Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Concludes with AI Sustainability Projects
Samsung’s “Solve for Tomorrow” competition concluded in Hong Kong, drawing over 250 teams from 100 primary, secondary and tertiary schools. The contest focused on AI‑driven environmental sustainability and AI‑enabled sports/social change, with finalists presenting projects such as AquaPulse, an AI coastal‑protection system, and Plastine, a solar‑powered micro‑plastic removal device. Winners earned corporate internships and other work‑experience opportunities under Hong Kong’s Business‑School Partnership Programme. Samsung highlighted the event as a pipeline for future tech talent and a catalyst for AI innovation in the region.
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How To Identify Which LLM Is Actually Working For You [Webinar] via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell
Search Engine Journal is hosting a live webinar to help marketers pinpoint which large language model (LLM) actually drives conversions in specific industries. Panelists Danielle Wood of CallRail and Natalie Johnson of SweetGlow will share real‑world conversion data for ChatGPT,...
Speech Analysis for Assessing Physical Competence Under the Concept of Physical Literacy (PhD Academy Award)
A PhD thesis by Rui Si Ma demonstrates that speech characteristics can serve as reliable indicators of physical competence. Using machine‑learning and deep‑learning models, the research extracts vocal features that correlate with exercise intensity, enabling non‑invasive fitness assessment. The methodology is designed...
‘Fragmentation Is Poison’: How Microsoft Is Targeting Disparate Data to Boost AI Adoption
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub and Fabric IQ at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, extending its Fabric SaaS analytics platform to unify roughly 20 data services under a single management plane. The new Database Hub adds AI‑driven, natural‑language exploration across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and...
SolasAI Launches New Solution for Proactive Model Monitoring and Auditing at Enterprise Scale
SolasAI announced Illumination, a new AI risk‑management platform that extends its Beacon suite with proactive, real‑time model monitoring and auditing. The solution combines advanced statistical drift detection, quality‑erosion alerts, and fairness‑risk scanning, while a human‑controlled agentic AI orchestrates remediation actions....
If OpenAI Is to Float on the Stock Market This Year, It Needs to Start Turning a Profit
OpenAI, valued at roughly $850 bn, is confronting a massive cash‑burn problem as it eyes a potential IPO before year‑end. The company plans to spend about $600 bn on compute infrastructure through 2030, yet its current annualised revenue sits near $25 bn, leaving...
PubMatic & Amnet Launch the First Agentic Advertising Campaign in France Using the Claude LLM
PubMatic and trading desk Amnet have launched France’s first Agentic advertising campaign, built on PubMatic’s AgenticOS and the Claude large‑language model, for client Interbev. The video‑focused effort targets cooking enthusiasts and consumers of responsibly sourced French meat, aiming for high...
Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions and Trade Restrictions, AI Emerges as Key Driver of Global Trade Growth: McKinsey
Artificial intelligence is reshaping global commerce, with AI‑related hardware shipments surging nearly 40% in 2025 and accounting for roughly a third of worldwide trade growth. The United States emerged as the dominant demand hub, adding about half of all new...
Rakuten Mobile Extends Partnership with Netcracker for AI-Enabled Digital BSS to Support Its Mobile Network in Japan
Rakuten Mobile has extended its multi‑year partnership with Netcracker to continue using the AI‑enabled, cloud‑native Digital BSS platform for its nationwide 4G and 5G network. The renewal builds on a collaboration that began when Rakuten launched in 2019 and adds...
NCTA Launches I-485 Real-Time Data Pilot
North Carolina Turnpike Authority has launched a pilot of Valerann’s Lanternn AI‑enabled platform on the I‑485 Express Lanes around Charlotte. Lanternn ingests real‑time feeds from NCTA’s traffic cameras, navigation systems and third‑party sources to automatically identify incidents such as crashes,...
What If AI Was Already Working Before You Sat Down?
An executive training firm replaced manual admin work with a "Digital Chief of Staff"—a suite of eight AI agents handling email drafting, meeting preparation, follow‑up, CRM updates, and task prioritization. The system pre‑completes routine tasks overnight, allowing the owner to...
Government Datasets Are Poorly Labelled and Will Fail AI
The Open Data Institute’s four‑month NDL‑Lite prototype scanned more than 100,000 public datasets from six UK sources, exposing pervasive labeling gaps, outdated records, and accessibility hurdles. Notably, a major Home Office crime dataset has not been refreshed since 2018, while...
Advancing AI Literacy: A Faculty Course Refresh Institute at Indiana Wesleyan University
Indiana Wesleyan University’s National & Global unit launched a twelve‑week AI‑Enhanced Course Refresh Institute to help faculty redesign courses with embedded AI literacy. The pilot, begun in summer 2025, guided participants through data‑informed analysis, custom GenAI bots, and multimodal video...
Proactive AI for EV Charging
Denmark‑based Monta has embedded an AI layer into its EV charging platform, analyzing data from over 260,000 charge points and 3 million monthly sessions. The system continuously surfaces anomalies, recommends actions such as firmware updates, and even answers natural‑language queries about...
Google's 200M-Parameter Time-Series Foundation Model with 16k Context
Google Research released TimesFM 2.5, a decoder‑only time‑series foundation model with 200 million parameters, down from 500 million in version 2.0. The new model supports a 16 k context window, far exceeding the prior 2 048 limit, and adds an optional 30 million‑parameter quantile head for continuous...
LeapXpert’s Sofia Event Explores the Future of the Engineering Role
By early 2026, roughly two‑thirds of companies generate most code with AI, with some aiming for 90% within the year. LeapXpert, a US‑based enterprise communication platform, is hosting its inaugural Sofia event, “Same Title, New Job,” to discuss how AI...
Critical Manufacturing Brings Real-Time Intelligence to the Shopfloor
Critical Manufacturing is demonstrating its Industrial Operations Platform at Hannover Messe 2026, positioning the solution as more than a traditional Manufacturing Execution System (MES). The platform unites execution, an enterprise data layer, AI copilots and a partner ecosystem to create...
Why The Guardian’s First Reader-Facing AI Product Isn’t a Chatbot
The Guardian has introduced its first reader‑facing AI product, called Storylines, which surfaces AI‑generated narrative clusters on a handful of tag pages. Rather than a chatbot, the tool analyzes the latest 200 headlines per tag to identify three dominant storylines,...
Time Pitches GEO Insights Into a New Brand Offering
Time is launching a new GEO product that audits how AI search engines portray brands and sells tailored branded content to correct mismatches. The service leverages tools from TollBit, ScalePost and Mobian to analyze up to 100 prompts across ChatGPT,...
One Year Later: Raising the AI Fluency Bar for Every Zapier Hire
Zapier has released version 2 of its AI Fluency Rubric, raising the hiring bar for every new employee. Candidates must now demonstrate AI embedded in core work, repeatable systems, and measurable impact on quality or efficiency. The rubric expands evaluation to...
Inside Pixel Moda’s Human-Led Approach to AI-Powered Fashion E-Commerce
Pixel Moda, a global e‑commerce content producer, uses generative and assistive AI to accelerate fashion visual asset creation. By combining AI with human creativity, the company can generate up to 15 high‑quality images per SKU within 24‑48 hours, cutting image costs by...
Family Businesses Race to Embrace AI, but Digital Gaps Threaten Long-Term Competitiveness
Family-owned firms are rapidly moving AI from pilot projects to core operations, with 86% reporting some level of use. However, 48% say their current technology spend is only moderate or insufficient for future demands, highlighting a digital maturity gap. The...
Ollama Is Now Powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in Preview
Ollama announced a preview that leverages Apple’s MLX framework to deliver the fastest local inference on Apple Silicon Macs. The integration taps the GPU Neural Accelerators of M5‑series chips, boosting both time‑to‑first‑token and token‑per‑second rates, especially with the Qwen3.5‑35B‑A3B model...
This Privacy-First Chatbot Is Taking Off - Here's Why and How to Try It
Duck.ai, DuckDuckGo's privacy‑first chatbot, saw a 300% traffic surge to 11.1 million visits in February, according to Similarweb. The service anonymizes queries and routes them through frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta, preventing data exposure. Recent feature upgrades—including image generation...
AI-Powered Stroke Tool Linked to Improved Patient Outcomes in Large Clinical Trial
A large cluster‑randomized trial of more than 21,000 acute ischemic‑stroke patients across 77 Chinese hospitals tested an AI‑powered clinical decision support system (CDSS). The tool, which combines AI‑assisted imaging with guideline‑based treatment prompts, lowered the 3‑month composite vascular‑event rate from...
AI-Generated Code Verification Startup Qodo Raises $70M
Qodo, operating as Codium Ltd., announced a $70 million Series B round, bringing its total capital to $120 million. The startup offers an AI‑driven code verification platform that inserts a governance layer into developers' CI/CD pipelines, using specialized agents to detect bugs, compliance...
AI Agents Are Democratizing Finance but Also Redefining Risk
AI agents are now moving capital autonomously, turning complex arbitrage strategies into simple commands and democratizing access to sophisticated finance. Users have seen outsized returns, such as a $300 investment growing to over $2.3 million in four months, thanks to rapid,...
University of Ottawa Launches New Applied AI Centre for Healthcare
The University of Ottawa has inaugurated the Ottawa Medical Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (OMARI), an applied‑research hub embedded in its Faculty of Medicine and linked to the city’s six hospitals. Led by AI expert Dr. Khaled El Emam, OMARI aims to...
Google’s ‘AI Works for Britain’ Aims to Help Stuck Brits Unlock Progression
Google UK announced the AI Works for Britain programme, a nationwide upskilling effort backed by roughly $2.5 million in Google.org grant funding. The initiative targets the 76% of Britons who feel stuck in their careers by teaching practical AI skills through...
The Hidden Costs of ‘Helpful’ AI
Researchers built a collaborative chess game pairing a strong AI with a weaker, human‑like partner, flipping a coin to decide who moves next. The experiment showed that teams with the compatible, supportive AI consistently outperformed those led by the superhuman...
Wiise Boosts A/NZ Partner Program with AI and Product Additions
Wiise has revamped its Australia‑New Zealand partner program, adding AI‑focused training and new prospecting tools. The initiative includes an AI Academy of practical webinars and AI‑powered utilities to help partners qualify opportunities faster. It also introduces partner community days, roadmap visibility,...
California Governor Issues Executive Order About AI
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order tightening AI procurement standards and requiring new safeguards for companies seeking state contracts. The order expands the state’s existing AI transparency framework, mandating vetting of bias controls, illegal‑content safeguards, and civil‑rights protections....
Vietnam: AI for Early Detection of Non-Communicable Diseases
Vietnam is fast‑tracking AI integration into its healthcare system to improve early detection of non‑communicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory illnesses. The government and hospitals are expanding electronic health records and centralised data platforms, enabling...
Popular AI Gateway Startup LiteLLM Ditches Controversial Startup Delve
LiteLLM, a widely used AI gateway for developers, announced it is ending its partnership with compliance startup Delve and will pursue new certifications through Vanta and an independent auditor. The move follows a credential‑stealing malware breach that exposed weaknesses in...
World Models, Open Claw, and Robots. Discussing AI with Valentino Megale
AI thought leader Valentino Megale outlines three emerging trends reshaping enterprise technology: the open‑source agent orchestration platform OpenClaw, now extended by Nvidia’s security‑focused NemoClaw; the rise of World Models such as LeCun’s JEPA that simulate causal environments rather than merely predicting...
Hong Kong: AI-Driven Innovation and Smart Manufacturing
The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) is spearheading AI‑driven innovation to boost manufacturing competitiveness and support international expansion, especially through Hong Kong‑mainland China collaboration. Its programme spans frontier research, technology commercialisation, talent development and enterprise transformation, targeting smart manufacturing, robotics,...
Australia: AI Facial Analysis Strengthens Forensic Investigations
Australian researchers at Murdoch University have created a face similarity linkage (FSL) system that quantifies facial geometry to uncover connections between crime victims and suspects. By extracting landmark ratios, the tool normalises variations in angle, lighting and scale, delivering more...
EE TV Rolls Out AI-Powered Smart Search
EE has introduced Smart Search, an AI‑driven content discovery tool for its EE TV platform, allowing users to locate shows and movies by describing mood, theme, plot elements or memorable lines. The feature aggregates results from live TV, on‑demand libraries,...
Malaysia: Navigating an AI-Driven Media Landscape
Malaysia’s media ecosystem is rapidly evolving as smartphones and mobile internet become the dominant gateways to news, pushing traditional broadcast and print toward digital platforms. Social media algorithms now dictate content visibility, while artificial intelligence drives personalization, recommendation and moderation...
Microsoft Reduces Copilot Integrations in Windows 11
Microsoft announced a rollback of Copilot features in Windows 11, removing the AI assistant from core apps such as Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad. The move is part of a broader quality overhaul that emphasizes performance, reliability and what the...
A Game Plan for the AI Boom
AlphaGo’s 2016 victory over Go champion Lee Sedol demonstrated that pairing a move‑generation network with a separate evaluation network, trained via reinforcement learning, could master a problem once deemed unsolvable. The same two‑step architecture now underpins today’s reasoning models, which solve...
Microsoft AI Releases Harrier-OSS-V1: A New Family of Multilingual Embedding Models Hitting SOTA on Multilingual MTEB V2
Microsoft released Harrier-OSS-v1, a trio of multilingual embedding models ranging from 270 million to 27 billion parameters. The models use decoder‑only architectures with last‑token pooling and achieve state‑of‑the‑art results on the Multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark. They support a 32,768‑token context window, enabling...
Three-in-One Diode Integrates Sensing, Memory and Processing for Smart Cameras
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have created a single semiconductor diode that simultaneously senses light, stores data and performs processing. By inserting an aluminum‑gallium‑nitride layer into a GaN p‑n junction, the device can switch among...
Jerome Powell to Gen Z: Don’t Fear AI—Master It
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told a crowd of Harvard economics students that the looming AI revolution should be embraced, not feared, by the incoming Gen Z workforce. He highlighted the current low job‑creation environment and warned that large language...
Sage and Durham University Expand AI Skills Agenda as Regional Talent Strategy Gains Momentum
Sage has teamed up with Durham University to launch an AI and digital skills programme aimed at the North East of England, linking the software vendor’s enterprise expertise with the university’s Business AI and Analytics Centre. The collaboration emphasizes applied...
AI Doesn’t Fix Systems — It Exposes Them
The article argues that artificial intelligence, like nuclear power, is a new source of energy that only creates value when the surrounding system— the "grid"—is rebuilt to absorb and act on its output. In healthcare, AI models can flag disease...
No Internet? This 'Survival Computer' Has Everything You Need Offline - Including AI
Project NOMAD is an open‑source, self‑contained platform that delivers a searchable knowledge base and local AI assistant without an internet connection. It installs on any Debian‑based Linux distribution using a single script and runs six Docker containers that power services...
AI Should Belong to Workers
The article argues that artificial intelligence should be placed directly in the hands of frontline workers, shifting value from supervisory layers to the production floor. Unlike past automation waves that required specialized skills, AI’s natural‑language interfaces lower entry barriers, enabling...
Sora Is Gone — but These 3 AI Video Tools Are Already Replacing It
OpenAI abruptly discontinued Sora, its popular AI video generator, leaving users searching for alternatives. Google’s Veo 3.1, built into Gemini, now offers true 4K video with native audio and multi‑scene storytelling, though video is limited to paid tiers ranging from $7.99...
3 Things AI Has Changed About Content Marketing That Aren't Going Back
Artificial intelligence is reshaping content marketing by enabling hyper‑personalized experiences, automating large‑scale content creation, and delivering real‑time performance analytics. Marketers now rely on AI‑driven tools to generate copy, optimize SEO, and predict audience engagement, reducing production cycles from weeks to...