID, a creative data firm, repurposed its AI platform to rank the world’s most beautiful paintings for World Art Day. The algorithm, trained on tens of millions of human emotional responses, placed Botticelli’s *The Birth of Venus* at the top,...
Meta | Will Zuckerberg's AI Clone Really Boost Connection with Employees?
Meta is developing an AI chatbot that emulates Mark Zuckerberg’s tone and mannerisms to answer employee questions. In a firm of roughly 80,000 staff, direct access to the CEO is limited, so the bot aims to provide near‑real‑time strategic insight....
FRS 102, Dry Powder and the AI Pivot: Three Forces Reshaping UK Accounting
The UK accounting profession is confronting three converging forces in 2026: the live FRS 102 overhaul that brings lease liabilities and new revenue‑recognition rules onto balance sheets, the Financial Reporting Council’s shift to preventive audit supervision focused on quality‑management systems, and...
Banks Test Systems After Anthropic Mythos Warning
Anthropic warned that its new Claude Mythos model can autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers. The U.S. Treasury’s CIO, Sam Corcos, is seeking immediate access to run the model against federal systems. Wall Street banks have...
Optimus Gen2 Sees Flow Labs Move to Light Speed
Flow Labs has launched Optimus Gen2, the latest version of its signal‑optimization software built on the proprietary Prometheus AI engine. The platform models traffic‑signal performance across entire networks by learning directly from real‑world vehicle behavior at massive scale. Optimus Gen2...
AI Growing Impact On Chip Design And EDA Tools
A panel of senior engineers from Synopsys, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft and UC Berkeley discussed how AI is reshaping chip design and the tools that support it. They highlighted the surge in data‑center AI workloads that demand ever‑higher performance‑per‑watt, forcing EDA...
The Hidden Menace Behind Big Tech’s AI Arms Race: Meta, Amazon, and Others Are Spending Billions on Hardware That’s Worthless...
The AI arms race has driven hyperscalers to pour $650 billion into data‑center hardware, a level equal to about 2 % of U.S. GDP. Research Affiliates warns that GPUs and specialized chips become economically obsolete in roughly three years, far shorter than...
10 Lessons From 10 Factory Visits
Dozuki’s recent report distills ten on‑site observations into actionable lessons for manufacturers. By embedding digital work instructions, industrial AI and connected‑worker tools, companies moved quality upstream, slashed warranty rates and cut documentation time dramatically. Real‑time dashboards and photo‑based traceability boosted...
Why Data Security Alone Won’t Cut It for AI in Regulated Industries
Data security alone cannot guarantee safe AI outcomes in regulated life‑science environments. While ISO 27001 secures data against external threats, the new ISO 42001 standard introduces governance requirements that address AI decision‑making, accountability, and human oversight. The article argues that regulators are...
Nokia, Blaize Target AI Inference Gap in APAC
Nokia and AI‑chip designer Blaise are expanding their earlier MoU into a joint effort to build a reference architecture that streamlines hybrid AI inference across edge, cloud and data‑center environments in the Asia‑Pacific region. The collaboration will use Nokia’s Innovation...
Ahsan Hadi: PgEdge Vectorizer and RAG Server: Bringing Semantic Search to PostgreSQL (Part 2)
The pgEdge Vectorizer and RAG Server deliver a full Retrieval‑Augmented Generation pipeline that lives entirely inside PostgreSQL, eliminating the need for a separate vector database. The Vectorizer runs as a background worker, automatically chunking text, generating embeddings via Ollama, OpenAI,...
Should Affiliates Trust Google’s AI Ad Tools?
Google posted a record $400 billion revenue in 2024, with Q4 ad earnings of $82.28 billion and YouTube contributing $11.38 billion. The company touts AI‑driven ad tools like AI Max, citing an 80% revenue lift for Aritzia and early pilots with brands such...
China Launches National Plan to Build AI Literacy Across Education System
China has unveiled a national AI literacy action plan that spans primary schools, universities and adult learning, coordinated by five central ministries. The plan mandates AI curricula, teacher certification standards and lifelong micro‑credential courses to build a country‑wide AI knowledge...
Uber in Big Pivot to Autonomous Robo-Taxis
Uber Technologies announced a more than $10 billion commitment to autonomous‑vehicle deployment, marking a departure from its traditional asset‑light gig model. The plan combines roughly $2.5 billion in equity stakes with over $7.5 billion to purchase and operate robo‑taxi fleets. Partnerships with Baidu,...
Deepfakes Are a Threat to Age Assurance, and Injection Attack Detection Is the Answer
Yoti’s CEO Robin Tombs warned that deepfake‑generated media can undermine age‑assurance systems by exploiting post‑authentication injection attacks. Traditional liveness detection, while still essential, no longer blocks sophisticated AI‑crafted faces that are introduced after the initial login. Yoti proposes a multi‑layered...
Memes and Matchmakers: Inside Schmooze’s Bet on AI-Led Dating
Schmooze, a meme‑centric dating app founded by Vidya Madhavan and Abhinav Anurag, is leveraging AI to turn meme swipes into personality signals for more intentional matches. The platform has amassed over 5 million users and logged 3.5 billion meme interactions, feeding an...
Verifiable AI and the Future of Trust
Verifiable AI uses zero‑knowledge proofs to let third parties confirm AI outputs without exposing model data or private inputs. Companies such as ARPA Network are piloting ZKML for identity management, data analytics, and Web3 applications. While generating cryptographic proofs for...
AI-Driven Chip Shortage Slowing Efforts to Get World Online: GSMA
GSMA warns that the AI‑driven memory chip shortage is inflating smartphone prices and curbing production of low‑end devices, slowing efforts to connect the 2.2 billion unconnected people worldwide. Chipmakers are prioritising high‑bandwidth chips for AI data centres, leaving fewer affordable chips...
