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 training simulations. The update also introduces outbound email encryption, Microsoft Teams voice‑deep‑fake detection, and a Canadian‑hosted data‑residency option, broadening compliance and service capabilities for MSPs and channel partners.
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...
The End of Static Ads: Gifr.ai Debuts AI Image-to-GIF Tool to Streamline Content Production
Gifr.ai launched an AI‑driven platform that turns static images into high‑quality GIFs within seconds, using text prompts to define motion. The tool promises up to three times higher engagement compared with still graphics and eliminates the need for specialized animation...
The Future of Enrollment: AI, Trust, and the Next Era of Student Engagement
University Business announces a 30‑minute Ed Talk on April 7, 2026, focusing on AI‑enabled enrollment for adult learners. Speakers Brian Hartnack and Jill Maksymec will explore how immediacy, transparency, and continuity reshape the traditional enrollment funnel into a connected, omnichannel experience. The...
Niantic Spatial Partners with Coco Robotics to Accelerate the Future of Autonomous Delivery
Niantic Spatial announced a strategic partnership with Coco Robotics to embed its Visual Positioning System (VPS) into Coco’s autonomous delivery fleet. The collaboration aims to overcome GPS limitations in dense urban environments by delivering centimeter‑level localization using spatial AI and...
Veritone Announced the Launch of Veritone Data Marketplace
Veritone announced the Veritone Data Marketplace (VDM), a new platform that links rights‑holders with accredited AI developers to trade ethically sourced, multi‑modal datasets. VDM works alongside Veritone Data Refinery, tokenizing unstructured media into AI‑ready assets and delivering them through a...
TradeStation Securities Announces New Integration with Global Financial AI’s Financial AI Platform
TradeStation Securities announced an integration with Global Financial AI’s Financial AI Platform, linking AI‑driven strategy design to TradeStation’s brokerage execution. The partnership lets traders use natural‑language prompts to create, test, benchmark, and optimize multi‑asset strategies across equities and options. The...
This Founder Bet Against the ChatGPT Hype. Now Her ‘Boring’ AI Startup Is Worth $1.9 Billion
May Habib founded Writer in early 2020 to deliver enterprise‑grade AI agents, not consumer chatbots. While the pandemic froze budgets, she doubled down, betting that large firms would adopt AI through governance, security, and integration. Writer built proprietary language models...
After Outages, Amazon to Make Senior Engineers Sign Off on AI-Assisted Changes
Amazon announced that senior engineers must now sign off on any AI‑assisted code changes after a series of high‑impact outages. The incidents, affecting both its retail platform and AWS services, were linked to generative AI tools used without established safeguards....
XGSynBot Debuts Z1 Wheeled Robot, Targeting the "Last Mile" Of Industrial Embodied AI
XGSynBot unveiled the Z1 wheeled robot, featuring a modular quick‑change end‑effector system and proprietary high‑performance joint modules. The robot’s dual‑system central brain separates high‑level reasoning from 100 Hz real‑time motor control, enabling rapid task switching and millisecond‑level stability on factory floors....
Qualcomm and Wayve Collaborate on Pre-Integrated ADAS/AD System for Auto Makers
Qualcomm Technologies and Wayve announced a joint effort to deliver a pre‑integrated ADAS and autonomous driving (AD) system built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride SoC and Wayve's AI Driver software. The solution bundles high‑performance compute, active safety stack and end‑to‑end AI...
I Wrote Off ChatGPT's Voice Mode, Then Found 7 Ways It's Genuinely Useful
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice Mode, now available on mobile apps and browsers, lets users interact via spoken prompts and receive spoken responses. The ZDNET author highlights seven practical use cases—from instant translation and hands‑free dictation to interview practice and real‑time copy...
Hammerspace and Secuvy Partner to Make At-Scale Data AI-Ready, Fast and Safe, Across On-Premises and Cloud
Hammerspace announced a partnership with Secuvy to deliver a “Data‑First” integration that unifies unstructured data across edge, on‑premises, and multi‑cloud environments. The joint solution creates a global namespace, continuously discovers, classifies, and catalogs data, and applies policy‑driven security without copying...
Embedder v0.3.1 Nominated for Embedded Award 2026 as the AI Firmware Platform Moves Into Production
Embedder’s AI‑powered firmware platform v0.3.1 has been nominated for the Embedded Award 2026 in the Startup category, signaling its shift from experimental to production‑validated. The tool grounds large‑language‑model agents in hardware‑specific documentation, enabling real‑time code generation, compilation, flashing and hardware‑in‑the‑loop...
Mend.io Launches AI System Prompt Hardening Solution to Secure LLM Instructions
White Source Ltd., operating as Mend.io, introduced System Prompt Hardening, a solution that automatically detects and mitigates vulnerabilities in the hidden system prompts that guide large language models. The tool assigns a 1‑100 severity score, offers remediation recommendations, and integrates...
ColorTokens Launches Xshield AI Agent to Automate Microsegmentation Policy Enforcement
ColorTokens introduced Xshield AI Agent, an AI‑driven engine that automates microsegmentation policy design and enforcement. The solution claims to shrink policy rollout from days to minutes, enabling rapid isolation of critical assets during breaches. In pre‑release tests, customers reported up...
Exclusive: Virtana Customizes Its Observability Platform for AI Workloads
Virtana unveiled an Application Observability platform that extends its existing suite to cover the full stack, including AI workloads, infrastructure, and networking. The solution creates a system‑level dependency graph that automatically correlates logs, traces, and metrics to pinpoint root causes...
Darwinium Launches Agent Intent Intelligence to Tackle Fraud in AI-Driven Commerce
Darwinium UK Ltd. unveiled an intent‑based authentication and orchestration platform aimed at securing AI‑driven commerce. The solution identifies whether a request originates from a verified AI agent, a human, or malicious automation and applies one of four adaptive responses—permit, verify,...