Press Release: SkySelect Raises $9m to Fix Aviation’s $11bn Supply Chain Crisis with AI Procurement
SkySelect announced a $9 million funding round to scale its AI‑powered aviation procurement platform, aiming to alleviate the $11 billion supply‑chain crisis highlighted by IATA. Airlines spend $60 billion annually on parts, yet manual processes generate $50 billion in excess inventory and grounding delays. The platform matches part requests with optimal suppliers in real time, cutting cycle times from days to hours and automating up to 70 percent of purchases, having processed $6 billion in transactions, $1.3 billion in 2025 alone. Investors include Verb Ventures, RockCreek, Bain Capital Ventures and Lux Capital.
Canada’s Able Innovations Deploys Robotic System That Transfers Patients Between Beds at US Hospital
Able Innovations has installed its ALTA Platform robotic patient‑transfer system at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, marking the first U.S. deployment of the technology. The system automates lateral moves between beds, imaging tables, stretchers and operating‑room tables, allowing a single...
When AI Challenges Strategy
Artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate strategy, turning static roadmaps into dynamic, real‑time plans. Executives face heightened volatility as AI accelerates decision cycles and market signals shift faster than traditional forecasts. In a candid HBR interview, chief strategy officers from Penske...
Altera Advances FPGA-Based Physical AI for Robotics and Edge Applications
Altera showcased its Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGA families at Embedded World, highlighting a unified sensor‑to‑actuator architecture for physical AI in robotics, industrial vision, and edge devices. Live demos demonstrated high‑definition camera fusion, medical imaging preprocessing, and deterministic low‑latency robotic control....
Canada, Brazil Launch AI Push to Find Nickel Deposits
Canada and Brazil have signed a technical cooperation agreement to apply artificial intelligence to nickel exploration. The Geological Survey of Canada and Brazil’s Geological Survey will merge geology, geochemistry, geophysics and remote‑sensing data into a shared AI‑driven modelling platform. Initial...
From One Image to 3D: Beginner Demand Drives Attention Toward AI Modeling Platforms
Math Magic’s Hitem3D v2.0 launches as an AI‑driven platform that turns a single photograph into a production‑ready 3D model within minutes. The upgrade adds high‑resolution 1536³ texture output and structure‑aware synthesis to improve mesh stability and reduce post‑processing. By simplifying the...
The Survival of the Scarcest: Why AI Favours the Premium Publisher
AI is reshaping digital publishing by replacing the traditional search‑driven model with an answer‑focused economy. Premium publishers stand to gain as users shift from utility‑mode queries to trust‑mode consumption, where source credibility matters. The emergence of agentic media buying will...
Macquarie Uni's AI Chief Heads to La Trobe
La Trobe University has appointed Phil Laufenberg, formerly Macquarie University’s head of AI, as its inaugural Pro Vice‑Chancellor (Artificial Intelligence) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. The dual role, the first of its kind in Australia’s higher‑education sector, is central to La Trobe’s...
Pentagon Vendor Cutoff Exposes the AI Dependency Map Most Enterprises Never Built
The Pentagon’s six‑month ban on Anthropic’s Claude has exposed a blind spot in enterprise AI risk management: most firms cannot map the full chain of AI model dependencies. A Panorays survey shows only 15% of CISOs have complete visibility, while...
Oracle AI Database 26ai: Practical Features
Oracle introduced the AI Database 26ai, a new release that adds automatic transaction rollback, real‑time SQL plan management, and built‑in AI vector search. The platform promises more stable performance under unpredictable workloads, faster data ingestion, and a self‑managed in‑memory cache...
High-Touch, High-Tech: Revieve’s Beauty & Wellness Index 2025 Signals a New Era of Guided Beauty Commerce
Revieve released its Beauty & Wellness Index 2025, showing guided diagnostics now initiate 60‑75 % of beauty journeys and deliver two‑to‑three‑fold higher completion rates. The data, drawn from millions of AI‑driven skin analyses, quizzes and virtual try‑ons, highlights longer engagement, especially in...
One Startup’s Pitch to Provide More Reliable AI Answers: Crowdsource the Chatbots
CollectivIQ, a Boston‑based spin‑out of Buyers Edge Platform, launched a multi‑model AI answer engine that queries up to ten large language models—including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok—simultaneously to deliver fused, more accurate responses for enterprises. The platform encrypts prompts and...
How Can Predictive Operations Transform Airport Management?
Heathrow Airport has appointed Netcompany as its primary digital operations partner, deploying the AIRHART Airport Operations Orchestration Platform. The solution promises real‑time situational awareness, AI‑driven decision support and predictive planning for the hub’s 80 million annual passengers. By consolidating airline, ground...
Softbank Robotics America Introduces New AI-Enabled Commercial Cleaning Robots
SoftBank Robotics America unveiled three AI‑enabled commercial cleaning robots—Omnie, V40 2.0, and Phantas 1.3—developed with Gausium. The machines combine computer vision, vision‑language models, and 3D LiDAR to navigate complex indoor environments with minimal human input. Targeted at airports, retail hubs, senior living...
KT and Rohde & Schwarz to Showcase AI-Enhanced Radio Transmission Performance
KT, Qualcomm, and Rohde & Schwarz showcased a 6G AI proof‑of‑concept at MWC Barcelona 2026, using the CMX500 one‑box tester to demonstrate AI‑enhanced radio transmission. The AI‑enabled prototype achieved roughly a 50 % increase in downlink throughput compared with conventional methods,...
Siemens Delivers Verified AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solution for Industrial 5G with Palo Alto Networks
Siemens announced a verified AI‑driven cybersecurity solution for private industrial 5G networks, developed with Palo Alto Networks. The offering integrates Siemens’ private 5G infrastructure, the SINEC Security Monitor, and Palo Alto’s next‑generation firewall optimized for OT protocols, delivering IEC 62443‑grade protection...
Wiss Expands NetSuite Automation Capabilities
Wiss announced its new status as a Certified Netgain Implementation Partner, giving it the authority to deploy Netgain’s native NetSuite add‑ons directly within client ERP environments. The partnership enables Wiss to embed automation across critical accounting workflows such as fixed‑asset...
Frictionless Self-Serve Market Launched At Co-Op Live
Co‑op Live in Manchester has opened Europe’s first AI‑driven, frictionless self‑serve market, built with Oak View Group, AiFi and Boxbar Tech. Shoppers tap a cashless card, pick items, and leave while computer‑vision cameras track each purchase. The system is designed...
The New Coaching Stack: A 3-Tier Model for AI and Human Coaching
Traditional one‑on‑one coaching drives manager performance but is expensive and limited in reach. Vendors propose an AI‑augmented coaching stack that layers self‑service AI tools, AI‑supported human sessions, and pure human coaching. This three‑tier model promises scalable, personalized development while preserving...
Sunseeker Launches New Self-Driving-Level Robot Mower
Sunseeker Robotics is set to launch the S4 robotic mower on March 3, 2026, a wire‑free system that uses LiDAR and AI‑vision to autonomously tend residential lawns up to 1,000 square meters. The mower maps terrain in real time, avoids...
Raycast’s Glaze Is an All-in-One Vibe Coding App Platform
Raycast has introduced Glaze, an AI‑driven vibe‑coding platform that lets users create tiny Mac apps by typing a single prompt. Powered by Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, Glaze generates, deploys, and packages utilities in one go, then lists them in...
ChatGPT's GPT-5.3 Instant May Show Fewer Links In Web Search Results
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5.3 Instant, promising more accurate, context‑rich answers while deliberately showing fewer web links. The model blends its internal knowledge with live web data, aiming to reduce dead‑ends and overly declarative phrasing. By surfacing the most relevant information up front,...
Homegrown AI: Mongolia’s Blueprint for Developing Nations
Mongolia’s AI ecosystem grew from a series of societal pain points—missing typing support, inadequate dictionaries, and unreliable speech transcription—to a fully sovereign language platform that now delivers 97% speech‑recognition accuracy. The initiative leveraged the Mongolian diaspora, turning brain‑drain into a...
China's Xiaomi Tells CNBC It's Planning a Yearly Smartphone Chip Release and Its Own AI Assistant for Overseas
Xiaomi announced it will roll out a new XRing smartphone processor each year, starting with the 3‑nanometer XRing O1. The company will combine this custom SoC, its HyperOS operating system, and a new AI assistant into a single device for...
Claude Outage Highlights HR’s Growing AI Risks
Anthropic’s Claude overtook ChatGPT as the most‑downloaded free AI app in the United States over the weekend. The sudden surge in user demand forced the service offline for several hours on both Monday and Tuesday. The outage highlighted how quickly...
Descartes Expands AI Innovation on Global Logistics Network with AI Agents for Freight Visibility
Descartes Systems Group has launched OpsForce, an AI‑driven agent suite on its Global Logistics Network (GLN) to automate freight‑visibility workflows. Leveraging real‑time, clean data, the agents engage drivers, manage exceptions, and capture documentation for shippers, brokers, carriers and logistics providers....
AI Agent ‘Fleets’ Could Transform Hedge Fund Research, Says Avala Global Founder
Avala Global founder Divya Nettimi told Bloomberg Invest that hedge funds could soon deploy fleets of AI agents to multiply research capacity. In three to five years, bots might monitor data across hundreds of stocks, letting analysts expand coverage from...
Now Xbox Has Also Patented ‘Help Sessions’ that Play Your Game for You when You’re Stuck
Microsoft has been granted a set of patents describing AI‑driven “help sessions” that can take over a player’s controls when they become stuck. The system uses machine‑learning to detect difficulty, prompts the user, and then hands control to either a...
How 4 Restaurant Chains Are Using AI Today
At Olo’s Beyond4 conference, leading restaurant chains demonstrated that artificial intelligence has moved from speculative hype to everyday operations. Krispy Kreme is testing AI agents for contract management, while Nekter Juice Bar uses bots for SEO, social media, and an...
Intersection Of Biosecurity And AI Sees Seed-Stage Spike
Seed‑stage investors are betting on the convergence of artificial intelligence and biosecurity, with two startups raising sizable early rounds. Valthos closed a $30 million seed round and Red Queen Bio secured $15 million, both counting OpenAI among investors. A nonprofit, SecureBio, also...
Which Is The Best AI For Medical Questions? Here’s The Winner
A Stanford‑Harvard NOHARM study evaluated 31 AI systems on 100 real‑world physician consult cases, finding that AMBOSS LiSA 1.0 topped the leaderboard with a 62.3% match to expert‑approved actions. While the leading models outperformed board‑certified internists by over 15 points, all AIs...
RegTech Firm Vivox AI Secures £1.3m Funding
RegTech startup Vivox AI announced a £1.3 million first‑round funding to scale its compliance‑focused AI platform for banks and other regulated financial institutions. The round attracted high‑profile backers such as former German central bank president Axel Weber, former Google UK MD...
AI in Schools: What 1,000 Districts Reveal About Readiness and Risk
A new Education Week webinar highlights data from more than 1,000 U.S. school districts that track real‑time student interactions with artificial intelligence. The findings show widespread AI tool usage across curricula, reveal emerging safety and wellness signals, and challenge the...
VoidLink Malware Framework Targets Kubernetes and AI Workloads in New Cyber Attack Wave
VoidLink is a new Linux‑based malware framework that specifically targets Kubernetes clusters and AI workloads, using fileless, in‑memory techniques to remain invisible. The framework fingerprints cloud environments, harvests credentials and metadata, and can compile payloads on demand for AI‑enabled attacks....
Bank of America Upgrades Tesla, Calls It the Clear Leader in Autonomous Driving
Bank of America reinstated coverage of Tesla with a buy rating and a $460 price target, implying about 17% upside. The analyst highlighted Tesla’s camera‑only autonomous driving stack as a cost‑effective edge over LiDAR‑based rivals. Robotaxi services, already operating in...
Schaeffler Partners with China’s Leju Robotics for Humanoid Robotics
Schaeffler announced a strategic partnership with China’s Leju Robotics Technology to accelerate the development and industrial deployment of humanoid robots. The collaboration focuses on factory inspection, equipment support, logistics and human‑robot collaboration, with Schaeffler contributing actuators, sensors, motion‑control and energy‑management...
Intertraffic 2026: Asura Powers Predictive Mobility Transformation
At Intertraffic 2026, Asura Technologies highlighted its AI‑driven platform that enables predictive, automated mobility management. The company showcased how real‑time video analytics and camera‑agnostic software are being rolled out across more than 500 U.S. parking sites and hundreds of highway...
Ad Agencies Are Embracing ‘Vibe Coding’ to Build GEO Products for Clients
Ad agencies such as Havas, Broadhead and Supergood are rapidly creating generative engine optimization (GEO) tools by "vibe‑coding" on top of large language models, often within a single work session. Havas’ Brand Insights AI, built with Anthropic’s Claude Code and Replit,...
Defusing the MCP Ticking Time Bomb
The AI Accelerator Institute highlighted a looming security crisis in Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments after analyzing 281 MCP servers and finding that ten of them carry a 92% security risk. The report warns that vulnerabilities such as prompt injection,...
New RFP Template for AI Usage Control and AI Governance
Enterprises are finally allocating budgets for AI security, but many lack clear requirements. A new RFP template reframes AI protection as an interaction‑level problem rather than an app‑cataloging exercise, enabling tool‑agnostic control. It exposes the blind spots of legacy CASB/SSE...
Havas Bets on AI Veteran Sharona Sankar-King to Lead Proprietary Tech Push
Havas Media Network North America has hired Sharona Sankar‑King as chief data and product officer to steer its proprietary AI platform, Converged.AI, and the broader analytics practice. Sankar‑King arrives from Harte Hanks after more than 25 years in agencies, consultancies...
AMD Unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series CPUs with New AI PC Focus
AMD announced the Ryzen AI 400 series at Mobile World Congress 2026, introducing desktop processors with an integrated XDNA 2 neural processing unit delivering up to 50 TOPS of AI compute. The chips combine Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics and are the first AM5...
Scaling AI Testing Across Large Product Teams
Enterprises are grappling with the need to scale AI testing as model updates become frequent and data‑driven. Traditional deterministic QA cannot capture the probabilistic behavior, bias, and drift inherent in machine‑learning systems. Global App Testing proposes a structured framework that...
Exhibitor Viewpoint: ElevenLabs at the 2026 NAB Show
ElevenLabs, a leader in generative AI for voice, speech, music and video, is gearing up for the 2026 NAB Show where it will demo its latest offerings. The company highlights breakthroughs in controllability and consistency that move AI from experimental...
True Beauty Lashes Taps Perfect Corp. For Personalized Lash Recommendation
True Beauty Lashes has partnered with Perfect Corp. to launch LashLovr, an AI‑driven personalized lash‑matching and virtual try‑on platform. The service uses Perfect Corp.’s Virtual Try‑On and Face Analyzer APIs to overlay recommended lashes on a shopper’s face in real...
Carpentry, CapEx, and Continuing Disruption - Salesforce CDO Joe Inzerillo on the Real Impact of AI on SaaS Providers
At the Morgan Stanley TMT conference, Salesforce Chief Digital Officer Joe Inzerillo argued that generative AI is an accelerator, not a destroyer, for SaaS businesses. He likened AI to a table‑saw that lets engineers deliver features 20‑times faster, turning back‑log...
BlackRock Says Buy AI Energy Stocks Over Big Tech in 2026. Here Are 3 Top Picks.
BlackRock’s 2026 outlook shifts focus from AI chip makers to the energy firms powering AI data centers, citing a projected thirty‑fold rise in U.S. power consumption through 2035. The firm highlights three stocks—Bloom Energy, Constellation Energy, and GE Vernova—as top...
Yoast SEO’s New Schema Aggregator Improves Entity Disambiguation via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Yoast SEO 27.1 introduces a Schema Aggregation feature that creates a single "schemamap" endpoint delivering the entire site’s schema.org data in one response. The endpoint deduplicates entities, preserves relationships such as author‑to‑article, and respects existing privacy settings. Responses are cached...
UK Venture Funding Surges Into AI, NatWest’s ‘Future of UK Innovation’ Report Finds
UK venture capital hit £17.5 bn in 2025, with AI startups alone securing more than £6 bn – over a third of all funding. Large, later‑stage rounds now dominate, as deals above £25 m accounted for more than 70% of total investment, the...
Rohde & Schwarz Redefines Screening
Rohde & Schwarz is rolling out its QPS Walk2000 millimetre‑wave screening system, which combines AI‑driven detection with continuous walk‑through capability. Early deployments at Dallas Fort Worth and Frankfurt airports demonstrate higher passenger throughput and reduced false alarms. The technology has earned ECAC detection...