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 workers to augment their tasks. However, more than 80% of AI initiatives fail, largely because leadership does not align metrics, sponsorship, or real‑world workflows. If deployed at the edge, AI could affect up to 93% of U.S. jobs, narrowing wage gaps and reshaping organizational hierarchies.
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...
AI Is Driving a New Infrastructure Cost Crisis, but Adaptive Tiering Could Help Contain It
Enterprises are confronting soaring infrastructure costs as AI and distributed applications expand data volumes. Tintri’s adaptive tiering technology automatically shifts workloads between high‑performance NVMe, SSD, and other media, eliminating the need for manual hierarchical storage management. The solution leverages real‑time...
As More Americans Adopt AI Tools, Fewer Say They Can Trust the Results
Americans are rapidly adopting AI tools, with only 27% reporting never having used them, down from 33% a year earlier. Yet a Quinnipiac poll shows 76% trust AI rarely or never, and just 21% trust it most of the time....
Is Your AI System Ethical? Try This Assessment
The Prosocial AI Index introduces a 4Ts‑4Ps scorecard that expands AI evaluation beyond efficiency to fairness, trust, talent, and environmental impact. It offers executives a concrete framework to assess whether AI systems are tailored, trained, tested, and targeted for purpose,...
Would You Share Your Phone Calls With a Company to Make Money? This Startup Is Banking on It
Neon, a new app, pays users to record and sell their phone calls for AI training, quickly rising to the top of the App Store. An early security flaw exposed call metadata and transcripts, prompting a public backlash. After securing...
IAB Recognizes Future Video Outcomes From Agentic
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a whitepaper titled “AI‑Powered Video Outcomes: Agentic AI,” outlining how autonomous AI systems will reshape video planning, optimization, measurement, and creation. The report notes that 69% of analytics teams are scaling AI and 44%...
AI Pushes B2B Ecommerce Toward Fewer Platforms as Budgets Shift
Artificial intelligence is prompting B2B ecommerce leaders to trim fragmented software stacks and invest in unified, AI‑enabled platforms. Redpoint Ventures reports that 45% of CIOs are redirecting spend toward AI while 54% are consolidating vendors, targeting systems that blend ecommerce,...
Aerie Doubles Down on Its No-AI Pledge in Its Latest Campaign
Aerie reaffirmed its "no AI" policy by launching a new campaign that features only real people, including Pamela Anderson, and explicitly rejects generative‑AI‑created models. The brand’s Instagram post announcing the pledge became its most‑liked content, surpassing 40,000 likes. In Q4...
Informa TechTarget Launches Two New Content Solutions
Informa TechTarget announced two AI‑focused content solutions—the AI Visibility Audit and the GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) Topic Planner—to help B2B marketers improve brand discoverability in an AI‑driven search environment. The AI Visibility Audit evaluates how audiences encounter a brand through...
AI-Driven Code Surge Is Forcing a Rethink of AppSec
AI‑driven code generation is causing organizations to produce ten to twenty times more software than a year ago, overwhelming traditional application‑security tools. The surge expands the attack surface, making vulnerabilities easier for adversaries to exploit. Black Duck’s CEO Jason Schmitt...
Q&A: Hartford CIO Charisse Snipes on AI, Language Access and Building a Smart City Culture
Charisse Snipes, Hartford’s Chief Innovation Officer, says the city prioritized AI governance before rollout, embedding data ownership, security and cross‑department training into its framework. Partnering with Google Cloud, Hartford added real‑time, two‑way translation to its 311 system, supporting up to...
Walmart Mexico Extends Strategic Partnership with Vusion
Walmart de México y Centroamérica is expanding its partnership with Vusion to roll out the EdgeSense connected‑store platform across all Walmart Express locations by the end of 2026, with a subsequent rollout to its Supercenter fleet. The deployment will install...
I Reviewed 6 Best Text-to-Speech Software for 2026
The article reviews six leading text‑to‑speech platforms for 2026, ranking ElevenLabs, Synthesia, Murf.ai, VEED, HeyGen, and Google Cloud Text‑to‑Speech based on voice quality, workflow ease, and pricing. ElevenLabs stands out for expressive voice cloning, while Synthesia adds AI avatars for...
Inside the AI Breakup That Turned Into a $300 Billion Rivalry
The feud between OpenAI and Anthropic began when Dario Amodei quit in 2021 over a clash with Sam Altman on speed versus safety in AI development. The split created two firms now valued at more than $300 billion combined, each pursuing...
Accelerator-Equipped MCU Brings Greater Access to AI in Cars
STMicroelectronics introduced the Stellar P3E, an automotive microcontroller that embeds a Neural‑ART accelerator for on‑chip AI inference. The MCU consolidates multiple ECUs, features six Cortex‑R52+ cores up to 500 MHz, and includes high‑density xMemory. By offloading machine‑learning tasks to the NPU, the...
ScaleOps Raises $130M Series C at Over $800M Valuation to Lead the Future of Autonomous Cloud and AI Infrastructure Resource...
ScaleOps announced a $130 million Series C round that values the company at over $800 million, led by Insight Partners and joined by existing backers. The funding brings total capital raised to more than $210 million as the firm scales its autonomous cloud and...
A Man Used AI to Call 3,000 Irish Bartenders to Track the Cost of Guinness. Now Pubs Are Lowering Their...
Matt Cortland, founder of an AI startup, deployed an ElevenLabs‑generated voice AI named Rachel to call over 3,000 Irish pubs and record Guinness prices. He fed the responses into Anthropic’s Claude to build the Guinndex, a real‑time consumer price index...
Why Customer Data Infrastructure Is Moving to Infrastructure as Code
Customer data infrastructure, essential for attribution, personalization, and AI‑driven experiences, is still managed through manual UI clicks and scattered documentation. This operating model creates versioning, audit, and recovery challenges as data volumes and AI use cases grow. Applying infrastructure as...
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[Video] AI Today in 5: March 30, 2026, The Delay in the EU on AI Edition
The European Parliament has postponed key sections of the EU AI Act, pushing compliance deadlines into 2027. The delay is intended to give industry time to align with evolving technical standards and avoid stifling innovation. Meanwhile, fintech firms are watching...
Universal Robots and Scale AI Unveil UR AI Trainer at GTC
Universal Robots announced the UR AI Trainer, a joint solution with Scale AI, at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026. The system uses a leader‑follower robot configuration to record high‑fidelity motion, force and visual data for training vision‑language‑action models. Integrated with UR’s AI...
Kara Swisher Talks Tech Regulation & AI at Exchange
Kara Swisher joined CNBC’s Bob Pisani to warn that a loosely regulated tech sector lets giants expand unchecked, citing past takeovers of music, media and social platforms. She contrasted the scant federal oversight of companies like Meta with the heavy...
Bharti Airtel’s Nxtra Data to Raise $1 Billion in Major AI Infrastructure Push
Bharti Airtel’s Nxtra Data is raising $1 billion, valuing the data‑center subsidiary at roughly $3.1 billion. The round is led by Alpha Wave with a $435 million commitment, while Carlyle Global, Anchorage Capital and Airtel itself contribute $240 million, $35 million and $290 million respectively. The capital...
Boston Public Schools to Launch AI Fluency Curriculum
Boston Public Schools will become the nation’s first district to embed an AI‑fluency curriculum across its high schools starting September. The program is funded by a $1 million donation from tech entrepreneur Paul English and built through a public‑private partnership with...
Virtual Vanguard Recap: Jim Lecinski
The Virtual Vanguard recap with Northwestern professor Jim Lecinski highlighted that AI’s next wave in marketing hinges on intent, sequencing, and disciplined execution rather than merely adopting new tools. While a universal playbook remains elusive, CMOs are converging on emerging...
Global Buyer Demand and Seller Supply Aggregation Platforms in Development
World Property Markets, a Miami‑based proptech firm, is building a dual AI‑driven platform that links global buyer demand with a borderless supply of real‑estate listings. The World Property Search engine will capture high‑intent buyer signals, while the upgraded Global Listings...
Relying on AI Chatbots for Historical Facts Can Influence Your Political Beliefs, New Study Shows
A PNAS Nexus study of 1,912 U.S.-representative participants found that AI‑generated historical summaries subtly shift political attitudes. Neutral GPT‑4o summaries produced a modest liberal tilt compared with standard Wikipedia entries, while prompting the model for a liberal or conservative slant...
There Are More AI Health Tools than Ever—But How Well Do They Work?
Microsoft introduced Copilot Health and Amazon expanded its Health AI, joining OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health and Anthropic’s Claude as consumer‑facing large language model (LLM) health assistants. The tools aim to answer the 50 million daily health questions users pose to Copilot, promising...
Snowflake Intelligence for Retail: Scaling Enterprise AI
The Mark Anthony Group (MAG) has moved from a traditional data warehouse to Snowflake Intelligence, turning its data platform into a generative business intelligence engine. By mandating Snowflake Secure Data Sharing in vendor RFPs, MAG streamlined real‑time data integration and...
Atlantic Health to Deploy Artera’s AI Agents for Colonoscopy Patient Outreach
Atlantic Health, a nonprofit system serving New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, has partnered with AI firm Artera to launch outbound AI agents that call patients scheduled for colonoscopies. The agents initiate a multilingual, interactive phone conversation a week before...
AI Models Confidently Describe Images They Never Saw, and Benchmarks Fail to Catch It
A new study reveals that leading multimodal AI models—including GPT‑5 series, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5—confidently generate visual descriptions and medical diagnoses despite never receiving an image, achieving 60‑90% correctness in a text‑only benchmark called Phantom‑0. When tested on established visual‑understanding benchmarks,...
Aultman Health CIO Says Healthcare Must Move AI From Experimental to Operational
Aultman Health System’s CIO Raza Fayyaz says the health‑care sector must shift AI from experimental pilots to everyday operations. He outlines a three‑pronged strategy that combines pre‑built AI tools, robotic process automation, and large‑language‑model reasoning to streamline clinical and administrative...
Under Pressure, LexisNexis Integrates Anthropic Legal AI
LexisNexis swiftly integrated Anthropic’s Claude legal plugin into its Protégé platform within weeks, leveraging early access and dedicated "tiger teams" to stay ahead of AI disruption. The company adopted a coopetition model, using Anthropic’s technology while relying on its century‑old...
Virtual Care Provider Makes Big Gains with Zoom AI Clinical Tools
PocketRN adopted Zoom Workplace for Clinicians to embed AI‑powered transcription and note generation directly into its virtual nursing workflow. The integration cut documentation time by roughly 60%, dropping average note creation from 20 minutes to under 10. Daily labor savings...
8 Best Claude Features in 2026: How to Get More Done With Less Effort
Anthropic’s latest Claude models, Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6, have shifted from simple chatbots to full‑fledged collaborators that can generate polished documents, complex spreadsheets, and even functional web apps without coding. New features such as persistent Skills, project‑based workspaces with a 200K‑token context...
How Aigen Transformed Agricultural Robotics for Sustainable Farming with Amazon SageMaker AI
Aigen, a maker of autonomous weed‑removing robots, migrated its machine‑learning pipeline to Amazon SageMaker AI to overcome on‑premises bottlenecks. By automating data labeling with vision foundation models and leveraging SageMaker’s distributed training, the company boosted labeling throughput 20‑fold and cut...
Mastercard's Pivot: A Bullish Strategic Bet on AI and Data
Mastercard's shares have fallen over 15% year‑to‑date as the company weighs selling its real‑time payments unit, acquired for $3.2 billion in 2019. Meanwhile, its high‑margin Value‑Added Services division posted 22% currency‑neutral revenue growth in Q4, far outpacing the 9% rise in...
Google Maps Simplifies Battery Predictions and Trip Planning for 350+ Android Auto EV Models.
Google Maps is extending its AI‑powered electric‑vehicle charging features to Android Auto users of more than 350 models across over 15 U.S. brands. Drivers can add their EV details, see projected battery usage, receive optimal charging‑stop suggestions and an updated...
Extra Credit: Nothing Artificial About Our AI Investment Process
Loomis Sayles’ Full Discretion team outlines a disciplined credit‑centric process for navigating the AI boom, projecting roughly $2.5 trillion of AI‑related capital spending over the next three years, half of which will be debt‑financed. The team splits its analysis into two...
HEAPGrasp: A Faster, Smarter Way for Robots to Handle Tricky Objects
Researchers at Tokyo University of Science introduced HEAPGrasp, a novel robot grasping system that relies solely on RGB images to reconstruct 3D shapes of transparent, reflective, and opaque objects. By extracting silhouettes from multiple viewpoints and using a shape‑from‑silhouette algorithm...
US Pressures Brussels to Join AI Chips Club
The United States is urging the European Union to join Pax Silica, a Washington‑led club aimed at safeguarding AI‑related semiconductor and mineral supply chains against China. EU officials stalled formal talks on membership, even as Sweden and Greece signed the...
South Korea Extends Facial Recognition SIM Registration Pilot to June 2026
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has pushed back the end of its facial‑recognition SIM registration pilot to June 30, 2026. The trial, which began in December, requires users to scan their face at activation to match identity‑document data, targeting fraud...
Butterfly Network Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Gestational Age Ultrasound Tool
Butterfly Network has secured FDA clearance for an AI‑driven Gestational Age tool that operates via a blind‑sweep on its handheld ultrasound devices. The software, trained on over 21 million images, delivers gestational age estimates comparable to expert sonographers for pregnancies between...
Ani Tech Launches Free AI Cash Flow App for Advisors
Ani Tech has introduced a free AI‑driven cash‑flow modelling app for UK financial advisers, allowing them to build and compare complex scenarios using natural‑language commands. The tool, powered by an agentic AI called ‘Flo’, automates data entry and provides real‑time...
ABB Incorporates Generative AI Into Energy Management System
ABB has integrated generative artificial intelligence into its Energy Management System, branding the new capability as the Industrial Knowledge Vault (IKV). The AI layer lets users pose natural‑language questions about energy consumption, delivering instant analytics without manual data mining. Mining...
Sett Raises $30m to Scale AI-Driven Marketing Automation Platform
Sett, a 2023 startup, raised $30 million in a Series B round to expand its AI‑driven marketing automation platform. The platform automatically generates playable and video ads while optimizing campaign performance across the user‑acquisition funnel for game publishers. The funding, led by...
The Future of Healthcare in America: What to Expect in the Next Decade
Artificial intelligence is becoming a core pillar of U.S. health care, with Deloitte ranking generative AI as a top strategic priority. AI tools are set to streamline diagnostics, clinical decision support, and administrative tasks, improving patient access and reducing in‑person...
India Is Waiting for AI's UPI-Like Moment
India’s AI ecosystem is poised for a breakthrough, but large‑scale adoption remains the missing piece, panelists said at the Mint India Investment Summit 2026. Companies such as Yotta, Neysa Networks and Sify are expanding data‑centre capacity while the government’s IndiaAI...
Glia Wins Excellence Award for Safer AI in Banking
Glia, the AI‑powered customer‑service platform for banks, won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award in the Banking and Financial Services category. The company’s solution automates up to 80 % of routine interactions while embedding safeguards against hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks. Industry...