Googleâs AI Mode Checking For Personalized Information
Google’s AI Mode, introduced in August, now personalizes generative search results using a user’s recent queries, clicks, and location data from Search and Maps. The interface flags this activity with a “Checking for personalized info” notice and provides a “Try without personalization” option. Early observations show the feature can push a brand the user previously engaged with to the top of the answer. The personalization operates without linking Gmail or Photos, relying solely on on‑platform behavior.
More Consumers Using AI Tools but Still Lots of Mistrust
U.S. consumers are rapidly embracing AI, with 71% reporting usage and 37% engaging daily or several times a week, according to Numerator’s survey of over 5,000 adults. Frequent users are predominantly high‑income, urban Gen Z and Millennials, while non‑users skew low‑income...
Karnataka Constitutes Committee on Responsible AI to Develop Comprehensive Framework
Karnataka’s government has set up a Responsible AI Committee, chaired by Infosys co‑founder Kris Gopalakrishnan and co‑chaired by Secretary N Manjula, to draft a comprehensive policy framework for ethical AI use in public services. The panel, comprising industry, academic, legal...
Amazon’s AI Push Leaves Employees Spending More Time Fixing Errors
Amazon’s rapid rollout of internal AI tools is backfiring, with employees across engineering, supply chain and operations spending more time correcting flawed outputs than accelerating work. The generative systems frequently produce incomplete, inaccurate or fabricated code and data, forcing staff...
Scintil Releases DWDM Laser Source Evaluation Kit for Scale-Up AI Networks
Scintil Photonics unveiled the LEAF Light Evaluation Kit (EVK), enabling customers to test its single‑chip DWDM laser source for AI scale‑up networks. The LEAF Light chip promises up to 50% power reduction and lower latency compared with traditional single‑wavelength co‑packaged...
Butterly Trust Index Maps AI-Era Product Reviews
Butterly’s 2026 Trust Index, based on 2,100 Canadian shoppers, highlights that authentic, balanced reviews are essential for AI-driven product discovery. The report finds that specific, honest feedback—not polished star ratings—enhances AI interpretation, boosts consumer trust, and can even increase conversion...
SK Telecom Wants to Export the Sovereign AI Playbook
SK Telecom is building a 1 GW AI data‑center campus in Ulsan, positioning itself as a sovereign AI partner that combines telecom connectivity, SK Group’s semiconductor strength and full‑stack AI services. The operator is leveraging SK Hynix memory chips and partnerships...
The Bystander Effect Applies to Virtual Agents, New Psychology Research Shows
A new study in Consciousness and Cognition shows that working alongside a virtual AI partner reduces people’s explicit sense of control while simultaneously boosting their unconscious sense of agency, measured via temporal binding. In two online experiments participants either acted...
How Create Music Group Strikes the Right Note by Placing Data at the Heart of the Music-Streaming Process
Create Music Group has adopted Astronomer’s managed Apache Airflow service to orchestrate more than 600 data pipelines that feed real‑time streaming and revenue analytics. The switch from legacy cron jobs and Cloud Composer to Astro has accelerated pipeline development by...
The Hidden Risks Behind Retail's AI Shopping Boom
AI shopping assistants drove $67 billion in Cyber Week 2025 sales, representing one in five digital purchases. However, 82 % of AI failures are hallucinations—confidently wrong answers that erode trust. Traditional QA misses these errors because it tests ideal scenarios, not real‑world shopper...
Why Hundreds of People in L.A. Are Strapping Cameras on Their Bodies to Do Chores
A new gig‑economy niche in Los Angeles pays workers to wear head‑mounted cameras while performing everyday chores, creating video data that trains physical‑AI and humanoid robots. Companies such as Instawork, Sunain, Encord and Scale AI coordinate thousands of contributors, offering roughly $80...
Google Is Using Old News Reports and AI to Predict Flash Floods
Google researchers used its Gemini large language model to scan 5 million news articles, extracting 2.6 million flood reports and building the geo‑tagged “Groundsource” dataset. Leveraging this baseline, they trained an LSTM network that ingests global weather forecasts to produce flash‑flood probability...
Platform 37 and The AI Exchange: New Spaces for AI Innovation and Discovery
Google announced Platform 37, a new King’s Cross headquarters slated to open later this year, alongside The AI Exchange, a public space for AI education. The building’s name references DeepMind’s iconic Move 37 from AlphaGo, symbolizing Google’s AI heritage. Platform 37 will host...
Bridge Data Earmarks up to $3.9B for Singapore AI R&D
Bridge Data Centres, backed by Bain Capital, announced an investment of up to SGD 5 billion (approximately $3.9 billion) to accelerate AI research and development in Singapore. The funding will support high‑density computing, advanced cooling, energy‑storage solutions, and sustainable data‑centre design. The company...
Agentic AI and the New Governance Challenge for Treasurers
Agentic AI is moving from experimental chatbots to autonomous digital deputies that execute trade‑finance workflows without human prompting. In 2026 treasurers see agents handling document orchestration, real‑time payment interventions, and cross‑system data writes, dramatically speeding up back‑office operations. The technology...
Barcelona’s Delfos Energy Raises €3 Million to Build AI “Virtual Engineer” For the Energy Industry as It Charges up for...
Barcelona‑based Delfos Energy closed a €3 million seed extension, bringing its total funding to €10 million. The round, led by new investor Vox Capital/COPEL alongside existing backers, supports the company’s AI “virtual engineer” platform that now monitors over 1,000 renewable‑energy sites across...
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AI Governance Guide: Principles & Frameworks
AI adoption has surged, embedding itself in SaaS platforms and daily workflows. Organizations are scrambling to implement AI governance to ensure visibility, accountability, and security. The guide outlines core principles, a step‑by‑step framework, and references standards such as NIST AI...
MerQube Announces AI Partnership with Noonum
MerQube announced a strategic partnership with Noonum, a purpose‑built AI engine that applies machine reasoning to billions of data points for thematic investment analysis. The collaboration merges Noonum’s agentic, semantic knowledge engine with MerQube’s institutional index calculation and governance platform,...
Perplexity Unveils ‘Personal Computer’, an AI Agent that Manages Your Tasks and Files
Perplexity has launched Personal Computer, an AI‑driven digital proxy that runs on a Mac mini and automates tasks such as research, email composition, and morning briefings. The service integrates multiple large‑language models—including Claude, Gemini, and Grok—and operates in a secure,...
Reduce Pressure on Fleet Safety Teams
ISAAC Instruments unveiled ISAAC InView, an AI‑powered video safety system that pairs dash‑cam footage with telematics to deliver fewer, more relevant alerts for heavy‑duty fleets. By integrating AI event detection, a rugged DVR, and contextual vehicle data on a single...
Haut.AI Named Finalist in the Innovative World Tech Category at SXSW Pitch 2026
Haut.AI has been named a finalist in the Innovative World Tech category at SXSW Pitch 2026, joining 44 other startups selected from more than 600 applications. The company’s CTO and co‑founder, Konstantin Kiselev, will present its AI‑driven skin intelligence platform...
SoftBank Eyes Operations Gains From Multi-Agent Platform
SoftBank Corp unveiled a multi‑AI agent platform that automates telecom operations, from policy formulation to base‑station integration. The system passes analysis results between specialized agents, enabling end‑to‑end decision‑making and execution without human intervention. SoftBank plans to extend the automation to...
How AI Impacts the Use of Protocols in the K-12 Classroom
Instructional protocols—structured routines like Critical Friends Groups—have become core tools for collaborative learning and professional development in K‑12 classrooms. Originating in the 1980s and popularized by organizations such as NSRF, EduProtocols, and EL Education, they standardize discussion, reduce teacher planning...
AI May Never Be as Cheap as It Is Today
AI services are currently offered at unusually low prices, driven by venture‑capital subsidies and strategic compute discounts. However, as leading LLM companies prepare for IPOs, they will need to raise prices to achieve profitability. While advances in inference chips from...
Reality Checking a Major National R&D Investment in AI Trustworthiness, Safety, and Security
A new RAND report examines a proposed $10 billion U.S. government investment aimed at AI trustworthiness, safety, and security. Using break‑even analysis, the authors assess potential benefits, costs, and trade‑offs without relying on disputed catastrophe probabilities. The study finds that, across...
8 AI Tools Creators Swear By to Create More Content, Faster
The first quarter of 2026 is being labeled the year of AI efficiency, highlighted by the SaaSpocalypse that erased roughly $300 billion in SaaS valuations. High‑profile moves like Jack Dorsey's 40 percent cut at Square signal executives see AI as a structural...
How Zalando Is Preparing for an AI Retail World
Zalando is positioning itself for an AI‑driven e‑commerce future, where analysts expect AI agents to handle 15 % of online sales by 2030. The retailer, which has been experimenting with AI for fifteen years, now creates 90 % of its marketing content...
Nordic Expands Edge AI Portfolio with NPU-Enabled SoC
Nordic Semiconductor unveiled its first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) enabled system‑on‑chip, the nRF54LM20B, expanding its ultra‑low‑power edge AI portfolio. The integrated NPU accelerates TensorFlow Lite models up to 15 times faster than the Cortex CPU and delivers up to sevenfold...
Congatec Expands Ryzen AI Embedded COM Express Modules
congatec announced six new variants of its Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series COM Express 3.1 Type 6 Compact modules, expanding core counts from four to twelve and graphics units from two to sixteen. The modules leverage 4‑nm Zen 5/5c CPUs, RDNA 3.5 GPUs...
Meta Plans Four In-House AI Chips In Two Years
Meta Platforms announced a rapid rollout of four custom AI accelerators—MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450 and MTIA 500—targeted for deployment by the end of 2027. The MTIA 300 is already powering smaller‑model training for ranking and ad recommendation, while the MTIA 400 has cleared lab...
Grammarly Removes AI Feature Which Used Real Authors' Identities, Faces Class Action Lawsuit
Grammarly has discontinued its AI‑powered Expert Review feature after criticism that it leveraged the names and personas of living and deceased writers without consent. The tool, launched in August, let users select specific authors to generate feedback, prompting backlash from...
Codoxo’s Deepfake Detection Identifies AI-Generated Medical Records for Health Plans
Codoxo has launched Deepfake Detection, an AI‑driven solution that scans medical documentation, diagnostic images and claim context in seconds to flag synthetic or manipulated records. The tool embeds explainable risk scores into payer fraud‑prevention workflows, enabling health plans to intercept...
AI Users Report Stronger Workplace Connections, According to Gensler Survey
Gensler’s 2026 Global Workplace Survey of 16,400 office workers across 16 countries finds that AI power users—about 30 % of respondents—spend less time alone and more time learning and interacting with colleagues, contradicting the notion that AI isolates workers. These users...
CES 2026: Connected Vehicles Accelerate the Pace of AI
At CES 2026 the spotlight shifted from prototype showcases to production‑ready connected vehicles, underscoring the convergence of robotics, AI and automotive electronics. Qualcomm announced a partnership with Chinese startup Leapmotor to equip the D19 with a dual Snapdragon Elite platform, marking the...
Banks Use AI to Make Credit Card Rewards More Personal
Banks and payment networks are deploying artificial intelligence to reshape credit‑card rewards, moving the battle from the checkout to an AI‑driven offers feed. By mining transaction histories and behavioral signals, issuers can generate merchant discounts and category bonuses that match...
Unified Real-Time Anomaly Detection Across Retail Fraud and Network Intrusion Streams Using Dependency-Aware Feature Extraction
A unified, domain‑aware anomaly detection pipeline maps retail transaction and network traffic streams to a common event schema, enabling real‑time monitoring of rare, high‑impact events. The approach extracts temporal features (e.g., time‑since‑last‑event) and contextual typicality without data leakage, then trains...
Bluente Launches Open-Source MCP Server, Bringing Format-Preserving Document Translation Directly Into AI Workflows
Bluente has released an open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents translate documents while preserving original formatting. The server, available on GitHub under an MIT license, supports over 120 languages and a range of file types, from...
Fatigue Life Prediction of Ceramic Matrix Composite Materials Based on Physical Constraint Multi-Scale Attention Network
Researchers introduced a physically constrained multi‑scale attention network (PC‑MSANet) to predict fatigue life of ceramic matrix composites under high‑temperature, high‑stress conditions. Experiments on Cf/SiC specimens generated macroscopic stress, time‑domain, and frequency‑domain features for model training. PC‑MSANet achieved an RMSE of...
Exploring Spatial Inequities and Livability: A Mixed-Methods Study Using Artificial Intelligence and Community Insights
A mixed‑methods study in St. Louis combined a vision‑language model with community interviews to map micro‑scale built‑environment features across 7,848 Google Street View segments. AI detected high prevalence of basic infrastructure—street lighting (85%) and continuous pavement (77%)—but uncovered severe shortages...
IPcook Launches Low-Cost Proxy Infrastructure to Reduce AI Data Collection Costs
IPcook has launched a low‑cost rotating proxy service aimed at AI developers and enterprises that need to scrape large volumes of web data for generative‑AI training. The offering starts at $0.50 per gigabyte, can handle up to 100,000 simultaneous requests,...
Number of Legal Departments Using Gen AI Almost Doubles in a Year – Study
Corporate legal departments are rapidly embracing generative AI, with usage nearly doubling in a year. The latest FTI Consulting and Relativity General Counsel Report shows 87% of chief legal officers now employ AI tools, up from 44% last year, and...
SiteCapture Launches SiteCaptureAI to Power a New Era of Field Service Efficiency
SiteCapture unveiled SiteCaptureAI, an AI‑driven platform that automates the analysis of photos, videos, and documentation collected by field service crews. The solution delivers real‑time alerts, automated quality‑control checks, and custom workflow creation, promising to cut quality‑control costs by up to...
The AI Guidance Gap Is a Mental Health Problem
Universities are grappling with an AI guidance gap that leaves students uncertain about permissible use, prompting many to avoid generative tools altogether. A recent survey shows only 36% of students receive institutional AI skill support, while the OIA reports a...
HBM4E Raises The Bar For AI Memory Bandwidth
Rambus unveiled HBM4E, the latest high‑bandwidth memory that doubles HBM4’s data rate to 16 Gbps per pin, delivering up to 24.6 TB/s aggregate bandwidth across a six‑device stack. The new standard retains HBM’s low‑power, low‑latency characteristics while expanding channel count to 32...
India Outlines Legal Framework to Protect Children From AI and Online Harm
India’s government announced a comprehensive legal framework to shield children from AI‑driven online harms. Existing statutes such as the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 are being leveraged to mandate rapid removal of illegal...
Rethinking Voice AI At The Edge: A Practical Offline Pipeline
Arm and NVIDIA unveiled an offline, real‑time voice AI pipeline on the DGX Spark platform, combining the faster‑whisper speech‑to‑text engine with the vLLM large‑language‑model server. The heterogeneous design assigns latency‑critical transcription to Arm Cortex‑X/A CPU cores while the GPU handles...
AI Power on the Edge
Edge AI is reshaping device design by making power and thermal constraints primary, not optional, considerations. Engineers must build hardware architectures from the ground up and adopt a hardware‑software‑model co‑design approach to meet milliwatt budgets and fanless thermal envelopes. Memory...
Scale-Up, Scale-Out Get a New Partner
The article outlines three AI‑focused data‑center scaling models—scale‑up (in‑rack, latency‑centric, copper‑based), scale‑out (inter‑rack, jitter‑centric, RDMA and optical), and the newer scale‑across (cross‑data‑center, long‑distance congestion management). It details how each approach uses distinct interconnect strategies and resource allocation methods, and cites...
Exclusive: Oro Labs, Which Uses AI to Streamline Corporate Procurement, Raises $100 Million
Oro Labs announced a $100 million Series C round, led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital, bringing its total funding to $160 million. The Silicon Valley AI startup, which overlays existing ERP and procurement systems with an orchestration platform, reported...
AI at Rimini Street: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
Rimini Street’s CEO Seth Ravin discussed how the company is leveraging AI to transform its support call handling. By integrating Microsoft Copilot and Gemini, AI now routes cases to the right engineers, cutting resolution time by nearly 30% and achieving...
