PR, Media & Communications Industry Report
LexisNexis released a new industry report on generative AI adoption in PR, media and communications. The study, based on global research, finds many teams lack governance policies, training, and oversight, exposing them to misinformation and reputational risk. It outlines practical steps for implementing validation processes, human checkpoints, and stronger policies. The free report aims to help leaders adopt AI responsibly while protecting brand trust.
Brands Vs. Bots: CMOs, Ad Agencies Tell All About What They’ve Learned Marketing to Our New AI Overlords
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is emerging as the new frontier for brand visibility as large language models (LLMs) become primary sources of product recommendations. A McKinsey report projects AI‑summarized searches to generate $750 billion in U.S. revenue by 2028, warning that...
Governance Gaps Emerge as AI Agents Drive 76% Increase in NHIs
The SANS Institute’s 2026 State of Identity Threats & Defenses Survey reveals a 76 % rise in non‑human identities (NHIs) as AI agents proliferate across enterprises. Seventy‑four percent of firms already deploy AI agents that require credentials, causing NHIs to double...
Fifth Third Official: AI Will Help Banks 'Out-Code' Vendors
Fifth Third Bank’s consumer‑lending head Jay Plum says AI will let banks "out‑code" legacy core providers and automate risk reviews, turning the annual exam scramble into continuous "mini reviews." He highlighted that AI‑driven customization can differentiate customer experience and reduce loan...
The Memory Maker
OpenAI’s Sora app, a self‑deepfake video platform, amassed one million downloads in five days before being discontinued after six months. The article explores how users like Andrew Deutsch and Elena Piech experienced fleeting, false autobiographical memories after repeatedly viewing AI‑generated videos...
Sigma360 and Consilient Partner on AI-Driven pKYC
Sigma360 and Consilient announced a strategic partnership to deliver an AI‑driven perpetual KYC (pKYC) platform that unifies real‑time risk intelligence with federated machine learning. The joint solution addresses the industry’s “silo effect” by allowing institutions to share and improve detection...
OpenAI Pauses Stargate UK Data Center Citing Energy Costs
OpenAI announced it is pausing its Stargate artificial‑intelligence infrastructure project in the United Kingdom due to rising energy costs. The move comes as the company tightens spending ahead of a highly anticipated public listing. OpenAI said it will revisit the...
UK to Spend £15M on AI-Powered Crime Mapping in Knife Violence Crackdown
The UK government is committing £15 million (about $19 million) over the next three years to develop an AI‑driven crime‑mapping platform for England and Wales. The tool divides the region into 1.46 million hexagons, revealing that virtually all knife‑related incidents from April 2024‑March 2025 occurred...
What Becoming 'AI Numb' Means for Workforce Change
Executives are experiencing "AI numbness"—a fatigue from hype and pressure to adopt AI without clear outcomes. Research shows 32% of firms that cut staff for AI cost savings later rehired those workers when savings fell short. Leaders often push for...
Pentagon Launches Living Neural Computer for Drone Navigation
DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office has opened the O‑Circuit workshop to solicit proposals for a 42‑month program that builds living neural tissue processors, called biological processing units (BPUs), for defense AI. The effort will first test BPU learning with a Ms. Pac‑Man...
Claude Mixes up Who Said What and That's Not OK
Anthropic's Claude LLM has exhibited a critical bug where it mistakenly treats its own internal messages as user input, leading the model to issue self‑directed instructions and then attribute them to the user. The problem has been documented by a...
Plume Raises €3.3M to Cut Years From Renewable Energy Development Timelines
Plume, a Franco‑American geospatial AI startup, closed a €3.3 million (≈$3.6 million) round led by AENU with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures and others. The company’s platform consolidates more than 150 continuously updated geographic datasets and deploys AI agents that parse unstructured...
Use of Unauthorised AI Sparks Security and Compliance Concerns for Businesses
Two thirds of UK business leaders worry about data security and compliance risks from employees' unauthorised AI use, according to a Studio Graphene‑commissioned poll of 500 senior managers. The survey found 48% suspect shadow AI tools are in use, rising...
Meta Rolls Out AI-Led Shopping Tools Across Reels and Creator Ecosystem
Meta unveiled a suite of AI‑driven shopping tools that embed product tagging directly into Reels and expand creator‑brand collaborations. The updates add generative AI voiceovers, automatic translation, and product‑set optimisation to streamline multilingual video ad creation. Reels Trending Ads now...
.NEXT 2026 - AI Factories and Neoclouds Open New Opportunities for Nutanix
At .NEXT 2026, Nutanix executives highlighted neocloud providers and AI factories as fresh growth engines. They argue that GPU‑focused neoclouds and the need for dedicated AI production lines will surge demand for flexible, multi‑cloud infrastructure. Nutanix is positioning its management...
AI’s Next Bottleneck: Capital Crunch and Bridge Loans
AI infrastructure builders are turning to short‑term bridge loans as traditional financing stalls, with Forum Markets pledging up to $50 million for Nvidia GPU purchases. The loans, lasting 60‑120 days, aim for mid‑teen annualized returns and include a pre‑arranged takeout from...
AI Is Rewriting the Rules of European Entrepreneurship
AI and low‑code platforms are collapsing the technical and financial barriers that have traditionally defined European entrepreneurship. Tools such as Lovable and Anthropic’s Claude let non‑technical founders turn domain expertise into market‑ready software in weeks rather than months. This shift...
Executive Column: Zentara Pushes for Indonesia to Export Its Own Tech
Zentara, an Indonesian cybersecurity startup founded in 2025, is urging the nation to develop and export its own cyber‑technology as Indonesia’s National Cybersecurity Index dropped to 47.5, lagging behind regional peers. CEO Regal Rauniyar Star argues that closing the domestic...
Beyond Facility Surveillance: The Rise of the AI ‘Video Supervisor’
Facility managers are shifting from passive video recording to AI‑driven “video supervisors” that can interpret visual data in real time. Advances in video language models from firms like Google and OpenAI enable cloud‑based analytics that replace costly edge hardware while...
CPO, PMI | Principles Before Platforms: Why CHROs Must Steward Workplace AI Adoption
Philip Morris International (PMI) is using its "PMI DNA" cultural framework to guide workplace AI adoption, emphasizing that AI should augment rather than replace human judgment. The company reports that 94% of employees recognize the DNA values, fostering trust in AI...
Nearly Half of Small Businesses Are Increasing Their AI Budgets in 2026—And Not for the Reason You Think
Nearly half of small businesses—48 percent—are expanding their AI budgets in 2026, according to Bookipi’s AI Adoption Report. Of those, 12 percent plan to increase spending by as much as 50 percent. The surge isn’t driven by a desire for...
Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter
A developer is shifting the $100 / month spent on Anthropic’s Claude Code to a mix of Zed ($10 / month), Cursor ($20 / month), and OpenRouter credits ($70 / month). The move leverages Zed’s built‑in agent harness and OpenRouter’s multi‑model marketplace, which offers lower fees, roll‑over credits,...
Q&A: Paramount Global CTO Phil Wiser Talks AI in Media
Paramount Global’s CTO Phil Wiser outlined how AI is reshaping media operations during a HumanX Q&A. He highlighted AI’s role in speeding up global content localization, automating asset stitching, and ensuring compliance, while stressing a hybrid top‑down and bottom‑up adoption...
Interview with Sukanya Mandal: Synthesizing Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs for Smart City Intelligence
Researchers Sukanya Mandal and Noel O’Connor unveiled LLMasMMKG, a four‑stage framework that uses large language models to automatically build synthetic multi‑modal knowledge graphs for smart‑city cognitive digital twins. The system fuses text, sensor streams, and geospatial data via Sentence‑BERT embeddings,...
AI Continent Action Plan Delivers Major Milestones
One year after its launch, the European Commission’s AI Continent Action Plan is delivering tangible results across its five pillars—infrastructure, data, talent, adoption, and trustworthy AI. The EU now operates 19 AI factories on its leading supercomputers and is preparing...
Tesco Enlists 280,000 Staff for Trial of AI Shop Assistant
Tesco is piloting an AI‑powered shopping assistant within its mobile app, enlisting roughly 280,000 of its employees to beta‑test the feature. The assistant engages users in two‑way dialogue to generate personalized recipe ideas, then automatically creates a shopping basket using...
T-Mobile US Readies AI Live Translation Trial
T‑Mobile US will begin beta testing AI Live Translation, a real‑time language conversion service that runs natively on its standalone 5G core and agentic AI platform. The feature works over Wi‑Fi and all mobile technologies except 2G, allowing any T‑Mobile...
Nevermined Makes Giant AI Agent Payments Stride With Visa, X402 and VGS Support
Nevermined unveiled Nevermined Pay, a payment infrastructure that lets AI agents make purchases using delegated virtual cards. The platform integrates Visa Intelligent Commerce, PayPal Braintree, Stripe, and Coinbase’s x402, with VGS Secure Vault tokenizing card data for security. Built‑in guardrails...
Deliverect Launches AI Agents and Smart Assistants to Boost Restaurant Sales and Protect Digital Revenue
Deliverect has introduced Deliverect AI, a suite of autonomous agents and smart assistants that continuously rewrite digital menus, resolve technical issues, and launch themed promotions in minutes. The technology is live for UK clients and will roll out to Australia,...
Korea to Pilot AI-Driven Telemedicine in Indonesia
South Korea and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch AI‑driven teleconsultation pilots in Indonesia’s remote island communities. The partnership targets AI‑based primary healthcare, including public health, maternal‑child care, mental health, and digital wellness, with involvement from university...
Revolut Rolls Out AI Assistant as Part of Product Expansion Push
Revolut has introduced AI by Revolut (AIR), an in‑app conversational assistant for UK users. The tool lets customers manage spending, investments, subscriptions, freeze cards, and plan travel budgets, including buying eSIMs, directly through chat. AIR accesses only data customers can...
Irish Businesses Explore Next Wave of AI Adoption at Dell Technologies Innovate
Dell Technologies hosted its Innovate event at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, drawing over 100 Irish technology leaders to discuss the next wave of AI adoption. The showcase, dubbed “Tech Rally Anywhere,” let attendees test Dell’s newly launched AI‑enabled PCs and...
Scaling Success: How AI Is Reshaping Publisher Deals
Advertisers and publishers are turning to contextual AI to replace static private marketplace (PMP) deals with dynamic, real‑time audience expansion. Illuma’s AI analyzes live content consumption, scaling reach while preserving relevance without relying on cookies or personal identifiers. A pilot...
How Azura Found a Third Way to Fashion’s Guilty Secret Waste Problem
Azura, founded by Sam Wood, offers a third‑way solution to fashion’s unsold‑stock dilemma by rerouting inventory to new markets through AI‑driven listings, avoiding the industry’s traditional practice of destroying goods. Leveraging generative AI, the company automates product data, images and...
Vibe Coding Is the New Shadow IT
Generative AI has turned shadow IT into "vibe coding," where employees create applications using natural‑language prompts. While the approach accelerates prototyping and lets non‑developers build tools, the resulting code often lacks testing, security reviews, and documentation. Enterprises face rogue apps...
Can AI Really Sort the UPF Mess the Food Industry Is Facing?
Food‑tech startup WISEcode unveiled an AI‑driven app that grades foods on a spectrum from minimal to “super‑ultra” processed, positioning itself as a more nuanced alternative to the blunt NOVA classification. The move comes amid a regulatory vacuum, with the U.S....
Publicis and Microsoft Plot Business-Wide AI Solution
Publicis Groupe and Microsoft are deepening a decade‑long partnership by creating a full‑stack, AI‑powered marketing platform that combines Microsoft Fabric, Azure and Publicis’ Epsilon data. The deal awards Microsoft an estimated $2 bn global media account to Publicis without a formal...
Samsung Networks Boss Wonders if AI-RAN Is Too Hot to Handle
Samsung Networks CEO Woojune Kim warned that Nvidia‑style GPUs run so hot they could "cook a steak," raising doubts about their suitability for AI‑enabled radio access networks (AI‑RAN). He argued that RAN hardware must become cheaper and low‑power, a market...
The State of AI in CRM: A Sneak Peek Into 2026
In 2024 only 21% of commercial leaders had deployed generative AI across B2B sales, yet by 2025 roughly 45% of sales professionals were using AI tools at least weekly, primarily inside their CRM systems. The adoption gap highlights that frontline...
ActivTrak Launches AI Insights to Give Leaders a Clear View of How AI Changes Work
ActivTrak introduced AI Insights, a suite of work‑intelligence tools that map AI usage across people, applications, and AI platforms. The solution creates a system‑level record of adoption, linking tool usage to productivity, capacity and ROI. It also offers governance features...
Early HBM4 Validation Points The Way For Next Generation AI And HPC Systems
Memory bandwidth is becoming the primary bottleneck for AI and high‑performance computing, driving the industry toward High‑Bandwidth Memory 4 (HBM4). Synopsys announced the world’s first HBM4 IP test chip that has been validated in silicon, achieving 9.2 Gbps eye‑opening performance across...
The Coming Breakup Between AI And The Cloud
The article argues that the era of cloud‑only AI is ending as latency, privacy, and cost pressures push intelligence onto devices. Edge AI eliminates network‑induced delays, keeps data local, and reduces reliance on expensive data‑center compute. However, limited on‑device resources...
A New Era For Co-Processing
The semiconductor industry is shifting toward heterogeneous co‑processing architectures as AI workloads outpace single‑processor capabilities. CPUs remain the host, while GPUs, DSPs, NPUs and emerging RISC‑V accelerators handle specialized tasks, with data movement becoming the primary efficiency bottleneck. Vendors stress...
Rethinking Robotics Reinforcement Learning: A Practical Humanoid Training Workflow
NVIDIA’s DGX Spark workstation, powered by the Grace‑Blackwell (GB10) Superchip, runs the full Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab stack natively on Arm, eliminating cross‑compilation. By leveraging 512 parallel environments, the system achieves roughly 65,000 simulation steps per second, enabling a humanoid robot to...
‘The Birdwatcher’ Turns Data Into a Case for Smarter Wind Energy
The bird‑watching campaign launched by Spoor and FP7 McCANN MENAT turns AI‑driven wildlife monitoring into a public record that demonstrates wind farms can coexist with birds and bats. Spoor’s Sky Intelligence Platform uses camera‑agnostic computer‑vision to track avian activity up to 1.5 km...
Fast Isn’t Fast Enough: Redefining Metrics for Edge AI
Industry leaders at Arm, Cadence, Rambus and others argue that edge AI performance is no longer measured by peak TOPS but by real‑world latency, power draw and memory efficiency. They note that data movement and bandwidth now limit inference more...
Redefining AI Inference With New Silicon Architecture
VSORA, a fabless semiconductor firm, unveiled its Jotunn8 and Tyr AI chip families built on a reimagined data‑movement architecture that dramatically lowers cost per query for hyperscale data‑center inference and powers demanding edge use cases such as autonomous driving. The...
Washington State Expands Personality Rights Law to Cover AI-Generated Deepfakes
Washington enacted Senate Bill 5886, expanding its Personality Rights Law to cover AI‑generated “forged digital likenesses” such as deepfake video and audio. The amendment, effective June 11, 2026, doubles the civil penalty for violations from $1,500 to $3,000 and adds...
NVIDIA DGX Spark Brings Sovereign AI to Your Desktop
NVIDIA’s DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer lets developers run sovereign large language models (LLMs) locally, eliminating the need for cloud infrastructure. A live webinar on April 17, led by NVIDIA’s Megh Makwana, will demonstrate Sarvam 30B and Param‑2‑17B models operating on DGX Spark....
Anumana Secures the US FDA 510(k) Clearance for Its ECG-AI Algorithm to Detect Risk of Cardiac Amyloidosis Early
Anumana has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ECG‑AI algorithm, a software‑as‑a‑medical‑device that screens for cardiac amyloidosis using routine 12‑lead electrocardiograms. The AI model, originally developed at the Mayo Clinic, identifies subtle waveform patterns invisible to clinicians, enabling early risk...