KPMG Offers Staff ‘Outsize’ Cash Prizes for AI Innovation
KPMG has launched the AI Spark Innovation program for its U.S. advisory division, offering cash prizes that exceed typical year‑end bonuses. The awards target consultants who demonstrate tangible AI‑driven solutions, with a particular emphasis on junior staff. By tying payouts to innovative outcomes rather than billable hours, KPMG hopes to accelerate AI adoption across the firm. The initiative reflects a broader industry push to turn AI hype into measurable productivity gains.
Worley, Bloomfire Deploy AI Platform for Industrial Project Clients
Engineering services firm Worley has partnered with knowledge‑sharing platform Bloomfire to launch an AI‑driven solution for its industrial project clients. The platform ingests decades of reports, drawings, and engineer expertise, then surfaces relevant information through a digital control interface. By...
A New AI Model Could Help Scientists Design New Forms of Life
Researchers at the Arc Institute unveiled Evo2, an AI model trained on trillions of DNA bases from diverse organisms. By treating DNA as language, Evo2 can generate genome‑scale sequences millions of letters long, demonstrated with Mycoplasma genitalium‑inspired designs. The model...
Chowbus Raises $81 Million to Expand Its AI-Powered Platform for Independent Restaurants
Chicago-based Chowbus raised $81 million to broaden its AI‑powered restaurant platform. The company now reports over $120 million in annual recurring revenue and processes roughly $4 billion in transactions across the U.S. and Canada. Moving beyond point‑of‑sale software, Chowbus will add...
Meta’s Expanded MTIA Roadmap Signals a New Phase in AI Data Center Architecture
Meta unveiled an expanded roadmap for its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), targeting AI inference workloads across Facebook, Instagram and Reels. The custom silicon lets hyperscale data centers fine‑tune power and thermal envelopes, boosting density and enabling liquid‑to‑chip cooling....
Agentic AI Operating Models Are Redefining Supply Chain Design
Supply chain leaders are shifting from AI assistance to agentic AI operating models that act autonomously, integrating ERP data, partner interfaces, and external signals. The IBM‑Oracle‑Accelalpha study shows 62% of executives credit AI agents with faster decision‑making, while 76% expect...
AI Is Ruining Your Leadership Because You Keep Making This Mistake
The article warns that most founders treat AI as a delegated, siloed project, which yields pilots and dashboards but no real operational lift. By placing AI under a single department, companies create parallel tracks that increase coordination costs and decision...
Burger King Tests AI Headsets That Measure Worker Friendliness
Burger King is piloting an AI assistant called "Patty" that runs through employee headsets in drive‑thru lanes. The system listens for hospitality cues, logs service patterns and supplies real‑time recipe, inventory and equipment guidance. It also flags low stock or...
Minisforum N5 MAX Turns NAS Storage Into a Local AI Platform
Minisforum unveiled the N5 MAX AI NAS, a network‑attached storage device that can run OpenClaw large AI models locally using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor. The system pairs the hardware with MinisCloud OS and a one‑click deployment tool, allowing...
Hand Arendall Harrison Sale Transforms Document Workflows and Sees Immediate ROI with Litera’s AI-Powered Drafting and Compare
Litera announced that Hand Arendall Harrison Sale, an 85‑lawyer southeastern firm, has deployed Litera One across Microsoft 365, iManage and mobile platforms. The AI‑powered drafting and compare solution eliminated document‑comparison friction, resulting in zero user complaints and only one help‑desk call...
Claude's Excel and PowerPoint Add-Ins Now Share Context Across Apps
Anthropic has upgraded its Claude add‑ins for Excel and PowerPoint, enabling a shared conversation context so the AI can read cells, write formulas, and edit slides within a single session. The update also introduces “Skills,” reusable one‑click workflows for tasks...
UJET Launches Agentic Experience Orchestration
UJET unveiled Agentic Experience Orchestration (AXO), an architecture that embeds AI virtual agents directly into contact‑center workflows and links them to enterprise data sources. The platform captures front‑end interactions, automates low‑value tasks, and orchestrates back‑office processes across multiple applications. Human...
Birdzi Launches AskKea Generative BI Interface
Birdzi introduced AskKea, a generative business intelligence assistant that lets grocery retailers ask plain‑English questions and receive decision‑ready answers, visualizations, and exportable data within minutes. The tool integrates structured and unstructured retail data, offering cross‑system insights such as category penetration,...
Businesses Turning to GenAI for Purchase Decisions
Forrester reports that 36% of B2B buyers now use generative AI to discover, evaluate, and purchase solutions, making genAI the leading information source ahead of vendor sites and social media. While AI speeds initial research, buyers still depend on human...
This Startup Is Helping Tech Giants and Real Estate Developers Find Land for Data Centers—And Using Its Own GPU Cluster...
Acres, a 70‑person startup founded by Carter Malloy, has installed its own high‑end GPU cluster to power geospatial AI models. The cluster enables the company to process satellite imagery, LiDAR and parcel data in‑house, delivering generative‑AI land‑selection queries for data‑center...
Totogi: ‘Building AI that Really Works at Scale Is Not a Weekend Project’
Totogi’s Ontology is an executable knowledge layer that sits above BSS, OSS and network systems, providing a unified decision infrastructure for telco AI. The platform recently secured a deal with Singapore’s StarHub, promising up to a 10% boost in enterprise...
Canal+Taps Google Cloud For AI-Powered Content Discovery, Personalization and Production
Canal+ announced a multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud to embed the latter’s generative AI suite into its European and African services beginning June 2026. The collaboration will power AI‑driven video indexing, multimodal metadata creation, and hyper‑personalized content recommendations on the Canal+...
Yahoo Adds Personalized Homepage to Its Scout AI Search Engine
Yahoo has launched MyScout, a personalized homepage embedded within its Scout AI answer engine. The feature lets logged‑in users arrange tiles that surface data from Yahoo Mail, Finance, News, Sports and other properties, with real‑time updates for stocks, email previews...
Ai2: Building Physical AI with Virtual Simulation Data
Ai2 unveiled MolmoBot, a suite of robotic manipulation models trained exclusively on synthetic data generated in the MolmoSpaces simulation environment. The open‑source stack includes 1.8 million procedurally created trajectories, delivering a 79.2% success rate on real‑world pick‑and‑place tasks—more than double the...
Nyad Launches AI Solution for Wastewater Operators on the Heels of $1.3M Funding
Nyad, an AI‑focused wastewater software startup, has launched a decision‑support platform aimed at helping treatment‑plant operators navigate increasingly complex systems. The company announced an oversubscribed $1.3 million pre‑seed round led by Boost VC, with participation from Draper Associates, Halogen Ventures and...
Quectel’s SH603ZA-AP Targets Edge AI Designs with 6 TOPS NPU and Broad Industrial I/O
Quectel has launched the SH603ZA-AP smart module, an application‑processor‑only board built on the RK3576/RK3576J chipset with a 6 TOPS neural‑processing unit. The module bundles a rich set of industrial I/O—including HDMI, camera, USB, PCIe, SATA, CAN and numerous peripheral buses—while supporting...
Meet Eve — The AI Used By 800+ Top Plaintiff Firms
Eve, an AI platform tailored for plaintiff litigation, is now deployed by more than 800 firms nationwide. Its intake agent, Jenny, has lifted lead conversion rates from roughly 10% to 35% while shaving 50 minutes off the intake workflow and...
Rivian Spin-Out Mind Robotics Raises $500M for Industrial AI-Powered Robots
Mind Robotics, a Rivian spin‑out, closed a $500 million Series A round co‑led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz, lifting its valuation to roughly $2 billion. The funding follows a $115 million seed round, bringing total capital raised to $615 million since its November 2025 launch. The...
DataBahn Expands Microsoft Sentinel Integration
DataBahn has deepened its partnership with Microsoft, embedding its AI‑driven data pipeline into Microsoft Sentinel via the Content Hub and Azure Marketplace. The joint solution automates ingestion, normalization, and routing of telemetry from hundreds of sources, cutting weeks of manual...
Enterprises Rejecting Plug and Play AI for Customisable Solutions, Finds Report
Enterprises are shunning off‑the‑shelf AI in favor of custom, full‑stack solutions, according to Cognizant’s new research. The study of 600 AI decision‑makers and 38 senior executives shows a strong preference for “AI Builders” that can tailor models to specific industry...
Manufact Raises $6.3M as MCP Becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ Powering ChatGPT and Claude Apps
Manufact, a YC‑backed startup, announced a $6.3 million seed round led by Peak XV to build infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging “USB‑C” standard for AI agents. The company’s open‑source mcp‑use SDK has already logged five million downloads and...
Tenstorrent Unveils RISC-V AI Workstation with Open-Source Stack
Tenstorrent announced the TT‑QuietBox 2, dubbed Blackhole, a liquid‑cooled AI workstation that runs directly on a desktop. The system can infer models up to 120 billion parameters and delivers teraflop‑class performance using a RISC‑V processor. It ships with a completely open‑source software...
Google Cloud's Vision for AI in the Game Industry
Jack Buser, speaking at GDC’s Luminaries series, outlined Google Cloud’s vision of a “Living Game” where AI augments development, business strategy, and player experiences. He highlighted how AI can streamline pre‑production, unify player data for hyper‑personalized marketing, and power smart...
A Roadmap for Safer Generative AI for Young People
Google outlined a comprehensive roadmap to make generative AI safer for younger users, centering on three pillars: online youth protection, family‑centric technology relationships, and empowered learning. The company embedded strict content policies—blocking child sexual abuse, extremist, self‑harm, and age‑inappropriate material—throughout...
Spain’s Sánchez Launches AI Tool to Track Hate Speech on Social Media
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez unveiled HODIO, an AI‑driven system that ranks social‑media platforms by the volume of hate speech they host. The tool will scan publicly available posts, apply natural‑language processing, and publish a comparative score for each major...
Code Concepts: A Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset Generated From Programming Concept Seeds
Researchers introduced a concept‑driven workflow that produces synthetic code data aligned with specific programming skills. Using a taxonomy of 91 Python concepts, they generated roughly 15 million Python problems and incorporated 10 billion tokens into the final 100 billion‑token pretraining of Nemotron‑Nano‑v3. The...
Amazon Wants to Be Your First Stop for Health Questions —Here’s What Its New AI Assistant Does
Amazon has launched Health AI, an artificial‑intelligence assistant embedded in its website and mobile app that lets shoppers check symptoms, receive possible causes, and get treatment suggestions. The tool can direct users to telehealth visits or nearby providers, extending Amazon’s...
FreeWheel Launches AI Agent Infrastructure for Premium Video Ads, Pilots with PMG
FreeWheel unveiled an AI agent infrastructure built on its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and a suite of Intelligence tools, embedding artificial intelligence directly into premium video ad transactions. The platform enables real‑time workflow automation, performance monitoring, and decision‑making for...
OpenAI's New Training Dataset Teaches AI Models Which Instructions to Trust
OpenAI unveiled the IH‑Challenge dataset, a reinforcement‑learning resource that teaches models a four‑level instruction hierarchy—system, developer, user, and tool. The dataset replaces subjective LLM judges with deterministic Python scripts, enabling reliable automated evaluation. Early testing on the internal GPT‑5 Mini‑R...
Anthropic’s Pentagon Showdown Is Drawing Silicon Valley Into a Larger Fight
Anthropic has sued the Pentagon after the Department of Defense labeled the company a "supply chain risk," effectively blacklisting it from government contracts. A coalition of 37 leading AI researchers, including figures from Google, OpenAI and DeepMind, filed an amicus...
Takase Kanageta Selects Plataine to Scale Production Scheduling Across Multi-Plant Operations
Takase Kanagata, a Japanese precision‑manufacturing firm, has chosen Plataine’s AI‑powered Production Scheduler, delivered with Argosy Japan Aerospace Materials, to support its 2030 Digital Factory and Industry 4.0 roadmap. The solution will enable Takase to scale production scheduling across multiple plants while...
AI-Enabled Watch Towers Set to Proliferate Along the Border
The Department of Homeland Security will retrofit 148 uncrewed camera towers along the U.S. border with AI‑enabled sensors this year and add 50 next‑generation towers. GDIT’s Relocatable Autonomous Surveillance Tower brings longer‑range optics, radar, LIDAR and solar power, allowing edge...
Publish Your Data, AI Techniques, and Agentic Engineering Work on Towards Data Science
The New Stack is inviting its readers to publish on Towards Data Science, one of the largest AI‑focused publications. Submissions are free, and accepted pieces receive editorial support, rapid two‑day turnaround, and promotion across TDS’s channels. Authors can earn money...
Siemens to Help Build AI-Ready Scientific Infrastructure as Part of DOE’s Genesis Mission
Siemens announced a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to support the Genesis Mission, a federal effort to modernize America’s scientific infrastructure with AI‑driven computing and interoperable digital systems. The partnership leverages Siemens’ expertise in industrial AI,...
TruScore Launches AI Capabilities for Its 360 Feedback Platform to Accelerate Leader Development
TruScore has added three AI‑powered features—AI Feedback Insights, AI Executive Summaries, and AI Comment Summaries—to its 360‑degree feedback platform. The tools automatically analyze quantitative scores and open‑ended comments, delivering concise themes, strengths, blind‑spot alerts, and development priorities. Built on a...
AI Podcast Start-Up Rebel Audio Comes Out of Stealth Mode, Taps Mark Burnett as Adviser (EXCLUSIVE)
Rebel Audio, a Nashville‑based AI podcasting start‑up, has emerged from stealth mode with a $3.8 million seed round and the addition of TV legend Mark Burnett as its first adviser. The company unveiled an invitation‑only beta of its AI‑driven platform at SXSW,...
The Latest Author Protest Against AI
Around 10,000 UK authors have jointly released an empty volume titled *Don’t Steal This Book* to protest the use of their works in training AI systems. The book, containing only a roster of contributors, will be distributed at the London...
Health IT Leaders Must Stay on Top of AI that Delves Into Clinical Workflows
At HIMSS 2026, Medicomp Systems CEO David Lareau warned that health systems are rapidly embedding generative AI into clinical documentation, coding and decision‑support workflows. While large language models promise efficiency, their probabilistic nature can introduce inaccuracies into patient records, jeopardizing...
AI Still Needs Consultants—For Now
OpenAI and Anthropic have signed agreements with major consulting firms to embed generative AI solutions across corporate clients, signaling a short‑term boost for the consulting sector. Analysts caution that while demand for AI‑focused advisory services will surge, the broader consulting...
Elsevier Launches Study Companion Osmosis AI to Transform How Medical Students Learn
Elsevier has launched Osmosis AI, a study companion that integrates its 140‑year medical content with the Osmosis video library and conversational AI. The platform delivers AI‑generated answers that are fully cited and paired with relevant videos, supporting USMLE Step 1 and...
An Efficient, Reusable Framework to Evaluate AI Safety
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Microsoft introduced Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a renewable framework that automates safety testing for large language models (LLMs). By over‑generating adversarial prompts and selecting the most effective subset, the method creates a consistent benchmark that can...
U.S. Government Growing Interest in Robotics
On March 10 the U.S. Department of Commerce hosted a roundtable with leaders from robotics, artificial intelligence, manufacturing and investment to chart how the United States can scale Physical AI‑enabled robotics. The discussion covered domestic supply‑chain strengthening, talent pipelines, digital...
Hidonix Is Now a Defense Company
Hidonix Industries announced a strategic shift from commercial applications to a primary focus on defense and public safety, leveraging its spatial intelligence, human‑centric AI, and robotics expertise. The company will target defense operators, emergency responders, and mission‑critical missions requiring precise...
Microsoft: AI Tools Now Handle 50M Health Questions Daily
Microsoft reported that its consumer AI tools, including Bing and Copilot, now field more than 50 million health‑related questions each day. An analysis of over 500,000 anonymized health conversations in January 2026 showed health is the top topic on mobile devices,...
Honeycomb Advances Observability for AI-Powered Software Development
Honeycomb announced a suite of AI‑enhanced observability features and the general availability of Honeycomb Metrics. New Agent Skills let Claude Code, Cursor and other AI agents migrate telemetry, create boards and set SLOs autonomously. Automated Investigations, a Slackbot with chain‑of‑thought...