Estate Agents Expect AI to Transform How Buyers Find Homes
Estate agents recognize AI’s potential but see limited current impact, with only 7% reporting improved listing visibility. A GetAgent survey reveals 84% expect AI‑powered search to become the primary way buyers find homes, while 88% warn that firms ignoring AI risk falling behind. Agents remain optimistic, citing upcoming platform tools and evolving buyer comfort as drivers for broader adoption. The industry is preparing for a shift from traditional portal filters to AI‑enhanced discovery.
Craveable Brands Has One Eye on AI, and the Other on the Project Failure Rate
Craveable Brands, the franchisor behind Red Rooster, Oporto, Chicken Treat and Chargrill Charlie’s, is exploring AI for customer loyalty and franchisee support while demanding proven ROI from vendors due to a 95% AI project failure rate. The company has unified...
Moglix Appoints Animesh Srivastava as Chief Technology Officer to Lead Technology and AI Charter
Moglix, a leading Asian B2B commerce platform, named Animesh Srivastava as its new Chief Technology Officer. Srivastava will steer the company’s technology charter, scaling the AI‑driven operating system Cognilix across global markets. The move comes as Moglix leverages its $40 billion...
To Make AI Safe, Put Women and Girls at the Heart of the Technology
In February, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner co‑signed a statement with 60 overseas organisations condemning the surge of deepfake misuse targeting women. The piece notes that 90% of non‑consensual deep‑fake pornography depicts women and that nudification AI apps...
Proofpoint Expands AI-Driven Security Strategy While Strengthening Partner Ecosystem
Proofpoint is expanding its AI‑driven security platform to protect the emerging human‑AI workspace, adding intent‑based detection for AI‑generated phishing and modernising threat investigation tools. The company now processes roughly six trillion messages daily, covering about 45 % of global enterprise email...
Pentagon Seeks System to Ensure AI Models Work as Planned
The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are issuing an Area of Interest for a modular "harness" that can evaluate any AI model against mission‑specific benchmarks. The system must test isolated AI performance, human‑AI team outcomes,...
What ChatGPT Has to Do with Robots
Robotics is entering a new era as artificial intelligence, especially large neural networks, merges with physical machines to create embodied AI capable of handling novelty. Traditional robots excel at repetitive, well‑defined tasks, but recent breakthroughs allow them to perceive, decide,...
Australians Taking Longer to Buy Cars as AI Becomes Major Influence
Australia’s Car Buyer Report 2026 shows the vehicle purchase journey is stretching, with 63% of shoppers backtracking and 34% pausing their search. Cost‑of‑living pressures are shifting priorities toward value, making “good value for money” the top driver across generations. For...
‘Einstein‘ Bot Sharpens Debate over AI in the Classroom
On 23 February, start‑up Companion released Einstein, an AI bot that could access learning platforms, watch lectures, complete quizzes and submit assignments on behalf of students. The tool sparked immediate outrage from educators who labeled it a cheating device, prompting...
Firms Predict an AI Productivity Boom Is Coming
A new cross‑country survey of over 5,000 senior executives shows that 69% of firms in the US, UK, Germany and Australia are already using AI, with the United States leading at 78%. While AI has had virtually no impact on...
AI-Underwriting,-a-New-Generation
Edge Focus CEO Elliott Lorenz discussed a new generation of AI underwriting that transforms asset‑backed finance. By applying advanced machine‑learning algorithms to securitisation, lenders can more accurately price and structure credit for esoteric assets such as royalties, aviation leases, and...
Enable Intelligent Insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server
Red Hat introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Satellite as a Technology Preview, allowing large language models (LLMs) to query Satellite’s RHEL inventory via REST APIs. The server runs as a container, authenticates with a personal access token, and...
NZ Businesses Report Surge in AI-Related Security Incidents
A Kordia survey of nearly 250 New Zealand firms with 50+ employees shows a sharp rise in AI‑related security incidents. Shadow AI now ranks among the top three cyber risks for 24% of respondents, up from 16% a year earlier. Attacks...
The Teacher Still Beats AI
Tuition centres across Malaysia are seeing enrolments climb about 30% each year, even as AI tools like ChatGPT become ubiquitous among students. Educators stress that AI cannot replace the real‑time feedback, personalized guidance, and confidence‑building that teachers provide. While AI...
The Convergence Crisis: Why AI Adoption Demands a New Architectural Blueprint
Enterprises face a “complexity tax” as AI adoption collides with fragmented edge, cloud, and on‑premises infrastructure. At F5 AppWorld, the company unveiled its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to unify networking, security, and observability. New ADSP components—including F5 Insight,...
Jump, Zocks Top Category as AI Note-Taker Adoption Soars
AI note‑takers have become a distinct category in wealth‑management software, with the T3/Inside Information Survey reporting 42.86% adoption across advisory practices. Jump surged to a 22.68% market share, up from 8.36% a year earlier, while Zocks leapt to 10.22% from...
Human Rights, Dignity and Control: Designing AI to the Standard of Regulation
The Australian Tax Office’s second commissioner, Jeremy Hirschhorn, highlighted how AI is being used to flag potential compliance issues in real time, giving taxpayers the chance to self‑audit before a human decision is made. He framed this as a responsible...
Why AI’s Next Wave Runs Through The Channel: ‘MSPs Already Live There’
Managed service providers (MSPs) are emerging as the primary conduit for AI adoption in small and midsize businesses (SMBs), shifting AI from an optional add‑on to a core offering. Executives like Joel Abramson and Tim Guim note that MSPs already...
MCP Vs. CLI for AI-Native Development
The article contrasts command‑line interfaces (CLIs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as AI‑native tooling, positioning CLIs for the fast inner development loop and MCPs for the structured outer loop. It highlights the token‑budget penalty of loading full MCP schemas...
10 Android Trends That Will Define Smartphones in 2026
Android smartphones in 2026 will be defined by AI‑native hardware, on‑device intelligence, and a suite of new hardware innovations. Chipmakers are rolling out processors built for machine‑learning, while AI agents inside apps start performing tasks autonomously. Battery life jumps to...
Technology Agenda Sealed by Letter of Intent
IDS Imaging Development Systems and Prophesee have signed a Letter of Intent at Embedded World to deepen their partnership and create next‑generation industrial vision systems that fuse conventional imaging with Prophesee’s Metavision® event‑based technology. The expanded collaboration builds on the...
The AI Hardware Crunch: CPUs Join the Chip Shortage
The AI hardware crunch is expanding as server CPUs join the long‑running GPU shortage. Intel now reports six‑month lead times for key server chips, while AMD’s lead times have stretched to ten weeks and prices in China have risen over...
Rayse, B&W Launch New AI Tools; CRMLS Offers RealReports to Members
Real estate firms are accelerating AI adoption across the value chain. Baird & Warner rolled out a custom Rejig.AI social‑media engine that creates and schedules branded posts, while Rayse introduced the Rayse Assistant Engine to log transactions via voice or...
Figure’s Humanoid Robot Picks Up Toys, Wipes Surfaces in New Demo
Figure AI unveiled a new demo where its humanoid robot, powered by the Helix 02 AI system, tidied a cluttered living room. The robot integrated walking, tool use, and object handling without task‑specific programming, relying on a single neural model. Helix 02...
Neuromorphic Computing Platform In Perovskite Nickelates (UCSD, Rutgers)
Researchers at UCSD and Rutgers have demonstrated a neuromorphic computing platform built from proton‑doped perovskite nickelate (NdNiO3) devices. By integrating symmetric and asymmetric junctions on a single wafer, the system combines ultrafast proton‑mediated dynamics with multilevel resistance memory, achieving nanosecond...
Gradial Launches GEO Agent With Built-In Execution to Help Brands Win in AI Search
Gradial unveiled Gradial GEO, a new capability that spots visibility gaps in AI‑driven search results and automatically implements fixes directly in a brand’s CMS. The tool continuously monitors generative engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, updating pages in real...
Anxiety Over AI Is Growing. Are Employers Preparing Workers For What’s Next?
A new Jobs for the Future (JFF) survey released in early 2026 shows U.S. workers are now more likely to view artificial intelligence as a net‑negative force for jobs, wealth and quality of life. Early‑career employees feel the impact most,...
Oracle Eases Wall Street Fears over AI Spending
Oracle reported Q1 revenue up 22% to $17.2 billion, with cloud revenue climbing 44% and OCI surging 84%. The company’s RPO hit $553 billion, largely from large AI contracts that customers fund upfront, easing concerns about capex. Gross margin on AI capacity...
What the Anthropic-DOD Breakup Teaches Government Contractors
Anthropic’s $200 million DoD contract fell apart despite Claude being the Pentagon’s most capable AI model. The AI was deeply embedded in classified systems, yet the partnership collapsed because neither Anthropic nor the prime contractor owned the customer relationship. The article...
EditShare To Highlight Analytical AI Capabilities At 2026 NAB Show
EditShare will demonstrate its latest AI‑powered media operations and high‑performance NVMe storage at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The company is emphasizing Analytical AI, which automatically extracts speech, faces, text and scene data to enrich video files with...
Lockheed Martin, Air Force Project Tests Missile Evasion with AI-Piloted Fighters
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and the USAF Test Pilot School demonstrated AI‑piloted fighters evading missiles on the X‑62A VISTA, a modified F‑16. Dozens of AI agents were trained in randomized, high‑fidelity simulations before being uploaded to a tablet and given control...
‘Proceed with Caution’: Elon Musk Offers Warning After Amazon Reportedly Held Mandatory Meeting to Address ‘High Blast Radius’ AI-Related Incident
Amazon convened a mandatory "deep‑dive" meeting after a series of outages, one linked to AI‑assisted coding tools, prompting senior leaders to review operational safeguards. Elon Musk publicly cautioned the tech sector to "proceed with caution" when scaling generative AI in...
Galileo Releases Agent Control, a Centralized Guardrails Platform for Enterprise AI Agents
Galileo unveiled Agent Control, an open‑source Apache‑2.0 control plane that lets enterprises enforce unified guardrails across AI agents. The platform lets developers write policies once and apply them in real time without downtime, and it ships with SDKs for easy...
6 Key Takeaways | A Trademark Practitioner’s Guide to Using AI: Guidelines, Use Cases, and Ethical Considerations
Kilpatrick’s trademark team delivered a comprehensive guide on integrating AI into trademark practice, highlighting both efficiency gains and emerging legal risks. They examined how courts are scrutinizing AI training data for fair‑use defenses and how AI‑generated outputs can create direct...
F5 Brings New Visibility and AI Controls to Big-IP, NGINX
At its AppWorld conference, F5 unveiled a suite of AI‑enhanced updates to its Application Delivery and Security Platform, including the new observability product F5 Insight, AI‑powered risk scoring for its Distributed Cloud WAF, and post‑quantum TLS support in Big‑IP v21.1....
AI Autocomplete Doesn’t Just Change How You Write. It Changes How You Think
AI-powered autocomplete tools are now embedded in emails, phones, and surveys, and a Cornell University study reveals that biased suggestions can subtly shift users' opinions on contentious issues. Participants exposed to one‑sided AI prompts adjusted their attitudes to align with...
Zymtrace Secures $12.2M
Zymtrace, a distributed AI infrastructure optimization platform, announced it has raised a total of $12.2 million, including an $8.5 million seed round led by Venture Guides. The round attracted strategic angels such as Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face and Christian Bach of Netlify, alongside existing...
Standard Kernel Scores $20M Seed Round
Standard Kernel, a Palo Alto‑based startup, develops AI‑driven tools that automatically generate ultra‑optimized GPU software. The company announced a $20 million seed round, led by Jump Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, Felicis, Cowboy Ventures, Link Ventures, Essence VC, and a...
Generic AI Falls Short for Banks: Glia’s New Benchmark Report Reveals the Power of Purpose-Built Tools
Glia’s 2026 Banking AI Benchmarks Report finds that 95% of generic generative‑AI pilots never reach production, urging banks to switch to industry‑specific tools. The study of 400 financial institutions shows purpose‑built AI delivers a 92%+ understanding rate, up to 94.8%...
Inside Amazon's Playbook for Handling Sensitive Questions About Its Huge OpenAI Deal
Amazon has announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI and a joint cloud offering, prompting internal guidance for its sales and marketing teams. The memo instructs employees to highlight Amazon’s ongoing partnerships with Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and Cohere while avoiding language...
Agentic AI Swarms Degrade Decision-Making
New research on the organizational physics of multi‑agent AI reveals that AI swarms suffer the same structural inefficiencies as human middle managers. In manufacturing and biopharma contexts, coordinated agents tend to optimize internal compliance metrics rather than actual batch yield,...
Grammarly Says It Will Stop Using AI to Clone Experts without Permission
Grammarly announced it will permanently disable its Expert Review AI feature after criticism that the tool cloned the voices of prominent writers without consent. The company, in partnership with Superhuman, is reimagining the feature to give experts explicit control over...
ChatGPT Edu Feature Reveals Researchers’ Project Metadata Across Universities (Exclusive)
A flaw in OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu Codex Cloud Environments allows anyone within a university to view the names and interaction counts of GitHub repositories linked to student and staff accounts. Oxford researcher Luc Rocher discovered that project metadata—including how often...
I Stopped My Data From Being Used to Train AI (You Might Want to Too)
The article outlines how users can opt out of having their data used to train major AI models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Adobe, Figma, and LinkedIn. It details step‑by‑step settings changes and highlights caveats like feedback loops that may...
AI Agents Can Now Transact Via MetaMask Without Accessing Private Keys, Says CoinFello
CoinFello unveiled an open‑source OpenClaw skill that lets AI agents, known as MoltBots, execute on‑chain transactions through MetaMask without ever accessing private keys. The skill leverages MetaMask’s Smart Accounts Kit, employing ERC‑4337 smart accounts and ERC‑7710 delegations to grant narrowly...
EU Set to Ban AI Nudification Apps in Wake of Grok Scandal
The European Union is poised to outlaw AI‑driven nudification tools after the Grok scandal, where X’s chatbot generated millions of non‑consensual sexual deepfakes, including child images. A proposal slated for approval by EU ambassadors would criminalize marketing any AI system...
Mediagenix Taps Semantic Intelligence to Accelerate Content Monetization
Mediagenix announced an upgrade to its Semantic Intelligence engine, aiming to turn raw title and rights metadata into actionable commercial insight for studios and networks. By embedding advanced semantic modeling—originally built by its 2024 acquisition Spideo—into its Title Management platform,...
Breakout Ventures Raises $114M Fund to Back AI Science Startups
Breakout Ventures announced the close of its third fund, raising $114 million to back early‑stage AI‑driven science startups in biology and chemistry. The firm aims to invest in at least 20 companies, writing checks between $500,000 and $5 million. Fund III follows...
Study Finds Significant Savings From Direct Current Power for AI Workloads
A new Enteligent study shows that converting AI data centers from traditional 120‑240 V alternating current to 800 V direct current can slash infrastructure costs and energy waste. The analysis reports 50‑80% less copper cabling and an 8‑12% reduction in annual energy‑related...
The Game-Changing Technology Helping Businesses Prevent Catastrophic Data Loss
The article highlights how combining Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with artificial‑intelligence creates near‑zero Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and dramatically lower Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). AI layers such as predictive failure analysis, anomaly detection and automated recovery orchestration boost CDP’s real‑time...