News•Jan 21, 2026
LexisNexis Unveils Global Launch of AI Work Automation for Legal Professionals
LexisNexis, the data and analytics arm of RELX, launched a global commercial preview of its Protégé AI assistant for legal and business professionals. The platform delivers pre‑built, configurable workflows that automate tasks such as drafting motions, contracts, redlining, and research, while providing citable authority. A no‑code workflow builder lets users customize automations and select preferred AI models. Future releases will add domain‑specific and agentic capabilities, positioning AI as an autonomous legal teammate as adoption accelerates toward 85% of professionals by 2025.
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 21, 2026
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection exploits the textual nature of large language models, allowing users to bypass safety guardrails with cleverly phrased commands. The article compares this vulnerability to a fast‑food worker refusing to hand over a cash drawer, highlighting how humans rely...
By IEEE Spectrum AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
Quantum Health Expands Solution Suite Built on a New Agentic AI Platform
Quantum Health unveiled an expanded suite of healthcare navigation solutions built on a new agentic AI platform. The technology goes beyond answering queries, proactively identifying clinical risk, initiating outreach, and coordinating care with human experts. Three tiered offerings—Quantum Signature, Quantum...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
PLM + AI: Unlocking the Future of Smart Manufacturing
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is emerging as the backbone of AI‑driven smart manufacturing, providing a unified digital thread that captures both physical and software data. As product complexity rises, manufacturers need consistent, versioned information to enable real‑time AI analytics across...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
DigitalOcean Appoints Vinay Kumar as Chief Product and Technology Officer
DigitalOcean announced Vinay Kumar as its new Chief Product and Technology Officer, tasked with steering product strategy, cloud infrastructure, and security as the firm expands its AI inference cloud. Kumar, a founding member of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and former AWS...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
Google Ads Still Not Coming To Gemini (Post ChatGPT Ads Announcement)
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis confirmed at Davos that Google has no plans to introduce ads to its Gemini AI product, even as OpenAI announced upcoming ads in ChatGPT. The statement reiterates Google's December claim that Gemini will remain ad‑free,...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 21, 2026
HSBC Picks Harvey AI for Lawful Good Plans
HSBC has launched the Harvey AI platform to automate high‑stakes legal analysis, targeting contract review, regulatory compliance and research. The system, trained on extensive legal precedents and financial regulations, promises machine‑speed processing that traditionally required large lawyer teams. HSBC’s rollout...
By eWeek
News•Jan 21, 2026
Google Adds "Answer Now" Button To Gemini App - If You Can't Wait...
Google has introduced an “Answer now” button in its Gemini app, allowing users to halt the model’s ongoing reasoning and receive an immediate reply. The shortcut leverages the Gemini 3 Flash model, which prioritizes speed over the more nuanced answers generated by...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 21, 2026
How Recommender Systems Like Google Discover May Work via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google Discover operates as a large‑scale recommender system built on the Two‑Tower architecture originally devised for YouTube. The model creates separate embeddings for users—based on watch history, search tokens, location and demographics—and for content items, matching them via similarity scores...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Jan 21, 2026
Cyber Insights 2026: API Security – Harder to Secure, Impossible to Ignore
SecurityWeek’s Cyber Insights 2026 warns that APIs, already handling roughly 83 % of internet traffic, will become even more critical as agentic AI proliferates. The rise of autonomous AI agents is set to double the number of API endpoints by 2026, expanding...
By SecurityWeek
News•Jan 21, 2026
ElevenLabs Enlists Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, and Others to Create an Album of AI-Generated Music
ElevenLabs announced "The Eleven Album," an AI‑generated music project featuring legends such as Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel. The album is produced using ElevenLabs’ AI Music model, which synthesizes original compositions while the artists provide creative direction. The initiative rests...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
Adversa AI Wins 2026 BIG Innovation Award for Agentic AI Security Platform
Adversa AI’s Agentic AI Security Platform has been named a winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards for Innovative Products – Software, as announced by the Business Intelligence Group. The platform tackles the emerging attack surface of autonomous AI agents,...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms
Silicon Valley is channeling tens of millions of dollars into the 2026 midterm elections through a new wave of AI‑focused super PACs, aiming to block state‑level AI regulations and promote a unified national framework. The flagship PAC, Leading the Future,...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
Enterprise-Grade Identity Verification for AI-Enhanced Workflows
Enterprises accelerating AI adoption face a critical gap in identity verification. A GBG report shows 31% of businesses struggle to detect fraud during onboarding, exposing AI workflows to manipulation. Enterprise‑grade verification combines biometrics, document validation, API checks, MFA and continuous...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 21, 2026
Researcher Finds Way to Predict Whirling Disease with Almost No Data
University of Calgary researchers have developed an AI‑driven early‑warning system that can predict whirling disease in trout and salmon using minimal data. By training a hidden Markov model on a single confirmed outbreak and leveraging readily available environmental metrics such...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Jan 21, 2026
ADLINK Launches First COM Express Module with Intel Core Ultra 3
ADLINK unveiled the Express‑PTL COM‑HPC Mini, the first COM Express module built around Intel’s Core Ultra 3 processors. The board merges a 12‑core Intel Arc GPU, an NPU 5 delivering up to 50 TOPS, and a hybrid CPU layout for a combined 180 TOPS...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
Software Engineering Will Be ‘Automatable’ in 12 Months, Says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the World Economic Forum that his engineers now rely entirely on AI to generate code, editing only the output. He predicts AI models could handle end‑to‑end software‑engineering tasks within the next six to twelve months....
By Indian Express AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
Xactly Appoints CTO and CPO to Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation
Xactly announced the promotion of long‑time executives Kandarp Desai to Chief Technology Officer and Christopher Li to Chief Product Officer. The moves come after recent CMO and CHRO hires, completing a strategic refresh of the senior leadership team. Both leaders...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
Datarails Raises $70M to Inject AI Smarts Into Excel-Based Finance
Datarails announced a $70 million Series C round, pushing its total funding above $175 million. The startup’s FinanceOS platform embeds AI directly into Excel, letting finance teams link data across ERP, CRM, and HR systems. Revenue surged more than 70 percent last year while...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 21, 2026
Sitecore Expands Reseller Program with New Global Elite Initiative to Accelerate SitecoreAI Adoption in Growth Markets
Sitecore announced the expansion of its Global Reseller Program with a new Global Elite initiative, appointing FPT Software as the first elite partner. The elite status grants FPT exclusive reseller rights in Vietnam and non‑exclusive rights across selected Asian and...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 21, 2026
Q/C Technologies Appoints AI Systems Leader Chelsea Voss to BOD
Q/C Technologies announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss, a senior technical staff member at OpenAI, to its Board of Directors. Voss brings extensive experience in machine‑learning infrastructure, model evaluation, and hardware reliability, complementing Q/C’s focus on quantum‑class photonic computing. The...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
Meet Confer: Signal Founder’s Privacy-Focused, End-to-End Encrypted ChatGPT Alternative
Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike has launched Confer, a privacy‑first AI chatbot that encrypts every conversation end‑to‑end. The service uses passkey authentication, server‑side encryption, and runs in a Trusted Execution Environment to prevent data leakage. A free tier allows 20 messages...
By Indian Express AI
News•Jan 21, 2026
AI Technology That Powers High-Speed Crypto Arbitrage Systems
Modern crypto arbitrage now hinges on AI‑driven, multi‑layered systems that combine rapid market scanning, latency optimization, and predictive spread modeling. Each layer operates independently—detecting price gaps, validating risk, and executing fragmented orders—to capture fleeting inefficiencies across exchanges. Continuous learning loops...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 21, 2026
Top AI Training Data Providers to Watch in 2026
In 2026 AI success hinges on high‑quality, ethically sourced training data rather than sheer volume. Leading providers such as Scale AI, Appen, Shaip, Defined.ai, TELUS International, iMerit, and Sama differentiate themselves through domain expertise, rigorous governance, and support for generative‑AI...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 21, 2026
Sophelio Announces New Identity and Strategic Focus
Sophelio announced it has completed its transition from Sapientai to a new corporate identity, signaling a shift from a research‑focused startup to a scalable AI data‑platform provider. The rebrand emphasizes a signal‑first, provenance‑driven approach for complex, multimodal scientific systems. Over...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
3 Questions: How AI Could Optimize the Power Grid
In this episode, MIT professor Priya Donti explains why the power grid must be constantly optimized to balance unpredictable demand, variable renewable supply, and line losses. She highlights AI’s role in delivering more accurate real‑time forecasts of renewable output, solving...
By AIhub
News•Jan 21, 2026
Formulary Financial Emerges From Stealth to Reinvent Fund Administration
Formulary Financial has emerged from stealth with a $4.6 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures and backed by several other investors. The startup offers an AI-native fund administration platform that consolidates data, automates workflows, and delivers real‑time reporting across the...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 21, 2026
Linnworks Launches Spotlight AI to Help Online Retailers Automate Operations
Linnworks introduced Spotlight AI, the inaugural offering in its Commerce Ops Intelligence suite, to automate repetitive ecommerce tasks and surface operational blind spots. The AI engine continuously scans order‑processing workflows, flags manual actions, and recommends high‑impact automations. Early adopters reported...
By ChannelX (formerly Tamebay)
News•Jan 21, 2026
3 E Network Accelerates Nordic Strategy with Planned Deployment of High-Density AI Computing Infrastructure in Finland
3 E Network Technology Group announced an accelerated rollout of high‑density AI and high‑performance computing infrastructure in Finland, leveraging the country’s reliable, low‑carbon power grid. The modular design will support rack power densities of 50‑100 kW, employ advanced liquid‑cooling, and target competitive...
By AiThority
News•Jan 21, 2026
Tethral Sees That the Next Billion-Dollar AI Frontier Is Inside Your Home
Tethral, a San Francisco startup, is bringing its vibecoding platform to connected homes, allowing users to orchestrate lighting, sound, temperature and other devices through simple natural‑language prompts. The technology translates mood‑based intent into coordinated actions, leveraging existing smart‑home hardware while...
By AiThority
News•Jan 21, 2026
Cside Targets Hidden Website Privacy Violations with Privacy Watch
cside unveiled Privacy Watch, an AI‑driven platform that continuously monitors client‑side third‑party scripts for hidden data collection and privacy violations. The tool automatically generates evidence logs and regulation‑specific reports to help organizations meet GDPR, CPRA, HIPAA and emerging state‑level requirements. With...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 21, 2026
AI Magazine, a Bizclik Brand, Reveals the Top 100 AI Leaders of 2026, Spotlighting Leaders Driving AI Impact Worldwide.
AI Magazine, a BizClik brand, unveiled its annual Top 100 AI Leaders 2026, naming OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as the #1 influencer. The list spans CEOs, researchers, ethicists and entrepreneurs shaping AI across technology, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and energy. It...
By AiThority
News•Jan 21, 2026
Power Users Show Businesses How Agentic AI Goes Mainstream
The January 2026 PYMNTS "Agentic AI Report" finds that power users are rapidly embracing autonomous AI agents, while the broader consumer base remains wary of handing over control. Enthusiasm is strongest for low‑risk, reversible tasks, and drops sharply for financial...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 21, 2026
Bristol Myers Squibb Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Advance AI-Driven Early Detection of Lung Cancer
Bristol Myers Squibb has teamed with Microsoft to embed FDA‑cleared AI radiology algorithms into Microsoft’s Precision Imaging Network, aiming to spot lung nodules earlier and streamline radiology workflows. The collaboration leverages a platform already used by more than 80% of...
By World Pharma News
News•Jan 21, 2026
PeakMetrics Launches MCP Server for Live Narrative Intelligence
PeakMetrics unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a middleware that feeds live narrative intelligence into leading AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude. The service lets users pose plain‑language queries about emerging narratives, coordinated activity, and risk...
By AI-TechPark
![What Profitable Google Ads Look Like in 2026 [Webinar] via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://cdn.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/3-529.png)
News•Jan 21, 2026
What Profitable Google Ads Look Like in 2026 [Webinar] via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell
DigiCom, a 2025 Inc. 5000‑listed ecommerce growth agency, hosted a webinar revealing how its $200 M+ Google Ads portfolio leverages Performance Max Smart Bidding in 2026. The session detailed account architecture, creative tactics, and profit‑driven frameworks that keep ROAS under control in...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Jan 21, 2026
Fracttal Raises $35M to Expand AI-Driven Maintenance for Asset-Intensive Industries
Madrid‑based Fracttal closed a $35 million round led by Riverwood Capital to accelerate its AI‑driven maintenance platform. The company already serves more than 1,500 customers in over 60 countries, managing more than 20 million registered assets. Fracttal One integrates enterprise systems, third‑party...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 21, 2026
Antidote Completes $5M Seed Round for Billing Compliance Automation
Antidote, an AI‑based billing compliance platform for law firms, closed a $5 million seed round led by Lakestar, adding to its earlier $2 million pre‑seed raise for a total of $7 million. The solution integrates with existing time‑recording and practice‑management tools to check...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 21, 2026
Risk of AI Model Collapse to Drive Zero Trust Data Governance, Gartner Says
Gartner predicts that within the next two years up to 50% of global enterprises will adopt zero‑trust data governance as AI‑generated content floods books, code repositories, and research papers. The feedback loop of large language models training on prior AI...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 21, 2026
NMITE And The British Army Unveil Detail Of The New Undergraduate Degree In Autonomous Robotics
NMITE, in partnership with the British Army, announced a new MEng (Hons) Integrated Engineering degree focused on Autonomous Robotics, set to admit its first cohort in September 2026. The three‑year programme compresses a traditional four‑year master’s timeline and emphasizes hands‑on...
By sUAS News
News•Jan 21, 2026
Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Rocket Parts
Artificial intelligence is being integrated into ESA‑backed manufacturing projects to modernize rocket component production. MT Aerospace is applying machine‑learning models to shot‑peen forming, friction‑stir welding, and automated carbon‑fibre placement, achieving tighter tolerances and faster setup. Predictive AI now forecasts metal...
By European Space Agency News
News•Jan 21, 2026
Nansen Launches AI Crypto Trading Tools on Base, Solana
Nansen introduced autonomous crypto‑trading tools that let users place trades through AI‑driven conversational prompts on its mobile app. The feature, dubbed “vibe trading,” currently supports the Base and Solana blockchains and draws on Nansen’s massive on‑chain address database. Execution is...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 21, 2026
How AutoGluon Enables Modern AutoML Pipelines for Production-Grade Tabular Models with Ensembling and Distillation
The tutorial demonstrates building a production‑grade tabular machine‑learning pipeline with AutoGluon, covering data ingestion, automated model search, stacked and bagged ensembles, and deployment‑ready artifacts. Using the Titanic dataset, the workflow applies dynamic presets, trains ensembles within a 7‑minute budget, evaluates...
By MarkTechPost
News•Jan 21, 2026
Crittora Introduces APP, an Execution-Time Authorization Layer for AI Agents
Crittola launched the Agent Permission Protocol (APP), a runtime authorization layer that cryptographically binds a specific AI agent, its intended action, and the tools it may use. The protocol enforces least‑privilege, time‑bound permissions and fails closed if verification is missing....
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
DeGirum Announces Workspaces in AI Hub for Edge AI Developers
DeGirum launched Workspaces within its AI Hub, a cloud‑based environment that consolidates model zoos, a cloud compiler, PySDK integration, and ready‑made application packages for edge AI development. The platform lets developers organize projects, curate public and private models, and streamline...
By AiThority
News•Jan 21, 2026
Klient Launches Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange
Klient announced the launch of its Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange, an AI‑driven tool designed for hybrid workforces in professional services and SaaS firms. The agent automates weekly sprint planning, time‑entry verification, resource allocation reviews, and rapid...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
AgiBot Claims Top Spot in Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in 2025 with More than 5,100 Units Delivered
Shanghai‑based AgiBot announced it shipped over 5,100 humanoid robots in 2025, securing roughly 39% of the global market and overtaking rivals such as Unitree and UBTech. The Omdia report shows total worldwide shipments reached about 13,000 units, highlighting rapid industry...
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Jan 21, 2026
TruVideo Introduces Video Quality Score (VQS)
TruVideo launched Video Quality Score (VQS), an AI‑driven model that grades automotive inspection videos against a benchmark for content, process, and delivery. Trained on more than 80 million service videos, VQS outperforms generic AI models by over 30 accuracy points. In...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 21, 2026
KNIME Appoints Trevor Kaufman as CEO as It Enters Next Growth Phase
KNIME announced that founder‑CEO Michael Berthold is stepping down and that Trevor Kaufman, a veteran SaaS executive, will take the helm. Kaufman previously grew Piano from a startup to a 570‑person, 14‑country operation serving major media and financial brands. He...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 21, 2026
The Human Brain May Work More Like AI than Anyone Expected
A new Nature Communications study finds that the human brain processes spoken language in a stepwise fashion that mirrors the layered architecture of large language models such as GPT‑2 and Llama 2. Using electrocorticography recordings while participants listened to a 30‑minute...
By Science Daily AI