GAN Integrity Launches AI Analytics and Dashboards, Giving Compliance and Third-Party Risk Teams Real-Time Intelligence to Prove Program Effectiveness
GAN Integrity unveiled AI Analytics and Dashboards, adding a purpose‑built intelligence layer to its compliance and third‑party risk platform. The new tools turn raw risk data into instant, plain‑language answers and live visualizations, letting teams respond to board and regulator queries without IT assistance. Integrated with existing ERP and procurement systems, the solution pulls risk scores automatically to keep analytics current. This shift moves compliance reporting from static spreadsheets to real‑time, evidence‑based dashboards.
Adecco Group Taps Salesforce, Inc. (CRM) for Agentforce Following Nvidia Pact
Adecco Group announced a multi‑year agreement with Salesforce to obtain unlimited global access to the Agentforce 360 platform, allowing the staffing giant to scale agentic AI across its operations. The deal follows Salesforce’s recent partnership with Nvidia, which integrates Nvidia’s Nemotron...
Jliveo Introduces AI-Driven Platform for Global Wholesale and Cross-Border E-Commerce Operations
Jliveo, a veteran B2B e‑commerce solutions provider, has launched an AI‑driven platform that consolidates global wholesale sourcing, dropshipping, and fulfillment into a single system. The solution leverages artificial intelligence to automate content workflows, enable multilingual communication, and streamline supply‑chain operations...
Jona and Everlywell Partner to Launch AI-Powered Gut Microbiome Test
Jona, an AI‑driven gut microbiome startup, has teamed up with Everlywell to bring a high‑resolution microbiome test to the U.S. consumer market. The test employs deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing, delivering strain‑level data on bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. Jona’s proprietary...
UK Startup MINDLINK Launches Local AI That Executes Excel Tasks Without Formulas
UK startup MINDLINK TEC LTD launched Mica, an AI assistant that performs Excel operations through natural‑language commands, eliminating the need for formulas or VBA scripts. The tool runs locally on Windows, supporting Excel versions from 2007 to Microsoft 365, and...
International Data Center Day: Future Frontiers 2030-2070
International Data Center Day 2030 featured a global student competition where middle‑school teams built self‑sustaining tabletop data centers, integrating micro‑solar, wind, robotic operators and AI agents to manage power, cooling and workloads. The event highlighted emerging edge‑first architectures and real‑time...
Linear Moves Sideways to Agentic AI as CEO Declares Issue Tracking Dead
Linear introduced the Linear Agent, an AI‑driven assistant that can create and assign issues directly from chat in its web, mobile, and desktop apps, as well as via Slack, Teams and Zendesk integrations. The beta‑only feature is bundled with business...
ITRS Unveils Agentic AI Capabilities Built for Mission-Critical, Regulated IT Operations
ITRS introduced a suite of AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agents designed to accelerate root‑cause analysis, support tasks, and website monitoring for mission‑critical, regulated IT environments. The agents ingest live telemetry—metrics, events, logs, and traces—in real time and provide recommendations...
Best AI Stocks to Buy Now
Morningstar’s Global Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Index jumped 40.85% over the past year, highlighting strong AI sector momentum despite a recent “anything but AI” sell‑off. The index’s top constituents—Nvidia, Microsoft, TSMC, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, Alibaba, Tencent and Arista—are all rated...
AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve the Crisis?
AI‑driven data centers are encountering growing resistance from local communities over rising electricity costs, pollution, and especially water consumption. The surge in AI workloads is expanding data‑center footprints, intensifying demand for cooling water. Startup Atoco proposes atmospheric water harvesting that...
Legal Tech in 2026: 8 Key AI and Courtroom Developments Every Law Firm Should Know
Legal technology is reshaping the UK legal sector, backed by more than £1 billion (≈ $1.3 billion) in recent investment. AI‑driven evidence analysis, predictive litigation analytics, and fully digital courtrooms are now mainstream, with over half of firms employing AI for document review....
Meta Ray-Ban Rival Even Realities Brings Real-Time Conversation Coaching to Smart Glasses
Even Realities unveiled a major software upgrade for its Even G2 smart glasses, adding a real‑time conversation coaching feature called Conversate with Prep Notes. The new Prep Notes lets users upload briefing documents and receive contextual prompts, suggested answers and...
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Names First Chief AI and Innovation Officer
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has appointed Nathan Allen as its inaugural chief AI and innovation officer, marking a strategic move to embed artificial intelligence across its circular‑economy initiatives. Allen brings two decades of experience, including eight years leading sustainability efforts...
DT's AI Factory Brings in the Lawyers
Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud, branded as the AI Factory, is now powering Noxtua’s legal‑tech platform, offering a sovereign European environment for processing highly sensitive legal data. The partnership addresses concerns over the US CLOUD Act by keeping data under...
AI Humanoid Robots Will Soon Invade Our Economy. Jefferies Gives Stocks to Play the Coming Wave
Jefferies predicts a decade‑long boom in humanoid robots, driven by an aging workforce, shrinking interest in manufacturing jobs, and rapid AI‑semiconductor advances. The firm highlights five equities poised to benefit: Tesla, which is pivoting to humanoid production and retains a...
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Android Auto Users Still Say They Don’t Have Gemini — Do You? [Poll]
Google began rolling out its Gemini AI assistant for Android Auto in November 2025, promising real‑time voice queries and contextual navigation. Four months later, many users in the United States, Australia and other regions still report the feature missing from...
Noi Brings All Your Favorite AI Tools Together in One Desktop Interface - No More App Switching
Noi is a free, cross‑platform GUI that consolidates popular AI services such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity into a single desktop interface. The app adds multi‑window management, session isolation, prompt libraries, and a built‑in terminal that can connect to...
South Korea Says ‘AI Is No Longer a Choice’ as Agrifoodtech Funding Jumps 171%
South Korea unveiled the Agriculture and Rural Artificial Intelligence Transformation (AX) strategy, declaring AI essential for farm survival and competitiveness by 2026. The plan targets small‑ and mid‑size growers with shared machinery hubs, smart processing centers, and AI‑driven livestock grading....
ViewLift and MyOutdoorTV Launch Conversational AI Search to Transform Streaming Discovery for Outdoor Enthusiasts
ViewLift and MyOutdoorTV have introduced ViewLift Conversational AI Search, an AI‑powered natural‑language discovery tool for MOTV’s extensive hunting, fishing and adventure library. The feature, currently live on the web with TV‑voice support slated soon, leverages vector search and retrieval‑augmented generation...
Incinity Adds AI Assistant to Invipo Traffic Management Platform
Czech developer Incinity introduced an AI assistant for its Invipo traffic management platform, allowing operators to query live network data via natural language within the existing interface. Demonstrated at Intertraffic 2026 in Amsterdam, the tool delivers instant answers on location‑specific...
How to Be Ready for Whatever AI Becomes on Campus
Grand Canyon University has crafted an AI strategic plan that translates its long‑standing educational philosophy into concrete AI decisions, rather than chasing the latest tools. The plan rests on four pillars—operational efficiency, academic support, AI literacy, and security and integrity—each...
AI Ambitions at Risk as Only 14% of Enterprises Fully Realize Cloud Value, NTT DATA Study Finds
NTT DATA’s new study of 2,300 senior IT leaders reveals that only 14% of enterprises have reached the highest level of cloud maturity, despite nearly two decades of adoption. While 99% say AI is boosting demand for cloud services, 88%...
3 Time-Consuming Tasks AI Can Help Teachers Tackle
A recent article highlights how AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot can relieve teachers of three major time‑draining tasks: formatting documents, drafting lesson plans, and organizing digital resources. A 2025 Walton Family Foundation and Gallup study found...
Artlist Expands Its AI Platform with Professional-Grade AI Music for Video Production
Artlist has launched a new AI Music category, leveraging Google’s Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro audio models to let creators generate studio‑quality songs from simple text or up to ten image prompts. The service is embedded in Artlist’s AI Suite, Max, Max...
Clarivate Reveals the AI50 – the Organizations Leading Artificial Intelligence Invention
Clarivate has launched the AI50, a data‑driven benchmark that ranks the fifty organizations producing the strongest AI‑related patents, using its proprietary Derwent Strength Index. The list features familiar tech giants such as NVIDIA, Alphabet and Qualcomm alongside research labs and...
Tencent Cloud and CGTrader Forge Strategic Partnership to Drive Next‑Generation AI-Powered 3D Content Creation
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Tencent Cloud announced a strategic partnership with CGTrader, integrating its proprietary generative AI model, HY 3D Global, into CGTrader’s platform. The collaboration creates the first AI‑powered 3D creation workflow that transforms 2D reference images into...
Bland Launches Norm to Help Teams Build Production-Ready Voice Agents in Minutes
Bland Inc. introduced Norm, an AI‑powered assistant that lets technical teams create production‑ready voice agents from a simple conversational prompt in minutes. The platform automates prompt generation, persona design, API integration (e.g., Cal.com) and multi‑channel deployment, eliminating the need for...
Wyndham And Goop Are Using AI To Scale Creative And Avoid Burnout
Wyndham and lifestyle brand Goop have partnered with Adora, an AI‑driven performance‑marketing platform, to automate creative generation and real‑time ad optimization. The system produced over 90 ad variants for Wyndham, tailoring imagery and messaging to 15 audience segments and boosting...
Bank of America Gives Merrill Lynch an AI Makeover
Bank of America is deploying AI‑driven tools integrated with Salesforce and Zoom to all 25,000 Merrill Lynch advisors and 4,800 private bankers. The suite automates meeting preparation, real‑time summarization, follow‑up tasks and daily planning, shrinking prep time from roughly 45 minutes...
This AI Stock Picker Helps Busy Entrepreneurs Invest Smarter
Sterling Stock Picker is an AI‑driven investment app that leverages OpenAI’s technology to generate personalized stock recommendations for entrepreneurs. Its proprietary North Star Rating System classifies stocks as buy, sell, hold, or avoid, while highlighting "stock rockets"—companies posting over 50%...
Cortex Code Updates: Faster AI Data Engineering on Snowflake
Snowflake announced a major upgrade to its Cortex Code AI coding agent, making it generally available inside Snowsight and adding native Windows support for the CLI. The update introduces Agent Teams, a coordination layer that lets multiple sub‑agents work in...
Swedish Noru Attracts Nordic and Global Investors for AI Compliance Platform
Swedish startup Noru announced a €553.9K (~$600K) pre‑seed round led by Ampli Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz a16z Seed Fund, SSE Business Lab and several Nordic operators. The company’s AI‑native “agentic compliance” platform embeds regulatory processes directly into developer...
Drivetrain Analyzer Onsite: Siemens Introduces New AI Powered on Premises Analytics for Industrial Drives
Siemens has launched Drivetrain Analyzer Onsite (DTA Onsite), an AI‑powered analytics suite that runs entirely on a plant’s own industrial PC. The first module, DTA Onsite – Monitoring, captures high‑resolution, PTP‑synchronized vibration and analog data to provide continuous condition monitoring of mechanical and electrical...
Ethical Implications of Using AI in Hiring
AI-driven hiring tools promise efficiency but risk embedding human biases into recruitment decisions. The article explains how cognitive biases translate into algorithmic bias when historical data reflects discrimination, and why removing explicit protected attributes is insufficient. It highlights the EU...
OpenAI Expands Bug Bounty to Cover AI Abuse and 'Safety' Concerns
OpenAI announced a Safety Bug Bounty program on March 26, hosted on Bugcrowd, to solicit disclosures of AI abuse and safety risks beyond traditional security flaws. The initiative complements its existing Security Bug Bounty, which has already rewarded 409 vulnerabilities since...
Hexagon Launches APOLLO for Metrology Asset Monitoring
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence unveiled APOLLO, an AI‑driven platform that provides real‑time predictive condition monitoring for coordinate measuring machines and machine tools. The system can detect anomalies up to 90 days before failure, allowing maintenance during planned downtime and boosting overall...
EchoData and R. Michael Anderson Announce Strategic Partnership to Drive AI Leadership Transformation in Saudi Arabia
EchoData and leadership expert R. Michael Anderson have formed a strategic partnership to deliver AI leadership, governance, and transformation programs across Saudi Arabia in line with Vision 2030. The collaboration designates EchoData as the exclusive ground‑level partner responsible for client...
The Next Phase of AI for Nigerian Businesses: From Experimentation to Operational Advantage
Nigerian businesses are rapidly embracing AI, with 88% of adults using chatbots and the market projected to grow to $4.64 billion by 2030 at a 27% CAGR. Most firms remain in a pilot phase, treating AI like isolated tools rather than...
Watershed Launches AI-Powered Sustainability Reporting Tools
Watershed unveiled AI‑powered sustainability reporting tools that expand its platform to manage all ESG data, including custom metrics, and introduce a flexible report builder. The new suite features pre‑populated data fields, stale‑data alerts, and an AI advisor that drafts reports,...
Quarantining Risk: How Public Health Is Scaling AI without Exposing Sensitive Data
Public health agencies are turning to cloud‑native scientific computing to run massive genomics and epidemiological models without compromising patient privacy. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) standardized its fragmented pandemic‑era infrastructure by adopting Red Hat OpenShift on Azure and integrating Nvidia...
Mission to Smuggle $170 Million Worth of AI Tech to China Collapsed for Three Men
In October 2023, Tommy Shad English posed as a Thailand‑based buyer and ordered 750 servers—valued at roughly $170 million and containing 600 export‑controlled AI chips—intended for China. After paying over $20 million, the scheme unraveled when the chip maker could not verify...
Creator of AI Actor Tilly Norwood Says She Received Death Threats over Project
Eline van der Velden, founder of Particle 6 and its AI arm Xicoia, disclosed that she has been receiving death threats after the launch of her AI‑generated actor Tilly Norwood. The digital performer, which amassed 141,000 Instagram followers, sparked immediate condemnation from...
Bain & Company Announces Expansion of Lead Global Management Consulting Partnership with Palantir to Bring World Industry-Leading AI Transformation Capabilities...
Bain & Company announced an expanded partnership with Palantir, deepening their collaboration to deliver enterprise AI transformation services. The deal adds Palantir’s AIP and Foundry platforms to Bain’s consulting toolkit, enabling end‑to‑end AI use‑case delivery. Over 1,500 Bain AI, data...
AI Adoption Rates Aren’t Matching IT Hype
Auvik’s 2026 IT Trends Report shows a stark contrast between enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and actual usage in IT operations. While 70% of respondents are optimistic about AI’s impact and frontline staff crave automation, only 5% report daily AI integration....
EToro Introduces Agent Portfolios
eToro announced the beta launch of Agent Portfolios, a feature that lets users attach their own AI trading agents to a dedicated sub‑portfolio. The product requires a minimum funding of $200 and provides a scoped API key that isolates the...