Graylog Advances Explainable AI and Automated Workflows for Faster Threat Detection
Graylog announced AI‑driven security automation at RSA, introducing explainable AI threat prioritization, agentic workflows via its open MCP Server, and a Spring 2026 release that auto‑launches investigations when asset risk exceeds thresholds. The threat prioritization engine aggregates alerts using entity context, asset criticality, vulnerability data, and campaign intelligence, while AI Summarization can cut investigation time by up to 50 percent. MCP Server connects any compatible large language model to security data, enabling conversational queries and automated response agents without additional licensing across all editions. These capabilities aim to help lean security teams detect, decide, and document faster, reducing manual analyst workload.
MVTec at HANNOVER MESSE: Securing Competitive Advantages with the MVTec Software Portfolio
Munich‑based MVTec Software GmbH will exhibit its machine‑vision suite at Hannover Messe from April 20‑24, 2026, highlighting HALCON, MERLIC and its Deep Learning Tool. The company will demonstrate MERLIC 5.8, which adds robust error handling and streamlined configuration for faster deployment. MVTec experts...
Walmart and Target Are Battling to Show Up in AI Shopping Tools. Here’s How Their Strategies Compare
Walmart and Target are racing to embed artificial intelligence in the shopping journey, but their tactics diverge sharply. Walmart is building four proprietary AI "super agents" to power consumer assistance, supplier operations, and internal workflows, leveraging its massive transaction data....
Deskpro Now Available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Deskpro announced its integration with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, making its AI‑powered help‑desk platform available on a cloud environment that is physically and legally confined to the EU. The move guarantees full data residency, catering to organizations that must...
TECNO CAMON 50 Unites Technology, Fashion and Productivity in One Next-Generation Device
TECNO unveiled its CAMON 50 series at MWC 2026, positioning the lineup as the centerpiece of an AI‑powered ecosystem that spans smartphones, AIoT devices, and productivity tools. The devices combine fashion‑forward design, 5G connectivity, and a new LightMaster imaging engine that uses...
Vantage Towers Strengthens Rural Network Resilience with PowerX AI Platform
Vantage Towers has teamed with PowerX Technology to install its AI‑driven monitoring platform at 220 off‑grid rural tower sites. The system provides continuous telemetry, replacing manual diesel oversight and delivering real‑time visibility into energy usage. Integrated battery data now supports...
AI Could Handle 60% of Supply Chain Disruptions by 2031
Gartner predicts that by 2031, AI will autonomously resolve 60% of supply‑chain disruptions, reducing the need for human intervention. The forecast responds to mounting trade, geopolitical, and climate‑driven interruptions that strain traditional response methods. Companies are urged to begin with...
Qualtrics Adds AI-Powered Synthetic Data and Research Tools to Speed Customer Insights
Qualtrics unveiled AI‑driven synthetic consumer panels and a Research Hub at its X4 Experience Management Summit. The synthetic panels, built on a fine‑tuned large language model trained with over 200 million respondents, claim research‑grade accuracy that is twelve times better than...
Project SnowWork: The Easiest Way for Business Users to Get Work Done
Snowflake unveiled Project SnowWork in a research preview, an autonomous AI platform that translates outcome‑based requests into completed, data‑driven work. The service leverages Snowflake’s native data lake, security controls, and role‑based access to deliver finance, sales, marketing, and operations insights...
Nvidia CEO Says This App Is ‘The Next ChatGPT.’ What’s All the Fuss About?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced OpenClaw, an open‑source AI agent that can clear inboxes, schedule meetings, book flights and perform multiple tasks with minimal input, calling it “the next ChatGPT.” He discussed the platform on CNBC’s Mad Money and unveiled...
Advancing Agentic AI with Microsoft Databases Across a Unified Data Estate
Microsoft used SQLCon 2026 to unveil a unified, AI‑driven database strategy that spans Azure SQL, Hyperscale, and SQL Database in Fabric. The announcement includes a Savings Plan offering up to 35% cost reductions, GitHub Copilot integration inside SSMS, and new...
Corelight’s Agentic Triage Turns SOC Alerts Into Evidence-Backed Investigations
Corelight unveiled Agentic AI capabilities for security operations centers, highlighted by Agentic Triage—a GenAI‑driven workflow that consolidates alerts into entity‑centric investigations and delivers evidence‑backed verdicts up to ten times faster. The solution exposes every playbook step, query, and data point,...
Instrument Maker Roland Launches AI Melody Generator Powered by Research From Sony Computer Science Laboratories
Japanese instrument maker Roland has unveiled Melody Flip, an AI‑powered melody‑generation plug‑in for major digital audio workstations. Developed with Sony Computer Science Laboratories, the software analyzes an imported track’s musical DNA and offers melodic, chord, bass and drum suggestions drawn from...
How Is Technology Tackling Bias in Data and Decisions with AI and Fairness?
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used for high‑stakes decisions such as hiring, lending, and law enforcement, but unchecked models can replicate historic discrimination. Bias originates from data, algorithmic design, and human oversight, threatening fairness and eroding trust. Researchers and policymakers are...
Physicl Emerges From Stealth with Data Infrastructure Layer for Physical AI
Physicl announced its emergence from stealth at NVIDIA GTC, unveiling a data‑infrastructure layer that delivers scalable, simulation‑ready 3D datasets for physical AI. The platform normalizes visual inputs, augments them with physics‑aware synthetic data, and streams them into simulation pipelines compatible...
ActiveCampaign Is First to Launch AI that Acts, Not Just Answers at Spring Innovation Keynote
ActiveCampaign announced its first‑to‑market agent‑to‑user AI and AI personalization at the Spring 2026 Innovation Keynote. The new Active Intelligence continuously monitors campaign performance, flags issues, and proposes next‑best actions without manual prompts. Custom AI instructions let SMBs embed brand voice...
AI for CFOs and AI & Business Innovation Summits to Convene Global Leaders in London
Economist Impact will host two back‑to‑back summits in London on March 24‑25, 2026, targeting senior finance leaders and C‑suite executives. The AI for CFOs Summit focuses on AI‑driven forecasting, automation, risk management and regulatory considerations, while the AI & Business Innovation...
Enterprise AI Agents Keep Operating From Different Versions of Reality — Microsoft Says Fabric IQ Is the Fix
Microsoft announced a major upgrade to its Fabric IQ semantic layer, making the business ontology accessible via the Machine‑Controlled Protocol (MCP) to any AI agent, regardless of vendor. The update also adds enterprise planning capabilities and introduces a Database Hub...
AI Tools Enter Retail Platforms as Canadian Adoption Grows
Canadian small‑business owners are moving from AI experimentation to everyday use, according to a 2026 Square survey showing 60 % of respondents already employ AI tools and 74 % are familiar with them. Commerce platforms such as Square, Shopify and Lightspeed are...
Hitachi Vantara Expands Hitachi iQ Capabilities for Responsible Agentic AI
Hitachi Vantara announced a suite of upgrades to its Hitachi iQ portfolio, adding new NVIDIA Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs, expanded AI blueprints, and tighter Hammerspace integration. The enhancements target on‑prem and virtualized environments, enabling enterprises to build, coordinate, and govern...
Reco Targets AI Agent Blind Spots with New Security Capability
Reco has launched a new capability called “Reco AI Agent Security” to give enterprises visibility and control over autonomous AI agents across their SaaS stack. The tool, available from March 18, expands Reco’s existing platform to cover agents such as Microsoft...
UK Startups Offered Use of National AI Supercomputers
Britain’s Sovereign AI Unit has launched the AIRR programme, allocating £500 million to give strategically significant UK AI startups access to national supercomputing resources. Around 10 % of the capacity of the Isambard‑AI and DAWN supercomputers—valued at roughly £20 million per year—will be...
Logic Pursuits Announces Strategic Consulting Partnership with Glean to Guide Enterprise AI Transformation
Logic Pursuits announced a strategic consulting partnership with Glean, the Work AI leader, to accelerate enterprise AI transformation. As a Consulting Partner, Logic Pursuits will guide organizations through AI strategy, architecture, governance, and change enablement, leveraging Glean’s AI‑driven search, assistant,...
Nvidia's CEO Goes Full Principal Skinner in Response to DLSS 5 Backlash — Says It's the Gamers Who Are 'Completely...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the newly unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, dismissing gamer criticism as "completely wrong." The technology claims to fuse generative AI with developer‑controlled rendering to enhance graphics on RTX 5000 GPUs. Early demo footage, however, sparked backlash for...
ActiveState Announced the Launch of Curated Catalogs
ActiveState launched the Curated Catalog, a private, secure repository of open‑source components built from source. The catalog draws from a library of more than 79 million vetted packages across 12+ language ecosystems and integrates with major artifact managers. It offers SLSA...
Samsung Agrees AI Memory Deal with AMD
Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with AMD to supply next‑generation AI memory, including HBM4 for AMD’s MI455X accelerators, DDR5 for the Helios system, and advanced DRAM for 6th‑generation EPYC CPUs. The agreement also opens discussions about a future...
Tech Disruption as a Day Job - Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charles Nunn on AI, Digital Transformation, and Why His...
Lloyds Banking Group says its digital bank has expanded by 50%, now serving 23 million digitally active retail customers who generate roughly 7 billion interactions annually. The group has hired 9,000 new engineering and tech staff and already runs 800 AI models,...
L’Oréal and Nvidia Expand Partnership to Create AI Engine for Rapid Formulation Discovery
L’Oréal has deepened its collaboration with Nvidia by embedding the Alchemi machine‑learning framework into its research and innovation ecosystem. The joint effort will power an AI‑driven formulation engine that simulates molecular interactions at an atomic level, allowing scientists to evaluate...
Malwarebytes Survey Finds 90% of People Don’t Trust AI with Their Data
Malwarebytes’ latest pulse survey of 1,235 respondents shows that 90% of people fear AI systems will use their personal data without consent, while 91% back national legislation to regulate data use. The study also reveals a sharp drop in confidence,...
Moving at Speed with the AI Multiplier: Cornerstone Launches AI-Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled the Spring 2026 Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy, adding an AI‑Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent. The assistive and agentic tools embed contextual intelligence into learning, letting employees ask questions in‑session and receive role‑specific content recommendations without extra...
Midjourney V8 Rolls Out with 5x Faster Generation but Charges 4x More for Its Best Features
Midjourney has released an early‑access version of its V8 model, promising image generation up to five times faster and introducing a native 2K "--hd" mode and a higher‑quality "--q 4" setting. The new model improves adherence to detailed prompts, personalization,...
We Asked Experts About the Most Responsible Ways to Use AI Tools – Here’s What They Said
The Guardian surveyed AI experts to outline responsible ways to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Adoption is rising, with a Pew survey showing one‑third of U.S. adults—58 % of those under 30—using ChatGPT. Experts advise treating AI as a...
AI Scheduling Tools Tackle Transit Driver Shortages
Transit agencies are turning to AI‑driven scheduling platforms to combat a global shortfall of roughly 2.4 million bus drivers. The tools let operators model alternative roster scenarios, communicate schedules in real time, and curb unscheduled overtime that fuels fatigue and turnover....
AI and the Diffusion of Responsibility: Dispatches From the Road
Senior leaders across sectors are experimenting with generative AI, yet a hidden governance flaw is emerging. Organizations rely on cross‑functional committees, IT sign‑offs, or employee trust, which collectively diffuse responsibility for AI risk. This diffusion leaves no single owner accountable...
Malaysian SMEs Grapple with a Growing “Confidence Gap” In AI Adoption
Malaysian small‑and‑medium enterprises (SMEs) are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence, with 81% reporting at least one AI tool in use. Yet the Xero‑commissioned report uncovers a widening "confidence gap": most firms lack strategic certainty, with 82% seeking more education before they...
How a Home Remodeling Company Builds on AI
West Shore Home appointed Eppie Vojt as its first chief data and AI officer to accelerate automation across its remodeling operations. The company, already using lidar scanning and 3D visualizers, introduced an AI‑driven scheduling tool called Sapos that can generate...
Acalvio Launches 360 Deception to Break AI Attack Automation
Acalvio unveiled 360 Deception, a next‑generation cyber‑deception platform designed to break AI‑driven attack automation. The solution creates a high‑uncertainty environment by dynamically orchestrating decoys and making real assets appear deceptive, forcing attackers to reveal intent early. In a U.S. Navy...
HyperLight Releases 400G-per-Lane TFLN Photonic ICs
HyperLight Corporation has launched a new family of 400‑gigabit‑per‑lane thin‑film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits. The PICs deliver low insertion loss, low drive voltage, and ultra‑wide electro‑optic bandwidth, enabling energy‑efficient 400G optical links for AI‑focused networking. Built on HyperLight’s...
M-Files Boosts Microsoft 365 Copilot with Context-First AI
Document management leader M-Files announced new deep integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Copilot Agent Builder. The integration embeds M-Files’ metadata‑driven, permission‑aware content directly into Microsoft 365, allowing users to retrieve and act on trusted documents without leaving the...
As Agentic Voice Adoption Surges, Cloudonix Earns Global Recognition
Cloudonix announced it has secured multiple global awards for its agentic voice and AI‑driven communications platform, underscoring its expanding role in the emerging voice‑AI market. In 2025 the company integrated more than 15 AI voice platforms and recorded a 525%...
X Square Robot and 58.com Pilot Home Cleaning Robot Service in Shenzhen
X Square Robot and 58.com have launched China’s first home‑cleaning robot service in Shenzhen, offering a hybrid solution that combines autonomous robots for repetitive chores with human cleaners for complex tasks. The pilot aims to gather real‑world performance data and...
Cytora Unveils End-to-End AI Automation for Insurers
Cytora launched Autopilot, an agentic AI platform that automates end‑to‑end insurance risk workflows without human input. The system links fragmented data from multiple channels, maintains persistent context, and executes tasks from submission through claim adjudication. Underwriters and claims handlers can...
Tencent's 2025 Revenue Beats Estimates as Chinese Tech Giant Ramps up AI Investment
Tencent reported 2025 revenue of 751.8 billion yuan, slightly above analysts' 750.7 billion yuan estimate. The company invested 18 billion yuan in AI products last year and announced plans to double that spend in 2026. Gaming drove an 18% year‑on‑year revenue rise, while...
Fisent Technologies Introduces Tabulate Spreadsheet Standardization Capability to Its Applied GenAI Process Automation Platform
Fisent Technologies has added a new Tabulate capability to its BizAI platform, enabling automatic extraction and standardization of spreadsheet data. The feature tackles the variability of financial documents and large‑scale tables that strain traditional LLM context windows. By embedding transformation...
This Viral Video of a Child Grieving a Fallen US Service Member Was Generated by AI
A video showing a toddler crying over a flag‑draped coffin went viral, amassing over 1.1 million views before experts identified it as AI‑generated. Digital‑forensics specialists from UC Berkeley, Northwestern and the University of Michigan flagged visual anomalies and confirmed deep‑fake characteristics. The...
The Story of One Failed Digital Transformation
An 18‑month field study of a Chinese construction site shows why digital transformation initiatives often collapse on the frontline. Executives promoted a “Digital Engineering” platform with high‑level storytelling, but mandatory daily data entry added physical workload, causing fatigue, frustration and...
Rewst Launches RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, Making Automation Easier for MSP Teams to Build and Manage
Rewst introduced the RoboRewsty AI Workflow Builder, letting managed service providers (MSPs) craft and edit automation workflows through natural‑language conversation inside the Rewst platform. The AI generates fully configured, ready‑to‑run automations—including triggers, tasks, and code—in minutes, cutting manual build steps....
Hearing Targets Risks to U.S. Infrastructure From Chinese AI and Robotics Systems
On March 17, the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing to assess national‑security threats posed by Chinese artificial‑intelligence, robotics and autonomous‑sensing technologies. Lawmakers focused on firms such as DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics, warning that their systems...
POET and LITEON to Co-Develop Optical Modules for AI Applications
POET Technologies and Taiwan‑based LITEON Technology have announced a strategic partnership to co‑develop optical communication modules for AI‑driven data centers. The collaboration will combine POET’s patented optical interposer platform with LITEON’s optoelectronic and power‑management expertise to produce compact, thermally optimized...
Michael Robbins Testifies Before Congress on Risks of Chinese Robotics and AI
Michael Robbins, CEO of AUVSI, testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee warning that China is executing a state‑backed plan to dominate the global robotics and physical AI market. He argued that massive subsidies enable Chinese firms to flood markets...