HIMSS26 Panel Will Examine AI Tools' 'Attitude'
At HIMSS26, CEO Hal Wolf will host a panel examining AI tools' "attitude." Leaders will discuss why understanding both the data provenance and the designer's identity, values, and goals is critical. The session aims to guide healthcare organizations in evaluating AI transparency and bias. Insights will inform procurement and governance strategies.
Therapists Test an AI Dating Simulator to Help Chronically Single Men Practice Romantic Skills
Researchers at Université du Québec à Montréal piloted an AI‑driven dating simulator called Kindling with 32 chronically single men. Participants engaged in a three‑stage text chat with a virtual partner, Marie, and were debriefed by a therapist. Follow‑up surveys over...
Slang AI and Fishbowl Partner to Power Personalized Guest Experiences
Slang AI has teamed up with restaurant‑focused Guest Relationship Management platform Fishbowl to launch an integration that surfaces guest data at the moment a call comes in. The combined solution instantly identifies repeat callers, streamlines reservation confirmations, and automatically enriches...
Box Pitches 'Virtual Filesystem' Layer for AI Agents
Box unveiled a virtual filesystem layer that lets AI agents interact with enterprise data as if navigating a traditional file hierarchy. The abstraction routes directory prefixes to varied back‑ends—S3, SQLite, local disk, or Box’s own content platform—while preserving versioning, permissions,...
WV Superintendent Tells Congress States Need Flexibility on AI
West Virginia Superintendent Michele Blatt testified before the U.S. House Education Subcommittee, highlighting the state’s flexible, checklist‑style guidance for AI use in K‑12 classrooms. The guidance, first issued in January 2024, has already been revised twice to keep pace with...
AHA Podcast: AI and the Future of Staffing
The American Hospital Association’s latest podcast explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping staffing in health care. Experts discuss AI‑driven workforce analytics, predictive scheduling, and talent acquisition tools that promise to reduce turnover and improve patient outcomes. The conversation also highlights...
3 AI Search Changes Every Marketer Needs A Plan For In Q2 via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
AI‑driven search has moved from a simple visibility problem to a complex measurement and budgeting challenge in Q1 2026. Within weeks, three major AI answer platforms began serving ads directly inside AI‑generated answers, reshaping how content is discovered and monetized....
As AI Agents Transform Digital Advertising, Where’s the Privacy Architecture?
AI agents are automating every stage of digital advertising, from creative generation to media buying, promising massive efficiency gains. However, discussions have largely ignored privacy, leaving consumer data vulnerable as bots make autonomous decisions. The article highlights unanswered questions around...
I Tried Vibe Coding the Same Project Using Different Gemini Models. The Results Were Dramatic
In a hands‑on experiment, Blake Stimac compared Google’s Gemini 3 Pro reasoning model with the lighter Gemini 2.5 Flash (Fast) for a small movie‑listing web app. The Pro model, though slower, generated more complete code, handled API integration automatically, and required fewer manual corrections....
EU Can Rein in AI Agents with EUDI Wallets and Business Wallets: WE BUILD
The WE BUILD consortium urges the EU to adopt a coordinated framework that embeds AI agents within the European Digital Identity (EUDI) and Business Wallet ecosystems. By leveraging verifiable credentials and cryptographic signatures, the proposal aims to secure agentic commerce—transactions...
We Need A Proper AI Inference Benchmark Test
The article argues that the AI inference market urgently needs a unified, price‑performance benchmark suite, similar to the historic TPC benchmarks for databases. It highlights the proliferation of alternative compute engines beyond Nvidia GPUs and the current reliance on fragmented...
This New Claude Code Review Tool Uses AI Agents to Check Your Pull Requests for Bugs - Here's How
Anthropic has launched Claude Code Review, a beta feature that adds AI‑driven agents to automatically analyze pull requests for bugs and security issues. Internal testing shows substantive review comments rose from 16% to 54%, effectively tripling the amount of useful...
Google AI Star Cloudsufi On Building AI Factories And ‘Poison’ Internet Data
Cloudsufi, a Google Cloud Premier partner, is shifting from traditional services to building large‑scale AI and data “factories,” securing multimillion‑dollar contracts. CEO Irfan Khan says each AI factory deal ranges from $5 million to $10 million, and the company posted 70 % sales...
Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics
Qualcomm and Arduino have launched the Arduino Ventuno Q, an AI‑focused single‑board computer built for robotics and edge applications. The board is powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor, featuring an 8‑core ARM Cortex CPU, an Adreno GPU and a Hexagon...
Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge
IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact multilingual speech‑language model aimed at resource‑constrained enterprise devices. The 1‑billion‑parameter model halves the size of its predecessor while delivering higher English transcription accuracy and faster inference via speculative decoding. It adds Japanese ASR and keyword‑list...
AI Spending Trends May Drive Increased Investor Interest in GFLW
Artificial‑intelligence spending is accelerating, and the capital poured into chip makers such as Nvidia is expected to translate into higher revenue streams and, ultimately, stronger free‑cash‑flow generation. Nvidia currently represents roughly 3.1 % of the VictoryShares Free Cash Flow Growth ETF...
Akash Systems Launches AMD-Powered Diamond Cooled AI Servers
Akash Systems has introduced the first AMD‑powered AI servers that use its proprietary diamond‑cooling technology. Each chassis houses eight AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs, two EPYC 9005 CPUs and AMD Pensando AI NICs, and is built by MiTAC Computing. The company secured a...
Unpacking Your Top Questions on Agentic AI: The Shift Podcast
Microsoft has launched the second season of "The Shift" podcast, an eight‑episode series that dives deep into agentic AI across the Azure, Fabric and Foundry stack. The show stems from questions raised at the recent Ignite conference and brings together...
New License Plate Recognition Technology to Streamline Parking at South Bend International Airport
South Bend International Airport will roll out ticketless parking using license‑plate recognition technology from March 4 to March 6, weather permitting. Drivers will scan QR codes, register their plate and payment details, and exit without stopping at a gate. The system supports...
Standardized Data Critical to Scaling AI, Healthcare Benefits
At HIMSS 2026, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer Dan Liljenquist warned that today’s health‑system model cannot survive mounting workforce shortages and rising demand. He urged leaders to treat interoperability and artificial intelligence as strategic engines, not mere technical check‑boxes. Intermountain...
China’s AI Giants Are Handing Out Cash to Lure in Users
Chinese AI giants distributed roughly 8 bn yuan in cash coupons during the Lunar New Year to spur downloads of their latest AI applications. The incentives target users willing to try “agentic” bots that can execute tasks like ordering meals via voice...
Teneo Launches Real-Time Voice Testing
Teneo has unveiled a real‑time voice AI development and testing platform designed to let conversational designers hear and refine how users actually speak. The solution tackles three core challenges: unpredictable user speech, cognitive load in sequential voice interactions, and the...
CallMiner Adds AI Capabilities
CallMiner announced new artificial‑intelligence capabilities that expand its conversation‑intelligence platform with advanced AI classifiers, whole‑contact sentiment analysis, and customizable interaction summaries. The classifiers automatically categorize and visualize multi‑channel, multilingual conversations, while sentiment detection works even with domain‑specific language and short...
AI Broke the College Degree: Why Higher Education Matters More than Ever
Patrick Dempsey, co‑CEO of Pend AI, illustrated AI’s classroom reach during a Feb. 18 keynote, using Gemini AI to generate answers and Bubble AI to assemble a live quiz. He highlighted that students now bring AI agents into lectures, allowing the...
Combining AI and DevOps for Cutting Edge Innovation with Delphix, Redgate, and 3T Software
AI‑assisted tools are now woven into every stage of the DevOps lifecycle, speeding code generation, expanding test coverage, and improving observability. In a recent DBTA webinar, leaders from Delphix, Redgate and 3T Software discussed how AI‑driven automation must be paired...
Hexaware Expands AWS Partnership to Transform Software Engineering
Hexaware Technologies is expanding its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services to deliver AI‑enabled software development lifecycle capabilities. The collaboration builds on the existing Strategic Collaboration Agreement and introduces the RapidX AI‑driven platform and Kiro agentic IDE. Together they aim...
How AI Agents Work for Sales and Revenue Teams
AI agents are reshaping sales and revenue teams by automating research, insight generation, and CRM updates, allowing reps to focus on closing deals. They operate through a perception‑decision‑action‑feedback loop and come in six types, from simple reflex to hierarchical agents....
OpenClaw Forces Enterprise Strategy Questions
OpenClaw, an open‑source AI‑agent framework now under OpenAI, has sparked a wave of personal agents with over 1.5 million built in months. The tool lets non‑developers automate complex tasks—pulling data from SaaS platforms, logging into web apps, or generating code—lowering the...
Codelco and Microsoft Partner on Advanced Analytics and AI
Chile’s state‑owned copper giant Codelco and Microsoft have signed an 18‑month collaboration framework to explore joint initiatives in artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, automation and digital security. The deal builds on more than 27 years of partnership between the two firms. Planned...
How Context Rot Drags Down AI and LLM Results for Enterprises, and How to Fix It
Enterprises deploying AI agents and large language models are increasingly hampered by “context rot,” where stale or conflicting data floods the model’s limited attention window, degrading accuracy and causing hallucinations. As token volumes swell, LLMs exhaust their context budgets, leading...
Razer’s VP of Software Quyen Quach Unveils ‘Fully Agentic’ Version of AI Companion AVA, Which Runs on Cloud and...
Razer announced that its AI companion AVA will become fully agentic, capable of running both on a user’s PC and in the cloud. The new version adds multi‑step task planning, third‑party app integration, and a proprietary inference control plane that...
Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own Art Form
Filmmaker Harmony Korine, famed for Gummo and Spring Breakers, is now championing AI‑generated immersive art. Through a partnership with generative‑AI startup Runway, his studio EDGLRD produced a trippy short set in Miami’s Design District, debuting at Art Basel. Korine describes...
ADvendio Launches Ad Suite for Retailers Featuring AI Agents
ADvendio unveiled Revenue OS for Agentic Advertising, an AI‑driven suite that equips retailers with four specialized agents—AdOne, AdPortal, AdGateway, and AdFinance. The platform combines Salesforce’s reasoning engine with ADvendio’s operational logic to automate campaign planning, sales, data consolidation, and financial...
Former Google Exec Brings AI Data Concepts To Agency Boathouse
Boathouse has appointed Sonia Chung, a former Google, YouTube and Salesforce executive, as its first chief strategy officer. Chung will steer a “collect, connect, and activate” framework to fuse offline and online data, enabling cross‑channel consumer insights. She advocates using...
We’re Data Experts at Ford. Here’s How We See AI Agents Reshaping the Shop Floor.
Ford’s data team outlines how agentic AI is transforming manufacturing. The third wave moves beyond predictive analytics to autonomous agents that make real‑time decisions on the shop floor. Pilot deployments have cut unplanned downtime by up to 40%, reduced defect...
ECRI Releases 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns Highlighting AI, Rural Health, and Workforce Shortages
ECRI released its 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns, placing AI diagnostic dilemmas at #1. The report warns that unchecked AI tools can cause missed or incorrect diagnoses due to automation bias and biased training data. Rural healthcare access ranks...
Safe AI Scaling Key for Healthcare Leaders in 2026
Kyndryl’s Healthcare Readiness Report finds a widening gap between AI ambition and safe, compliant scaling in the sector. While 55% of providers worry about keeping up with evolving regulations, only 30% feel prepared, and 76% have more AI pilots than...
Trust Is Key to Scaling AI Across Government, Senior Advisor for AI at DOT Says
The Department of Transportation is integrating artificial intelligence to boost employee productivity, but senior AI advisor Anil “Neil” Chaudhry warned that trust is essential for scaling the technology across the agency and the broader federal government. Speaking at the ServiceNow...
MDClone Launches ADAMS Copilot, GenAI-Powered Healthcare Data Assistant
MDClone introduced ADAMS Copilot, a generative‑AI‑powered data assistant embedded in its ADAMS platform. The tool lets clinicians, researchers, and operational staff ask natural‑language questions and receive validated analytics, visualizations, and insights without needing data‑engineering expertise. It runs securely behind each...
The Key to Companywide AI Adoption? Empowering Managers, Gartner Says.
Gartner’s latest analysis warns that HR must shift AI‑adoption responsibility to managers, who are already experimenting with the technology at higher rates than rank‑and‑file employees. While nearly 50% of managers reported AI trials, only 26% of employees did, and 14%...
GEMA Vs. Suno: German Court Hears Landmark AI Music Copyright Case
Germany’s collecting society GEMA sued AI music generator Suno, alleging the platform trained on and reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. The Munich court heard oral arguments on March 9 and set a decision date for June 12, 2026. The case follows GEMA’s earlier...
How You Treat an AI Agent Determines the Results You'll Get, Says Professor Taha Yasseri
Professor Taha Yasseri, head of the Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines, warned that the way users treat AI agents determines the quality of outcomes. His research shows that synergy depends more on human attitudes and theory‑of‑mind calibration...
Artificial Intelligence and Careers: Is It Time to Retrain in the Age of AI?
Gen Z hiring in UK construction and trade roles jumped 16.8 % year‑on‑year, reflecting a shift toward perceived AI‑proof blue‑collar jobs. Across the broader workforce, professionals are adopting AI fluency as career insurance, aiming for roles that design, manage, or direct...
ConFoo 2026: Guardrails for Agentic AI, Prompts, and Supply Chains
ConFoo 2026 gathered 800 developers and DevOps professionals in Montreal to discuss practical guardrails for fast‑moving systems such as agentic AI, LLM prompts, and software supply chains. Sessions highlighted the shift from human‑centric authentication to Zero‑Trust models that verify every request,...
Together AI Marks Key Milestones at AI Native Event
Together AI launched its inaugural AI Native Conf, highlighting its AI‑native cloud platform and a suite of new research‑to‑production tools. The company disclosed a 10× year‑over‑year increase in annual contract revenue, including 27 enterprise deals above $1 million and a landmark...
Intero Digital Releases Guide to Help Brands Measure Visibility in AI-Powered Search and Audit GEO Footprint
Intero Digital has launched a strategic guide that helps brands audit and improve their visibility in generative AI search platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. The guide introduces a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) footprint framework, detailing how often...
OpenAI Faces Internal Turbulence as ChatGPT ‘Adult Mode’ Delayed and Hardware Chief Resigns
OpenAI announced another postponement of ChatGPT’s “adult mode,” a feature that would let verified adults access erotica and other age‑restricted content. The company said it is redirecting resources to improve the model’s intelligence, personality, and proactive behavior before releasing the...
Loti AI, Underscore Talent Partner to Defend Creator Likeness in the Age of Deepfakes
Loti AI, a Seattle‑based likeness‑protection startup, announced a partnership with Underscore Talent to shield the agency’s creator roster from deepfake impersonation. Loti’s Watchtower platform scans the internet, uses face and voice recognition, and reports a 95 % takedown success rate within...
OpenAI Responds to Its Robotics Lead Resigning Over ‘Lethal Autonomy’ Concerns in New Pentagon Deal
OpenAI senior robotics engineer Caitlin Kalinowski resigned after the company announced a deal to embed its AI models within U.S. Department of Defense networks. Kalinowski said she left on principle, citing concerns over potential lethal autonomous applications. The move underscores...
Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ Drives Through Railroad Crossing Barriers in Viral Video
A Tesla Model 3 on Full Self‑Driving drove straight through lowered railroad crossing gates in Los Angeles, captured in a viral dash‑cam video posted March 8. The incident coincides with the March 9 deadline for Tesla to provide NHTSA with detailed crash data...