Attom Introduces Mcp Server for AI Applications and Expands Its Cloud Data Delivery Through Databricks
ATTOM announced two strategic upgrades: the ATTOM MCP Server, an AI‑native access layer that lets large language models and other AI systems retrieve structured property data securely, and a Databricks delivery option built on Delta Sharing that streams curated datasets directly into customers’ Databricks workspaces. The MCP Server standardizes authentication, permissions and usage monitoring for AI‑driven workflows such as automated underwriting, research tools and internal copilots. Databricks delivery eliminates the need for traditional ETL pipelines, offering instant, query‑ready data with enterprise‑grade security. Together, the offerings broaden ATTOM’s platform reach across analytics and AI environments.
Google’s SAGE Agentic AI Research: What It Means For SEO via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google released the SAGE research paper, introducing a dual‑agent system that automatically generates complex question‑answer pairs for training AI search agents. Existing datasets like Musique and HotpotQA average fewer than three search steps, leaving a gap for deep‑research tasks. SAGE’s...
NICE Strategy Leader Talks Agentic AI, Retail Industry Trends
At NRF 2026, Tom Yang, head of sales strategy and transformation at NICE, highlighted the rise of agentic AI in retail customer experience. He explained how NICE’s purpose‑built, AI‑powered platforms turn engagements into proactive, safe, and intelligent actions, enabling retailers...
Forethought Surpasses $1B in Customer ROI as Enterprise Demand for Agentic AI Accelerates
Forethought announced it has delivered over $1 billion in return on investment for its customers since its 2018 launch, underscoring the commercial power of agentic AI in customer service. The company highlighted three new offerings—Headless Forethought, Custom Insights, and Browser Agent—that...
Backblaze Publishes Q4 2025 Network Stats: Data Reveals the Rising Dominance of Neoclouds and AI Workflows
Backblaze released its Q4 2025 Network Stats, showing AI‑driven data traffic now concentrates in US‑East neocloud hubs and moves in sustained, high‑magnitude bursts. The report documents a peak in AI flows in October, a surge in large‑scale migrations via private fiber,...
GreetEat Corporation Subsidiary WallStreetStats.io Launches Groundbreaking Financial AI Chat Agent
WallStreetStats.io, a subsidiary of GreetEat Corporation (OTC: GEAT), has launched a Financial AI Chat Agent that delivers real‑time, natural‑language answers on stocks, options, and trading strategies. The tool combines proprietary market data with AI and machine learning to replace manual...
GenStar Partners with ZestyAI to Sharpen Hail Risk Underwriting
GenStar has teamed with InsurTech ZestyAI to integrate its Z‑STORM AI model into the underwriting of hail, wind and severe convective storm risk for its commercial property portfolio. The partnership delivers property‑level risk analytics for complex multi‑unit assets, allowing more...
NYU Stern Creates New Artificial Intelligence Specialization for MBA Students
NYU Stern announced a new Artificial Intelligence specialization for its MBA programs, debuting in fall 2026. The track comprises nine interdisciplinary electives, a core data‑science class, and a dedicated Foundations of AI Agents course. Students can select AI as one...
AIhub Monthly Digest: January 2026 – Moderating Guardrails, Humanoid Soccer, and Attending AAAI
The January 2026 AIhub monthly digest covers five main stories: the record‑breaking AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore and AI science‑communication talks; an interview with Anindya Das Antar on evaluating moderation guardrails for LLMs; insights from RoboCup trustee Alessandra Rossi on...
Chinese RISC-V Chipmaker SpacemiT Launches K3 AI CPU, Highlighting the Rise of Open-Source Hardware in Intelligent Computing
SpacemiT, a Chinese RISC‑V chipmaker, unveiled its K3 AI CPU on Jan. 29, positioning it as a power‑efficient, open‑source processor for edge and intelligent terminal workloads. The chip integrates eight X100 cores running up to 2.4 GHz and delivers up to 60 TOPS...
Can AI Make Life Easier for Working Parents?
Working parents are overwhelmed by constant digital demands, from work emails to school notifications, and are seeking time‑saving solutions. The article argues that generative AI can alleviate this burden by summarizing lengthy messages, drafting polite communications, and handling routine household...
PepsiCo Is Using AI to Rethink How Factories Are Designed and Updated
PepsiCo is piloting AI‑driven digital twins to redesign factory layouts and production lines before any physical changes are made. The technology lets engineers test thousands of scenarios virtually, cutting validation cycles from weeks to days and lowering the risk of...
Forget Quantum? Why Photonic Data Centers Could Arrive First
Photonic computing is emerging as a realistic path to higher‑throughput, more energy‑efficient data centers, potentially arriving before general‑purpose quantum machines. By using photonic integrated circuits to perform linear‑algebra operations in the optical domain, these systems promise faster speeds, greater bandwidth,...
InsurTech Firm Sixfold Secures $30m to Advance AI Underwriting
Sixfold, a New York‑based InsurTech, closed a $30 million Series B round led by Brewer Lane with strategic participation from Guidewire. The funding will fuel development of its “AI Underwriter,” an autonomous system designed to handle end‑to‑end property and casualty underwriting. Sixfold’s...
Cardamon Partners Microsoft to Scale Secure AI in Compliance
Cardamon, a RegTech firm specializing in secure AI for compliance, has entered Microsoft’s AI Partnership Program to deliver enterprise‑grade, auditable AI solutions to highly regulated organizations. The collaboration combines Cardamon’s rapid delivery platform, which claims to automate up to 95%...
AI Battle: GPT-5, DeepSeek, Claude Tackle Dental MCQs
A recent study evaluated three leading AI models—GPT‑5, DeepSeek, and Claude—on multiple‑choice questions that simulate dental treatment scenarios for medically compromised patients. GPT‑5 delivered the most accurate and comprehensive answers, while DeepSeek excelled in localized problem solving but faltered on...
Aon Teams up with DataRobot to Streamline Onboarding with Agentic AI
Aon and DataRobot have launched a partnership to embed agentic AI into insurance onboarding and servicing workflows. The collaboration will use DataRobot's Agent Workforce Platform to automate document consolidation, certificate generation, and invoice processing while keeping human experts in charge...
This Whole AI Thing Is Simpler than You Think
Executives are now asking why AI hasn’t delivered the promised productivity gains, and the answer is organizational misalignment rather than technology limits. Microsoft’s own study shows only 25 % of AI initiatives met expected returns, highlighting a systemic shortfall. Thought leaders...
'This Project Is a Glimpse at What Thoughtful, Creative, Artist-Led Use of AI Can Look Like' — George Washington Meets...
Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has launched "On This Day… 1776," a short‑form series that blends AI‑generated visuals with traditional voice acting to dramatize key moments of the American Revolution. The project is a collaboration between Aronofsky’s AI venture Primordial Soup, Google DeepMind,...
Why Fraud Doesn’t Look Like Fraud to a Data Scientist
Fraud no longer looks like a discrete incident; data scientists see it as subtle behavioral deviations across a dynamic transaction ecosystem. Traditional rule‑based defenses create excessive false declines, eroding revenue and customer trust. Visa’s shift to deep‑learning models delivers 15‑20%...
New ARC Hub Launched to Accelerate Research-to-Impact Pathway
Technological University Dublin launched the Research Ireland ARC Hub for ICT, a €32.21 million national initiative designed to fast‑track ICT and artificial intelligence research into commercial products. Co‑funded by the Irish government and the EU’s ERDF programme, the Hub offers targeted...
Pro Logica Expands Software and AI Development Operations to Support Growing U.S. Demand
Newport Beach‑based Pro Logica announced an expansion of its software and AI development operations to meet rising U.S. demand for production‑grade digital systems. The company is shifting focus from experimental prototypes toward custom, enterprise‑scale applications that emphasize security, performance, and...
Sundar Pichai Says ‘Google Can Help with Googly’: Gemini 3 Pro Demos Real-Time Cricket Insights
Google unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, an AI model that simultaneously processes cricket video and live commentary, delivering real‑time insights during World Cup clips. The demo, highlighted by CEO Sundar Pichai, showed the system pinpointing players, wickets, boundaries and momentum shifts while answering...
Arkose Titan Aims to Make Bot, Scraping, and AI Fraud Economically Unviable
Arkose Labs unveiled Arkose Titan, a unified platform that defends against both human‑driven and AI‑powered fraud, scraping, and bot attacks. The solution consolidates bot detection, device and email intelligence, API security, behavioral biometrics, and phishing protection into a single API...
Cognizant and Kohler Deepen Strategic Collaboration to Build the Next Generation of AI and Cloud‑Powered Ecosystem
Digital services firm Cognizant announced a multi‑year extension of its strategic partnership with kitchen‑and‑bath manufacturer Kohler. The renewed agreement expands cloud management, modernized infrastructure, and AI‑driven security, including Cognizant’s Neuro® IT Operations platform. By integrating generative AI and advanced observability,...
Intruder Grows Enterprise Customers by 81% as Part of Record 2025 Momentum
Intruder announced record 2025 growth, with enterprise annual recurring revenue climbing 81% year‑over‑year. The surge was fueled by a 51% rise in new business and a 2.5‑fold jump in expansion revenue, alongside the rollout of Cloud Security Posture Management and...
Selfotix Launches ‘Self Agent,’ an Agentic AI That Instantly Builds Web Automation Workflows
Selfotix unveiled Self Agent, an agentic AI feature that automatically generates complete web automation workflows within its Chrome extension. Users simply select an AI model and click “Generate Flow,” prompting the system to analyze page structure, create selectors, and build...
Adapt Raises $10M Seed to Become the AI Computer for Business
San Francisco AI startup Adapt announced a $10 million seed round co‑led by Activant Capital and Headline, positioning itself as the “AI computer” for enterprises. The capital backs a horizontal AI platform that embeds frontier models into any workflow via API...
KnowBe4 Celebrates a Decade of AI Innovation with 7 Active AI Agents in Market
KnowBe4 marks a decade of AI-driven cybersecurity by celebrating the tenth anniversary of its AIDA platform and the deployment of seven active AI agents in the market. The company appointed Harlan Parrott as Vice President of AI Innovation to head...
‘Godfather of AI’ Yann LeCun Calls AGI Overrated, Says Scaling AI Won’t Work
Yann LeCun, a founding figure of modern AI, warned that scaling large language models will not deliver artificial general intelligence. He argued that current systems cannot predict real‑world consequences, a gap that makes agentic AI unreliable. LeCun called for a...
MESCIUS USA, Inc. Introduces DsPdfAI for Document Solutions Product Line
MESCIUS USA, Inc. launched DsPdfAI, an AI assistant for its Document Solutions for PDF suite, bundled in version 9. The tool lets .NET developers automatically summarize PDFs, extract tables, and generate outline trees via simple API methods. Customizable request strings and...
A Coding Deep Dive Into Differentiable Computer Vision with Kornia Using Geometry Optimization, LoFTR Matching, and GPU Augmentations
The article presents a comprehensive, end‑to‑end tutorial that builds a fully differentiable computer‑vision pipeline using Kornia and PyTorch. It starts with synchronized GPU‑accelerated augmentations for images, masks, and keypoints, then shows how to recover a homography through gradient‑based optimization. The...
Iterate.ai Brings Agentic AI Workflows to Hospital Finances with New Solution
Iterate.ai, together with TD SYNNEX and HPE, launched Generate for Healthcare, an AI‑driven platform that helps hospitals identify and recover unpaid or underpaid insurance claims. The solution runs on HPE Private Cloud AI or HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 servers equipped with NVIDIA...
Capitol AI Appoints Rama Veeraragoo to Lead Product Management
Capitol AI announced the appointment of Rama Veeraragoo to head product management and roadmap development as it deepens its footprint in the United States and United Kingdom. Veeraragoo will translate frontline customer needs into trusted, high‑stakes AI systems, overseeing user...
Abusers Using AI and Digital Tech to Attack and Control Women, Charity Warns
Domestic‑abuse charity Refuge reports a sharp rise in technology‑enabled abuse, with a 62% increase in complex cases amounting to 829 women in Q4 2025. Referrals of victims under 30 grew 24%, highlighting younger women’s vulnerability to smart‑device stalking. Perpetrators are exploiting...
Human Risk Management: CISOs’ Solution to the Security Awareness Training Paradox
Human risk management (HRM) is emerging as a solution to the security awareness training (SAT) paradox, where 70‑90% of breaches originate from employee actions despite billions spent on training. While SAT spending is projected to grow 15% annually, its efficacy...
Black Duck Expands Federal Cloud Offerings with FedRAMP Push
Black Duck announced it has begun the FedRAMP Moderate authorization process for its Polaris Platform, aiming to secure a federal‑grade cloud offering. The company partnered with stackArmor, a FedRAMP engineering specialist, to fast‑track the Authorization to Operate (ATO). Black Duck...
NTT DATA Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Enterprise Cloud and Agentic AI Adoption
NTT DATA has signed a multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services to speed enterprise cloud migrations and responsible agentic AI adoption. The partnership leverages NTT DATA’s cloud‑native expertise and AWS’s scale to deliver industry‑specific solutions across finance, healthcare,...
Can Enterprise Data Move Faster?—Insights From an Award-Winning Data Engineering Manager
Victoria’s Secret senior data engineering leader Venkatesh Gundu outlines how cloud migration, AI adoption, and disciplined cost management can accelerate enterprise‑scale transformation. Over sixteen years he delivered more than $5 million in savings, cut infrastructure spend by 30‑35 % and built an...
AI-Generated News Should Carry ‘Nutrition’ Labels, Thinktank Says
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) calls for AI‑generated news to carry standardized “nutrition” labels that disclose the sources used, and for a UK licensing regime that forces tech firms to pay publishers for content. The think‑tank argues AI...
Europe’s Digital Genesis Fund Targets Tokenization, Web3 and AI
The Digital Genesis Fund has launched as a Luxembourg SICAV‑RAIF aimed at marrying institutional capital with Web3, tokenization and AI-driven infrastructure. Its first compartment, MILC, brings €20 million of pre‑financing and a €35 million content library to tokenized media production and distribution....
Glossy Podcast: Wholesale Overhauls, AI Strategies and More Hot Topics From Shoptalk Luxe in Abu Dhabi
At Shoptalk Luxe in Abu Dhabi, luxury brands highlighted a dual focus on AI integration and the renewed importance of human storytelling in retail. Executives said AI is best applied to back‑office tasks such as data analysis, while client‑facing experiences...
Multiply Labs Partners with Nvidia to Bring Physical AI Robotics to Advanced Biomanufacturing
Multiply Labs announced a partnership with Nvidia to embed the company's Isaac Sim, GR00T, FoundationPose and FoundationStereo technologies into its robotic biomanufacturing platform. The collaboration enables digital twins, AI‑driven manipulation models and perception pipelines that accelerate automation of cell and...
Story Protocol and OpenLedger Launch New Standard for Legal AI Training
Story Protocol and OpenLedger unveiled an on‑chain standard that lets AI systems legally use copyrighted material and automatically compensate rights holders. The framework registers intellectual property on Story Protocol, while OpenLedger enforces licensing terms and routes payments during AI training...
Cisco Foundation AI Debuts Agentic Security Tools to Protect Autonomous AI Systems
Cisco Foundation AI unveiled a suite of agentic security tools aimed at safeguarding increasingly autonomous AI systems in enterprise environments. The flagship offering, Foundation‑sec‑8B‑Reasoning, is an open‑weight model optimized for multistep cybersecurity analysis and produces explicit reasoning traces. Complementary releases...
Banks Reduce Reliance on OpenAI
Evident’s AI Index shows the world’s largest banks are cutting back on OpenAI, with its share of disclosed AI projects dropping from roughly 50% to about one‑third by the end of 2025. Banks are increasingly turning to Anthropic and Google...
Guys, I Don’t Think Tim Cook Knows How to Monetize AI
Apple reported a record $143.8 billion in revenue, up 16% year‑over‑year, surpassing analyst expectations. During the earnings call, Morgan Stanley’s Erik Woodring pressed CEO Tim Cook on how the company plans to monetize its growing AI investments. Cook responded with vague...
PwC Expands Google Cloud Alliance with $400M Push Into AI-Driven Security Operations
PwC announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud, committing $400 million over three years to accelerate AI‑driven security operations. The partnership blends Google Cloud’s AI‑powered security platforms with PwC’s transformation, risk, and managed‑service expertise to modernize security across hybrid and multicloud...
AI Use in Breast Cancer Screening Cuts Rate of Later Diagnosis by 12%, Study Finds
A Swedish trial of 100,000 women showed that AI‑supported mammography cut later‑stage breast cancer diagnoses by 12% and boosted early detection to 81% of cases. The AI system triaged low‑risk scans to a single radiologist and flagged high‑risk scans for...
Measuring Agentic AI Posture: A New Metric for CISOs
The episode introduces a new metric—Agentic AI Posture—to help CISOs assess readiness against fast‑moving AI‑driven threats, arguing that traditional security metrics like MTTR are insufficient. It outlines three pillars for measuring AI readiness: Visibility Ratio (tracking shadow agents and API...