Brivo Unveils 2026 Trends in Video Surveillance Report
Brivo released its 2026 Trends in Video Surveillance report, highlighting seven key trends shaping enterprise security. The study notes cloud‑based AI is now standard, enterprise cloud adoption is at a tipping point, and regulations around privacy and PII are becoming foundational. New capabilities such as gun detection and parking analytics are emerging as critical features. Brivo invites businesses to download the report and join a Feb. 18 webinar for deeper insights.
Introducing the Klaviyo App in ChatGPT
Klaviyo has launched a new app that embeds its marketing automation data directly into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. By tagging @Klaviyo, marketers can query real‑time campaign performance, revenue trends, and unsubscribe drivers, receiving results as interactive cards and plain‑language recommendations. The integration...
20i Launches the Web Industry’s First Unlimited Managed Hosting Assistant
20i has introduced Twentie, the web industry’s first unlimited managed hosting assistant, embedded directly into its platform. The AI‑driven tool accesses live account data to generate custom PDF and CSV reports, analyze performance metrics, and help with tasks like marketing...
Deezer Makes It Easier for Rival Platforms to Take a Stance Against AI-Generated Music
Deezer has opened its AI‑generated music detection system to rival streaming services, extending a tool that tags and removes AI tracks from recommendations and royalty pools. The platform processes about 60,000 AI‑created songs each day, with 85% of those streams...
Cassava and AXON Join Forces to Drive AI Innovation for African Firms
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks announced a strategic partnership to build Africa’s first end‑to‑end Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform, combining AXON’s AI‑ready, real‑time digital‑twin technology with Cassava’s 110,000 km high‑speed fibre backbone. The solution will deliver a multi‑tenant, AI‑managed network that can provision...
AI Adoption Advances in Manufacturing Amid Economic Headwinds
Rootstock’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey shows AI has become mainstream, with 94% of manufacturers deploying some form of artificial intelligence. Predictive AI usage rose to 48%, and investments are shifting toward supply‑chain planning and process optimization. Despite economic...
Adcom Transforms Communication Training with Its AI-Enabled Communication Labs
Adcom Designs, a Bay Area learning firm, launched AI‑Enabled Communication Labs that replace lecture‑based training with hands‑on, practice‑focused sessions. The labs integrate artificial intelligence from the start, offering customized workshops lasting two hours to two days for groups of ten...
NIST’s AI Guidance Pushes Cybersecurity Boundaries
NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation released a formal Request for Information targeting secure practices for autonomous AI agents, signaling a shift from broad, principle‑based AI risk guidance to concrete, operational controls. The agency highlighted the limits of treating...
The Sensor Suite for Autonomous Vehicles: LiDAR, Radar, Cameras and Sensor Fusion
Autonomous vehicles rely on perception rather than pure AI to make safe decisions, and that perception emerges from a heterogeneous sensor suite of cameras, LiDAR, radar and auxiliary devices. Each sensor brings complementary strengths—cameras offer semantic richness, LiDAR supplies precise...
Acumatica Summit 2026 - Taking the Pulse of Cloud ERP, AI, and Customer Realities
Acumatica Summit 2026 highlighted the company’s AI‑first roadmap, unveiling a trial of an AI assistant that will reach general availability in the fall. The event emphasized that SMB customers want AI capabilities embedded in the platform without the burden of...
AI Digital Twins Aim to Protect Astronaut Mobility on Deep Space Missions
West Virginia University researchers are creating AI-powered digital twins that replicate each astronaut's movement and muscle activation patterns to monitor neuromuscular health during long‑duration microgravity missions. By combining motion‑capture, wearable sensors, virtual‑reality tasks and physics‑based simulations, the models can predict...
ImmuniWeb Reports Double-Digit Growth and Platform Advances
ImmuniWeb reported an all‑time sales record for 2025, maintaining double‑digit year‑over‑year growth while staying profitable. The company rolled out four major AI Platform updates, adding AI‑specific testing for web, mobile, API, LLM vulnerabilities and post‑quantum encryption readiness. Independent ISO 9001 and...
NSFOCUS Unveils Enhanced AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix for Holistic AI Security Governance
NSFOCUS announced an upgraded AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix, adding 14 new threat categories that focus on AI agent, multimodal, and Multi‑Agent Communication Protocol (MCP) vulnerabilities. The matrix expands coverage across identity, application, model, data, and infrastructure security throughout the...
Questom (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineer
Questom, a YC‑backed startup building AI‑driven sales agents, is hiring a founding engineer with a $125K‑$150K salary and 0.75%‑1.5% equity. The role focuses on building high‑performance systems that integrate CRMs, communication channels, and agentic workflows, rather than mastering a specific...
AI-Enabled Scams Rose 500% in 2025 as Crypto Theft Goes ‘Industrial’
TRM Labs reports a five‑fold surge in large language model‑powered scams in 2025, propelling AI‑generated deepfakes, voice clones and synthetic images into mainstream fraud. Crypto theft amounted to $35 billion, a slight dip from 2024, while illicit crypto wallet inflows jumped...
OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store
OpenMind has launched a dedicated App Store for robots, positioning it as a software distribution layer for quadruped and humanoid platforms. The marketplace, built on the company’s OM1 modular operating system, aims to close the gap between rapidly evolving hardware...
Barq Group and Elroy Air to Establish $200 Million Joint Venture in Abu Dhabi to Manufacture Autonomous Aircraft
Barq Group and U.S.‑based Elroy Air have signed a $200 million joint‑venture agreement to build a manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi for the Chaparral autonomous hybrid‑electric VTOL cargo aircraft. The facility will serve commercial and humanitarian customers across the MENA region,...
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks Partner to Launch Operator-as-a-Service Platform Across Africa
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks have announced a joint venture to launch an Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform across Africa. The cloud‑native solution will enable telecom operators and new entrants to provision network services without heavy infrastructure investment. Targeting more than 30...
PredIG: A Clear Predictor for T-Cell Epitope Immunogenicity
Researchers introduced PredIG, an interpretable machine‑learning platform that predicts T‑cell epitope immunogenicity with higher accuracy than existing tools. The model integrates peptide sequence, structural conformation, and immune‑environment context, and was validated across multiple independent cohorts. By revealing the biological drivers...
Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Investors are pulling back from software company bonds as rapid AI advances raise doubts about business model stability. High‑profile moves like Google’s AI assistant launch and funding for Decagon AI have intensified fears, driving bond prices lower worldwide. While some...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers are fueling a surge in U.S. natural‑gas power development, with projects that could add up to 252 GW of gas‑fired capacity—nearly a 50 percent increase in the nation’s gas fleet. More than a third of this new demand is directly...
Decagon AI Raises $250M at $4.5B Valuation to Scale AI Concierge Platform
Decagon AI announced a $250 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding, led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, will accelerate the rollout of its AI concierge platform, which leverages large‑language models across chat, email and voice...
We 'Want to Encourage Other People in Our Generation to Be the Types of People Who Do Not Even Want...
Gabriela Nguyen, a 24‑year‑old Harvard graduate, quit smartphones and founded Appstinence, a nonprofit that helps people disengage from addictive technology. The organization promotes a "5D Method"—Decrease, Deactivate, Delete, Downgrade, Depart—to guide users toward a tech‑free lifestyle. Appstinence offers free coaching,...
Dynatrace Intelligence Aims to Advance Autonomous Software Operations
Dynatrace announced Dynatrace Intelligence, an agentic operations system that blends deterministic, real‑time intelligence with AI agents to push enterprises toward autonomous software operations. Built on the Grail data lakehouse and Smartscape, the platform delivers explainable insights that act within predefined...
Microsoft Shrugs Off AI Bubble Fears Again with Strong Financial Results
Microsoft reported second‑quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $81.27 bn, topping the $80.32 bn consensus, and earnings of $4.14 per share versus $3.92 expectations. Azure cloud revenue grew 39% year‑over‑year, keeping the AI‑driven cloud segment robust despite a slight slowdown in overall cloud...
Elon Musk Teases a New Image-Labeling System for X… We Think?
Elon Musk announced that X will begin labeling edited images as “manipulated media,” extending the platform’s legacy policy on inauthentic content. The rollout details are sparse, leaving it unclear whether the label applies to all edits or only AI‑generated alterations....
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed Palantir’s generative AI tools to automatically sort, translate, and summarize immigration‑enforcement tips submitted through its public tipline. The system, operational since May 2 2025, produces a “BLUF” (bottom line up front) summary using...
Why Predictable AI Will Finally Fix Customer Experience
John Sabino argues that the CX crisis stems from measuring activity rather than outcomes. Companies are moving toward hybrid AI‑human models that prioritize resolution quality, personalization, and revenue impact. In 2026, the focus shifts to predictable AI, with assurance layers...
Credibly Snags New Patent to Scale SMB Financing Platform
Credibly announced a newly issued patent that embeds AI deep into its SMB financing platform, automating affordability evaluation, offer structuring, and complex underwriting workflows at scale. The patent bolsters the company’s intellectual‑property portfolio and signals a shift from experimental add‑ons...
MBZUAI Releases K2 Think V2: A Fully Sovereign 70B Reasoning Model For Math, Code, And Science
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) unveiled K2 Think V2, a fully sovereign 70‑billion‑parameter reasoning model built on the K2 V2 Instruct base. The model extends the base's 512k‑token context capability and is fine‑tuned with a GRPO‑style RLVR...
ServiceNow Inks Another AI Partnership, This Time with Anthropic
ServiceNow has signed a multi‑year agreement with Anthropic, making the Claude family of models the default AI engine across its workflow platform and internal tools. Claude now powers the ServiceNow Build Agent and Claude Code is being rolled out to the...
Base AI Agent Deployers Rally as CLAWD Surges
AI agent tokens on Base surged after Austin Griffith launched the CLAWD agent, a Claude‑based self‑regulated AI that can deploy smart contracts and run on‑chain experiments. CLAWD’s market cap briefly hit $40 million, propelling related tokens BANKR (+34%) and CLANKER (+24%)....
Now That's a Team-Up: Samsung and Nvidia Expected to Join Forces to Feature 'Revolutionary' HBM4 Memory Modules in Upcoming Vera...
Samsung Electronics and Nvidia are set to embed Samsung’s next‑generation HBM4 memory into Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI accelerators, with mass shipments slated for February 2026. The HBM4 modules operate at 11.7 Gb/s and are built on Samsung’s 4 nm logic base die, giving the...
AI Local Visibility Is up to 30x Harder than Ranking in Google: Report
SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index reveals that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity surface far fewer business locations than Google’s local 3‑pack. Only 1.2% of 350,000 locations appear on ChatGPT, 11% on Gemini, and 7.4% on Perplexity, compared...
Unprecedented 3D Views of Sensory Cells Accelerate Hearing Research
University of California San Diego researchers unveiled Vision Analysis StereoCilia (VASCilia), an AI‑driven tool that creates high‑resolution 3D visualizations of cochlear hair‑cell stereocilia. By applying five deep‑learning models, VASCilia accelerates image analysis by roughly 50‑fold compared with manual methods. The...
Customer Service Is Emerging as the Proving Ground for Enterprise AI, Says Zendesk CEO
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier says enterprise AI is shifting from pilot projects to full‑scale production, with customer service emerging as the primary proving ground. Companies that achieve over 50% automated resolutions are reporting higher satisfaction scores, faster response times, and...
Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts
Browser Code is a new browser extension that equips Claude, an AI coding agent, with a virtual‑filesystem view of any web page. It lets the agent generate, edit, and persist userscripts through Chrome’s userScripts API (and Firefox’s equivalent), automatically running them...
WhatsApp Will Now Charge AI Chatbots to Operate in Italy
Meta will begin charging developers for AI chatbot responses on WhatsApp in Italy, following a regulator‑mandated reversal of its ban on third‑party bots. Starting February 16, the fee is $0.0691 (≈€0.0572/£0.0498) per non‑template message. The pricing applies only where law...
Giving AI the Ability to Monitor Its Own Thought Process Could Help It Think Like Humans
Researchers led by Ricky J. Sethi have introduced a mathematical framework that gives large language models a metacognitive state vector, enabling them to monitor and regulate their own reasoning. The vector captures five dimensions—emotional awareness, correctness evaluation, experience matching, conflict...
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2026 Enterprise Security Trends: What Leaders Must Prepare For In An Interconnected Risk Landscape
Enterprise security in 2026 is defined by the merging of cyber and physical domains, the rise of AI as both an attack accelerator and defense multiplier, and the recognition that cloud outages are now security incidents. Recent incidents like the...
Applied Industrial Emphasizes AI as Demand Shows Early Improvement
Applied Industrial Technologies is embedding artificial intelligence, automation and digital tools into core operations as industrial demand modestly improves. The company reported Q2 sales of $1.16 billion, up 8.4% year‑over‑year, with profit rising to $95.3 million. AI‑driven pricing analytics and sales productivity...
Wave of Suicides Hits as India’s Economy Is Ravaged by AI
Advanced AI is reshaping India’s tech sector, prompting firms to slash hiring and automate tasks. The resulting layoffs, including a 20,000‑person cut at TCS, have intensified already grueling 90‑hour workweeks. A wave of suicides among engineers and support staff underscores...
Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You
Google launched Auto Browse, an AI‑driven agent for Chrome powered by Gemini 3, that can autonomously complete tasks such as flight bookings, apartment searches, and expense filing. The feature is accessed through the Gemini sidebar and is currently available only to...
Chrome Takes on AI Browsers with Tighter Gemini Integration, Agentic Features for Autonomous Tasks
Google is upgrading Chrome with a persistent Gemini sidebar, shifting from the previous floating window. The new sidebar can understand groups of related tabs, making price‑comparison and product research smoother. Integrated personal‑intelligence will let Gemini draw on Gmail, Search, YouTube...
Chrome Gets Its Biggest Upgrade in Years — the New Gemini Side Panel Puts AI Agents, Multitasking, and Nano Banana...
Google Chrome’s latest US rollout introduces a Gemini side panel that embeds AI agents directly into the browser, alongside Nano Banana image‑generation tools and an Auto Browse agent for multi‑step tasks. The new Personal Intelligence engine pulls context from Gmail, Calendar and...
Outtake Raises $40M Series B
Outtake, a digital‑trust platform that safeguards organizations from AI‑driven impersonation, closed a $40 million Series B round. The financing was led by ICONIQ with participation from CRV, S32, and a roster of high‑profile tech and security executives, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and...
ThetaRay Launches Ray, An Agentic AI Investigation Suite
ThetaRay introduced Ray, an agentic AI investigation suite designed to automate and standardize AML transaction monitoring for banks and fintechs. The platform addresses rising alert volumes and stricter regulations such as the EU AMLR and US FinCEN AML/CFT directives by...
Pecan AI Unveils a Predictive Agent that Automates Business Forecasting
Pecan AI Ltd. introduced its Predictive AI Agent, an autonomous system that turns raw proprietary data into actionable forecasts for revenue, demand, and customer sentiment. The agent interprets each company’s unique data fingerprint, breaks the predictive workflow into subtasks, builds...
Fintech Stripe Enables AI Powered Gamma’s Monetization
Stripe is powering the rapid growth of Gamma, an AI‑driven presentation platform that recently topped $100 million in annual recurring revenue while staying profitable. By leveraging Stripe Checkout, Billing and Invoicing, Gamma eliminated the need to build its own payment infrastructure,...
Loyalty and Discount Capabilities Agentic Commerce From Talon.One
Talon.One introduced the Unified Incentives Protocol (UIP), a platform‑agnostic standard that makes loyalty points, promotions and discounts readable to AI‑driven shopping agents. The first UIP building blocks extend Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol with loyalty and discount capabilities, allowing agents to...