SoFi Taps Galileo to Offer Send And Receive Capabilities Through FedNow
SoFi Bank N.A. has partnered with Galileo Financial Technologies to enable real‑time send and receive payments through the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service. The integration allows SoFi members to move money between banks in seconds, 24/7, including weekends and holidays, eliminating the 24‑hour‑plus delays of traditional ACH transfers. SoFi, which bought Galileo for $1.2 billion in 2020, now offers a capability that most banks only provide on a receive‑only basis. The move also positions SoFi to extend FedNow functionality to other fintechs and businesses via its platform.
He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.
Ben Riley, an Austin resident, discovered through his father's MyChart portal that his 75‑year‑old dad, retired neuroscientist Joe Riley, had been warned by oncologists to start treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia within ten months. Despite the urgent medical notes, Joe...
Zwitterions Are The Key To New Solid-State Batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have engineered a polymer electrolyte infused with zwitterions that enables ion transport up to 10 billion times faster than conventional solid matrices. By fine‑tuning the zwitterion content to an optimal 80 % blend, the material forms self‑assembled...
Cool Cities Lab Heat-Mapping Tool Helps Cities Target Relief Where It’s Needed Most
World Resources Institute’s Cool Cities Lab, an open‑source heat‑mapping platform, launched in March and is now active in more than 20 cities worldwide. The tool provides block‑level data on temperature, humidity and thermal comfort, allowing municipalities to model the cooling...
Bluerock TMS Targets Last Mile’s Costliest Blind Spots
Bluerock TMS unveiled a cloud‑native Last Mile Distribution solution at Modex 2026, delivering end‑to‑end visibility from order intake to proof of delivery in a single system. The platform replaces fragmented routing tools with an AI‑assisted, execution‑centric control layer that plugs...
18 Growth Marketing Channels That Actually Work in 2026
The 2026 growth marketing playbook highlights 18 channels, with agentic AI emerging as the most transformative. Marketers must address infrastructure gaps in identity resolution, attribution, and unified behavioral data to unlock AI agents’ potential. Internal AI‑powered tools, account‑based outbound, and...
GTA-Maker Rockstar Games Hacked Again but Downplays Impact
Rockstar Games suffered a second breach in three years after the teenage hacking group ShinyHunters accessed limited non‑material data on a third‑party cloud platform. The company told the BBC the incident has no impact on its players or operations, contrasting...
GTA-Maker Rockstar Games Hacked Again but Downplays Impact
Rockstar Games suffered a second cyber‑breach in three years after hackers infiltrated servers hosted by a third‑party cloud provider. The group, calling itself ShinyHunters, demanded a ransom and warned they would publish the stolen material online. Rockstar told the BBC...
Analyzing the Analysis: How Do AI Portfolio Recommendations Hold Up?
Allan Roth tested Anthropic’s Claude on a $1.37 million multi‑account portfolio, including an $80,000 cash infusion, to see how well AI could generate a summary and rebalancing recommendations. Claude correctly identified the low 0.03% weighted expense ratio, proper tax‑location of assets,...
TPAs Are Leveraging AI, Convergence to Enable Advisors, Providers
At the second annual TPA Roundtable in Chicago, industry leaders examined how artificial intelligence and the convergence of wealth and retirement are reshaping third‑party administrator (TPA) operations. Participants highlighted a surge of new 401(k) plans, fee pressure, talent shortages, and...
Asset Reality Tackles the Challenge of Seized Assets
Asset Reality is building a unified software platform to modernize how law‑enforcement agencies manage seized assets. The solution centralizes tracking, documentation, and recovery workflows for both physical items and digital currencies such as crypto. Founder Aidan Larkin, drawing on his...
Skyscanner, Almosafer Launch ChatGPT Apps in Middle East, Where AI Booking Is Possible
Skyscanner and Saudi OTA Almosafer launched ChatGPT‑integrated apps on April 8, letting users search and book flights across the Middle East via natural‑language prompts in English and Arabic. The services target the UAE and Saudi Arabia, markets where travelers show strong...
System Design, Not Model Hype, Drives AI Advantage
Most teams are still evaluating AI like it’s 2023. Comparing models. Debating open vs. closed. But the real edge now is system design. How models connect. How agents run. How workflows execute. And yes—hybrid is winning. Right model, right task. by @ronald_vanloon | Check out the full article: https://bit.ly/4vwgSBy #NVIDIAPartner #NVIDIAGTC...
APT41 Delivers 'Zero-Detection' Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials
Chinese state‑linked group APT41 has released a new ELF‑based backdoor that silently infiltrates Linux cloud workloads to steal credentials from AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud. The malware communicates over SMTP port 25, a channel that bypasses typical internet‑exposure scanners and...
Sports Publisher On3 Tries AI Recommendations To Keep Engagement In Its Home Court
On3, a sports‑focused publisher with 15 million monthly visitors, has deployed Mula’s AI‑powered recommendation engine across about 20 of its sites to sustain engagement and revenue per session (RPS). The system leverages first‑party data to surface articles, vertical video and Fanatics‑linked...
Disney's HoloTile Stalls, Leaving Therapeutic Potential Untapped
From time to time, I revisit some technologies that seemed to be exciting to see whether there is any news or updates about them. And sometimes it's heartbreaking to see nothing. Just like in the case of Disney's HoloTile floor...
OpenID Launches Working Group to Ease KYC with mDLs
The OpenID Foundation has launched an eKYC and Identity Assurance Working Group to address KYC gaps exposed by NIST’s draft SP 1800‑42 guidance on mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs). The group will extend the OpenID Identity Assurance Schema and OpenID Connect protocols...
Ag Tech Talk: Smarter Data, Stronger Relationships
Ever.Ag’s VP of Product and Services, Alan Brady, says AI is reshaping the crop‑input market by turning a fragmented, transactional network into a connected, real‑time ecosystem. The technology enables retailers, distributors, suppliers and agronomists to share data instantly, shifting margin management...
Nigerian Creators Are Turning to Rage-Bait to Cash in on X
X’s Creator Ads Revenue Sharing program pays roughly $8.50 per million verified impressions, prompting many Nigerian creators to adopt rage‑bait tactics that spark angry replies and inflate impression counts. By posting provocative takes on marriage, tribalism and trending news, they aim...
Indian Spacetech Startups Shift Gears From R&D to Scalable Manufacturing
Indian spacetech startups are moving from pure research to large‑scale manufacturing as demand for low‑Earth‑orbit constellations accelerates. Bellatrix Aerospace, Agnikul Cosmos and Red Balloon Aerospace have each built regulated, additive‑manufacturing and assembly‑line processes to shrink build cycles from months to...
AI Keeps Claiming To Know Stuff It Doesn’t … And Maybe Sam Altman Does, Too
OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently insisted a one‑mile run took over ten minutes, refusing correction, a flaw CEO Sam Altman called a “known issue” that may take a year to resolve. The incident highlights the broader problem of AI hallucinations, where models...
Agentic Prospecting: Seven Reasons The Hype Falls Short
The sales‑tech sector is touting autonomous AI agents that can monitor accounts, detect buying intent, and execute outreach without human input. The article outlines seven reasons why this hype is premature, citing unreliable intent signals, limited automatable tasks, activity‑driven noise,...
Aura Targets BYOD Risk with Identity-Centric Security for MSPs
Aura has launched Aura Business for Managed Service Providers, an identity‑centric solution that secures BYOD environments without full device control. By integrating with Microsoft Entra ID, the platform enforces conditional‑access policies, checks device hygiene, and detects phishing, credential theft, and...
Vivienne Ming on Building Robot-Proof Humans
Vivienne Ming, a computational neuroscientist and author of *Robot Proof*, argues that the future of work hinges on uniquely human traits rather than raw knowledge. Drawing on a study of 122 million people, she shows social intelligence and perspective‑taking predict job...
AI Compliance Startup Haast Closes $12m Series A
AI‑native compliance platform Haast announced a $12 million Series A round, bringing its total US capital to $17.05 million. The round was led by Peak XV Partners with participation from DST Global and Airtree, among others. Haast will use the funds to scale its agentic...
TikTok Shop Prepares for Entry Into Poland and the Benelux
TikTok Shop, ByteDance’s fast‑growing social commerce platform, is set to launch in Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium after establishing a presence in six European markets, including Spain, Ireland, Germany, France and Italy. The rollout is being supported by a new...
AI Compute Shortage Threatens Growth Amid Rising Demand
WSJ: "The artificial intelligence gold rush is rapidly drying up the supply of the one resource that AI developers can’t do without: computing power...Points to a classic problem that has popped up in technology booms throughout history, from the 19th-century...
GSK Reports Strong Results for B7-H4 ADC in Gynecological Cancers
GSK’s investigational antibody‑drug conjugate mocertatug rezetecan (Mo‑Rez) demonstrated robust activity in its Phase 1 BEHOLD‑1 trial, achieving a 62% objective response rate in platinum‑resistant ovarian cancer and 67% in recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer. The drug targets the B7‑H4 immune checkpoint,...
I Hated AI Until I Saw What It Could Do to My Favorite Retro Games
AI‑generated texture packs are breathing new life into retro titles, turning 1990s graphics into 4K‑ready visuals. Projects like RE:Enhance and the Resident Evil HD Remaster 4K mod combine neural upscaling with human curation to deliver crisp assets on modern displays....
How HVLS Fans Work with HVAC Systems to Improve Building Efficiency
HVAC systems consume roughly 35% of a building’s energy, and many facilities still run outdated, oversized equipment that creates temperature stratification and inefficiency. In large spaces, uneven air distribution forces HVAC units to work harder, raising costs and emissions. Adding...
Enterprise AI Must Evolve Beyond Models to Systems
Most enterprise AI strategies are already behind. Not because they picked the wrong model, but because they are still thinking at the model layer. The real shift is happening one level up, where AI becomes a system that can reason, use tools,...
Comprehensive Genomic Landscape of Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma Revealed
Genomic profiling of small bowel adenocarcinoma: a pooled analysis from 3 databases [May 14, 2024] Aparicio et al. @BrJCancer https://t.co/xfznlhD4fh #sbcsm #cagenome HT @OncoThor
Between Eternal Night and Day, the Faces of Two Cousins of Earth
An international team using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first climate maps of two Earth‑sized exoplanets, TRAPPIST‑1b and TRAPPIST‑1c. Thermal phase‑curve data reveal day‑night temperature differences exceeding 500 °C, indicating the planets lack substantial atmospheres. The study, published...
Space ETF Forms Tight Bull Flag Amid Market Volatility
$UFO Daily. High, tight bull flag for Space ETF. One of the cleaner ETF charts in the entire market right now amid wild headline volatility. https://t.co/i7ypmTDTuC
AI Redefines Intelligence, Not Extends Human Thought
Humanity's biggest mistake may be assuming AI thinks the way we do. 👉AI Didn't Extend Intelligence, It Changed Its Direction https://t.co/UlhQpCbNCi #AI
Reforming the Human Services Safety Net: A Conversation with Clarence Carter, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Human Services
In this episode, Michael Keegan talks with Clarence Carter, Tennessee’s Department of Human Services commissioner and author of *Our Net Has Holes in It*, about the systemic flaws in America’s safety‑net and how to redesign it for outcomes rather than...
Anthropic AI Guides Rapid AI Vulnerability Prep for All
Great advice from @AnthropicAI on prep for accelerated AI vulnerability discovery, including what to do if you don’t have a dedicated security team, if you’re reporting bugs you found, or are an open source maintainer. /ht @_decius_ for sending the link ...
Started Coding at 28, Now Runs 8‑figure SaaS
He wrote his first line of code at 28 because he couldn't afford to hire anyone. Now he runs an 8-figure SaaS with 3,000+ customers and 350 people. https://t.co/zs5BJaKcZT
Dropbox Enlarges Big Spaceship's Scope As Social AOR
Dropbox has elevated Big Spaceship from project‑based work to its official social agency of record, expanding the scope to full‑funnel duties and IRL activation content for 2026. The partnership has already driven quarter‑over‑quarter engagement gains among Dropbox’s 700 million users, supported...
Current LLMs Lack Safe Clinical Reasoning Capability
Assessment of 21 LLMs for generating a differential diagnosis "Off-the-shelf LLMs have not yet achieved the intelligence required for safe deployment and remain limited in demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning." https://t.co/9Nvo0kPrZA https://t.co/Odja5lkq8F
Vancouver's 17‑Story Mass Timber Passive House Advances Clean Skyscrapers
"A 17-storey mass timber-Passive House tower under construction in downtown Vancouver will help push forward clean, tall timber construction techniques, the company building [it] says" #passivhaus #passivehouse #masstimber #prefab https://t.co/zxvDlROpBD https://t.co/fVWpGeoI43
Sri Lanka Urges Daytime EV Charging to Ease Grid Pressure
Sri Lanka is urging electric‑vehicle owners to shift charging from night to daytime to ease a 300 MW evening load spike. The country’s grid relies heavily on a 900 MW coal plant and about 1,000 MW of diesel capacity at night, while solar...
Fifth Third’s Newline Extends MCP Server Capabilities with Skills
Fifth Third’s Newline platform announced the next phase of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, adding a new "Skills" layer that standardizes how AI models access tools, APIs, and workflows. The Skills extension enables AI agents to generate code, follow development...
Orforglipron
Orforglitron, an oral non‑peptide GLP‑1 receptor partial agonist developed by Eli Lilly and Chugai, received FDA approval for chronic weight management. The drug distinguishes itself from oral semaglutide by requiring no fasting or special dosing constraints, enabling once‑daily administration. Clinical trials...
Agentic AI in Retail: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Consumer Trust
Agentic AI—autonomous systems that can reason and act without constant human oversight—is rapidly entering retail, highlighted at the NRF Big Show. A VoCoVo survey shows 43.6% of retailers plan AI deployments within a year, driven by goals like faster checkout...
Emphasizing Reusability When Creating Data Products with Quest Software
The DBTA webinar underscored that data product reusability is essential for AI‑ready enterprises. Experts warned that building one‑off datasets wastes millions, delays initiatives, and erodes data trust. Quest’s Ryan Crochet defined a reusable data product as valuable, trustworthy, discoverable, accessible,...
A Bill Would Explore Making NH a ‘Technology First’ State on Disability. Here’s What that Means.
Lawmakers and disability advocates in New Hampshire are pushing House Bill 1685 to explore a "technology‑first" approach for state‑run disability services. The bill would create a commission of legislators, advocates, people with disabilities and families to study how assistive technologies...
Virtana Delivers End-To-End Observability Across Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Enterprise AI
Virtana unveiled AI Factory Observability for Nutanix Agentic AI, extending its monitoring platform from Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure into Nutanix Enterprise AI. The solution delivers real‑time GPU telemetry, idle‑GPU detection, and token‑level performance metrics across distributed clusters. By unifying visibility across...
Mailbox Rule Abuse Emerges as Stealthy Post-Compromise Threat
Security researchers have uncovered a sharp increase in the abuse of Microsoft 365 mailbox rules, with Proofpoint reporting that roughly 10% of compromised accounts in Q4 2025 contained malicious rules created within seconds of initial access. These rules, often given trivial names,...
Qlik CEO: ‘Trusted Data Foundation’ For AI Is The Theme At This Week’s Connect Event
Qlik CEO Mike Capone told CRN that a trusted data foundation is essential for successful AI, especially agentic AI that automates decisions. He highlighted that 86% of AI projects miss ROI because companies skip end‑to‑end data preparation. Qlik has invested...
