
University of Michigan researchers unveiled Prima, a vision‑language AI that reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags urgent cases. In a study of over 30,000 scans, Prima achieved 97.5% accuracy across more than 50 neurological diagnoses and could prioritize emergencies such as strokes. The system integrates imaging with patient history, delivering real‑time alerts to the appropriate specialist. Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the work suggests a scalable path to faster, more accurate neuro‑radiology.
At Acumatica Summit 2026 in Seattle, Manish Chandak, CEO of Tech Electronics, discussed emerging ERP trends with ERP Today editor Chris Vavra. He emphasized the growing importance of digital replicas that provide real‑time data integration within ERP platforms. Chandak also...

AI agents are now automating the research and targeting phases of social engineering, turning weeks‑long preparations into minutes. This automation lowers both the skill threshold and cost for launching phishing and scam campaigns. Deepfake audio and video are being used...
OpenAI announced it will no longer use the "io" name for its upcoming AI hardware line after a trademark infringement lawsuit from audio‑device startup iyO. The decision was detailed in a court filing by VP Peter Welinder, who also confirmed...

Paris‑based event‑tech startup Naboo announced a $70 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Notion Capital, ISAI and Ternel. The financing follows a €20 million Series A and supports the company’s expansion beyond its core events platform into a...
U.S. and China dominate the AI ecosystem, employing 70% of the world’s top machine‑learning researchers, controlling 90% of computing power, and securing the majority of AI investment. This concentration creates an “AI divide” that could lock most other countries into...

The article warns that AI hype in large enterprises has faded, leaving many learning‑and‑development (L&D) teams stuck in “pilot purgatory.” Without a unifying business objective, experiments become siloed, wasteful, and generate change fatigue. The author proposes an AI North Star—a...

Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a roadmap for integrating AI with the Ethereum blockchain, emphasizing trustless, private AI interactions and an economic layer for AI‑to‑AI transactions. He highlighted the need for zero‑knowledge proof tooling to run large language models locally, preventing...

The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a solicitation for a Containerized Autonomous Drone Delivery System (CADDS) that can store, launch, recover and service large numbers of unmanned aerial systems from a single container on land or sea. CADDS is designed...
Godrej Enterprises Group, led by Chief Digital and Information Officer Vijay Balakrishnan, is shifting to an intelligence‑first enterprise by building a unified AI backbone called Amethyst. The conglomerate has earmarked more than ₹1,200 crore over the next three to five years...
AI voice assistants have surpassed eight billion units in 2024, and the vast majority default to female voices and gendered names. Research shows up to 50 % of interactions involve verbal abuse, with female‑embodied agents attracting significantly more sexual harassment than...
Tesla Vice President Raj Jegannathan announced his departure after a 13‑year tenure, most recently overseeing IT, AI infrastructure, business applications, and information security. He previously led North American sales following the dismissal of Troy Jones, a period marked by declining...

Researchers used artificial intelligence to reverse‑engineer the rules of a Roman board game discovered on a limestone slab in Heerlen, Netherlands. By running virtual players through more than 100 possible rule sets with the Ludii game system, they identified a...
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.0, a generative‑AI video tool now in beta on its Jimeng AI platform. The system delivers lifelike motion and higher realism than many competing models, positioning it as a potential upgrade for TikTok creators. While not...

Microsoft has launched an AI Performance dashboard within Bing Webmaster Tools, now in public preview. The dashboard reports how often a site’s content is cited in Bing’s Copilot, AI summaries, and partner integrations, offering metrics such as total citations, average...

OpenAI has begun a limited test of advertisements inside the free and Go tiers of ChatGPT for U.S. users, while keeping its paid Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans ad‑free. The ads appear outside the chatbot’s responses, are clearly labeled,...

Melbourne‑born SaaS firm Operata secured an $11 million Series A round, lifting its valuation to $100 million. The funding, led by Tidal Ventures with participation from Glitch Capital and existing backers, will accelerate integration with major contact‑centre platforms and global expansion. Operata positions...

Neara, a Sydney‑based digital‑twin startup, secured $90 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation above $1 billion. The round, led by TCV and joined by existing backers, brings total external capital to roughly $180 million. Neara’s AI‑driven platform now models 15 million assets...

SpaceMolt is a space‑based MMO built solely for AI agents, with humans limited to watching via logs and Discord. The game connects agents through MCP, WebSocket or HTTP APIs, letting them mine, craft, and eventually form factions across 505 star...

Anthropic is scaling its AI operations in India, appointing former Microsoft India MD Irina Ghose to lead the new office. A Karnataka commercial court case filed by local software firm Anthropic Software alleges the U.S. startup is infringing a name...

Identity verification firm Entrust has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to launch an AI‑powered solution that tackles rising identity fraud. The joint offering combines Entrust’s verification platform and fraud intelligence with Google’s Gemini AI models, threat intelligence, and...
Scientists led by Rendong Yang at Northwestern University unveiled DeepChopper, a genomic large‑language model designed to detect and remove chimera artifacts in nanopore direct RNA sequencing. The tool operates with single‑nucleotide resolution across long reads, dramatically improving the accuracy of...
OpenAI has begun testing advertisements inside ChatGPT for logged‑in adult users on the Free and Go tiers in the United States. Ads are labeled as "sponsored," matched to conversation topics, and do not affect the model’s answers. Higher‑priced tiers such...

Joseph Lazzarotti warns that AI‑driven notetakers, while promising efficiency gains, are spawning a wave of HR challenges. In his Fortune commentary, he highlights privacy concerns, consent gaps, and potential discrimination liabilities when recordings are mishandled. He argues that without clear...
Reltio, a context‑intelligence platform, earned the Amazon Web Services Financial Services Industry Competency, confirming its secure, compliant data solutions for banks, insurers, and capital‑markets firms. The badge follows prior competencies in Travel & Hospitality and Life Sciences and validates Reltio’s...

Amazon Web Services announced a $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan through 2026, with networking as a primary focus to support its AI push. The company is trialing hollow‑core fiber in a handful of locations to extend latency‑critical inter‑zone links, while a newly...
Snapchat has introduced an AI‑powered Lens in partnership with luxury fashion house Gucci, allowing users to transform their selfies into six distinct Gucci outfit styles. The generative‑AI experience goes beyond traditional AR overlays by fully reimagining the user’s image rather...

UK chip startup Fractile announced a £100 million expansion across its Bristol and London sites, creating a national industrial hardware engineering hub and adding 40 new roles to its 70‑person team. The company claims its in‑memory compute architecture can run AI...
Waymo announced a $16 billion financing round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $126 billion. The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and other heavyweight firms. Alphabet...

Harvey, the legal‑AI startup, is reportedly negotiating a $200 million raise that would push its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore’s GIC. This follows a rapid funding series: a $300 million Series D at $3 billion, a $300 million Series E at $5 billion, and...

Carrier has launched “Tell Me More,” a generative AI add‑on to its Abound Insights platform that translates predictive alerts into plain‑language explanations, recommended actions, and impact assessments. The feature is built on AI models trained with technical manuals and real‑time...

Baran Ozkan, CEO of Flagright, argues that financial‑crime compliance must evolve from rule‑heavy checklists to an AI‑native operating system that delivers real‑time risk decisions. By giving compliance teams controllable, transparent workflows, Flagright reduced false‑positive alerts from 99.1% to 15.3% and...

Google is beta-testing a Gemini feature called “Import AI chats” that lets users upload conversation histories from ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, preserving context for continued interactions. The tool would store imported chats in the user’s Gemini activity and...

Segway Navimow unveiled its 2026 X4 series, adding LiDAR‑based navigation and the proprietary Xero‑Turn mechanism to handle tight pivots without damaging grass. The CEO, George Ren, said the market’s new benchmark is "senseless intelligence," meaning robots must act like invisible gardeners...

UAE fintech Omnispay closed a $2 million pre‑Series A round led by Infinity Value Capital to accelerate its AI‑native SME finance platform. The company, which cut settlement times to 24 hours, has doubled its customer base, quadrupled processing volume and lifted revenue 5.5‑fold...

Oracle Corp.’s shares jumped up to 12% on Monday, marking the stock’s strongest intraday gain since September 10. The rally was sparked by news that U.S. tech giants, led by Amazon’s $200 billion capex commitment for data centers and chips, are accelerating...
Arrow Electronics reported a strong Q4 2025, with sales climbing 20% to $8.746 billion and net income nearly doubling to $195 million. Full‑year revenue reached $30.85 billion, up 10%, while net income rose 46% to $571 million. Executives said AI, edge computing and data‑center...

A SALT.agency study of 2,318 URLs cited by Google’s AI Mode found no correlation between a text’s above‑the‑fold position and its likelihood of being quoted. Researchers measured pixel depth across travel, e‑commerce and SaaS verticals and observed citations from deep...

Anthropic is nearing the close of a $20 billion financing round that values the AI startup at $350 billion, more than double its original target. The bulk of the capital is expected from strategic partners Nvidia and Microsoft, alongside a slate of...

Deutsche Telekom has opened an Nvidia‑powered AI factory at the Polarise data centre in Munich’s Tucherpark, installing roughly 10,000 Blackwell GPUs including DGX B200 and RTX PRO systems. The facility, branded the Industrial AI Cloud, underpins the ‘Germany Stack’ – a sovereign...

OpenAI has surfaced a detailed ad‑settings panel for ChatGPT, revealing separate History and Interests tabs, privacy safeguards, and user‑controlled personalization toggles. The interface assures advertisers never access chat content, IP addresses, or personal identifiers, and lets users delete ad data...
Mastercard’s Decision Intelligence Pro (DI Pro) uses a sub‑300 ms recurrent neural network to assign risk scores to each payment transaction in real time. The platform treats fraud detection as an "inverse recommender" problem, comparing current merchant behavior to historical patterns. By...
Artificial intelligence has moved from experiment to consumer expectation in retail, with AI agents, search, and checkout now standard features. However, MIT research shows 95% of generative AI pilots fail because of fragmented product data, leading to poor recommendations. Inaccurate...

Edge provider Pulsant has completed a £10 million expansion of its Milton Keynes data centre, adding a 1.2 MW data hall optimized for high‑density AI workloads. The new facility is part of the company’s platformEDGE network, which now spans 14 edge sites...

Alphabet announced a $175‑$185 billion AI‑focused capital plan for 2026, positioning artificial intelligence as the backbone of its commerce, cloud and enterprise offerings. The company highlighted intense compute constraints as it scales Gemini, which now handles over 10 billion tokens per minute...

InfiniMind, a Tokyo‑based startup founded by former Google Japan executives Aza Kai and Hiraku Yanagita, is building enterprise‑grade video‑intelligence infrastructure to turn petabytes of unused footage into searchable data. The company raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by UTEC and...
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Manufacturing, a suite of pre‑built AI agent templates designed for manufacturers. The solution promises to scale operations without adding headcount by automating routine ERP tasks. Achyut Jajoo, Salesforce’s SVP and GM, highlighted the necessity for ERP systems...
Lawmakers are evaluating whether the federal government should intervene to mitigate AI‑related risks to workers. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Bradford Kelley of Littler argued that the low number of lawsuits over...

Haply Robotics announced a $11.75 million USD (CAD $16 million) seed‑plus financing round, led by Sound Media Ventures and backed by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund, Hanwha, Two Small Fish Ventures, and BDC Capital. The Montreal‑based startup builds high‑precision haptic controllers—such as the Inverse3...

2026 is shaping up as a pivotal year for AI copyright litigation. The New York Times’ ongoing suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, along with high‑profile cases such as Getty Images vs. Stability AI and Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, highlight mounting pressure on AI...