News•Feb 26, 2026
VAST Data Unveils Polaris for Global AI Data Control
VAST Data introduced Polaris, a global control plane for AI data infrastructure, at VAST Forward 2026. Polaris unifies provisioning, lifecycle management, and orchestration of VAST clusters across public cloud, neocloud, and on‑premises environments, turning distributed deployments into a single operational platform. The solution integrates with the VAST AI Operating System and DataSpace, abstracting both data and infrastructure locations. Available at no extra cost, Polaris supports multi‑tenant Kubernetes, intent‑driven management, and enterprise security features.
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
INTERTRAFFIC: Blickfeld to Demo Lidar Traffic Management Solutions
Munich‑based Blickfeld will showcase its 3D lidar sensors and traffic perception software at Intertraffic Amsterdam in March 2026. The technology creates detailed, privacy‑safe maps of vehicle positions, speeds and classifications, enabling operators to monitor flows and spot incidents such as...
By Traffic Technology Today
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Revives Ecommerce DIY
Ecommerce firms are embracing AI and automation to revive a DIY spirit, letting non‑technical staff build custom tools. A Northwest retailer equipped employees with OpenAI, Gemini and n8n, creating a price‑monitoring workflow that feeds data into Google Sheets. The approach...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Feb 26, 2026
Deloitte Launches Toolkit to Help Organizations Move From AI Experimentation to Long-Term Value
Deloitte has introduced Enterprise AI Navigator, an advisory and engineering software suite aimed at moving enterprises from fragmented AI pilots to measurable, organization‑wide value. The platform combines Deloitte’s Ascend project‑management tools with proprietary data to identify suitable processes, model workflow...
By SiliconANGLE (sitewide)
News•Feb 26, 2026
CesiumAstro Acquires Vidrovr to Embed AI in Communications Systems
CesiumAstro announced the acquisition of AI‑focused startup Vidrovr to embed artificial intelligence into its space‑based communications payloads. The deal, closed in late 2025, adds multimodal signal‑analysis and edge‑computing capabilities to CesiumAstro’s software‑defined phased‑array systems, including the Element satellite. By integrating...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 26, 2026
The Best Slackbot Prompts for Customer Service Teams
Slackbot, Slack’s AI-powered assistant, now integrates with Service Cloud to surface case data, knowledge articles, and team conversations directly within Slack. Early metrics show 96% user satisfaction, 138,000 hours saved each week, and $6.4 million in productivity value. The tool enables agents...
By Slack – Blog
News•Feb 26, 2026
Cognizant's Babak Hodjat Allays Anthropic-Induced AI Impact Fears: 'It Does Not Come Just Automatically Out of the Box'
Cognizant’s chief AI officer Babak Hodjat told Reuters that startup‑driven AI tools such as Anthropic’s Claude are not plug‑and‑play solutions and still require deep engineering, integration and governance expertise. He highlighted that Cognizant already automates about 30% of its coding...
By Mint AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
Google Circle to Search Looks At The Whole Image
Google announced a major upgrade to its Circle to Search feature, enabling the tool to analyze an entire image rather than just the circled portion. Powered by Gemini 3’s multi‑object recognition and visual query fan‑out, the system automatically crops and searches...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Governance Models and Their Role in Managing Ethical AI Challenges
AI governance models are emerging as the decisive factor in enterprise AI adoption, eclipsing pure model performance. Regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act demand documented, auditable systems, turning trust and transparency into competitive assets. Companies that embed proactive risk‑management...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
Autocalls Expands Platform With Full Omnichannel White-Label AI Voice Capabilities
Autocalls announced a platform upgrade that adds full omnichannel, white‑label AI voice capabilities across phone, WhatsApp and web chat, priced at a flat $0.09 per minute. The all‑inclusive rate bundles premium speech synthesis, language models, recognition and telephony, undercutting typical...
By AiThority » Sales Enablement
News•Feb 26, 2026
How This GV Investor Looks For The Next Stripe And Other ‘Compounding’ Startups In Fintech And AI
Elena Sakach, partner at GV, leverages her fintech background to back growth‑stage, “compounding” startups such as Stripe, Ramp and emerging AI‑driven firms. She emphasizes that successful fintechs build trust‑based relationships, expansion economics, and core infrastructure roles, while AI is reshaping...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
The Use of GenAI Is Turning Innocent Employees Into Insider Threats: Here’s How to Fix It
Enterprise adoption of generative AI tools is soaring, with nearly one in twenty companies regularly using them and internal data uploads to public models increasing thirty‑fold year‑on‑year. Employees often paste confidential contracts or credentials into tools like ChatGPT, unintentionally turning...
By e27
News•Feb 26, 2026
‘Piloting’ AI Tools Isn’t Cool Anymore
Large U.S. corporations are abandoning the term “pilot” for AI projects, signaling a move from small‑scale tests toward deployments that deliver measurable value. A MIT study that found 95% of AI pilots failed to generate financial impact, combined with a...
By WSJ – Technology: What’s News
News•Feb 26, 2026
How AI Can Build Organizational Agility
Enterprise leaders facing 2026 economic uncertainty are turning to AI to boost organizational agility. Personiv’s 2025 Executive Outlook Pulse Survey shows 76% of public firms and 45% of private firms already use AI, especially in finance functions like payroll and...
By InformationWeek
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.
Researchers at Northwestern’s GAIN initiative and the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation found that news readers overwhelmingly prefer AI chatbots and summarization tools over direct visits to publisher sites, valuing speed, perceived neutrality, and control. Participants acknowledge the answers...
By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
News•Feb 26, 2026
How AI Evolved From Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Tom Griffiths, a Princeton professor, explains how the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind shaped modern artificial intelligence. He traces AI’s lineage to Enlightenment thinkers who first applied mathematics to mental processes, leading to logic, digital computers, and...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
Treasury Calls in Private Sector to Help Departments Scale up AI Use
HM Treasury has launched an external advisory panel that includes IBM, Faculty AI and the Tony Blair Institute to accelerate artificial‑intelligence adoption across UK government departments. The group will evaluate pilot projects, share best‑practice lessons and advise on scaling AI‑driven...
By Civil Service World (UK)
News•Feb 26, 2026
India Launches RailTech Policy to Make Railway Claims Digital
India’s Railways unveiled two digital reforms under its “52 Reforms in 52 Weeks” agenda: the RailTech Policy to systemise innovation and the e‑RCT platform to digitise the Railway Claims Tribunal. The RailTech framework creates a single‑stage portal, offers up to...
By Global Railway Review
News•Feb 26, 2026
Why AI Gives Media Companies a Syncing Feeling
Artificial intelligence has become inseparable from media strategy, yet a pronounced syncing gap threatens its impact. Consumers adopt generative AI tools at breakneck speed, while media firms struggle to translate that demand into sustainable revenue. AI shows clear productivity gains...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 26, 2026
NationGraph Raises $18M to Expand AI Public Sector Platform
NationGraph announced an $18 million Series A round, led by Menlo Ventures, to scale its AI‑native platform that helps companies navigate the fragmented U.S. government procurement market. The solution aggregates data from roughly 110,000 state, local and education agencies across four million...
By Ventureburn
News•Feb 26, 2026
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Wakam UK launched in April 2024 as a fully authorised digital insurer built to serve MGAs, insurtechs and embedded insurance platforms. Leveraging an API‑driven, AI‑native core, the firm can design, underwrite and launch bespoke products in weeks rather than months....
By The Fintech Times
News•Feb 26, 2026
Retrofits Vs. Rebuilds: Approaches to Adapting Legacy Data Centers for AI
The surge in AI workloads is prompting data‑center operators to consider retrofitting legacy facilities rather than constructing purpose‑built AI campuses. Retrofitting can accelerate deployment, lower capital outlay, and improve sustainability, but it hinges on upgrading power delivery, cooling capacity, rack...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 26, 2026
Retrofits Vs. Rebuilds: Approaches to Adapting Legacy Data Centers for AI
The AI boom is driving demand for massive compute capacity, prompting operators to consider both new purpose‑built AI data centers and upgrades to existing facilities. Retrofitting legacy data centers can be faster, cheaper, and more sustainable, but only if power,...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 26, 2026
UK News Giants Form ‘NATO for News’ Group to Control AI Scraping
Five leading UK news organisations—Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC and Sky News—have created the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition to develop shared AI licensing standards. The group aims to curb unlicensed scraping of journalistic content by...
By Press Gazette
News•Feb 26, 2026
Cellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report Reveals Smartphones As The Leading Source Of Digital Evidence In Investigations At 97%
Cellebrite’s 2026 Industry Trends Report, based on 1,200 investigators in 63 countries, shows smartphones now account for 97% of digital evidence sources, a 24‑point rise since 2024. While 95% say digital evidence improves case solvability, 94% report rising complexity strains...
By Forensic Focus
News•Feb 26, 2026
Banks – and Google – Open to Gemini-Powered Exfil via Public API Keys, Researchers Say
Security firm Truffle Security revealed that publicly exposed Google API keys can be upgraded to full‑access Gemini credentials, enabling data exfiltration from any organization using them. A November scan uncovered 2,863 such keys, affecting major banks, security vendors, and even...
By The Stack (TheStack.technology)
News•Feb 26, 2026
ElastixAI Launches FPGA Platform for GenAI Inference
ElastixAI, backed by $18 million in seed funding, has emerged from stealth to launch a software platform that transforms off‑the‑shelf FPGA servers into high‑efficiency GenAI inference engines. The company argues that GPUs, designed for compute‑heavy training, are poorly suited to the...
By Engineering.com
News•Feb 26, 2026
Your Customers Aren’t Keen on that Customer Service Chatbot You Introduced – Here's Why
A YouGov survey for Pega reveals deep consumer mistrust of AI‑only customer service, with 68 % lacking confidence in how businesses use generative AI and half reporting unsuccessful outcomes. While 80 % say human agents achieve better results, only 2 % prefer exclusive...
By ITPro
News•Feb 26, 2026
OutSystems Launches Elevate Partner Program
OutSystems unveiled Elevate, a redesigned global partner program that replaces its previous one‑size‑fits‑all model with a performance‑driven “Earned Level” framework. The new system awards points across financial contribution, knowledge, customer satisfaction, and program track, with heightened weighting for agentic AI...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
IBM Integrates Deepgram Voice AI Into Watsonx Orchestrate Platform
IBM has partnered with Deepgram to embed its speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech engines into the watsonx Orchestrate generative AI platform. The integration adds real‑time transcription, captioning and multi‑language voice support, letting enterprises build voice‑enabled agents and workflows. Deepgram becomes IBM’s first...
By TechMonitor (sitewide)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Capxel Launches LLM-LD, the First Open Standard for Making Websites Readable by AI Agents
Capxel has launched LLM‑LD, the first open standard that makes website content directly readable by large language model agents. The specification defines a .well‑known/llm‑index.json file, AI Discovery Page format, and three conformance levels to guide brands in structuring data for...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Agencies Using Open, AI-Driven Media Buying Are Outperforming the Market – AI Digital’s Open Garden Framework Animation Shows Exactly Why
AI Digital unveiled an animated explainer of its Open Garden Framework, highlighting how AI‑driven, open‑ecosystem media buying outperforms closed‑platform approaches. The data shows advertisers achieve 2.9‑times higher performance, 26% greater ROI, and make decisions 73% faster when leveraging predictive analytics...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Akeneo Partners with Stripe to Help Businesses Get Ready to Sell on AI Agents
Akeneo, a product experience company, announced a partnership with Stripe to integrate its PIM platform with Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite. The joint solution lets merchants expose structured, real‑time product data to AI assistants and enables agent‑ready checkout, payments, and fraud...
By Retail Focus (UK)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Employ Inc. Welcomes Patrick Jean as Chief Technology Officer
Employ Inc., a leading provider of people‑first hiring platforms such as JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite, announced the appointment of Patrick (PJ) Jean as its new Chief Technology Officer. Jean arrives with more than two decades of experience building AI‑native products and...
By HR Tech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Nestlé’s AI Push Brings New Marketing Tools Into Daily Workflows
Nestlé is embedding artificial intelligence across its marketing and sales functions by upgrading to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, a platform now serving over 50,000 users in 112 countries. The rollout introduces SAP’s AI copilot, enabling automated insights and routine‑task...
By Marketing Tech News
News•Feb 26, 2026
Perplexity Launches 'Computer' AI Agent that Coordinates 19 Models, Priced at $200 a Month
Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, launched Computer, a cloud‑based AI agent that coordinates 19 specialized models to execute complex workflows. The service is currently available only to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month and promises autonomous task decomposition and model...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 26, 2026
How We Engineered a Scalable and Performant Enterprise AI Platform
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
By CIO.com
News•Feb 26, 2026
Aras Adds New InnovatorEdge Services for PLM Access
Aras unveiled three new InnovatorEdge services—API Manager, App Builder, and Edge AI—plus configurable AI agents to extend its PLM platform. The cloud‑delivered, low‑code tools enable secure, governed exposure of product data and digital‑thread services to external applications and AI resources....
By Engineering.com
News•Feb 26, 2026
Samsung Partners with Gracenote for AI-Based Discovery on Smart TVs
Samsung announced a partnership with Gracenote, Nielsen’s metadata specialist, to embed AI‑driven discovery tools into its smart‑TV platform. The deal gives Samsung access to Gracenote’s curated content IDs and structured data, enabling natural‑language search, personalized carousels, and recommendation engines. While...
By The Desk
News•Feb 26, 2026
Billionaire Stephen Mandel Dumped His Fund's Entire Stake in Meta Platforms -- Meaning This AI Stock Is Lone Pine's New...
Billionaire Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital sold its entire Meta Platforms stake—about $971 million, representing 7.1% of the fund—by the end of Q4 2025. The hedge fund’s exit appears driven by profit‑taking and concerns over Meta’s aggressive AI capital‑expenditure. In its...
By Motley Fool Investing
News•Feb 26, 2026
Nvidia Still Hasn't Sold Its U.S.-approved China AI Chips — and It’s Worried Local AI Rivals Could Take Over
Nvidia has not generated any revenue from the U.S.-approved H200 AI chips destined for China, despite limited approvals. The company’s Chinese data‑center sales once represented roughly 20% of its revenue, but export controls forced it to create a lower‑performance H20...
By CNBC Technology
News•Feb 26, 2026
Nous Research Releases ‘Hermes Agent’ to Fix AI Forgetfulness with Multi-Level Memory and Dedicated Remote Terminal Access Support
Nous Research unveiled Hermes Agent, an open‑source autonomous system built on the Hermes‑3 Llama 3.1‑based model. It introduces a multi‑level memory hierarchy that records successful workflows as searchable Skill Documents, giving the agent procedural recall across sessions. The platform also provides...
By MarkTechPost
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Proof of Concept Development Cost & How to Build a Successful AI POC (2026 Guide)
An AI proof of concept (POC) is a focused, short‑term project that validates technical feasibility and business value before full‑scale investment. Costs vary widely, driven primarily by data readiness, problem complexity, integration needs, and infrastructure choices, with data preparation often...
By Datafloq
News•Feb 26, 2026
Sword Intelligence Launches in the UK, Bringing Proven National-Scale AI Care Operations Set to Transform Healthcare in Greece
Sword Intelligence has launched its AI‑driven care‑operations platform in the UK, targeting NHS waiting‑list pressures. The solution automates triage, coordination, outreach and scheduling, freeing clinical capacity without major staffing or infrastructure upgrades. Simultaneously, the company is building one of Europe’s...
By Health Tech Digital (UK)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Workday Brings AI-Native Contract Lifecycle Management to EU Businesses with Frankfurt Data Residency
Workday announced an AI‑native Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution hosted in Frankfurt, giving EU customers a local data residency option. The service leverages generative AI to draft, review, and negotiate contracts while automatically enforcing compliance rules. By storing all contract...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 26, 2026
How AI Could Impact Tax Season Security This Year
The IRS Criminal Investigation report shows tax‑related financial crimes hit $4.5 billion in FY 2025, a 111.8 % jump from the prior year, signaling heightened risk this tax season. Cybercriminals are leveraging generative AI to produce hyper‑personalized phishing, deepfake voice and video scams,...
By Security Magazine (Cybersecurity)
News•Feb 26, 2026
From Hype to Hard Returns: The Startup Reset for 2026
India’s startup ecosystem is moving from growth‑at‑all‑costs to a disciplined focus on execution, AI readiness, and sustainable profitability as it eyes 2026. A Snowflake‑hosted panel highlighted that scale alone no longer suffices; founders must streamline data, adopt applied AI, and...
By YourStory
News•Feb 26, 2026
Predictive Maintenance Robotics: How AI and Automation Are Redefining Industrial Asset Reliability
Predictive maintenance robotics leverages AI and machine‑learning to shift industrial upkeep from fixed‑schedule preventive care to condition‑based, data‑driven actions. Continuous sensor streams—vibration, acoustic, thermal, electrical—are analyzed in real time to spot anomalies and forecast component failures. The approach integrates with...
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Feb 26, 2026
Software Development AI Robotics: Engineering Intelligent Machines for the Real World
Software development is now the backbone of AI robotics, enabling machines to perceive, decide, and act in real‑world environments. Frameworks such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) and edge‑AI hardware like Nvidia Jetson streamline sensor fusion, simulation, and real‑time control....
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Feb 26, 2026
Accelerating Digital Maturity in Residential Aged Care
Whiddon, a leading residential aged‑care provider in NSW and southeast Queensland, has deployed Telstra Health’s centralised care‑planning platform across its 24 homes. The system enables real‑time, point‑of‑care documentation, family portals and mobile workflows, replacing legacy paper‑based processes. By achieving data...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)