AI Breakthrough Could Replace Rare Earth Magnets in Electric Vehicles
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire used artificial intelligence to compile a searchable database of 67,573 magnetic compounds, uncovering 25 previously unknown high‑temperature magnets. The AI system extracts experimental data from literature, predicts magnetic behavior, and records temperature thresholds. This breakthrough promises cheaper, sustainable alternatives to rare‑earth‑based magnets that power electric vehicles and other clean‑energy technologies. The effort was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Master Bond Debuts UV26DCMed Dual-Cure Adhesive
Master Bond introduced UV26DCMed, a single‑component, dual‑cure adhesive for medical device assembly that combines UV light for rapid fixturing with a heat bake for full polymerization. The formulation tolerates repeated sterilization methods—including steam autoclave, ethylene oxide, glutaraldehyde, and hydrogen‑peroxide—while meeting...
Ericsson Strikes Microsoft, AWS Deals for Enterprise 5G
Ericsson announced strategic deals with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services while unveiling a new telecoms innovation R&D centre in Yokohama, Japan. The Microsoft partnership embeds AI‑driven 5G laptop management into Windows 11, using Intune and Ericsson Enterprise 5G Connect to automate connectivity, eSIM...
Shape‑conformal 3D Frameworks Enable Full‑surface Neural Organoid Electrophysiology
If you’re interested in organoid biology and/or 3D bioelectronics, then check out our paper published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, titled ‘Shape-conformal porous frameworks for full coverage of neural organoids and high-resolution electrophysiology,’ at https://t.co/Y7MzvRQKTm. This work introduces a technology...
Scottish Government Runs Open Data Workshops
The Scottish Government is hosting two online workshops on 12‑13 March to co‑create a shared vision for open data in Scotland through 2036. Led by Martin Macfie, the initiative follows a 2024 independent report and builds on progress with the statistics.gov.scot...
Extending Scientific Rigor From Bench to Boardroom
Researchers who launch biotech startups often abandon evidence‑based decision‑making once they enter the boardroom, falling prey to technology myopia, base‑rate neglect, and confirmation bias. Their lack of formal training in commercialization, financial modeling, and competitive analysis amplifies these pitfalls, leading...
Find the Sweet Spot Between Overly Broad and Narrow ICP
One of the Goldilocks problems in B2B startups is defining who you are selling to. On one extreme is the entrepreneur that says "we sell to everyone." That could be every company, every role or both. The challenge is how do...
Brisbane Battery Innovator Gets First Chunk of Funds Towards Giga-Scale Production Plans
Li‑S Energy, a Brisbane‑based battery innovator, has received the first $1.9 million tranche of a $7.86 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). The funding will support engineering work and a feasibility study for a gigawatt‑scale factory capable of producing...
DBT Increases Adoption of Data Hub
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has lifted adoption of its central CRM platform, Data Hub, through a focused digital‑adoption programme. By aligning the tool with user workflows and delivering on‑demand training, email guidance and a performance dashboard, the...
Blackstone’s “Defensive Pivot” Week: Home Services Deal + AI Infrastructure:
Blackstone announced the acquisition of Champions Group, a leading home‑services provider, while Odyssey and its management retain a minority stake. Simultaneously, the firm is leading a financing round of more than $1 billion for Neysa to build India’s premier AI‑infrastructure platform....
Make in India, Think in Dialects: Why Sarvam’s AI Bet Feels Personal
At the India AI Impact Summit, Sarvam AI unveiled two indigenous large language models—30 billion and 105 billion parameters—trained from scratch on Indian languages. Both models employ a Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture to boost efficiency while keeping performance across reasoning, coding, and tool use....
New Sodium Ion Battery Stores Twice the Energy and Desalinates Seawater
University of Surrey researchers discovered that retaining water in sodium vanadium oxide dramatically boosts sodium‑ion battery performance. The hydrated nanostructured sodium vanadate (NVOH) stores nearly twice the energy of conventional cathodes, charges faster, and remains stable for over 400 cycles....
Brookfield “Top-Performing Alternative Firm” Unshaken in 2026 by AI or Private Credit:
Brookfield Asset Management has emerged as the top‑performing alternative firm in 2026, outpacing peers as AI and private‑credit turbulence reshape the industry. Its portfolio is anchored in global infrastructure, renewable power, and essential services that generate contracted, inflation‑linked cash flows....
Singapore Warns That Vulnerabilities Span the Entire Space Value Chain
Singapore has launched its National Space Agency and warned that cyber‑vulnerabilities permeate every stage of the space value chain, from satellites to ground networks. The February 2022 KA‑SAT attack, which knocked out communications and energy services across Europe, underscored the systemic...
Scientists Develop the World’s Tiniest Wireless Brain Implant
Scientists at Cornell University have created a wireless brain implant so small it can sit on a grain of salt, yet still record and transmit neural activity. The device uses light‑based optics for power and data, eliminating bulky wires and...
AI in M&A: McKinsey, For One, Welcomes Our New Gen AI Overlords
McKinsey’s latest survey shows generative AI is reshaping M&A, delivering roughly 20% cost savings and accelerating deal cycles by 30‑50%. While 42% of respondents believe AI can transform the transaction process, only 30% are using it at moderate to high...
How Clarins Reached 70% Conversion and Doubled Its Basket Size in Brick-and-Mortar Test of Shade-Matching Tech
Clarins piloted its AI Shade Finder in 20 French and UK stores, using an iPhone‑based spectroscopic tool to match foundation shades. The trial lifted conversion to 70% and doubled average basket size, while boosting associate confidence and prompting cross‑selling of...
Japan To Ban Power Bank Use Inflight From April 2026
Japan’s transport ministry will ban the use and charging of power banks on all domestic and international flights operating to, from, or within Japan starting April 2026. Passengers may still bring up to two power banks, each capped at 160...
TikTok Shop Reverses U.S. Shipping Policy Amid Merchant Concerns over Costs and Fulfillment Challenges
TikTok Shop has scrapped its planned deadline to force U.S. sellers onto TikTok‑managed shipping, keeping seller‑fulfilled logistics unchanged for now. The reversal follows merchant backlash over anticipated higher fulfillment costs, tighter margins, and inventory challenges tied to TikTok’s own warehouses....
Balloons Over Venus…It Really Happened!
In 1985 the Soviet Vega program deployed two helium‑filled balloons that became the first free‑floating probes to operate on another planet. The aerostats floated for roughly 46 hours at about 54 km altitude in Venus’s middle cloud layer, where a global...
Customers Have New Expectations. Is Your CX Ready?
Customer experience is evolving as technology delivers practical benefits through better design, integration, and intent. Modern voice bots, unified CX platforms, and structured knowledge bases enable faster, more consistent service while reducing pressure on agents. Proactive, AI‑first approaches shift support...
Roy Morgan Survey Reveals 2.5M Young Aussies Watch YouTube
Roy Morgan’s Young Australian Survey finds that 2.5 million children aged 6‑13 – roughly 89 percent of the cohort – regularly watch YouTube. Gaming and animation dominate the platform, with 1.33 million viewers for gaming and 930,000 for animation. Boys drive gaming and sports...
Law Firm Introduces AI Chatbot for Job Interviews
London boutique Mishcon de Reya has deployed an AI‑powered chatbot to conduct first‑round graduate interviews. The tool, built by Bright Network, pulls data from each applicant’s submission to generate a customized conversation and produces a transcript for the firm’s early‑careers...
JioHotstar, OpenAI Launch ChatGPT Content Search
JioHotstar announced a partnership with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT‑powered voice discovery into its streaming app. The new multilingual cognitive search lets users speak natural language queries to receive context‑aware recommendations for both on‑demand and live sports content. The assistant also...
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One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?
The FIA has published the official start times for the 2026 Formula 1 season, a 24‑race calendar that runs from the Australian Grand Prix in early March to the Abu Dhabi finale in early December. The schedule spans five continents and introduces...
EGI Innovations Hires Jon Hatchuel as First Aussie Country Manager
eG Innovations, a US‑based software vendor, has appointed Jon Hatchuel as its first country manager in Australia, marking the firm’s first dedicated employee in the market. Hatchuel, who brings over 20 years of senior IT experience, will focus on expanding...
Tailor and Sync Prompts per Model for Success
Since I now use multiple models, I customize all of my prompt files (soul, identity, skills etc) for each model. This critically important. For example, Opus 4.6 prompt best practices says don’t use ALL CAPS to emphasize things. GPT5.2 explicitly...
South Africa’s Cybersecurity Challenge Is Not a Tool Problem
South African enterprises are pouring significant budgets into cybersecurity tools, yet breach rates keep rising. The core issue is execution: security teams are overwhelmed by data and lack the capacity to turn visibility into action. Unified platforms like Rapid7’s Command...
Figma's Answer to the AI Software Sell-Off
The episode examines Figma’s latest AI integration with Anthropic’s Claude Code, exploring how the partnership emerged organically and what it means for the design‑to‑code workflow. Host discusses Figma’s steep stock decline amid a broader SaaS AI sell‑off and probes CEO...
Agentic AI Era: Cloud Security Shifts From Asset Protection to Identity-First Zero Trust
At the ETCIO Cloud Summit, leaders from Starbucks India and Jio argued that cloud security must shift from protecting static assets to continuously validating identities, especially as AI agents and autonomous workloads proliferate in hybrid environments. They emphasized that bots,...
Agent Identities Demand New Sandboxing and Access Controls
Agent identities is going to be a super fun and hard problem for software in the coming years. Most agentic systems today assume that the agent can do everything the user can do, and just operate as an extension of...
From Migration to Monetisation: Enterprises Reimagine Business Models on Cloud
Enterprises are moving beyond cloud migration to re‑engineer business models around platformization, monetisation and ecosystem scale. Leaders at the ETCIO Cloud Summit highlighted how insurers, manufacturers and service firms are using APIs, data and product‑centric thinking to unlock new revenue...
Stop Layering AI on Your GTM Stack
In this episode, Emir Atli, co‑founder and CRO of HockeyStack, explains why the traditional, tool‑heavy GTM stack can’t simply have AI bolted on—it must be rebuilt around a unified, AI‑native platform with a single data foundation. He outlines HockeyStack’s evolution...
AI's Easy; Scaling Software 100x Faster Is the Real Hurdle
What people seem to be struggling with the most is not the truly novel parts of building with AI, it's the table stakes. It's not the AI part that's so hard (turns out systems have never been wholly deterministic 😉), it's...
How Universities Can Rise to the Challenge of an Unpredictable Future Workplace
Universities UK launched the Future Universities campaign to align higher education with a rapidly changing labour market. Government forecasts predict that by 2035, 88% of new jobs will require graduate‑level skills, creating a need for more than 11 million additional graduates....
Epsteinalysis.com
A new platform, Epsteinalysis.com, launched under the alias Axiomofinfinity, offers a searchable database called Epstein Files Explorer containing over one million documents and two million pages released by the DOJ. The site employs spaCy’s named‑entity recognition and similarity clustering to...
AI Racing Drone Beats Human Controlled FPV Racing Drones on Aerial Racetrack: An Overlooked ‘AlphaGo Moment’ with Future War Implications
In April 2025, an autonomous racing drone equipped with a neural‑network AI outperformed three human FPV champions at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi. The AI‑controlled craft completed the complex aerial course faster than the pilots, marking the first...
Remote Access Abuse Drives Majority of Breaches
Arctic Wolf’s 2026 Threat Report reveals a dramatic shift toward data‑only extortion, which surged from 2% to 22% of incidents in 2025. Remote‑access tool abuse initiated 65% of non‑BEC breaches, while AI‑enhanced phishing powered 85% of BEC attacks. Ransomware remains common,...
Oregon Adopts New Building Codes to Reduce Energy Costs and Increase Energy Efficiency in Newly Constructed Homes
Oregon's Residential and Manufactured Structures Board approved updates to the state residential energy code, requiring new homes to install energy‑efficient heat pumps instead of traditional ducted air‑conditioning. The code change is projected to save homeowners about $125 per month, or...
Modular Ghiplet Chiplets Redefine Flexible GPU Design
chetanarvindpatil 15h #Technology #Thread #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Ghiplet The Semiconductor Ghiplet: 1/ - The Semiconductor Computing World First Moved Towards More-Than-Moore Via Chiplets. - Now, It Is Re-Inventing Another Path Towards More-Than-Moore. - This Time With Ghiplet = G(PU) + (C)hiplet --- chetanarvindpatil 15h Author 2/ - Ghiplet Represents A Shift Towards...
Automated GuardDuty Feature Audit and Enablement in Hours
Vibe coded 🤖 a script to list which AWS GuardDuty features are enabled in minutes. Took 15-30 minutes to correct it. The script to enable disabled features, sub features, and create an s3 malware scan plan took about two hours. See blog...
South African Startup Naritive Is Fixing Banner Blindness with Interactive Advertising
South African startup Naritive has launched an ad‑tech platform that turns static display ads into interactive “Ad Stories” and “Ad Social” formats. The platform, now used by more than 100 brands and agencies across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia...
Fintech Digitizes 2,000‑year Red Packet Tradition
🌏🧧How #Fintech is transforming the 2,000-year Red Packet tradition: Technology is not only transforming how business is done within the industry but even culture itself. Today, an increasing number of red packets are being shared via online solutions at banks during...
Jupiter International Doubles Indian Solar Capacity to 2 GW
Jupiter International doubles solar cell manufacturing capacity to 2 GW in India #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/N7yACehDbe
From Acceleration to Exposure: Why AI Demands Mature AppSec
AI‑driven development is dramatically speeding code creation, reviews and releases, but application security (AppSec) has not kept pace. Autonomous AI actions now make decisions on dependencies, configurations and remediation, turning isolated flaws into system‑wide risks. When AppSec foundations are immature,...
Interstate Objectors Push Independent Review of NSW Battery
Another NSW battery sent for independent review by interstate and long-distance objectors #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/4Yc1aJjiuA https://t.co/QBPyuoR6kC
AI's Rapid Diffusion Outpaces Our Adaptation Capacity
AI is eating industries and jobs. For sure. But new ones will be created. However, we’ve never seen tech diffuse this rapidly. It’s the speed of digestion that we are struggling with the most. https://t.co/KApUVISD5g
AI Boosts HR Efficiency, Yet Demands Human Empathy
The Paradox of #AI in #HRStrategy: Efficiency, Empathy, and the Human Factor https://t.co/LiIGmm7GKI #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
Anthropic Predicts Autonomy Surge Till
per @AnthropicAI ‘s own numbers, interesting that 99.9 percentile model autonomy straightlines up through 2025 and immediately takes a nosedive after opus 4.6 launch. you can really see the efficiency work start to kick in after the pioneering work of...
Perfect Salesforce Data: My Superintelligence Benchmark
Test for superintelligence: when the data in Fivetran’s salesforce is 100% accurate and up to date at all times, I’ll know we’re there.
