Crypto VC Paradigm Expands Into AI, Robotics with $1.5B Fund: WSJ
Crypto venture firm Paradigm is raising a $1.5 billion fund to invest in AI, robotics and other frontier technologies while maintaining its crypto portfolio. The firm, which manages $12.7 billion in assets, previously launched a $2.5 billion crypto fund in 2021 and an $850 million early‑stage crypto fund in 2024. Sources say the new fund reflects a desire to avoid restrictive mandates and capture the growing overlap between AI and crypto, exemplified by Paradigm’s recent EVMbench collaboration with OpenAI. AI venture capital reached $258.7 billion in 2025, representing 61 % of all VC dollars.
Illumination Zone: Episode 226 | Greg Moreman of Level Legal Sits Down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson
Level Legal’s partner Greg Moreman discussed the firm’s AI integration strategy on EDRM’s Illumination Zone podcast. He highlighted the need for defensible, outcome‑driven models and stressed that an expert human must remain in the loop. Moreman advised starting with small...
BlueLinx Bets on AI as It Navigates a Soft Housing Market
BlueLinx Holdings is reshaping its digital roadmap around artificial intelligence while steering through a soft housing market that left full‑year 2025 sales essentially flat. The company skipped a multi‑million‑dollar traditional ecommerce build, citing rapid AI‑driven changes in ordering behavior. Q4...
Oracle Red Bull Racing Partnership with Oracle Extended to Power AI-Driven F1 Performance
Oracle has extended its title partnership with Red Bull Racing, deepening the use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI, and Fusion Cloud Applications across the team’s race strategy, engineering, and business functions. The deal supports the development of a next‑generation hybrid...
Australia: Victoria Expands AI-Ready Data Centre Infrastructure
Victoria has opened a new data centre campus in Brooklyn, featuring two advanced facilities designed to meet growing AI and high‑performance computing demand. The state plans a third building on the site and a separate campus at Laverton North, expanding...
Malaysia: Driving AI Adoption for SMEs and Industry Growth
Malaysia is accelerating AI adoption by directing more government contracts to domestic technology firms, especially SMEs. Deputy Minister Sim Tze Tzin emphasized expanding local participation in AI projects to build expertise and boost productivity across manufacturing, logistics, services and digital...
The Hidden Risk of Static Price Lists in a Volatile Market
Static price lists, once suitable for stable markets, now expose manufacturers and distributors to hidden margin leakage as economic volatility drives cost swings, demand shifts, and competitive pressure. Without dynamic modeling, price changes are applied reactively, often misaligned across segments,...
Pixelated 090: Hey Gemini, Order Me a Pizza
Episode 90 of 9to5Google’s Pixelated podcast dives into Samsung’s Galaxy S26 launch, highlighting its modest hardware tweaks and the rollout of Pixel‑inspired AI tools on the device. The hosts also unpack Google’s new agentic Android features, powered by Gemini, that let users...
Speechify Can Now Transcribe and Summarize Your Meetings
Speechify has introduced AI Note Taker, a web‑based tool that transcribes and summarizes Zoom meetings, lectures, and other discussions. The feature adds to Speechify’s growing voice‑first suite, which already includes Voice Typing Dictation and a Voice Assistant, all unified under...
University of Utah Health Helps ‘Reimagine’ the EHR
University of Utah Health researchers are leveraging AI and machine learning to "reimagine" electronic health records (EHR) through the federally funded Reimagine EHR initiative. Backed by roughly $35 million in federal grants and corporate partnerships, the program has produced eight AI‑driven...
How Do Leaders Ensure AI System Safety and Compliance
Leaders are urged to prioritize Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) – machine identities such as tokens, keys and certificates – as a core component of AI system safety and regulatory compliance. The article outlines how inadequate discovery, classification and secret rotation create...
What Is the Role of AI in Driving Cybersecurity Innovation
Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are becoming central to cybersecurity as organizations accelerate digital transformation. By managing machine identities, tokens and keys throughout their lifecycle, companies can reduce breach risk, improve compliance, and automate secret rotation. AI‑driven platforms add context‑aware detection, enabling...
Learn Where AI Is Creating Demand, Risk and Opportunity in Commercial Real Estate, with Cushman & Wakefield’s Data-Driven Tool
Cushman & Wakefield has launched the AI Impact Barometer, a data‑driven platform that quantifies how artificial intelligence is reshaping commercial real estate. The tool aggregates economic, capital‑market and property indicators into “AI momentum scores” that reveal demand trends across data...
Thredd Supports MuchBetter Israeli Expansion
Thredd, an AI‑first issuer processing platform, announced an expanded partnership with MuchBetter to launch its prepaid card and digital‑wallet program in Israel. The collaboration builds on Thredd’s earlier deployments in the United Kingdom and Canada, providing end‑to‑end processing, security and...
Cyberattacks on Hospitals Cost Lives. Here’s How to Fight Back at Machine Speed.
Morpheus is an AI‑driven platform that ingests alerts from a hospital’s existing security stack—SIEM, EDR, firewalls, NDR, email security, DLP and identity tools—and stitches them into a single ransomware kill‑chain view. By correlating these signals, it can surface an attack...
CMS Eyes AI To Tackle Coding Under ‘CRUSH’ Anti-Fraud Plan
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is evaluating artificial‑intelligence tools to improve the precision of Medicare Advantage coding and hospital billing. The initiative is part of the Trump administration’s proposed CRUSH (Combatting and Reducing Unnecessary Spending and Healthcare...
The Rise of Agentic AI in Production: Can Observability Systems Run Themselves?
The Grafana "Big Tent" podcast highlighted the rise of agentic AI in observability, featuring Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos and Grafana engineers. They discussed how AI agents use knowledge graphs to automate root‑cause analysis and troubleshoot production incidents. A real‑world example...
Acing This New AI Exam — Which Its Creators Say Is the Toughest in the World — Might Point to...
Humanity’s Last Exam, a PhD‑level benchmark launched in Jan 2025, tests AI models on 2,500 unambiguous, non‑searchable questions across 100+ subjects. Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think currently leads with a 48.4% score, while OpenAI’s o1 lagged at 8.3% and human experts average around...
Podcast: Cybercab Dead on Arrival, Donut Lab’s Miracle Battery, Waymo Expands, and More
The latest Electrek Podcast recaps a turbulent week for Tesla, highlighting the departure of the Cybercab program manager and Elon Musk’s threat to halt the Giga Berlin expansion over a union vote. It also spotlights Donut Lab’s solid‑state battery that...
FBI Raids LAUSD Superintendent's Home in AI-Related Probe
Los Angeles Unified School District launched the “Ed” AI chatbot in March 2024, a high‑profile effort led by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho to place the district at the forefront of educational technology. The project hinged on a $6 million contract with Boston...
Builders FirstSource Partners With Blitzy to Implement AI Software Development
Builders FirstSource (BFS) announced a strategic partnership with Blitzy AI, an autonomous software development platform designed for product development. The collaboration introduces an agentic software development lifecycle, enabling BFS to modernize its technology stack and accelerate delivery. Within the first...
Investors Double Down on Robotics: ROBO Sees $225M Flow Surge
Investors are pouring money into the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF as the rise of “physical AI” expands the addressable market for intelligent hardware. Assets under management jumped to $1.7 billion, driven by a $452 million year‑to‑date inflow, with $255 million...
Sam Altman Aims to 'Help De-Escalate' Tensions with Pentagon as OpenAI Employees Voice Support for Anthropic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an internal memo urging the company to help de‑escalate the growing dispute between rival Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense. Anthropic faces a Friday 5:01 p.m. ET deadline to decide whether to grant the Pentagon...
FinOps for Agents: Loop Limits, Tool-Call Caps and the New Unit Economics of Agentic SaaS
The article introduces FinOps for agents, a discipline that treats AI cognition costs as a reliability metric in agentic SaaS. It outlines how loops, tool‑calls, and token usage can explode variable spend and erode gross margin. By defining guardrails such...
Driver Recruiters Turn to Agentic AI to Streamline Hiring
Driver recruiters are adopting agentic AI to streamline candidate engagement. Tyson Foods recently deployed AI agents that handle initial outreach, pre‑qualify drivers, and schedule calls, allowing its six recruiters to efficiently support a 2,800‑truck fleet. Industry leaders at the 2026...
AI Helps Identify Risk in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Survival rates for congenital heart disease (CHD) have risen, creating an estimated 1.4 million adult patients who often require repeat surgeries. At the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting, Mayo Clinic researchers presented a machine‑learning model that isolates 15 key variables...
Lilly Launches LillyPod NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD for Genomics and Drug Discovery AI
Eli Lilly unveiled LillyPod, a DGX SuperPOD built with 1,016 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs delivering more than 9,000 petaflops of AI performance. The system powers genomics, protein‑diffusion, small‑molecule graph neural networks and foundation models, allowing billions of in‑silico experiments. Constructed...
Flux Inks $37M in New Investment
Flux, an AI‑powered platform that automates hardware design, announced a $37 million financing round combining a $27 million Series B and a previously undisclosed $10 million Series A. The Series B was led by venture firm 8VC, with participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, Liquid 2...
AIRS Medical to Showcase SwiftMR™ Live at ECR 2026
AI‑driven imaging firm AIRS Medical will showcase its SwiftMR™ MRI reconstruction platform at the 2026 European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. Attendees can bring anonymized DICOM data to Booth #AI-19 for real‑time reconstruction, demonstrating faster scans and sharper images. The...
Gcore Integrates NVIDIA Dynamo for AI Inference
Gcore announced integration of NVIDIA's open‑source inference framework Dynamo into its AI inference portfolio, offering a one‑click, fully managed deployment across public, private, hybrid, and on‑premise environments. The integration promises up to six‑fold throughput gains and halves latency by optimizing...
Dell Stock Surges 17.5% to Three-Month High on Strong Forecast for AI Server Revenue to More than Double by FY27
Dell Technologies’ stock surged 17.5% to $142.31, a three‑month high, after the company projected AI‑server revenue will more than double to roughly $50 billion by fiscal 2027. The upbeat outlook was paired with a 20% dividend increase and a $10 billion share‑repurchase...
Optimization of AI, Automation, and Digital Twins for the AEC Industry | GeoBuiz Summit 2026
The GeoBuiz Summit 2026 plenary highlighted how AI, automation, and digital twins are reshaping the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector from discrete projects to continuous, data‑driven infrastructure management. Panelists from Nvidia, Dynamic Map Platform, and Bentley Systems demonstrated how...
Legal AI: What Government Agencies Need To Consider
Filevine has released a comprehensive guide titled “Legal AI: What Government Agencies Need To Consider,” aimed at helping public‑sector legal teams navigate the rapidly expanding AI market. The guide outlines how AI can improve government legal workflows, offers a framework...
AI Readiness: It's Not Just About Product Innovation
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering K‑12 classrooms, with vendors touting personalized tutoring, automated feedback, and teacher‑time savings. While product innovation dominates headlines, districts are confronting deeper readiness issues such as data privacy, infrastructure capacity, and staff expertise. The article argues...
Moonflow Partners with Puntored
Moonflow, the AI-driven collections platform, announced a partnership with Mexico’s payment network Puntored to bring automated, multi‑channel debt recovery to the country. The integration merges Moonflow’s AI agents, which handle reminders via WhatsApp, SMS, email and calls, with Puntored’s extensive...
Qventus Launches Care Gap and Coding Automation Suite
Qventus unveiled its Care Gap and Coding Automation Suite, an AI‑driven platform that embeds directly into EHR workflows to identify missed diagnoses, trigger timely interventions, and complete documentation in real time. The suite’s first offering, Malnutrition Care Automation, generated $350,000...
Sakana AI Introduces Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetworks that Instantly Internalize Long Contexts and Adapt LLMs via Zero-Shot Natural Language
Sakana AI unveiled two hypernetwork‑based methods—Text‑to‑LoRA (T2L) and Doc‑to‑LoRA (D2L)—that generate low‑rank adaptation matrices for large language models in a single forward pass. T2L creates task‑specific LoRA adapters from plain‑language descriptions, while D2L compresses entire documents into parameter updates, eliminating...
Music Streamer Quboz Implements AI Detection
French streaming service Qobuz has rolled out a proprietary AI detection system that scans both its existing catalog and new uploads. Tracks identified as 100 % AI‑generated are flagged with visible labels across all Qobuz applications. The move targets the rapid...
How PeerSupport.io Is Helping Yukon Docs Send Referrals Using only Their Voice
PeerSupport.io, a Yukon health‑tech startup, launched CoWork, an autonomous AI browser that executes EMR and web‑based tasks through voice commands. In pilot clinics the tool can send referrals, renew prescriptions, and pull charts in under 11 seconds, delivering roughly 10.5...
Europe Formalizes Concerns About GenAI-Enabled Nonconsensual Deepfakes
European regulators have escalated concerns over AI‑generated non‑consensual deepfakes, issuing a joint statement through the European Data Protection Board that cites 61 authorities worldwide. The statement targets platforms that embed generative image models, highlighting the surge of child‑focused sexual exploitation...
Who’s Really Running AI? Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle over Regulation with Alex Bores
Alex Bores, a New York State Assemblymember, championed the state’s pioneering RAISE Act, a comprehensive AI safety bill that could become a national template. The legislation sparked a $125 million super‑PAC backlash from a Silicon Valley lobbying coalition, while Anthropic poured...
London Testing Facial Recognition App for Police as Another False Match Surfaces
London’s Metropolitan Police will pilot an operator‑initiated facial‑recognition (OIFR) mobile app, powered by NEC’s NeoFace, with 100 officers over six months. The technology promises on‑the‑spot identity checks, avoiding arrests for station‑based verification. At the same time, a series of false‑match...
How To Shape AI At B2B Summit: From Ideas To Execution
The 2026 B2B Summit in Phoenix centered on turning AI concepts into executable strategies for B2B marketers. Sessions emphasized realistic, hands‑on methods rather than hype, guiding leaders through alignment, gap mapping, and governance of AI agents. Attendees collaborated in peer‑driven...
Momentum Cyber Hosts AIxCYBER on $119B Security Bet
Momentum Cyber announced AIxCYBER, a high‑profile panel in Austin on March 12, 2026, to dissect the forces reshaping cybersecurity. The event highlights a $119 billion investment surge in 2026, driven by record M&A activity and financing across 1,222 transactions. Panelists will...
Who’s Suing AI and Who’s Signing: Danish Publishers Take OpenAI to Court
Danish media body DPCMO filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the AI giant trained ChatGPT on member publishers’ content without consent. The filing follows a wave of US lawsuits, including actions by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, US News...
US Army Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract for Special Operations
The U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Command has awarded Clearview AI a new contract to extend its facial‑recognition software subscription from March 2026 through March 2027, with options to continue until 2030. The agreement covers five software licenses and maintains...
Sweep Launches Multi-Org Agent for Salesforce
Sweep introduced its Multi‑Org Agent for Salesforce, a tool that automatically maps dependencies, automations, and rules across fragmented Salesforce environments. The solution helps enterprises compare configurations, spot redundant or conflicting automations, and surface technical debt at scale. Sweep plans to...
AI Isn’t the Real Threat to Special Education (Opinion)
Dawn Fleming‑Kendall argues that the biggest threat to special education is an overwhelmed system, not artificial intelligence. She points to chronic caseloads, staffing shortages, and excessive paperwork driving teachers out of the field. The author highlights Ohio’s move toward AI...
Automation in Manufacturing Will More than Double by 2030: PwC
PwC’s latest outlook finds manufacturers will more than double automation, AI and advanced‑technology use by 2030, with the median adoption rate climbing from 26% to 68% of operations. Adoption in production and product design is already high, while business support...
The AI Boom Is Turning Flash Storage Into a Critical Infrastructure Battleground
The surge in generative AI models has created a flash storage shortage that even the largest cloud providers cannot easily resolve. Industry leaders like Vast Data and Solidigm warn the constraint will persist through mid‑2026, forcing enterprises to rethink capacity...
