How Everyday Foam Reveals the Secret Logic of Artificial Intelligence
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania discovered that foam interiors remain in perpetual motion, contradicting the long‑held view that foams behave like frozen glass. Using simulations, they showed bubbles wander through countless configurations, a behavior mathematically identical to the parameter updates in deep‑learning algorithms. The research, published in PNAS, suggests that learning‑type dynamics may be a universal organizing principle for physical, biological, and computational systems. This insight opens new pathways for designing materials that adapt and respond like intelligent systems.
IBM Tackles Cloud, AI Sovereignty with New Platform
IBM announced Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises run cloud and AI workloads under their own sovereign control. The solution embeds data‑localization and governance controls directly into the software, offering a customer‑operated control plane. Available in tech preview...
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[Interview] Building for Where Retail Is Going? Sreeraman MG, Co-Founder Fynd
Co‑founder Sreeraman MG outlines Fynd’s 2026 UK launch, positioning its AI‑native commerce layer as a plug‑in solution for mid‑market and enterprise retailers. The company will target fashion, beauty and grocery categories, tackling two core UK pain points: trustworthy cross‑channel attribution and...
Mira Murati’s Startup, Thinking Machines Lab, Is Losing Two of Its Co-Founders to OpenAI
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab announced the departure of co‑founder and CTO Barret Zoph, who, along with co‑founder Luke Metz and researcher Sam Schoenholz, are returning to OpenAI. Soumith Chintala will replace Zoph as CTO....
How CJ Darcl Is Using AI to Bring Discipline to One of India’s Most Complex Supply Chains
CJ Darcl Logistics in India has deployed AI‑enabled driver assistance, fatigue monitoring, and its cloud‑native MoveX platform to bring operational discipline to its complex multimodal supply chain. Within three months, harsh braking and overspeeding fell 35% and 28% respectively, violations...
5 Signs that ChatGPT Is Hallucinating
The article outlines five tell‑tale signs that ChatGPT is hallucinating, from overly specific details without sources to outright nonsense logic. It explains how the model’s predictive nature can generate confident yet fabricated information, including bogus citations and contradictory follow‑ups. Readers...
India’s Emversity Doubles Valuation as It Scales Workers AI Can’t Replace
Emversity, a Bengaluru‑based workforce‑training startup, raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Premji Invest, valuing the company at $120 million. The funding will fuel expansion of its AI‑resistant, grey‑collar talent pipelines across healthcare, hospitality and soon EPC and manufacturing. To...
Exchange Association Says Regulators Should Prioritize Gen AI Threats over Quantum Computing
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) warned regulators that they are over‑emphasizing quantum‑computing risks at the expense of more immediate generative AI threats. WFE estimates a 5‑10+ year horizon before cryptographically relevant quantum computers appear, recommending proportionate resource allocation. The...
Keye Launches AI Co-Pilot for Private Equity Due Diligence
Keye has unveiled Odin, an AI‑driven co‑pilot designed to streamline private‑equity due diligence for investment teams. The tool leverages large‑language models and proprietary NLP pipelines to extract financial metrics, covenant clauses, and risk factors from data‑room documents. Early pilots claim...
Keye Launces AI Co-Pilot for Private Equity Due Diligence
Keye has introduced Odin, an AI‑powered co‑pilot designed to streamline private‑equity due‑diligence. The tool lets deal teams pose plain‑English questions and receive deterministic, audit‑ready analysis instantly. Powered by Keye’s proprietary Deterministic Creativity, Odin combines natural‑language understanding with code‑based execution, eliminating...
Open Responses: What You Need to Know
Open Responses is an open‑source inference standard that extends OpenAI’s Responses API, aiming to replace the legacy Chat Completion format for agentic workloads. It unifies text, image, JSON, and video generation while enabling provider‑side tool execution and autonomous sub‑agent loops....
Coat Paints Adds AI Feature
Paint brand Coat Paints has unveiled a new AI-powered colour visualiser
Depthfirst Secures $40M to Expand Agentic Approach to Software Security
Depthfirst Inc. announced a $40 million Series A round led by Accel to accelerate its AI‑native security platform. The startup’s General Security Intelligence platform deploys custom AI agents that continuously analyze code, infrastructure and workflows, delivering context‑aware vulnerability detection. In its first...
EMA and FDA Collaborate on Framework for AI Use in Drug Development
The U.S. FDA and Europe’s EMA have jointly published ten guiding principles for the use of artificial intelligence across the drug development lifecycle. The framework covers human‑centric design, risk‑based validation, data governance, multidisciplinary expertise, and clear communication of model performance....
ChromaDB Explorer
Chroma Explorer is a native macOS desktop client designed for ChromaDB, enabling users to browse collections, perform semantic searches, and manage vector embeddings through a polished interface. The app supports multi‑profile connections to local, remote, or Chroma Cloud instances and...
OpenAI Signs Deal, Worth $10B, for Compute From Cerebras
OpenAI has signed a multi‑year, $10 billion agreement with AI‑chipmaker Cerebras to provision 750 megawatts of compute power from 2024 through 2028. The partnership focuses on delivering low‑latency, real‑time inference that speeds up OpenAI’s customer‑facing services. Cerebras claims its wafer‑scale chips outperform...
Lawsuit Alleges Oracle Made Misleading Statements Around Debt Sale for AI Infrastructure
Oracle faces a class‑action lawsuit alleging it misled bond investors in the offering documents for an $18 billion debt sale. The suit claims the company overstated its financial position after announcing a $300 billion, five‑year AI infrastructure contract with OpenAI. Seven weeks...
Robot Learns to Lip Sync by Watching YouTube
Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines Lab unveiled a humanoid robot that learns realistic lip‑sync by observing itself and YouTube videos. The robot’s flexible face, driven by 26 micro‑actuators, first mapped its own motor actions via a mirror, then trained a vision‑to‑action...
AI and Embedded Finance Are New Medicine for Healthcare Supply Chains
Healthcare procurement, long dominated by static forecasts and delayed payments, is being reshaped by artificial intelligence and embedded finance. AI-driven platforms now analyze consumption data to fine‑tune inventory buffers, prioritizing life‑critical items and moving toward just‑in‑time replenishment. Embedded finance integrates...
Bank of America CEO Says AI Paying Off as Bank Cuts Costs
Bank of America reported that its AI-driven platforms, especially the Erica virtual assistant, are delivering measurable cost and productivity gains in Q4 2025. Erica logged 169 million interactions with 20.6 million users, while Zelle transaction volume rose to $144 billion, underscoring the bank’s...
How to Build a Stateless, Secure, and Asynchronous MCP-Style Protocol for Scalable Agent Workflows
The tutorial demonstrates how to construct a Minimal Communication Protocol (MCP) that is stateless, cryptographically signed, and capable of handling asynchronous, long‑running tasks. Using Python, Pydantic models enforce strict schema validation for every request and response, while HMAC signatures guarantee...
Phenom's Acquisition: AI, Automation and the Future of Work
Phenom announced the acquisition of Included, an AI‑native people‑analytics platform, to embed deeper workforce insights into its talent suite. The integration targets the recruiting workflow, where Phenom believes 70‑80% of tasks can be automated while the remainder is augmented or...
YouTube Adds More Promote Targeting Options, Image-To-Video AI
YouTube is expanding its Promote in‑stream boosting tool with interest‑based audience targeting, letting creators aim clips at gamers, beauty fans, travelers and more. The new flow, currently desktop‑only, will soon appear on mobile. Simultaneously, YouTube is testing “Ingredients,” an AI‑driven...
Kroger Taps Google Gemini, Announces More Key AI Moves
Kroger announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, deploying Gemini Enterprise’s Customer Experience solution as a personal shopping assistant. The AI‑driven assistant can generate shoppable recipes, recommend offers, and schedule deliveries using Kroger’s real‑time inventory and pricing data. Kroger also...
How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent
Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) introduces a structured tool framework that lets AI agents invoke external functions, turning them from pure text generators into autonomous actors. ADK categorizes tools into four types—function, built-in, third‑party, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools—each...
Companies Confess Their Agentic AI Goals Aren't Really Working Out - and a Lack of Trust Could Be Why
A Camunda report finds 73% of firms see a gap between their agentic AI ambitions and actual deployment, with only 11% of use cases reaching production last year. Business risk, transparency and regulatory concerns dominate the hesitation, even as 71%...
NDSS 2025 – PolicyPulse:Precision Semantic Role Extraction For Enhanced Privacy Policy Comprehension
Researchers from the University of Denver introduced PolicyPulse, an information‑extraction pipeline that converts natural‑language privacy policies into structured, machine‑readable formats. The system combines a specialized XLNet classifier with a BERT‑based semantic role labeler, processing sentences to preserve predicate‑argument relationships. Trained...
OpenAI Opens GPT-5.2 Codex to Developers Through the Responses API
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 Codex through its Responses API, moving the model out of the restricted Codex environment. The multi‑modal model accepts text and images and offers four configurable reasoning levels, targeting complex development tasks such as feature creation, refactoring,...
VoiceRun Bags $5.5 Million Seed Round
VoiceRun announced a $5.5 million seed round to fuel growth of its enterprise Voice AI platform. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners with participation from RRE Ventures and Link Ventures. Funds will expand VoiceRun’s code‑first solution as enterprises shift...
Parambil Lands $6M in Seed Funding
Parambil, an artificial‑intelligence platform for complex litigation, announced a $6 million seed financing round. The round was led by Bling Capital with participation from NVP Capital and a group of strategic angels from the mass‑tort, personal‑injury, and legal‑tech sectors. Funds will...
Show HN: Tabstack – Browser Infrastructure for AI Agents (by Mozilla)
Mozilla’s Tabstack launches an API that handles the web‑layer for AI agents, turning raw URLs and intents into clean, structured data. It dynamically escalates from lightweight fetches to full headless browser sessions only when JavaScript rendering is required. The service...
Anthropic's Labs Team Gets a Shake-Up as Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger Joins Experimental AI Unit
Anthropic is expanding its Labs unit, the experimental arm that builds Claude AI products, by moving former Chief Product Officer and Instagram co‑founder Mike Krieger into the team with Ben Mann. New product lead Ami Vora, who joined in late...
Despite OpenAI Partnership, Microsoft Is One of Anthropic's Biggest Customers
Microsoft is on track to spend nearly $500 million a year on Anthropic’s AI models, integrating them into products such as GitHub Copilot and Office 365. The spend follows a up‑to‑$5 billion investment announced last November, positioning Anthropic as a key AI...
‘In AI Models, the Real Bottleneck Isn’t Computing Power — It’s Memory’: Phison CEO on 244TB SSDs, PLC NAND, Why...
Phison CEO Pua Khein Seng argues that memory, not GPU compute, is the primary bottleneck for AI inference, especially for time‑to‑first‑token performance. The company’s aiDAPTIV+ technology treats high‑capacity SSDs as an extension of DRAM, offloading KV‑cache data to flash and...
Hawk Introduces Analytics Studio for AI-Driven Fraud and AML
Hawk has unveiled Analytics Studio, an AI‑driven platform that manages the full lifecycle of anti‑money‑laundering and fraud models. The solution offers pre‑built model templates, a low‑code copilot interface, real‑time performance dashboards, and automated documentation for regulator‑ready compliance. Integrated governance features...
What’s Coming up at #AAAI2026?
The episode previews AAAI‑2026, the first AAAI conference held outside North America, hosted in Singapore from Jan 20‑27. It highlights the diverse program—including invited talks from leaders like Peter Stone and Isabelle Guyon, a science‑communication tutorial, extensive tutorials and labs on topics...
Deutsche Telekom Puts Elevenlabs AI on the Phone to Handle Customer Calls
Deutsche Telekom will integrate Elevenlabs’ AI voice agents into its customer service channels, allowing callers to interact with realistic synthetic voices 24/7 via the MeinMagenta app and phone. The rollout follows a pilot that lets Magenta customers generate up to...
Deny, Deny, Admit: UK Police Used Copilot AI “Hallucination” When Banning Football Fans
West Midlands Police used Microsoft Copilot, producing a fabricated record of a West Ham vs Maccabi Tel Aviv match, which underpinned a ban on Maccabi fans for a Villa‑Maccabi game. The chief constable initially denied any AI use, blaming Google...
BridgeWise and Ultumus Boost ETF Data Coverage for FundWise
BridgeWise announced a partnership with Ultumus to broaden its FundWise ETF intelligence, adding over 800 European funds and more than 3,000 global ETFs to its existing coverage of 12,000 funds. Ultumus will supply a cloud‑native, normalized data infrastructure covering holdings,...
Assail Launches From Stealth with Ares
Assail, Inc. emerged from stealth with Ares, an autonomous AI platform that conducts continuous, machine‑speed penetration testing of APIs, web and mobile applications. The company closed a $250,000 pre‑seed round led by Squared Circle Ventures, received $100,000 in AWS credits,...
Lynx Analytics Introduces Lumen, an Agentic AI Framework to Improve Decision-Making in Life Sciences
Lynx Analytics has launched Lumen, an agentic AI framework built for pharmaceutical and biotech workflows. The platform enables AI agents to distill complex clinical and market data, generate HCP personas, and explain forecast drivers with citation‑backed transparency. Its first flagship...
Filevine Announces LOIS for Word as It Acquires Pincites
Filevine announced the acquisition of Pincites, an AI‑powered drafting and contract redlining tool built for Microsoft Word. The deal brings Word‑native functionality into Filevine’s Legal Operating Intelligence System (LOIS), enabling litigators to draft, edit, and redline documents while staying connected...
Tesla to Stop Selling FSD as a Standalone Package and Switch to Subscription Only
Tesla announced that, effective February 14, it will cease selling Full Self‑Driving (FSD) as a one‑time purchase and will offer the Level 2 driver‑assist system exclusively through a $99‑a‑month subscription. The move follows a 15.6% year‑over‑year sales decline and comes as Elon...
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How We Built a Content Optimization Tool for AI Search [Study]
A Semrush study examined over 300,000 URLs to pinpoint which text‑only attributes drive citations in AI‑powered search tools such as ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. The analysis revealed five content qualities—clarity, E‑E‑A‑T signals, Q&A formatting, section structure, and structured...
The Structure of This Sentence Is a Dead Giveaway that AI Wrote It
AI‑generated text is increasingly common, but traditional detection focuses on lexical quirks like overused words or punctuation. A recent analysis highlights that the most reliable giveaway is the underlying sentence structure, with uniform clause lengths and overly smooth rhythms betraying...
VoiceRun Nabs $5.5M to Build a Voice Agent Factory
VoiceRun announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Flybridge Capital to launch its code‑first platform for AI voice agents. The startup positions itself between low‑code visual builders and fully custom development tools, letting developers write, test, and deploy agents with...
GenAI In European B2B Marketing: Why Hesitation Is The Real Risk
The episode examines how generative AI is reshaping European B2B marketing, highlighting the tension between strong enthusiasm—81% of marketers want to adopt AI—and the heavy regulatory and technical constraints of GDPR, the EU AI Act, legacy systems, and talent gaps....
Truveta Launches Truveta Live Link
Truveta introduced Live Link, a prospective research platform that merges proprietary data with continuously updated real‑world clinical information. The solution delivers forward‑looking, regulatory‑grade evidence by combining EHR records, expert determination, and secure, HIPAA‑ and HITRUST‑certified storage. It enables life‑science firms...
Lenovo Wants to Make the 2026 World Cup the ‘Most AI-Driven Event’ in Sports History
Lenovo has been named the official technology partner for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a tournament that will be staged across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The company will provide a full‑stack AI‑enabled infrastructure that underpins broadcasting, officiating, player...