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Outtake Raises $40 Million to Bolster Digital Trust Against AI-Driven Threats
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Outtake Raises $40 Million to Bolster Digital Trust Against AI-Driven Threats

Outtake, a cybersecurity startup, announced a $40 million Series B round to accelerate its unified digital‑trust platform amid a surge in AI‑driven phishing and impersonation attacks. The round, led by ICONIQ and featuring investors such as Satya Nadella and Nikesh Arora, brings total capital...

By SecurityWeek
Datarails Launches Spend Control to Give CFOs Full Visibility on Contracts and Eliminate Zombie Subscriptions
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Datarails Launches Spend Control to Give CFOs Full Visibility on Contracts and Eliminate Zombie Subscriptions

Datarails unveiled Spend Control, an AI‑powered spend‑management platform that uniquely integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The tool creates a centralized contract hub, automatically extracts key terms, benchmarks market alternatives and drafts renewal requests. By flagging duplicate tools and...

By MarTech Series
Corvus Robotics Launches Dedicated Cold Chain Drones for Autonomous Inventory in Sub-Zero Warehouses
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Corvus Robotics Launches Dedicated Cold Chain Drones for Autonomous Inventory in Sub-Zero Warehouses

Corvus Robotics unveiled Corvus One™ for Cold Chain, an autonomous drone system designed to perform inventory cycle counts inside sub‑zero freezers ranging from –20 °F to ambient temperatures. The drones feature re‑engineered thermal management, adaptive barcode scanners, and flight‑stabilization to handle...

By RoboticsTomorrow
Insurify Launches Industry-First ChatGPT Insurance App
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Insurify Launches Industry-First ChatGPT Insurance App

Insurify, a digital insurance broker, has launched what it calls the industry’s first ChatGPT app, letting users research and compare car insurance directly within OpenAI’s platform. The tool taps a proprietary database of over 196 million auto‑insurance quotes and 70,000 verified...

By Fintech Global
Takeda, Iambic Sign Multiyear R&D Deal for AI Drug Discovery
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Takeda, Iambic Sign Multiyear R&D Deal for AI Drug Discovery

Takeda Pharmaceutical announced a multi‑year research agreement with San Diego biotech Iambic to develop AI‑driven small‑molecule drug candidates. The collaboration merges Takeda’s therapeutic expertise with Iambic’s generative AI platform to accelerate hit identification and lead optimization. Joint R&D labs, data...

By Endpoints News
New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall
NewsFeb 9, 2026

New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall

Researchers at UC San Diego unveiled a new bulk resistive RAM (RRAM) that switches an entire material layer instead of forming filaments, enabling 3D stacking and selector‑free operation. The devices are 40 nm wide, can be stacked in up to eight layers,...

By IEEE Spectrum AI
Takeda, Iambic Partner in Latest Pharma AI Push
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Takeda, Iambic Partner in Latest Pharma AI Push

Japan’s largest drugmaker Takeda has signed a multiyear agreement with AI specialist Iambic Therapeutics, potentially worth more than $1.7 billion. The partnership grants Takeda access to Iambic’s AI‑driven drug discovery platform and a protein‑receptor interaction model, targeting small‑molecule treatments for cancer,...

By BioPharma Dive
Google Is Expanding WAXAL Beyond 21 Languages — What It Means for African Researchers
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Google Is Expanding WAXAL Beyond 21 Languages — What It Means for African Researchers

Google has broadened its WAXAL speech dataset initiative, increasing coverage from 21 to 27 Sub‑Saharan African languages and outlining a pipeline for additional tongues. The expansion is driven by a partnership with the Masakhane African Languages Hub, shifting focus toward...

By Techpoint Africa
21 Gemini Prompts HR Can Copy and Paste (with Step-by-Step Prompts)
NewsFeb 9, 2026

21 Gemini Prompts HR Can Copy and Paste (with Step-by-Step Prompts)

The article introduces 21 ready‑to‑use Gemini prompts designed to streamline repetitive HR tasks such as job postings, interview guides, onboarding docs, and policy updates. It outlines a seven‑step prompt framework—persona, task, context, format, constraints, clarifying questions, and quality check—to produce...

By AIHR Blog
ZeroToOne.AI and Horizon Media Announce AI Partnership to Power Predictive Behavioral Intelligence Within HorizonOS
NewsFeb 9, 2026

ZeroToOne.AI and Horizon Media Announce AI Partnership to Power Predictive Behavioral Intelligence Within HorizonOS

ZeroToOne.AI and Horizon Media have forged an enterprise partnership to embed ZeroToOne’s proprietary Large Behavioral Model into HorizonOS, the open operating system powering Horizon’s Blu AI‑native marketing intelligence platform. The model claims over 85% accuracy in forecasting real‑world consumer actions,...

By MarTech Series
Loyyal Launches Perxi AI: A WhatsApp Based AI Agent That Simplifies Loyalty for SMEs
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Loyyal Launches Perxi AI: A WhatsApp Based AI Agent That Simplifies Loyalty for SMEs

Enterprise SaaS firm Loyyal unveiled Perxi AI, the first AI‑driven loyalty agent that operates entirely within WhatsApp. The solution lets small and medium businesses launch and manage branded loyalty programs instantly at zero cost, eliminating traditional software, staffing, and app‑installation...

By MarTech Series
No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York
NewsFeb 9, 2026

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York

New York’s Department of Labor added an AI‑related option to WARN filings 11 months ago, requiring firms with 50+ employees to disclose if automation caused layoffs. Across 162 companies and roughly 750 notices covering 28,300 workers, none selected the technology...

By WIRED AI
Neoclouds Capture Growing AI Workload Traffic, Backblaze Says
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Neoclouds Capture Growing AI Workload Traffic, Backblaze Says

Backblaze’s Q4 2025 network report reveals a sharp rise in AI‑driven traffic to GPU‑centric neocloud providers, peaking in October before settling at a higher baseline. The surge was concentrated in US‑East data centers, highlighting latency‑sensitive AI data movement. Analysts from McKinsey...

By CIO Dive
Klear.ai Names New CFO to Drive Next Phase of Growth
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Klear.ai Names New CFO to Drive Next Phase of Growth

Klear.ai, an AI‑driven insurance technology firm, announced Logan Thompson as its new chief financial officer. Thompson, a finance veteran with nearly two decades in SaaS, healthcare and professional services, will oversee financial strategy, discipline and governance. His appointment comes as...

By Fintech Global
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
NewsFeb 9, 2026

AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?

The New START treaty between the United States and Russia expired on February 5, 2026, leaving the world without its primary nuclear‑arms‑control framework. Researchers at the Federation of American Scientists propose a "cooperative technical means" system that leverages existing satellite constellations...

By WIRED AI
Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s New AI Newsletter, Is Here
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s New AI Newsletter, Is Here

MIT Technology Review has launched "Making AI Work," a limited‑run, seven‑week AI mini‑course newsletter that delivers weekly case studies on real‑world AI deployments. The series spans health care, nuclear energy, education, small‑business operations, finance and personal productivity, ending with a...

By MIT Technology Review
Smart Data Center Market Accelerates with AI, Cloud, and Energy-Efficient Infrastructure
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Smart Data Center Market Accelerates with AI, Cloud, and Energy-Efficient Infrastructure

The global smart data center market is projected to grow from $82.6 billion in 2026 to $145.3 billion by 2033, a CAGR of 8.4%. Growth is fueled by surging demand for AI‑driven workloads, cloud computing, and high‑performance computing. Solutions such as data‑center...

By AiThority
IPcook Empowers AI Training Data Acquisition with High-Performance Residential Proxies
NewsFeb 9, 2026

IPcook Empowers AI Training Data Acquisition with High-Performance Residential Proxies

IPcook has launched a high‑performance residential proxy service aimed at AI developers needing large, diverse training datasets. The platform delivers over 55 million IPs in 185 locations, with response times under 0.5 seconds and bulk pricing as low as $0.5 per gigabyte....

By MarTech Series
Global Chip Sales Are on Track to Hit $1 Trillion Thanks to AI
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Global Chip Sales Are on Track to Hit $1 Trillion Thanks to AI

Global semiconductor revenue is projected to breach the $1 trillion mark, propelled by explosive AI demand. The Semiconductor Industry Association reported $791.7 billion in sales for 2025, a 25.6% year‑over‑year increase. Tech giants are pouring capital into AI‑focused data‑center infrastructure, accelerating the...

By TechSpot
What AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About XRP in ETF-Driven Markets
NewsFeb 9, 2026

What AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About XRP in ETF-Driven Markets

The crypto market has slowed, with ETF‑driven capital flows now shaping price dynamics more than headline‑driven sentiment. Binance Research reports over $2 billion net inflows into altcoin ETFs, led by XRP and Solana, while Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs have been...

By Artificial Intelligence News
This Dunkin’ Franchisee Is Using AI to Track Inventory and Predict Donut Demand
NewsFeb 9, 2026

This Dunkin’ Franchisee Is Using AI to Track Inventory and Predict Donut Demand

Bluemont Group, a Dunkin’ franchisee operating 99 stores, launched Do’Cast—an AI system built with PreciTaste that uses in‑store cameras and predictive modeling to monitor donut inventory and forecast demand. By factoring sales history, weather, holidays and local events, Do’Cast has...

By Fast Company AI
MuseCool Is Using Audio AI to Fix the Biggest Problem in Music Education
NewsFeb 9, 2026

MuseCool Is Using Audio AI to Fix the Biggest Problem in Music Education

MuseCool, a London‑based music school, has launched an AI‑powered practice assistant called The Muse to address chronic practice gaps in traditional music lessons. The system records lesson audio, analyzes performance, and automatically creates short, game‑like practice sessions with analytics for...

By Tech.eu
StackHawk Launches Alliances Program to Help AppSec Teams Navigate the AI Era
NewsFeb 9, 2026

StackHawk Launches Alliances Program to Help AppSec Teams Navigate the AI Era

StackHawk unveiled the StackHawk Alliances & Resellers Program (SHARP) to empower channel partners in delivering AI‑ready application security. A recent survey shows 87% of firms use AI coding assistants, making rapid, secure development the top 2026 challenge. SHARP promises 30%+...

By AI-TechPark
Cryptocurrency Markets a Testbed for AI Forecasting Models
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Cryptocurrency Markets a Testbed for AI Forecasting Models

Cryptocurrency markets are being leveraged as a high‑speed testbed for AI forecasting models, thanks to their continuous trading and transparent on‑chain data. Developers are deploying LSTM‑based neural networks enhanced with attention mechanisms and NLP sentiment analysis to capture both price...

By Artificial Intelligence News
ACL Digital Achieves ISTQB® Platinum Partner Status
NewsFeb 9, 2026

ACL Digital Achieves ISTQB® Platinum Partner Status

ACL Digital, an ALTEN Group company, has been awarded the ISTQB® Platinum Partner certification, the highest tier in the International Software Testing Qualifications Board program. The achievement places ACL among a select group of Indian firms with this status and...

By AI-TechPark
Why Companies In Southeast Asia Are Moving AI Systems Closer To Their Internal Data
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Why Companies In Southeast Asia Are Moving AI Systems Closer To Their Internal Data

AI adoption in Southeast Asia is moving from experimentation with public models to operational deployment that accesses internal documents, workflows, and proprietary knowledge. This transition turns AI from a productivity add‑on into core infrastructure, raising data‑exposure, compliance, and stability concerns....

By TechBullion
Rankpage Introduces Expanded AI-Driven SEO Offerings to Support Businesses of All Sizes Across Malaysia
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Rankpage Introduces Expanded AI-Driven SEO Offerings to Support Businesses of All Sizes Across Malaysia

Rankpage, a Malaysia‑based AI‑driven SEO agency, announced an expanded suite of AI‑powered search optimization services. The rollout includes a fortified Search Dominance Framework—featuring SERP‑Dominating Technology, Global AI Connectivity Backlink, and a Satellite Ecosystem—and tiered packages priced from RM1,500 to over...

By MarTech Series
BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability
NewsFeb 9, 2026

BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability

BullFrog AI announced a new scenario‑based decision engine to be released on March 25, adding a strategic layer to its bfPREP™ and bfLEAP® platforms. The engine compares drug programs, indications, and trial designs without forcing single numeric scores, and evaluates portfolio...

By AI-TechPark
HRDA Frankly Speaking: ‘AI Isn’t the Answer to Every Problem’
NewsFeb 9, 2026

HRDA Frankly Speaking: ‘AI Isn’t the Answer to Every Problem’

Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, told HR Daily Advisor that while AI is reshaping HR, it is not a universal solution. He emphasized distinguishing tasks where AI adds value—such as automating repetitive processes—from those that...

By HR Daily Advisor
Alibaba’s Overloaded AI Chatbot Stops Issuing Coupons, Asks Shoppers for Patience
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Alibaba’s Overloaded AI Chatbot Stops Issuing Coupons, Asks Shoppers for Patience

Alibaba’s Qwen AI chatbot temporarily stopped issuing coupons after an overwhelming response to its Spring Festival promotion. The campaign, part of a 3‑billion‑yuan plan, generated 10 million orders in the first nine hours, prompting the bot to announce overload on Weibo....

By Indian Express AI
Exploring the Future of Stablecoins and Digital Transformation
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Exploring the Future of Stablecoins and Digital Transformation

In a Fintech Times podcast, MoneyGram CEO Anthony Soohoo discusses stablecoins, digital transformation, and AI's role in financial services. He outlines MoneyGram’s strategy to integrate stablecoins for faster, lower‑cost cross‑border transfers and highlights ongoing regulatory challenges. Soohoo also emphasizes how...

By The Fintech Times
Nvidia Releases DreamDojo, a Robot ‘World Model’ Trained on 44,000 Hours of Human Video
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Nvidia Releases DreamDojo, a Robot ‘World Model’ Trained on 44,000 Hours of Human Video

Nvidia unveiled DreamDojo, a robot world model trained on a 44,000‑hour human egocentric video dataset, enabling robots to acquire physical intuition by observation before hardware‑specific fine‑tuning. The DreamDojo‑HV dataset is 15× longer, contains 96× more skills and spans 2,000× more...

By VentureBeat
Retail Rewired: Why Human-Centred Retail Is the Priority for 2026
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Retail Rewired: Why Human-Centred Retail Is the Priority for 2026

Retail leaders in Australia and New Zealand are re‑balancing AI‑driven efficiency with human‑centred strategies, according to iMedia’s Retail Industry Pulse 2025. Eight in ten executives now list personalized customer experience as the top growth lever, while loyalty is being elevated to...

By Inside Retail Australia
Beyond Model Benchmarks: Algolia CTO Xavier Grand Joins AI Day France 2026 Panel on Algolia’s Role in the GenAI UX...
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Beyond Model Benchmarks: Algolia CTO Xavier Grand Joins AI Day France 2026 Panel on Algolia’s Role in the GenAI UX...

Algolia announced that Chief Technology Officer Xavier Grand will speak at AI Day 2026 in Paris, joining leading French tech figures for a panel on the GenAI UX revolution. The event, hosted at Station F by France Digitale, will attract roughly...

By MarTech Series
New York CEO Dan Herbatschek of Ramsey Theory Capital Delivers New Real-Time Governance for Enterprise AI Systems as AI Safety...
NewsFeb 9, 2026

New York CEO Dan Herbatschek of Ramsey Theory Capital Delivers New Real-Time Governance for Enterprise AI Systems as AI Safety...

Ramsey Theory Capital, led by CEO Dan Herbatschek, unveiled a real‑time AI governance platform to help enterprises meet the new New York RAISE Act and similar state AI safety laws. The solution embeds compliance, risk analytics, and automated documentation throughout...

By AiThority
Acalvio Named as Current Company to Beat in the 2025 Gartner® AI Vendor Race
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Acalvio Named as Current Company to Beat in the 2025 Gartner® AI Vendor Race

Acalvio Technologies has been crowned the "Company to Beat" in Gartner’s 2025 AI Vendor Race for AI‑powered advanced cyber deception. Gartner highlights that AI is removing technical barriers, allowing deception systems to scale, automate traps and adapt to attacker behavior...

By AI-TechPark
Tai Software and OpenTrack Announce Integration Bringing AI-Native End-to-End Container Visibility Directly Into Tai TMS
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Tai Software and OpenTrack Announce Integration Bringing AI-Native End-to-End Container Visibility Directly Into Tai TMS

Tai Software announced an integration with OpenTrack that embeds AI‑native, end‑to‑end container visibility directly into its transportation management system. The connection streams real‑time milestones, exception alerts, and operational data into Tai’s Shipment Location History and Check Call modules, eliminating manual...

By AiThority
The Future of Immersive Media: Volumetric Video Market Explodes as AR/VR and Metaverse Demand Surge Globally
NewsFeb 9, 2026

The Future of Immersive Media: Volumetric Video Market Explodes as AR/VR and Metaverse Demand Surge Globally

The volumetric video market is experiencing rapid expansion, driven by accelerating AR/VR adoption, AI‑enhanced compression, and surging metaverse demand. Software solutions dominate, with rendering, compression, and playback technologies seeing the strongest growth. North America leads the market, supported by early...

By MarTech Series
Peter Pru, Founder of Option Sellers School, Launches ArkPicks, an AI-Powered Options Screening Tool for Busy Investors
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Peter Pru, Founder of Option Sellers School, Launches ArkPicks, an AI-Powered Options Screening Tool for Busy Investors

Peter Pru, founder of Option Sellers School, has unveiled ArkPicks, an AI‑powered options research platform that consolidates technical analysis, news summaries, liquidity data, earnings tracking, and trade calculations into a single dashboard. The tool targets systematic options sellers, promising to...

By AiThority
UAE’s TII Challenges Big Tech Dominance with Open Source Falcon AI Models
NewsFeb 9, 2026

UAE’s TII Challenges Big Tech Dominance with Open Source Falcon AI Models

The United Arab Emirates’ Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released its Falcon family of large language models as open‑source, positioning the nation as a challenger to big‑tech AI dominance. Falcon models emphasize efficiency, with the 7‑billion‑parameter H1R delivering high‑performance reasoning...

By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
Black Duck Releases BSIMM16
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Black Duck Releases BSIMM16

Black Duck unveiled BSIMM16, the 16th edition of its Building Security In Maturity Model, analyzing 111 organizations and 91,200 applications. The study finds AI-generated code now dominates application‑security concerns, with a 10% rise in AI‑focused attack intelligence and risk‑ranking. Regulatory...

By AI-TechPark
ChatGPT Errors: What They Mean & How to Fix Them - Complete Troubleshooting Guide (2026)
NewsFeb 9, 2026

ChatGPT Errors: What They Mean & How to Fix Them - Complete Troubleshooting Guide (2026)

The guide outlines a step‑by‑step troubleshooting framework for the myriad ChatGPT error messages that users encounter across browsers, apps, and networks. It distinguishes between local issues—solvable with page refreshes, sign‑outs, incognito windows, or disabling extensions—and server‑side failures such as 502,...

By Just AI News
Global HealthX Crosses $15 Mn in Healthcare Investments, Unveils Startup Cohort
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Global HealthX Crosses $15 Mn in Healthcare Investments, Unveils Startup Cohort

Global HealthX, the venture studio of the Global University Foundation, announced it has surpassed $15 million in investments across Indian healthcare and life‑science startups over the past two years. The latest cohort features five companies—TapHealth, Wellytics, Monitra Health, Merry Health and...

By Entrackr
Novi AI Launches Independent AI Creation Studio Following Brand Upgrade
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Novi AI Launches Independent AI Creation Studio Following Brand Upgrade

Novi AI has launched an independent website, rebranding itself as a standalone AI Creation Studio for images, videos, and multimodal content. The platform consolidates leading AI models—including Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling, Nano Banana, and Seedream—into a single workflow, simplifying...

By MarTech Series
HitPaw API Is Integrated by Comfy for Professional Image and Video Enhancement to Global Creators
NewsFeb 9, 2026

HitPaw API Is Integrated by Comfy for Professional Image and Video Enhancement to Global Creators

HitPaw, an AI visual‑enhancement provider, announced its integration with Comfy, a global content‑creation platform. The partnership embeds HitPaw’s Image and Video Enhancer APIs directly into Comfy’s workflow, offering creators one‑click super‑resolution, denoising, and generative restoration for photos and frame‑aware video...

By MarTech Series
A Coding Implementation to Establish Rigorous Prompt Versioning and Regression Testing Workflows for Large Language Models Using MLflow
NewsFeb 9, 2026

A Coding Implementation to Establish Rigorous Prompt Versioning and Regression Testing Workflows for Large Language Models Using MLflow

The tutorial demonstrates how to treat LLM prompts as first‑class, versioned artifacts and apply rigorous regression testing using MLflow. It builds an evaluation pipeline that logs prompt versions, diffs, model outputs, and metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE‑L, and semantic similarity....

By MarkTechPost
Wisely Ai Sets a New Impact Benchmark Protecting 100 Mn Indosat Users From 2 Bn+ Scam and Spam Communications in...
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Wisely Ai Sets a New Impact Benchmark Protecting 100 Mn Indosat Users From 2 Bn+ Scam and Spam Communications in...

Tanla Platforms’ Wisely AI has been deployed by Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison across Indonesia, analyzing more than 11 billion communications for 100 million subscribers in its first six months. The system identified over 2 billion spam and scam messages, blocked more than 2 million malicious...

By AiThority
How to Be an Intelligent Bank?
NewsFeb 9, 2026

How to Be an Intelligent Bank?

The post outlines a roadmap for banks to become "intelligent" by first embedding digital at their core, then embracing open‑banking APIs and modernizing back‑office systems, and finally layering AI‑driven intelligence on high‑quality customer data. It stresses that without clean, actionable...

By The Finanser
Allama: Open-Source AI Security Automation
NewsFeb 9, 2026

Allama: Open-Source AI Security Automation

Allama is an open‑source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It ships with integrations for more than 80 security tools, from SIEMs to ticketing systems, and leverages AI‑powered agents that can enrich,...

By Help Net Security