Hospitals Could Earn More for Buying US-Made Drugs, CMS Proposes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a proposal to raise hospital reimbursement rates for drugs that are manufactured in the United States. Under the plan, the outpatient prospective payment system would grant higher payments for domestically produced pharmaceuticals, potentially adding up to a five‑percent boost for qualifying purchases. The initiative is part of a broader “Buy American” effort aimed at strengthening the U.S. drug supply chain and supporting local manufacturers. CMS will seek public comment before finalizing the rule later this year.
Remote Controlled Police Drones Keeping Coventry Safe
Police drones controlled from Birmingham are now operating over Coventry as part of the "Drone as First Responder" initiative, a five‑year national project funded by the Home Office via the NPCC. The drones launch from automated charging stations on a...
NASA Gets New F-15 Fighter Jet to Chase Its X-59 'Quiet' Supersonic Aircraft
NASA has added two retired U.S. Air Force F‑15 fighter jets to its Armstrong Flight Research Center fleet to support the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator program. The aircraft will serve as chase planes for the X‑59 "quiet" supersonic demonstrator, flying...
NDSS 2025 – On the Robustness Of LDP Protocols For Numerical Attributes Under Data Poisoning Attacks
The NDSS 2025 paper investigates how local differential privacy (LDP) protocols for numerical attributes can be subverted by data‑poisoning attacks, where a small set of malicious clients manipulates server estimates. Researchers evaluate state‑of‑the‑art categorical frequency oracles, binning, consistency, and distribution‑reconstruction...
Memcyco Receives $37M Series A Financing
Memcyco announced a $37 million Series A round, bringing its total funding to $47 million. The oversubscribed round was led by NAventures, E. León Jimenes, and PagsGroup, with existing backers Capri Ventures and Venture Guides participating. Memcyco’s real‑time, agentless platform protects enterprises from phishing,...
Edits Gets Simplified Copy and Paste, Improved Track Linking
Meta’s Edits app introduced a copy‑and‑paste feature for fonts and clips, enabling creators to maintain visual consistency across projects while saving time. A new drop‑down menu centralizes access to guides, frames, and snapping tools, simplifying the mobile editing workflow. The...
DSGym Offers a Reusable Container Based Substrate for Building and Benchmarking Data Science Agents
DSGym, a collaborative effort from Stanford, Together AI, Duke and Harvard, introduces a reusable container‑based framework that evaluates data‑science agents through real code execution. The suite standardizes tasks, agents and environments, offering 972 analysis and 114 prediction challenges spanning finance,...
Mastercard Launches ‘Agent Suite’ to Help Merchants Deploy Agentic AI
Mastercard announced the Agent Suite, a portfolio of customizable agentic AI services slated for release in Q2 2026. The offering combines AI agents with consulting, leveraging Mastercard’s payments infrastructure, data assets, and a global network of over 4,000 advisors. Initial use...
Momentum Achieves Long-Range Entanglement in Broken Symmetry 1D Systems
Researchers Amanda Gatto Lamas and Taylor L. Hughes demonstrate that non‑zero momentum directly indicates long‑range entanglement (LRE) in one‑dimensional quantum systems lacking translational symmetry. By analyzing the many‑body momentum distribution and the expectation value of the translation operator |⟨T⟩|, they...
Interdisciplinary Communities Unlock Practical Wisdom in Responsible AI
Once in a while I write a quick post of appreciation for someone who has inspired me or my work. Today I wanted to highlight Jacob Metcalf who I went to back in 2016 as he (and his org, Ethical...
Massive Star WOH G64 Is Still a Red Supergiant—For Now
WOH G64, one of the Large Magellanic Cloud's most luminous red supergiants, has been confirmed to remain in the red‑supergiant phase despite recent dimming and spectral changes. High‑resolution SALT spectra revealed titanium‑oxide absorption bands, a definitive sign of a cool photosphere,...
Magnetic Superhighways Discovered in a Starburst Galaxy's Winds
Using ALMA’s full‑polarization capabilities, astronomers mapped the magnetic fields of the merging ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 and uncovered a magnetized, high‑speed molecular outflow that functions as a “magnetic superhighway.” The study reports the first polarized CO(3‑2) detection, revealing field strengths...
WinRAR Path Traversal Flaw Still Exploited by Numerous Hackers
Multiple threat actors, including state‑sponsored groups and cybercriminals, are exploiting the high‑severity WinRAR path‑traversal vulnerability CVE‑2025‑8088. The flaw uses Alternate Data Streams to write malicious LNK, HTA, BAT or script files to arbitrary locations such as the Windows Startup folder,...
EBAD PRM Payload Release Module Family Demonstrates Scalable, Low-Shock Separation Capability on Falcon 9 Twilight Rideshare Mission
Ensign‑Bickford Aerospace and Defense (EBAD) confirmed the successful actuation of its PRM9103 payload release module during SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Twilight rideshare on Jan. 11, deploying ten Kepler Communications satellites. The flight validates the low‑shock, precision‑separation capability of EBAD’s PRM family, which scales...
Results From the Immunis Phase 2 Trial of a Stem Cell Secretome Therapy
Immunis announced interim Phase 2 results for its IMM01‑STEM secretome therapy in 47 obese seniors with muscle loss and metabolic dysfunction. The double‑blind, placebo‑controlled study showed a 26 % improvement in gait speed, a validated marker of overall health. Preclinical data also...
Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Here’s How to Turn It Off (2026)
Amazon has rolled out its AI‑enhanced Alexa+ to all Prime members, automatically replacing the original Alexa on supported devices. The upgrade, announced at CES, is still in Early Access and remains free for Prime users, though a $20 monthly fee...
DLocal Powers HONOR’s Peru Debut as E-Commerce Sales Set to Hit $59.5bn
Cross‑border payments platform dLocal has partnered with Chinese AI device maker HONOR to launch the brand’s first website in Peru. The deal gives HONOR access to a suite of local payment methods—including credit‑card installments, bank transfers, cash and the Yape...
Unified Platform Enhances Variant Detection in Mendelian Genetics
Researchers led by Du et al. unveiled an integrated platform that concurrently detects structural variants and single‑nucleotide polymorphisms. The system leverages machine‑learning algorithms to boost copy‑number variation detection and uncover pathogenic alleles in Mendelian families lacking diagnoses. By handling large‑scale...
Judge Blesses Fifth Third-Comerica Deal, Shuts Down Lawsuit
A Delaware judge rejected HoldCo Asset Management's attempt to block Fifth Third Bancorp’s $10.9 billion acquisition of Comerica, allowing the merger to proceed on schedule. The decision noted no imminent irreparable harm to shareholders and emphasized the premium benefit of the deal....
Support Geometry Achieves Fast Entanglement Diagnostics in Qubit Registers
The study leverages Boolean‑cube geometry to create a fast, scalable method for diagnosing entanglement in pure qubit registers. By linking separability to the support size of computational basis states, the authors derive closed‑form support counts and a diagnostic algorithm that...
How Porn Stars Can Survive in the Age of AI
The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo highlighted a turning point for the porn industry as artificial intelligence reshapes content creation. Performers face mounting threats from AI‑generated deepfakes that can siphon revenue and damage reputations. In response, stars are adopting subscription services,...
Quantum Systems’ Vector Recognized by Ukrainian Armed Forces with “Army of Drones 2025” Award
Quantum Systems’ Vector UAV secured third place in the Army of Drones 2025 ISR competition, a ranking driven by Ukrainian frontline units through the BRAVE1 Marketplace. The award follows the company’s August 2025 entry into the marketplace and reflects direct procurement of...
Wigner’s Friend Circuit Achieves 0.877 Inter-Branch Communication Witness Fidelity on IBM
Researchers led by Christopher Altman have implemented a five‑qubit Wigner’s Friend circuit on IBM’s ibm_fez superconducting processor, achieving a population‑based visibility of 0.877 and coherence witnesses of 0.840 and –0.811. The experiment benchmarks inter‑branch communication witnesses without physical signalling, providing...
Own Your Goals, Master Basics Before Experimenting
Dear marketers: "We own goal ourselves all the time" "Nail table stakes first, then experiment" Matt Amundson on... The Transaction .
Built a Replit App to Classify $10K+ SaaS Raises
Tomorrow, I'll release my latest tech fundraising report in my weekly newsletter. I categorized the software offered from my 4Q25 data points. I'll slowly work through my dataset to categorize the parent category and sub-category of software of 10K+ raises....
Toro Steel Buildings Backed by over 85,000 Successful Builds
Toro Steel Buildings, with over 40 years in business, has supplied more than 85,000 prefabricated steel structures across North America. Its kits are fully engineered to meet local snow, wind, seismic and hurricane codes, ensuring reliable performance in diverse climates....
Revolut Launches Full Banking Operations in Mexico
Fintech giant Revolut has launched full banking operations in Mexico, marking its first bank outside Europe. The company obtained a Mexican multiple‑bank licence through a direct application and has funded the venture with over $100 million, well above the regulatory minimum....
The State-Led Crackdown on Grok and xAI Has Begun
A coalition of at least 37 U.S. attorneys general has opened investigations and issued an open letter demanding xAI halt the creation of non‑consensual sexual imagery by its Grok chatbot. A Center for Countering Digital Hate report found Grok generated...
Reliability at Sea: Why Vancouver’s Shipping Giants Invest in Strategic Maintenance
Vancouver’s shipping operators are treating vessel upkeep as a strategic business function rather than a routine expense. By leveraging engine analytics, repair logs and local dry‑dock access, companies like Ignition Marine align maintenance windows with commercial calendars, turning reliability into...
LLM-as-a-Courtroom
Falconer introduced an “LLM‑as‑a‑Courtroom” system that automatically updates documentation when code changes, framing the decision process as a legal trial with prosecutor, defense, jury, and judge agents. The architecture extracts exact code and document excerpts, constructs arguments, and lets multiple...
Republic Europe Promotes Later Stage Investments
Republic Europe has launched the R Access series, a platform that gives individual investors direct exposure to later‑stage private companies. The first offering, a Kraken special‑purpose vehicle, aggregates existing private shares ahead of the crypto exchange’s anticipated 2026 IPO. By...
Dialogue Integration With Instagram & TikTok
In this episode, Omri Katz discusses how brands can leverage Dialogue’s integration with Instagram and TikTok to deliver personalized customer experiences. He explains the technical steps for syncing product catalogs, automating messaging, and using social commerce tools to drive engagement...
Home Depot Introduces AI Tool to Help Contractors Build Project Material Lists Faster
Home Depot has added a Material List Builder AI to its Project Planning platform, allowing professional contractors to generate detailed, job‑specific material lists in minutes using natural language, voice or existing documents. The tool groups items by project phase, shows...
7 Best Places to Buy Affordable Jigsaw Puzzles
The article outlines seven retailers where puzzle enthusiasts can find affordable, quality jigsaw puzzles, ranging from mass‑market giants like Amazon and Target to specialty sites such as PuzzleWarehouse.com and heirloom‑focused Nautilus Wooden Puzzles. It highlights the pandemic‑driven surge in puzzle...
This Rapidly Growing Black Hole Is Challenging Super-Eddington Accretion
Astronomers have identified quasar eFEDS J084222.9+001000 (ID830) at redshift 3.435, only 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The object shines as the most X‑ray luminous radio‑loud quasar in the eFEDS field, accreting at roughly 15 times the Eddington limit. Its extreme X‑ray...
Cardiff Execs Depart as Company Drops Mixed Phase 2 Data
Cardiff Oncology (CRDF) saw its shares tumble more than 30% after it released mixed Phase 2 results for its lead oncology candidate. The trial met several secondary endpoints but failed to achieve its primary efficacy goal, prompting uncertainty about the...
Reconfigurable Robotic Fish Reveals How Stiffness and Wave Propagation Shape Swimming Performance
A team at Peking University built a soft robotic fish that can reconfigure between eel‑like (anguilliform) and tuna‑like (carangiform) swimming styles. By adjusting body stiffness, the platform directly measured how wave propagation and stiffness affect thrust, speed, and maneuverability. In...
AI-Powered Content Suggestions Keep Docs Fresh Automatically
Support teams have always found it incredibly hard to keep docs/help centres up to date with policy & product changes, but it's more important now than ever before. Docs are load-bearing infrastructure in the AI era. Hence one of my...
AI Auto‑Responses: A Sales Strategy Mistake
I can't think of a worse sales strategy than auto-responding to social media posts with AI-generated comments that pitch your company. Bad look.
Infleqtion to Become First Publicly Listed: Neutral-Atom Quantum Tech in 2026
Infleqtion announced a business combination with Churchill Capital Corp X that will make it the first publicly listed neutral‑atom quantum computing and sensing company. The transaction is expected to generate more than $540 million in gross proceeds, including a $125 million PIPE, and...
Replit Agent Powers Offline AI Voice Assistant on Mobile
these guys got @replit agent to build a fully local and offline AI voice assistant for mobile 👀
WhatsApp Adds Anti‑spyware Blocks for Unknown Media
Powerful new features announced by @WhatsApp today to defend against sophisticated spyware. Includes the ability to block attachments and media from people not in your contact list. https://t.co/nvd2F83n4Z
Quince Expands to Canada
Quince has launched a dedicated Canadian website, marking its first international expansion. The online retailer offers a curated assortment of apparel, accessories, and home essentials, available now via its web store and the Apple App Store, with Google Play support...
Robot Masters 1,000 Tasks After <24‑hour Demos
Scientists have developed an #ImitationLearning-based method that enabled a robot to learn 1000 distinct manipulation tasks from less than 24 hours of human demonstrations. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/T9EKphwp70 https://t.co/R3TFjfdUgd
Seeking Brands Collaborating with YouTube Creators for Content
For an article: I'm looking to connect with brands partnering w/ creators/influencers on YouTube content (be it a one-off vlog, an ongoing series, etc.) I know @Huckberry, @CAVA, + others do this (and would love to speak with their teams. ...
A Tactical Guide to B2B Ecommerce Growth: Tools, Workflows & Metrics
The episode outlines a tactical framework for scaling B2B eCommerce by focusing on five foundational pillars: clean, centralized product data; a human‑centric buyer experience; aligned sales and marketing; blended assisted‑self‑serve options; and seamless omnichannel back‑office sync. It walks listeners through...
OpenAI CEO Altman Admits He Broke His Own AI Security Rule After Just Two Hours, Says We're All About to...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted he violated his own rule by granting the Codex model full access to his computer within two hours, citing the agent's reasonable behavior. He warned that the convenience of AI agents can lead users to...
Moleskine Opens First Neighborhood Concept Store in US
Moleskine opened a 280‑square‑foot boutique on New York’s Upper East Side, marking its first neighborhood‑concept store in the United States. The shop is the sixth Manhattan location and part of a broader plan to open more U.S. stores and renovate...
Google’s More Affordable AI Plus Plan Rolls Out to All Markets, Including the US
Google has rolled out its lower‑cost AI Plus subscription to every market where its AI plans are offered, including the United States at $7.99 per month. The expansion adds 35 new countries, bringing the plan to emerging regions after an initial launch...
Amid Trump Attacks and Weaponized Sanctions, Europeans Look to Rely Less on US Tech
European leaders are accelerating efforts to curb dependence on U.S. technology after a series of Trump‑era sanctions, including the placement of ICC judge Kimberly Prost on a sanctions list that crippled her daily life. The European Parliament’s recent report highlighted...
