Tripo AI Introduces H3.1, Advancing High-Fidelity AI 3D Generation for Production
Tripo AI unveiled H3.1, a high‑fidelity image‑to‑3D model that delivers sharper geometry, richer textures, and faster generation for production‑grade assets. The launch pairs H3.1 with Smart Mesh P1.0, a low‑poly diffusion model that creates engine‑ready meshes in as little as two seconds. Together they form a dual‑track strategy covering both detail‑focused and speed‑focused workflows. Tripo’s platform now supports over 6.5 million creators, 90 000 developers, and nearly 100 million generated models.
ZeroEyes Launches ZeroLink to Deliver AI Gun Detection and Situational Awareness Anytime, Anywhere
ZeroEyes announced ZeroLink, an off‑network AI gun‑detection solution that can be installed on any digital camera, from light poles to vehicles. The system leverages Lanner’s Edge AI inference computers to analyze video locally and transmit alerts through the ZeroEyes Operations...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Made a Bold AGI Proclamation, But Other Tech Leaders Aren’t So Sure
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced on the Lex Fridman podcast that he believes artificial general intelligence (AGI) has already been achieved, at least in a narrow, high‑value output sense. He illustrated the claim with a thought experiment about an AI‑driven...
ClearCompany Rebrands as ClearCo, Signaling Its Evolution Into an AI- and Agent-Powered Unified Talent Platform
ClearCo, formerly ClearCompany, announced a rebrand to emphasize its evolution into an AI‑ and agent‑powered unified talent platform. The new identity signals a shift from a recruiting‑only tool to a full‑life‑cycle solution that connects hiring, onboarding, performance, compensation and analytics....
Velaura AI Reveals Chip Design and IP Platform with 2X Less Power Consumption | Exclusive
Velaura AI, formerly Auradine, unveiled Titan Core, a new silicon design and IP platform aimed at dramatically improving power efficiency for AI accelerators. The company claims the technology can cut overall chip power consumption by up to 50%, translating to roughly...
Conductor Introduces AEO Trailblazer Awards, Recognizing Enterprise Brands Leading in AI Search Visibility
Conductor launched its inaugural AEO Trailblazer Awards, honoring enterprise brands such as Airbnb, EY, Mastercard, Sonos and Merck for operationalizing Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to secure AI‑generated search visibility. The awards highlight a market shift from isolated SEO experiments to...
Social9 Launches Brand Voice AI as Research Shows 52% of Consumers Concerned About Generic AI Content
Social9 unveiled Brand Voice AI, a platform that trains custom artificial‑intelligence models on each brand’s existing content to generate social posts that retain a unique tone across 11 networks and more than 50 languages. The launch follows research showing 52%...
Inside DOE’s Genesis Mission to Power AI-Driven Science
The Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission is creating an integrated ecosystem that ties together supercomputers, artificial‑intelligence platforms and emerging quantum technologies across its 17 national laboratories. Argonne National Laboratory, leveraging its multidisciplinary CELS Directorate, is positioned to accelerate discovery through...
Optibrium Introduces Graphical Interface for QuanSA to Enhance Ligand-Based Affinity Predictions
Optibrium has released a new PyMOL plugin that adds a graphical user interface to its QuanSA ligand‑based affinity prediction tool. QuanSA uses physically‑motivated machine learning to deliver free‑energy perturbation‑level accuracy without needing a protein structure, dramatically lowering computational cost. The...
The AI Safety Conversation Is Focused on the Wrong Layer
Enterprises are grappling with fragmented identity systems that were designed for human users, but AI agents operate at machine speed, exposing critical security gaps. Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, argues that the real problem is the lack of a unified...
Vonage and ServiceNow Expand Their Partnership
Vonage, now part of Ericsson, launched a native integration of its Contact Center with ServiceNow Voice, embedding enterprise‑grade voice and AI directly into ServiceNow Customer Service Management and IT Service Management workflows. The integration enables real‑time transcription, automatic incident categorization,...
Flexzo AI Closes $12M in Funding to Scale Agentic Workforce Platform for Healthcare Systems
Flexzo AI secured $12 million in Series A funding, led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Fuel Ventures, to expand its agentic AI workforce platform for healthcare. The UK‑based startup uses machine‑learning to match clinicians to open shifts, automate allocation, and cut...
I Stopped Paying for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Separately — This App Accesses All of Them for Less
The author stopped paying separate premium plans for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, which together cost roughly $60 a month, and switched to Fluent, an app that aggregates AI models via API keys. Fluent lets users tap into OpenAI, Anthropic, Google,...
Immuta Introduces the First Data Provisioning Platform for Managing Agentic Data Access
Immuta unveiled the first data provisioning platform designed to manage AI agent access, treating agents as distinct identities with attributes, intent, and audit trails. The Agentic Data Access feature grants just‑in‑time, temporary roles on cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake,...
Build Apps Your Way: Base44 Now in ChatGPT
Base44 has launched its AI‑powered app inside ChatGPT using OpenAI’s Apps SDK and the company’s Model Context Protocol. The integration lets users describe a desired software solution in natural language and receive a production‑ready application—including databases, authentication and deployment—within minutes....
ChatGPT’s Ad Test Is Really a Test of Trust
ChatGPT’s emerging ad experiment tests the platform’s trust foundation, as users rely on the model for personal decisions ranging from purchases to health advice. OpenAI says ads will be clearly labeled, visually separate, and will not influence the model’s answers...
Why a Secure Industrial Supply Chain Depends on Layered AI
Industrial supply chains are increasingly exposed to AI‑driven cyber threats that bypass traditional perimeter defenses. Vendors, OT devices, and cloud services now intersect, creating a unified attack surface where a single compromised credential can cascade across production, logistics, and revenue...
News: AI-Native Security Assurance Leads the GRC Transformation
TrustCloud unveiled an AI‑native Security Assurance Platform that replaces legacy GRC tools with continuous, automated risk monitoring. The solution delivers live control signals, connected data and AI‑driven automation, giving CISOs real‑time visibility and credible reporting. Early adopters report up to...
KnowBe4 Expands AIDA to Eight AI Agents at RSAC 2026, Targeting Fully Autonomous Human Risk Management
KnowBe4 unveiled an expanded AIDA suite with eight AI agents at RSAC 2026, including the fully autonomous AIDA Orchestration Agent that creates and manages personalized training and phishing simulations. The Orchestration Agent reportedly cuts users’ risk scores by nearly threefold versus...
Utimaco Survey: 78% of US Companies Say Data Breaches Are the Top GenAI Risk, But Most Haven’t Acted
Utimaco’s 2026 Digital Trust Report, based on a 250‑company survey, finds that 78% of U.S. enterprises view data breaches as the greatest generative AI risk, while 57% have yet to deploy any safeguards. Intellectual‑property theft ranks a close second, and...
Bing Webmaster Tools Now Links AI Queries to Cited Pages
Microsoft has enhanced Bing Webmaster Tools with a Grounding Query‑Page Mapping feature in its AI Performance report, linking AI‑driven queries directly to the URLs cited in responses. Users can now click a query to see all cited pages and click...
U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion AI Battlefield Tech Contract
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a 10‑year, firm‑fixed‑price IDIQ contract worth up to $20 billion, consolidating more than 120 prior agreements into a single procurement vehicle. The deal centers on Anduril’s open‑architecture Lattice software, which fuses data from drones, radars,...
Who Owns the Ip of that Agent? Alexia Cambon, Senior Director of Research Microsoft
Microsoft senior director of research Alexia Cambon appeared on the Irish Tech News podcast recorded at the Microsoft AI Summit in Dublin. She discussed her career, the evolving role of AI in the workplace, and Microsoft’s Copilot and "writing for...
HaystackID CoreFlex Wins 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for Advancing GenAI-Driven Legal Workflows
HaystackID announced that its CoreFlex platform has won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award from the Business Intelligence Group, recognizing its generative‑AI‑driven legal and investigative workflows. CoreFlex provides a cloud‑native interface that consolidates matter management, data ingestion, reporting and automation,...
Divide Between Silicon Valley and Ordinary People Grows Ever Larger
Nvidia’s latest conference highlighted AI agents as the next growth engine, with CEO Jensen Huang projecting $1 trillion in sales by 2028 – roughly 3% of U.S. GDP. A recent poll shows 65% of Americans still do not use AI at work,...
EU AI Act Compliance Guide for CISOs & GRC Leaders | Kovrr
The European Union’s AI Act, set to become enforceable on August 2, 2026, imposes a risk‑based regulatory framework on any organization that develops, deploys, or offers AI within the EU market. It distinguishes unacceptable, high‑risk, limited‑risk and minimal‑risk systems, with high‑risk AI...
Augury and MaintainX Partner to Deliver Closed-Loop Maintenance Execution for Frontline Teams
Augury and MaintainX announced an integration that turns Augury’s AI‑driven machine‑health insights into real‑time work orders within the MaintainX platform. The closed‑loop system automatically creates work orders when anomalies are detected, includes diagnostic context, and feeds completion data back to...
Vigil: The First Open-Source AI SOC Built with a LLM-Native Architecture
Vigil, launched at RSA Conference 2026, is the first open‑source AI‑driven Security Operations Center built on a native LLM architecture. It ships under an Apache 2.0 license with 13 specialized AI agents, more than 30 integrations and over 7,200 detection rules...
OpenAI Wants UK Regulators to Treat ChatGPT as a Google Search Alternative
OpenAI is urging the UK Competition and Markets Authority to list ChatGPT alongside Google on the CMA’s proposed "choice screens" for Android and Chrome users. The regulator previously designated Google as a strategic market player in search and is considering...
How a Large Bank Uses AI Digital Twins for Threat Hunting
JPMorgan Chase is deploying an AI‑driven system that creates digital fingerprints and digital twins to monitor employee and AI‑agent behavior across its global workforce. The technology flags anomalous actions, rates their malicious potential, and contextualizes them against external events, aiming...
Agile Robots and Google DeepMind Partner to Bring Intelligence to Robotics
Agile Robots and Google DeepMind have announced a strategic research partnership to embed DeepMind's Gemini Robotics foundation models into Agile's scalable industrial hardware. The collaboration will create adaptable, reasoning robots for high‑value manufacturing tasks, leveraging a data‑driven feedback loop that...
Developer Krambu Looks to Build AI Data Center in Missoula County, Montana
Krambu is seeking approval to build an AI‑focused data center on the former Bonner Mill Industrial Park in Missoula County, Montana. The design features a closed‑loop heat‑capture system that can power aquaponics, hydroponics or greenhouse operations, and it plans to...
How AI Agents Are Cutting Costs in AML Operations
AI agents are transforming AML operations by automating the labor‑intensive alert review and decisioning stages, where most costs reside. WorkFusion’s Evan can analyze adverse media results in two to three minutes, cutting review time by 80‑90% compared with human analysts....
North Korea’s Risky Bet on Military AI
North Korea announced at the Workers’ Party Congress that it will embed artificial intelligence across all branches of the Korean People’s Army, aiming to accelerate decision‑making and improve unmanned systems. The plan faces major hurdles, including severe GPU shortages, limited...
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AI Gender Bias: Taking Women Off the Back Foot
Artificial intelligence is increasingly exposing gender bias that disadvantages women in hiring, finance, healthcare, and public safety. The bias originates from historical, skewed data and algorithms that amplify those patterns. Africa’s relatively late AI adoption gives the continent a rare...
Novee Introduces Autonomous AI Red Teaming to Hunt LLM Vulnerabilities
Novee unveiled an autonomous AI red‑team agent designed to probe large language model (LLM) applications for security flaws. The platform continuously simulates sophisticated attack scenarios such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data exfiltration, delivering detailed vulnerability assessments and remediation guidance....
How AI Shook the World's Largest Meeting of Physicists
At the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Denver, 14,000 physicists convened to share cutting‑edge research. Throughout the conference, attendees increasingly turned to AI chatbots to translate complex concepts such as transmon qubits and spintronics into plain language. The...
Gap Launches AI-Powered Fit and Conversational Checkout on Google Gemini
Gap Inc. has launched two AI-driven features—a personalized fit recommendation tool and a conversational checkout—through a partnership with Google Gemini, making it the first major fashion retailer to embed the AI platform directly into its shopping experience. The new system...
With $90M in Funding, NoTraffic Will Use AI to End Gridlock in America’s Cities
Mobility startup NoTraffic raised $90 million in a Series C round led by PSG Equity to expand its AI‑driven traffic‑management platform. The system replaces fixed‑timer lights with a real‑time digital network that uses computer‑vision and radar to detect and classify all road...
F5 and Forcepoint Partner to Secure AI Across Data and Runtime Lifecycle
F5 and Forcepoint announced a partnership to secure AI throughout its data and runtime lifecycle. The joint solution merges Forcepoint’s AI‑native data discovery and classification with F5’s AI Red Team and Guardrails features. It enables real‑time vulnerability detection, policy enforcement,...
Exclusive: HG Insights Expands Revenue Growth Intelligence Platform with Agentic Capabilities
HG Insights unveiled its Revenue Growth Intelligence Platform, a unified AI‑driven system that consolidates technographic, buyer‑intent, spend and contact data into a single analytical fabric. The launch includes an early‑access Agent Builder, enabling enterprises to craft custom autonomous AI agents...
How to Master Multi-Source Intelligence with AI Agents
Swimlane’s Hero AI Threat Intelligence Agent tackles the long‑standing threat‑intelligence correlation problem by automatically aggregating data from multiple feeds—VirusTotal, Recorded Future, Cisco Umbrella, and others—and synthesizing a single, explainable assessment. The agent applies a reasoning engine that weighs source reliability,...
AITech Interview with Bobby Samuels, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Protege
Protege, founded by AI veteran Bobby Samuels, tackles the growing data bottleneck that hampers large‑model development by creating a marketplace for ethically licensed, high‑quality proprietary datasets. The platform links data owners—from hospitals to media firms—with AI developers, offering privacy‑by‑design pipelines...
Viz.ai and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Partner to Launch AI Care Pathway for Cardiac Amyloidosis
Viz.ai and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have teamed up to launch an AI‑driven care pathway targeting cardiac amyloidosis, a frequently underdiagnosed heart disease. The solution embeds the FDA‑cleared Us2.ai echocardiography algorithm and generative AI into hospital IT systems to automatically detect subtle...
Snapchat Adds AI Clips for Lens Studio so You Can Put Yourself on the Red Carpet
Snapchat has introduced AI Clips in Lens Studio, a new format that turns a single Snap or Camera Roll photo into a five‑second cinematic video based on a text prompt. The AI‑powered tool lets creators place users in settings ranging...
Snapchat’s New ‘AI Clips’ Lens Format Turns Photos Into Five-Second Videos
Snapchat has introduced AI Clips, a new Lens format that converts a single user photo into a five‑second video. The feature, built into Lens Studio, is a closed‑prompt AI video tool available only to Lens+ subscribers, who pay $8.99 per...
Study: Driver Assistance Systems Increase Distraction, ‘False Sense of Security’
A new study cited by Electrek finds that advanced driver‑assistance systems, including Tesla’s Full Self‑Driving (FSD) mode, can create a “supervision trap” that distracts drivers and gives a false sense of security. The research, referencing data from the Insurance Institute...
Civil Servants Should Be More Involved in Shaping AI Adoption, Report Says
A Fabian Society report, produced with the FDA union, warns that civil servants are being left out of AI adoption decisions, jeopardising the government’s productivity agenda. Only 29% of surveyed staff said they had been consulted on AI, while 66%...
Leica Biosystems Launches Aperio GT Elite Scanner, Aperio iQC Software
Leica Biosystems, a Danaher company, launched the Aperio GT Elite digital pathology scanner in the U.S., paired with Aperio iQC software featuring AI‑driven rescan capabilities. The scanner can process up to 103 slides per hour, scanning a slide in as...