Amazon Makes Senior Engineers the Human Filter for AI-Generated Code After a Series of Outages
Amazon has instituted a new policy requiring senior engineers to sign off on every AI‑generated code change after a string of high‑impact outages linked to generative AI tools. The internal memo from SVP Dave Treadwell cites a "trend of incidents" with a "high blast radius" tied to Gen‑AI assisted modifications, including two AWS disruptions. Junior and mid‑level engineers now need senior approval before deploying AI‑assisted updates, shifting senior staff from building to filtering machine‑produced code. The move reflects Amazon’s effort to impose safeguards while best practices for Gen‑AI remain immature.
Bunnings Introducing Facial Recognition to 42 New Zealand Stores
Bunnings will deploy facial recognition technology (FRT) across its 42 New Zealand stores, beginning with a mid‑April pilot at two Hamilton locations. The rollout follows a surge in retail crime, with the retailer reporting a 9.5% rise in threatening incidents and...
Gemini Burrows Deeper Into Google Workspace with Revamped Document Creation and Editing
Google is embedding its Gemini generative AI deeper into Workspace, adding AI‑driven drafting and editing tools across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive search. Users can prompt Gemini to create first‑draft documents, generate spreadsheets, and design slide decks while the model...
AgentMail Raises $6M to Build an Email Service for AI Agents
AgentMail, a San Francisco startup, raised a $6 million seed round led by General Catalyst to launch an API‑driven email service built for AI agents. The platform lets agents create and manage dedicated inboxes with threading, labeling, search and reply capabilities,...
Gemini Embedding 2: Our First Natively Multimodal Embedding Model
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model, now in public preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI. The model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents into a unified 3,072‑dimensional space, handling up to 8,192...
WNBA Star Kelsey Plum Launches a Verified AI Digital Twin
WNBA star Kelsey Plum has become the first professional female athlete to launch a verified AI digital twin, partnering with Talk2Me to create a voice‑enabled avatar that fans can call. The twin mirrors Plum’s personality, allowing one‑on‑one conversations when she’s...
New York Lawmaker Wants Moratorium on Sale of AI Chatbot-Enabled Kids’ Toys
New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes is drafting a bill that would place a moratorium on the sale of AI‑enabled, chatbot‑powered toys for children. The legislation comes as AI‑infused plush toys and dolls, already popular in China, are gaining traction...
AWS Innovator Caylent Selects New CEO To Drive Agentic AI, Customer ROI
Caylent, an AWS Premier Services partner and AI innovator, has appointed Valerie Henderson as its new CEO. Henderson, who previously served as president and CRO, aims to transform Caylent into an AI‑first, agentic delivery powerhouse. The firm plans to embed...
Nvidia Invests In AI Startup Thinking Machines
Nvidia announced a multiyear strategic partnership with AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, pledging at least one gigawatt of its Vera Rubin computing systems for frontier‑model training. The deal, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, aims to have the platform...
Google Deepens Gemini AI Integration Across Workspace and Introduces User Controls for AI Search in Photos
Google announced an expanded rollout of Gemini‑powered AI across its core Workspace suite, embedding generative features into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The new “Help me create” tool drafts documents by pulling context from Gmail, Chat and Drive, while Sheets...
Rhoda AI Raises $450M to Build Foundational Robotics Models that Learn From Internet Videos
Palo Alto‑based Rhoda AI announced a $450 million Series A round that lifts its valuation to $1.7 billion. The startup aims to train foundational robotics models using publicly available internet videos, a method it calls Direct Video Action. By supplementing limited robot telemetry...
As AI Data Centers Scale, Investigating Their Impact Becomes Its Own Beat
The generative‑AI boom is driving hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to earmark over $700 billion in capital spending for new AI‑focused data centers by 2026, a 60% jump from the previous year. These facilities dwarf traditional sites, consuming...
Perion’s AI Agent Outmax Now Available for TikTok, Delivering up to 25% Greater Media Performance in Early Results
Perion Network announced the launch of its Outmax AI agent on TikTok, reporting up to a 25% lift in media performance during early trials. The integration brings Perion’s AI‑native infrastructure to TikTok’s 1.6 billion‑user ecosystem, allowing advertisers to move beyond platform‑standard...
Are We Facing an AI Nightmare?
AI‑doom narratives have surged, amplified by Citrini’s forecast that AI could eliminate most white‑collar jobs by 2028, prompting market volatility. Raghuram Rajan argues that historical adoption frictions suggest a slower, more nuanced rollout. He identifies a policy vacuum around large‑scale,...
AI Data Centers Are Chugging Our Water at an Alarming Rate
A University of California, Riverside study warns that U.S. AI data centers could need up to 1.45 billion gallons of water per day by 2030, matching the consumption of a major city. Peak cooling for a single state‑of‑the‑art facility can exceed...
NVIDIA Sets March 31 Launch for DLSS 4.5 Dynamic MFG
NVIDIA announced that DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation will be released on March 31, 2026, targeting GeForce RTX 50 series owners. The new mode replaces the static frame‑generation multiplier with a real‑time adaptive system that reacts to scene complexity. Alongside the dynamic...
IRONSCALES Unveils 3 Targeted AI Agents to Boost Preemptive Email Security
IRONSCALES’ Winter 2026 release adds three specialized AI agents—Red Teaming, Phishing SOC, and Phishing Simulation—to shift its email security platform from reactive to proactive protection. The agents follow an anticipate‑investigate‑educate framework, scanning external assets, automating Level‑2 forensic analysis, and delivering OSINT‑driven...
AI Causing Information Credibility Fatigue
A PANBlast survey of 1,000 U.S. adults reveals a growing "AI credibility fatigue" as 66% of respondents feel exhausted constantly verifying AI‑generated content. Fatigue is especially acute among younger users, with 80% of Gen Z and 76% of Millennials reporting the...
The State of AI & Communications Report: From Adoption to Authority
Ragan’s Center for AI Strategy released its first benchmarking report, showing that AI experimentation is now near‑universal among communications teams as of March 2026. While AI is accelerating content production, the study finds a widening gap between usage and formal integration,...
YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children
A New York Times probe of over 1,000 YouTube Shorts reveals that roughly 40 percent of videos recommended to toddlers are AI‑generated, often masquerading as educational alphabet or animal lessons. The platform’s algorithm favors these low‑cost, hyper‑realistic clips, pushing them ahead of...
Google Adds Automatic End Screens to Video Ads
Google Ads is rolling out automatic end screens that attach an interactive card to the end of eligible in‑stream video ads. The feature pulls app name, icon, price and install link from campaign data and is enabled by default for...
Fortinet Enhances SecOps with Cloud SOC, AI Automation, and Managed Services
Fortinet unveiled a suite of SecOps upgrades, highlighted by the preview of FortiSOC—a cloud‑delivered service that fuses analytics, SIEM, SOAR and threat intel into a single platform. The company also expanded its FortiAI engine to deliver agentic automation that can...
An AI Agent Broke Into McKinsey’s Internal Chatbot and Accessed Millions of Records in Just 2 Hours
Security startup CodeWall demonstrated that an autonomous AI agent could infiltrate McKinsey's internal generative‑AI platform, Lilli, in roughly two hours. The breach gave the agent read‑and‑write access to 46.5 million chatbot messages and 728 000 confidential client files. The exploit leveraged unauthenticated...
Intelligo Launches the Intelligo Compliance MCP Server, Bringing Deterministic Due Diligence Into Autonomous AI Investment Workflows
Intelligo announced the launch of its Compliance MCP Server, a new infrastructure layer that embeds deterministic due‑diligence into autonomous AI investment workflows used by limited partners. The MCP server delivers verifiable, auditable risk intelligence, enabling real‑time background checks, firm‑specific thresholds,...
Debian Decides Not to Decide on AI-Generated Contributions
Debian’s developers opened a discussion in February on whether to accept AI‑assisted contributions, drafting a general resolution that would require explicit disclosure and machine‑readable tags for any LLM‑generated code. The debate highlighted divergent views on terminology, licensing, onboarding, and the...
Robots, Cameras, and Lots of Data About Garbage: Inside the Recycling Industry's New Bet
The recycling sector is turning to AI‑driven robotics to solve the chronic sorting problem that leaves billions of recyclable dollars in landfills. Waste Management has committed more than $1.4 billion to automate its facilities, while startups like AMP claim their computer‑vision...
Buildout Launches CRM, Completing the Industry’s First AI-Powered End-to-End Deal Engine for CRE
Buildout Inc. has launched Buildout CRM, the final component of its AI‑powered, end‑to‑end deal engine for commercial real‑estate brokerages. The new CRM integrates with the existing Buildout Suite, creating a single shared workflow and data layer that spans the entire...
IAB Tech Lab Announces CoMP Framework to Ensure LLMs Have Commercial Agreements with Publishers Before Content Crawling
The IAB Tech Lab released the Content Monetization Protocol (CoMP) Specification v1.0, a standardized framework that requires AI systems to secure commercial agreements with publishers before crawling content. The draft is open for public comment until April 9, 2026, inviting...
Envestnet, WealthStream Unveil Tech to Facilitate Planning Conversations
Envestnet introduced Dash, a lightweight widget embedded in MoneyGuide, to capture five key client inputs and feed them directly into full financial plans, reducing friction for prospect onboarding. WealthStream launched an AI‑driven advice intelligence platform that layers on existing advisory...
Integral AI, Founded by Former Google Researchers, Targets Japan’s Robotics Industry
Integral AI, founded by former Google researchers, is developing AI models that let industrial robots learn tasks by watching demonstrations and using natural‑language commands. The startup has partnered with Japanese auto parts maker Denso since 2021 and is in talks...
RAAS LAB & The Trade Desk Partner to Bring Real-Time Relevance to Programmatic Advertising
RAAS LAB announced a partnership with The Trade Desk, integrating its AI‑driven contextual intelligence into the demand‑side platform. The joint solution lets advertisers evaluate tone, sentiment and placement environment at the impression level, backed by URL‑level reporting. Brands and agencies...
Dify Secures $30M Series Pre-A to Power Enterprise-Grade Agentic Workflows
Dify announced a $30 million Series Pre‑A round at a $180 million valuation, led by HSG with participation from GL Ventures, Alt‑Alpha Capital, 5Y Capital, Mizuho Leaguer Investment and NYX Ventures. The open‑source platform enables enterprises to design, deploy and operate production‑grade AI...
AI Learning Tools Recognised with IATA CBTA Innovation Award
Pika Aero and DGM France were honoured with the IATA Competency‑Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) Center Best Innovation Award for their AI‑driven dangerous‑goods training solutions. Pika Aero’s platform uses immersive AI to adjust operational scenarios in real time as learners...
How Indosat Is Scaling AI-RAN Across Its Network
Indosat is rolling out AI‑RAN across Indonesia, moving from lab trials to live network deployment. The operator demonstrated Southeast Asia's first AI‑driven 5G call, showcasing ultra‑low latency by remotely controlling a robot in Surabaya. To support the shift, Indosat opened...
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-Style Platform Built for AI Agents
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a Reddit‑style platform designed for AI agents, and will integrate its founders into the company’s Superintelligence Labs. The purchase price remains undisclosed, with the transaction slated to close in mid‑March. Moltbook launched in late January to...
SentientX Launches Human Identity Bank (HIB), a Global Platform to Protect Human Identity in the Age of AI
SentientX unveiled the Human Identity Bank (HIB), a global platform that lets individuals, agents, and law firms register and govern digital identity assets such as voice, video, and likeness. The service employs cryptographic fingerprinting, digital watermarking, and continuous monitoring to...
Augury Names New Product and Engineering Leadership to Accelerate Progress in Industrial AI
Augury announced the appointment of Anoop Mohan as Chief Product and Technology Officer, bringing a former Google Cloud AI leader to steer its product and engineering strategy. Mohan will head a newly formed leadership team that includes veterans from Meta,...
Hilton Introduces the Hilton AI Planner
Hilton has rolled out the Hilton AI Planner, a generative‑AI digital concierge now in beta on hilton.com. The tool engages travelers in conversational dialogue to recommend destinations, compare properties and highlight amenities in real time. By moving beyond static search...
FutureVault Launches Embedded AI Advisor Insights Engine, Turning Client Documents Into Real-Time Intelligence and Automated Advisor Actions
FutureVault announced its AI Advisor Insights Engine, an embedded private‑LLM solution that converts client documents stored in its digital vaults into real‑time intelligence. The engine extracts, structures, and links data across tax, estate, insurance, and portfolio files, generating actionable insights...
Betterness Introduces the Agentic Health and Wellness MCP
Betterness unveiled the Betterness Model Context Protocol (MCP), an agentic infrastructure that lets AI systems coordinate diagnostics, biomarker data, wearable signals, and provider networks. The protocol integrates with major lab partners such as Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, and BioReference, and offers...
Red Roof Announces AI-First Digital Transformation Partnership
Red Roof announced a partnership with Milestone Inc. to deploy an AI‑first Digital Experience Platform across redroof.com and future digital touchpoints, with a phased rollout starting in late 2026. The platform is designed to boost discoverability on traditional search engines...
BlueGenAI and Thunderyard Partner to Accelerate Government Modernization with AI
BlueGenAI and Thunderyard announced a strategic partnership to accelerate government modernization. The deal combines BlueGenAI’s AI‑powered GMAP platform with Thunderyard’s federal delivery expertise. GMAP automates legacy system ingestion, requirements generation, design, build and deployment, aiming to reduce risk and compress...
Wizard Partners With Stripe on ACP to Enable Agentic Commerce for Leading Retailers
Wizard announced a partnership with Stripe to accelerate the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), an open standard that links AI shopping agents with ecommerce platforms. The collaboration will streamline merchant onboarding, enable secure checkout via Shared Payment Tokens, and let retailers...
Opsera Unveils AppSec AI Agents to Power the Shift From Traditional SDLC to AI-SDLC
Opsera announced the launch of its AI‑powered AppSec agents, a new suite designed to embed security, compliance, and architectural validation directly into AI‑assisted development workflows. The agents operate as autonomous pre‑commit guards, automatically scanning AI‑generated code, enforcing SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI‑DSS...
The Future Of B2B GTM Isn’t Human Versus AI
B2B leaders are confronting an alignment challenge rather than a pure AI adoption hurdle. While 88 % of firms intend to deploy AI agents, legacy point‑solution tools have delivered only fleeting productivity gains. The article urges a shift toward a hybrid...
Building a Strong Data Infrastructure for AI Agent Success
Enterprises are racing to embed agentic AI as copilots and autonomous task‑runners, yet only one in ten companies manage to scale these agents beyond pilots. McKinsey reports that by late 2025, two‑thirds of firms are experimenting with AI agents, but...
YouTube Is Expanding Its AI Deepfake Detection Tool to Politicians and Journalists
YouTube is rolling out its AI‑powered likeness detection tool to a pilot group of politicians, journalists and other public officials. The feature scans the platform for videos that replicate a person’s face and lets verified individuals request removal, though requests...
Spearfish Launches First Contextual Intelligence Platform for Contact Centers to Transform Customer Service From Cost Center to Competitive Weapon
Spearfish has launched the first AI‑first contextual intelligence platform designed for contact centers, aiming to turn customer service from a cost center into a competitive advantage. The solution analyzes real‑time conversations to extract winning behaviors from top agents and automatically...
Firstup Extends AI Suite with New Agentic Capabilities Across Its Intelligent Communication Platform
Firstup unveiled Firstup AI, an enterprise‑wide suite that adds agentic capabilities to its intelligent communication platform. The offering expands beyond generative assistance with AI Search, Content Creator, and Insights now live, while AI Actions and Audience Builder arrive later this...
Deepdub New Voice AI Model, Phantom X 3.2 Brings Studio-Grade Dubbing and Ultra-Low Latency Voice Agents to Global Enterprises
Deepdub unveiled Phantom X 3.2, a new voice AI model that delivers studio‑grade dubbing and ultra‑low latency voice agents for global enterprises. The model supports zero‑shot voice cloning from as little as one second of audio, expanded emotion styles, and...