News•Feb 25, 2026
Gemini Can Now Automate some Multi-Step Tasks on Android
Google unveiled new Gemini AI features for Android, including beta‑stage automations that can execute multi‑step tasks such as ordering rides or food delivery. The automations initially support select food, grocery and rideshare apps and are limited to the Gemini app on Pixel 10/10 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S26 devices in the United States and South Korea. Google also expanded its on‑device scam detection to block fraudulent calls and texts on Samsung phones, and upgraded Circle‑to‑Search to recognize every item on a screen. These updates deepen AI integration across Android’s core experience.
By TechCrunch AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
Let Gemini Handle Your Multi-Step Daily Tasks on Android.
Google is previewing Gemini’s new beta feature that lets Android users delegate multi-step daily tasks to the AI. The functionality, rolling out on Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S26 devices, will initially support food, grocery and rideshare apps in the United...
By Google Analytics Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
A More Intelligent Android on Samsung Galaxy S26
Google is embedding its Gemini AI into Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S26 series, debuting new features that automate everyday tasks, enhance visual search, and protect against phone scams. A beta version lets users delegate rides, meals and grocery orders by long‑pressing...
By Google Analytics Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
Why Wall Street Panicked over a Sci-Fi Blog Post
Wall Street’s recent tumble was triggered by a speculative memo from Citrini Research that painted a dystopian AI future where productivity booms coexist with massive white‑collar job loss and collapsing consumer demand. The Substack‑style piece, framed as a 2028 science‑fiction...
By Vox – Money
News•Feb 25, 2026
Why AI May Cause a Lot of Ad Tech Companies to Duck and Cover
At the 12th Kochava Summit, the company unveiled its AI‑driven Atlas Performance platform, aiming to merge measurement with media buying. CEO Charles Manning predicts AI agents will replace much of the ad‑tech middleware, triggering consolidation and a shift toward IO‑level...
By Kochava Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
Meta’s AI Sending ‘Junk’ Tips to DoJ, US Child Abuse Investigators Say
Meta’s AI‑driven child‑abuse detection is flooding US ICAC task forces with low‑quality tips, doubling the volume from 2024 to 2025. Law‑enforcement officials describe many reports as “junk” because they lack essential evidence such as images or context. The surge follows...
By The Guardian AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
OpenAI COO Says Ads Will Be ‘an Iterative Process’
OpenAI has begun serving advertisements to users on its free and Go ChatGPT tiers, initially rolling them out to U.S. customers. COO Brad Lightcap described the rollout as an iterative process that must prioritize user privacy and trust. The company...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
ZaiNar Emerges From Stealth With $100M Funding
ZaiNar has emerged from nine years of stealth with a Physical AI platform that transforms any wireless network into a continuous, low‑power sensing system, eliminating the need for satellites, cameras, or dedicated beacons. The technology provides precise, real‑time location data...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 25, 2026
How AI Is Transforming Dermatology Care in Austin
Artificial intelligence is now embedded in Austin dermatology clinics, where AI‑driven imaging tools assist physicians in diagnosing skin lesions, classifying conditions, and tracking treatment progress. Studies show deep‑learning models can match dermatologist accuracy for skin‑cancer detection, offering a secondary safety...
By Healthcare Guys
News•Feb 25, 2026
ViVE 2026: Change Management Is Key in Clinical Adoption of AI
At ViVE 2026, Tampa General Hospital highlighted that change management, not technology, is the primary barrier to clinical AI adoption among nurses. The hospital detailed its partnership with Microsoft to deploy an AI assistant that automatically populates custom nursing flow...
By HealthTech Magazine
News•Feb 25, 2026
DHS Wants More than Biometrics in US-EU Data Sharing Agreement
The United States and the European Union are negotiating the Enhanced Border Security Partnership (EBSP), which would grant visa‑free travel to EU citizens in exchange for access to European biometric databases. The latest draft does not explicitly prohibit the use...
By Biometric Update
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI + Work: Understanding AI's Impact on the Labor Market
Leading research institutions—Yale's Budget Lab, Brookings' Hamilton Project, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics—are convening a virtual event to dissect AI's influence on employment. The discussion will spotlight the most informative data sources, from real‑time job postings to wage...
By Peterson Institute (PIIE) – Updates (all content)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Nithin Mohan — Why AI Breakthroughs Depend on Supercomputing Discipline
HPE’s AI and supercomputing leader Nithin Mohan argues that enterprise AI is now limited by infrastructure rather than algorithms. He highlights how exascale computing, high‑speed data movement, and system reliability are essential to move AI from demos to production. The conversation...
By AI Time Journal
News•Feb 25, 2026
NXT BLD 2026: A Decade of Looking Around Corners
NXT BLD celebrates its ten‑year anniversary with a two‑day conference in London on May 13‑14, 2026. The event brings together AEC leaders, Lenovo, and hundreds of professionals to explore AI‑driven transformations, from agentic BIM to design automation. Tracks cover engineering...
By AEC Magazine
News•Feb 25, 2026
Is Perplexity's New Computer a Safer Version of OpenClaw? How It Works
Perplexity unveiled Computer, a multi‑agent orchestration platform that combines more than a dozen cutting‑edge AI models into a single digital worker. The system, currently limited to Perplexity Max users, uses Claude Opus 4.6 for core reasoning and delegates specialized tasks...
By ZDNet
News•Feb 25, 2026
Anthropic Launches Enterprise Agents Program to Accelerate Workplace Adoption of Agentic AI
Anthropic announced an Enterprise Agents program aimed at embedding agentic AI into corporate workflows. The offering extends the Claude Cowork platform with pre‑built agents, a plug‑in framework, and a private software marketplace that provides controlled data flows and centralized admin controls....
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
SPS Commerce Introduces MAX, Embedded AI for Supply Chain Workflows
SPS Commerce has launched MAX, an AI‑driven set of capabilities embedded in its supply‑chain network that currently operates in an advisory mode, surfacing anomalies and recommending actions within existing EDI workflows. The system is designed to improve supplier compliance, order...
By ERP Today
News•Feb 25, 2026
Why 2026 Must Be Agriculture’s Physical AI Tipping Point
Physical AI proved its viability on farms in 2025, prompting industry leaders to view autonomous tractors as the next consumer‑electronics breakthrough. The article argues that 2026 is the decisive year to move from prototypes to large‑scale deployment, driven by rising...
By PrecisionAg
News•Feb 25, 2026
Autonomy and Accountability in Bioprocessing
Artificial intelligence is transitioning from offline analysis to active laboratory roles, yet bioprocess engineering faces unique biological and regulatory hurdles. A recent review advocates hybrid laboratories that blend AI‑driven automation for core tasks with human oversight for auxiliary processes. High‑throughput...
By GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Klaviyo Partners with Google
Klaviyo, a B2C CRM provider, announced a partnership with Google to deliver AI‑driven, autonomous customer experiences across the entire commerce lifecycle. The collaboration merges Google’s search, advertising, AI and messaging capabilities with Klaviyo’s real‑time data platform, which processes 3.4 billion daily...
By destinationCRM (CRM Magazine)
News•Feb 25, 2026
New Ways to Create and Refine Content in Flow
Google Flow has rolled out a major upgrade that folds its image‑generation experiments Whisk and ImageFX directly into the platform, while embedding the Nano Banana model for instant high‑fidelity image‑to‑video conversion. The redesign adds a flexible asset grid with Collections, drag‑and‑drop...
By Google Analytics Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
5 Business Technology Trends Leaders Can’t Ignore in 2026
In 2026 business technology shifts from experimentation to measurable outcomes, with AI at the core. Agentic AI evolves from chatbots to autonomous workflow agents, while robotics‑as‑a‑service makes physical automation accessible to midsize firms. Small, task‑specific language models replace large models...
By Entrepreneur
News•Feb 25, 2026
NationGraph Raises $18M in Series A Funding
NationGraph, an AI-native intelligence platform helping businesses win government contracts, announced an $18 million Series A round. The financing was led by Menlo Ventures and included Perplexity’s Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, Reach Capital, and several angels. The capital brings the company’s total...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 25, 2026
Patientdesk AI Raises $1M Pre-Seed Backed by Y Combinator to Modernize Dental Front Desks
Patientdesk AI, a Y Combinator W26 startup, secured a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Y Combinator and E2VC to build an AI‑powered front‑desk system for dental practices. The platform automates the entire patient intake flow—answering calls, qualifying prospects, scheduling appointments,...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
Rafay Joins VAST Cosmos to Enable Governed GPU-Powered AI Services
Rafay has joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a Technology Partner, aligning its AI‑native cloud control plane with VAST Data’s AI Operating System. The collaboration integrates Rafay’s orchestration platform with VAST’s governed storage services, creating a unified, multi‑tenant AI service...
By Rafay – Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
2D Memristors Could Help Solve AI's Energy Problem
A new review in Nanoenergy Advances highlights how atomically thin, graphene‑like memristors can store information directly in their molecular lattice, offering fast, dense, and energy‑efficient switching. The paper details how graphene oxide, diamane, and layered chalcogenides achieve controllable resistance changes...
By Phys.org – Nanotechnology
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI Threat Signals Investors Should Shift Bets to Builders — Not Coders, UBS Wealth CIO Says
Ubis Wealth Management’s CIO Ulrike Hoffmann‑Burchardi warns that artificial intelligence is eroding the moat of software‑centric businesses. She argues that AI‑driven automation will compress margins for firms reliant on code, while physical‑world operators—miners, power producers and industrial manufacturers—stand to gain...
By Advisor Perspectives
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI-Powered CVE Research: Winning the Race Against Emerging Vulnerabilities
Praetorian unveiled its AI‑driven CVE Researcher pipeline, automating the end‑to‑end analysis of new vulnerabilities from CISA’s KEV catalog. The system ingests a CVE ID and outputs research reports, technology reconnaissance, asset correlation, and validated Nuclei detection templates within minutes. Reported...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 25, 2026
What Is an MCP? Unlocking the Power of Connected AI
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents across revenue tools share context in real time, similar to USB for hardware. By acting as servers or clients, platforms like Outreach can provide or request data instantly,...
By Outreach
News•Feb 25, 2026
April Launches New Platform for Wealth Management
April has introduced an AI‑driven tax platform aimed at wealth managers and financial advisors, usable as a standalone solution or embedded within existing systems. The platform delivers a real‑time dashboard that surfaces client tax workflows, documents, and financial insights, while...
By Accounting Today
News•Feb 25, 2026
Guidde Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Guidde, an Israeli AI‑driven digital adoption platform, announced a $50 million Series B round. The financing was led by PSG Equity and included strategic investors monday.com, Norwest, Entrée Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures. The capital will accelerate the company’s global rollout...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 25, 2026
The Grey Area of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is rapidly infiltrating Canadian universities, from exam proctoring to campus services, but legal and privacy safeguards have lagged. In February 2024, Ontario’s privacy commissioner ruled that McMaster University violated student privacy by using Respondus AI to analyze exam...
By University Affairs (Canada)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Digi International Launches MCP Server to Power AI Driven Workflows for Digi Remote Manager and Genesis Users
Digi International announced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Digi Remote Manager and Genesis platforms, allowing seamless integration of large‑language‑model AI tools such as Claude. The server provides natural‑language querying, automated workflow generation, and context‑aware troubleshooting for large...
By Manufacturing Tomorrow
News•Feb 25, 2026
Seekr and Wyvern Partner to Launch AI-Driven Hyperspectral Reasoning Engine
Seekr announced the launch of SeekrGeo, an AI‑driven geospatial reasoning engine that fuses hyperspectral, SAR and optical satellite data. The platform is powered by a Remote Sensing Foundation Model and Vision‑Language Models, enabling autonomous chemical, moisture and mineral detection. A...
By SatNews
News•Feb 25, 2026
Rowspace Raises $50M in Seed and Series A Funding
Rowspace, a San Francisco‑New York AI platform for institutional financial data, announced a combined $50 million raise across seed and Series A rounds. The Series A was co‑led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital, while the seed round was also led by Sequoia with...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 25, 2026
Bildup AI Expands Nationwide with New Cohort and AI Learning Centres in Enugu, Abuja and Lagos, Democratizing AI Education for...
Bildup AI, Nigeria’s leading AI education provider, announced a new nationwide cohort and the opening of AI Learning Centres in Enugu, Abuja and Lagos. The expansion is funded by a $400,000 oversubscribed angel round and offers hybrid online‑in‑person programs across...
By Techpoint Africa
News•Feb 25, 2026
Maintaining Compliance when Adopting AI in Regulated Industries
Regulated firms can integrate AI without sacrificing compliance by leveraging automated testing. Continuous validation mitigates risks from non‑deterministic model behavior, frequent updates, and limited explainability. The approach preserves audit‑readiness, traceability, and documented evidence across frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, and...
By SmartBear – Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
Sustainable All‐Inorganic Double Perovskite Memristors Enabling Synaptic Learning and Cognitive Emulation
Researchers have demonstrated lead‑free all‑inorganic double perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6 memristors that combine robust analog resistive switching with biologically relevant synaptic plasticity. The devices rely on reversible Ag⁺ ion migration to form filamentary conduction paths, as confirmed by impedance spectroscopy, c‑AFM, and...
By Small (Wiley)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Netskope NewEdge AI Fast Path Reduces Latency for Enterprise AI Workloads
Netskope introduced NewEdge AI Fast Path, a suite of network‑optimizing capabilities that route AI traffic through low‑latency, secure paths across public, private and neo‑cloud environments. The service cuts time‑to‑first‑token for conversational models, speeds up multi‑prompt agentic workflows, and enhances retrieval‑augmented...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 25, 2026
Cagent: Dockers Newest Low Code Agentic Platform
Docker unveiled Cagent, an open‑source, low‑code framework that lets developers launch AI agents using a single YAML file instead of extensive code. The platform integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Docker Model Runner to support multiple LLM providers and...
By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
News•Feb 25, 2026
Anthropic Clarifies How Claude Bots Crawl Sites and How to Block Them
Anthropic updated its crawler documentation, detailing three distinct user agents—ClaudeBot, Claude‑User, and Claude‑SearchBot—and their respective functions. ClaudeBot gathers public web content for training Anthropic’s generative AI models, Claude‑User retrieves pages in response to user queries, and Claude‑SearchBot indexes sites to...
By Search Engine Land
News•Feb 25, 2026
Cartwheel Claims AI Can Make 3D Animation Tasks as Much as 100x Faster
Cartwheel, a New York‑based AI animation platform, claims its technology can accelerate 3D animation workflows by up to 100 times. The startup was founded by former OpenAI researcher Andrew Carr and ex‑Google Creative Lab leader Jonathan Jarvis. Its tools are aimed at game...
By GamesBeat
News•Feb 25, 2026
Joule with SAP Signavio Solutions Is Now Generally Available
SAP announced that Joule, its generative‑AI platform, is now generally available integrated with SAP Signavio. The solution adds a natural‑language conversational layer to process models, allowing users to query owners, flow descriptions, and regional variations instantly. Joule orchestrates workflows across...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 25, 2026
MathWorks Joins EDGE AI Foundation
MathWorks announced its membership in the EDGE AI Foundation, a consortium dedicated to energy‑efficient artificial intelligence for edge devices. The partnership will let engineers leverage MATLAB and Simulink to train, integrate, and deploy AI models on embedded hardware while validating...
By Engineering.com
News•Feb 25, 2026
Veza Expands Platform with AI Access Agents for Enterprise Identity Governance
Veza announced the launch of Veza Access Agents, AI‑driven tools that automate identity and access governance for both human users and autonomous AI agents. The agents, built on AWS Bedrock, provide natural‑language interfaces for risk queries, permission visualizations, and AI‑assisted...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI Erodes Trust in Hiring as 40% of UK Employers Extend Probation Periods
Deel’s survey of 500 UK HR leaders shows AI‑generated applications are eroding trust in traditional hiring. Forty percent of employers have already extended probation periods, and 77 % say assessing authenticity before hire is harder. CVs and cover letters are now...
By Employer News (UK)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Helm.ai Driver Achieves Vision-Only Urban Autonomy, Unlocking Scalability From Level 2+ Through Level 4
Helm.ai unveiled a production‑ready, vision‑only software stack that can power advanced Level 2+ driver assistance today and scale to Level 3 and Level 4 urban autonomy without HD maps or lidar. The system relies on the company’s Factored Embodied AI architecture, separating perception...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Feb 25, 2026
Elly Debuts AI-Native Hiring Platform and Raises $8M
Elly launched an AI-native hiring platform and closed an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with Atomic and Next Wave Capital participating. The platform consolidates sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking into a single AI-driven system, automatically capturing interview insights...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 25, 2026
Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much
Tech CEOs, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, are baffled by a growing public backlash against AI, despite years of hype and massive investment. A 2025 Pew Research poll shows 60 % of Americans demand more personal control over...
By Futurism AI
News•Feb 25, 2026
If the Bot Lies, Who Pays?
A federal court in Georgia dismissed Mark Walters’ defamation lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the complaint lacked the required fault element. The ruling underscores that AI systems themselves cannot be liable for defamation because they lack intent and legal personhood. Liability...
By Talkers