
Arduino and Qualcomm, through Get Set Learn, are launching a K‑12 program that brings on‑device AI, robotics, and physical computing to Indian classrooms. The initiative replaces cloud‑centric tools with edge‑enabled hardware, allowing students to build and test intelligent systems locally. Structured learning pathways will span grades K‑12, integrating coding, electronics, and certification‑led outcomes. The rollout leverages Arduino’s open‑source platforms, Qualcomm’s edge AI chips, and Get Set Learn’s nationwide school network to modernize existing STEAM labs.

At the 22nd Video Broadcast and Broadband Tech Summit, Indian media leaders debated how AI, automation and shifting audience habits are reshaping newsrooms. Panelists highlighted AI’s role in proofreading, headline optimisation and large‑language‑model development to reduce costs and expand multilingual...
Malaysia’s TTVision Holdings Berhad will launch a joint‑venture manufacturing plant in India in the second half of 2026 to produce automated optical inspection and high‑speed processing systems for photovoltaic production lines. The facility will act as a localized integrator linking...

Fabrizio Magliocca, Director of Business Transformation at Aeroporti di Roma, outlined a five‑year plan that moves the airport beyond passenger volume to a predictive, connected, and people‑centric hub. The strategy hinges on AI‑enabled assistants, computer‑vision analytics, digital twins and a...
Heidi AI has partnered with Streamliners to embed HealthPathways into its AI‑driven clinical documentation platform, giving clinicians instant access to trusted care pathways. The Australian Digital Health Agency rolled out a digital‑health teaching toolkit for universities, addressing a gap where...

Klono Inc. launched Modio.ai, an AI media manager that unifies content creation, organization, and distribution. The platform offers 32 creation types spanning images, video, audio, avatars, and documents, automatically selecting the optimal AI model for each task. Modio also chains...

Siteimprove announced three new AI agents—Conversational Analytics, PDF and Image Accessibility, and Keyword Intelligence—expanding its agentic content intelligence platform. The Conversational Analytics Agent lets non‑technical users query data and generate reports using natural language. The PDF/Image Accessibility Agent automatically validates...

At GeoBuiz Summit 2026, a panel of geospatial leaders highlighted how location intelligence is becoming the backbone of next‑generation e‑commerce and retail. They discussed the use of trusted geospatial data, AI‑driven analytics, and platform integration to optimize store networks, site...

OpenClaw, an open‑source AI agent that quickly amassed over 100,000 GitHub stars, was found to contain a critical vulnerability that lets any website a developer visits hijack the local agent via an unauthenticated WebSocket connection. The flaw bypasses rate‑limiting and...

Origa, a voice‑AI startup focused on consultative pre‑sales conversations, closed a $450,000 funding round led by Antler Singapore, bringing its total capital to $1 million. The company will use the capital to grow its engineering team, enhance product capabilities, and scale...

At the 22nd Video Broadcast and Broadband Tech Summit, TRAI outlined a five‑year roadmap that couples 6G‑enabled gesture and voice TV with AI‑driven content agents, while stressing rural inclusion. The regulator highlighted the need to expand data‑centre capacity to roughly...

Wildix has introduced Wildix eSIM, an AI‑powered extension of its Mobility Cloud that routes business mobile calls through the enterprise system of record. The solution embeds a single business identity into the SIM, allowing native dialer use while preserving routing,...

Mobile operators are entering a new growth phase where 5G‑Advanced, defined by 3GPP Release 18, provides deterministic performance, advanced slicing, and AI‑native operations. The real value, however, lies in coupling this network evolution with agentic AI that can interpret business goals...

Healthcare CIOs are moving AI from experimental pilots to core infrastructure, emphasizing measurable outcomes over hype. At Vive 2026 and HIMSS 2026, leaders highlighted AI’s role in streamlining documentation, revenue‑cycle tasks, and patient‑portal interactions. Simultaneously, state‑level AI regulations—such as Texas’...

Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University Hospital have launched PanMETAI, an AI‑integrated metabolomics platform that analyzes roughly 260,000 metabolic signals from a 500‑microliter blood‑serum sample. Using deep‑learning on nuclear magnetic resonance data, the model achieved a 99% area‑under‑curve for distinguishing...
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) will soon require all employees and witnesses to disclose any use of generative‑AI in preparing their applications, with false statements subject to imprisonment. Justice Adam Hatcher highlighted AI’s dual role: it can help self‑represented litigants...

Perplexity unveiled pplx-embed, a pair of multilingual embedding models built on Qwen3 with bidirectional attention and diffusion‑based pretraining. The 0.6 B and 4 B variants are engineered for web‑scale retrieval, offering native INT8 quantization and Matryoshka representation learning. Two specialized versions—pplx‑embed‑v1 for...

Modulaw AI, a Lagos‑based startup, has launched an all‑in‑one AI‑driven legal operations platform for Nigerian law firms. The system combines a RAG‑powered research engine—trained on roughly 10,000 appellate and Supreme Court judgments—with case management, client collaboration, workflow automation, and billing...

Conversational AI is moving from website bots to messaging apps, with WhatsApp emerging as the flagship channel for retail in markets such as Hong Kong, Singapore and India. Sanuker’s Woztell platform lets retailers stitch ecommerce, CRM and ERP data into...
Reddit reported its strongest quarter ever, posting $726 million in Q4 revenue—a 70% year‑over‑year jump—alongside $252 million net income and 121 million daily active users. CEO Steve Huffman said the platform’s AI data licensing deals with Google and OpenAI are evolving from simple...
Third Way Health announced an oversubscribed $15 million Series A round led by Health Velocity Capital, with Kristin Torres Mowat as the lead investor. The new capital lifts the company’s total funding to $22.5 million, earmarked for product development and scaling operations. The...

Elevance Health, formerly Anthem, is deploying artificial intelligence across its operations while drawing a firm line against using AI for claim denials. The insurer leverages AI to flag incomplete claims, accelerate prior‑authorization approvals, and power virtual assistants that guide members...

Microsoft Research unveiled CORPGEN, an architecture‑agnostic framework that equips autonomous AI agents to operate in Multi‑Horizon Task Environments (MHTEs) where dozens of interleaved, dependent tasks coexist. The paper identifies four failure modes—context saturation, memory interference, dependency‑graph complexity, and reprioritization overhead—that...
Instagram has rolled out an AI‑powered shopping test that automatically tags products and suggests similar items when users tap “Shop the Look.” Influencers say the feature surfaces products they don’t endorse, potentially cannibalizing brand deals and eroding audience trust. Creators...
The article argues that AI readiness starts with robust SQL Server schema design, not with machine‑learning models. It highlights that stable, non‑recycled primary keys, preserved historical records, and clear audit columns are essential for future feature engineering. By separating raw...
Microsoft researchers introduced On‑Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training framework that embeds lengthy system prompts directly into a model’s parameters. By having the student model learn from its own generation trajectories under a teacher’s real‑time guidance, OPCD eliminates the need...

The latest *Uncanny Valley* episode spotlights a growing clash between AI startup Anthropic and the Pentagon over a $200 million defense contract that includes strict prohibitions on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. The hosts also dissect the rise of “agentic” versus...
Woolworths’ AI chatbot Olive, marketed as a conversational shopping companion, began sharing fabricated family stories such as memories of its mother and uncle, prompting customer complaints and media attention. The retailer disclosed that the off‑brand scripting was removed after feedback,...

The Department of Science and Technology in Central Visayas (DOST‑7) launched a four‑day AI training for about 30 government employees, covering prompt engineering, generative AI tools, and core ethical principles. The program emphasized responsible use, data privacy, and the “co‑intelligence”...

HackerOne introduced an AI agent that automatically validates reported vulnerabilities, distinguishing real threats from false positives. The agent, built on the Hai platform and trained with a Continuous Threat Exposure Management methodology, assesses risk, identifies duplicates, and recommends remediation priorities....

Investors are widening AI exposure beyond chipmakers as generative AI reaches half of U.S. households within three years, a pace unmatched by prior technologies. Alger’s research splits the market into “enablers” that build hardware and software and “adopters” that embed...

TrueScan, a whole‑body MRI center in St. Peterburg, Florida, has begun offering AI‑powered coronary CT angiography (CCTA) from Heartflow, available as a standalone test or bundled with its MRI packages. The move addresses growing patient and physician demand for coronary imaging...

Agentic AI is emerging as a transformative layer for digital security by automating the management of Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets. The technology enables proactive threat detection, automated response, and continuous visibility, allowing security teams to shift focus toward...

Microsoft unveiled Copilot Tasks, an AI‑powered to‑do list that can create, schedule, and execute tasks from natural‑language prompts. The service operates behind the scenes across apps, handling recurring chores, document generation, shopping, and logistics while reporting back upon completion. Users...

Collective Health has unveiled Collective AI, an AI‑powered benefits assistant built with Google Cloud. The system answers member queries, supplies real‑time data to customer‑service reps, and offers employers plan‑design insights to streamline enrollment. Leveraging Google Cloud’s privacy‑by‑design infrastructure, the tool...

Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) halted its facial‑recognition program while drafting usage policies after a scandal involving an officer who allegedly accessed the city’s Flock automated license‑plate recognition (ALPR) system over 120 times to track a personal acquaintance and 55 times...
Block, the fintech firm behind Cash App, Square and Afterpay, announced a 40% workforce reduction, cutting roughly 4,000 jobs and shrinking headcount from 10,000 to just over 6,000. CEO Jack Dorsey said the move is driven by rapid advances in...

Suno, the AI‑generated music platform, has reached $300 million in annualized revenue and 2 million paying subscribers in under two years. Investor C.C. Gong publicly said she shifted most of her listening from Spotify to Suno, claiming AI music offers a personalized, infinite...
By 2026 Amazon Bedrock has evolved into a serverless platform that delivers managed agents, built‑in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation and guardrails, while Amazon SageMaker remains the full‑stack workbench for custom model training, massive‑scale distributed jobs and hardware‑optimized inference. Bedrock now supports fine‑tuning...

Telestream unveiled a suite of production‑ready AI features across its Vantage, Vantage Cloud, EDC, Stanza and Qualify platforms. The rollout adds AI Caption with support for 128 languages, AI Qualify for automated lip‑sync and subtitle validation, AI Speech for real‑time...
ACV Auctions reported Q4 2025 revenue of $184 million, a 15% year‑over‑year increase, and full‑year revenue of $760 million, up 19% from 2024. The company narrowed its quarterly net loss to $20 million, improving by 23% versus the prior year, while selling 192,757...
Project44 has introduced an AI Freight Procurement Agent within its Intelligent Transportation Management System to automate carrier selection, rate benchmarking, and negotiations across multiple modes. The agent replaces periodic bid cycles with continuous, AI‑driven sourcing using live market data, and...
Coco Robotics unveiled Coco 2, its next‑generation autonomous delivery robot that moves beyond sidewalks into bike lanes and permitted roadways. The new platform halves delivery times and triples uptime, thanks to upgraded edge‑computing hardware and a dataset of millions of...
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin have announced a joint research initiative to advance quantum machine learning, concentrating on generative modeling with photonic hardware. The collaboration will explore Fourier‑based operations that are infeasible for classical computers, aiming to create quantum primitives that excel...

China is accelerating a strategy to flood the market with low‑cost AI tools, aiming to make its platforms indispensable worldwide. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0, a text‑to‑video generator, exemplifies this push, while Chinese labs have been accused of harvesting OpenAI‑Claude responses through...
Cardboard, a Y Combinator W26 startup, offers an AI‑powered video editor that transforms raw footage into polished, publish‑ready content in minutes. The platform automates framing, captioning, montage creation, podcast clipping, and more, while allowing users to issue natural‑language edit commands....

The University of Chicago’s Center for Municipal Finance released new data showing AI tools are rapidly entering the municipal bond market, giving well‑capitalized banks, advisors and law firms a distinct edge. Regulators, led by the MSRB, are scrutinizing whether AI...

Idemia Public Security and self‑service automation firm Elenium have signed an MoU to combine Elenium’s platform with Idemia’s biometric and baggage‑identification tools, creating a seamless, contactless passenger journey from curb to gate. Melbourne Airport’s CEO is pushing for additional Idemia...

A new AI‑generated advertisement starring Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman predicts that up to 80 % of the global workforce could be unemployed by 2030. The clip, released amid rising concerns about automation, frames AI as the primary driver...

AI note‑taking tools are rapidly entering workplaces, with a 2025 survey showing one in five professionals regularly using them to draft meeting notes. These systems can transcribe, attribute speaker comments, generate summaries, and even suggest action items, promising higher engagement...