Fractile Expansion Demonstrates UK Growth Opportunity
UK chip startup Fractile announced a £100 million expansion across its Bristol and London sites, creating a national industrial hardware engineering hub and adding 40 new roles to its 70‑person team. The company claims its in‑memory compute architecture can run AI inference models up to 50 times faster at just 10 % of GPU costs, positioning it as a challenger to Nvidia and other AI chip makers. Backed by Oxford Science Enterprises, Kindred Capital and the NATO Innovation Fund, Fractile expects its first AI chips to ship this year. The UK government highlighted the move as a boost to the sovereign AI ecosystem and urged broader tech investment.
Waymo Raises $16B Investment Round
Waymo announced a $16 billion financing round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $126 billion. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and other heavyweight firms. Alphabet...
Harvey Reportedly Raising at $11B Valuation Just Months After It Hit $8B
Harvey, the legal‑AI startup, is reportedly negotiating a $200 million raise that would push its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore’s GIC. This follows a rapid funding series: a $300 million Series D at $3 billion, a $300 million Series E at $5 billion, and...
Carrier Introduces Generative AI Feature in Abound to Elevate Building Operations Insights
Carrier has launched “Tell Me More,” a generative AI add‑on to its Abound Insights platform that translates predictive alerts into plain‑language explanations, recommended actions, and impact assessments. The feature is built on AI models trained with technical manuals and real‑time...
Baran Ozkan — Building the Operating System for Financial Crime Compliance
Baran Ozkan, CEO of Flagright, argues that financial‑crime compliance must evolve from rule‑heavy checklists to an AI‑native operating system that delivers real‑time risk decisions. By giving compliance teams controllable, transparent workflows, Flagright reduced false‑positive alerts from 99.1% to 15.3% and...
Google Tests a Tool That Lets You Move ChatGPT, Other AI Chats to Gemini
Google is beta-testing a Gemini feature called “Import AI chats” that lets users upload conversation histories from ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, preserving context for continued interactions. The tool would store imported chats in the user’s Gemini activity and...
'Today, the Real Standard Is No Longer Simply 'Wire-Free' But 'Senseless Intelligence' – Whether the Robot Can Be Like an...
Segway Navimow unveiled its 2026 X4 series, adding LiDAR‑based navigation and the proprietary Xero‑Turn mechanism to handle tight pivots without damaging grass. The CEO, George Ren, said the market’s new benchmark is "senseless intelligence," meaning robots must act like invisible gardeners...
UAE’s Omnispay Closes $2m Round to Expand AI-Native SME Payments and Credit Platform
UAE fintech Omnispay closed a $2 million pre‑Series A round led by Infinity Value Capital to accelerate its AI‑native SME finance platform. The company, which cut settlement times to 24 hours, has doubled its customer base, quadrupled processing volume and lifted revenue 5.5‑fold...
Oracle Shares Surge as Big Tech Spending Eases Software Worries
Oracle Corp.’s shares jumped up to 12% on Monday, marking the stock’s strongest intraday gain since September 10. The rally was sparked by news that U.S. tech giants, led by Amazon’s $200 billion capex commitment for data centers and chips, are accelerating...
Arrow Electronics: AI Is Reshaping How Customers Design, Buy and Deploy Technology
Arrow Electronics reported a strong Q4 2025, with sales climbing 20% to $8.746 billion and net income nearly doubling to $195 million. Full‑year revenue reached $30.85 billion, up 10%, while net income rose 46% to $571 million. Executives said AI, edge computing and data‑center...
Google AI Mode Doesn’t Favor Above-the-Fold Content: Study
A SALT.agency study of 2,318 URLs cited by Google’s AI Mode found no correlation between a text’s above‑the‑fold position and its likelihood of being quoted. Researchers measured pixel depth across travel, e‑commerce and SaaS verticals and observed citations from deep...
Anthropic Closes in on $20B Round
Anthropic is nearing the close of a $20 billion financing round that values the AI startup at $350 billion, more than double its original target. The bulk of the capital is expected from strategic partners Nvidia and Microsoft, alongside a slate of...
Deutsche Telekom Launches Nvidia AI Factory Data Center in Munich's Tucherpark
Deutsche Telekom has opened an Nvidia‑powered AI factory at the Polarise data centre in Munich’s Tucherpark, installing roughly 10,000 Blackwell GPUs including DGX B200 and RTX PRO systems. The facility, branded the Industrial AI Cloud, underpins the ‘Germany Stack’ – a sovereign...
A Preview of ChatGPT’s Ad Controls Just Surfaced
OpenAI has surfaced a detailed ad‑settings panel for ChatGPT, revealing separate History and Interests tabs, privacy safeguards, and user‑controlled personalization toggles. The interface assures advertisers never access chat content, IP addresses, or personal identifiers, and lets users delete ad data...
What AI Builders Can Learn From Fraud Models that Run in 300 Milliseconds
Mastercard’s Decision Intelligence Pro (DI Pro) uses a sub‑300 ms recurrent neural network to assign risk scores to each payment transaction in real time. The platform treats fraud detection as an "inverse recommender" problem, comparing current merchant behavior to historical patterns. By...
Retail’s Hidden AI Blind Spot
Artificial intelligence has moved from experiment to consumer expectation in retail, with AI agents, search, and checkout now standard features. However, MIT research shows 95% of generative AI pilots fail because of fragmented product data, leading to poor recommendations. Inaccurate...
Pulsant Launches £10m Expansion of Milton Keynes Data Center
Edge provider Pulsant has completed a £10 million expansion of its Milton Keynes data centre, adding a 1.2 MW data hall optimized for high‑density AI workloads. The new facility is part of the company’s platformEDGE network, which now spans 14 edge sites...
Search to Checkout: How Alphabet Is Building Agentic Commerce
Alphabet announced a $175‑$185 billion AI‑focused capital plan for 2026, positioning artificial intelligence as the backbone of its commerce, cloud and enterprise offerings. The company highlighted intense compute constraints as it scales Gemini, which now handles over 10 billion tokens per minute...
Ex-Googlers Are Building Infrastructure to Help Companies Understand Their Video Data
InfiniMind, a Tokyo‑based startup founded by former Google Japan executives Aza Kai and Hiraku Yanagita, is building enterprise‑grade video‑intelligence infrastructure to turn petabytes of unused footage into searchable data. The company raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by UTEC and...
ERP Today Interview: Achyut Jajoo
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Manufacturing, a suite of pre‑built AI agent templates designed for manufacturers. The solution promises to scale operations without adding headcount by automating routine ERP tasks. Achyut Jajoo, Salesforce’s SVP and GM, highlighted the necessity for ERP systems...
Lawmakers Weigh Government’s Role in Lowering AI Risk to Workers
Lawmakers are evaluating whether the federal government should intervene to mitigate AI‑related risks to workers. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Bradford Kelley of Littler argued that the low number of lawsuits over...
Haply Robotics Raises $16 Million to Build the “Steering Wheels” For Physical AI
Haply Robotics announced a $11.75 million USD (CAD $16 million) seed‑plus financing round, led by Sound Media Ventures and backed by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund, Hanwha, Two Small Fish Ventures, and BDC Capital. The Montreal‑based startup builds high‑precision haptic controllers—such as the Inverse3...
AI Lawsuits in 2026: Settlements, Licensing Deals, Litigation
2026 is shaping up as a pivotal year for AI copyright litigation. The New York Times’ ongoing suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, along with high‑profile cases such as Getty Images vs. Stability AI and Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, highlight mounting pressure on AI...
Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month
Discord will launch a global age‑verification system next month, automatically placing every user in a teen‑appropriate mode unless they prove they are adults. Unverified users will lose access to age‑restricted servers, stage channels, and will face stricter content filters and...
NASA Let AI Drive The Perseverance Rover For Two Days
NASA employed Anthropic’s Claude AI to generate waypoints for Perseverance, enabling the rover to travel 456 meters over two days without human control. The AI processed HiRISE orbital images and digital elevation models to identify hazards and plot a safe path....
Flaw in Anthropic Claude Extensions Can Lead to RCE in Google Calendar: LayerX
LayerX researchers disclosed a zero‑click remote code execution flaw in Anthropic's Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT) that leverages Google Calendar events to trigger arbitrary code on the host system. The unsandboxed extensions, which operate with full system privileges, affect more than...
AO Cryptocurrency Explained: Why This AI Coin Is Turning Heads in 2026
AO Cryptocurrency merges artificial intelligence agents with a decentralized blockchain, creating a platform where AI can autonomously analyze data, execute smart contracts, and adapt to market conditions. The AO token serves as the utility medium, granting access to AI services,...
AI Research to Support Efficient Management of Autonomous Baggage Vehicles at Airports
Aston University has partnered with autonomous‑vehicle specialist Aurrigo to create artificial‑intelligence tools for managing airport baggage‑handling fleets. The AI system will automate task allocation, balancing battery levels, location data and flight‑schedule disruptions in real time. By moving beyond centrally‑controlled human...
Digital Technology, the Solution to U.K. Manufacturing’s Workforce Challenges
The United Kingdom’s manufacturing sector faces a deep skills gap, with roughly 49,000 vacancies and 97.5% of firms naming talent scarcity as a top obstacle. While manufacturers pour capital into robotics, AI and analytics, they lack the specialised workforce to...
Investors Believe AI Will Replace Labor Costs Instead of Just Software
Investors are increasingly betting that generative AI will replace labor costs rather than compete for traditional IT budgets. Lightspeed partner Sebastian Duesterhoeft argues AI captures the far larger pool of workforce spend, a view reinforced by Anthropic’s $350 billion valuation after...
Galux Raises $29M Series B; CSL Teams up with Memo
South Korean biotech Galux secured $29 million in a Series B round to accelerate its AI‑driven research platform that designs novel protein therapeutics. The funding, led by regional venture partners, will expand Galux’s computational pipeline and scale up pre‑clinical collaborations. In parallel,...
A Long-Lost Soviet Spacecraft: AI Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Luna 9's Landing Site
Researchers from the UK and Japan used a machine‑learning model, YOLO‑ETA, to pinpoint possible landing locations for the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft, the first soft‑lander on the Moon. The algorithm, trained on Apollo site imagery, successfully identified known Soviet landers and...
TransformativeMed Wins 2026 Best in KLAS for Clinician Digital Workflow
TransformativeMed has been named the 2026 Best in KLAS winner for Clinician Digital Workflow, recognizing its CORES platform’s ability to streamline electronic health record interactions. The award highlights the company’s deep EHR integration, clinician‑centric design, and consistent high marks for...
PackageX Scales Vision AI Execution Platform for Logistics Operations at Manifest 2026
PackageX announced a scaled release of its Vision AI execution platform at Manifest Vegas, turning any camera into an intelligent, real‑time workflow engine for logistics. The solution adds a multi‑tier architecture spanning edge, on‑premises, and cloud, delivering sub‑second decisions even...
Digital Employees, AI Bootcamps: America's Oldest Bank Is Spending Billions on Tech
BNY Mellon disclosed a $3.8 billion technology spend in 2025, representing about 19 % of its revenue – the highest share among large U.S. banks. The bank introduced 134 "digital employees" that automate repetitive tasks around the clock, while its human workforce...
Mint Signed MoU with Robotics Leader Rice Robotics to Pioneer Physical AI Solutions Across Asia
Mint Incorporation Limited announced that its subsidiary Aspiration X has signed a non‑binding MOU with Japan‑based Rice Robotics to explore a joint venture focused on physical AI solutions. The proposed venture would be seeded with roughly HK$10 million from Mint, pending...
C&M Executive Expands Use of Conversational AI to Improve Customer Experience
C&M Executive announced an expanded deployment of conversational AI across its customer service channels to deliver smoother, more natural interactions. The firm cites research indicating AI can cut human‑handled contacts by up to 30% while preserving satisfaction, and that better...
FourKites Launches Loft: AI Platform to Orchestrate Enterprise Systems with Real-World Intelligence
FourKites introduced Loft, an AI orchestration platform that lets enterprises automate workflows across any system using its Sophie AI developer agent. Sophie converts natural‑language operational requirements into production‑ready automations in days, cutting traditional deployment cycles from months. Loft uniquely blends...
Instinctools Adds Palantir Foundry and AIP to Its Enterprise Data and AI Portfolio
Instinctools announced the addition of Palantir Foundry and Palantir AIP to its enterprise data and AI portfolio. The integration gives clients a unified data operating system with built‑in governance, lineage, and integration capabilities. Palantir AIP layers large‑language‑model‑driven agent workflows on...
Smart Stores Aren’t Enough: 2026 Will Be Defined by Smarter Operations
Retail executives predict 2026 will be defined by operational intelligence rather than eye‑catching store tech. A Tech Mahindra‑Coresight study shows 92% of retailers are investing in solutions that tighten data, inventory and decision‑making. The report warns that AI‑driven experiences crumble...
Bitcoin Miner Cango Sells $305M BTC to Cut Leverage and Fund AI Pivot
Cango, a Bitcoin mining firm, sold 4,451 BTC on the open market, netting roughly $305 million. The proceeds are earmarked to partially repay a Bitcoin‑collateralized loan and lower the company’s financial leverage. Cango also announced a strategic pivot to provide distributed...
Cineverse Launches Matchpoint® Creative Labs, Leveraging Generative AI to Enable Creative Services for FAST and Ad-Supported Streaming Services
Cineverse has unveiled Matchpoint® Creative Labs, an in‑house agency that delivers motion‑first video advertising for connected TV, FAST and ad‑supported streaming services. The unit blends traditional creative processes with generative AI to produce native‑looking ads, channel IDs and branding assets...
OpenClaw Adds VirusTotal Scanning to AI Agent Marketplace
OpenClaw has integrated VirusTotal scanning into its ClawHub marketplace to curb malicious AI skills. The workflow hashes each skill, checks VirusTotal signatures, and submits unknown bundles to Code Insight for deeper analysis, flagging or blocking threats. This move follows security...
QAD | Redzone and TCS Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI-Driven Transformation in Manufacturing
QAD | Redzone and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI‑driven transformation for mid‑market manufacturers. The alliance combines Redzone’s execution‑first Adaptive ERP platform, Connected Workforce, and Champion AI with TCS’s engineering scale, cloud migration factory, and global manufacturing...
Briya Appoints Brian Creighton to Boost Growth in AI-Driven Healthcare Data
Briya, a health‑AI firm, announced Brian Creighton as Executive Director of Client Strategy to accelerate its U.S. expansion. Creighton brings more than two decades of medical imaging and AI sales experience, most recently as VP of Sales at Merative. He...
Global AI Set to Develop Data Center Outside Denver, Colorado
Global AI, in partnership with Saudi AI firm Humain, is converting a former Kodak‑Carestream site near Windsor, Colorado into a high‑density AI data center. After purchasing 438 acres for $15.6 million, the company plans to launch an 18‑24 MW facility by the...
Gather AI, Maker of ‘Curious’ Warehouse Drones, Lands $40M Led by Keith Block’s Firm
Gather AI announced a $40 million Series B round led by Keith Block’s Smith Point Capital, bringing its total funding to $74 million. The Boston startup equips warehouse cameras and autonomous drones with a Bayesian‑based AI that ‘gets curious’ to scan barcodes, expiration...
Corning and Meta Form Multiyear Partnership for up to $6 Billion to Accelerate U.S. Data Center Buildout
Corning and Meta have signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $6 billion to accelerate the construction of advanced data centers in the United States. Under the deal, Corning will provide Meta with its latest optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions...
Red Hat and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Align on Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
Red Hat announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA, introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA—a specialized RHEL edition tuned for the NVIDIA Rubin platform. The collaboration delivers Day 0 support for the Vera CPU, Rubin GPUs and BlueField‑4 DPU across Red...
IBM Announces Global RFP Process for AI-Driven Solutions Shaping the Future of Work and Education
IBM has issued a global request for proposals for the next cohort of its Impact Accelerator, targeting AI-driven solutions in education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits, government entities, and academic institutions to develop tools that bridge the widening...