E& and IBM Unveil Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Transform Governance and Compliance
e& and IBM announced a strategic partnership at the World Economic Forum to deploy enterprise‑grade agentic AI across e&’s governance, risk and compliance functions. The solution, built on IBM watsonx Orchestrate and integrated with OpenPages, delivers traceable, action‑oriented AI responses rather than simple chat answers. A joint proof‑of‑concept completed in eight weeks proved the technology can operate at scale in real‑world conditions. This marks one of the region’s first large‑scale, governed agentic AI implementations.
Token Security Sees Rapid 2025 Growth as Enterprises Secure Agentic AI
Token Security reported triple‑digit growth in 2025 as enterprises grapple with a surge of non‑human identities (NHIs) that now outnumber human users. The company closed a $20 million Series A round and introduced AI‑driven discovery, lifecycle management, and least‑privilege enforcement for autonomous...
Clovity Adds Former CoreTrust CEO Mahesh Shah as Operating Advisor
Clovity, a Platinum Atlassian Solution Partner, announced that former CoreTrust CEO Mahesh Shah has joined as an Operating Advisor. Shah will work with leadership to sharpen go‑to‑market execution, accelerate AI‑enabled Atlassian solutions, and scale operations in regulated, mission‑critical environments. His...
AI’s Cost Crisis; Backboard.io Introduces Predictable, Usage-Based Pricing to Tackle Cost Control
Backboard.io unveiled a new pricing structure aimed at taming AI cost volatility, introducing a $9‑per‑month subscription plus transparent usage‑based fees. The model adds a free tier with credits for memory reads, writes, stored memories, and tokens, allowing teams to evaluate...
AI‐Guided Droplet Microreactors Enable Rapid and Reproducible Protein Crystallization
Researchers unveiled the Droplet Concentration Control and Vision (DCCV) platform, a microfluidic system that combines programmable osmotic modulation with automated computer‑vision analysis. By using semi‑permeable double‑emulsion droplets, the platform can adjust solute concentrations after droplet formation, precisely managing protein supersaturation....
Best Loop Marketing Tactics for the Era of AI-Powered Marketing
HubSpot unveiled Loop Marketing, a four‑stage, AI‑enhanced framework that replaces linear funnels with continuous cycles of learning and optimization. The model—Express, Tailor, Amplify, and Evolve—leverages AI to generate personalized content, expand presence across AI search engines and social video platforms,...
CloudOffix and Prospera Form Strategic Partnership to Unify Front-Office Operations for Egyptian Enterprises
CloudOffix and Prospera announced a strategic partnership to deliver an AI‑native unified front‑office platform to Egyptian enterprises. The solution consolidates CRM, sales, marketing, help desk, projects, HR and e‑commerce into a single low‑code environment, eliminating data silos and reducing integration...
Appzoro Introduces a Smarter Way to Build Custom Applications with AI and Automation
Appzoro, a U.S. custom software firm, is launching an AI‑driven platform that accelerates the creation of bespoke applications while embedding intelligent automation. The approach starts with detailed workflow observation, ensuring new tools mirror existing processes and reduce manual work. By...
Keepnet Bets on Agentic AI Behavioral Training to Curb Security Mistakes
Keepnet introduced Agentic AI for Behavioral Microlearning, shifting training success metrics from completion rates to measurable behavior change and incident reduction. The autonomous platform plans, creates, delivers, and optimizes short, contextual lessons using real‑time risk data, cutting content‑creation time from...
IMF Warns of Trade Tension Risk to Global Growth
The International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook projects global GDP growth at 3.3% in 2026, up from 3.1%, but warns that trade tensions and a potential slowdown in AI‑driven investment pose downside risks. The report highlights the importance of...
IBM’s Newest Consulting Service Pairs Human Experts with Digital Workers to Scale Enterprise AI
IBM announced a new consulting offering called IBM Enterprise Advantage, extending its internal AI‑powered delivery platform to external enterprises. The service pairs IBM’s seasoned consultants with a library of AI agents, generative models, and industry‑specific starter kits, enabling clients to...
Solving AI's Energy Challenge: Sustainable Data Centers for a Competitive UK Future
AI’s rapid expansion is driving a surge in data‑centre energy demand, threatening both cost competitiveness and the UK’s net‑zero goals. Hitachi executives argue that efficiency, affordability, and sustainability must be treated as a single virtuous circle rather than separate objectives....
Credura Launches AI-Based Insurance Adviser for Private Customers
Credura, a FINMA‑licensed Swiss InsurTech, has launched the first AI‑driven insurance adviser for private customers after a successful pilot. The platform consolidates policies from 17 insurers, continuously monitors market changes, and provides proactive optimisation recommendations. Users access an interactive dashboard...
Head Of WordPress AI Team Explains SEO For AI Agents via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
James LePage, Director Engineering AI at Automattic, explains that AI agents will tap the same web infrastructure and classic search indexes that power traditional search engines. He argues that AI SEO is fundamentally long‑tail keyword optimization, demanding clear schema, high...
JPMorgan Chase Treats AI Spending as Core Infrastructure
JPMorgan Chase now treats artificial intelligence as a core piece of its infrastructure, moving AI spending from experimental projects to baseline operating costs. CEO Jamie Dimon defended the expanding technology budget, warning that banks lagging on AI risk losing competitive...
Infosys and Cognition Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate the AI Value Journey for Global Enterprises
Infosys and Cognition have announced a strategic partnership to embed Cognition’s AI coding agent, Devin, into Infosys’ Topaz Fabric platform. The integration will roll out Devin across Infosys’ internal engineering teams and client projects worldwide, starting with the financial services...
Fanvue Raises $22M in Series A Funding
Fanvue, the London‑based AI‑powered creator monetization platform, announced a $22 million Series A round. The financing was led by Inner Circle with participation from Moonbug founder René Rechtman. The capital will fund global expansion, product development, and scaling of its AI tools...
Just One in Four Retailers Are Ready for AI-Driven Commerce
Only 27% of UK retailers report fully connected, scalable tech stacks, leaving most unprepared for AI‑driven, agentic commerce. Deloitte and Gartner predict autonomous AI agents will dominate retail interactions by 2025‑2030, demanding real‑time, clean data. Patchworks’ survey of 200 retail...
Medius Earns the Solutions Partner with Certified Software Designation
Medius, a Microsoft partner, has earned the Solutions Partner with certified software designation for its Financial Services AI solution within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. The designation validates the company’s cloud‑native, AI‑driven accounts payable platform and confirms interoperability with...
An Introduction to Science Communication at #AAAI2026
The session introduces AI researchers to effective science communication, covering why it matters, storytelling, blog writing, social media use, image selection, avoiding hype, and engaging with media. Presenter Dr. Lucy Smith emphasizes clear, concise explanations for non‑specialists to broaden impact...
Google Brings AI Videomaker ‘Flow’ to All Workspace Users
Google has integrated its AI video‑creation tool Flow into Google Workspace, making it available to all Workspace customers rather than only AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The service lets users generate high‑definition videos from natural‑language prompts, leveraging Google’s Veo 3.1 video...
Aibrary Launches the World’s First AI Learning Companion for Personal Growth with Personalized Podcasts, Idea Twin, and Millions of Books
Aibrary unveiled Nova, an AI‑powered learning companion that transforms its library of millions of books into personalized, micro‑learning podcasts and interactive sessions. The platform now offers a Learning Persona assessment, real‑time "For You" audio feeds, and the Idea Twin feature...
TMT Expands Digital Trust and Safety with Microsoft Publishers
The Media Trust (TMT) announced a partnership to bolster digital trust and safety within Microsoft’s advertising ecosystem. Leveraging TMT’s proprietary AI detection, global infrastructure, and malware‑analysis teams, the collaboration will deliver real‑time threat detection and mitigation for malware, redirects, and...
Oligo Appoints Shira Bendkowski as VP of Product
Oligo Security announced Shira Bendkowski as its new Vice President of Product. Bendkowski, formerly VP of Product at Aqua Security and head of product at XM Cyber, will steer Oligo’s product vision for runtime security across applications, cloud, workloads, and...
Show HN: AskUCP – UCP Protocol Explorer Showing All Products on Shopify
AskUCP, launched on January 11 2026, is a global AI shopping search built on the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). UCP, an open standard co‑created by Google and Shopify, lets applications query product data across e‑commerce platforms without traditional APIs or integrations. At...
CoreSite Chicago Adds AWS Native 400G Direct Connect for Cloud and AI
CoreSite, an American Tower subsidiary, has launched native 400 Gbps Amazon Web Services Direct Connect at its Chicago data‑center campus, delivering ultra‑high bandwidth and low‑latency connectivity for AI, enterprise and GPU‑optimized workloads. Early adopters, including a cybersecurity firm, are using the...
OpenCog Hyperon and AGI: Beyond Large Language Models
OpenCog Hyperon, an open‑source neural‑symbolic framework from SingularityNET, positions itself as a bridge between narrow large language models and artificial general intelligence. Its core combines probabilistic logic, symbolic reasoning, evolutionary program synthesis, and a metagraph called Atomspace to enable dynamic,...
BOSGAME Launches Next-Generation AI PCs Built on AMD and Intel Platforms
BOSGAME unveiled two AI‑focused mini PCs, the VTA‑439 and VTI‑490, slated for global release in Q1 2026. The VTA‑439 runs on AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics, while the VTI‑490 leverages Intel’s Core Ultra X9 388H and an Arc B390 GPU....
SEON Identity Verification Combines KYC Checks with Real-Time Fraud Intelligence
SEON introduced an AI‑powered Identity Verification solution that combines document validation, biometric liveness detection, proof‑of‑address checks, and optional government database queries within its unified risk platform. The service draws on more than 900 real‑time fraud signals to evaluate both the...
SIOS Technology VP of CX Cassius Rhue Shares 2026 IT Predictions
SIOS Technology’s Vice President of Customer Experience, Cassius Rhue, outlined a forward‑looking vision for high‑availability (HA) and disaster‑recovery (DR) solutions through 2026. He predicts HA will evolve from pure uptime guarantees to a strategic pillar for hybrid‑cloud resilience, cybersecurity, AI...
How Target Is Pioneering Agentic Commerce in Retail
Network International has signed a processing agreement with Saudi Sudanese Bank to expand digital payment services across Sudan. The partnership will provide acquiring, issuing, and fintech solutions, enabling merchants to accept card payments and facilitating cross‑border transactions. By leveraging Network...
The Right to Be Forgotten: The Emerging Science of Machine Unlearning
Machine unlearning is emerging as a scientific discipline that lets organizations delete specific data points from trained AI models without full retraining. The approach addresses GDPR’s Right to Erasure and growing copyright demands, which treat model outputs as personal or...
ParaScript® Named Product Innovation Winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards
ParaScript won the 2026 BIG Innovation Award for Product Innovation with its patented embedded signature verification solution that enables real‑time check fraud detection. The technology embeds an encrypted, invisible signature at issuance, allowing instant verification across ATMs, teller lines, remote...
Review: AI Strategy and Security
AI Strategy and Security, authored by Dr. Donnie W. Wendt, is a practical guide for technology leaders and security professionals designing enterprise AI programs. The book maps AI adoption to business objectives, outlines readiness assessments, and defines a comprehensive team...
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
European governments are pouring hundreds of millions of euros into AI programs to reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants, while labs across the continent chase a "DeepSeek of Europe" breakthrough. The push emphasizes open‑source model development, hoping collaborative research can...
7 Top Cybersecurity Projects for 2026
The 2026 cybersecurity roadmap highlights seven priority projects for CISOs, ranging from AI‑aware identity and access management to advanced email protection, autonomous code‑vulnerability discovery, and enterprise‑wide zero‑trust adoption. Leaders emphasize extending IAM controls to non‑human agents, leveraging small language models...
Wildix Positions AI as the Catalyst Moving the UC&C Channel Beyond Resale at 2026 Summit
At its 2026 virtual summit, Wildix emphasized AI as the catalyst moving its channel‑only model from simple resale toward advisory services that design, govern and optimize unified communications workflows. The company showcased the Wilma AI layer in live customer deployments...
Alorica Named Innovative Organization Winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards
Alorica Inc. has been named an Innovative Organization winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards, recognizing its ability to scale artificial intelligence across enterprise customer‑experience operations. The award highlights Alorica IQ, the company’s AI innovation engine, and evoAI, its conversational‑AI...
CompuChild Expands Its Suite of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Classes for Children
CompuChild, a STEM‑certified after‑school franchise, announced the expansion of its artificial intelligence and machine learning curriculum for elementary and middle‑school students. The new suite includes four courses—AI and ML for Young Innovators, AI Game Creator, Video Game Design with ML,...
Seela Launches an All-in-One AI Creative Platform for Image Generation and Multi-Model AI Comparison
Seela has launched an all‑in‑one AI creative platform that combines text‑to‑image, image‑to‑image, and a multi‑model chatbot comparison workspace. The platform lets users submit a single prompt and receive side‑by‑side answers from LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, while...
Genesco Announces Strategic Transformation of IT Operations
Genesco, the owner of Schuh, announced a strategic overhaul of its IT operating model to boost speed, scalability and AI‑enabled innovation. The transformation is designed to align technology capabilities with the retailer’s new business model and support long‑term growth. Genesco...
GA-ASI Makes Another Autonomous Aerial Intercept in Company-Funded Demo with MQ-20 Avenger(r)
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA‑ASI) demonstrated its MQ‑20 Avenger executing a fully autonomous aerial intercept using government‑reference autonomy software. The jet employed an Anduril infrared search‑and‑track sensor to locate, track, and compute a simulated kill‑shot against a manned aggressor without...
Nous Research Releases NousCoder-14B: A Competitive Olympiad Programming Model Post-Trained on Qwen3-14B via Reinforcement Learning
Nous Research unveiled NousCoder-14B, a competitive programming model built on Qwen3-14B and fine‑tuned with execution‑based reinforcement learning. On the LiveCodeBench v6 benchmark, the model achieved a Pass@1 score of 67.87%, outpacing the Qwen3-14B baseline by 7.08 points. Training leveraged 24,000...
Hiring at India’s Big Four Outsourcers Stalls, as AI Seemingly Makes an Impact
India’s four largest IT outsourcers – HCL, Infosys, TCS and Wipro – have essentially halted hiring in the latest quarter, adding only 3,910 staff year‑to‑date, a stark contrast to their usual 10,000‑plus quarterly hires. Revenue growth remains modest, with HCL...
Avocados From Mexico Turns to AI to Advertise Around the Super Bowl Instead of a TV Buy
Avocados From Mexico is forgoing a traditional $8 million Super Bowl TV spot in favor of an AI‑driven Prediction Pit that delivers real‑time football forecasts and custom guacamole recipes. The experience features a realistic Rob Riggle avatar powered by a predictive AI...
How AI Agents Become Direct Customers For WooCommerce Stores
AI agents built on large language models are now completing full purchase flows on WooCommerce stores, bypassing traditional referral links. PayLayer’s free plugin introduces the x402 protocol, letting bots discover products, verify price and stock, pay, and receive a signed...
New OpenAI Leak Hints at Upcoming ChatGPT Features
OpenAI is quietly testing a major ChatGPT web update slated for rollout in the next few weeks. The preview, dubbed “Salute,” adds a task‑creation interface with file uploads and progress tracking. Additional changes include a model‑preference flag aimed at hospitality‑specific...
NRF 2026: AI Development Gets Practical
At NRF 2026, technology vendors emphasized moving AI from hype to practical applications in retail back‑office functions and store operations. They argue that AI’s potential—automated inventory management, demand forecasting, and labor scheduling—can only be realized if retailers first modernize their...
World Network Makes Italian Market Debut After Making Steady Progress in Past Year
World announced its Italian market debut on January 15, expanding its human verification network to a fifth EU country. The company now serves nearly 38 million users, with over 17 million verified identities across six continents. Recent upgrades include NVIDIA‑powered hardware, an...
Sequoia Seeks Part in Anthropic’s $25 Billion Funding Round
Sequoia Capital is poised to join a multibillion‑dollar financing round for Anthropic, the AI startup that recently unveiled its agentic "Cowork" feature for Claude. The round, led by Singapore’s sovereign fund GIC and Coatue, aims to raise at least $25 billion...