Uber Autonomous Solutions Turns AV Innovation Into Real-World Operations
Uber Technologies unveiled Uber Autonomous Solutions, a turnkey suite that equips partners with data, mapping, regulatory access, financing and operational tools to commercialize autonomous vehicles worldwide. The offering bundles a high‑resolution multisensor data fleet, dynamic geospatial APIs, an AV‑first in‑car interface, and a real‑time fleet intelligence platform with remote assistance capabilities. Uber’s network also includes venue partnerships such as Austin’s Q2 Stadium to streamline high‑traffic deployments. The first Nuro‑Lucid‑Uber robotaxi, featuring the new interface, is slated for launch later this year.
After 1,000 Sessions, Users Auto‑Approve
Experience with agentic AI platforms shows a relaxing of human-in-the-loop. This could be for a few reasons. 1) The user actually gets a better sense at what AI can and cannot do and are more willing to let AI run...
Creality’s CFS-C Eliminates Hot-End Purging with New Remote Cutting Approach
Creality has launched the CFS‑C filament swapper, marketed as a “no‑purge” solution for its K1 series desktop FFF printers. By relocating the filament‑cutting operation from the hot end to the swapper, the system eliminates the traditional purge cycle, cutting change‑over...
Product Improves, CAC Rises: AI Amplifies Growth Dilemma
your product gets better every week, but your CAC gets worse every month Can your product get good enough to generate organic growth before your marketing channels saturate with scale? AI is going to supercharge this conflict. We’ll write even more and...
Ubicquia Secures $106 Million To Scale AI Infrastructure Solutions
Ubicquia announced a $106 million Series D round led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, aimed at scaling its AI‑driven infrastructure portfolio worldwide. The company already serves more than 1,000 utilities, municipalities and commercial clients across the U.S., Latin America, Europe...
Acme Weather Is an Upgraded Dark Sky Reboot that Knows Your Weather App Sucks, Coming to Android
Acme Weather, built by the original Dark Sky team, is set to launch on Android after an iPhone debut. The app differentiates itself by displaying "alternative possible futures" that illustrate forecast uncertainty alongside the primary prediction. It also incorporates crowdsourced weather...
Examining the Size of the US Residential Broadband Opportunity for Leo Satcom
Low‑Earth‑Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband has reached roughly 3 million U.S. households, representing about 2 percent of residential subscriptions after five years. A detailed census‑block analysis shows that 6 percent of homes—dubbed broadband deserts—have no or only legacy DSL options, while 11 percent of rural...
Multiple Zero-Day Flaws in PDF Platforms Enable XSS and One-Click Attacks
Researchers at Novee Security uncovered 13 vulnerability categories and 16 zero‑day flaws across Foxit and Apryse PDF platforms, including critical XSS and OS command injection bugs. Using a human‑agent AI swarm, they rapidly identified high‑impact issues such as one‑click attacks...
Skynopy and Safran Space Win the SkyConnect Kenya Project to Digitize and Accelerate the Commercialization of an Antenna in Kenya
Skynopy, backed by French Ministry funding, secured the SkyConnect Kenya project to digitize the Kenya Space Agency's 4.5‑meter S/X‑Band antenna. Partnering with Safran Space, the duo will install Skynopy’s Ground Station Stack and Safran’s virtualized Nuron equipment, linking the antenna...
How a Sirtuin Protects Against Brain Diseases
Researchers in Aging Cell reveal that the nuclear sirtuin SIRT6 safeguards brain health by preserving nucleolar integrity and curbing excess protein synthesis. Loss of SIRT6 triggers nucleolar enlargement, heightened rRNA production, and uncontrolled protein translation, leading to protein aggregation and...
Mobile Networks Face New Cellular UAV Exploitation Risks
Operation Spiderweb in June 2025 demonstrated how Ukrainian forces hijacked Russian mobile networks to control and stream data from drones, disabling about 20 aircraft. The incident exposed a growing vulnerability as 4G/5G standards now embed native drone support, allowing off‑the‑shelf...
DeepSeek‑V3 Shows Efficient Scaling Beats Brute‑Force
DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Open Reasoning Models With Efficiency and Precision In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore DeepSeek-V3, a next-generation large language model designed to push the boundaries of reasoning performance while maintaining strong efficiency. Rather than relying...
Solve Real Problems, Don’t Just Chase Ideas
He turned a mall booth with taped signs into a $3B fintech. Matt Oppenheimer built Remitly by falling in love with the problem, not the product. He stood outside a remittance store, asked customers why they said no, and pivoted fast. He raised...
Protected: On-Demand Webinar — Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler: How Risk Leaders Turn Information Into Better Decisions
Origami Risk hosted an on‑demand webinar titled “Using RMIS as a Strategic Enabler,” highlighting how risk leaders can turn risk‑management information systems (RMIS) data into better business decisions. The session detailed the platform’s ability to aggregate insurance, safety, and claims...
Metadata, Measurement, And The Evolution To Data Infrastructure
TiVo has pivoted from its legacy DVR brand to a data‑infrastructure player, leveraging its deep content metadata and household viewership signals. The company emphasizes independent, comprehensive data that uniquely combines the "what" (metadata) and the "who" (audience behavior) across linear...
EP264 Measuring Your (Agentic) SOC: Two Security Leaders Walk Into a Podcast
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian host Alex Pabst, Deputy CISO at Allianz, and Mike Sinnoh, Director of Detection & Response at Google, to discuss evolving SOC metrics in the age of AI and automation. They critique traditional...
Axelspace to Supply Imagery Data for Japanese Defence Satellite Effort
Japanese micro‑satellite firm Axelspace secured an exclusive contract to supply optical imagery for the Ministry of Defense’s new satellite constellation. The agreement, part of a broader ¥283.1 bn project led by a consortium of Mitsubishi Electric, SKY Perfect JSAT, Mitsui &...
Merck Reorganizes Human Health Work Into Two New Units
Merck is reorganizing its Human Health division into two distinct units—Oncology and Specialty, Pharma & Infectious Diseases—to sharpen focus as its flagship immuno‑oncology drug Keytruda approaches patent expiry. Jannie Oosthuizen, formerly head of U.S. Human Health, will lead the Oncology...
WisprFlow Leads AI Voice Tools, Now on Android
There are a variety of tools to let you talk to your phone out there. I've been using all of them and @WisprFlow is the most popular, by far, in the AI community. Now out on Android. Using these tools...
Own Your Email, Don't Rely on Google Accounts
It’s wild that in a time where Google account are one of the most popular choice for logging into any 3rd-party service, they can be arbitrarily banned like this. Own your email. Own your domain. Don’t delegate. Sucks that this is...
Taara Unveils Taara Photonics and Taara Beam
Taara, a spin‑out from Google’s X lab, unveiled Taara Photonics—the world’s first wireless communication platform built on an optical phased‑array integrated circuit—and its inaugural product, Taara Beam. The beam‑sized device delivers up to 25 Gbps at low latency across distances of...
Zero‑Emission Mandates Without Nuclear Threaten Power Prices, Reliability
California, Oregon, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont have aggressive (75-100%) zero-emission electricity mandates AND bans on new nuclear power. If these states don't repeal these policies—and soon—they will face: 1) sky-high electricity rates (from catastrophically expensive overbuilds of solar/wind/batteries and...
US Adds 57.6 GWh Energy Storage in 2025
SEIA: US installed 57.6 GWh of new energy storage capacity in 2025 #energysky -- via Solar Power World: https://t.co/ZVXllTa5xB
The IPO Buzz: Generate Biomedicines (GENB Proposed) Launches $400 Million IPO
Generate Biomedicines, Inc. (GENB) launched a $400 million IPO on Feb 23, 2026, offering 25 million shares at $15‑$17 each on NASDAQ. At the midpoint price of $16, the company would be valued at roughly $2.04 billion. The proceeds are earmarked for two Phase 3 trials...
AI Forces Preseed Focus on Demos, Not Ideas
AI moves the goalposts for raising preseed capital: less “tell me your product idea” more “show me what you built and how customers react” In the 1990s people raised $5m+ just to build the v1 of their website. In 2000s that...
CMS Plans AI‑Driven Overhaul of Medicare Enrollment Process
NEW: The entire process of finding Medicare coverage may be influenced by artificial intelligence in the not-too-distant future. CMS wants to use AI tools for its "Medicare Experience Modernization" project — and there are lots of question marks. https://t.co/uSLFlAxViJ https://t.co/2bP3HnEDBx
FDA Unveils Pathway for Ultra-Rare Disease Therapies
The FDA released draft guidance introducing the Plausible Mechanism Framework, a new approval pathway for individualized therapies targeting ultra‑rare diseases. The framework permits sponsors to seek clearance for gene‑editing and RNA‑based treatments when traditional randomized trials are infeasible due to...
Influencers Drove Gymshark’s $128M Growth, Not Ads
Gymshark went from $0 to $128M in 6 years using influencer marketing. No TV ads. No billboards. Just athletes who genuinely wore the brand. Meanwhile you're running cold Facebook ads with zero social proof. That's the gap.
Hollywood Writers Deny AI Acceptance, Call It Misinformation
He’s just flat out lying. Hollywood writers hate AI and have been fighting against it. They want you guys to think this stuff is being normalized by the masses when it’s not
Bringing Quantum Ideas to the Messy World of Disordered Proteins
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDRs) make up roughly 79 % of human cancer‑associated proteins and defy traditional structure‑based drug design. Akshay Uttarkar’s team introduced QuPepFold, a Python package that translates short peptide sequences onto a tetrahedral lattice and uses a CVaR‑optimized...
From Blocking Bots to Trusting Agents: Visa‑Akamai Solution
AI agent traffic nearly tripled in a year. 25Billion bot requests in 2 months. The question is no longer how to block bots — it's how to trust them. Visa + Akamai are building the answer. "What it takes to secure...
Red iPhone Pro Hype Follows Orange Success
Me after rumors of a red iPhone Pro after the success of the orange one https://t.co/0UnPH6y6VI
Faster Cancer Screening? New AI System Offers a Better Way to Detect Abnormal Cells
Researchers unveiled Whole‑Slide Edge Tomography, an AI‑driven 3D scanning platform that digitizes every cell on a cytology slide and classifies abnormalities with near‑human accuracy. In tests on cervical samples, the system recorded AUC scores from 0.84 for early changes up...
WebMCP Offers Reliable Function Calls Over Screen‑Scraping
"Web Model Context Protocol (WebMCP) replaces the fragile screen-scraping and simulated clicks, with reliable function calls." https://t.co/MExI9Y9Fng < I suspect that this new @googlechrome feature is going to be a BIG deal this year and a less-brittle option than Computer...
SaaS Stocks Plummet: Warning About Catching Falling Knife
Feb 2nd I warned clients about catching the falling knife in SaaS. I wasn’t kidding. $IGV #MAG7 https://t.co/AGnysZ3ZHV
Made Smarter Funding Supports AFD Systems Digital Enhancements for Expertise Growth
AFD Systems secured a £20,000 Made Smarter grant to acquire a high‑precision 3D laser scanner, launching a dedicated metrology and reverse‑engineering team. The new capability integrates scanning data into design, simulation and additive‑manufacturing workflows, enabling faster part development. AFD aims...
Enel Adds 830 MW US Solar‑wind Portfolio
Enel acquires 830MW US PV and wind portfolio, ups renewables investment #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/3AfV5Qymhs
Space Data Centers Demand Unprecedented Scaling
Nothing impossible here. But many things need to scale in unprecedented ways for space based data centers to happen.
Waterloo Sparkling Water Names Dentsu Creative Social AOR as Brand Expands
Waterloo Sparkling Water has appointed Dentsu Creative as its social agency of record, coinciding with the rollout of new flavors Banana Berry Bliss, Melon Medley and a year‑round Lemon Italian Ice. The partnership is timed to the opening of the...
Technics' Newest Turntable Is a Work of Art – and I've Seen It in Person
Technics unveiled its new SL‑1500CS turntable, priced at £1,099 and slated for a March 2026 release. The model brings high‑end features such as the proprietary ΔΣ‑Drive, a built‑in phono equaliser, and an aluminium die‑cast chassis that dampens vibrations. By incorporating...
Northwest Legacy Award Winner David Baska: How to Stand Firm on Shaky Ground
David Baska, a Northwest Legacy Award recipient, has spent over four decades shaping geotechnical earthquake engineering through research, practice, and mentorship. His career spans seminal work such as co‑authoring the NRCS Seismic Analysis Manual for Dams and guiding the seismic...
As Data Centers Look to Rural New England, Maine Considers a Moratorium
Maine is weighing a moratorium on large data‑center projects as towns like Wiscasset and Lewiston pause or reject high‑cost proposals. State legislators introduced LD 307, which would form a coordination council and could halt developments over 20 megawatts until mid‑2028. The move...
Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding
Researchers from Maryland, Livermore Lab, Columbia and TogetherAI introduced a multi‑token prediction (MTP) technique that embeds a special token into existing LLM weights, eliminating the need for separate drafting models. The method uses a self‑distillation student‑teacher training loop to...
Northern California Legacy Award Winner Randy Iwasaki: Always on the Move
Randy Iwasaki, the 2024 ENR West Northern California Legacy Award winner, has spent four decades driving technology adoption in California’s transportation sector. From leading Caltrans’ shift to all‑digital design to creating the 2,100‑acre GoMentum Station for autonomous‑vehicle testing, he has...
The Windows Control Panel Is One Step Closer to Death as Account Rename Option Makes Its Way to Windows 11's...
Microsoft is accelerating the retirement of the legacy Control Panel in Windows 11, moving more settings into the modern Settings app. The user‑account rename function, long housed in Control Panel, now appears in Settings in build 26300.7877, though the feature is...
CIOB Innovation Vice-Chair Mordue Appointed to APS Board
Stefan Mordue, CIOB innovation panel vice‑chair and senior manager at Bentley Systems, has been appointed to the board of the Association for Project Safety (APS). He joins fellow appointee Stewart McArthur, a veteran construction assessor from Bureau Veritas, bringing digital construction...
Automation Alley Expands Industrial 3D Printing Access for SMEs
Automation Alley’s Project DIAMOnD has opened its Digital Transformation Center to companies outside its membership. The DTC now offers fee‑based access to industrial‑grade polymer and metal 3D printing technologies, including powder‑bed fusion, large‑format FFF/MEX, and directed energy deposition. SMEs can...
Fedora Pocketblue Remix Is an Atomic Linux Distro for Mobile Devices (Phones and Tablets)
Fedora Pocketblue Remix is an atomic Linux distribution that brings Fedora to smartphones and tablets. Its atomic update model ensures that package upgrades are either fully applied or rolled back, reducing the risk of a broken system. The remix currently...
Key Differences Between Anti‑cel and Cilta‑cel Explain GILD Deal
By chance I was writing about anito-cel vs. cilta-cel on Friday, not knowing $GILD acquisition was coming down the pike. There are some crucial differences between the two products to take note of, which may explain why they were...
