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. A transparent public‑private cost‑sharing model is proposed to align efficiency investments with demand‑side accountability. Enterprises are urged to embed sustainability metrics into AI workload and data lifecycle decisions to manage both cost and carbon footprints.
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...
Graphene Quantum Dots Show Promise as Antioxidant for Injuries
📰 🧪 James Tour Group in the News: Graphene quantum dots could yield an effective antioxidant for various traumatic injuriesThe research of James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. […] https://t.co/nZF8XBp9zL
From Findings to Action: How SecurityBridge Is Bringing Trusted AI Into SAP Security
SecurityBridge has launched the AI Companion, the first AI‑powered security assistant built specifically for SAP environments. Leveraging a proprietary, continuously enriched SAP security knowledge base, the tool transforms thousands of technical findings into context‑aware, actionable recommendations delivered via natural‑language interaction....
Systematic Discovery of Molecular Glues Targets Protein Degradation in Leukemia
Researchers at the AITHYRA Institute introduced a high‑throughput chemical diversification platform that systematically creates molecular‑glue candidates and screens them directly in living cells. Applying the workflow to the leukemia‑associated protein ENL, they identified a small molecule that selectively induces ENL...
Brainomix Launches Award-Winning Next Generation Stroke AI Platform with Novel Net Water Uptake Technology at the International Stroke Conference (ISC)
Brainomix unveiled its next‑generation Brainomix 360 Stroke platform at the International Stroke Conference, featuring an industry‑first net water uptake (NWU) metric derived from routine non‑contrast CT scans. The platform earned the Red Dot Design Award, highlighting its superior usability and innovative...
URBN Tests Agentic AI to Automate Retail Reporting
Urban Outfitters (URBN) is piloting agentic AI to generate weekly store‑level performance reports, replacing the manual assembly of more than 20 spreadsheets per Sunday. The AI agents ingest sales, inventory and other metrics, then deliver concise summaries to merchandising teams....
2026 Banking Trends Reveal a Dangerous Execution Gap
The episode dissects the widening execution gap in banking, highlighting how many institutions recognize digital and AI trends but struggle to implement them effectively. Experts discuss generative AI’s role in marketing, lending, and operational efficiency, while leaders from credit unions,...
UK Councils Prioritise Connectivity but Lack Impact Data
Four‑in‑five UK councils now list digital connectivity as a top local priority, with gigabit broadband and rural inclusion driving the agenda. Yet nine‑in‑ten admit they cannot quantify the economic or social returns of improved connectivity, and 70% would like formal...
3 Questions: Using AI to Help Olympic Skaters Land a Quint
MIT Sports Lab researchers Jerry Lu and Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi discuss how AI is being used to boost figure‑skating performance and judging. Lu’s OOFSkate system analyzes video of jumps to give skaters precise metrics and compare them to elite...
Milan-Based Contents Secures €5.9 Million for AI Workflow Platform, Sets up Doha Hub for Middle East Expansion
Italian AI workflow startup Contents announced a €5.9 million Series B extension, bringing its total financing to €21 million. The round was led by Qatar Development Bank with participation from Alkemia Capital, and will fund the launch of a Doha‑based hub serving the...