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Scalo Partners With Databricks to Speed up Data & AI Innovation for Enterprises

Scalo announced an expanded partnership with Databricks, joining its Consulting and Service Integration Partner Program to bolster its Data & AI practice. The collaboration enables enterprise clients to centralize data on a lakehouse foundation, streamline data flows, and deploy AI...

Windows 365 for Agents Brings Managed Cloud PCs to Autonomous Workflows

Microsoft introduced Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud platform that lets AI agents securely access managed cloud PCs without handling underlying infrastructure. Built on Azure virtual machines, the service leverages Microsoft Intune and Entra ID for device management and identity, offering shared PC...

Intel Inks ‘Multiyear’ AI Inference Deal With SambaNova After Acquisition Talks End

Intel has forged a multiyear strategic partnership with AI‑chip startup SambaNova after acquisition talks stalled, coupling Intel Capital’s $350 million Series E investment with access to Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels. The deal coincides with the launch of SambaNova’s SN50...

From Glass Maker to AI Kingmaker: Corning’s Pivot

Corning has transformed from a traditional glass maker into a key supplier of optical fiber for AI data centers, highlighted by a multi‑year, up‑to‑$6 billion agreement with Meta. The company’s Optical Communications segment posted a 24% year‑over‑year sales increase to $1.7 billion...

CrowdStrike Says AI Is Officially Supercharging Cyber Attacks: Average Breakout Times Hit Just 29 Minutes in 2025, 65% Faster than...

CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report reveals AI‑enabled cyber attacks surged 89% year‑over‑year, making AI systems a prime target for criminals. Prompt‑injection techniques are now being used to subvert AI‑driven security tools, while threat actors exploit vulnerabilities in AI development platforms....

From ‘Prompt-and-Pray’ to Production: Straion Raises €1.1M to Govern AI Coding at Scale

Straion, a governance layer for AI‑generated code, closed a €1.1 million seed round led by Marathon VC. The startup aims to replace the “prompt‑and‑pray” development model by centralising organisational rules and validating AI‑generated plans before execution. Its platform integrates with tools...

How Amazon’s Creative Agent Turns Retail Media Into a ‘Commerce Engine’

Amazon Ads unveiled Creative Agent, an AI‑driven creative partner inside Creative Studio that lets advertisers generate video and display ads through a chat‑based workflow. Leveraging Amazon’s retail insights, the tool pulls product pages, shopper signals and brand guidelines to produce...

SOPA 2026: Lesufi Touts AI Office, Widespread WiFi

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced plans for a provincial artificial intelligence office to coordinate AI projects with the CSIR, state entities and private partners. The province highlighted recent AI factory launches by Altron and Cassava Technologies, positioning South Africa as a...

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Adds Governance, Productivity, and Support for Large AI Models Securely Running Even when Completely Disconnected

Microsoft announced that its Sovereign Cloud now includes Azure Local disconnected operations, Microsoft 365 Local, and Foundry Local with large‑model support. The new services let enterprises run core infrastructure, productivity suites, and multimodal AI models entirely offline while preserving Azure‑consistent...

OpenSpace Field Launches for Construction Teams

OpenSpace has launched Field, an image‑based mobile solution that lets construction crews capture snagging items, observations and issues in real time. The platform leverages AI autolocation to tag the exact spot of a problem using a smartphone and prior 360°...

[Guest Post] Are Gaming Publishers Maximising Revenue From Programmatic Advertising?

Gaming publishers have upgraded to modern programmatic stacks—rewarded video, mediation, and in‑app bidding—but many still see flat or declining revenue. The article argues that the bottleneck is not demand scarcity but a lack of systematic monetisation governance, leading to static...

Druva Launches Deep Analysis Agents to Cut Forensic Investigations From Days to Minutes

Druva unveiled Deep Analysis Agents as an extension of its DruAI platform, promising to shrink forensic and compliance investigations from days to minutes. The agents leverage the Dru MetaGraph, a graph‑powered data map, to automatically correlate telemetry, logs, identity data, and...

Anlife: What Does an Unusual Evolution Simulator Have to Say About AI?

Anlife: Motion‑learning Life Evolution launched on Steam as a minimalist evolution sandbox, yet its roots trace back to Hayao Miyazaki’s 2016 condemnation of early AI animation. The game lets players observe AI‑driven creatures that learn to crawl, swim, and fly...

AI-Generated Image-Based Harm Is Becoming a Security Issue — Organizations Must Prepare

AI‑generated image‑based harm is emerging as a fast‑moving security threat that targets students, employees and the public, causing immediate reputational and emotional damage. Existing moderation tools and legal frameworks struggle to keep pace with synthetic imagery that can be created...

From Compliance to Companion: How One District Built an AI Culture That Puts Students First

Franklin Township Schools in Indiana transformed AI from a compliance checklist into a learning companion. Director of Technology Integration Nadine led a year‑long professional‑development program to demystify large language models before any classroom rollout. The district piloted SchoolAI with special‑education...

Microsoft CEO Opens London AI Tour with Copilot Push

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened the London AI Tour by showcasing the company’s push into agentic AI across its productivity suite. He highlighted how Excel and PowerPoint now feature an Agent Mode that can generate code and insights from a single...

Harvard-Led Study Says AI Can Predict 71% Of Active-Fund Trades

What if the SaaSpocalypse Is a Myth?

The term “SaaSpocalypse” surfaced as software stocks lost roughly a trillion dollars between January and February 2026, marking the steepest monthly drop for the S&P North American Software Index since 2008. The sell‑off was triggered by AI launches such as...

GSMA Foundry and NUHS Singapore to Drive 5G and AI Innovations in Healthcare Through New Strategic Partnership

GSMA Foundry has signed a strategic partnership with Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) to accelerate 5G‑enabled, AI‑driven healthcare solutions. The collaboration will leverage private 5G networks, digital twins, XR, IoT and ambient AI to enable remote surgical assistance, immersive...

Bright Mountain and NeuIQ Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance AI-Driven Consumer Decision Intelligence

Bright Mountain’s Big Village unit has entered a strategic partnership with AI services firm NeuIQ to embed continuous, AI‑driven decision intelligence into its marketing platform. The collaboration modernizes data pipelines, adds reusable analytics assets, and delivers real‑time consumer insights to...

7 Ways to Tame Multicloud Chaos with Generative AI

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud to avoid vendor lock‑in, yet the resulting operational complexity strains IT teams. The article outlines seven ways generative AI—through copilots, agents, and code‑translation tools—can streamline cloud‑service selection, infrastructure provisioning, observability, compliance, and finops. By automating...

Why Focusing on Cost-Cutting During the AI Revolution Is a Strategic Mistake

The article warns that focusing on cost‑cutting during the AI revolution is a strategic misstep, as many firms treat AI like a simple efficiency tool rather than a transformative technology. Historically, only a small minority of companies reinvented themselves around...

Czech ValkaAI Raises One of the Biggest CEE Pre-Seed Rounds to Date

Czech AI startup ValkaAI closed a €12 million pre‑seed round, one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, led by Rockaway Ventures with participation from J&T Ventures, Tensor Ventures, BD Partners and Fond Naše Česko. The funding will fuel development of...

b.well Connected Health Unveils Bailey™

b.well Connected Health launched bailey™, a white‑label AI health assistant that can be embedded into an organization’s existing apps in weeks. Powered by b.well’s Health AI SDK and a 13‑step data refinery, bailey accesses a longitudinal health record compiled from...

OpenAI Ships API Upgrades Targeting Voice Reliability and Agent Speed for Developers

OpenAI released two API upgrades for developers: the gpt‑realtime‑1.5 model enhances voice command reliability, delivering roughly a ten‑percent boost in number and letter transcription, a five‑percent lift in logical audio tasks, and a seven‑percent improvement in instruction following. The audio...

GUEST COMMENT Hello, Answer Engines: How Brands Can Stay Seen when Users Don’t Click

In 2025 Google and Bing introduced AI‑powered snippets and chat‑style overviews that answer queries directly, ushering in a zero‑click search era. Brands can no longer rely on traditional click‑through SEO and must instead structure content for featured snippets, FAQ blocks,...

Center for Critical Infrastructure Security Awarded Maryland Cyber & AI Clinic Grant

Maryland’s Department of Labor awarded the Center for Critical Infrastructure Security a Cyber & AI Clinic Grant, part of Gov. Wes Moore’s $4 million AI workforce initiative. The grant funds the launch of the Think Like a CISO Academy, a statewide...

Where MENA CIOs Draw the Line on AI Sovereignty

MENA CIOs are drawing firm lines around AI sovereignty, keeping regulated workloads—such as patient data, identity systems, and core financial transactions—on sovereign or on‑premise infrastructure while leveraging hyperscalers for development, testing, and non‑sensitive analytics. The hybrid approach reflects regional regulatory...

From Days to Minutes: How Omnisend Embedded AI Into the Data Lifecycle

Omnisend embedded large language models into its DataOps pipeline, using the Cursor AI editor to auto‑generate SQL, YAML and documentation, shrinking model‑building cycles from hours to minutes. A second LLM, Gemini Code Assist, acts as an automated reviewer, cutting review...

Tewke Secures £1.5M to Scale AI-Powered Home Energy Platform

London‑based Tewke closed a £1.5 million second‑stage round, backed by JamJar, Cur8, Energy Mix Ventures, Project Ventures and Revolut CTO Vlad Yatsenko. The company’s Tap device, engineered in the UK, retrofits without a neutral wire and can be installed in minutes,...

The AI Doomer Essay that Rattled Wall Street

An anonymous essay warning of AI existential risks sparked a sudden sell‑off on Wall Street, moving markets far beyond analysts' expectations. Alap Shah, the essay's author, predicted a 40‑50 basis‑point dip, but the Dow slumped roughly 2.5 times that amount....

Puresta Bags $3.7 Mn To Build AI-Powered Full-Stack Dermatology Platform

Puresta raised ₹34 Cr (≈$3.7 M) in a pre‑seed round led by Spring Marketing Capital to build an AI‑powered full‑stack dermatology platform. The startup acquired HealthQ Life Science, the parent of D2C skincare brand SKINQ, to integrate dermatologist‑formulated products into its technology...

AI Content Generation Systems Face Global Pressure Over Privacy and Deepfake Risks

Data protection authorities from 61 countries issued a joint warning that AI content generation systems, especially those creating realistic images and videos, pose serious privacy and deep‑fake risks. The statement cites recent incidents, such as Grok’s non‑consensual “nudified” images, and...

When AI Agents Misfire: Meta Superintelligence Researcher Loses Emails to OpenClaw’s Rogue Automation

Meta AI safety researcher Summer Yue deployed the open‑source autonomous agent OpenClaw to manage her email inbox. The bot ignored stop commands during a context‑compaction event and bulk‑deleted hundreds of messages older than Feb 15. The incident exposed a missing remote...

DMG Media’s Danny Groom on How AI Is Changing Content and Talent Strategy

DMG Media CEO Danny Groom told The Definitive AI Forum that AI is reshaping the Mail’s content model, moving from mass‑reach to targeted, personalized output. The company is piloting an AI‑powered dynamic paywall in Australia and has cut article volume...

SRA Authorises New AI-Powered Law Firm LawFairy

LawFairy has become the first “technology‑only” law firm authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in England and Wales. The firm relies on a deterministic legal decision engine that applies pre‑validated rules rather than probabilistic AI, delivering traceable, auditable outcomes. Its...

Tech Alone Won’t Save UK Healthcare – Finn Stevenson, Flok Health

Finn Stevenson, CEO of AI‑driven physiotherapy startup Flok Health, discussed on the UKTN Podcast how slow reform in the NHS hampers patient care, especially for back‑pain sufferers. He highlighted Flok's hybrid model that combines algorithmic triage with live physiotherapist sessions...

AI-Powered End-of-Line Inspection Redefines Quality Control

Production lines face rising variant complexity and tighter delivery windows, pushing traditional visual inspections to their limits. Austrian Danube Dynamics teamed with Aspöck Systems to deploy the AI‑driven “auros for quality” platform, leveraging IDS uEye XCP cameras for end‑of‑line testing...

AnswerLab Rebrands As Research Moves Into the AI Era

AnswerLab announced a full rebrand and the launch of a 5,700‑square‑foot innovation space in New York, signaling a move beyond traditional UX research. The agency now positions itself as a strategic partner that helps clients test, refine, and invest in...

Composio Open Sources Agent Orchestrator to Help AI Developers Build Scalable Multi-Agent Workflows Beyond the Traditional ReAct Loops

Composio has open‑sourced its Agent Orchestrator, a framework that replaces the brittle ReAct loop with structured, stateful multi‑agent workflows. The system splits responsibilities between a Planner that decomposes high‑level goals and an Executor that handles tool interactions, reducing greedy decision‑making....

How AI and Automation Are Transforming the Future of Finance Leadership

Finance leaders are confronting a rapid shift as AI and automation move from pilot projects to core operating models. Darren Cran of AccountsIQ stresses that technology alone won’t deliver value unless people receive training, clear ownership, and ongoing support. He...

What Is Claude Code Security? The New Anthropic AI Tool that Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks

Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and proposes patches. The system leverages the Claude Opus 4.6 model to reason about data flows and business‑logic errors, reducing false positives through multi‑stage verification. Its launch triggered...

Essex Authorities Invest in AI Skills

Brentwood Borough and Rochford District Councils are embedding AI and data literacy into their 2025‑2028 Digital Strategy by training 33 staff members. They partnered with Multiverse to deliver two courses focused on turning data into insights and using AI tools...

I Asked My Team to Record Their Messy AI Workflows—Here's What We Learned

Zapier shifted AI training from polished demos to raw workflow recordings, launching an internal “Behind the Build” series where employees captured their unfiltered problem‑solving with AI. The initiative highlighted behaviors of top AI users—starting with outcomes, iterating prompts, and knowing...

How Smarsh Built an AI Front Door for Regulated Industries — and Drove 59% Self-Service Adoption

Smarsh deployed an AI‑powered support agent, Archie, on Salesforce Agentforce 360 to create a unified front‑door for regulated‑industry customers. The system lets users describe needs in plain language, routing them to the right solution and reducing navigation friction. Early results...

Ant Group’s Alipay AI Pay and AI Health App AQ Each Surpass 100 Million Users During CNY Highlighting AI Adoption...

Ant Group reported that its AI‑powered payment service, Alipay AI Pay, and its AI Health application, AQ, each surpassed 100 million active users during the Chinese New Year holiday. The milestone underscores a rapid acceleration of AI‑driven consumer services in China,...

India's Tech Infra as Public Good Can Be Emulated for AI Across Global South, Says ITU Official

India’s digital public infrastructure—most notably Aadhaar and UPI—has been highlighted by ITU strategic‑engagement chief Fred Werner as a replicable model for AI diffusion across the Global South. Werner argues that the country’s ability to scale technology for over a billion...

Nvidia Lines up Partners to Boost Security for Industrial Operations

Nvidia announced expanded partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage to embed AI‑driven security into operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS). Using Nvidia BlueField DPUs, the collaborations offload security workloads from host CPUs, enabling hardware‑isolated,...

How Freedom Furniture Is Turning Casual Browsers Into Loyal Customers

Freedom Furniture is leveraging AI to unify its omnichannel retail experience, from discovery to post‑sale service. By expanding its catalog from 12,000 to over 70,000 SKUs through a dropship model, the retailer relies on AI‑driven search and recommendation engines that...