TIFIN Revamps AI Platform for Wealth Managers
TIFIN has relaunched its AI offering as TIFIN.AI, an enterprise‑grade, agent‑centric platform designed for wealth managers and product providers. The new system features a library of AI agents that can be deployed across advisory, operations, investment and client‑facing workflows, allowing firms to start with single‑persona agents and later expand to a unified multi‑agent environment. More than ten enterprise wealth firms are already using the platform, building on TIFIN’s legacy of 55ip and its sale to JPMorgan. The move places TIFIN among a wave of custodians and fintechs rolling out similar agentic solutions.
AI Investments Continue to Remain Key Priority for Tech Industry : Research
U.S. executives are making AI a top strategic priority, with 73% focusing on AI investment, risk management or trade adjustments, according to PwC’s April 2026 survey of 633 leaders. AI spending leads the pack, as 38% of respondents are increasing...
'AI Is Our Friend': Bank CEOs Weigh the Tech's Risks, Rewards
Bank CEOs across the major U.S. lenders are publicly embracing artificial intelligence while flagging cyber‑risk concerns. Morgan Stanley’s Ted Pick highlighted the use of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos beta, and Citi announced it will unveil a detailed AI roadmap at its May 7...
VanEck Highlights AI Infrastructure at Exchange 2026
At Exchange 2026 in Las Vegas, VanEck’s head of product management Ed Lopez highlighted the firm’s focus on AI infrastructure across metals, energy and emerging markets. He noted that the VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals ETF (REMX) was named Thematic...
Could Space Become the Next Frontier for AI Data Centers?
Tech giants are moving the AI compute conversation off‑planet, with NVIDIA unveiling a Space‑1 Rubin module that promises up to 25× more AI performance in orbit and Google’s “Suncatcher” project probing solar‑powered chips for space. Startups such as Starcloud have...
Why Innovaccer Is Pouring $250M Into Its Agentic AI Platform
Healthcare AI firm Innovaccer announced a $250 million, three‑year investment to expand its agentic AI platform built on the “Gravity” unified data layer. The platform deploys AI agents across patient access, value‑based care, revenue cycle, risk assessment and utilization management, delivering...
Certinia Introduces Veda AI to Embed Intelligent Operations Into Services ERP
Certinia has launched Veda AI, an intelligent operations engine embedded within its services‑focused ERP platform. The suite delivers automation, predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and contextual assistance across projects, finance, and resource management. By making AI a native layer rather than...
Jesus Punches Trump in Face in AI Video Posted by Iran’s Embassy in Tajikistan
Iran’s embassy in Tajikistan posted an AI‑generated video showing Jesus punching Donald Trump and hurling him into a fiery pit. The clip follows Trump’s own controversial post portraying himself as a miracle‑working Jesus, which sparked backlash from his Christian base....
Hightouch Reaches $100M ARR Fueled by Marketing Tools Powered by AI
Hightouch, a seven‑year‑old startup, announced it has reached $100 million in annualized recurring revenue after launching an AI‑powered marketing content service in late 2024. The platform integrates directly with brand assets in tools like Figma and CMSs to generate on‑brand images and...
CIOs Fret over Rising Security Concerns Amid AI Adoption
A Logicalis survey of more than 1,000 CIOs reveals AI is now viewed as a top security threat, with over a quarter ranking it alongside malware, ransomware and phishing. 57% say employee misuse of AI jeopardizes data, yet only 37% have...
Parasail Secures $32M Series A
Parasail, a San Francisco‑based AI Supercloud startup, announced a $32 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to $42 million. The round was co‑led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, with participation from Samsung NEXT, Flume Ventures, Banyan Ventures and existing backers. Parasail’s...
OpenAI’s Agents SDK Separates the Harness From the Compute
OpenAI unveiled a major upgrade to its Agents SDK, introducing sandboxed workspaces that separate the agent harness from the compute layer. The new toolbox lets developers run agents in containers or virtual machines from providers such as Cloudflare, Modal, Vercel,...
We Tested Anthropic’s Redesigned Claude Code Desktop App and 'Routines' — Here's What Enterprises Should Know
On April 14, 2026 Anthropic unveiled a redesigned Claude Code desktop app and introduced Routines in a research preview. The new app adds a Mission Control sidebar that lets developers monitor and steer multiple AI‑agent sessions across repositories, shifting the...
Can AI Judge Journalism? A Thiel-Backed Startup Says Yes, Even if It Risks Chilling Whistleblowers
Objection.ai, a startup backed by Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan, launched a paid service that lets anyone spend $2,000 to challenge a specific factual claim in a news story. The platform uses a jury of large‑language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and...
MuleSoft Agent Fabric Adds New Ways to Keep AI Agents in Line
Salesforce is expanding MuleSoft Agent Fabric with deterministic scripting for Agent Broker, new LLM governance in AI Gateway, and Model Control Protocol enhancements. The deterministic controls let enterprises steer AI agents with rule‑based routing, reducing reliance on costly large language...
Proactive Fleet Strategies: Leveraging AI, Integration, Predictive Maintenance for Future Success
A NAFA Institute panel highlighted how AI‑powered cameras, telematics integration, and predictive maintenance are reshaping fleet management. Real‑time in‑cab coaching slashed unsafe driving incidents for companies like SavATree and the City of Akron, while API‑linked data streams unlocked hidden cost...
CoreWeave Sees a $7 Billion Win From an Unconventional Customer. Financia...
CoreWeave, a specialist GPU‑cloud provider, secured a $7 billion multi‑year commitment from quantitative‑trading firm Jane Street. The deal underscores the financial sector’s appetite for high‑performance AI compute beyond traditional tech labs. Jane Street will tap CoreWeave’s infrastructure to run large‑scale machine‑learning...
Absurd? AI-Made Fruit Telenovelas and What They’re Really Telling the Industry
AI‑generated fruit telenovelas—short, absurd micro‑series built entirely with diffusion video, lip‑sync and voice‑synthesis models—have amassed millions of views on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Their ultra‑low‑cost, single‑creator workflow compresses a traditional TV pipeline from eleven steps to three, proving fully AI‑assisted...
Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs
Mercor, a San Francisco AI startup, hired underemployed contractors to train models for firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. In late March the company disclosed a cyber‑attack linked to the open‑source LiteLLM project that exposed Slack data and recordings...
Aave Labs Launches Checkpoint, AI-Powered Governance Security System: Aave Labs
Aave Labs unveiled Aave Checkpoint on April 15, an AI‑powered governance security system that adds a multi‑layered review process for every DAO proposal before on‑chain execution. The platform pairs automated AI analysis with a mandatory human verification step, operating alongside Certora’s...
The Illusion of AI Sovereignty: US Dominance Highlights Global ‘Control Gap’
Tracxn’s new report maps AI infrastructure into three layers—data‑center location, cloud software ownership, and chip hardware—and shows the United States dominates the deepest layer. U.S. chip firms number 101 and have attracted $10.9 billion in equity, more than triple China’s $3 billion...
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
Nvidia currently dominates the AI‑chip market, but emerging AI tools are making high‑performance compute more accessible to smaller players. Open‑source models and on‑demand cloud GPU rentals let startups run sophisticated workloads without owning expensive hardware. New ASIC designs from up‑and‑coming...
Architecting the Future of Research: A Technical Deep-Dive Into NotebookLM and Gemini Integration
Google’s NotebookLM, powered by the Gemini 1.5 Pro model, introduces a long‑context, source‑grounded research environment that sidesteps traditional vector‑search RAG pipelines. With a 2 million‑token window, the platform can ingest entire document collections, preserving global context and dramatically lowering hallucination risk. The integration...
Almost Half of Professionals Name Brands in AI Prompts: Findings From Our User Study + What It Means for You
A Seer Interactive study of 249 AI interactions among 26 business leaders shows that 43% of prompts name specific brands, while 42% of sessions consist of a single prompt and response. Professionals embed rich context—role, company size, tech stack—treating AI...
Anthropic’s Next AI Model Could Disrupt Design Tools Like Adobe, Figma
Anthropic is poised to release Claude Opus 4.7 as early as this week, accelerating its rapid model‑iteration cycle. The upgrade builds on Opus 4.6’s large context windows and coding strength, adding greater autonomy, multi‑step reasoning, and more reliable agent‑team collaboration. Simultaneously, the...
New MHI and Deloitte Report Finds AI Biggest Disruptor of Supply Chains over the Next Decade
A joint MHI‑Deloitte report released at Modex 2026 identifies artificial intelligence as the top disruptive technology for supply chains over the next decade. The survey shows 24% of leaders view AI as transformational and 48% rate its impact as significant...
When AI Gets Health Questions Wrong
A BMJ Open audit of five popular AI chatbots—Gemini, DeepSeek, Meta AI, ChatGPT and Grok—found that nearly half of their health‑related answers were problematic, with 19.6% rated highly problematic. The study tested 50 prompts across cancer, vaccines, stem cells, nutrition...
Claude Code and the Rise of Personal Software
Anthropic’s Claude Code, an agentic AI coding assistant, has surged to $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by February 2026, more than doubling its November‑2025 figure. The tool lets non‑technical staff in marketing, finance and other functions describe desired functionality and receive fully...
AI Search Will Crack The Foundation Of B2B Marketing’s Accountability Model
AI‑driven answer engines are reshaping B2B buying, delivering zero‑click answers that bypass traditional marketing touchpoints. As a result, engagement metrics—long the cornerstone of marketing accountability—are falling 20‑30 %, threatening budget credibility. Forrester reports 90 % of B2B leaders now prioritize AI visibility,...
The Future of AI in Schools Isn’t Personalized Learning
The education‑tech sector has long promised AI‑driven personalized learning, but the model places algorithms in charge and reduces teachers to coordinators—a flaw exposed by pandemic‑era screen‑based instruction. Jack Lynch argues that AI’s true value is as a teaching assistant that...
Zuora Collections Launches in Europe with Germany Data Center for In-Region Data and AI-Driven Workflows
Zuora has launched its AI‑powered Collections product for European customers, supported by a new data center in Germany that stores all data within the EU. The platform automates outreach, risk scoring, and cash‑flow forecasting by linking billing, revenue and collections...
Reid Hoffman Backs AI “Token Usage” Tracking as Companies Experiment with Adoption Metrics
Reid Hoffman, co‑founder of LinkedIn, is championing the use of AI token consumption as a proxy for adoption across enterprises. He acknowledges that token counts don’t capture productivity perfectly but do reveal how widely employees are experimenting with generative models....
Anthropic Unleashes ‘Alien Science’ as AI Surpasses Humans in Alignment
Anthropic released a paper showing nine Claude Opus 4.6 agents outperformed its own human researchers on a benchmark AI‑alignment task. The AI fleet recovered 97% of the performance gap in five days, while two humans achieved only 23% in a...
McKinsey, ALICE Technologies Partner on Generative AI Scheduling
McKinsey has teamed with ALICE Technologies to deliver generative‑AI scheduling software for large‑scale infrastructure and construction projects. The solution, already deployed with more than 35 clients, can accelerate schedules by up to 20% and, in pilot cases, shave 28 days...
Shirofune Launches AI Summary
Shirofune, a digital advertising automation platform, unveiled AI Summary on April 15, 2026. The new tool leverages generative AI to scan performance‑metric shifts and produce a concise, actionable narrative within seconds. It sits on top of Shirofune’s existing Change Analysis...
Parasail Closes $32M Series A to Build the Supercloud that Puts Developers in Control of Their AI
Parasail announced a $32 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to $42 million, led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures. The funding will expand its AI Supercloud—a global GPU‑aggregated platform that automates inference optimization and lets developers launch custom AI models...
What Does AI Actually Mean for My Kid?
The article advises parents to view AI as a tool that amplifies learning rather than a replacement for their children. It emphasizes cultivating critical thinking, curiosity, and human empathy—skills machines can’t replicate. Practical strategies include using AI together to fact‑check,...
UK Businesses Must Face up to AI Threat, Says Government
The UK government warned that frontier AI models, exemplified by Anthropic’s Mythos, can autonomously discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, a capability that is doubling every four months. Business Secretary Liz Kendall said these models shift cyber threats from a few...
Smartwage Raises €2M to Scale AI-Driven Corporate Welfare Platform
Smartwage, an AI‑driven corporate welfare startup, closed a €2 million pre‑seed round led by Step Fund. The funding, roughly $2.2 million, will be used to expand platform architecture, security, and AI models. The platform lets employees spend welfare credits across any provider,...
Leadership 2.0: 9 New Ways to Harness the Power of AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping executive leadership through nine practical applications, from data‑driven decision‑making to predictive scenario planning. AI tools such as analytics dashboards, chatbots, and sentiment‑analysis engines give leaders real‑time insights and automate routine tasks. The shift enables managers to...
Anthropic Flags Risks of Powerful “Mythos” AI Model in U.S. Government Briefing
Anthropic disclosed to the Trump administration that its unreleased Mythos model poses significant cybersecurity risks, prompting the company to withhold public deployment. The briefing comes amid a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, after the Pentagon branded Anthropic a...
NVIDIA Debuts AI Models for Quantum Computing
NVIDIA unveiled the Ising family of open AI models designed to tackle quantum computing’s toughest hurdles—error correction and system calibration. The models use neural‑network decoding for real‑time error correction and a vision‑language framework to slash calibration times from days to...
Develon Gets Smart with Series 9 Safety Solution
Develon has equipped its Series 9 crawler excavators, the DX230LC‑9 and DX260LC‑9, with an AI‑powered safety suite that includes an E‑Stop system and a Smart All‑Around Viewing Monitor (SAVM). The E‑Stop automatically halts the machine when a person enters a 4‑meter...
Abridge Incorporates More Clinical Evidence Into Its Decision Support Tools
Abridge announced multiyear partnerships with the New England Journal of Medicine and the JAMA Network, adding their peer‑reviewed research to its AI‑driven clinical decision‑support platform. The new content will join existing UpToDate data, allowing the system to surface evidence‑based answers...
AI Is the Best Friend of Shareholder Activists
KekstCNC’s new white paper shows large‑language‑model AI is reshaping shareholder‑activism communications. J.P. Morgan stopped using traditional proxy‑advisor subscriptions in January, opting for a proprietary AI engine to guide its voting decisions. The study of contested votes from 2023‑2025 finds AI more...
McKinsey: Wealth Management Is Victim of ‘SaaSpocalypse’
McKinsey’s latest report warns that the wealth‑management sector is undergoing a “SaaSpocalypse” after Altruist’s AI‑driven tax‑planning tool sparked a market sell‑off that erased more than $100 billion in equity value. The consultancy argues investors are now discounting future cash flows, fearing...
Why Anthropic and OpenAI Are Locking up Their Latest Models
Anthropic announced that its newest large‑language model, Mythos, will be offered only to a curated group of enterprise partners, starting with JPMorgan Chase. The company dubbed the invitation program “Project Glasswing,” and an Asian bank quickly secured a spot after a direct...
Biopharma Adopting AI Despite Remaining GMP Compliance Questions
Biopharma firms are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into manufacturing, but regulatory‑compliant use cases remain a hurdle. Thermo Fisher’s senior director emphasizes that AI should augment, not replace, validated processes and must operate within a clear GMP framework....
The Idea that the Internet Is Built for People Is Crumbling. That Has Huge Implications for Your Business
Companies have long built the web for human visitors, but a new wave of AI agents is changing that premise. Protocols such as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, Google’s Agent‑to‑Agent and Universal Commerce Protocol, and OpenAI’s Operator are creating a standardized...
Get Ahead of Cybersecurity Concerns With This Training Bundle for $20
Entrepreneur is promoting the 2026 AI Security & Cybersecurity Expert Bundle, a six‑course package from Oak Academy that delivers more than 85 hours of instruction on AI safety, penetration testing, and CompTIA exam prep. The bundle is priced at $19.97,...