MTSS + AI in Action: Reimagining Student Support
North Kitsap School District in Washington is piloting an AI‑driven framework that integrates real‑time academic, behavioral and attendance data to reinforce its Multi‑Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). The initiative uses AI to generate instant feedback, easing teacher workload while sharpening student interventions. District leaders emphasized privacy safeguards, trust‑building measures, and alignment with strategic goals. The webinar, hosted by Education Week, offered practical steps for other districts to adopt AI safely and sustainably.
DaVinci Commerce, Accenture Announce Global AI Transformation Partnership
DaVinci Commerce has secured a strategic investment from Accenture and launched a global partnership to embed its AI Commerce Experience Platform within Accenture Song’s transformation practice. The deal positions DaVinci’s Agentic BrandStore as an experience layer that converts product data...
The Career Ladder Is Disappearing. Are Taxes Making It Worse?
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that AI is eroding entry‑level jobs, citing a 16% drop in hiring for AI‑exposed roles and a 25% decline at the 15 largest US tech firms. He argues apprenticeships and AI literacy are...
Phonak AI-Powered Hearing Aids Recognized with 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards
Phonak’s Virto R Infinio and Infinio Ultra Sphere hearing aids have won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards in the health category, presented by the Business Intelligence Group. The devices use AI to dynamically adjust settings and directly process sound...
HR Must Be Able to Answer AI Accountability Questions
HR leaders are increasingly deploying AI tools for hiring, yet many cannot explain how these systems influence decisions. Experts differentiate between low‑risk summarisation tools that merely assist humans and higher‑risk scoring or ranking algorithms that can replace human judgment. The...
How AI Is Impacting Five Demand Forecasting Roles
Retail demand forecasting is shifting from spreadsheet‑driven, manual processes to AI‑powered automation. By ingesting real‑time sales, inventory and market signals, AI delivers SKU‑level predictions that accelerate planning for merchandise, buying, allocation, sales and pricing teams. The technology eliminates common roadblocks...
Lowe’s Is Fighting to Prevent AI Agent Overload
Lowe’s is scaling its AI portfolio while battling what it calls “AI sprawl,” the uncontrolled proliferation of narrow, siloed agents. The retailer has instituted an AI Transformation Office, a taxonomy‑based governance model, and a human‑in‑the‑loop framework to vet new agents....
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting: What It Is and How to Use It
Chain‑of‑thought (CoT) prompting is a prompt‑engineering technique that forces large language models to articulate their reasoning step‑by‑step before delivering a final answer. By adding structured instructions—such as “think it through step‑by‑step”—the model slows down, checks assumptions, and produces intermediate calculations....
HJS Foundation Releases JEP Protocol & HJS Framework: The ‘Black Box’ for AI, Enabling Verifiable Human Oversight
The HJS Foundation unveiled the Judgment Event Protocol (JEP) and the Human Judgment Structure (HJS) framework, open‑source standards designed to make AI decision‑making auditable like an aircraft black box. JEP records every human‑in‑the‑loop intervention with immutable cryptographic proof, while HJS...
Expanding the Circle of Opportunity: How AI Skills Unlock Local Impact
Microsoft’s Elevate initiative is teaching AI skills to thousands of Thai nonprofit leaders, turning community creativity into marketable products. In Buriram’s Non Din Daeng district, a primary‑school student’s AI‑enhanced leaf design now appears on bags and notebooks sold online, generating income for...
Oracle Endows Fusion Applications with More AI Autonomy
Oracle unveiled a new generation of Fusion Agentic Applications, adding over 20 AI‑autonomous modules across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX. The agents can reason, decide and act on business goals by leveraging existing transactional data, policies and approval hierarchies, while...
How Sakal Is Using AI to Turn Print Ads Into Revenue Data
Sakal Media Group has deployed an OCR‑driven AI platform that scans every print advertisement in its newspapers and converts the images into searchable, structured datasets. The system automatically tags brands, categories, placement and size, turning daily print data into real‑time...
ADMARES Unveils High-Tech Housing Manufacturing with ABB Robotics
Swedish modular housing firm ADMARES announced a strategic partnership with ABB Robotics to equip its upcoming Smart Factory with AI-driven robotics, software and hardware. The collaboration brings together a network of technology partners, including Porsche Consulting, Siemens, NVIDIA and EDAG,...
Q&A: Sivakumar Sivasankaran on AI’s Role in Turning Fragmented Information Into Action
Sivakumar Sivasankaran explains that organizations capture valuable insights in fragmented forms—notes, meetings, recordings, and casual conversations—but struggle to turn them into structured, actionable knowledge. Traditional software has been unable to discern which parts of these fragments matter. AI now offers...
SentinelOne, Snyk Introduce New Tools for Securing AI Agents
SentinelOne and Snyk unveiled a suite of AI‑agent security tools, including SentinelOne’s Prompt AI Agent Security and Prompt AI Red Teaming, which guard AI data flows and simulate attacks on models. The companies also introduced an AI‑native data pipeline that...
AI to Power Singapore's Next-Gen Cancer Profiling Test
Singapore’s National Cancer Centre (NCCS) has launched a S$6 million (≈US$4.7 million) three‑year collaboration with precision‑oncology firm Lucence and A*STAR’s Diagnostics Development Hub to create UNITED 2.0, an AI‑powered cancer profiling test. The platform will combine whole‑exome and whole‑transcriptome sequencing, delivering a comprehensive...
‘DVLA Is Pushing the Boundaries of AI’
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is rapidly embedding artificial‑intelligence tools into its customer‑service operations. A large‑language‑model now powers ChatGPT‑style searches across 2,500 knowledge articles, helping advisers answer queries faster. In partnership with the Government Digital Service, the DVLA...
AI Shifts Non-Communicable Disease Risk Prediction Beyond Genetics
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have created CardiOmicScore, an AI-driven tool that integrates genomics, proteomics and metabolomics to predict cardiovascular disease risk. Using UK Biobank data, the model achieved C‑index values of 0.69‑0.82, markedly higher than traditional polygenic...
Why Ecommerce Brands Should Revisit Their Content Generation Frameworks
E‑commerce brands are under pressure to produce vast amounts of product‑focused content across multiple channels, yet many still rely on slow, manual processes. AI‑assisted content systems now enable marketers to transform a single product brief into channel‑ready copy, automate bulk...
Anthropic’s Claude Gets Computer Use Capabilities in Preview
Anthropic announced a research preview that lets its Claude assistant control a Mac computer, enabling it to click, scroll, and navigate applications on behalf of users. The capability is bundled with the Dispatch mobile tool and is available to Claude...
ESafety Report Reveals AI Chatbots Are ‘Encouraging Self-Harm & Suicide’
Australia’s eSafety regulator released a transparency report exposing major gaps in AI companion chatbots such as Character.AI, Nomi, Chai and Chub AI. The services failed to enforce robust age checks, did not automatically refer users discussing self‑harm to crisis resources,...
BigAds Launches AI Agentic Planner In Australia
BigAds is rolling out its AI‑powered Agentic Planner in Australia as part of the Bud HyperLocal platform. The tool automates audience creation, geographic targeting, budget allocation and activation‑ready deal IDs, allowing campaigns to go live in as little as five...
How Capital One Software Is Using Tokens to Turn Dark Data Into a Secure AI Asset
Capital One Software is leveraging format‑preserving tokenization to turn sensitive, unstructured "dark data" into a secure AI asset. At RSAC 2026 the company unveiled expanded Databolt capabilities that automatically scan, classify and tokenize data in PDFs, emails and transcripts. By replacing...
These Medical X-Rays Are All Deepfakes — and They Fool Even Radiologists
A new study in Radiology reveals that radiologists often cannot distinguish AI‑generated X‑ray images from authentic scans, with only 41% initially suspecting synthetic data. After being informed about the presence of deepfakes, participants correctly identified real versus fake images 75%...
OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Library to Store Your Personal Files
OpenAI has introduced a new "Library" feature for ChatGPT that lets Plus, Pro and Business users store uploaded files and images in a dedicated cloud location. The library appears automatically in the sidebar and retains files even after the originating...
Hong Kong: CityUHK Advances Experiential Learning with AI and VR
City University of Hong Kong is embedding artificial intelligence, virtual reality and digital modelling tools across a wide range of programmes, from veterinary science to engineering and entrepreneurship. The university uses generative AI to augment research, guidance and assessment, while...
Smarter Ships: Automation, AI, and the New Strain on Seafarers
Automation and AI are rapidly reshaping modern vessels, replacing traditional watchkeeping with unmanned machinery spaces and predictive analytics. While sensors and alarms improve efficiency, they also erode engineers' sensory familiarity with equipment, leading to reduced situational awareness. The surge of...
Are Managers and Supervisors Guilty of AI ‘Workslop’ Too?
New Zety research reveals that 55% of U.S. employees have received AI‑generated "workslop"—polished but inaccurate output—from a manager or supervisor. The report shows 85% of those workers say this erodes their trust in leadership, while 45% report heightened skepticism toward...
ISACs Confront AI’s Promise and Peril for Threat Intelligence-Sharing
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are grappling with how to integrate artificial intelligence into threat‑intelligence workflows while preserving the trust that underpins member collaboration. Leaders from Retail & Hospitality, Health, and Financial Services ISACs highlighted AI’s potential to speed...
Dext Launches AI Assist to Automate Everyday Bookkeeping Decisions
UK‑based Dext has introduced Dext AI Assist, an AI agent embedded in its bookkeeping platform that learns individual user preferences to automate nuanced accounting decisions. The tool surfaces transparent, reviewable suggestions, allowing finance teams to retain full control while reducing...
Microsoft Hires Former Allen Institute for AI CEO Under Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft has appointed Ali Farhadi, the former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, as a corporate vice president reporting to Mustafa Suleyman’s new in‑house AI team. Farhadi stepped down from his Ai2 role earlier this month and is known...
Opinion | The EU Trips Itself Up in the AI Race
The authors argue that the EU’s heavy‑handed AI regulations will slow innovation, jeopardizing Europe’s economic growth and security. They cite a White House Council of Economic Advisers report warning of a new "Great Divergence" between AI‑rich and AI‑poor economies. U.S....
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OpenClaw on Kubernetes: Designing Always-On AI as a Platform Service Meta Description
OpenClaw is an open‑source, gateway‑centric runtime that turns generative AI into an always‑on service deployed on Kubernetes. It provides a unified onboarding flow for workspaces, channels and skills, and ships with a documented Kubernetes install path and operator. The platform...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says AGI Is Here — Sort Of
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that artificial general intelligence is already here, basing the claim on a narrow definition that a single AI‑driven app could briefly generate $1 billion in revenue. The argument contrasts with his earlier stance that...
University of Houston, Google Join on AI Tools Initiative
The University of Houston has partnered with Google to integrate its artificial‑intelligence tools into campus. The collaboration will deploy Google for Education, Gemini for Education, and NotebookLM to support teaching, research, and productivity. University leaders stress that students must develop...
University of California Executive Warns of AI’s Risk to Higher Education
University of California chief investment officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher warned that artificial intelligence poses the biggest question of our lifetime for the UC system’s 300,000 students. Speaking at a board of regents meeting, he described AI as both a significant...
AI Governance, Veteran Care Among Panel Subjects at HIMSS26
At HIMSS26, a dedicated panel examined AI governance alongside the Department of Veterans Affairs’ initiatives to embed artificial intelligence in veteran care. Speakers highlighted how AI tools can streamline clinician workflows, personalize patient interactions, and accelerate decision‑making. The discussion also...
ChatGPT’s Free Ride Is Over — Here’s the Bill
OpenAI announced it will roll out advertisements to free and low‑cost “Go” tier ChatGPT users in the United States. The move follows internal calculations showing each query costs roughly a third of a cent, amounting to about $3 billion in electricity...
MoonPay Unveils Wallet Standard for AI Agents
MoonPay released the Open Wallet Standard (OWS), an MIT‑licensed open‑source specification that lets AI agents hold and sign crypto funds without ever exposing private keys. More than 15 leading firms—including PayPal, Ripple, Solana Foundation and Circle—contributed to the spec, which...
UKG Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for AI‑led Workforce Management and EMEA Compliance
UKG has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025‑2026 EMEA AI‑Enabled Workforce Management and Compliance MarketScape, highlighting its AI‑driven platform used by over 80,000 organizations worldwide. The assessment praises UKG’s ability to simplify multi‑country scheduling, ensure GDPR‑aligned data sovereignty with...
How AI Is Solving HACCP Documentation and Quality Control (and What Execs Should Know Before Buying)
AI-driven platforms are transforming HACCP documentation, shrinking plan creation from weeks to roughly 30 minutes and adding real‑time monitoring, vision inspection, and predictive analytics. The global AI food‑safety market, valued at $2.7 billion in 2024, is projected to hit $13.7 billion by...
Restaurant AI Must Deliver More than Fancy Dashboards
Restaurant operators are increasingly demanding AI that tackles scheduling and labor optimization, not just analytics dashboards. A Harri survey of 600 U.S. and U.K. hospitality professionals found 38% rank scheduling as the top AI use case, while dashboards lag at...
Navsoft to Showcase Innovative Enterprise AI Solutions – Computer Vision, Conversational BI, and BidBuddy at the 33rd Convergence India Expo...
Navsoft will showcase three production‑ready AI solutions at the 33rd Convergence India Expo in New Delhi from March 23‑25, 2026. The lineup includes a Computer Vision system that monitors CCTV for safety violations and worker fatigue, BidBuddy that compresses government tender preparation...
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Developer Pods for Platform Teams: Designing Self-Service GPU Experiences
Rafay’s SKU Studio enables platform teams to package GPU‑powered Kubernetes environments as ready‑to‑use Developer Pods. By defining curated SKUs with clear descriptions, guided inputs and prescriptive outputs, teams turn raw infrastructure into a self‑service product that launches in about 30...
Instant Developer Pods: Rethinking GPU Access for AI Teams | Rafay
Rafay’s Developer Pods redefine GPU access by delivering ready‑to‑use Ubuntu environments with CUDA in roughly 30 seconds, eliminating the multi‑day ticket queues and bulky VM provisioning that plague many enterprises. The solution abstracts Kubernetes away from developers, offering a simple...
AI Data Centers and Power Generation: What Gear Drive Companies Need to Know
AI‑driven data centers are now consuming roughly 60% of their electricity from servers, driving a surge in overall power demand. Grid expansion lags behind, prompting operators to adopt hybrid solutions that blend grid supply, long‑term renewable contracts, battery storage, and...