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The Week Ahead in AI: ‘AI-Free’ Logo in the Works, NVIDIA GTC Kicks Off, Uber Founder’s New Automation Company, Plus...
NewsMar 16, 2026

The Week Ahead in AI: ‘AI-Free’ Logo in the Works, NVIDIA GTC Kicks Off, Uber Founder’s New Automation Company, Plus...

The AI industry is seeing a surge of activity this week, from a global push for an “AI‑free” certification label to major funding rounds and product launches. Travis Kalanick’s rebranded Atoms targets automation in food, mining and transportation, while startups...

By The AI Insider
Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin on Turning AI Into a Competitive Advantage
NewsMar 16, 2026

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin on Turning AI Into a Competitive Advantage

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin outlined a three‑part artificial‑intelligence strategy aimed at turning AI into a core competitive advantage. The plan focuses on enhancing travel products, streamlining operations, and equipping employees with AI‑driven “superpowers.” Gorin highlighted how generative models can personalize...

By Fast Company — Leadership
Golden Domes, Fragile Firms: The Business Risks of AI-Enabled Space Infrastructure
NewsMar 16, 2026

Golden Domes, Fragile Firms: The Business Risks of AI-Enabled Space Infrastructure

AI‑driven routing is turning satellite constellations into real‑time, autonomous utilities that allocate bandwidth, imagery and sensing data in milliseconds. While this autonomy makes megaconstellations economically viable, it also embeds opaque decision‑making into models that can prioritize one user over another...

By The Space Review
Fingerprint’s MCP Server Turns Device Intelligence Into Real-Time AI-Powered Fraud Insights
NewsMar 16, 2026

Fingerprint’s MCP Server Turns Device Intelligence Into Real-Time AI-Powered Fraud Insights

Fingerprint has launched an open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that lets any AI assistant or chatbot query its device‑intelligence platform in real time. The server uses the open MCP standard, enabling fraud analysts to ask natural‑language questions—such as device...

By Help Net Security
AI Impersonation Is Here: How Industry Leaders Are Preparing for the Deepfake Fraud Era
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Impersonation Is Here: How Industry Leaders Are Preparing for the Deepfake Fraud Era

The Deepfake Summit in Houston warned that AI‑driven impersonation, deepfakes and synthetic identities are outpacing traditional fraud defenses. Speakers highlighted how injection attacks and autonomous AI systems are accelerating fraud across banking, payments and government services. The event called for...

By Identity Week
AI Registry to Protect Athlete Likenesses and Digital IP Launched by New Sports-Tech Firm Callandor Group (EXCLUSIVE)
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Registry to Protect Athlete Likenesses and Digital IP Launched by New Sports-Tech Firm Callandor Group (EXCLUSIVE)

Callandor Group, a new sports‑tech firm, launched the first AI‑focused registry for athletes’ digital identities, enabling licensing and royalty collection for likeness, voice, and biometric data used in AI models. The platform, featuring the Event Horizon API, helps athletes and...

By Variety (Digital)
Leveraging NLP for Alpha Extraction in Financial Markets
NewsMar 16, 2026

Leveraging NLP for Alpha Extraction in Financial Markets

Recent advances in natural language processing, especially transformer models like BERT, are reshaping how systematic traders extract alpha from text data. LSEG Data & Analytics reports double‑digit performance gains on GLUE benchmarks and highlights BERT’s ease of fine‑tuning with limited...

By Fintech Global
WSO2 Unveils Platform Portfolio to Power Secure and Sovereign AI Adoption
NewsMar 16, 2026

WSO2 Unveils Platform Portfolio to Power Secure and Sovereign AI Adoption

WSO2 announced a comprehensive platform portfolio aimed at powering secure, sovereign AI adoption across Africa’s enterprise landscape. The suite bundles an agent platform, API management, integration, identity and access management, and platform engineering tools, all deployable in cloud, on‑premises, or...

By IT News Africa
WealthAi and Stratiphy Partner on AI Portfolio Solutions
NewsMar 16, 2026

WealthAi and Stratiphy Partner on AI Portfolio Solutions

WealthAi, an AI-driven operating system for wealth managers, has partnered with Stratiphy to embed its managed portfolio services into the WealthAi platform. The integration delivers Stratiphy’s AI‑built portfolios via bank‑issued synthetic certificates, giving firms a single interface for construction, execution,...

By Fintech Global
Eurobites: Telia Piggybacks on Brookfield for Sovereign AI Push in Sweden
NewsMar 16, 2026

Eurobites: Telia Piggybacks on Brookfield for Sovereign AI Push in Sweden

Swedish telecom operator Telia has partnered with Canadian infrastructure firm Brookfield to deliver sovereign AI services. The deal connects Brookfield’s planned AI‑focused data centres to Telia’s nationwide fibre network, with Telia’s Cygate unit operating a secure centre within the facilities....

By Light Reading
AI-Generated War Footage Is Going Viral While Real Satellite Imagery Disappears From Public View
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI-Generated War Footage Is Going Viral While Real Satellite Imagery Disappears From Public View

The New York Times identified over 110 AI‑generated war images and videos in the first two weeks of the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict, reaching millions of viewers. Iran is deploying these deepfakes as a coordinated propaganda weapon, while real satellite imagery has...

By THE DECODER
Why the Industry that Feeds 8 Billion People Still Can’t Read Its Own Data
NewsMar 16, 2026

Why the Industry that Feeds 8 Billion People Still Can’t Read Its Own Data

Agricultural data is highly fragmented, with no universal standards linking field‑level information from research, manufacturers, farmers, and retailers. This incompatibility hampers the deployment of general‑purpose AI, despite the sector’s massive data volumes. A McKinsey study suggests that integrating and connecting...

By Fast Company AI
Kentucky Horsewear Uses AI as a Sales Assistant: “From Searching to Selecting, Both Online and In-Store”
NewsMar 16, 2026

Kentucky Horsewear Uses AI as a Sales Assistant: “From Searching to Selecting, Both Online and In-Store”

Kentucky Horsewear has deployed a generative‑AI product assistant that guides shoppers through natural‑language queries, delivering tailored horse‑gear recommendations both on its e‑commerce site and in physical stores. Developed with Taglayer, the tool instantly suggests items such as blankets, underblankets, and...

By Retail Detail (EU)
h2o.ai H2ovl Mississippi Models Shatter Milestone with over One Million Downloads Monthly – Launching Momentum Into Gtc 2026
NewsMar 16, 2026

h2o.ai H2ovl Mississippi Models Shatter Milestone with over One Million Downloads Monthly – Launching Momentum Into Gtc 2026

H2O.ai announced its open‑source H2OVL Mississippi visual‑language models have surpassed one million monthly downloads on Hugging Face, marking a major adoption milestone. The lightweight 2 billion‑parameter and 0.8 billion‑parameter models excel at OCR and document AI, delivering real‑time efficiency for regulated sectors....

By AiThority
Grapevine Bags $4.1 Mn To Scale Its AI Job Discovery Platform TAL
NewsMar 16, 2026

Grapevine Bags $4.1 Mn To Scale Its AI Job Discovery Platform TAL

Grapevine, a corporate networking platform, secured $4.1 million from Kae Capital, Peak XV Partners, and upGrad founder Ronnie Screwvala to expand its AI‑driven job discovery service, TAL. TAL acts as a talent agent, scanning listings and recommending matches for users. The round...

By Inc42
Biophytis and LynxKite Expand Alliance to Boost AI-Driven Drug Discovery
NewsMar 16, 2026

Biophytis and LynxKite Expand Alliance to Boost AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Biophytis has broadened its alliance with AI specialist LynxKite to fast‑track longevity drug discovery, launching the MASSIVE project that seeks Mas receptor activators for sarcopenia. Backed by Enterprise Singapore, the partnership will augment Biophytis’ computational platform with LynxKite’s chemoinformatics, advanced...

By Pharmaceutical Technology (GlobalData)
Exploring Light and Life: Nanophotonics and AI for Molecular Sequencing and Single-Cell Phenotyping
NewsMar 16, 2026

Exploring Light and Life: Nanophotonics and AI for Molecular Sequencing and Single-Cell Phenotyping

Prof. Dionne introduced VINPix, a silicon‑photonic resonator platform with ultra‑high Q factors and sub‑wavelength mode volumes, capable of housing over 10 million devices per square centimeter. Coupled with acoustic bioprinting and artificial intelligence, the system promises simultaneous detection of genes, proteins,...

By IEEE Spectrum AI
OpenAI’s Frontier Puts AI Agents in a Fight SaaS Can’t Afford to Lose
NewsMar 16, 2026

OpenAI’s Frontier Puts AI Agents in a Fight SaaS Can’t Afford to Lose

OpenAI launched Frontier, an overlay platform that creates a semantic layer for AI agents across an enterprise’s data warehouses, CRM, ticketing and internal apps. Early adopters such as Uber, State Farm, Intuit and Thermo Fisher report dramatic efficiency gains, with...

By Artificial Intelligence News
Market Research Is a $100 Billion Industry. AI Will Make It a Trillion-Dollar One.
NewsMar 16, 2026

Market Research Is a $100 Billion Industry. AI Will Make It a Trillion-Dollar One.

Market research, a $100 billion industry, is poised to become a trillion‑dollar market as artificial intelligence converts massive behavioral data into real‑time consumer intelligence. AI will accelerate study cycles from months to hours, slash costs, and democratize insights for startups and...

By ET BrandEquity (Economic Times) — Marketing
Nolana AI Selected for Lloyd’s Lab Cohort 16 to Improve Operational Efficiency in Specialty Insurance
NewsMar 16, 2026

Nolana AI Selected for Lloyd’s Lab Cohort 16 to Improve Operational Efficiency in Specialty Insurance

Nolana AI, an agentic AI operating system for insurance operations, has been chosen for Cohort 16 of Lloyd’s Lab, the leading global accelerator for the specialist insurance market. The company was selected from more than 220 applicants, joining only 12...

By Business Wire — Executive Appointments
Fintech Startup Chaseit.ai Launches AI Agents for Call Centre Loan Servicing
NewsMar 16, 2026

Fintech Startup Chaseit.ai Launches AI Agents for Call Centre Loan Servicing

Lithuanian fintech Chaseit.ai has entered live production with AI agents that automate loan‑servicing calls. The agents manage inbound and outbound interactions, verifying identities, reminding borrowers, negotiating repayment plans, and escalating complex issues to human staff. Within seven months of founding,...

By Finextra
Spotlight Pathology Secures £1.4 Million Seed Investment for AI Blood Cancer Diagnostics
NewsMar 16, 2026

Spotlight Pathology Secures £1.4 Million Seed Investment for AI Blood Cancer Diagnostics

Liverpool‑based Spotlight Pathology has closed a £1.4 million seed round to accelerate its AI‑driven blood cancer diagnostic platform. The round was co‑led by the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund and the Liverpool City Region Seed Fund, earmarked for product development,...

By HTN – Health Tech Newspaper (UK)
Ant Group’s Robbyant Teams Up with Leju to Bridge Embodied Intelligence and Real-World Applications
NewsMar 16, 2026

Ant Group’s Robbyant Teams Up with Leju to Bridge Embodied Intelligence and Real-World Applications

Ant Group’s embodied AI unit Robbyant announced a strategic partnership with Leju Robot, a leading Chinese robotics firm. The collaboration will combine Robbyant’s AI algorithms with Leju’s hardware expertise to develop data‑rich, embodied intelligence platforms. Both companies aim to move...

By Business Wire — Executive Appointments
SA Varsities Tighten Policies as AI-Related Cheating Grows
NewsMar 16, 2026

SA Varsities Tighten Policies as AI-Related Cheating Grows

South African universities—including UJ, UNISA, UP and UCT—are confronting a surge in generative AI‑assisted cheating, especially in take‑home assignments, online quizzes and coding tasks. Detection tools alone prove unreliable, prompting institutions to overhaul assessment designs and tighten AI usage policies....

By ITWeb (South Africa) – Public Sector
WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey Talks AI, Nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show"
NewsMar 16, 2026

WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey Talks AI, Nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show"

Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, told "The Axios Show" that the United States holds an "extremely small" lead over China in the artificial‑intelligence race. He argued that authoritarian regimes can copy open‑source models, accelerate deployment, and embed AI in...

By Axios — Economy & Markets
AI Adoption at Marriott Bonvoy - Drew Pinto, Chief Revenue & Technology Officer, Checks-In on Progress to Date
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Adoption at Marriott Bonvoy - Drew Pinto, Chief Revenue & Technology Officer, Checks-In on Progress to Date

Marriott Bonvoy has completed a major re‑platforming of its core systems, creating a flexible, cloud‑native architecture that readily accommodates artificial‑intelligence solutions. Executives say AI is now embedded across finance, HR, marketing and other functions, with partnerships to OpenAI and Google...

By Diginomica
Landmark AI Rulings Will Have Effect on All Litigation
NewsMar 16, 2026

Landmark AI Rulings Will Have Effect on All Litigation

Two U.S. federal courts issued landmark decisions on the use of generative AI in litigation. In Warner v. Gilbarco, the Eastern District of Michigan held that AI‑assisted work directed by counsel remains protected under the work‑product doctrine. Conversely, the Southern...

By HR Daily Advisor
ChatDOC: Teaching With The AI Summarizing Tool
NewsMar 16, 2026

ChatDOC: Teaching With The AI Summarizing Tool

ChatDOC is an AI‑powered platform that lets users upload PDFs and interact with the content via a chat interface, offering summaries, searches, and citation‑linked answers. The tool’s free tier permits up to five files and twenty queries per day, while...

By Tech & Learning (TechLearning)
AI Is Making Weather Forecasts Better
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Is Making Weather Forecasts Better

Artificial intelligence is reshaping meteorology, with AI‑driven models now surpassing the best physics‑based systems by up to 20% in accuracy. These models learn directly from decades of global observations, delivering longer‑range hurricane track predictions and operating on a fraction of...

By Utility Dive (Industry Dive)
OPINION: Securing Your Base in a Volatile Market: How Retention Data Drives Acquisition and Growth
NewsMar 16, 2026

OPINION: Securing Your Base in a Volatile Market: How Retention Data Drives Acquisition and Growth

Butter Payments CEO Charles Rosenblatt argues that in volatile markets, subscription firms must shift focus from acquisition to data‑driven retention. Machine‑learning models can analyze vast anonymized data to pinpoint churn drivers, payment failures, and high‑LTV prospects. By operationalising these insights,...

By InternetRetailing
Leah Brings Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Legal Education at Ulster University
NewsMar 16, 2026

Leah Brings Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Legal Education at Ulster University

Leah, an enterprise agentic AI platform, announced a partnership with Ulster University to embed its Leah Legal solution into the university’s Legal Innovation and Technology Law master’s program. The integration gives students practical exposure to AI‑driven contract review, document analysis,...

By Business Wire — Executive Appointments
Excello Launches AI Platform to Help Founders Turn Strategy Into Weekly Execution
NewsMar 16, 2026

Excello Launches AI Platform to Help Founders Turn Strategy Into Weekly Execution

Excello unveiled an AI‑powered executive intelligence platform that turns a founder’s long‑term vision into disciplined weekly actions. The system blends strategic planning, performance tracking, and personalized AI coaching calibrated through a DISC‑based assessment. Users can set North Star goals, cascade...

By AiThority » Sales Enablement
QuikBot Technologies, the Singapore Startup Teaching Robots to Navigate a World Built for Humans
NewsMar 16, 2026

QuikBot Technologies, the Singapore Startup Teaching Robots to Navigate a World Built for Humans

QuikBot Technologies, a Singapore robotics and AI startup, has built QuikSync – an "Ambient Permission Plane" that lets autonomous machines communicate with elevators, access‑control and building‑management systems. The platform, marketed as an Autonomous Final‑Mile Delivery PaaS, enables robots to perform...

By e27
CEU Hosts Mendiola Consortium’s Academic Conference on AI in Education
NewsMar 16, 2026

CEU Hosts Mendiola Consortium’s Academic Conference on AI in Education

Centro Escolar University hosted the Mendiola Consortium’s Academic Conference on AI in education on March 11, 2026, marking the consortium’s 50th anniversary. The event gathered educators, administrators, and industry experts to explore AI’s role in learning, leadership, and service while...

By Manila Bulletin – Business
ChatGPT vs Gemini (2026): The Simple Guide for Non-Tech People
NewsMar 16, 2026

ChatGPT vs Gemini (2026): The Simple Guide for Non-Tech People

The guide compares ChatGPT and Gemini for everyday users, highlighting that neither tool is universally superior. ChatGPT shines in creative writing, tone flexibility, and cross‑platform integrations, while Gemini excels at research, Google Workspace connectivity, and handling large documents and images....

By Just AI News
JobLand AI Revolutionizes the US Job Search with Fully Automated Application Platform
NewsMar 16, 2026

JobLand AI Revolutionizes the US Job Search with Fully Automated Application Platform

JobLand AI announced the launch of a fully automated job‑search platform that continuously scans U.S. listings, tailors resumes to bypass applicant tracking systems, and submits applications around the clock. The service targets high‑pay, remote roles in tech sales, UX design,...

By AiThority » Sales Enablement
Clinical Safety of Large Language Models in Oral Cancer–Related Patient Communication: A Longitudinal Study
NewsMar 16, 2026

Clinical Safety of Large Language Models in Oral Cancer–Related Patient Communication: A Longitudinal Study

A prospective longitudinal study compared Google Gemini Pro and xAI Grok‑1 on Turkish oral‑cancer patient queries over seven days. Both models delivered moderate‑to‑high scientific accuracy (Gemini 3.52, Grok 3.39) and high referral safety (90‑92%). Grok generated longer sentences but readability...

By Research Square – News/Updates
How Intelligent Logistics Systems Are Improving Trade Efficiency
NewsMar 16, 2026

How Intelligent Logistics Systems Are Improving Trade Efficiency

Intelligent logistics systems are reshaping global trade by integrating AI, IoT, big data, and automation. These technologies deliver real‑time visibility, predictive routing, and automated warehousing, cutting transit times and operational expenses. The shift improves supply‑chain resilience, reduces carbon footprints, and...

By Global Trade Magazine
Bandicam Launches AI Feature to Transcribe Video to Text on Mac
NewsMar 16, 2026

Bandicam Launches AI Feature to Transcribe Video to Text on Mac

Bandicam has added an AI‑powered Video‑to‑Text feature to its Mac screen‑recording app, letting users turn spoken audio into searchable transcripts, subtitles and MP4 text files in seconds. The tool supports more than twenty languages and offers five AI model presets,...

By MarTech Series
Tells.co Among First U.S. Platforms Approved for RCS Business Messaging
NewsMar 16, 2026

Tells.co Among First U.S. Platforms Approved for RCS Business Messaging

Tells.co has become one of the first U.S. platforms cleared to run Rich Communication Services (RCS) Business Messaging campaigns. RCS upgrades traditional SMS with high‑resolution images, branded sender IDs, interactive buttons, and swipeable product carousels, and its adoption is accelerating...

By MarTech Series
UK Atomic Energy Authority Readies Fusion Simulation AI Supercomputer
NewsMar 16, 2026

UK Atomic Energy Authority Readies Fusion Simulation AI Supercomputer

The UK government is funding a £45 million AI supercomputer, Sunrise, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Culham Campus. Delivering 6.76 exaflops of AI performance on a 1.4 MW AMD‑Dell platform, Sunrise aims to become the world’s most powerful AI system dedicated...

By ComputerWeekly
From Foundations to Fluency: Why Upskilling Is the Key to Europe’s AI Future
NewsMar 16, 2026

From Foundations to Fluency: Why Upskilling Is the Key to Europe’s AI Future

Google announced AI Works for Europe, a coordinated effort to upskill the European workforce as AI is set to augment 61% of jobs and add €1.2 trillion to the region’s GDP over the next decade. Research shows 25% of entry‑level positions...

By Fortune
AI Legal Risks: Lisa Fitzgerald on Why Businesses Must Vet AI Use Cases
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Legal Risks: Lisa Fitzgerald on Why Businesses Must Vet AI Use Cases

AI adoption is accelerating, but businesses often overlook legal risks tied to generative tools. Lisa Fitzgerald, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, warns that feeding confidential or personal data into public AI platforms can trigger cross‑border data transfers, privacy breaches, and...

By The Cyber Express
EPC Group Expands Power BI Copilot With Enterprise Multi-Model AI Architecture
NewsMar 16, 2026

EPC Group Expands Power BI Copilot With Enterprise Multi-Model AI Architecture

EPC Group unveiled a six‑layer enterprise AI architecture that augments Microsoft Power BI Copilot with Azure OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Meta Llama, Mistral and other services. The framework adds native AI visuals, AutoML in Fabric dataflows, large‑language‑model and agentic AI integration, Cognitive...

By MarTech Series
How Vibe Coding Will Reshape Medical Practice
NewsMar 16, 2026

How Vibe Coding Will Reshape Medical Practice

Vibe coding uses natural‑language prompts to generate functional code via AI platforms such as ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code and Google AI Studio. By allowing clinicians to describe desired behavior in plain English, development cycles shrink from weeks to hours. This democratizes software...

By Forbes – Healthcare
Turning Browsers Into Buyers: Preezie Brings In-Store Service Online
NewsMar 16, 2026

Turning Browsers Into Buyers: Preezie Brings In-Store Service Online

Preezie has introduced an AI Shopping Assistant that transforms Australian retail websites into virtual sales associates, delivering conversational, context‑aware guidance. By ingesting product catalogs, size charts and policy data, the assistant can answer natural‑language queries, suggest bundles, and recommend fit....

By Inside Retail Australia
Google Scraps AI Search Feature that Crowdsourced Amateur Medical Advice
NewsMar 16, 2026

Google Scraps AI Search Feature that Crowdsourced Amateur Medical Advice

Google quietly removed its AI‑driven "What People Suggest" feature, which had displayed crowdsourced medical advice from ordinary users. The tool, launched earlier this year on U.S. mobile search, aimed to complement expert health content with lived‑experience insights. Its removal was...

By The Guardian AI
Why the Federal Government Is Going After California's AI Laws
NewsMar 16, 2026

Why the Federal Government Is Going After California's AI Laws

President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening legal and financial pressure on states with what he calls “burdensome” AI regulations, singling out California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53). SB 53, effective January 2026, obliges large developers of frontier AI...

By Governing — Finance
AI Design Reshapes Data Management
NewsMar 16, 2026

AI Design Reshapes Data Management

Integrating AI into semiconductor design is compelling companies to revamp data management, moving from passive file repositories to active, machine‑readable data lakes enriched with metadata and ontologies. The surge in training and inference workloads makes data movement, congestion, and energy...

By Semiconductor Engineering