News•Feb 25, 2026
WAN-IFRA Introduces the NextGen AI Leaders Programme to Equip Emerging News Executives with Practical AI and Leadership Skills
WAN-IFRA has launched the NextGen AI Leaders Programme, a tuition‑free 12‑week initiative aimed at equipping 24 emerging news executives aged 25‑40 from Europe, the Middle East and Africa with practical AI and leadership skills. Backed by the Google News Initiative, the cohort will tackle real newsroom challenges through coursework, mentorship, and hands‑on AI prototype development. The program targets product, audience, commercial and editorial leaders in small to mid‑sized media firms, with an inaugural workshop at the Frankfurt AI Forum and a follow‑up at the World News Media Congress. Applications run until 15 March 2026.
By WAN-IFRA
News•Feb 25, 2026
Valo Health CEO: We Don’t Want Investors To Drive the Science
Valo Health is reshaping drug development by applying AI to human causal biology, aiming to raise clinical success rates from roughly 10% to 20%. The company leverages over 17 million de‑identified patient records and Mendelian randomization to pinpoint genetically validated targets....
By MedCity News
News•Feb 25, 2026
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Feb 25, 2026
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
By Tech.eu
News•Feb 25, 2026
Autonomous Robot Runs Quantum-Inspired Optimization in Real Time
Japanese tech giant Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have embedded their Simulated Bifurcation Machine, a quantum‑inspired optimization engine, into an autonomous mobile robot. The on‑board FPGA runs a new multi‑object tracking algorithm at 23 frames per second, delivering up to 23%...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
By Tech.eu
News•Feb 25, 2026
Trump Administration to Use Pentagon AI to Set Mineral Reference Prices — Gallium and Germanium Among First Four Targets
The Trump administration will deploy DARPA’s Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) AI system to establish reference prices for critical minerals, starting with germanium, gallium, antimony and tungsten. The tool calculates fair values by stripping out alleged Chinese market...
By Tom's Hardware
News•Feb 25, 2026
Budget 2026: Godongwana Talks up AI, Data Infrastructure
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana used the 2026 budget launch to declare data and artificial intelligence infrastructure as critical as electricity, ports and transport. He announced plans to expand data‑centre capacity, citing 55 existing facilities and R50 billion of investment expected over...
By ITWeb (South Africa) – Public Sector
News•Feb 25, 2026
How This Startup Is Showing that Voice-First AI Can Scale in Clinical Care for Root Cause Analysis
O-Health, an 18‑month‑old clinical AI startup, has built a voice‑first operating system that turns doctor‑patient conversations into structured clinical intelligence in real time. The platform runs on an edge‑first, sovereign AI stack with in‑house medical ASR and small language models,...
By YourStory
News•Feb 25, 2026
Sauce Labs Launches Industry’s First Programmable Mobile Device Cloud for the AI Era
Sauce Labs announced the Real Device Access API, the first programmable mobile device cloud designed for the AI era. The API lets developers control real Android and iOS devices through HTTP, issuing ADB or xcrun commands, streaming video, and accessing...
By SD Times
News•Feb 25, 2026
Harvard Study Shows AI Stock Trading Rivals Many Picks Made by Fund Managers
A Harvard Business School working paper finds that artificial intelligence can predict about 71% of mutual fund managers’ trade directions, and for some senior managers in less competitive categories the prediction rate approaches 100%. Predictability is higher for managers with...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
This AI Note-Taking Startup Thinks It’s Building the ‘Steering Wheel’ for Chatbots
Granola, a London‑based AI note‑taking startup founded by former Socratic CEO Chris Pedregal, is positioning its real‑time transcription tool as the "steering wheel" for large language models. Unlike competitors that record audio or deploy bots, Granola overlays editable notes on...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News
Cleveland.com’s editor Chris Quinn created an AI rewrite desk, hiring Joshua Newman to use an in‑house ChatGPT to turn reporters’ notes into polished stories, which humans then fact‑check. The experiment has kept story volume steady while giving reporters an extra...
By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
News•Feb 25, 2026
DSIT Offers £174k for AI and Emerging Tech DG
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is hiring a Director General for emerging technology and artificial intelligence with a salary up to £174,000. The role will steer the UK’s strategy, investment and regulation across AI, quantum computing, semiconductors,...
By Civil Service World (UK)
News•Feb 25, 2026
State of AI: Widely Used for Planning -- Drives the Business at Just 25% of Firms
AI adoption remains uneven, with only a quarter of surveyed firms naming AI as a primary driver of business strategy by the end of 2025, though that share more than doubled from early 2025. Fifty‑five percent say AI influences strategic...
By InformationWeek
News•Feb 25, 2026
Ingram Content Group to Advance AI-Driven Supply Chain Efficiency with RELEX
Ingram Content Group is expanding its partnership with RELEX Solutions to add AI‑driven forecasting, capacity optimization, vendor‑managed inventory and assortment planning across six global distribution centers. The new capabilities will automate planning for more than 1 million SKUs, boost forecast accuracy...
By SalesTech Star
News•Feb 25, 2026
Agentive Appoints Former Google Cloud Leader David Keene as Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer
Agentive announced that former Google Cloud executive David Keene will serve as co‑founder and chief revenue officer. Keene brings more than three decades of leadership at Google Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and recent CMO roles at Wipro Europe and Speechmatics....
By SalesTech Star
News•Feb 25, 2026
TxtCart Accelerates Growth as Bootstrapped AI-Powered SMS Marketing Platform for Shopify
TxtCart, an AI‑powered SMS marketing platform built exclusively for Shopify merchants, announced it has helped its users generate over $100 million in SMS‑attributed revenue while remaining fully bootstrapped. Founded in 2019, the company has expanded from abandoned‑cart recovery to a two‑way...
By SalesTech Star
News•Feb 25, 2026
Zifo and Maze Therapeutics Partner to Power Precision Medicine
Zifo and Maze Therapeutics have teamed up to launch an AI‑powered platform that manages, stores, and scales massive biobank datasets. The solution tackles the fragmentation of genetic, proteomic, and phenotypic data by providing a unified workflow that delivers summary statistics...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 25, 2026
Rise of the Machines: The Data Science Unit TDR Says Gives It an Edge
TDR’s dedicated data‑science unit, launched ten years ago, now embeds machine‑learning models across the firm’s value‑creation workflow. The team builds predictive analytics to source acquisition targets, streamline due‑diligence, and monitor portfolio performance. By automating data aggregation and applying advanced algorithms,...
By Private Equity International
News•Feb 25, 2026
How Agencies Use Semrush for AI Visibility
Agencies are confronting a new client demand: visibility in AI‑driven answers like ChatGPT. Using Semrush’s Position Tracking, AI Visibility Toolkit and My Reports, firms such as Earned Media Australia, Sure Oak, Activate Digital and Coalition Technologies are quantifying AI overview...
By Semrush Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
The Hidden Risks in AI Legal Advice: Why SMEs Must Not Confuse Speed with Strategy
UK SMEs increasingly rely on AI-generated legal advice to cut costs and accelerate operations. While AI can produce quick drafts, the article warns that such advice is often only “almost right,” leading to misallocated risk, jurisdictional errors, and costly disputes....
By UKTN (UK Tech News)
News•Feb 25, 2026
CoeusAI Establishes Dutch HQ After Landing Major Offshore Energy Gig
CoeusAI, a Canadian cleantech AI startup, has opened a Rotterdam headquarters after being chosen as the sole Canadian participant in the North Sea Energy (NSE) programme. The firm will work across five NSE streams, using AI to site offshore wind,...
By BetaKit (Canada)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Hyundai Motor Group Lines up Multi-Billion Investment in South Korea
Hyundai Motor Group announced a Won10tn ($6.97bn) five‑year investment in the Saemangeum reclaimed area of Jeollabuk‑do. The plan focuses on building an AI data centre, large‑scale water electrolysis for hydrogen, and a robot manufacturing hub, complemented by solar generation to...
By Just Auto
News•Feb 25, 2026
HDAI Achieves HITRUST R2 Certification, Including New AI Security
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) announced that its core information systems have achieved HITRUST r2 Certification, a rigorous cybersecurity and data protection standard. The certification also incorporates the newly introduced HITRUST AI Security Assessment, providing a structured framework for AI...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 25, 2026
Are Your Job Ads Invisible? Here's Why the Best Candidates Aren't Applying
Recruiters are increasingly treating hiring as a performance‑marketing channel, where visual appeal and brand perception dictate candidate interest. Traditional text‑only job ads are losing to platform‑driven, image‑rich campaigns, creating a visibility gap for top talent. Chatly’s AI image generator and...
By Onrec
News•Feb 25, 2026
New Paper Examines How AI Could Be Exploited for Terrorist Financing
A new research paper by Jason Blazakis, funded by the EU’s Internal Security Fund and released through RUSI and Project CRAAFT, examines how large language models could be weaponised to facilitate terrorist financing. The study argues that AI‑driven content generation...
By Homeland Security Today (HSToday)
News•Feb 25, 2026
SoundHound AI Launches Sales Assist Agent at MWC 2026
SoundHound AI unveiled Sales Assist, a voice‑powered AI agent for retail, at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona. The agent uses the company’s Polaris speech‑recognition and a multi‑agent orchestration platform to deliver real‑time product recommendations, upgrade eligibility checks, and compliance...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 25, 2026
MSCI Launches IndexAI Insights with ChatGPT and Claude
MSCI introduced AI connectors that link its ONE platform to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. The first product, IndexAI Insights, lets users ask natural‑language questions about MSCI index performance, exposures, constituents and methodology. MSCI says this is the initial offering...
By Fintech Global
News•Feb 25, 2026
What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents
The article introduces the concept of Agent Experience (AX), a discipline for preparing enterprise systems so AI agents can discover, invoke, and manage tools reliably. It stresses that agents require precise, structured documentation, robust API specifications, and context‑engineering such as...
By CIO.com
News•Feb 25, 2026
Obsidian Security Certified ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI Governance
Obsidian Security announced it has earned ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the first global standard for an Artificial Intelligence Management System. The certification, granted by A‑LIGN and accredited by ANAB, validates the company’s AI Security Posture Management capabilities across its SaaS platform. It...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 25, 2026
Elevate Jet Launches Booking App with AI-Powered Pricing
Elevate Jet unveiled a new private‑jet booking app that delivers instant pricing across six aircraft categories, from light jets to ultra‑long‑range models. The platform is driven by Ruby, a proprietary AI agent that evaluates range, availability, fuel needs, crew limits...
By Business Airport International
News•Feb 25, 2026
Tattvam AI Secures $1.7 Mn in Pre-Seed Round Led by Seedcamp
Tattvam AI, a deep‑tech startup focused on AI‑driven semiconductor design, closed a $1.7 million pre‑seed round led by Seedcamp. The funding will expand its engineering team, accelerate research, and bring its first product to market within months. The company’s AI reasoning...
By Entrackr
News•Feb 25, 2026
Akamai to Convene India’s Tech Leaders for Closed-Door Summit on Running AI at Real-World Scale
Akamai Technologies, in partnership with YourStory, will host the invitation‑only Akamai Digital India Leadership Summit in Bengaluru on February 27, 2026. The closed‑door event gathers CTOs, CISOs and senior engineers from fintech, SaaS, e‑commerce, media and digital platforms to discuss...
By YourStory
News•Feb 25, 2026
AWS Introduces New AI Service for Vertical Video Viral Moments
Amazon Web Services launched Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically converts live or on‑demand horizontal video into vertical formats in real time. The platform leverages multimodal AI to analyse both audio and video, delivering converted streams with...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 25, 2026
Labcorp Expands PathAI Pact to Roll Out Digital Pathology Platform in US
Labcorp announced an expanded partnership with PathAI to deploy the AISight Dx digital pathology platform across its U.S. anatomic pathology labs and hospital sites. The AI‑enabled software will allow pathologists to scan, annotate and diagnose slides digitally, aiming to cut turnaround...
By MedTech Dive
News•Feb 25, 2026
TapClicks Introduces SmartStory: Turning Campaign Data Into Stakeholder-Ready Presentations in Minutes
TapClicks launched SmartStory, an AI‑driven platform that converts live marketing data into polished PowerPoint and PDF decks within minutes. Built on TapClicks' enterprise‑grade data management layer, the solution pulls from thousands of MarTech and AdTech connectors to create unified, insight‑rich...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 25, 2026
ITVibes Shows How AI Turns Websites Into Lead Engines
ITVibes, a Houston digital‑marketing agency, is showing local service firms how AI‑backed website optimization can convert static sites into active lead generators. By analyzing real‑time user behavior, the agency identifies friction points, content gaps, and intent mismatches that hinder conversions....
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 25, 2026
Close Your Workforce’s AI Skills Gap by Designing an Adaptive Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SLALOM
The 2026 Slalom AI Research Report shows a paradox: 68 % of leaders feel they can keep pace with AI, yet 93 % cite underdeveloped skills and inadequate training as major barriers. Deploying AI tools alone isn’t delivering results; the capability gap...
By Harvard Business Review
News•Feb 25, 2026
ADT Acquires Origin AI to Power AI Sensing and Ambient Intelligence for the Home
ADT announced the acquisition of Origin Wireless, operating as Origin AI, to integrate its real‑time AI sensing platform into ADT’s security and smart‑home ecosystem. Origin’s technology classifies motion and human presence without cameras, audio, or wearables, adding a privacy‑focused intelligence...
By SalesTech Star
News•Feb 25, 2026
SoundHound AI Launches Sales Assist Agent, Bringing Real-Time Agentic AI to the Retail Sales Floor
SoundHound AI unveiled Sales Assist, a voice‑powered, real‑time AI agent for retail floors, debuting at Mobile World Congress 2026. The solution leverages the company’s Polaris speech‑recognition and multi‑agent orchestration to deliver instant upgrade, bundle and compliance recommendations to in‑store staff...
By SalesTech Star
News•Feb 25, 2026
EnforceAuth Free Version Gives Enterprises AI-Native Auth for AI Agents, Machine Identities & Non-Human Workloads
EnforceAuth announced a free tier of its AI Security Fabric, giving enterprises a vendor‑neutral platform to govern AI agents, automated workflows, and machine identities. The solution shifts from traditional access control to decision‑centric authorization, evaluating each action with full context...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 25, 2026
Penny Software Expands Global Footprint with New UK Office to Drive AI Procurement
Penny Software, the Saudi‑based AI procurement platform, has opened a new office in Derby, UK, to serve as a regional hub for its growing European client base. The move follows rapid adoption of its cloud‑native solution across more than 75...
By The Fintech Times
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI in Churn Reduction: What G2’s 2026 Expert Survey Found
Reducing churn remains a top priority for SaaS firms, and AI is moving from experimental dashboards to operational tools. G2’s 2026 expert survey of Custify, ChurnZero, Chargebee and Velaris shows AI platforms now blend usage, sentiment, billing and relationship data...
By G2 Learn
News•Feb 25, 2026
PhonePe Launches AI‑Powered Voice & Text Payments with Microsoft Support
Indian fintech leader PhonePe has unveiled an AI‑powered payment suite that lets users send money using voice commands or text chat. The solution leverages Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI services to interpret natural language and execute transactions in real time. Initially available...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI Agents to Enhance Candidate Experience in Oracle Recruiting Cloud
Oracle Recruiting Cloud is integrating AI‑driven agents to streamline the hiring journey. The agents automate tasks such as interview scheduling, resume parsing, and real‑time candidate communication. By delivering faster, personalized interactions, the platform aims to improve candidate engagement and brand...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 25, 2026
STFC News Release: Hartree Centre and Alder Hey to Tackle NHS Challenges with AI
The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre has partnered with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to pilot an AI‑driven staff scheduling platform. The system automatically creates balanced on‑call rotas by factoring in leave, skills and working patterns, replacing...
By Health Tech Digital (UK)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Why ‘Buy vs Build’ Is the Wrong Question for AI Strategy
Artificial intelligence is now a strategic priority, yet many enterprises chase hype instead of defining clear use cases, driven by a 63% fear‑of‑missing‑out. The traditional buy‑vs‑build debate is less relevant than asking what problem AI should solve. A blended approach—combining...
By ITPro (UK)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Artificial Intelligence Could Reduce Drilling by a Factor of Five – Jef Caers, Stanford University Expert
Stanford geoscience professor Jef Caers announced that artificial‑intelligence‑driven "intelligent agents" could slash mineral‑exploration drilling by up to five‑fold. The system plans sequential drilling to test and falsify human geological hypotheses, targeting uncertainty reduction rather than exhaustive grid sampling. By focusing...
By Copperbelt Katanga Mining
News•Feb 25, 2026
University of Oxford Spinout Brainomix Takes Total Funding to £18.8 Million in Support of US Expansion
Oxford‑spun AI medical‑imaging firm Brainomix announced a £18.8 million total Series C raise, including a £4.8 million tranche aimed at accelerating its US rollout. The capital will fund enhancements to its Brainomix 360 Stroke platform and the e‑Lung CT‑biomarker system for pulmonary fibrosis. CEO...
By HTN – Health Tech Newspaper (UK)