Brado, Santé Ventures Partner to Transform Patient Navigation and Engagement
Brado, a healthcare engagement firm, announced a strategic investment partnership with venture capital firm Santé Ventures, leading to the creation of Brado AI, a dedicated entity for its Conversational Engagement Platform (CEP). The partnership provides capital and expertise to accelerate CEP’s roadmap, including mid‑acuity triage, precision routing, and expansion into specialties such as cardiology and oncology. CEP, already deployed in four regional health systems, uses empathetic conversational AI to guide patients through care journeys, improving provider capacity and operational efficiency. The deal positions Brado to scale its AI‑driven navigation solution nationwide.
Ditto Joins Zebra Technologies’ PartnerConnect Program
Ditto announced its entry into Zebra Technologies’ PartnerConnect program as a Premier ISV Partner, linking its edge‑native, offline‑first mobile database with Zebra’s suite of barcode scanners, POS terminals, mobile computers and wearables. The collaboration promises uninterrupted point‑of‑sale and inventory workflows...
Apple Taps Google’s Gemini to Power Siri in AI Catch-Up Move
Apple announced a multi‑year partnership with Google to embed Gemini’s large‑language models and cloud infrastructure into its next‑generation Siri. The deal marks a rare collaboration between two historic rivals and signals Apple’s acknowledgement that external AI expertise is needed to...
This World-First Bird Feeder Cam with 360-Degree View Sees All in 6K, and I Can't Wait to Try It in...
Birdfy introduced the Feeder Vista at CES 2026, a world‑first 360‑degree bird‑feeder camera delivering 6K video, 120 fps slow‑motion, and 14 MP stills. The device uses a bottom‑up air‑pump seed system and an airtight antibacterial container to keep feed fresh, while precision weight...
Bidgely Redefines Energy AI in 2025: From Machine Learning to Agentic AI
Bidgely cemented its role as the leading energy AI provider in 2025 by acquiring Grid4C, securing more than 16 utility‑focused AI patents, and unveiling UtilityAI Pro, a cloud‑agnostic vertical AI platform. The solution now powers over 35 utilities across the...
Apella Closes $80M in Series B to Transform the Hospital with Ambient AI and Computer Vision
Apella announced an $80 million Series B round, led by HighlandX and joined by existing and new healthcare investors including Houston Methodist. The capital will fund enterprise‑scale deployments of its ambient AI and computer‑vision platform that automates surgical event tracking and EHR...
Semiconductor Leader Taps Articul8 to Speed Product Releases
Articul8 announced the deployment of its domain‑specific Generative AI platform on Google Cloud for a leading semiconductor company in Santa Clara. The solution accelerates product development, sales engineering, and go‑to‑market workflows by leveraging multimodal intelligence across engineering drawings, 3D meshes,...
Robots to Navigate Hiking Trails
The episode explores the challenges of autonomous robot navigation on unstructured hiking trails, emphasizing the need to perceive, plan, and adapt to dynamic obstacles like fallen trees, mud, and erosion. Researchers combine LiDAR-based geometric terrain analysis with camera-driven semantic segmentation...
Jamf Leads the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools
Jamf (NASDAQ: JAMF) has been positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools, earning top marks for both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The vendor is the sole Apple‑first platform that combines management,...
How to Build an AI Innovation Pipeline that Creates Real Long-Term Value
At the start of 2026, firms are launching AI transformation programs, yet most pilots fail to deliver returns. The article presents a playbook for building a repeatable AI innovation pipeline, illustrated by Aurora Windows, a midsize manufacturer. By conducting a baseline...
CyberCube Forecasts AI Reality Check Amid Rapid Change in Cyber Insurance
CyberCube’s 2026 outlook warns that AI’s boardroom buzz will meet a reality check as legacy systems, data silos, and cautious regulators slow disciplined adoption. The firm predicts AI will dramatically streamline claims handling, cutting repetitive tasks while keeping humans in...
As Adult Anxieties Around AI Grow, Lego Hands the Conversation to Kids
LEGO Education has introduced the “We Trust in Kids” campaign to give children a voice in AI education, unveiling new computer‑science and AI teaching kits for K‑8. The initiative is based on research showing 65 % of students feel excluded from...
AmplifyMD Names Stephen Klasko and Rod Hochman to Board and Advisory Team
AmplifyMD, an AI-enabled virtual specialty care platform, announced the appointment of former Jefferson Health CEO Stephen K. Klasko to its Board of Directors and former Providence CEO Rod Hochman as a strategic advisor. The moves follow a $20 million Series B round...
Cloudforce Secures $10M Series A From Owl Ventures and Microsoft to Democratize Safe, Equitable AI in Education, Healthcare, and Beyond
Cloudforce announced a $10 million Series A round led by Owl Ventures with strategic participation from Microsoft’s M12 fund. The capital will accelerate scaling of its Azure‑native AI platform nebulaONE, which already supports over 3 million users across more than 90 universities, hospitals...
Algolia Takes on the Next Era of AI-Driven Retail at NRF 2026
Algolia announced that board member Bernadette Nixon will join Frasers Group’s David Clark and Microsoft Shopping’s Jennifer Myers on a NRF 2026 panel titled “Beyond the website: Reinventing retail for AI‑native shoppers.” The discussion, scheduled for Jan 12, will examine the decline...
The Surprising Ways AI Could Reduce Bias at Work
The article examines two dominant AI anxieties—job automation and bias amplification—and argues that, while AI won’t eliminate prejudice, it can undercut human bias when deployed thoughtfully. It highlights that AI reshapes work by automating low‑value tasks and exposing inefficiencies, while...
FiberMall Announces Volume Shipments of 400G/800G AI Optical Transceivers
FiberMall has begun mass production and volume shipments of 400 Gbps and 800 Gbps optical transceivers, targeting AI and cloud data centers worldwide. The product line includes 800 G QSFP‑DD, OSFP and 400 G QSFP112 modules that are compatible with NVIDIA InfiniBand and Ethernet...
Zealand Pharma Enters Agreement With Dcai to Use Gefion AI Supercomputer to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Support Metabolic Frontier 2030...
Zealand Pharma announced a strategic agreement with AI‑infrastructure specialist DCAI to tap Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer for drug discovery. The partnership grants the biotech firm access to more than 1,500 NVIDIA GPUs powered by renewable energy, enabling massive peptide‑protein simulations. Gefion’s...
Informatica Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms
Informatica was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms, reflecting strong scores in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. The company’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) leverages AI, including the...
Are On-Chain AI Agents Creating Value or Chaos?
On-chain AI agents are proliferating across crypto markets, promising continuous, data‑driven trading without human oversight. In practice, many of these bots react reflexively to each other, causing liquidity to appear and vanish within seconds and spawning volatility spirals. The article...
The Home Depot and Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI Tools to Help Customers and Associates Bring Projects From ‘How-To’ to...
The Home Depot and Google Cloud have deepened their partnership, embedding Google Gemini and Gemini Enterprise AI models across Home Depot’s digital and physical channels. The integration powers an AI‑first experience that moves from product recommendation to task execution, delivering...
Publishers Fear AI Search Summaries and Chatbots Mean ‘End of Traffic Era’
Media executives warn that AI-generated search summaries and chatbots could slash web‑referral traffic by up to 43% over the next three years. Google search traffic to news sites has already fallen 33% globally, with AI Overviews now appearing in roughly...
72andSunny Will Build a Brand Around Qualcomm’s Compute Power
72andSunny has secured the agency‑of‑record role for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Compute platform, winning a competitive pitch that ends McCann Worldgroup’s eight‑year tenure. The creative firm will craft a global brand campaign that spotlights the chip’s AI‑driven processing power, with the first...
Motional Puts AI at Center of Robotaxi Reboot as It Targets 2026 for Driverless Service
Motional, the Hyundai‑Aptiv joint venture, has rebooted its robotaxi program with an AI‑first architecture and aims to launch a fully driverless service in Las Vegas by the end of 2026. After missing earlier milestones, losing Aptiv’s backing and slashing its workforce...
NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Puts Agentic AI Centre Stage
The NRF 2026 Retail’s Big Show highlighted agentic AI as the year’s headline technology, with major retailers and solution providers unveiling tools that can autonomously make decisions on pricing, inventory and customer engagement. Demonstrations ranged from AI‑driven demand forecasting engines...
Micron Announces a QLC SSD Just Weeks After Killing Its Beloved Crucial Brand — the 3610 Is a Basic Gen5...
Micron unveiled the 3610, a PCIe Gen5 QLC SSD, at CES 2026, marking its first Gen5 G9 QLC client drive and the first single‑sided M.2 2230 offering up to 4 TB. The drive claims sequential reads up to 11 GB/s and writes up to 9.3 GB/s, with...
"It's a Scam": French AI Envoy on X Making Grok Chatbot Pay-to-Perve
French AI ambassador Clara Chappaz called X’s decision to place Grok’s public image‑generation behind a paywall a “scam,” condemning the move as profiteering from illegal deep‑fake sexual content. Malaysia and Indonesia have already suspended Grok, while France, the UK, Australia and...
A Coding Guide to Demonstrate Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Deep Learning by Label Flipping on CIFAR-10 with PyTorch
The MarkTechPost tutorial walks readers through a targeted data‑poisoning experiment that flips a portion of CIFAR‑10 labels from a chosen class to a malicious class using PyTorch. By constructing parallel clean and poisoned training pipelines with a lightweight ResNet‑18, the...
Meet SETA: Open Source Training Reinforcement Learning Environments for Terminal Agents with 400 Tasks and CAMEL Toolkit
Researchers from CAMEL AI, Eigent AI and partners released SETA, an open‑source stack that couples a terminal‑focused toolkit with 400 synthetic reinforcement‑learning tasks. The framework delivers state‑of‑the‑art results on the Terminal Bench benchmark, hitting 46.5% accuracy on version 2.0 with a...
Google Announces a New Protocol to Facilitate Commerce Using AI Agents
Google unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that lets AI agents handle end‑to‑end shopping experiences. Developed with retailers such as Shopify, Walmart and Target, UCP streamlines discovery, checkout and post‑purchase support across platforms. The protocol will power...
AI Agents and the Data Lake (W/ Lauren Anderson)
In this episode, Tristan Handy talks with Lauren Anderson, head of Okta's enterprise data platform, about how identity underpins the emerging challenges of AI agents and open data lakes. Lauren explains the need for central governance and a shared semantic...
Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling: The Five Key Differences for Data Centers
Data centers now consume about 1.5% of global electricity, and AI‑driven workloads are set to double demand by 2030. Traditional air‑cooling struggles with rising power density, prompting a shift toward liquid cooling, which can remove heat up to 3,000 times...
Google and Walmart Join Forces to Shape the Future of Retail
Google and Walmart announced a deep AI partnership at the NRF Big Show, enabling shoppers to buy Walmart and Sam’s Club products directly through Google’s Gemini chatbot. The collaboration also introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol, a joint effort with other...
Chinese Researchers Diagnose AI Image Models with Aphasia-Like Disorder, Develop Self-Healing Framework
Chinese researchers introduced UniCorn, a self‑healing framework that teaches multimodal AI models to recognize and correct mismatches between image understanding and generation, a problem they label “Conduction Aphasia.” The system splits a single model into Proposer, Solver, and Judge agents...
Lightricks Open-Sources AI Video Model LTX-2, Challenges Sora and Veo
Lightricks has open‑sourced its 19‑billion‑parameter LTX‑2 model, which generates synchronized stereo audio and video from a single text prompt. The dual‑stream transformer allocates 14 B parameters to video and 5 B to audio, enabling 4K, 50 fps output up to 20 seconds long. Benchmarks...
Chinese AI Industry Admits US Remains Ahead for Now
Chinese AI leaders acknowledge the United States remains ahead in compute power and chip access, limiting near‑term chances of overtaking OpenAI or Anthropic. Executives at the AGI Next Summit cited export controls and a two‑order‑of‑magnitude gap in infrastructure as primary...
‘Dangerous and Alarming’: Google Removes some of Its AI Summaries After Users’ Health Put at Risk
Google removed AI Overviews for liver‑function‑test queries after a Guardian investigation exposed inaccurate normal‑range numbers that ignored age, sex, ethnicity and clinical context. The faulty snippets could mislead patients into believing serious liver disease was absent, prompting delayed medical care....
Musk Says He’s Going to Open-Source the New X Algorithm Next Week
Elon Musk announced that X will open‑source its new recommendation algorithm within seven days, promising weekly transparency updates thereafter. The 2023 Twitter algorithm repository on GitHub remains largely unchanged, fueling doubts about the new commitment. Musk says the release will...
Indonesia Blocks Grok over Non-Consensual, Sexualized Deepfakes
Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.
Why Your LLM Bill Is Exploding — and How Semantic Caching Can Cut It by 73%
A company saw its LLM API bill rise 30% month‑over‑month despite modest traffic growth. Analysis revealed that users asked the same questions in varied phrasing, causing duplicate LLM calls that exact‑match caching missed. By replacing text hashes with embedding‑based semantic...
Chinese Companies Pony.ai and BAIC BJEV Deepen Partnership for Robotaxi Development and Commercialization
Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai and BAIC’s electric‑vehicle arm BJEV have upgraded their strategic partnership to accelerate mass production and commercialization of Level‑4 robotaxi services. The agreement deepens collaboration on vehicle design, fleet operations and lifecycle management, leveraging BAIC BJEV’s...
From ‘Vibe Coding’ to ‘Vibe Selling’: How AI Is Reshaping the Art of Selling
The article introduces “vibe selling,” an AI‑driven approach that offloads repetitive sales tasks such as email drafting, account research, and conversation analysis to intelligent tools. By embedding AI directly into the sales workflow, reps receive real‑time insights, opportunity flags, and...
OpenAI Reportedly Sets Aside $50 Billion for Employee Stock Program
OpenAI has earmarked a $50 billion employee stock pool, roughly ten percent of its $500 billion valuation, according to The Information. Combined with $80 billion in previously allocated shares, staff now own about 26 percent of the company. The firm is also in early...
New Deepseek Technique Balances Signal Flow and Learning Capacity in Large AI Models
Researchers introduced mathematically constrained hyper‑connections (mHC) to address signal amplification in large DeepSeek models. Standard hyper‑connections cause signal strength to explode up to 3,000×, leading to loss spikes around 12,000 steps in a 27‑billion‑parameter model. By applying Sinkhorn‑Knopp normalized, non‑negative...
Asus Vies for Fastest Mini PC Ever with Panther Lake NUC 16 Pro — B390 GPU Inside the Core Ultra...
Asus unveiled the NUC 16 Pro at CES 2026, targeting the fastest mini‑PC class with Intel’s Panther Lake platform and the Core Ultra X9 388H processor. The system delivers up to 180 TOPS of AI compute and integrates Intel’s Arc B390 iGPU, which, while strong for an integrated solution,...
AI Tool of the Week: Uncover Hidden Patent Gems Effortlessly
The latest AI-driven solution, Perplexity Patents, offers a conversational interface that instantly searches and summarizes global patent filings. By feeding a concept into the chat, users receive visual maps of related patents, claim analyses, and potential freedom‑to‑operate assessments within minutes....
AI Bubble: Five Things You Need to Know to Shield Your Finances From a Crash
The Guardian Money warns that soaring AI‑related stock prices may be forming a bubble, echoed by the Bank of England governor and Alphabet’s chief. Overvaluation concerns could trigger a broad market sell‑off, affecting not only tech shares but also pensions,...
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
OpenAI is recruiting third‑party contractors to upload actual work products from their current or previous jobs so the company can benchmark its next‑generation AI agents against human performance. The initiative, part of a new evaluation framework launched in September, asks...
‘We’re Redefining Eyewear on a Really High Level. I Like to Use a Camera Analogy: Fixed Focus, Manual Focus, and...
Finnish startup IXI unveiled the world’s first autofocusing eyeglasses at CES 2026, featuring liquid‑crystal tunable lenses that adjust focus automatically based on eye‑tracking. The device combines a normal‑looking frame with a 35 mAh battery delivering roughly 18 hours of use, weighing just 22 grams....
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris
AI chatbot Grok, owned by xAI, has been weaponized to create non‑consensual images that strip or add religious and cultural clothing on women, especially Muslim and South Asian subjects. A WIRED analysis of 500 generated images found roughly 5 % featured...