Domino Data Lab Names Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair Admiral Christopher Grady to Board to Advance Public Sector...
Domino Data Lab appointed retired Admiral Christopher Grady, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as an independent board member to steer its public‑sector AI strategy. The company also promoted Chris Elsins to Global Vice President of Public Sector, underscoring its focus on federal growth. Domino reported a 2× increase in public‑sector revenue over the past year, highlighted by a $16.5 million Navy Project Overmatch contract that slashed model‑update cycles by 97%. These moves aim to embed scalable, trustworthy AI across defense and civilian missions.
EXCLUSIVE: 6AM City Is Swapping Reporters for AI in Markets It Can’t Afford
6AM City, the newsletter‑driven local media publisher, is trimming its footprint to chase profitability after a decade of rapid growth. The company reduced its core markets from roughly 30 to 19 and cut about 35 jobs, leaving a staff of...
WealthReach Debuts Platform to Transform Insurance Prospecting
WealthReach has launched InsuranceReach, an AI‑powered prospecting platform tailored for insurance agents. The solution leverages intent‑data and AI to uncover up to 40% of previously anonymous website visitors, enrich profiles, and score prospects based on buying signals. It also provides...
Weak Earnings Drag IREN, Amazon; Bitcoin Stocks Rebound in Pre-Market
AI‑focused companies IREN and Amazon posted mixed earnings, while Bitcoin’s rally lifted crypto‑related stocks in pre‑market trading. IREN’s Q2 revenue fell to $184.7 million and it recorded a $155.4 million loss, but secured $3.6 billion in GPU financing and a $1.9 billion pre‑payment covering...
Novoslo Founded by Keenan Torcato and Shannon Torcato to Help Businesses Implement Scalable AI Transformation
Novoslo, founded by Keenan and Shannon Torcato, launches as an AI and automation consulting firm focused on scalable transformation. The company introduces a Strategic AI Transformation Framework that assesses workflows, data infrastructure, and operational bottlenecks before delivering customized roadmaps. By...
TokTak Launches New Video Editing Feature to Enhance AI-Powered Content Automation
TokTak, the AI‑driven social‑media content platform, has added a Video Editing feature that lets users modify transitions, captions, images, and background music in AI‑generated short‑form videos. The tool provides real‑time previews and scene‑by‑scene editing, enabling creators to fine‑tune each element...
How Knowband Is Driving Innovation Across the Global eCommerce Platform Ecosystem with Generative AI
Knowband, a long‑time eCommerce solutions provider, has launched two generative‑AI plugins for PrestaShop and OpenCart. The AI Chatbot module delivers real‑time, multilingual support by pulling live catalog and order data, while the LLMs.txt Generator automatically creates structured files that feed...
Xtm Launches Intelligent Post-Editing to Bring Ai-Driven Review Automation to Enterprise Localisation
XTM International has introduced Intelligent Post‑Editing, an AI‑driven feature that automates routine review and correction of translated content within XTM Cloud. Leveraging large language models, the tool applies context‑aware edits for terminology, formality, gender neutrality, and locale‑specific rules while keeping...
With Zero Funding, Nigerian AI Startup Decide Ranks Fourth Globally for Spreadsheet Accuracy
Nigerian AI startup Decide ranked fourth globally on the SpreadsheetBench benchmark, achieving an 82.5% accuracy score by solving 330 of 400 real‑world spreadsheet tasks. The company, founded by ex‑Flutterwave developer Abiodun Adetona, operates with just three employees and no external...
How CMOs and CEOs Are Rewriting the Rules of Leadership in the AI Era
ADWEEK convened a select group of CMOs and CEOs at Davos for its inaugural Marketing Vanguard Inspiration Excursion, partnering with Adobe and Microsoft. Over two days, participants explored agentic AI, ethical governance, brand evolution, and the necessity of C‑suite alignment...
Facial Recognition: Sainsbury’s Removes Innocent Shopper Misidentified as Offender
Sainsbury’s apologized after a shopper was mistakenly identified by its facial‑recognition system at the Elephant & Castle store and escorted out. The 42‑year‑old tech worker was later confirmed not to be in the Facewatch database, leading the retailer to blame...
From Hype to Reality: Only 5% of Procurement Organizations Have Truly Scaled GenAI
EFESO’s 2026 CPO Annual Pulse Report finds that only 5% of procurement organizations have moved beyond pilots to fully scale generative AI, while 75% are still in experimentation. Large enterprises are far ahead, with 83% regularly using GenAI compared to...
NexusTek Launches NexusOps with NexusIQ, Advancing IT Support with AI-Powered Workflow Intelligence
NexusTek unveiled NexusOps with NexusIQ, an AI‑powered service delivery platform that shifts IT support from reactive ticket handling to proactive, intelligence‑driven workflows. The solution embeds AI at triage, routing, and communication stages, leveraging historical ticket data and company‑specific policies to...
Sven Koenig Wins the 2026 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
The episode celebrates Sven Koenig receiving the 2026 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, highlighting his seminal contributions to AI planning and search that enable intelligent agents to operate in complex, dynamic settings. It underscores how his work bridges theory and...
ZenaTech’s Drone as a Service Announces Initiation of Its Golf Course Survey Services Across Florida
ZenaTech announced the launch of its Drone as a Service (DaaS) platform for golf‑course surveying across Florida, marking the first dedicated rollout of this specialized offering. Over the past year the company completed drone‑enabled surveys for five championship‑level courses, establishing...
Tianrong Internet Products and Services Announces Strategic Entry Into AI Inference Marketplace and Decentralized GPU Compute
Tianrong Internet Products and Services (TIPS) announced a strategic initiative to build an AI Inference Marketplace that aggregates idle GPU resources from gaming PCs and workstations into a decentralized compute network. The MVP launches this month, offering inference jobs via...
Lawhive Closes $60M Series B for Consumer Legal AI
Lawhive announced a $60 million Series B round led by Danaher co‑founder Mitch Rales, adding to a $40 million Series A raised less than a year earlier. The UK‑originated legal‑tech firm now reports over $35 million in annual revenue—a seven‑fold increase in 12 months—and operates...
Reach Selects DeeperDive From Taboola, Gen AI Answer Engine Built for the Open Web, to Connect Readers with Timely, Contextual...
Reach PLC announced it will deploy Taboola’s DeeperDive, a generative‑AI answer engine, across its flagship titles such as Express and Daily Star. DeeperDive lives directly on publisher sites, pulling from each outlet’s own editorial archive to deliver instant, conversational answers...
How AI Is Forcing Journalists and PR to Work Smarter, Not Louder
AI is transforming journalism and public relations by shifting the focus from volume to narrative relevance. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) will become the new front‑door of the internet as AI answer engines replace traditional search results. Studies show AI portals...
Is Europe Prepared for AGI?
RAND Europe hosted a webinar examining how artificial general intelligence could reshape global power dynamics and what steps Europe should take to prepare. Experts highlighted the EU’s current fragmented approach and the need for a unified policy that balances innovation,...
Daytona Raises $24M for AI Agent Computing Infrastructure
Daytona announced a $24 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Pace Capital, Upfront Ventures, E2VC, Darkmode, Datadog, and Figma Ventures. The startup offers programmatic, composable sandboxes that act as "computers for every AI agent," enabling instant startup,...
MintMCP’s Governance Platform Helps Organizations Deploy, Monitor, and Secure AI Agents
MintMCP introduced an enterprise governance platform that lets organizations deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents and MCP servers at scale. The solution offers one‑click MCP server provisioning, real‑time agent activity tracing, and configurable guardrails to block risky actions. It also...
Cognizant, Palantir Partner for AI-Driven Enterprise Modernization
Cognizant announced a strategic partnership with Palantir to embed the Foundry data platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) into its TriZetto healthcare suite and broader Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) offerings. The collaboration aims to deliver secure, governed AI...
Gallea Ai Joins IBM Partner Plus as an IBM Business Partner to Deliver Enterprise Grade AI and Hybrid Cloud Capabilities...
Gallea Ai has joined IBM Partner Plus, earning IBM Business Partner status to deliver enterprise‑grade AI and hybrid cloud solutions to small and mid‑sized businesses across North America and the United Kingdom. The partnership grants Gallea Ai access to IBM’s...
OpenAI Launches Trusted Access for Cyber to Expand AI-Driven Defense While Managing Risk
OpenAI announced Trusted Access for Cyber, a program that provides vetted defenders with controlled access to its most advanced cybersecurity model, GPT‑5.3‑Codex, via ChatGPT. The initiative pairs this privileged access with $10 million in API‑credit grants to support defensive research and...
How Airwallex’s AI Assistant Compares With Other Fintech AI Tools
Airwallex has launched an AI‑driven virtual assistant that automates payment routing, compliance checks, and real‑time reporting for corporate clients. The tool leverages large‑language models to interpret natural‑language queries and suggest optimal cross‑border strategies, cutting processing time by roughly 30 percent....
Qlik Connect 2026 Expands Keynote Program as Enterprises Prepare for the Next Wave of AI
Qlik announced an expanded keynote program for Qlik Connect 2026, scheduled for April 13‑15 in Kissimmee, Florida. The lineup now features AI commentator Jason Del Rey and AI ethics expert Dr. Rumman Chowdhury alongside Qlik’s chief strategy officer. The event will focus...
Luxury Briefing: Brunello Cucinelli Thinks Keyword Search Is Holding Luxury Back
Brunello Cucinelli’s chief of humanistic technology, Francesco Bottiglieri, revealed the brand’s new AI‑driven website at Shoptalk Luxe, arguing that traditional keyword search hampers luxury discovery. He explained that classic site structures—homepages, category filters, and search bars—serve repeat buyers but fall...
Small Businesses Dump Manual Workflows for BILL AI Tools
Bill.com reported strong growth in its SMB customer base during Q2 FY2026, now serving 498,000 businesses and 9,500 accounting firms, up from 481,000 a year earlier. Invoice financing adoption jumped nearly 50% year‑over‑year with origination volume rising over 30%, while...
Latent Labs: AI-Designed, Ready-to-Develop Biologics
Latent Labs, founded by former DeepMind researchers, has unveiled AI platforms that design drug‑like biologics in a single step. Leveraging generative foundation models inspired by AlphaFold2, the London‑based startup creates de novo macrocycles and antibodies for hard‑to‑drug targets. By addressing immunogenicity...
New MIT Framework Uses Search to Handle LLM Errors in AI Agents
MIT CSAIL and Asari AI introduced EnCompass, a Python framework that adds systematic search and backtracking to AI agents using large language models. Developers annotate "branchpoints" where LLM outputs may vary, then the runtime explores execution paths with strategies such...
Affirm Details New AI Tool for Merchants
Affirm is piloting BoostAI, an AI‑driven tool that lets merchants A/B test promotional financing offers to identify the most effective rates and terms. Early adopters—47 enterprise clients and hundreds of SMBs—report a 5%‑15% lift in gross merchandise volume. The initiative...
CommBank Bids to Ease Customer Fears over AI Adoption
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has teamed with Melbourne Business School to launch the AI Attitudes Barometer, a longitudinal study of 5,109 Australian adults on AI perception in financial services. Early results show 69% of respondents would favor a bank whose...
Sapiom Raises $15M to Help AI Agents Buy Their Own Tech Tools
Sapiom, founded by former Shopify payments director Ilan Zerbib, announced a $15 million seed round led by Accel to build a financial layer that lets AI agents automatically purchase and authenticate external services. The platform aims to automate micro‑payments and credential...
AI Is Helping Funders Evaluate More Ideas More Fairly
Solve received 2,901 grant applications for its 2025 Global Challenges and deployed an AI screening tool built on GPT‑4o mini. The system evaluated objective eligibility, assigned pass/fail/review scores, and reduced initial screening time from 25 days to ten. AI proved...
AI Can Make You Multilingual Overnight — Or Create Chaos Just As Fast
The episode explores how generative AI and machine translation are reshaping enterprise localization, turning multilingual content from a niche function into a pervasive capability across all business units. It warns that treating AI translation as a simple toggle leads to...
Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents
An open‑source Slack CLI built with TypeScript and Bun enables AI agents to interact with Slack data through a token‑efficient, JSON‑only interface. The tool offers zero‑config authentication by reading Slack Desktop credentials on macOS, with Chrome fallback, and provides commands...
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
The Department of Homeland Security rolled out the Mobile Fortify app in spring 2025 to let ICE and CBP agents scan faces and generate candidate matches, but the technology cannot positively verify identities. Records show the tool has been used over...
Claude Opus 4.6 Extra Usage Promo
Anthropic is rolling out a limited‑time promotion that grants Pro and Max subscribers a $50 credit for extra usage of Claude Opus 4.6. The credit applies automatically for users who already have extra usage enabled, or can be claimed by enabling...
Ecommerce Trends: How Levi Strauss Is Using AI
Levi Strauss & Co. is scaling AI across its ecommerce and operations, highlighted in its Q4 earnings call. The company launched the Outfitting feature in its mobile app, a visual style‑recommendation tool that learns from purchase history and browsing data,...
AI Infrastructure Financing Enters a New Era: What Execs Need to Know
AI infrastructure financing is rapidly evolving as traditional bank lending can’t keep pace with the capital intensity of AI‑ready data centers. Lenders are stepping back because power‑delivery risk and SPV structures clash with cash‑flow lending models. GPUs now face six‑to‑nine‑month...
I Tested the Notta Memo and Ditched Handwritten Notes for Searchable AI Transcripts
Notta Memo is a credit‑card‑sized AI‑enhanced voice recorder that attaches via MagSafe or a magnetic ring, delivering near‑real‑time transcription across 58 languages. Tests in lectures, cafés, and meetings showed high accuracy, speaker identification, and searchable transcripts, with up to 30 hours...
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 as Its AI Tools Rattle Software Markets
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, its most capable AI model yet, featuring a 1 million‑token context window and enhanced coding abilities. The upgrade promises better planning, longer autonomous tasks, and an internal debugging loop that catches errors. Independent GDPval‑AA testing shows Opus 4.6...
Understanding Satellite Data Analytics
Satellite data analytics converts massive streams of orbital imagery into actionable intelligence, leveraging machine learning, cloud computing, and advanced sensor suites. The sector now processes petabytes of Earth‑observation data daily, delivering near‑real‑time products for agriculture, insurance, climate monitoring, and defense....
X Calls on Users to Submit Grok-Generated Video for Super Bowl Promotion
X is launching a $1 million contest inviting users to create Grok‑generated video ads for its upcoming Super Bowl promotion. Participants must use the newly released Grok Imagine 1.0 engine to produce 30‑second clips that showcase the tool’s video and audio capabilities....
Secondary Sales Shift From Founder Windfalls to Employee-Retention Tools
AI‑focused startups such as Clay, Linear and ElevenLabs are increasingly using secondary tender offers to let employees sell shares at soaring valuations, with Clay’s latest offering pricing stock at $5 billion, up 60% from its August valuation. These deals contrast with...
Google’s Gemini AI Surpasses 750M Monthly Users Following Gemini 3 Launch
Google announced that its Gemini AI chatbot now serves over 750 million monthly active users, up from 650 million the previous quarter. The surge follows the rollout of Gemini 3, the company’s most advanced large‑language model, which CEO Sundar Pichai credited as the...
Introducing SyGra Studio
SyGra 2.0.0 launches Studio, a visual IDE for building synthetic data generation workflows. The canvas lets users configure models, data sources, and prompts via drag‑and‑drop, automatically generating the underlying YAML/JSON graph. Studio provides live execution monitoring, token‑cost tracking, and inline...
This Is the Next Big Thing in Corporate AI
The article argues that the era of simply plugging large language models (LLMs) into business workflows is ending as these models become commoditized. While LLMs improve efficiency, they offer limited differentiation because they are broadly accessible and trained on similar...
Coty Partners with OpenAI
Coty has signed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise across its global operations. The AI tool will be available to all employees, supported by an international upskilling program, aiming to boost efficiency in creativity and strategic...