Adobe’s New Firefly AI Assistant Wants to Run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and More From One Prompt
Adobe unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, an agentic tool that lets creators run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Creative Cloud apps from a single natural‑language prompt. The assistant can call on roughly 100 built‑in tools, outputting native PSD, AI and PRPROJ files while learning user preferences over time. Adobe also introduced new video models from China’s Kling 3.0, a Premiere Pro Color Mode, and Frame.io Drive, which streams cloud media as if it were stored locally. The assistant enters public beta soon, with pricing tied to existing Adobe subscriptions and generative credits.
Traza Raises $2.1 Million Led by Base10 to Automate Procurement Workflows with AI
Traza, a New York‑based startup, closed a $2.1 million pre‑seed round led by Base10 to launch AI agents that autonomously handle procurement tasks such as vendor outreach, RFQ generation, order tracking, and invoice processing. Targeting the $8 billion procurement‑software market, the company...
CenterSeat Promotes Saurav Mishra to Chief Technology Officer
CenterSeat, an AI‑driven physical security compliance platform, announced the promotion of founding engineer Saurav Mishra to Chief Technology Officer. Mishra will now direct the company’s technology strategy, product architecture, and engineering execution as the firm scales its compliance solution. He...
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 to Support Agent‑first Enterprise Workflows
Salesforce unveiled Headless 360, a platform that consolidates its Agentforce Vibes coding environment, data, and governance tools into an API‑first layer for building agent‑first enterprise workflows. The offering exposes Salesforce’s core datasets, business logic, and MCP utilities through APIs, CLI...
Infinity Nikki and Love and Deepspace Dev: "AI Lacks the Soul to Replace Human Creators"
Infold Games CTO Ji Zhang told IGN Japan at GDC that AI, while useful, lacks the soul to replace human creators in game development. He warned that the current surge in RAM prices could make next‑generation hardware prohibitively expensive, but...
Addepar Opens Singapore Hub to Accelerate AI‑Powered Wealth Management in APAC
Addepar announced the launch of a new office in Singapore, designating the city‑state as its Asia‑Pacific hub. The move follows a 130% rise in regional clients over two years and backs the company’s $9 trillion asset platform with local R&D and...
Sygaldry Secures $139 Million to Build Quantum‑Accelerated AI Data‑Center Servers
Quantum‑startup Sygaldry announced a $139 million funding round, led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, to create servers that blend quantum processors with classical chips for AI workloads. The capital will fund a roadmap targeting commercial deployment by the end of the decade,...
Salesforce Maps 10-Executive Team to Lead AI Overhaul Under CEO Benioff
Salesforce disclosed a new 10‑member executive team reporting directly to CEO Marc Benioff as the company accelerates AI integration. The re‑org, unveiled with the fiscal year start on Feb. 1, replaces five departing leaders and adds fresh talent to oversee AI...
Inside Revolut's PRAGMA: The Foundation Model Trained on 40 Billion Banking Events 🧠
Revolut has unveiled PRAGMA, a transformer‑style foundation model pre‑trained on roughly 40 billion banking events covering 25 million users in 111 countries. The single shared backbone delivers dramatic gains—up to 130 % lift in credit‑scoring PR‑AUC and 64.7 % improvement in fraud recall—while also...
Europe Builds Its First “Kill-Switch Proof” Cloud Recovery Stack
At the European Data Summit, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud and StorPool unveiled Europe’s first fully sovereign disaster‑recovery stack, designed to protect organisations from foreign‑vendor kill‑switches and other catastrophic events. The solution bundles storage, compute, orchestration and security components into a...
AI Accelerates Strategy Execution to Near-Real-Time
2025: “Strategy” *Takes weeks to ship a new page* Uses ChatGPT to “do research” “I don’t have enough time.” “That’s too hard. I’m going to need more headcount.” 2026: Strategy and execution Ships a new page in an afternoon and continually optimizes it Uses Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, to...
Curity Looks to Reinvent IAM with Runtime Authorization for AI Agents
Curity, a Swedish IAM vendor, launched Access Intelligence, a runtime authorization layer for AI agents. The solution extends its Identity Server with Token Intelligence, issuing purpose‑bound OAuth tokens for each agent action. Unlike static IAM, it grants permissions on‑the‑fly and...
Korean AI Chip Startup DEEPX, Hyundai Work on Robots Powered by Generative AI
Korean AI‑chip startup DEEPX is deepening its partnership with Hyundai Motor Group to supply its second‑generation DX‑M2 neural processing units for generative‑AI‑powered robots. The chips, built on Samsung’s cutting‑edge 2‑nanometer process, promise dramatically lower power draw—up to 20 times more efficient...
Lido Advisors Appoints Ruben Lusinyants as CTO to Scale $42B Wealth Platform
Lido Advisors announced the appointment of Ruben Lusinyants as Chief Technology Officer. The veteran fintech executive will steer technology strategy for the firm’s $42 billion regulatory assets under management and its 45‑office national footprint, aiming to deliver a scalable, cloud‑first wealth...
Rippling Appoints Sonia Parandekar as SVP of Engineering to Double India Staff
Rippling, the $16.8 billion workforce‑management platform, announced Sonia Parandekar as senior vice president of engineering and head of its Bengaluru hub. The move is part of a plan to double the India team to 2,000 employees within three years and accelerate...
Exclusive: Intel Tells Staff It Will Disclose Scope Of Work With Elon Musk In ‘Coming Weeks’
Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan told employees that the company will soon reveal the scope of its partnership with Elon Musk’s ambitious "Terafab" chip‑fab project. The memo describes the alliance with SpaceX, xAI and Tesla as a strategic move to supply...
Why Cloud Innovation Slows in Reactive Operating Models
Enterprises that once gained advantage by moving to the cloud now find that the real differentiator is how they operate those environments. As hybrid and multicloud architectures grow, many firms remain stuck in reactive, ticket‑driven models that increase costs, slow...
Make Your Azure Data Platform AI-Ready
Enterprises accelerating AI on Microsoft Azure are finding that the real obstacle is not model sophistication but fragmented data foundations. A unified, well‑governed data layer is essential for moving AI from experimentation to production at scale. Azure’s suite—spanning Synapse, Data...
From AI Experimentation to Operational Impact: What Leaders Need to Get Right
Enterprises are discovering that promising AI pilots often falter when shifted from controlled experiments to real‑world production. Leaders like HCLTech’s Piyush Saxena warn that many organizations still measure outputs—such as generated summaries—rather than business outcomes like cost savings or revenue...
Fintel Alliance Starts Planning Its Next-Gen Analytics Hub
Australia’s Fintel Alliance – a coalition of banks, regulators, police and gambling operators – is redesigning its collaborative analytics hub (CAH) to handle larger, real‑time financial‑crime monitoring. The existing hub, first deployed in 2024, proved its concept by uncovering hidden...
Bank of America Tech Chief Shares AI Strategy Focus
Bank of America is scaling its artificial‑intelligence program from isolated pilots to enterprise‑wide process transformation. The bank has earmarked 30% of its $13.5 billion technology budget for AI, and more than 90% of its 213,000 staff now use the Erica virtual...
Spring Creator Wants Java’s Type System to Tame Agentic AI
Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, unveiled Embabel, an Apache‑licensed agentic AI framework for the JVM, at Microsoft’s JDConf. Built on Spring Boot and written in Kotlin, Embabel leverages Java’s strong type system and GOAP planning to deliver deterministic,...
Neuralink Shifts to Speech‑Focused Brain‑Computer Interface Trials, Raising Viability Questions
Neuralink announced new speech‑restoration clinical trials at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, moving away from its long‑standing motor‑cursor interface. The pivot follows criticism that its original brain‑computer interface (BCI) strategy lags behind competitors...
Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a Cheaper and Faster AI Image Model
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower‑cost, higher‑speed variant of its flagship text‑to‑image model. The new model costs $5 per million input tokens and $19.50 per million output tokens, a 41% price cut, and runs 22% faster with four‑times GPU efficiency. It...
Databricks Tested a Stronger Model Against Its Multi-Step Agent on Hybrid Queries. The Stronger Model Still Lost by 21%.
Databricks’ research shows its multi-step Supervisor Agent beats single‑turn retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) models on hybrid queries, delivering 20%‑plus gains on the STaRK benchmark and a 21% advantage on academic tasks even when using a stronger foundation model. The study attributes...
Cloudflare Launches Mesh to Secure the AI Agent Lifecycle
Cloudflare announced Mesh, a private networking solution built for AI agents that unifies agents, humans, and multicloud infrastructure into a single secure fabric. The service replaces legacy VPNs and manual tunnels, letting developers provision private connectivity in minutes while keeping...
Nvidia Unveils Ising AI Models for Quantum Error Correction and Calibration
Nvidia announced Ising, the first open‑source AI model family designed for quantum computing calibration and error correction. The suite includes two 3‑D convolutional neural network models—one optimized for speed, the other for accuracy—delivering up to 2.5× faster processing and three...
How Intuit Plans to Ride Out the ‘SaaS-Pocalypse’
Intuit’s CTO Alex Balazs says the company is reshaping its model to survive the so‑called “SaaS‑pocalypse.” By embedding QuickBooks and TurboTax services into Anthropic’s Claude Cowork and OpenAI marketplaces, Intuit aims to become a backend for AI‑driven agents. The firm...
Later Appoints Tech Veteran Mohsin Hussain as CTO to Accelerate AI Development
Later, the influencer‑marketing platform, appointed Mohsin Hussain—formerly CTO of LiveRamp and veteran of Criteo and AOL—as its new chief technology officer. Hussain will spearhead the development of Later EdgeAI, a predictive‑intelligence engine built on the company’s extensive creator dataset. The...
Citibank Launches AI-Driven Wealth Tool, Sparking Privacy and Compliance Debate
Citibank has introduced an AI‑powered advisory feature for its wealth‑management customers, offering real‑time portfolio insights and automated note‑taking. The rollout has triggered immediate scrutiny from regulators and privacy advocates over data usage, model transparency and compliance risks. The bank says...
43% of AI-Generated Code Changes Need Debugging in Production, Survey Finds
A Lightrun survey of 200 senior SRE and DevOps leaders finds that 43% of AI‑generated code changes still require manual debugging in production, even after QA and staging. Engineers are spending roughly 38% of their work week—about two full days—on...
Wolseley's CTO on Oracle Fusion and AI - Start with the Easy 80%, and Bring up the Bottom Third
Wolseley Group, the UK’s largest specialist trade merchant with roughly $3.2 billion in annual revenue, is modernising its 700‑branch network using Oracle Fusion SCM. After eight years on Oracle Cloud for finance and recent supply‑chain upgrades, the company will pilot a...
Samsung Networks CEO and Orange CTO Warn Against Premature 6G Spending
At Mobile World Congress, Samsung Networks chief Woojune Kim told reporters he does not expect a 6G investment surge, while Orange’s chief technology officer warned that the industry’s obsession with the next "G" is premature. Both executives argue that telcos...
OpenAI Memo Calls for Enterprise Platform Push, Flags Microsoft Cloud Limits
OpenAI’s chief revenue officer Denise Dresser circulated an internal memo urging the company to double‑down on an integrated enterprise platform, citing rising nine‑figure deals and fierce rivalry with Anthropic. The memo also warns that the long‑standing Microsoft cloud partnership limits...
Nissan Sets AI-Defined Vehicle Roadmap, Targets 90% Lineup by 2027
Nissan announced its new "Mobility Intelligence for Everyday Life" strategy, committing to embed AI-driven safety and autonomous capabilities in 90% of its future lineup. The plan includes a partnership with Wayve to launch an autonomous‑feature‑rich Elgrand van by the end...
The Hyperscalers Are Pricing Themselves Out of AI Workloads
Large cloud providers are losing AI customers as neoclouds and private alternatives offer comparable GPU performance at a fraction of the cost. Recent data shows NVIDIA H100 compute runs about $2.01 per hour on Spheron versus $6.88 on AWS, a...
One Engineer + AI Agents Replace Seven-Person Teams
Sid Sijbrandij, the co-founder of GitLab, just said: "One developer with parallel AI agents will outproduce an entire team of seven." And at his new company Kilo, that's already the standard. He has 20 engineers. Each one manages multiple AI agents across...
ML-Driven Chip Design Tackles Chiplets and Multiphysics
https://t.co/hSBxqyOfWZ I spent time with @Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi to ask what the future of chip design is. Actually they're one of the earliest adopters, and ML chips want even more ML to optimize them. Add in chiplets and multiphysics, and...
IPO-Bound Practo Appoints Srijesh Kumar As Global CPTO
Practo, the Bengaluru‑based healthtech platform preparing for a 2027 IPO, has hired former Salesforce VP Srijesh Kumar as its global chief product and technology officer. Kumar will unify product and engineering to scale the service as Practo pursues a $100‑125 million...
Finnish Quantum Computing Champion IQM Determined to Make ‘Impossible’ Engineering Breakthrough
IQM, Europe’s largest quantum‑computing firm, is raising roughly €300 million (about $330 million) to fund R&D and acquisitions aimed at overcoming the engineering limits of superconducting qubits. CEO Jan Goetz argues that breakthroughs—especially in cabling‑free, tiled qubit architectures—can prove DARPA’s warning that current...
Agentic Coding at Enterprise Scale Demands Spec-Driven Development
AWS’s Kiro platform demonstrates that spec‑driven development can shrink enterprise software cycles dramatically, turning multi‑week feature builds into multi‑day sprints. By anchoring AI agents to rich, structured specifications, teams can generate code, run property‑based tests, and let agents self‑correct without...
SalesCloser Names New VP of Sales and CTO as It Scales AI‑Driven B2B Platform
SalesCloser Technologies Ltd. announced the appointment of Sean Guiseppi as Vice President of Sales and Customer Success and Marcelo Negrini as Chief Technology Officer. The hires are intended to support the company’s accelerating commercial traction and its push into the...
Ericsson Unveils 6G ‘Intelligent Fabric’ Blueprint at MWC Barcelona
Ericsson announced a 6G architecture described as an “intelligent fabric” at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, embedding artificial intelligence into every network layer. The plan builds on 5G Standalone and 5G Advanced, with collaborations spanning Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and MediaTek...
MakeMyTrip CTO Flags India Language Gap Amid GenAI Travel Push
MakeMyTrip CTO Sanjay Mohan warned that India’s generative‑AI travel experience is hampered by immature regional language models, even as nearly half of the platform’s traffic now comes from Tier‑2 and Tier‑3 cities. He urged the creation of India‑built AI models...
Optus Strengthens Spectrum Strategy Expertise
Optus has hired Golnar Khomami, a former Telstra spectrum strategist, as senior director of network technology standardisation. Khomami will report to Kent Wu and lead Optus's engagement with international spectrum standards bodies. The move follows a series of senior tech...
Five9 Expands Fusion Partner Program to Broaden Open‑Platform CX Ecosystem
Five9 unveiled an expanded Fusion Partner Program that now includes independent software vendors and embedded technology partners, extending its open‑platform strategy. The move aims to give enterprises a more flexible, AI‑enabled CX stack that sales teams can leverage for faster,...
Banks Urged to Adopt Interpol‑style Fraud Network to Curb AI‑driven Scams
Vyntra chief executive Joël Winteregg told financial‑service leaders on April 13, 2026 that banks must abandon siloed defenses and operate as a single, Interpol‑style intelligence network. He argues that community scoring and coordinated customer interaction are essential to counter the...
St Vincent's Group Chief Digital Officer Leaves After over Four Years
St Vincent’s Health Australia’s group chief digital officer, Michelle Fitzgerald, is leaving after more than four years. Her tenure saw the rollout of Meditech’s electronic medical record across ten private hospitals and the launch of a self‑service analytics platform. The departure...
OpenAI Preps Dual-Mode Codex Upgrade to Beat Claude
The release is expected this week. They need to catch up to Claude Code and Cowork -> OpenAI is laying the groundwork for a major Codex update that would push the platform well beyond its origins as a coding agent. "Hidden...
After 8 Years, Apple’s AI Chief Is Out. Here’s What Went Wrong
Apple’s eight‑year AI chief John Giannandrea is departing, ending a tenure that once promised to transform Siri and power an Apple Car. Over time his influence waned as the company lagged behind the generative‑AI boom, leading to delayed Siri upgrades and...