Glovo CTO Shiro Theuri Is a Guardian for Benefiting From AI
Glovo’s chief technology officer, Shiro Theuri, is steering the Barcelona‑based delivery platform through a rapid AI integration across its engineering teams. She reports high AI penetration, leading to faster, higher‑quality code while instituting responsible‑AI guardrails and human‑in‑the‑loop reviews. Theuri also highlights the firm’s focus on nurturing junior talent in Barcelona and tapping senior expertise from Africa and other markets. Experiments with AI‑powered conversational ordering and drone delivery illustrate Glovo’s broader push to reshape consumer experience.
First Innovate for Ireland National Centre Launched – ‘Decarb-AI’
Today Ireland unveiled its first Innovate for Ireland national centre, Decarb‑AI, a €5.7 million (≈$6.2 million) initiative partnered with AIB and Research Ireland to accelerate AI‑driven climate resilience. The centre will host 30 international iScholars across three intakes, each pursuing fully funded...
6 Types of AI Content Moderation and How They Work
AI-powered content moderation is reshaping how platforms manage user‑generated material, moving from manual review to a blend of automated and human processes. Six moderation models—pre‑moderation, post‑moderation, reactive, distributed, user‑only, and hybrid—define where and how AI intervenes, from blocking offensive posts...
M&S Rolls Out AI Tools to 11,000 Colleagues Including All Store Managers
Marks & Spencer is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 11,000 employees, including every store manager, as part of a broader digital transformation. The AI suite will automate routine tasks such as sales insight compilation, meeting‑note summarisation, shift‑roster creation and...
Shane Heraty to Spearhead Cisco’s AI Infrastructure Push in MEA–TRC
Cisco has named Shane Heraty as Vice President and General Manager for its Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania and CIS region, effective May 1. Heraty will drive Cisco’s AI infrastructure, security and workplace modernization strategy across a market of over 1.5 billion...
Elemica Expands AI-Driven Capabilities to Transform Customer Onboarding and Order Orchestration
Elemica announced expanded AI-driven capabilities across its supply‑chain execution platform, adding agentic AI to its Launchpad onboarding service and new self‑service onboarding tools. The technology enables companies to onboard customers and order formats without heavy IT or data‑science involvement, reducing...
Akamai Launches AI Grid Intelligent Orchestration
Akamai announced the first global‑scale implementation of Nvidia’s AI Grid, deploying thousands of RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs across its 4,400‑node edge network. The AI Grid adds an intelligent orchestrator that routes inference requests to the optimal compute tier, slashing...
Nota AI and SiMa.ai Partner on Edge Physical AI
Nota AI and SiMa.ai have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate physical AI at the edge, combining Nota AI's NetsPresso model‑compression SDK with SiMa.ai's high‑performance Modalix MLSoC and Palette SDK. The collaboration will jointly develop and commercialize on‑device AI solutions,...
CoreWeave's CEO Says Being 'Nerdy' Helped It Pivot From Crypto Into a $43 Billion AI Company
CoreWeave pivoted from a crypto‑mining operation to an AI‑focused GPU provider, now valued at $43.6 billion. CEO Michael Intrator credits the company’s "nerdy" background for its deep GPU expertise that enabled a rapid shift after the 2022 ChatGPT surge. Growth is...
Anthropic Trims Action Approval Loop, Lets Claude Code Make the Call
Anthropic introduced Auto mode for Claude Code, allowing the AI to approve routine file writes and shell commands without constant user confirmation. The feature, initially limited to Team plans and requiring admin enablement, runs on the latest Claude Sonnet 4.6...
Explainer: Why AI Is Breaking Enterprise Virtualization
Enterprise AI workloads demand bare‑metal performance, high‑density compute, and ultra‑low latency, exposing the performance penalties of traditional hypervisor architectures. Legacy virtualization adds overhead that becomes a bottleneck at AI scale and complicates management across fragmented toolchains. A licensing shock with...
A Startup Lawyer Vibe-Coded an AI Version of Himself
Synthesia's general counsel Gabe Stern created an AI avatar lawyer, Willow, using the company's low‑code video platform and a custom OpenAI ChatGPT model in about two weeks. The avatar can greet prospects, answer routine contract questions and guide users through...
Check Point Launches AI Defense Plane to Secure the Agentic Enterprise at Scale
Check Point unveiled its AI Defense Plane, a unified security control layer that safeguards the emerging agentic enterprise. The platform extends protection beyond model safety to runtime governance of AI applications, employee tools, and autonomous agents. Built on the company’s...
Globe CEO Carl Cruz Champions AI‑Enabled Customer Innovation and Organizational Transformation at MWC 2026
Globe Telecom’s CEO Carl Cruz announced the company’s AI‑driven transformation at MWC 2026, highlighting its appointment of the Philippines’ first Chief AI Officer and the launch of an AI Innovation Hub aligned with the GSMA Responsible AI Maturity Roadmap. The firm...
NVIDIA AI Introduces PivotRL: A New AI Framework Achieving High Agentic Accuracy With 4x Fewer Rollout Turns Efficiently
NVIDIA researchers unveiled PivotRL, a new framework that blends the data efficiency of supervised fine‑tuning with the generalization strength of end‑to‑end reinforcement learning for long‑horizon agentic tasks. By filtering high‑variance “pivot” turns and employing functional rewards, the method focuses compute...
ChartHop Launches AI Pro
ChartHop unveiled AI Pro, a premium suite that adds autonomous, conversational‑driven workflow automation to its people‑operations platform. The new offering introduces "Agentic Actions," allowing HR and finance teams to create dashboards, schedule meetings, audit records, and trigger approvals using natural‑language...
Codenotary Introduces AgentX for Autonomous Linux Infrastructure Security
Codenotary unveiled AgentX, an autonomous platform that uses coordinated AI agents to manage, secure, and protect large‑scale Linux infrastructure across cloud and on‑premises environments. The solution automates configuration reviews, policy enforcement, and remediation while preserving full administrator control through zero‑trust...
Denvr Signs Two Defence Deals to Deepen Sovereign AI Push in Canada
Denvr, a Calgary AI‑infrastructure firm, signed two defence deals with Ottawa‑based Dominion Dynamics and Sapper Labs to embed its sovereign Canada AI Platform (CAIP) into drone simulation and AI‑enabled intelligence/cyber‑defence for the Canadian Armed Forces. Dominion will use CAIP to...
Lenovo ThinkEdge SE100 Review: An Ultra-Compact Edge Server that Pushes AI Power to the Edge
Lenovo’s new ThinkEdge SE100 is an ultra‑compact edge server—about 85% smaller than a standard 1U rack—designed for AI inferencing at the network edge. It ships with 16‑core Intel Core Ultra 7 255H or Ultra 5 225H CPUs, integrated Intel Arc GPU, AI Boost NPU,...
BMLL, Tradefeedr Partner on Analytics for Equities and Futures Data
BMLL and Tradefeedr announced a partnership to create an AI‑ready analytics layer for equities and futures trading data, leveraging BMLL’s harmonised historical order‑book datasets. The collaboration will extend Tradefeedr’s existing FX analytics APIs to cover multi‑asset execution data, delivered through...
5 AI Projects Every Solo Business Owner Should Try
Solo entrepreneurs can move beyond using AI as a search engine by creating dedicated project workspaces that embed detailed business context. These workspaces let AI tools like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT reference attached files and focus on specific tasks such...
ChatGPT Moment for Humanoid Robots 2 to 10 Years Away, Say Chinese Tech Leaders
Chinese tech leaders at the Boao Forum warned that a "ChatGPT moment" for humanoid robots—where they become as ubiquitous as smartphones—could arrive anywhere from two years to a decade. They cited reliability, affordable training data, and physical durability as the...
Saviynt Unveils Identity Security for AI Agents
Saviynt launched Saviynt Identity Security for AI, a platform that extends enterprise‑grade identity controls to autonomous AI agents. The solution addresses a reported 91% of enterprises facing blind risk from unmanaged agents by delivering continuous discovery, lifecycle governance, and real‑time...
Hitachi Rail Is Leveraging AI for Railway Operations and Maintenance
Hitachi Rail announced at NVIDIA’s GTC conference its AI‑driven HMAX for Rail platform, which fuses data from trains, signalling and infrastructure using edge computing on NVIDIA IGX Thor. The suite enables automated onboard functions, predictive maintenance and energy‑consumption reduction, aiming to...
Designing Water‐smart AI Datacentres in GCC and MENA
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the world’s most water‑stressed region, yet it aims to become a global AI hub. Analysts forecast GCC hyperscale datacenters could consume 426 billion litres of water annually by 2030, dwarfing the already limited...
If We Can ‘Vibe Work’, Why Can’t We Vibe Learn?
The article introduces "vibe learning," an AI‑driven, build‑first approach that mirrors the emerging "vibe working" model. Instead of lengthy preparation, employees start with a concrete project and let AI fill gaps, explain concepts, and provide feedback in real time. This...
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Flexible GPU Billing Models for AI Clouds: Powering the AI Factory with Rafay
Rafay announced the addition of a reservation‑based billing model to its GPU‑cloud platform, complementing existing on‑demand and monthly recurring charge options. The new feature guarantees customers access to a specified number of GPUs—such as 16 NVIDIA H200 units—for a fixed...
Kubernetes Makes GPUs First-Class: Advances in Allocation, Scheduling, and Isolation
At KubeCon Europe 2026 NVIDIA donated its Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) driver, saw the KAI scheduler graduate to a CNCF Sandbox project, and added GPU support to Kata Containers. These moves turn GPUs into first‑class, community‑owned resources in Kubernetes, enabling...
Mikko Lavanti on How Nokia Charts the Path to the AI-Native Future
At Mobile World Congress 2026, Nokia unveiled its first agentic AI‑powered network slicing demo, drawing more than 150 visiting teams. The company outlined a rollout plan that moves from pilots to live operator trials for 5G‑Advanced slicing, bundled with its...
Shoptalk Vegas Day 1: Gap, Sephora and Wayfair Discuss Retail in the Age of AI
The 2026 Shoptalk Spring conference in Las Vegas highlighted AI as the central driver of retail transformation. Sephora unveiled a dedicated ChatGPT app to deliver conversational, personalized shopping experiences. Gap announced a partnership with Bold Metrics to use AI for...
Acumatica Targets Supply Chain Volatility With AI Workflows, Shop Floor Precision
Acumatica unveiled its 2026 R1 release, adding AI Studio—a no‑code framework for building AI‑driven workflows—alongside a Shop Floor Kiosk and enhanced omnichannel commerce tools. The upgrades target manufacturers, distributors and retailers coping with volatile demand and fragmented supply chains. Market...
Tech Update: Renaissance Unveils AI Upgrade to Its Member Platform
Renaissance, an independent agency network, launched a major AI‑enabled upgrade to its member platform, branding it the only fully integrated AI ecosystem for independent agencies. The redesign unifies data, workflows, carrier partnerships and growth services into a single, role‑based interface...
Amity’s US$100M Raise Signals Southeast Asia’s AI Coming of Age
Thai AI group Amity announced a $100 million Series D round, the biggest generative‑AI raise in Southeast Asia, bringing its total capital to about $160 million. The funding backs a revenue run‑rate that has topped $100 million, driven largely by European operations, and fuels...
Trump’s New Science Panel Is Stuffed with High-Tech Billionaires
President Donald Trump announced a new President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) dominated by high‑tech billionaires and AI specialists, naming 13 members with only one academic scientist. The roster includes Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Lisa...
HR Perspectives by Shikha Saxena: “The Real Challenge with AI Adoption Is Not Technology—It Is Perception”
Shikha Saxena argues that the biggest obstacle to AI adoption in healthcare HR is employee perception, not the technology itself. She emphasizes hiring for learning agility, curiosity and resilience rather than static technical skills, and stresses that well‑being is a...
Marketers Shift Growing Shares of Search Spending to GEO
Marketers are reallocating a growing share of search spend toward generative engine optimization (GEO) as AI reshapes how users discover brands. A Scribewise survey shows 55% of U.S. marketers now budget for GEO, with 70% assigning 11%‑20% of their search...
Australia’s New Military AI Policy Comes at a Crucial Time. The Challenge Is Turning It Into Practice
Australia’s Department of Defence has issued a new policy governing the use of artificial intelligence across all military functions, from chatbots to advanced general‑purpose models. The framework sets three core requirements: compliance with Australian law and international obligations, human accountability...
OpenAI Drops Sora AI Video Tool, Ends Planned $1 Billion Disney Deal
OpenAI announced it is shutting down Sora, its AI‑powered video generation tool, effectively terminating a planned three‑year, $1 billion partnership with The Walt Disney Company. The deal, which would have given Disney access to Sora and allowed OpenAI to tap Disney’s...
Gap Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Tools to Enhance Online Shopping
Gap Inc. announced AI‑driven enhancements for its online stores, adding Bold Metrics’ Agent Sizing Protocol for personalized fit guidance and supporting Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol to enable conversational purchases. The tools aim to eliminate sizing uncertainty, a key barrier to apparel e‑commerce, by delivering...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Makes AI Effortless – for Work and Play
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, embedding four AI agents—Galaxy AI, Bixby, Google Gemini, and Perplexity—to automate tasks across apps and streamline work and leisure. The Ultra model features a Snapdragon Elite Gen 5 processor delivering a 39% AI performance boost,...
Agentic AI and the Future of Threat Intelligence Operations - Sachin Jade - RSAC26 #2
At RSA 2026, Cyware’s Chief Product Officer Sachin Jade unveiled the company’s Agentic Fabric, an AI‑driven platform that embeds specialized agents into threat‑intelligence, detection‑engineering, and response workflows. The discussion highlighted how raw threat data can be transformed into actionable insights through STIX/TAXII...
How A Small Rural Hospital Is Using AI to Catch Heart Disease Sooner
Wayne General Hospital in rural Mississippi has adopted Eko Health’s AI‑powered digital stethoscope, allowing clinicians to detect cardiac conditions such as atrial fibrillation, low ejection fraction and valvular disease in real time. The AI engine combines auscultation with ECG data...
With $3.5B in Fresh Capital, Kleiner Perkins Is Going All in on AI
Kleiner Perkins announced a $3.5 billion capital raise, split between a $1 billion early‑stage fund and a $2.5 billion growth vehicle. The infusion follows successful AI bets in startups such as Together AI, Harvey and OpenEvidence, and recent exits from Figma’s IPO and Windsurf’s...
Half of Clients Think AI Can Replace Solicitors
Half of UK law‑firm clients believe AI could replace a solicitor for routine matters, with 36 % confident AI can handle such tasks and another 14 % thinking it could manage most issues. Yet 46 % maintain that a qualified solicitor must always...
How Healthcare Teams Use Amplitude AI with Confidence & Safety
Amplitude has introduced its Global Agent AI, an analytics assistant that operates on the same governed data healthcare teams already use. The AI analyzes events, funnels, and cohorts, delivering natural‑language insights while respecting existing role‑based access controls and avoiding exposure...
Autonomous Cyberattacks Have Arrived, Defense Executives Say
Black‑hat groups have fully automated cyber‑attack capabilities using frontier AI models, a shift that outpaces current defense architectures, according to executives at the RSA Conference. These models can identify and weaponize unpatched software flaws, with a new wave expected within...
Australia: AI and Satellite Tech Boost Bushfire Management
Australia is deploying a multi‑layered satellite network that fuses geostationary and polar‑orbiting assets with onboard processing to slash fire‑detection latency. Artificial‑intelligence models are being trained to recognise heat signatures, smoke and vegetation‑specific patterns, while also generating predictive spread simulations. The...
Thailand: AI, Digital Innovation Enhance Equitable Welfare
Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deploy artificial intelligence and digital tools for vulnerable populations. The National Science and Technology Development Agency...
An Open Training Set For AI Goes Global
The French startup Pleias has expanded its Common Corpus, an open‑source multilingual training dataset, to over 2.267 trillion tokens. The collection now covers more than 30 languages, with eight languages exceeding 10 billion tokens each, and includes government, scientific, cultural, web, and...