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TomTom has entered a strategic partnership with engineering firm AECOM to embed TomTom’s high‑resolution mobility data into AECOM’s global planning workflows. The collaboration gives AECOM access to precise traffic, safety and congestion insights, enabling more accurate, data‑driven decisions for road networks and infrastructure projects. Both companies say the alliance will accelerate the delivery of safer, more efficient mobility solutions and support resilient infrastructure investments worldwide. The deal underscores the growing demand for real‑time mobility intelligence in smart‑city initiatives.
Graphwise unveiled GraphRAG, a low‑code AI workflow engine that replaces flat vector‑only retrieval with a knowledge‑graph‑backed semantic layer. The platform claims to cut hallucinations and boost answer accuracy from about 60 % to over 90 % by grounding large language models in...
Fleet Data Centers, the development arm of Tract, announced a $3.8 billion senior secured note issuance to fund a 230 MW data center campus in Reno, Nevada. The facility, built on a 252‑acre site, is 100 percent leased to an unnamed investment‑grade tenant...
Halma Plc, a FTSE 100 firm with roots in 19th‑century tea plantations, is benefiting from a surge in AI‑driven data‑center spending by hyperscalers. The company’s shares have climbed for eight consecutive sessions, reaching an all‑time high. Analysts at Barclays and JPMorgan...
Norwegian data‑center specialists Fossefall and Polar DC are unveiling new projects aimed at scaling AI‑focused, renewable‑powered facilities. Fossefall plans a data centre on the former Harpefoss childcare site, part of its ambition to reach 500 MW of clean AI infrastructure by 2030,...
Blackstone‑owned Link Logistics, through its affiliate B9 Union City Owner LLC, has filed a Developments of Regional Impact application to build a new data‑center campus called the Crossings outside Union City, Georgia. The 231‑acre site could host up to five...
South Korean cloud provider Okestro has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with data‑center developer DC Korea to construct a 5 MW facility at Okestro’s headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul. DC Korea will handle design and construction while Okestro will supply cloud‑orchestration services...
Telkom Indonesia is re‑engaging advisors to sell a majority stake in its data‑center subsidiary NeutraDC, targeting a valuation between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. The company previously explored a sale in 2022 and considered minority stakes in 2024, with Goldman Sachs and...
Solaris Energy Infrastructure announced a long‑term equipment‑rental agreement to provide more than 500 MW of power‑generation capacity to Hatchbo, an AI‑focused data‑center operator. The rental term begins on January 1 2027 and runs for ten years, with an option to extend for an...
NatWest Group CEO Paul Thwaite announced that the bank is shifting from basic chatbots to autonomous AI systems capable of executing complex banking workflows for customers. He expects many of the underlying components to be operational within the year. However,...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to bring its Helios AI data‑center blueprint to India. The collaboration aims to deploy up to 200 megawatts of AI‑infrastructure capacity, positioning AMD against Nvidia in the rapidly expanding...
Qatar is accelerating a sovereign cloud strategy to keep sensitive data under domestic law, leveraging its Personal Data Privacy Protection Law as a regulatory backbone. Deloitte’s Cloud Centre of Excellence in Lusail is driving the effort, having migrated over 3,000...
The European Commission has formally accused TikTok of designing its endless‑scroll feed to be addictive, especially for minors, and is treating this as a systemic risk under the Digital Services Act. The preliminary ruling targets infinite scroll, algorithmic recommendations and...
HoloMem, a UK startup, successfully ran its holographic tape system alongside traditional LTO drives inside a live LTO library, proving plug‑and‑play compatibility with existing data‑center hardware. The polymer‑ribbon cartridges are sized like standard LTO tapes and can store up to...
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The article walks through a production‑grade synthetic data pipeline that combines CTGAN with the SDV ecosystem, starting from raw mixed‑type tables and ending with model serialization. It demonstrates how to attach metadata, enforce numeric and categorical constraints, and perform conditional...
Akron Children’s Hospital leveraged its Epic EHR and real‑time analytics to dramatically cut waste anesthesia gases, a source of 5‑10% of its greenhouse‑gas emissions. By introducing low‑flow reminders in Epic and on anesthesia machines, the team achieved an initial 5%...
Best Buy is leveraging large language models to clean and enrich messy retail data, turning unstructured customer signals into actionable insights. The article stresses that LLM adoption must start with a clear business case rather than hype, especially for tasks like...
The Police Digital Service (PDS) has signed a six‑month, £600,000 contract with data‑analytics specialist Bays Consulting to pilot data‑driven planning for football match policing. The initiative seeks to replace traditional analogue risk‑assessment matrices with crowd‑modelling and predictive analytics, aiming for...
TV advertising is shifting from probabilistic to deterministic audience data. Recent studies show IP‑based identity links to the correct household only 13% of the time, undermining reach and measurement. Deterministic signals such as authenticated ISP or publisher subscriber data can...
Cloudera announced that its AI Inference and Data Warehouse with Trino are now available for on‑premises deployment. The AI Inference service leverages NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, Dynamo‑Triton server and NIM micro‑services to run LLMs, computer‑vision and other models inside customer data...
Cisco’s EMEA president Gordon Thomson told The Stack that British companies are less preoccupied with data‑sovereignty than their European counterparts. He noted that infrastructure autonomy has become a board‑level fear across the region, while AI localisation requirements are muddying the...
Amazon introduced Send to Alexa Plus, a new feature for Kindle Scribe and Scribe Colorsoft that lets users push handwritten notes or PDFs to Alexa’s AI assistant. Alexa can summarize content, generate to‑do lists, calendar events, reminders, and even draft...
Enterprises often excel at AI proofs‑of‑concept but stumble when scaling to production, where reliability, governance, and measurable ROI are mandatory. The guide outlines a seven‑step framework—starting with early success criteria, strengthening data pipelines, building cloud‑native infrastructure, adopting MLOps, enforcing governance,...
Software RAID vendor Xinnor unveiled xiNAS, an all‑flash NAS filer built on its xiRAID stack, XFS, and NFS over RDMA, targeting AI, HPC and data‑intensive workloads. In a Supermicro validation, a single node achieved up to 74.5 GB/s sequential read and...
The final India Leadership Talks episode highlighted how virtual‑twin technology and model‑based engineering are moving from promise to practice across manufacturing, infrastructure and life sciences. Leaders from Godrej, KPMG and IndianOil Adani Ventures described a shift from basic digitalisation to...
Smart TVs can monitor content played on HDMI‑connected devices using two methods: HDMI‑CEC metadata and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). ACR takes pixel‑level snapshots to fingerprint shows, movies, or games, while CEC logs device IDs and usage duration. The article outlines...
Mayo Clinic Platform’s Orchestrate tool has added new capabilities that deliver standardized, research‑ready cancer data. The upgrade leverages the OMOP Oncology common data model to transform unstructured inputs such as pathology reports and imaging into consistent tumor characteristics, biomarkers, and...
The 2026 Data Pipeline Design Playbook positions pipeline architecture as the decisive factor separating data‑driven firms from laggards. It outlines seven modern frameworks—including the kappa shift, ELT over ETL, medallion data lakes, microservice pipelines, and lambda balancing—to achieve real‑time consistency,...
Data engineering in 2026 is shifting from batch warehouses to real‑time, cloud‑native ecosystems that feed AI and generative models. Leaders like Informatica, lakeFS and Aerospike stress that active data, automated governance, and AI‑driven predictive scaling are essential to avoid bottlenecks....
The data‑center sector is racing to deliver gigawatt‑scale campuses amid soaring AI demand, tight labor markets, and long equipment lead times. Traditional on‑site construction cannot keep pace, prompting a shift toward factory‑first modular building. By standardizing designs and producing electrical,...
China’s leading semiconductor manufacturer SMIC warned that a rush to purchase AI chips is prompting companies to build a decade’s worth of data‑center capacity in just one or two years. CEO Zhao Haijun said the rapid build‑out is outpacing clear...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a new Digital Strategy for 2026‑2028 and refreshed its Data Strategy covering 2023‑2028. Both roadmaps aim to accelerate digital transformation, simplify supervisory reporting and harness data‑driven insights across the European System...
Teradata reported fourth‑quarter earnings of $0.74 per share, well above the $0.54 consensus, and revenue of $421 million, a 3% year‑over‑year increase. Recurring revenue now represents 87% of total sales, while public‑cloud annual recurring revenue jumped 15% to $701 million. The company...
Ant Group, the Jack Ma‑backed fintech giant, is shifting its growth engine from digital payments to artificial‑intelligence‑powered health care. After a stalled IPO five years ago, the company has become one of China’s largest investors in medical AI, funding platforms...
The MarkTechPost tutorial showcases how Einops can express complex tensor transformations for deep‑learning pipelines with concise, readable syntax. It walks through real‑world patterns such as vision patchification, multi‑head attention, and multimodal token packing, demonstrating each operation using rearrange, reduce, repeat,...
Researchers applied an AI model to LinkedIn photos of over 96,000 MBA graduates, extracting Big Five personality traits and showing they predict program rank, initial compensation, salary trajectory, and job transitions. The algorithm builds on a 2020 study that has...
Test Data Management (TDM) tools are becoming essential for QA and DevOps teams as CI/CD pipelines demand rapid, compliant data provisioning. In 2026, vendors such as K2view, Delphix, Datprof, IBM Optim, Informatica, and Broadcom lead the market, each emphasizing self‑service,...
Wesco International closed 2025 with record $23.5 billion in sales, an 8% increase year‑over‑year, and a 10% jump in Q4 revenue. The distributor invested more than $35 million in a unified data lake and AI‑driven tools to replace legacy systems across its...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp released a nearly hour‑long prerecorded video to address employee concerns about the company's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The discussion avoided detailed product disclosures, instead offering staff the option to sign nondisclosure agreements for...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.19 million in Phase II SBIR grants to eight small businesses across seven states. The funding supports research in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, semiconductor, quantum and other advanced technologies, with each award ranging...
European cloud provider OVHcloud unveiled its Bare Metal 2026 generation of dedicated servers, featuring AMD Ryzen and EPYC Zen 5 processors across four product lines. The Scale 2026 model scales to 384 cores, 3 TB DDR5 memory and up to 98 TB NVMe storage, while...
Servpac, a Hawaii‑based cloud and colocation provider, broke ground on a $13 million expansion at Mililani Technology Park that will double the IT capacity of its MTP Data Center. The project adds a 5‑acre, 150,000 sq ft site and aims to increase cabinet...
Precisely introduced StreetPro Discover, a dataset that converts complex street attributes into human‑readable text for large language models. The offering replaces cryptic codes with clear, searchable descriptions, enabling plain‑language queries across delivery, risk, and urban‑planning use cases. By delivering "Agentic‑Ready"...
The article presents an architecture that replaces manual ticket dispatch with a machine‑learning core and a real‑time workload scheduler. Historical ticket data is vectorized with TF‑IDF and classified via Logistic Regression to predict the best resolver. Availability is verified through...
Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...
BNP Paribas’s US credit strategist Meghan Robson projects hyperscalers will issue roughly $250 billion of debt in 2026, driven by a 16% jump in AI‑related capex and a shift toward more asset‑heavy business models. She warns that continued issuance will likely widen...
Researchers have created an octopus‑inspired hydrogel that acts as a programmable canvas, embedding data directly into its polymer structure during 3‑D printing. When the gel is heated or exposed to a solvent with a different polarity, it swells and alters...
Robo.ai Inc. and DaBoss.AI Inc. have signed a definitive joint‑venture agreement to create a distributed embodied‑intelligence data platform headquartered in the UAE. The venture will tackle data scale, acquisition cost and compliance challenges by deploying a dual‑engine methodology that blends...
Alibaba Tongyi Lab unveiled Zvec, an open‑source, in‑process vector database designed for edge and on‑device retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) workloads. Marketed as the “SQLite of vector databases,” it runs as a library inside the host application, eliminating the need for external...
Arbol and Pollen Systems, backed by Esri and Omniris, have launched a parametric insurance product that fuses AI‑driven risk models with real‑time satellite, drone and field data. The solution leverages Esri’s GIS platform to deliver location‑aware insights throughout the policy...
