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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 their infotainment systems. The rollout has been described as gradual and opaque, with no clear eligibility criteria disclosed by Google. Ongoing user polls and Reddit discussions highlight mixed reactions, ranging from enthusiasm to disappointment.
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...
How Much AI-Driven Productivity Growth Do We Want?
The article examines the surge in AI‑driven productivity since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut and asks how much growth societies should pursue. It highlights the dual nature of AI gains—higher incomes and living standards alongside potential economic shocks. The author argues that...
AMD, NAVER Cloud Expand AI Infrastructure Collaboration
AMD and South Korea’s NAVER Cloud announced a strategic partnership to build sovereign AI infrastructure in the country. The deal expands NAVER Cloud’s use of AMD’s upcoming 6th‑Gen EPYC “Venice” processors and next‑generation Instinct MI455X GPUs. Both firms will co‑optimize...
Deepfake X-Rays Are so Real Even Doctors Can’t Tell the Difference
A study published in Radiology reveals that both radiologists and leading multimodal large language models struggle to differentiate AI‑generated deepfake X‑rays from authentic scans. When unaware of synthetic images, radiologists detected only 41% of fakes; awareness boosted accuracy to 75%....
SenseTime Narrows Losses in 2025 as Generative AI Drives Growth
SenseTime reported 2025 revenue of RMB 5 billion ($724 million), up 32.9% year‑on‑year, driven largely by generative AI. The generative‑AI segment grew 51% to $521 million, accounting for 72.4% of total revenue. EBITDA turned positive in the second half, reaching $54.5 million, while the full‑year...
Why Karl Friston Is Betting on Cultivating Curiosity for Sustainable AGI
The ARC‑AGI‑3 challenge, launched today, is the first benchmark that forces AI systems to explore, hypothesize, and learn from uncertainty—tasks where current large language models score zero. Karl Friston, chief scientist at Canada’s VERSES AI, argues that active inference, a...
Manus AI Cleaned up My Computer—For a Price
Manus AI, a Meta‑owned desktop assistant, recently added the ability to manipulate local files on Windows and macOS. The author used it to clean and reorganize a cluttered Downloads folder, sort photos by event, and split a ripped jazz album...
Don't Want to Miss the Bloom? This L.A. Scientist Created a Poppy Forecast
Los Angeles biologist Steve Klosterman has launched an AI‑driven wildflower forecast for the Antelope Valley, using deep‑learning on satellite imagery and weather data to predict poppy and goldfield blooms up to five days ahead. The model scans 10‑meter squares, correlating...
Kuaishou Shares Fall as AI Spending Overshadows Solid Earnings
Kuaishou reported solid Q4 2025 results, with revenue rising 11.8% to $5.7 billion and adjusted net profit up 16.2% to $796.5 million. The company disclosed that 2026 AI‑related capital expenditure could reach $3.8 billion, about $1.6 billion more than the prior year, prompting a...
Microsoft Begins Validating NVIDIA AI Supercomputer, Signaling Hyperscaler Shift for ERP Workloads
Microsoft announced that Azure is now validating NVIDIA’s next‑generation AI supercomputer, the Vera Rubin NVL72, marking one of the first hyperscaler tests of this rack‑scale platform. The system, slated for a 2026 launch, promises lower cost‑per‑token for large‑scale model training...
Transforming EDI with AI: Smarter Document Management Through NLP
Comarch’s AI‑enhanced EDI platform leverages natural language processing, particularly named entity recognition, to automatically extract and standardize address, tax ID and other critical data from unstructured documents. The technology resolves common inconsistencies, improves customer matching, and speeds up document throughput....
AI Is Making Your Local Financial Institution More Human, Not Less
Community banks and credit unions are adopting artificial intelligence to streamline back‑office tasks, not replace staff. AI instantly gathers and verifies loan documents, cutting processing time from days to minutes while keeping human bankers in charge of relationship‑focused advice. The...
DNB and Two Partner to Bring AI-Powered Innovation to Nordic B2B Payments
DNB, Norway's largest bank, has teamed up with fintech firm Two to launch an AI‑driven platform for B2B payments across the Nordics. The collaboration will embed machine‑learning fraud detection, real‑time invoice reconciliation, and predictive cash‑flow insights into DNB's corporate banking...
Yallo TV Adds AI‑generated Video Previews with Media Distillery
Swiss telco yallo has upgraded its yallo TV streaming platform with AI‑generated video previews using Media Distillery’s Preview Distillery technology. The new auto‑generated 15‑20 second clips increase highlight availability by roughly 20%, adding about 200 multilingual previews each month without...
Zomato Cuts $11M in Support Costs with MongoDB Powered AI Platform
Zomato has reduced its annual customer support spend by $11 million, slashing costs 55% after deploying Nugget, an AI‑native CX platform built on MongoDB Atlas. Nugget automates high‑volume, omnichannel interactions, handling over 15 million conversations per month with an 85% autonomous resolution...
How Machines Absorb Cultural Heritage (And What Gets Lost in Translation)
Large language models trained on English‑centric data can generate flawless grammar in Central and Eastern European languages, yet they miss the cultural nuance that defines those tongues. Benchmarks of Hungarian riddles and trilingual red‑team tests reveal only about 48 % factual...
RPA Matters, but AI Changes How Automation Works
RPA remains a proven method for automating repetitive, rule‑driven tasks such as data entry and invoice processing. However, the rise of generative AI and large language models is pushing vendors toward “intelligent automation” that can handle unstructured inputs and adapt...
It Isn’t Just London Calling. Here Are the UK’s Most Investable Regions
The United Kingdom now boasts Europe’s only $1 trillion‑plus tech economy, ranking third globally behind the United States and China. Government initiatives such as the Modern Industrial Strategy and the AI Opportunities Action Plan have spurred an 80% jump in AI...