Lotus Health AI Doctor Raising $35M
The episode dives into Lotus Health AI's pioneering model of an AI doctor that offers free consultations, aiming to reshape primary care accessibility. It examines how technologies like ChatGPT are being leveraged for medical advice, outlines Lotus Health's vision and operational framework, and addresses compliance and regulatory challenges. The discussion highlights the potential for AI to expand patient access while navigating the complex healthcare regulatory environment.
Tensor Ventures And Others Invest $4 Million US in London-Based AppFactor
Tensor Ventures led a $4 million seed round in London‑based AppFactor, joined by Begin Capital and Adara Ventures. The startup’s platform monitors and modernizes legacy enterprise applications in‑operation, eliminating downtime for end users. Deployments are already live at a major UK...
Salesforce Survey Reveals AI Is the #2 Growth Tactic for 2026 as Irish Sales Teams Turn to Agents
Salesforce’s State of Sales survey of over 4,000 reps, including 100 in Ireland, shows AI agents are the second‑most important growth tactic for 2026. In Ireland, 87% of sales organisations already use AI for tasks such as prospecting and forecasting,...
Survey: Bankers Say Competition for Deposits Is Heating Up
Community bankers report that credit unions are now their primary rival for deposits, with 66% noting heightened competition. The survey also reveals that 82% anticipate at least 11 more credit‑union acquisitions of banks this year, continuing a trend of 16...
IQC Appoints Dr. John Watrous in New Director Role Set to Expand the Institute's Educational Programs
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) announced that Dr. John Watrous, a former faculty member and interim executive director, will serve as the new Director of Education and Training. In this role, Watrous will lead an effort to broaden IQC’s...
DMARC Alerts in Slack
EasyDMARC now pushes DMARC and email‑authentication alerts straight into Slack, turning a traditionally passive control into an active operational signal. The integration delivers high‑signal events—such as DNS record changes, authentication‑failure spikes, and policy shifts—complete with domain, severity and rationale, while...
Jayavardhan Reddy ,Profile Summary
Jayavardhan Reddy is a Site Reliability and DevOps engineer specializing in modernising large‑scale, transaction‑critical systems for banking and global payments. He has led reliability, automation, and observability initiatives, migrating legacy workloads to containerised platforms and building CI/CD pipelines that boost...
Chase Launches All-in-One Insurance Bundle for UK Customers
Chase has introduced Chase Protect, its first insurance offering, bundling worldwide travel, mobile phone, and AA breakdown cover for a fixed £12.50 monthly fee. The product is embedded in the Chase mobile app, allowing customers to purchase, manage policies, and...
Sugar Molecules Offer Promising New Approach to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Australian researchers have engineered antibodies that bind to pseudaminic acid, a sugar molecule found exclusively on the surface of many pathogenic bacteria. The pan‑specific antibody demonstrated potent clearance of multidrug‑resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in mouse infection models. By targeting a bacterial...
Crab Shell Gel Turns Kimchi Bacteria Into Living Food Safety Sensors
Researchers at Rice University engineered a naphthoquinone‑grafted chitosan hydrogel that embeds the food‑grade bacterium Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, achieving extracellular electron transfer 15.6 times higher than plain chitosan. The tethered quinone mediators stay fixed, preventing leakage and stabilizing performance for up to...
Top Five Insurance Industry Predictions for 2026
UK insurers face a softening rate environment in 2026, prompting a shift toward data‑driven decision making. nCino predicts that embedding real‑time intelligence into underwriting and broker workflows will become a key competitive edge. Firms are urged to differentiate on service...
Unlocking History: Genetic Study of Deep Maniot Greeks Unveils a Unique Balkan Time Capsule
A new study in Communications Biology reveals that the Deep Maniot Greeks of Greece's Mani Peninsula have maintained a remarkably isolated gene pool for over a millennium. Uniparental Y‑chromosome and mitochondrial DNA analyses show continuity from Bronze Age, Iron Age...
Prolisto Officially Launches Prolisto Lite, a Free AI-Powered Web App for Creating eBay Listings From Product Photos
Prolisto has launched Prolisto Lite, a free AI‑powered web app that creates eBay listings from a single product photo. The Image‑to‑Listing engine generates a search‑optimized title, detailed description and item specifics without relying on barcodes or catalog data. It supports...
CFD Focused Equiti Group Enhances Deposits and Cross-Border Transfers with Checkout.com
Equiti Group has teamed up with global payments provider Checkout.com to upgrade its Equiti Pay gateway, adding card deposits, pay‑to‑card transfers and digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. The integration promises faster, more reliable cross‑border funding and...
OpenAI Hires Anthropic's Dylan Scandinaro to Lead AI Safety as "Extremely Powerful Models" Loom
OpenAI announced Dylan Scandinaro, formerly of Anthropic, as its new Head of Preparedness. The role is designed to strengthen safety protocols as OpenAI develops increasingly powerful AI models. Scandinaro warned of "extreme and even irrecoverable harm" while acknowledging the technology's...
Microsoft: Info-Stealing Malware Expands From Windows to macOS
Microsoft has observed a rapid rise in information‑stealing malware targeting macOS, a shift from its traditional Windows focus. Since late 2025, threat actors have deployed macOS‑specific stealers such as DigitStealer, MacSync and Atomic macOS Stealer, often written in Python and...
Employee‑Created Video Boosts ROI: 2.5×
If you ever needed convincing that people-powered marketing is the way forward in 2026, check out this article from Lindsey Brummer . Packed full of latest insights from LinkedIn , she walks you through why people are better influencers than...
DSNKY's DS-3790 DXd ADC Begins Clinical Trials
$DSNKY's first DXd ADC for haematology, DS-3790, enters the clinic. As I reported last November: https://t.co/9CcbISqbqK
SECNAP CloudJacket MXDR Integrates SOC, SIEM, and NDR
SECNAP Network Security launched CloudJacket MXDR, a managed extended detection and response platform that unifies SOC, SIEM, and NDR functions under a single pane of glass. Built on the patented CloudJacket foundation, the solution adds multi‑tenant capabilities, AI‑augmented analyst workflows,...
How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook for Vertical SaaS and Agentic AI
In this episode, Matt Spiegel, founder and CEO of Lawmatics, walks through how his vertical SaaS company scaled to $12M ARR by focusing on high ARPU, agentic AI, and disciplined capital strategies. He shares tactics for acquiring the first 100...
Vault Selects Thredd as Issuing Processor
Vault Payment Solutions, a leading Australian card‑payments provider, has selected Thredd as its issuing processor to support expansion into new regions on Mastercard’s global network. The partnership will enable Vault to launch prepaid, debit and private‑label card programmes in Australia...
The First Clinical Trial of Partial Reprogramming Will Start Soon
The FDA has cleared Life Bioscience’s ER-100 for the first human trial of partial epigenetic reprogramming, aimed at restoring damaged retinal cells in patients with open‑angle glaucoma and non‑arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. The therapy delivers three Yamanaka factors—Oct4, Sox2...
Broadcom Announces Industry’s First Enterprise Wi-Fi 8 Access Point and Switch Solution for the AI Era
Broadcom unveiled the industry’s first enterprise‑grade Wi‑Fi 8 access point and switch solution, built around the new BCM49438 accelerated processing unit and the Trident X3+ BCM56390 Ethernet switch. The unified architecture combines multi‑gigabit Ethernet, full‑port MACsec security, edge‑AI acceleration and advanced telemetry...
Catalyst IQ Unveils Intelligent SEO/AEO Technology to Increase Automotive AI Search Results
Catalyst IQ introduced an AI‑focused SEO, AEO and GEO platform at the NADA convention, targeting automotive dealers. The solution uses real‑time market intelligence to match keywords with actual inventory and local demand, updating content as AI‑driven search trends evolve. Powered...
Cytora and Altitude Intelligence Partner to Enhance Commercial Underwriting
Cytora and Altitude Intelligence have formed a strategic partnership to embed Altitude’s high‑fidelity geospatial and multi‑source intelligence directly into Cytora’s AI‑driven underwriting platform. The integration enables commercial insurers to enrich submissions with real‑time climate and location insights at the point...
PayPal-Backed Modulr Banks First Full-Year Profit
PayPal‑backed UK fintech Modulr announced its first full‑year net profit for 2025, reversing a £11 million pre‑tax loss recorded in 2024. CEO Myles Stephenson said the profitability milestone gives the company control to invest in new products, expand globally and pursue...
Fitch Solutions Delivers AI-Ready Credit Data on Snowflake Marketplace
Fitch Solutions has partnered with Snowflake to list its credit intelligence and loan‑level performance datasets on the Snowflake Marketplace. The initial offering includes Fitch Ratings data and dv01 benchmarks for U.S. auto, consumer unsecured, and non‑agency RMBS sectors, with more...
Ferroptosis in Alzheimer's Disease Is Reduced by Exercise
Recent review highlights ferroptosis, an iron‑dependent lipid‑peroxidation cell death, as a key driver of neuronal loss in Alzheimer’s disease. Senescent cells disrupt iron homeostasis, antioxidant defenses, and autophagy, creating a pro‑ferroptotic brain environment that accelerates pathology. Physical exercise counteracts these...
Similarweb and Bloomberg Expand Data Available on the Bloomberg Terminal
Similarweb’s premium digital performance metrics are now embedded in Bloomberg Terminal’s Alternative Data Analytics Platform (ALTD ). Bloomberg selected Similarweb as its premium alternative data provider, delivering near‑real‑time signals such as unique visitors, average visit duration, bounce rate and page...
Watches of Switzerland Group Raises Full Year Sales Guidance
Watches of Switzerland Group lifted its full‑year sales guidance to 9‑11% in constant currency after a robust third quarter, with demand for luxury watches outpacing supply in both the UK and US. The company highlighted broad‑based growth across categories and...
ParaScript® Launches Professional Services Division
ParaScript, an AI‑driven document processing firm, announced the creation of a Professional Services division dedicated to guiding customers through deployment, integration, and optimization of its technology. The unit targets data‑intensive sectors such as financial services and BPO, offering implementation management,...
Pulte: GSE Stock Move Odds 'Strong,' But 'We Don't Have To'
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte told Fox News that there are "very strong odds" of a public stock offering for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this year, though the Trump administration is also weighing other options. The administration’s...
Marketing Email Campaigns Reflected Tariffs, TikTok Trends in 2025
Omnisend’s 2025 analysis shows that three‑quarters of marketing email campaigns referenced tariffs or broader trade‑policy news, underscoring how supply‑chain costs dominate brand messaging. Thirteen percent of those emails highlighted “Made in USA” to reassure shoppers about product origin and pricing...
How One CDFI Is Navigating the Chaos in Minneapolis
WomenVenture, a Minneapolis‑based Community Development Financial Institution, has provided emergency assistance to 108 small businesses as Minnesota grapples with the federal Operation Metro Surge immigration enforcement. The crackdown has slashed foot traffic, caused labor shortages, and driven sales declines as...
A 'Cold Earth' Exoplanet Just 146 Light-Years Away Might Be in Its Star's Habitable Zone — if It Exists
Astronomers have identified a possible rocky exoplanet, HD 137010b, orbiting a K‑type dwarf 146 light‑years away. The planet, about 1.06 times Earth’s diameter, receives roughly 29 % of Earth’s solar flux and completes an orbit in about 355 days, placing it on the...
Electrochemical Unzipping of Carbon Nanotubes in a Molten Salt
Researchers have demonstrated an electrochemical technique that unzips carbon nanotubes into graphene stacks within a molten CaCl2‑NaCl salt. The melt temperature governs the resulting architecture, producing few‑layer turbostratic graphene below 850 °C and Bernal‑type graphite above 900 °C, both with ultralow defect...
Interlock Ransomware Exploits Zero-Day in Gaming Anti-Cheat Driver to Disable EDR, AV
Interlock ransomware has added a zero‑day exploit in a gaming anti‑cheat driver (CVE‑2025‑61155) to its arsenal, deploying a signed kernel driver called UpdateCheckerX64.sys. The new BYOVD tool, dubbed Hotta Killer, creates a demand‑start service and uses DeviceIoControl to terminate security...
‘Incestuous’ and ‘Harmful’ Mobile Ad Ripped Down by ASA
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a mobile ad for the game Animals Solitaire: Protect after finding it promoted a potentially incestuous scenario and objectified a step‑daughter character. The ad featured a lingerie‑clad woman with text suggesting sexual...
Embattled Novo Nordisk Considers Buying a Monthly GLP-1 to Bolster Portfolio
Novo Nordisk is actively exploring the acquisition or internal development of a long‑acting, once‑monthly GLP‑1 therapy. The move aims to counter Pfizer’s newly launched monthly obesity injection and to broaden Novo’s weight‑loss portfolio. Executives see a monthly formulation as a...
Samsung Ads Expands Integration with Amazon DSP Into Europe
Samsung Ads announced that its premium Samsung TV Plus inventory is now available to marketers through Amazon DSP across Europe, extending the existing U.S. and Canada integration. Samsung TV Plus, the free ad‑supported streaming service on Samsung Smart TVs, serves...
Aurora Introduces Algorithmic Underwriting for Insurers
Aurora, a leading algorithmic insurance platform, announced its new Lead Algorithmic Underwriting as a Service. The managed offering lets insurers apply live, governed underwriting algorithms to complex commercial and specialty risks without altering broker trading practices. By automating risk assessment,...
Assessing Coronary Lesions in Kawasaki Disease via Angiography
Researchers Chen, Feng and Zhang used coronary angiography to map coronary artery lesions in children with Kawasaki disease, revealing a spectrum from mild stenosis to large aneurysms. The study identified younger age at onset and delayed IVIG treatment as key...
Finite Size‐Effects in Martensite Microstructure of Magnetic Shape Memory Films
Researchers examined epitaxially grown Ni‑Mn‑Ga magnetic shape memory films to reveal how finite dimensions influence ferroelastic martensite microstructures. By comparing constrained (substrate‑bound) and freestanding micro‑patterns, they showed that both retain the variant distribution of the continuous film. Film thickness emerged...
Beyond Imaging: Atomic Force Microscopy as an Integrated Tool for Nanomechanical Probing and Active Manipulation of Low‐Dimensional Materials
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is emerging as a versatile platform for probing and manipulating the nanomechanics of one‑ and two‑dimensional materials. The review details AFM‑based techniques that quantify elastic modulus, strength, adhesion, friction, superlubricity and fatigue with piconewton force sensitivity...
What Is an Adverse Media Check and Why It Matters for AML
Adverse media checks have become a core component of modern anti‑money‑laundering (AML) frameworks, supplementing transaction monitoring and sanctions screening. They involve scanning publicly available sources—news, legal filings, watchlists—to flag allegations, investigations or high‑risk associations before formal convictions occur. These checks...
7,900 AI Updates Overwhelm Me on X
There are so many new things I can't keep up. 7,900 in my AI company lists here on X.
Anthropic Partners with Leading Research Institutes to Tackle Biology's Data Bottleneck
Anthropic has struck partnerships with the Allen Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to build AI agents that tackle biology’s growing data bottleneck. The collaborations will develop specialized agents for experiment design, data integration, and instrument control, aiming to...
Trapped Energy Level‐Assisted Ultrafast Interfacial Charge Transfer in S‐Scheme Heterojunctions
Researchers have boosted interfacial electron transfer in CdS/TiO2 S‑scheme heterojunctions by engineering oxygen‑vacancy trap states on fluorine‑doped TiO2 surfaces. In‑situ soft X‑ray absorption and femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy revealed an ultrafast, trap‑assisted charge‑migration pathway that extends carrier lifetimes and suppresses...
Shopify Chargeback Dos and Don’ts | Eastside Co
The episode breaks down Shopify chargebacks, explaining their causes—fraud, shipping issues, inaccurate listings, and refund disputes—and why they matter financially and reputationally. It walks listeners through Shopify’s built‑in dispute workflow and highlights the platform’s fee‑refund policy when merchants win a...
What Is an Integrated Campaign? 2026 Guide for E-Commerce
In this episode, host Loieto Tugas and guest William Gasner break down what an integrated campaign is and why it’s essential for e‑commerce brands in 2026. They explain the 4 Cs—Coherent, Consistent, Continuous, Complementary—and outline the key steps: clear goals, a...
