Eutelsat Renews Viewsat Capacity Deals at 7/8° West Video Neighbourhood
Eutelsat has renewed several capacity agreements with Egypt‑based Viewsat, extending a long‑standing partnership focused on the 7/8° West video hotspot. The deals support Egyptian broadcasters and reinforce Eutelsat’s strategy in the MENA region. The 7/8° West position reaches roughly 66 million satellite TV homes and carries more than 950 channels. Both companies highlighted the renewals as a sign of sustainable growth in Egypt’s dynamic broadcast market.
Alibaba Debuts Qwen 3.5, Adding "Visual Agentic Capabilities" To Independently Execute Tasks, and Says It Is 60% Cheaper to Use...
Alibaba announced the launch of Qwen 3.5, its latest generative‑AI model. The model adds visual agentic capabilities, allowing it to interpret images and autonomously carry out complex tasks. Alibaba claims Qwen 3.5 costs 60% less to run and delivers eight‑fold...
Home Office Previews Plan to Appoint £100m Partner to Manage Datacentres
The Home Office has issued an early‑engagement notice for a £102 million hosting capability supplier contract to manage its on‑premises datacentre estate. The agreement is slated to commence in December 2026 with an initial three‑year term, covering 24/7 operational support, maintenance, engineering...
FINTECH Circle Partners with JournoLink to Bring AI-Powered PR Tools to Fintechs
FINTECH Circle has struck a strategic partnership with JournoLink to deliver its Volt AI‑powered public‑relations and competitor‑intelligence suite to the Circle’s fintech community. The collaboration gives members automated press‑release distribution, continuous media monitoring and real‑time competitor analysis. By bundling enterprise‑grade...
Antitrust Filing Says Google Cannibalizes Publisher Traffic via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Penske Media Corp (PMC) filed a federal memorandum opposing Google’s motion to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit, alleging the tech giant broke the long‑standing “fair exchange” of search traffic for indexed content. The complaint says Google’s AI‑driven, zero‑click answers repurpose publisher...
Sony Group Develops Tech to Track Original Music in AI-Generated Songs (Report)
Sony Group has created technology to identify copyrighted music embedded in AI‑generated songs. The system works by either connecting directly to AI model training data or by comparing generated outputs against existing catalogs. Sony AI aims to use the tool...
Leaky Chrome Extensions with 37M Installs Caught Divulging Your Browsing History
Security researcher Q Continuum identified 287 Chrome extensions that secretly transmit users' browsing histories, affecting an estimated 37 million installations worldwide. The extensions span categories such as VPNs, productivity utilities, and shopping add‑ons, and many request broad host permissions that enable...
Exponential Data vs Linear Compliance: The Crunch
FinTechs and digital banks are witnessing exponential growth in compliance data, driven by 150% annual customer expansion and increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Meanwhile, compliance operations remain linear, relying on manual, siloed processes that cannot keep pace with the data surge....
Increased O-GlcNAc Transferase Expression as an Approach to Improving Function in the Aging Brain
Age‑related decline in O‑GlcNAc Transferase (OGT) activity contributes to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS. Traditional approaches aim to raise O‑GlcNAc levels by inhibiting O‑GlcNAcase, but recent research highlights transcriptional control of OGT as a more direct therapeutic...
IT Sustainability Think Tank: AI Infrastructure, Shared Responsibility and the Real Cost of Progress
Microsoft is urging a community‑first approach to AI infrastructure, highlighting the growing energy and environmental costs of AI‑driven data centres. The call emphasizes that responsibility for these impacts must be shared between hyperscalers and the enterprises that consume AI services....
Are Social Sellers Missing an Important Piece of the Data Puzzle?
Social commerce now accounts for roughly 20% of Southeast Asia’s online spending, a surge accelerated by the pandemic. iKala’s research shows that revenue per order on social channels jumped 88%, indicating not just higher volume but larger baskets. While new...
South Korean Cloud Firm Okestro Could Build 5MW Data Center
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...
Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company
In this episode, a16z partner Jorge Conde interviews Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan about reshaping the 250‑year‑old conglomerate into a focused medicines company, a move he estimates will unlock $180 billion of value. Narasimhan outlines Novartis’s three platform pillars—cell and gene therapies,...
Inflammatory Glycogen Produced by Gut Microbes Contributes to Neurodegeneration
Researchers have identified inflammatory glycogen produced by gut microbes as a driver of age‑related neurodegeneration, especially in ALS and frontotemporal dementia linked to C9ORF72 mutations. In germ‑free mice lacking C9ORF72, colonization with glycogen‑producing Parabacteroides merdae triggered monocytosis, blood‑brain barrier breakdown,...
Tembo Raises £16M in Funding Round
London‑based fintech Tembo announced a £16 million funding round led by Gresham House Ventures and existing backers such as Goodwater Capital and the British Business Bank. The capital will fuel expansion of its digital savings and mortgage platform, including the recently...
Ransomware Gangs Are Using Employee Monitoring Software as a Springboard for Cyber Attacks
Threat actors have weaponized Net Monitor for Employees, a legitimate workforce‑tracking product, as a remote access trojan and paired it with SimpleHelp RMM software to stage ransomware attacks. Huntress identified two separate incidents where the dual‑tool chain was used to...
OM in the News: The Memory-Chip Shortage
A seven‑fold surge in DRAM and NAND flash prices is straining the consumer‑tech supply chain. AI‑driven data‑center expansion is the primary catalyst, leaving smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles with higher component costs. OEMs are responding by raising retail prices, trimming...
New Government Commercial Agency to Launch on 1 April
The UK government will merge the Crown Commercial Service with central commercial teams in the Cabinet Office to form the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) on 1 April. The new agency will operate as a self‑sustaining trading fund, led by CCS chief...
Great SaaS Ideas Stem From Lived Problems, Not Novelty
luca.restagno.dev startup founder Hot take: The best SaaS ideas aren't new. They're problems you've already lived with for years. Let me explain 👇 --- luca.restagno.dev startup founder Author When I needed a new product after selling my last SaaS, I didn't brainstorm. I looked at the tools I was ALREADY using...
Integrate Data Quality Assertions Directly Into Orchestration
I see data contracts and data quality as overlapping but different: Data contracts: what is the data and how do we enforce it Data products: why do we need this data In practice, I'd argue for asset-based data quality assertions. Every time a...
Telkom Indonesia Revisits NeutraDC Sale Plans - Report
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...
The Scientist Using AI to Hunt for Antibiotics Just About Everywhere
César de la Fuente’s Penn team is using artificial intelligence to scour genomes for antimicrobial peptides, creating a library of over one million candidate sequences. The AI has uncovered promising molecules hidden in archaea, venomous species, and even extinct organisms...
ACH Volume Is Soaring. Here's How that Threatens Banks.
ACH network volume surged in 2025, reaching 35.2 billion payments worth $93 trillion, a 5 percent rise year‑over‑year. Person‑to‑person transfers grew 19.8 percent and business‑to‑business payments rose 9.9 percent, while check usage in B2B fell to 26 percent. Nacha has proposed lifting the same‑day ACH transaction...
In The Age Of Synthetic Media, Authenticity Can No Longer Be Assumed
Semantics 21 has launched S21 Deepfake Detector, a standalone offline tool that lets investigators assess images and video frames for AI‑generated manipulation. The system provides confidence‑based scores rather than binary judgments, supporting human decision‑making while preserving evidence integrity. After a year...
91: Using AI in Sales to Automate Go-to-Market Execution with Jason Eubanks
In this episode, Chris Daigle interviews Jason Eubanks, CEO of Aurasell AI, about the need for an AI‑native go‑to‑market operating model rather than piecemeal AI experiments. Jason explains that simply adding AI to legacy CRM systems won’t shift productivity; a...
Asda Raids B&Q for New Vice President of Marketing
Asda has appointed Tom Hampson, former B&Q marketing director, as vice‑president of marketing for both the supermarket and its George clothing brand. He succeeds Adam Zavalis and will report to chief customer officer Rachel Eyre, starting in June. Hampson brings...
Intuos Receives €720K for Non-Commercial Aviation Operations and Safety
Intuos, an Italian startup focused on non‑commercial aviation efficiency, closed a €720,000 investment round led by Argo, Techstars, Ventive and other investors. The funding will accelerate development of its two‑part platform that digitises flight operations and adds real‑time IoT telemetry...
Intelliflo Launches AI-Powered IQ Suite
Intelliflo has introduced intelliflo IQ, an AI‑driven suite embedded in its cloud platform for financial advisers. The suite includes an intelligent engagement assistant that automatically records client meetings, extracts key information, and updates more than 190 fact‑find fields, cutting administrative...
IG Unveils Fat Cat Index Exposing ISA Fee Gaps
IG launched its “Check Your Fees” campaign and unveiled the Fat Cat Index, revealing that most UK investors are overpaying on Stocks and Shares ISA platform fees. The index shows 52% of investors use the 12 most expensive providers, with...
Cybersecurity Leader Pete Angstadt Joins DTEX’s Advisory Board
DTEX, a leader in risk‑adaptive security, announced that cybersecurity veteran Pete Angstadt has joined its Advisory Board. Angstadt brings decades of go‑to‑market leadership, having scaled revenue at ForgeRock, Ping Identity, Securiti and Oracle’s cloud security unit. His expertise in identity‑focused...
Asset Finance Demand Steady as Renewables Rise
Allica Bank’s survey of more than 570 asset‑finance brokers shows demand holding steady, with 29% reporting higher application volumes in the second half of the year and 26% seeing no change. Renewables have broken into the top three sectors for...
Mega Grid Batteries Cut Costs 40% and Grow 12×
We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale. Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of smartphone battery. Costs down ~40% since 2024 Capacity in...
Telecoms Transform Into Real-Time Adaptive Intelligence Networks
As 5G, IoT, and Agentic AI converge, telecom networks are no longer passive infrastructure, they’re becoming adaptive, self-optimizing systems that sense, decide, and act in real time. How connectivity is evolving from moving data to orchestrating intelligence ⬇️ Read: ➡️ https://t.co/uwh6kF4fVy #AI...
Solaris Energy Signs 500MW AI Data Center Power Deal
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...
The Mobile Stack at Work: How Allied Technologies Are Reshaping Enterprise Mobility
Enterprise mobility is evolving from a smartphone‑centric model to a comprehensive mobile stack that includes silicon, 5G connectivity, edge AI, and specialised peripherals. IDC projects global spending on these solutions to exceed $700 billion by 2026, while Gartner expects over half...
Transformers Overtake YOLO with Real‑Time Detection
Is YOLO officially dead? 💀 RFDETR (Roboflow Detection Transformers) just redefined real-time detection. ✅ Object Detection ✅ Instance Segmentation ❌ No Keypoints (yet) This is why Transformers are taking over. https://t.co/6LXlbsGWJt
Insurance Revolution Partners CM.com to Power WhatsApp Service
Insurance Revolution has teamed with CM.com to embed WhatsApp into its broker workflow via the Mobile Service Cloud. The move has driven a 50‑fold rise in message volume, cut email traffic by 22% and reduced calls per agent by 11%....
A Welcomed Turning Point for Earned Wage Access
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a December 2025 advisory opinion clarifying that employer‑integrated earned wage access (EWA) is not a loan under the Truth in Lending Act. This guidance removes a major regulatory uncertainty that has limited EWA adoption....
AuthID Announces Out of the Box
authID (Nasdaq: AUID) unveiled an out‑of‑the‑box biometric security platform that conforms to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) framework for energy, water, gas and other critical utilities. The solution replaces passwords and physical tokens with live‑face verification, protecting SCADA consoles, privileged...
DVSA Seeks £95K Digital Chief to Steer Test Booking System Out of the Ditch
The UK Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer with a £95,000 salary to overhaul its 18‑year‑old practical test booking platform, which has been plagued by bots and resale schemes. A National Audit...
India Records Lowest-Ever Price for Green Hydrogen in Tender
India achieved its lowest-ever green hydrogen price, with a winning bid of ₹279 per kilogram to supply 10,000 tonnes annually to Numaligarh Refinery in Assam. The tender attracted nine bidders, reflecting growing competition as renewable energy costs and government incentives...
ChatGPT Gets New Security Feature to Fight Prompt Injection Attacks
OpenAI has added a Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels to ChatGPT to mitigate prompt‑injection attacks and other security threats. Lockdown Mode restricts tool and network access, allowing admins to create dedicated roles that limit external interactions, initially for Enterprise,...
Caterra Launches Fully Autonomous Laser Weeding Robot Honeybee
Swiss firm Caterra AG has introduced Honeybee, a fully autonomous electric robot that uses high‑precision lasers to eradicate weeds in organic and high‑value vegetable crops. The system can mount up to five 0.3‑metre laser modules, covering roughly 0.5 hectares in...
Data: Negative Reaction to Six Nations In-Game Ads
Research by Quantcast shows that in‑game advertising during the Six Nations boosted online engagement for brands but provoked strong negative sentiment among viewers. Samsung achieved a 13% engagement rise while Virgin Atlantic saw an 18% uplift, yet Samsung’s ads generated...
Reassure Safety First, Then Take the Wheel
A strong preframe is basically saying: “I’m gonna drive, but you’re safe.” And people LOVE that.
Natwest Group CEO Touts Near-Term Agentic AI Workflow Future
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,...
Delhi Set to Host First AI Film Festival: Check Date, Ticket Rates, Venue and Dress Code
Delhi will host its inaugural AI Film Festival from February 16 to 20, coinciding with the AI Impact Summit. The five‑day event showcases short films, expert panels and awards, aimed at directors, technology enthusiasts, academics and the broader public. Organisers...
Novartis Reports Final Data of ALIGN Trial in IgAN
Novartis released final Phase III ALIGN data showing its oral endothelin‑A antagonist Vanrafia (atrasentan) slowed kidney function decline in adults with IgA nephropathy. The double‑blind, placebo‑controlled trial enrolled 340 biopsy‑confirmed patients who continued optimized RAS inhibition, delivering a 2.39 ml/min/1.73 m² advantage in...
OPay Wins Fintech Company of the Year for Second Time at Leadership Awards
OPay was named Fintech Company of the Year 2025 at Nigeria’s Leadership Annual Conference, marking its second back‑to‑back win after 2024. The award, presented in Abuja, recognized OPay’s innovation, security and broad financial‑inclusion impact for millions of individuals and MSMEs....
Medtronic Secures FDA Approval for Stealth AXiS Spine Robotics Platform
Medtronic has secured FDA clearance for its Stealth AXiS spine‑surgery robotics platform, an integrated solution that combines robotics, planning and navigation in a single workflow. The system features LiveAlign segmental tracking, delivering real‑time visualization of anatomical movement and reducing the need...
