South Korea to Fund Medical AI Device Rollout and More Briefs
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare will allocate 8 billion won ($5.3 million) from the AX‑Sprint programme to fund commercialization of AI‑based medical devices, supporting consortia with hospitals for clinical validation and reimbursement between 2026‑27. Singapore's Nanyang Technological University launched the second phase of its Future Health Technologies programme, backed by S$37.9 million ($30 million) to develop AI and robotics solutions for ageing, including digital twins and wearable sensors. In northern Thailand, Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai signed an MOU with Chiang Mai University’s Science and Technology Park to co‑develop AI‑driven clinical workflow and patient safety tools. Together, these initiatives illustrate a regional push to integrate AI into healthcare delivery and create new market opportunities.
Blaize Announces Planned Launch of Blaize AI Services to Turn AI Infrastructure Into Production-Ready APIs
AI hardware maker Blaize Holdings announced the upcoming launch of Blaize AI Services, a platform that turns AI infrastructure into production‑ready, application‑level APIs. The solution bundles modular APIs, hybrid inference scheduling, and Forward Deployed Engineering to speed pilot‑to‑production, cut query...
Lawyers Embracing AI but Leaving Clients in the Dark
Clio’s 2026 UK & Ireland Legal Insights Report surveyed over 500 lawyers and 500 members of the public, revealing that 89% of legal professionals now use AI tools, yet only 7% of clients recall being told about AI involvement. While...
Container-Sized AI 'Pods' Could Be the Answer to Dragging Data Centre Plans, HPE Says
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is mass‑producing container‑sized AI “pods” that function as miniature data centres, with a factory capable of delivering a unit in a matter of months. The modular pods bundle compute, storage, networking and cooling into a single...
Multi-Agent AI Delivers Reliable and Scalable Insights for Single-Cell Omics
Nygen Analytics, a Lund‑based startup founded by computational genomics expert Parashar Dhapola, is deploying multi‑agent AI to streamline single‑cell omics analysis. The platform automates cell‑type annotation, handling millions of cells while reducing error rates that can misguide drug discovery. By...
AI Infrastructure: The Hidden Layer Driving Innovation
AI infrastructure—encompassing high‑performance compute, storage, networking, and MLOps tools—is the hidden layer that enables large language models, real‑time analytics, and other AI applications to move from prototype to production. The article explains how GPUs, TPUs, HPC clusters, and hybrid cloud‑edge...
Infometry Launches INFOFISCUS Conversa for macOS to Interact with Enterprise AI Analytics Using Natural Language
Infometry has released a native macOS version of its INFOFISCUS Conversa platform, letting executives ask plain‑English questions and receive AI‑generated insights without writing SQL or consulting dashboards. The app translates natural language into optimized queries for cloud warehouses such as...
Software’s Re-Founding Moment: What Separates Transformation From Theatre
Software firms are confronting a pivotal choice: bolt AI onto existing products or undergo a full "re‑founding" to become AI‑native. The term, now used by companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Atlassian, signals an existential shift rather than a feature upgrade,...
Why Was Claude Mythos Really Delayed? OpenAI Points to Anthropic's Massive Compute Constraints, Says Report
OpenAI told investors that its aggressive compute build‑out gives it a clear advantage over Anthropic, whose Claude Mythos model was delayed because of limited computing resources. The memo cites OpenAI’s 1.9 GW capacity in 2025, projected to reach roughly 30 GW by...
Monday.com Pushing A/NZ Partners to ‘Enormous’ AI Opportunity
Monday.com has revamped its partner program in the Asia‑Pacific region, shifting emphasis from generic work‑management tools to AI‑driven work execution. The February updates introduce a competitive incentive tied to customers' AI adoption and an "AI Genius" specialization that rewards partners...
Frasers Group Launches AI Shopping Assistant
Frasers Group has introduced Ask Frasers, an AI‑powered shopping assistant on its e‑commerce site. The tool, built on Algolia’s Agentic Experience technology, lets shoppers ask natural‑language questions, refine preferences and receive real‑time product recommendations. By leveraging live product data, availability...
This Problem Might Not Need a Solution: Customer-Service Bots that Code for Free
A new wave of "token freeloaders" is siphoning free compute from AI‑powered customer‑service bots by posing complex queries that consume large language‑model tokens. CIO.com outlines mitigation tactics such as capping token usage per answer and adding AI‑driven validation, but each...
Globant and CMPC Launched an AI-Based Supply Chain Traceability Solution Compliant with EU Deforestation Regulation
Globant has deployed an AI‑driven supply‑chain traceability platform for CMPC, a global pulp, paper and packaging leader. Built on SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Clean Core, the solution automates document extraction and compliance workflows, shrinking manual traceability from up...
EBSCO Clinical Decisions Report: 80% of Clinicians Trust Evidence-Based AI Tools
EBSCO Clinical Decisions released a report showing a stark trust gap in AI‑driven clinical decision support. While 89% of clinicians believe AI‑CDS will improve outcomes, 64% of patients would rather see a doctor who does not use AI. Evidence‑based AI...
How Organisations Can Prepare for the Next Wave of AI and Automation
The article warns that the next wave of automation will be driven by agentic AI and the orchestration of multiple AI models across systems, demanding robust information governance. It stresses that automation success hinges on the quality, accuracy, and lifecycle...
Bidirectional All‐Optical Synapses for Neuromorphic Computing and Vision
Researchers have created a bidirectional all‑optical synapse using a carbon‑dot hybrid (CDH) that responds to both ultraviolet and infrared light. The dual‑photon approach enables controllable exciton release and phosphorescent emission, delivering true optical potentiation and depression. Leveraging this capability, the...
ServiceNow AI-Enables Its Entire Product Lineup
ServiceNow announced that its full suite of products is now AI‑enabled, adding a conversational front‑door (EmployeeWorks), a cross‑enterprise data layer (Workflow Data Fabric), and an AI Control Tower for governance. The rollout introduces Context Engine, which injects real‑time enterprise context...
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[Perspectives] Mammography Should Include Artificial Intelligence Support
The Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence (MASAI) randomised trial showed that a single radiologist assisted by an AI algorithm achieved higher sensitivity than the traditional double‑reading approach, while preserving specificity. Complementary studies from 2025‑2026 confirm AI’s scalability and equitable performance...
Can Europe Achieve AI Sovereignty?
European businesses are increasingly questioning their reliance on U.S. AI models and cloud services as regulators push for digital sovereignty. Gartner analyst Rene Buest notes that while global providers are rolling out sovereign offerings through local partners, true independence remains...
Imagene AI Partners with Daiichi Sankyo to Advance Multimodal Biomarker Discovery in Oncology
Imagene AI has teamed up with Daiichi Sankyo to use its OI Suite, powered by the CanvOI foundation model, for multimodal biomarker discovery in oncology. The collaboration will integrate H&E and IHC whole‑slide images with molecular and clinical data to...
Dermatologists Show Highest Melanoma Diagnostic Performance with AI Support
A systematic review of 11 prospective studies involving over 2,500 patients found that AI algorithms detect melanoma with sensitivity (80.9%) and specificity (75.6%) comparable to dermatologists (78.6% and 75.2%). When dermatologists used AI assistance, performance jumped to 91.9% sensitivity and...
Software Rout Deepens as AI Fears Grip Investors
U.S. software stocks slumped on Thursday as AI‑related anxieties resurfaced after Anthropic announced its new Claude Mythos model, which is being restricted to roughly 40 leading tech firms. The S&P 500 Software and Services Index is down 25.5% year‑to‑date and fell another...
China AI Firm Discloses $92 Million of Banned Nvidia Chip Servers to Beijing
Sharetronic Data Technology, a Shenzhen AI‑data‑center firm, disclosed invoices for 276 Super Micro servers equipped with Nvidia H100/H200 chips, valued at 632 million yuan (about $92 million). The hardware is subject to U.S. export bans that have been in place since 2022, yet the...
IBM And The Converging Forces Reshaping Enterprise AI
IBM is betting on the convergence of digital sovereignty, agentic AI, and cybersecurity by unveiling its Sovereign Core framework and an integrated open‑source stack anchored by Red Hat, Confluent and DataStax. The company positions the framework as a client‑operated, hybrid‑compatible...
US Officials Warn Banks over Powerful New Anthropic Model
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with CEOs of the nation’s largest banks to warn of cyber‑risk from Anthropic’s newly unveiled Mythos AI model. Anthropic says Mythos can locate and exploit...
Anthropic Mulls Building Its Own AI Chips
Anthropic is weighing the development of its own AI chips as the industry grapples with a persistent silicon shortage. The move follows a surge in demand for its Claude chatbot, which pushed run‑rate revenue to roughly $30 billion, up from $9 billion...
What Vibe Hunting Gets Right About AI Threat Hunting, and Where It Breaks Down
Vibe hunting flips traditional threat hunting by letting AI scan entire data sets and surface anomalous patterns, turning the hypothesis into an implicit output. Exaforce’s Aqsa Taylor stresses that analysts must still be able to explain any investigation path, otherwise...
IPL 2026: Mumbai Indians Invest in AI-Led Personalisation Through MoEngage Deal
Mumbai Indians have named MoEngage its official fan‑engagement partner, deploying the AI‑driven platform to personalize digital interactions for the franchise’s global fanbase. The solution will unify first‑party data across web and mobile, enabling targeted merchandise recommendations, tailored content and real‑time...
Welsh Development Bank Invests in AI Skills
Welsh government‑backed Development Bank of Wales has awarded a £60,000 (≈$73,000) contract to Cheshire‑based Generative AI Strategy B.V. to run a year‑long AI upskilling programme beginning 17 April 2026. The initiative will teach staff generative AI fundamentals and safe use of Microsoft...
How GenAI Fixed Withholding Tax at Scale, Improved Processes
A global agribusiness handling withholding tax certificates across Latin America replaced a manual, spreadsheet‑driven process with a cloud‑based automation platform powered by generative AI. The new stack ingests emails, extracts data from varied Spanish PDFs, validates against the on‑prem ERP,...
Hippo Announces Rollout of AI-Driven Claims Workflow
Hippo Holdings is rolling out a scalable, AI‑driven claims workflow that replaces legacy systems with a unified digital platform. The new system features a 24/7 conversational AI agent for first notice of loss, aiming to capture over 70% of claims...
Standing Out From the Sea of Sameness
Touleen Barto warns that AI‑driven tools are flooding the market with fast, cheap content, creating a "sea of sameness" that threatens brand identity. While generative technology boosts production speed, it also homogenises visuals and copy, making campaigns indistinguishable. She argues...
Vertiv AI Innovation Roadshow Returns to Africa as Virtual Event
Vertiv, a global critical‑infrastructure provider, is holding its AI Innovation Roadshow for Africa as a fully virtual webinar on April 15 at 11 am SAST. The event, themed “AI‑ready data centres for Africa: building infrastructure for what’s next,” will explore how power,...
Balance Control When Negotiating With Salesforce
Since launching Agentforce in 2024, Salesforce has repositioned itself as an AI‑first, multicloud vendor, bundling AI, data and automation into larger deals—a shift analysts call “AI gravity.” This strategy often pushes buyers into higher‑tier licenses and unused add‑ons, leading to...
PonyWorld 2.0 Adds Self-Diagnosis to Pony.ai’s L4 Stack
Pony.ai unveiled PonyWorld 2.0, an upgraded world model that lets its Level‑4 autonomous driving stack diagnose its own performance gaps. The system creates targeted data‑collection tasks for human teams, feeding fresh samples back into a cloud‑based training loop. Pony.ai says...
Poke Is OpenClaw for Normies, $136,000 for Billionaires
OpenClaw‑style AI assistant Poke, which lives inside SMS conversations, left private beta last month and is now publicly available. The service bills customers based on usage, with the most extreme case a billionaire paying $136,000 a month. Poke recently secured...
Booking Restaurants in the UK Just Got Easier with AI in Search
Google has launched agentic AI capabilities in its Search AI Mode, allowing UK users to book restaurant tables directly from search results. By describing preferences such as cuisine, location, group size and dietary needs, the AI scans multiple reservation platforms...
Why Pfizer and Other Blue-Chip Brands Are Building Internal AI Search Hubs to Reclaim Control
Major advertisers such as Pfizer are moving SEO and AI discoverability functions in‑house, creating dedicated internal search hubs. Pfizer assembled its team in just 60 days, adding former agency talent, while peers like Georgia Pacific, U.S. Bank, Adobe and T‑Mobile have...
Error Equation Predicts Brain’s Ability to Generalize
The study published in Nature Neuroscience proposes a single error equation that links the geometry of neural population activity to the brain’s capacity to generalize across tasks. By extracting four geometric metrics—task‑related correlation, dimensionality, signal‑to‑noise factorization and signal‑signal factorization—the authors...
What Is Cognitive Automation? 5 Examples to Transform Your Business
Cognitive automation augments traditional workflow tools with AI capabilities such as machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, allowing systems to interpret unstructured data and make decisions. Unlike rule‑based robotic process automation (RPA), it learns patterns and adapts over...
Agentic AI Vs. Generative AI: Key Differences and Use Cases
The article clarifies the distinction between generative AI, which creates content from prompts, and agentic AI, which autonomously plans and executes multi‑step tasks to achieve outcomes. It explains that generative models serve as building blocks for agentic systems, which can...
AI Is the New Front Door to Government. The Bots Need Help.
Generative AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are increasingly becoming the first point of contact for Americans seeking unemployment, food assistance, health care and tax information. Because most government websites are built for human navigation—interactive calculators, PDFs and...
AI Cameras In This State Are Busting Drivers Who Pick Up Their Phones In Work Zones
Arkansas began using AI‑enhanced cameras in two interstate work zones in January 2026 to detect drivers who pick up their phones, a violation of the state’s strict no‑touch law. The system captures still images, runs them through an AI model...
You Don’t Have a Skill. You Have a Novice.
The article argues that AI "skills" are often just untrained novices; generic skills work out‑of‑the‑box, but context‑dependent skills need extensive feedback loops—hundreds of iterations—to become production‑ready. It outlines a four‑stage maturity model and warns that treating AI skills like plug‑and‑play...
QuinAs Links Memory Device Physics to AI Performance
QuInAs Technology has published research linking its ULTRARAM compound‑semiconductor memory device directly to AI system performance. The paper introduces a physics‑based compact modelling framework that captures resonant tunnelling and floating‑gate dynamics, enabling hardware‑aware benchmarking of ULTRARAM as a synaptic element...
CEA-Leti, CEA-List and PSMC Collaborate
CEA‑List, CEA‑Leti and PSMC announced a collaboration to merge RISC‑V processor IP with silicon‑photonic interconnects on PSMC’s 3D‑stacking platform, targeting next‑generation AI systems. The joint effort will embed customizable RISC‑V compute blocks and microLED‑based optical links into high‑bandwidth chiplet architectures,...
Data Minimisation vs AI Context Maximisation: The Battle Defining the Future of Smart Systems
AI product teams chase higher accuracy by feeding models ever more context, but privacy regulations demand strict data minimisation. The article argues that the conflict is structural: richer data improves personalization and retrieval, yet expands exposure and governance risk. It...
We’re Coding 40% Faster, but Building on Sand: The 2026 Quality Collapse
Software teams are delivering code 40% faster thanks to large language models, but the rapid pace has exposed a growing quality collapse. AI‑generated code floods repositories while developers’ understanding lags, tripling the time needed for meaningful pull‑request reviews. Experts warn...
‘Wasting A Lot Of Budget’: Heatseeker’s New CTO On Why Guessing Without Testing Is Failing Marketers
Heatseeker has appointed former Google AI leader Kawal Gandhi as chief technology officer, signaling a push to replace traditional survey‑based market research with AI‑driven behavioural experiments. The platform runs live “ghost ads” on social media to capture real clicks, sign‑ups...
AI Is 'Fuelling' Shift Work Economy Despite Employee Scepticism
Deputy’s new report, based on 41 million shifts and 268 million hours, shows AI is accelerating the shift‑work economy rather than displacing frontline jobs. AI tools are trimming documentation, improving patient coordination in hospitals, and sharpening demand forecasting and staffing precision in...