The Use of GenAI Is Turning Innocent Employees Into Insider Threats: Here’s How to Fix It
Enterprise adoption of generative AI tools is soaring, with nearly one in twenty companies regularly using them and internal data uploads to public models increasing thirty‑fold year‑on‑year. Employees often paste confidential contracts or credentials into tools like ChatGPT, unintentionally turning into insider threats as 72% of this shadow AI activity occurs outside IT control. Prompt‑injection attacks, exemplified by UCSD’s Imprompter, can extract sensitive information with high success rates, while traditional DLP and UEBA solutions struggle to detect encrypted or personal‑account traffic. The article argues that hardware‑level zero‑trust, combined with governance and training, is essential to secure GenAI usage without stifling innovation.
How AI Evolved From Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Tom Griffiths, a Princeton professor, explains how the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind shaped modern artificial intelligence. He traces AI’s lineage to Enlightenment thinkers who first applied mathematics to mental processes, leading to logic, digital computers, and...
‘Piloting’ AI Tools Isn’t Cool Anymore
Large U.S. corporations are abandoning the term “pilot” for AI projects, signaling a move from small‑scale tests toward deployments that deliver measurable value. A MIT study that found 95% of AI pilots failed to generate financial impact, combined with a...
How AI Can Build Organizational Agility
Enterprise leaders facing 2026 economic uncertainty are turning to AI to boost organizational agility. Personiv’s 2025 Executive Outlook Pulse Survey shows 76% of public firms and 45% of private firms already use AI, especially in finance functions like payroll and...
Treasury Calls in Private Sector to Help Departments Scale up AI Use
HM Treasury has launched an external advisory panel that includes IBM, Faculty AI and the Tony Blair Institute to accelerate artificial‑intelligence adoption across UK government departments. The group will evaluate pilot projects, share best‑practice lessons and advise on scaling AI‑driven...
AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.
Researchers at Northwestern’s GAIN initiative and the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation found that news readers overwhelmingly prefer AI chatbots and summarization tools over direct visits to publisher sites, valuing speed, perceived neutrality, and control. Participants acknowledge the answers...
India Launches RailTech Policy to Make Railway Claims Digital
India’s Railways unveiled two digital reforms under its “52 Reforms in 52 Weeks” agenda: the RailTech Policy to systemise innovation and the e‑RCT platform to digitise the Railway Claims Tribunal. The RailTech framework creates a single‑stage portal, offers up to...
Why AI Gives Media Companies a Syncing Feeling
Artificial intelligence has become inseparable from media strategy, yet a pronounced syncing gap threatens its impact. Consumers adopt generative AI tools at breakneck speed, while media firms struggle to translate that demand into sustainable revenue. AI shows clear productivity gains...
NationGraph Raises $18M to Expand AI Public Sector Platform
NationGraph announced an $18 million Series A round, led by Menlo Ventures, to scale its AI‑native platform that helps companies navigate the fragmented U.S. government procurement market. The solution aggregates data from roughly 110,000 state, local and education agencies across four million...
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Wakam UK launched in April 2024 as a fully authorised digital insurer built to serve MGAs, insurtechs and embedded insurance platforms. Leveraging an API‑driven, AI‑native core, the firm can design, underwrite and launch bespoke products in weeks rather than months....
Retrofits Vs. Rebuilds: Approaches to Adapting Legacy Data Centers for AI
The surge in AI workloads is prompting data‑center operators to consider retrofitting legacy facilities rather than constructing purpose‑built AI campuses. Retrofitting can accelerate deployment, lower capital outlay, and improve sustainability, but it hinges on upgrading power delivery, cooling capacity, rack...
Retrofits Vs. Rebuilds: Approaches to Adapting Legacy Data Centers for AI
The AI boom is driving demand for massive compute capacity, prompting operators to consider both new purpose‑built AI data centers and upgrades to existing facilities. Retrofitting legacy data centers can be faster, cheaper, and more sustainable, but only if power,...
UK News Giants Form ‘NATO for News’ Group to Control AI Scraping
Five leading UK news organisations—Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC and Sky News—have created the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition to develop shared AI licensing standards. The group aims to curb unlicensed scraping of journalistic content by...
Cellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report Reveals Smartphones As The Leading Source Of Digital Evidence In Investigations At 97%
Cellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report, based on 1,200 investigators in 63 countries, shows smartphones now account for 97% of digital evidence sources, a 24‑point rise since 2024. While 95% say digital evidence improves case solvability, 94% report rising complexity strains...
Banks – and Google – Open to Gemini-Powered Exfil via Public API Keys, Researchers Say
Security firm Truffle Security revealed that publicly exposed Google API keys can be upgraded to full‑access Gemini credentials, enabling data exfiltration from any organization using them. A November scan uncovered 2,863 such keys, affecting major banks, security vendors, and even...
ElastixAI Launches FPGA Platform for GenAI Inference
ElastixAI, backed by $18 million in seed funding, has emerged from stealth to launch a software platform that transforms off‑the‑shelf FPGA servers into high‑efficiency GenAI inference engines. The company argues that GPUs, designed for compute‑heavy training, are poorly suited to the...
Your Customers Aren’t Keen on that Customer Service Chatbot You Introduced – Here's Why
A YouGov survey for Pega reveals deep consumer mistrust of AI‑only customer service, with 68 % lacking confidence in how businesses use generative AI and half reporting unsuccessful outcomes. While 80 % say human agents achieve better results, only 2 % prefer exclusive...
OutSystems Launches Elevate Partner Program
OutSystems unveiled Elevate, a redesigned global partner program that replaces its previous one‑size‑fits‑all model with a performance‑driven “Earned Level” framework. The new system awards points across financial contribution, knowledge, customer satisfaction, and program track, with heightened weighting for agentic AI...
IBM Integrates Deepgram Voice AI Into Watsonx Orchestrate Platform
IBM has partnered with Deepgram to embed its speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech engines into the watsonx Orchestrate generative AI platform. The integration adds real‑time transcription, captioning and multi‑language voice support, letting enterprises build voice‑enabled agents and workflows. Deepgram becomes IBM’s first...
Capxel Launches LLM-LD, the First Open Standard for Making Websites Readable by AI Agents
Capxel has launched LLM‑LD, the first open standard that makes website content directly readable by large language model agents. The specification defines a .well‑known/llm‑index.json file, AI Discovery Page format, and three conformance levels to guide brands in structuring data for...
Agencies Using Open, AI-Driven Media Buying Are Outperforming the Market – AI Digital’s Open Garden Framework Animation Shows Exactly Why
AI Digital unveiled an animated explainer of its Open Garden Framework, highlighting how AI‑driven, open‑ecosystem media buying outperforms closed‑platform approaches. The data shows advertisers achieve 2.9‑times higher performance, 26% greater ROI, and make decisions 73% faster when leveraging predictive analytics...
Akeneo Partners with Stripe to Help Businesses Get Ready to Sell on AI Agents
Akeneo, a product experience company, announced a partnership with Stripe to integrate its PIM platform with Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite. The joint solution lets merchants expose structured, real‑time product data to AI assistants and enables agent‑ready checkout, payments, and fraud...
Employ Inc. Welcomes Patrick Jean as Chief Technology Officer
Employ Inc., a leading provider of people‑first hiring platforms such as JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite, announced the appointment of Patrick (PJ) Jean as its new Chief Technology Officer. Jean arrives with more than two decades of experience building AI‑native products and...
Perplexity Launches 'Computer' AI Agent that Coordinates 19 Models, Priced at $200 a Month
Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, launched Computer, a cloud‑based AI agent that coordinates 19 specialized models to execute complex workflows. The service is currently available only to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month and promises autonomous task decomposition and model...
How We Engineered a Scalable and Performant Enterprise AI Platform
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
Nestlé’s AI Push Brings New Marketing Tools Into Daily Workflows
Nestlé is embedding artificial intelligence across its marketing and sales functions by upgrading to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, a platform now serving over 50,000 users in 112 countries. The rollout introduces SAP’s AI copilot, enabling automated insights and routine‑task...
Aras Adds New InnovatorEdge Services for PLM Access
Aras unveiled three new InnovatorEdge services—API Manager, App Builder, and Edge AI—plus configurable AI agents to extend its PLM platform. The cloud‑delivered, low‑code tools enable secure, governed exposure of product data and digital‑thread services to external applications and AI resources....
Samsung Partners with Gracenote for AI-Based Discovery on Smart TVs
Samsung announced a partnership with Gracenote, Nielsen’s metadata specialist, to embed AI‑driven discovery tools into its smart‑TV platform. The deal gives Samsung access to Gracenote’s curated content IDs and structured data, enabling natural‑language search, personalized carousels, and recommendation engines. While...
BioAIrepo: EMBL-EBI’s Hub for Life Science AI Models
EMBL‑EBI has launched BioAIrepo, a dedicated repository that makes life‑science machine‑learning models FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The pilot catalogue aggregates imaging and genomics models from the BioImage Model Zoo and Kipoi, providing code, weights, training data and citation metadata....
Billionaire Stephen Mandel Dumped His Fund's Entire Stake in Meta Platforms -- Meaning This AI Stock Is Lone Pine's New...
Billionaire Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital sold its entire Meta Platforms stake—about $971 million, representing 7.1% of the fund—by the end of Q4 2025. The hedge fund’s exit appears driven by profit‑taking and concerns over Meta’s aggressive AI capital‑expenditure. In its...
Nvidia Still Hasn't Sold Its U.S.-approved China AI Chips — and It’s Worried Local AI Rivals Could Take Over
Nvidia has not generated any revenue from the U.S.-approved H200 AI chips destined for China, despite limited approvals. The company’s Chinese data‑center sales once represented roughly 20% of its revenue, but export controls forced it to create a lower‑performance H20...
Nous Research Releases ‘Hermes Agent’ to Fix AI Forgetfulness with Multi-Level Memory and Dedicated Remote Terminal Access Support
Nous Research unveiled Hermes Agent, an open‑source autonomous system built on the Hermes‑3 Llama 3.1‑based model. It introduces a multi‑level memory hierarchy that records successful workflows as searchable Skill Documents, giving the agent procedural recall across sessions. The platform also provides...
AI Proof of Concept Development Cost & How to Build a Successful AI POC (2026 Guide)
An AI proof of concept (POC) is a focused, short‑term project that validates technical feasibility and business value before full‑scale investment. Costs vary widely, driven primarily by data readiness, problem complexity, integration needs, and infrastructure choices, with data preparation often...
Sword Intelligence Launches in the UK, Bringing Proven National-Scale AI Care Operations Set to Transform Healthcare in Greece
Sword Intelligence has launched its AI‑driven care‑operations platform in the UK, targeting NHS waiting‑list pressures. The solution automates triage, coordination, outreach and scheduling, freeing clinical capacity without major staffing or infrastructure upgrades. Simultaneously, the company is building one of Europe’s...
Workday Brings AI-Native Contract Lifecycle Management to EU Businesses with Frankfurt Data Residency
Workday announced an AI‑native Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution hosted in Frankfurt, giving EU customers a local data residency option. The service leverages generative AI to draft, review, and negotiate contracts while automatically enforcing compliance rules. By storing all contract...
How AI Could Impact Tax Season Security This Year
The IRS Criminal Investigation report shows tax‑related financial crimes hit $4.5 billion in FY 2025, a 111.8 % jump from the prior year, signaling heightened risk this tax season. Cybercriminals are leveraging generative AI to produce hyper‑personalized phishing, deepfake voice and video scams,...
From Hype to Hard Returns: The Startup Reset for 2026
India’s startup ecosystem is moving from growth‑at‑all‑costs to a disciplined focus on execution, AI readiness, and sustainable profitability as it eyes 2026. A Snowflake‑hosted panel highlighted that scale alone no longer suffices; founders must streamline data, adopt applied AI, and...
Predictive Maintenance Robotics: How AI and Automation Are Redefining Industrial Asset Reliability
Predictive maintenance robotics leverages AI and machine‑learning to shift industrial upkeep from fixed‑schedule preventive care to condition‑based, data‑driven actions. Continuous sensor streams—vibration, acoustic, thermal, electrical—are analyzed in real time to spot anomalies and forecast component failures. The approach integrates with...
Software Development AI Robotics: Engineering Intelligent Machines for the Real World
Software development is now the backbone of AI robotics, enabling machines to perceive, decide, and act in real‑world environments. Frameworks such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) and edge‑AI hardware like Nvidia Jetson streamline sensor fusion, simulation, and real‑time control....
Accelerating Digital Maturity in Residential Aged Care
Whiddon, a leading residential aged‑care provider in NSW and southeast Queensland, has deployed Telstra Health’s centralised care‑planning platform across its 24 homes. The system enables real‑time, point‑of‑care documentation, family portals and mobile workflows, replacing legacy paper‑based processes. By achieving data...
How to Automatically Respond to Google Business Profile Reviews
The article explains how to build a Zapier workflow that uses OpenAI’s GPT‑4o to draft replies to new Google Business Profile reviews. By setting Google Business Profile as the trigger, feeding the review data into a ChatGPT prompt, and sending...
Google Cloud to Develop AI Planning Decisions Tool
The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has awarded Google Cloud a £6.9 million contract to build an AI‑powered planning decisions tool. The system will initially focus on householder developments, which account for 69 % of applications, with a target...
MHRA Says AI Innovation and Regulation Must Work Together
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is urging that AI innovation in healthcare be paired with robust regulation to safeguard patient safety and equity. Richard Stubbs, CEO of Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber, highlighted the need for...
Meta Is Auto-Generating AI Ads for Its Advertisers, Causing Headaches for Image-Conscious Fashion Brands
Meta has begun automatically generating AI‑derived advertisements from brands' existing creative assets, inserting them into Facebook and Instagram feeds without explicit advertiser approval. The move aims to boost ad inventory and lower production costs, but early adopters like British tights...
The 4 Stages of AI Maturity: A Framework
The article presents a four‑stage AI‑maturity framework that moves organizations from isolated AI experiments to fully adaptive, KPI‑driven systems. It defines AI orchestration as the end‑to‑end coordination of tools, agents, and automations across workflows and teams. Each stage—individual experiments, connected...
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Lindy Vs. Zapier: Which Is Best? [2026]
AI agents are becoming essential virtual employees, and businesses need platforms that integrate them with core systems. Zapier, a long‑standing AI orchestration platform, offers 8,000+ native app connections, advanced workflow features, and enterprise‑grade security. Lindy, a newer entrant, focuses on...
Tailscale and LM Studio Introduce ‘LM Link’ to Provide Encrypted Point-to-Point Access to Your Private GPU Hardware Assets
LM Studio and Tailscale have launched LM Link, a feature that lets developers access remote GPU rigs as if they were locally attached. The solution replaces public APIs and SSH tunnels with a private, WireGuard‑encrypted tunnel built on Tailscale’s userspace tsnet...
Understanding South Korea’s New AI Law: Key Considerations for Multinational Employers
South Korea's AI Basic Act became effective on January 22, 2026, imposing governance, transparency, and risk‑management duties on AI business operators, including employers that develop or deploy AI influencing workplace decisions. The law reaches beyond Korean borders, requiring entities that meet revenue,...
How to Build an Elastic Vector Database with Consistent Hashing, Sharding, and Live Ring Visualization for RAG Systems
The tutorial walks through building an elastic vector‑database simulator that uses consistent hashing with virtual nodes to shard embeddings across distributed storage. It includes a live, interactive ring visualization that shows how adding or removing nodes only reshuffles a tiny...
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says Markets ‘Got It Wrong’ on AI Threat to Software Companies
Nvidia reported a 73% jump in fiscal Q4 revenue to $68.13 billion and projected FY Q1 revenue of $78 billion, comfortably beating analyst estimates. CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that market fears of AI agents cannibalizing enterprise software are misplaced, arguing that...