Flowla Raises $2.5M to Scale Sales and Customer Automation
London‑based Flowla, an AI‑assisted automation platform for sales and customer success, closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Revo Capital. The funding will accelerate development of its buyer‑journey automation engine and fund a U.S. go‑to‑market team. Flowla’s no‑code digital sales room consolidates proposals, onboarding, and communications, triggering actions based on real‑time buyer behavior. Founders Erdem and Oguz Gelal say the solution shifts revenue execution from manual memory to structured, automated processes.
Wonderful Announced the Launch of Agent Builder
Wonderful introduced Agent Builder, an autonomous AI system that creates, tests, and refines enterprise agents. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, it ingests policy documents, knowledge bases, and call recordings to iteratively meet production standards. The tool claims up to 50% faster...
Descope Introduces Dedicated Identity Infrastructure for AI Agents and MCP Ecosystems
Descope has launched an upgraded Agentic Identity Hub that treats AI agents as first‑class identities alongside human users. The platform adds OAuth 2.1, PKCE, DCR, CIMD and tool‑level scopes to MCP servers, letting developers secure agent access with enterprise‑grade policies. It...
Australia's Corporate Regulator Flags Risks From Rapid Innovation in Digital Assets
Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC warned that rapid growth in digital assets and artificial intelligence is exposing consumers to unlicensed services. Its 2026 Key Issues Outlook highlighted regulatory gaps in crypto, payments and AI, urging the government to clarify whether these...
Automated Plant Disease Detection via Transfer Learning
A new study introduces an API‑driven platform that leverages transfer learning on a pre‑trained vision transformer to diagnose plant diseases from images. By training on a large, diverse dataset, the model achieves high accuracy and can deliver real‑time results through...
4 Issues Holding Back CISOs’ Security Agendas
CISOs increasingly view a breach as inevitable, with 76% expecting a material cyberattack within the next year and 58% deeming their organizations unprepared. Four core issues impede progress: insufficient training and empowerment of security teams, lagging AI governance, limited AI...
Africa & Middle East Reinforce $1.5T AI Ambitions at Egypt Summit
Egypt will stage Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2026, the region’s first all‑AI expo, on 11‑12 February at the Egypt International Exhibition Center. Backed by GITEX, the Ministry of Communications and ITIDA, the event gathers more than 350 AI enterprises and...
Waiting for AI Superintelligence? Don’t Hold Your Breath
AI superintelligence remains a theoretical goal, yet artificial intelligence is already woven into the fabric of enterprise operations, accelerating decision‑making and threat detection. Companies report faster, more accurate alert investigations, but the same speed introduces novel vulnerabilities and operational risks....
Inside L’Oréal’s US$380 Million Bet on AI, Data and India
L’Oréal announced a US$380 million investment to build a global beauty‑technology centre in Hyderabad, India, backed by an initial commitment of over 35 billion rupees. The hub will serve as an AI‑driven innovation platform, targeting 2,000 technology jobs by 2030 and feeding...
Compa Gets $35M Series B for Real-Time Pay Analytics
Compensation platform Compa secured $35 million in Series B financing, led by Jump Capital with participation from Crosslink, Storm Ventures and others. The AI‑driven solution aggregates nine million real‑time market observations to replace traditional salary surveys, delivering instant pay analytics across salary,...
Ivanti Expands Neurons Platform with Agentic AI and Autonomous Endpoint Management
Ivanti announced a major upgrade to its Neurons platform, adding Agentic AI‑driven personas to the IT Service Management suite, autonomous endpoint management (AEM) that unifies DEX, UEM and security, and enhanced asset visibility through Discovery. The Agentic AI preview launches...
What Does It Mean to Be Visible in an AI-Curated World?
AI is reshaping FMCG product discovery by moving visibility from shelf placement to algorithmic shortlists that act as trusted advisers. Brands that lack structured, natural‑language product data risk disappearing from these AI‑curated conversations. Experts cite earned‑media signals—reviews, awards, editorial coverage—as...
‘I Can’t Actually Keep Working on a Long, Manual Task Like This in the Background Once a Message Turn Ends’...
ChatGPT cannot continue a task once a reply turn ends, meaning it cannot run background processes such as long‑hand OCR transcription. The model’s “helpful” prompts often overstate its capabilities, leading users to expect continuous work that never materializes. In a...
How a Haystack-Powered Multi-Agent System Detects Incidents, Investigates Metrics and Logs, and Produces Production-Grade Incident Reviews End-to-End
The blog post demonstrates how Haystack can power a multi‑agent system that automatically detects incidents, investigates metrics and logs, and generates production‑grade postmortems. It walks through a reproducible notebook that creates synthetic observability data, applies a rolling z‑score detector, and...
Clawdbot-Style Agentic Assistants: What Your SOC Should Monitor, Triage, and Contain
Agentic AI assistants such as Clawdbot are moving from simple chatbots to persistent, privileged entities that can act across Slack, Teams, Discord and other platforms. Their ability to retain context, execute commands, and use user‑provided API keys creates new attack...
My Hands-On Experience of the Asus Ascent GX10 Was a Radical One that Is only Relevant to Those Actively Engaged...
The Asus Ascent GX10 is a compact, purpose‑built AI workstation that packs a 20‑core ARM v9.2‑A CPU, Nvidia Blackwell GPU and 128 GB unified LPDDR5x memory into a NUC‑sized chassis. Priced from $3,099, it offers up to one petaFLOP of FP4...
Most Young Adults in UK Are Anxious About Jobs and the Economy, Research Suggests
A YouGov survey commissioned by the King’s Trust reveals that 73% of UK teens and young adults are anxious about starting their careers amid a weak job market. Anxiety is heightened by concerns over artificial intelligence, with 59% fearing AI...
AI and Digital Finance Raise Financial Stability Implications - BIS
AI and digital finance, especially tokenisation, are reshaping financial services and raising systemic stability concerns, warned BIS chief representative Tao Zhang. Rapid AI‑driven trading can strain liquidity and heighten volatility, while tokenised platforms create complex inter‑dependencies across markets. Both rely...
‘We Built a Technology Which Uses Light to Control Light’: Finchetto CEO on Ditching Electronics to Make Networks Faster
Finchetto, a UK photonics startup, has created an all‑optical packet switch that keeps data in the light domain, eliminating the need for electro‑optical conversion. The device operates at line‑rate speeds of 1.6‑3.2 Tbps, delivering lower latency and reduced power draw compared...
Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Calendar, introducing a "Suggested times" feature that automatically scans attendees' calendars to recommend optimal meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The tool also provides a one‑click rescheduling banner...
How Groupe Dynamite Is Personalizing Its POS With Agentic AI
Groupe Dynamite has deployed an agentic AI platform across its point‑of‑sale network to deliver real‑time, personalized product recommendations and dynamic pricing. The system integrates shopper data, inventory levels, and local trends, allowing cashiers to suggest items tailored to each customer’s...
YouTubers Sue Snap for Alleged Copyright Infringement in Training Its AI Models
A group of YouTubers with about 6.2 million subscribers has added Snap to a class‑action lawsuit alleging the company scraped their videos to train AI models, including the Imagine Lens feature. The complaint cites Snap’s use of the HD‑VILA‑100M video‑language dataset,...
Using AI to Keep CRISPR Technology In-Check
A team of Melbourne scientists used AI‑accelerated protein design to create anti‑CRISPR molecules that can safely regulate CRISPR activity. The approach, published in Nature Chemical Biology, generated functional inhibitors in just eight weeks, a dramatic speedup over traditional discovery methods....
Ricursive Intelligence Scores $300M Series A
Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier artificial‑intelligence laboratory based in Palo Alto, announced a $300 million Series A financing round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and featured participation from DST Global, NVentures, Felicis Ventures, 49 Palms Ventures, Radical AI, and Sequoia Capital....
Why AI Won’t Wipe Out White-Collar Jobs
Since ChatGPT’s debut in late 2022, AI has sparked both excitement and anxiety among white‑collar professionals. While managers see cost‑cutting potential, many desk‑bound workers fear displacement. Analysts argue that AI will primarily expand the scope of these roles, automating routine...
AI Shows How Payment Delays Disrupt Your Business
Artificial intelligence is now being used to map the ripple effects of late payments across enterprises. By correlating invoice delays with cash‑flow strain, borrowing costs, and operational bottlenecks, AI turns raw payment data into actionable insight. Predictive models flag high‑risk...
ChatGPT Ads Come with Premium Prices — and Limited Data
OpenAI is rolling out ads inside ChatGPT at roughly $60 CPM, about three times the cost of typical Meta placements. Advertisers will receive only high‑level metrics—total impressions and clicks—without insight into downstream actions such as purchases. The first wave targets...
Dotfile and Bastion Partner to Bring AI-Powered Compliance to Enterprise Stablecoins
Dotfile, an AI AML compliance platform, has partnered with Bastion, a NYDFS‑regulated stablecoin provider, to deliver an AI‑powered onboarding and risk‑management solution for enterprise‑grade stablecoins. The joint offering combines comprehensive KYC/KYB verification, automated sanctions and PEP screening, and multi‑jurisdictional due‑diligence...
MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol's First Official Extension, Turns AI Responses Into Interactive Interfaces
The episode explains the launch of MCP Apps, the first official extension to the Model Context Protocol, which lets AI tools embed interactive dashboards, forms, visualizations, and multi‑step workflows directly into chat conversations. It highlights how this solves the problem...
Inside OpenAI’s Big Play for Science
OpenAI has launched OpenAI for Science, focusing on using GPT‑5/5.2 to accelerate research. The new team showcases case studies where the model finds hidden literature, drafts proofs, and suggests experiments, scoring 92% on the GPQA benchmark versus 39% for GPT‑4....
AI Makes Quantum Field Theories Computable
Researchers at TU Wien, together with U.S. and Swiss teams, have used a custom neural network to optimize lattice formulations of quantum field theories. The AI‑driven approach parameterizes the action on coarse lattices while preserving fixed‑point properties, yielding errors far...
Clawdbot Is a Viral AI Assistant: What It Is, How to Try It
Clawdbot, an open‑source AI personal assistant built by Peter Steinberger, has gone viral on X, capturing the attention of Silicon Valley developers. The tool runs locally on user devices, linking to ChatGPT or Claude and accessing email, calendars, and messaging...
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol: Why the Future of Agentic Commerce Depends on Security
The episode examines Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open‑source standard designed to unify AI‑driven shopping across retailers and payment providers. It highlights UCP’s advantages—single‑point integration, leverage of Google Merchant Center, modular flexibility, and merchant‑first control—while noting the competitive landscape...
Benefits of 3D Guidance in Industrial Robots
Industrial robots are shifting from pre‑programmed, 2D‑guided motions to dynamic 3D vision systems that provide six degrees of freedom tracking. This depth perception eliminates costly mechanical fixtures, allowing robots to adapt to random part placement and receive software‑driven updates in...
AI Is Rewriting the Economics of Merchant Acquiring
Merchant acquiring, long seen as a low‑margin commodity, is poised for a strategic revival as artificial intelligence reshapes its economics. Capgemini’s World Payments Report highlights that global acquiring revenues could double from $25 bn to $50 bn within a decade, driven not...
The Major Trends Shaping the Future of Know Your Customer Compliance
The KYC sector is undergoing rapid change as AI‑driven agents enable true straight‑through processing (STP), eliminating manual breakpoints in onboarding. Muinmos showcases how collective AI agents, combined with client lifecycle management (CLM) platforms, can automate decision‑making, regulatory checks, and document...
ADWEEK to Debut the Super Bowl AI Influence Index
ADWEEK is partnering with AI‑search startup Emberos to debut the first Real‑Time AI Influence Index on Super Bowl 60 day, displaying the top seven advertisers based on their visibility in generative search engines. The index, embedded on ADWEEK.com’s sidebar, updates live...
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
A new study published in *Patterns* shows that when a text‑to‑image model is coupled with an image‑to‑text system and allowed to iterate autonomously, it quickly collapses into generic, “visual elevator music” images. The homogenization occurs without any additional training data,...
Here Are the Winners and Losers (so Far) in Bitcoin Mining From Nvidia's $2B CoreWeave Investment
Nvidia’s $2 billion investment in cloud‑AI specialist CoreWeave has intensified competition for GPU resources, prompting a sharp sell‑off in several bitcoin miners that are pivoting to AI infrastructure. Shares of Cipher Mining, CleanSpark, IREN and TeraWulf dropped 5‑9% as investors fear...
Microsoft Announces Powerful New Chip for AI Inference
Microsoft unveiled the Maia 200, its next‑generation AI inference chip, featuring over 100 billion transistors and delivering more than 10 petaflops in 4‑bit precision and roughly 5 petaflops in 8‑bit mode. The processor is positioned as a workhorse for running large language models with...
What FIS Has Planned After the Global Payment Deals
FIS closed a strategic swap with Global Payments, acquiring the card‑issuing technology unit while off‑loading its merchant‑technology division. The move sharpens FIS’s focus on bank clients amid rising fintech competition. In parallel, FIS announced a bank‑centric suite of agentic AI...
ThoughtSpot CEO - ‘Most AI Agents Are Confident Idiots’
ThoughtSpot CEO Ketan Karkhanis warned that most AI agents are "confident idiots" because they operate without a solid analytics foundation. He emphasized the need for a deterministic intelligence layer—its semantic layer that translates natural language into SQL—to avoid hallucinations. The...
Hackers Are Using LLMs to Build the Next Generation of Phishing Attacks - Here's What to Look Out For
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have demonstrated a proof‑of‑concept where generative AI models produce on‑the‑fly JavaScript that creates personalized phishing pages. The technique sends prompts to a legitimate LLM API, receives unique code for each visitor, and executes...
Expereo: Enterprise Connectivity Amid AI Surge with ‘Visibility at the Speed of Life’
Expereo’s chief digital officer Julian Skeels warns that AI workloads turn networking into a system‑of‑record, requiring deterministic, observable, and resilient connectivity. Enterprises are tangled in hybrid clouds and multiple providers, leading to “connectivity everywhere but visibility nowhere.” The company’s expereoOne...
Tradespace Raises $15M Series A Led by AVP
Tradespace announced a $15 million Series A round led by AVP, with participation from existing backers Eniac Ventures, Amplo VC, and Scrum Ventures. The funding will accelerate its AI‑native intellectual property platform that aims to halve external legal spend and...
NVIDIA and CoreWeave Strengthen Collaboration to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories
NVIDIA announced a $2 billion investment in CoreWeave to accelerate the construction of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030. The partnership deepens alignment across infrastructure, software, and platform layers, with CoreWeave adopting NVIDIA’s upcoming Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs, and...
More Data Isn’t Always Better for AI Decisions
MIT researchers challenge the assumption that more data always improves AI decisions. They propose a framework that identifies the minimal dataset needed to guarantee an optimal decision under uncertainty, and an algorithm that tests whether additional data could change the...
**NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models Span the Whole Weather Stack**
NVIDIA announced three new open‑source models—StormScope, Atlas, and HealDA—under its Earth‑2 portfolio, covering nowcasting, medium‑range, and data assimilation. StormScope delivers kilometer‑scale, zero‑to‑six‑hour storm forecasts that outperform traditional physics models, while Atlas provides high‑accuracy 15‑day global predictions across more than 70...
Former Google DeepMind Scientists Raise $300M for AI Chip Startup
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind scientists behind AlphaChip, closed a $300 million Series A round at a $4 billion post‑money valuation. The funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and backed by NVentures, Sequoia and others, will expand its research team and...
Upwind Secures $250 Million to Expand Runtime-First Cloud Security for AI Workloads
Upwind announced a $250 million Series B round, bringing total capital to $430 million. The funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital, will accelerate the company’s runtime‑first cloud security platform aimed at AI‑driven workloads. Upwind claims...