Horizon Media Pilots AI Solution to Detect Cultural Shifts Mid-Campaign
Advertising agency Horizon Media has begun piloting an AI solution jointly developed by marketing‑intelligence firm Sightly and AI‑research company Vurvey Labs. The platform merges Vurvey’s real‑time human sentiment model with Sightly’s cultural and contextual media data, allowing agencies to spot and react to cultural shifts while campaigns are live. Early tests within the HorizonOS partner ecosystem aim to adjust media placements on the fly, a capability also being explored by Dentsu’s Carat. The move reflects growing pressure on agencies to translate AI experiments into measurable performance gains.

The Former Coal Miner in the Middle of the A.I. Data Center Boom
Josh Payne, a former Australian coal miner, founded Nscale, a data‑center firm that now powers AI workloads for Microsoft, OpenAI and ByteDance. Leveraging his background in renewable energy and crypto mining, Nscale secured critical electricity and semiconductor supply chains just...

Picsart Unveils AI Playground, Providing Access to Over 90 AI Models Within One Unified Prompt
Picsart has launched AI Playground, a unified hub that bundles more than 90 AI models from 24 providers into a single prompt interface. The platform replaces the need for multiple, often idle, annual subscriptions that can exceed $3,300 by offering...

HPE and STRACON Tech Adding AI to Their Strategic Alliance
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and STRACON Tech have deepened their strategic alliance to embed artificial intelligence across mining operations. HPE will deliver its Private Cloud AI platform, powered by NVIDIA and offered through the GreenLake consumption model, enabling on‑premise model development...

Whatfix Introduces AI Roleplay Training in Mirror, the only Platform Combining Adaptive AI Conversations with Real System Simulations
Whatfix has launched AI Roleplay training within its Mirror platform, merging adaptive AI‑driven conversations with high‑fidelity enterprise system simulations. The addition turns Mirror into an AI‑first training environment where customer‑facing teams can rehearse both dialogue and workflow without risk. Since...

JetBrains Previews Air, an Agentic Development Environment
JetBrains has launched a public preview of Air, an agentic development environment that centralizes AI coding agents within its IDEs. Air lets developers assign tasks by referencing specific code symbols, giving agents precise context instead of raw text. It supports...

Alteryx Accelerates Its Next Phase of Growth with AI-Ready Data and Automation at Enterprise Scale
Alteryx announced it has crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and now powers over 380 million automated workflows each year through its Alteryx One platform. The company positions the solution as an AI‑ready data foundation that delivers governed, repeatable workflows for...

Revefi Launches AI and Agentic Observability for Enterprise LLM and Agent Workflows
Revefi unveiled AI Observability and Agentic Observability, extending its platform to monitor enterprise LLM and AI‑agent deployments. The tools provide cost attribution, benchmarking, latency, failure‑rate tracking, and end‑to‑end traceability across OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and Vertex AI. Launched at...

Prismforce Announces Agent-Based Talent Supply Chain Solution Built on the ServiceNow AI Platform
Prismforce unveiled an agent‑based talent supply‑chain solution built on the ServiceNow AI Platform, embedding domain‑specific AI agents into ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, Talent Development and Talent Acquisition dashboards. The offering, available on the ServiceNow Store, lets enterprises execute skill‑based workforce...
Rhea Chakraborty Introduces AI Avatar ‘Mishty’ in Collaboration with Collective Artists Network
Indian actress and entrepreneur Rhea Chakraborty launched Mishty, an AI‑powered digital avatar created with Collective Artists Network’s Galleri5 studio. The avatar replicates her likeness, voice, and gestures, enabling real‑time interactive storytelling aligned with her Chapter 2 “Smash the Patriarchy” collection. Developed...
Moving AI Apps From Prototype to Production Requires Enterprise-Grade Postgres Infrastructure
AI adoption surged to 78% of organizations in 2024, yet most initiatives remain prototypes. A new Apptio survey shows 90% of tech leaders can’t measure AI ROI, highlighting the gap between experimentation and production. Traditional databases lack vector search and...
Bison Bank Integrates Elliptic’s AI Analytics to Supercharge Digital Asset Compliance
Lisbon‑based Bison Bank has partnered with blockchain analytics leader Elliptic to embed the firm’s AI‑powered “copilot” into its digital‑asset subsidiary, Bison Digital Assets. The integration enables real‑time monitoring of more than 1,000 crypto tokens and automates data collection, fund‑flow analysis,...

Let OpenAI Pick the Stocks While You Reap the Benefits
Sterling Stock Picker (SSP) is an AI‑driven investment platform that uses an OpenAI‑powered coach named Finley to generate personalized stock recommendations. New users can secure lifetime access for $55.19 with the SAVE20 code, a steep discount from the regular $486...

The Download: Murky AI Surveillance Laws, and the White House Cracks Down on Defiant Labs
The White House has rolled out stricter AI guidelines, demanding that developers permit any lawful use of their models, a move prompted by the heated Pentagon‑Anthropic dispute. The Department of Defense’s contract with Anthropic has revived unanswered questions about whether...

Studies Reveal AI Citation Clues
Two independent studies examined how generative‑AI platforms cite source content. Kevin Indig analyzed 1.2 million ChatGPT results, finding only 1.5 citations per query, while Daniel Shashko’s research across six tools showed Grok delivering 33 citations per query. Both studies reveal that...
Why Stitch Fix Is Doubling Down on Human Stylists as AI Gets Better
Stitch Fix is reinforcing its human‑stylist model even as generative AI matures, unveiling the AI‑driven "Stitch Fix Vision" that creates personalized, shoppable outfit images from client selfies. The platform’s autonomous quality checks and sharing features have lifted repeat purchase rates...
AI Data Transformation Layer Introduced to Eliminate Manual ERP
SageX unveiled an AI‑powered data transformation layer that automates purchase order and invoice processing, routing unstructured content from email inboxes directly into ERP systems. The solution slashes processing time from 45 minutes to under one minute and cuts per‑document costs...

AI’s Mission Evolves as Adoptions Spreads
A recent Ellucian survey of 779 college administrators shows AI is becoming mainstream in higher education, with two‑thirds reporting implementation across business units and 43% embedding AI in strategic plans. Over 60% of institutions are already funding AI projects, primarily...

WellSpan Health Launches 24/7, AI-Powered Robotic Kitchen with RoboEatz and ABB Robotics
WellSpan Health has opened “Fresh Take Eatery,” a 24/7 AI‑powered robotic kitchen at its York Hospital. The system uses RoboEatz’s Autonomous Robotic Kitchen (ARK) platform with ABB Robotics’ articulated arms, occupying just 400 sq ft. It runs four cooking modules, stores up...

Natus Launches autoSCORE AI for EEG Analysis
Natus Medical has launched autoSCORE™, the first AI model that delivers comprehensive clinical EEG interpretations with accuracy comparable to top neurologists. The deep‑learning tool, trained on 30,000 expertly labeled recordings, received FDA 510(k) clearance for routine, long‑term monitoring and ambulatory...
The Malleable Mind: Context Accumulation Drives LLM’s Belief Drift
Researchers demonstrate that large language models (LLMs) experience measurable belief drift when they accumulate context over long interactions, even without adversarial prompts or weight updates. Experiments with Grok‑4 and other high‑capacity models show that exposure to conservative or progressive texts...

OpenAI Employees Hint at a New Omni Model
OpenAI employees have hinted that the company is developing a new multimodal, or “omni,” model that could succeed GPT‑4o. Internal posts from Atty Eleti and researcher Brandon McKinzie sparked speculation about a next‑generation system capable of handling text, image, audio, and video...

Smartria Launches AI-Powered SmartReview and SmartAssist, Showcases New Capabilities at Future Proof Citywide
Compliance platform Smartria unveiled two AI‑powered tools, SmartReview and SmartAssist, integrated into its cloud solution for registered investment advisors and broker‑dealers. SmartReview automatically screens marketing materials for potential regulatory breaches, while SmartAssist provides a chatbot that answers SEC and FINRA...

Best AI Presentation Maker (2026): Prezi Named AI-Driven Tool for Faster Slide Creation by Expert Consumers
Expert Consumers has crowned Prezi the Best AI Presentation Maker for 2026, highlighting its ability to turn simple prompts or uploaded documents into polished slide decks within seconds. The platform’s AI engine not only generates content but also applies professional‑grade...
A Noble Pursuit: A Long-Time AI-in-Biotech Skeptic Takes Another Look
Tim Harris, a veteran biotech investor, revisits his skepticism about artificial intelligence in drug discovery, noting the surge of AI‑focused startups and sizable funding rounds. He outlines how AI is being applied to molecular dynamics, protein‑protein interaction prediction, and antibody...

Coredge Selects Lightbits to Power AI Cloud Services Infrastructure
Lightbits Labs announced that Coredge, a cloud solutions provider recently acquired by Sirius Digitech, will use Lightbits’ software‑defined storage to power its next‑generation AI cloud services. The partnership targets a multi‑petabyte, cloud‑native infrastructure rollout in India, replacing legacy SANs with...

Anglo’s New AI Centre of Excellence to Drive Safe & Responsible AI Adoption
Anglo American’s 2025 annual report announces the creation of an AI Centre of Excellence to steer safe, responsible AI adoption across its mining operations. The AI CoE will govern risk, ethics and compliance while supporting generative‑AI projects that deliver clear...

How AI Is Boosting Gender Equality In High Performance Racing
Formula E and Google Cloud are co‑creating an AI‑driven Driver Agent that delivers real‑time performance feedback and personalized coaching to racers. The tool, built on Vertex AI and the Gemini large language model, aims to democratize data‑rich analytics that have traditionally been...

MiTwell, MediaTek, and RGo Robotics Unveil Infrastructure-Free Visual RTLS Platform to Power the Next Generation of Physical AI
MiTwell, MediaTek and RGo Robotics have launched an infrastructure‑free visual real‑time localization system (RTLS) for industrial automation. The platform combines MediaTek’s Genio 720 edge AI processor, RGo’s computer‑vision localization software, and MiTwell’s rugged industrial edge hardware. It enables forklifts, mobile robots,...
MIPS and INOVA Collaborate to Put Physical AI Into the Palm of Robotic Hands with New Reference Platform
MIPS, a GlobalFoundries subsidiary, teamed with Inova Semiconductors to unveil a reference Physical AI system‑on‑chip for robotics. The custom SoC merges MIPS Atlas RISC‑V compute, AI, and mixed‑signal IP with Inova’s APXpress high‑speed interconnect, fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ ultra‑low‑power FDX process....
Shenzhen District Backs OpenClaw Boom Despite Growing Security Concerns
Shenzhen’s Longgang district unveiled draft measures to nurture an OpenClaw‑focused AI ecosystem, pledging subsidies of up to 10 million yuan, free computing power, and discounted office space for solo entrepreneurs. OpenClaw, an open‑source AI assistant that can link to models from...

Guidance: Complying with Consumer Law when Using AI Agents
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued guidance on using agentic AI while complying with consumer protection law. AI agents can streamline customer engagement and refund processing, but businesses remain liable for any illegal actions the agents take....
Dataiku Launches the Platform for AI Success
Dataiku unveiled its Platform for AI Success, an independent orchestration layer that unifies data, models, agents and enterprise systems. The suite introduces three first‑to‑market products—Agent Management, Cobuild and Reasoning Systems—designed to govern AI, generate pipelines from natural language, and coordinate...

DFI to Showcase Edge AI Platforms, Powered by Intel, for Robotic Automation and Industrial Applications at Embedded World 2026
DFI will showcase its new edge AI platforms, co‑developed with Intel, at Embedded World 2026. The portfolio includes the PTH9HM COM‑HPC Mini module for defense and unmanned systems, offering real‑time 8K vision and AI inference, and the PTH171/173 Mini‑ITX motherboards...

AI-Based Cybersecurity Monitoring
AI‑based cybersecurity monitoring leverages machine learning and behavioral analytics to analyze massive streams of telemetry across networks, endpoints, cloud services, and identities. By learning normal activity patterns, these platforms flag anomalies, correlate events, and prioritize alerts, dramatically reducing false positives...
Hamachi.ai Integrates With Fynancial to Deliver AI-Driven Household Intelligence and Compliant Advisor Workflows
Hamachi.ai announced a deep integration with Fynancial, embedding its regulatory‑first AI orchestration layer into the digital client‑experience platform. The connection pulls household‑level data—relationships, goals, life events—and generates compliant, context‑aware communications and next‑best‑action recommendations. Advisor‑approved outputs flow back into the Fynancial...
Jump Expands AI Operating System for Advisors With New Products Powering Growth and Operations
Jump announced an AI Operating System for Advisors, bundling three new products—Meet, Grow and Operate—on a unified data and orchestration platform. The suite transforms meetings, emails and documents into structured, compliance‑ready intelligence and automates workflows across the client lifecycle. Over...

AIMomentz Launches Open AI Image Evaluation Platform With Human Preference Benchmark and Provenance Tracking
AIMomentz has launched an open platform that benchmarks AI image generators by pitting commercial models such as OpenAI’s GPT‑4o, xAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini against each other in real‑time human‑voted A/B battles. Each evaluation, including safety refusals, is logged in...

Claude Is Much Better at Calling Bull on Nonsense Prompts
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus now push back against nonsensical prompts, rejecting them over 70% and eventually more than 90% of the time. A benchmark shows pre‑Q3‑2025 LLMs accepted such prompts at least 50% of the time. Competing models...
Mindbreeze Recognized in KMWorld’s 2026 100 Companies to Watch in Knowledge Management
Mindbreeze, a global AI‑based knowledge‑management vendor, has been named to KMWorld’s 2026 100 Companies to Watch. The list spotlights firms that are shaping enterprise knowledge and artificial‑intelligence strategies. KMWorld’s editor‑in‑chief highlighted Mindbreeze’s agility in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. The accolade...

Atlas Rolls Out Multi-Agent AI System to Automate Game Asset Production
Atlas has launched a multi‑agent AI system within its AI Studio, now available globally on Google Cloud Marketplace. The platform lets developers generate 2D, 3D, textures, environments and full game worlds using natural‑language prompts, while fleets of specialized agents handle...
ABB Robotics Partners with NVIDIA to Deliver Industrial-Grade Physical AI at Scale
ABB Robotics announced the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into its RobotStudio platform, creating the RobotStudio HyperReality solution that delivers physically accurate digital twins and synthetic‑data generation. The partnership claims up to 99% simulation‑to‑real accuracy, reducing robot positioning errors to...
With a Shift to Bot Shopping, Retailers Must Redesign for AI
Retailers are confronting a surge of AI‑powered bot shoppers that can locate deals, compare specs and complete purchases in milliseconds. Bots ignore visual design and focus on clean, structured product data, transparent pricing and fast search results. To stay visible,...

Telecoms Should Prepare to Face the Anthropic Dilemma
Telecoms are gearing up for 6G features that enable pervasive environmental sensing and autonomous robotics control. These capabilities have attracted interest from US military and intelligence agencies, echoing the recent clash between Anthropic and the US government over the Claude...

SaaS Application Testing: From Traditional Methods to AI-Powered QA
SaaS firms are racing to ship features faster, but legacy testing can’t keep up with the complexity of modern, AI‑enhanced platforms. Traditional manual and scripted automation struggle with multi‑tenant, integration‑heavy environments, leading to backlogs and production bugs. AI‑powered QA introduces...

Leverage Launches AI Workforce Productivity Platform to Help Employees Find Information and Work Faster
Leverage announced an AI‑powered workforce productivity platform that links information across an organization’s existing applications and data sources. The solution lets employees ask natural‑language questions and receive answers, summaries, and automated outputs drawn from emails, documents, CRM, chats and more....

Agentic Hospitality’s Brad Brewer to Speak at First-Ever ‘Destination AI Virtual Conference’ on the AI Distribution Shift
Brad Brewer, Co‑Founder and Chief AI Officer of Agentic Hospitality, will speak at the inaugural Destination AI Virtual Conference on March 13, 2026. The session, "How AI Channels Will Drive Hotel Revenue in the Next 3 to 5 Years," warns...
AI in the Supply Chain: Building Intelligent, Adaptive, and Resilient Logistics Systems
ARC Advisory Group’s new white paper and webinar detail how artificial intelligence is evolving into the foundational operating layer of modern supply chains. The research outlines four structural shifts—AI‑augmented ERP/WMS/TMS, agent‑to‑agent coordination, context‑aware decision frameworks, and graph‑based network intelligence—that enable...

OneTrust Expands Platform with Real-Time AI Governance and Agent Oversight Capabilities
OneTrust announced new real‑time AI governance capabilities that extend its platform from static compliance checks to continuous monitoring and enforcement. The suite adds AI agent detection, automated inventory, a policy manager with pre‑built standards‑aligned policies, and runtime guardrail enforcement for...

The Real-Time Data Problem with LLMs
Generative AI models struggle with up-to-date information because they rely on static training data. SerpApi addresses this gap by offering an API that scrapes over 100 search engines and returns structured JSON results, which LLMs can consume for real‑time answers....