72andSunny Will Build a Brand Around Qualcomm’s Compute Power
72andSunny has secured the agency‑of‑record role for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Compute platform, winning a competitive pitch that ends McCann Worldgroup’s eight‑year tenure. The creative firm will craft a global brand campaign that spotlights the chip’s AI‑driven processing power, with the first activation slated for the first quarter of 2026. The account will be run out of 72andSunny’s New York and Toronto offices under CEO Ali Cornford. This win positions the agency at the forefront of marketing for next‑generation compute technology.
Zepo Intelligence Secures $15M to Safeguard Workspaces From AI Risks
Zepo Intelligence announced a $15 million seed round led by Kibo Ventures, eCAPITAL and TIN Capital. The startup tackles the surge in AI‑driven social engineering, which the World Economic Forum says has risen 1,200 % since ChatGPT’s debut. Zepo’s platform simulates deepfake,...
AI Answering Services: The Smarter Way to Never Miss a Call in 2025
AI answering services use natural language processing, voice recognition, and machine learning to field inbound calls, book appointments, route callers, and sound human. They deliver 24/7 availability, cutting staffing costs and boosting lead capture by 30‑50% for small businesses. Platforms...
My Next New Book: “Intelligent Bank”
“Intelligent Bank” argues that banking is entering a third technological revolution, moving beyond the mainframe and digital eras to an intelligence era driven by AI‑powered insight and delegated decision‑making. The author contends that while digital transformation delivered apps, APIs and...
EU’s Chat Control Could Put Government Monitoring Inside Robots
EU’s proposed Chat Control regulation, originally targeting online child sexual abuse, now extends to robots that facilitate interpersonal communication. By defining any interactive service as a communication service, the law obliges robot providers to conduct risk assessments and potentially embed...
PepeEmpire Review 2026: Ethereum Layer 2 Built for Ease
PepeEmpire positions itself as an Ethereum Layer 2 built around ease of use rather than raw speed. The platform promises fast, cheap transactions while hiding the complex steps that typically burden users, such as network switches, bridging delays, and repetitive approvals....
Do You Need a Specialist eCommerce Accountant?
E‑commerce businesses now generate enterprise‑grade data streams that overwhelm traditional bookkeeping, which assumes a one‑to‑one invoice‑payment relationship. Multi‑channel payouts bundle thousands of orders, fees, refunds and tax obligations into single deposits, obscuring SKU‑level profitability and creating reconciliation nightmares. A specialist...
Brazil’s Oldest Perfumery Is Making a Play for US Fragrance Consumers. And No, It’s Not Sol De Janeiro
Brazilian heritage brand Granado, founded in 1870, is accelerating its U.S. expansion after posting 12% revenue growth in 2025 and 95% year‑over‑year sales growth in the United States. The company opened its first New York store in January 2024 and...
Dublin Regtech Fenergo Assists SMBC America with Digital Onboarding
Fenergo has secured two high‑profile partnerships, deploying its client lifecycle management platform for SMBC Americas and development bank FMO. SMBC will use the solution to automate KYC, reuse verified data across entities, and speed up onboarding as part of a...
To Broaden Access to CAR Ts, Mitigate Their Side Effects
The FDA has removed the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) requirement for approved CAR‑T therapies, reflecting confidence in real‑world safety data. Yet only about 30% of eligible patients receive CAR‑T because severe toxicities—cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector...
Asos Tests the Return of Topshop and Topman Stores in the US
Parent company ASOS revived Topshop and Topman in the United States with a 17‑day pop‑up in New York’s SoHo district. The activation showcased curated selections from the brands alongside ASOS’s premium lines, providing a physical touchpoint for U.S. shoppers after...
How DoorDash Scaled without a Costly ERP Overhaul
DoorDash grew from a 2013 startup to a global local‑commerce leader while retaining its original Oracle NetSuite system. The company avoided a multi‑million‑dollar ERP migration, instead leveraging NetSuite’s cloud‑based scalability to support IPO, acquisitions, and expansion into grocery, convenience and...
The Global Network of Operational Optical Telescopes
An international network of optical telescopes, ranging from 4‑meter workhorses to 10‑meter giants, underpins modern astrophysics. Key facilities cluster on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile, leveraging high altitude and dry air for superior seeing. The next...
Laser Beam Power
In this brief episode, researchers from Purdue University discuss their innovative project to harness laser beams for power generation by directing them at a lightweight, origami-inspired sail. They explain how the sail's foldable design maximizes surface area while remaining compact...
Amazon Updates FBM Refund Rules Effective January 26, 2026
The episode explains Amazon's new FBM refund policy effective January 26, 2026, which extends the refund issuance window from 2 business days to 4 calendar days to give sellers more time for inspection. It highlights that missed deadlines trigger automatic...
Operational Radio Telescopes of the World
The article surveys the world’s operational radio telescopes, from giant single‑dish instruments like China’s FAST to interferometric arrays such as the US Very Large Array and Europe’s LOFAR. It explains how large collecting areas and cryogenic receivers enable detection of...
Enhanced Tumor Immunotherapy via Targeted Nanoparticles
Researchers have unveiled a targeted nanoparticle platform that dramatically enhances tumor immunotherapy efficacy. The system directs checkpoint‑inhibitor antibodies and cytokines straight to the tumor microenvironment, achieving up to a 300% increase in immune cell infiltration and a 45% reduction in...
Choosing the Right ML Model Drives Business Value
10 of the most popular Machine Learning models — summarized in one visual. From fundamentals like Linear & Logistic Regression to classics such as Decision Trees, Random Forests, SVM, and KNN, and extending to Clustering (K-Means), Dimensionality Reduction (PCA), and...
Agentic: Shopify and Google’s UCP Will Democratize Commerce
Shopify’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) equips AI agents with a deterministic decision‑making framework that selects merchants based on structural constraints rather than ad spend. The protocol, reinforced by Google Gemini and ChatGPT integrations, turns clean data, clear policies, and reliable...
Malaysia’s Anti-Graft Chief Warns of Crowdfunding Abuse as NGOs Face Probe
Malaysia’s anti‑corruption chief, Azam Baki, warned that the absence of dedicated crowdfunding legislation has enabled abuse of public donations, prompting investigations into three prominent NGOs. He cited cases where money raised for mosque construction was redirected to family members, highlighting...
FinTech Australia Welcomes Productivity Commission’s Call for Universal Open Banking
FinTech Australia welcomed the Productivity Commission’s final inquiry report on data and digital technology, which estimates the Consumer Data Right (CDR) could add up to $10 billion to Australia’s GDP each year. The report rejects a de‑minimis exemption for small banks,...
Eikon, a High-Profile Startup Led by Merck Vets, Seeks an IPO
Eikon Therapeutics, a biotech founded in 2019 by former Merck executives, has raised more than $1 billion and announced plans for an initial public offering. The company’s pipeline includes four clinical candidates, with its lead asset EIK1001 advancing in a Phase 2/3...
Hackers Accessed University of Hawaii Cancer Center Patient Data; They Weren’t Immediately Notified
Hackers infiltrated the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center’s servers in August, exfiltrating participants' Social Security numbers and other personal data. The university delayed reporting the ransomware attack to the state legislature until December, missing the statutory 20‑day notification window. UH...
Anthropic Pushes Into Healthcare to Help Patients Understand Their Medical Records
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Healthcare, letting U.S. Pro and Max subscribers upload medical records and fitness data for personalized AI assistance. The feature expands the earlier Claude for Life Sciences tool, aiming to translate test results, summarize histories, and generate...
China Deploys First Humanoid Robot Traffic Cop
Meet China's newest robot traffic cop 👮👮♀️ https://t.co/3VkzE2W9J3 via @YouTube #Traffic #trafficop #cop #humanoidtech #humanoid #robot #Robotics #AI #TechRevolution #TechInnovation @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699...
AR‑Powered Headset Lets Soldiers See Enemies Through Walls
What if you could see enemies through walls -- in real life? Wall hacks are now real :-) This is the US military's new headset called Eagle Eye from Palmer Luckey's company Anduril. It fuses night vision, thermal, and AR...
Treasury Fraud Probe Seeks Info From Minnesota Money Transmitters
U.S. Treasury, through FinCEN, launched a probe into alleged benefits fraud in Minnesota, focusing on money transmitters in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. A Geographic Targeting Order now requires reporting of cross‑border transfers of $3,000 or more. Officials say the scheme...
Institutions Enable Cartoonish Fintech Villains, Exposing Market Weakness
When there’s a structural weakness in a market that allows companies to grow by violating the law or taking excessive risks, there’s always at least one cartoonishly-bad example that highlights that weakness in a maximally absurd way. In BaaS, that was...
Document Your Identity, Work, and Goals for Success
Two hours from now, you could have a problem solved AND a workout in. Here's the unlock: For the same reason we all create and maintain https://t.co/6lkRloGo1l files, I need you to stop prompting Claude Code cold (say that 5 times...
Motional Puts AI at Center of Robotaxi Reboot as It Targets 2026 for Driverless Service
Motional, the Hyundai‑Aptiv joint venture, has rebooted its robotaxi program with an AI‑first architecture and aims to launch a fully driverless service in Las Vegas by the end of 2026. After missing earlier milestones, losing Aptiv’s backing and slashing its workforce...
Robot Dog Collects Data in US Chip Factories
Robot Dog Deployed for #Data Collection in U.S. Semiconductor Production by @TXInstruments #AI #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #Innovation https://t.co/wYgIfCiEe4
Digital Trust Determines AI Economy Winners and Losers
Why #Digital Trust Will Decide The Winners And Losers Of The #AI Economy by Senthil Muthu @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/w8TR8mfwpT #DigitalTransformation #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML https://t.co/m45SCg2XFT
NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Puts Agentic AI Centre Stage
The NRF 2026 Retail’s Big Show highlighted agentic AI as the year’s headline technology, with major retailers and solution providers unveiling tools that can autonomously make decisions on pricing, inventory and customer engagement. Demonstrations ranged from AI‑driven demand forecasting engines...
Your AI Strategy Deadline: SaaStr AI
If you're a VP of Sales, CRO, CMO, or Head of Product at a B2B company and you haven't figured out your AI strategy yet... May 12-14 is your deadline. SaaStr AI 2026. SF Bay. Come with questions. Leave with...
AI Projects Fail Without Proper Context—Here’s the Fix
The Context Crisis: Why #AI Projects Are Failing And How To Fix It by @faisalsaeed0 @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/7M98oA4M48 #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/I88G8X6TBt
Emergent: Ship Real Applications Faster With AI Builders
Emergent is an agentic AI platform that lets users build, deploy, and scale full‑stack web and mobile applications through natural‑language conversations. By automating design, coding, backend setup, and hosting, it compresses development cycles from weeks to minutes while delivering production‑grade...
Heart Scarring, Not Training, Drives Arrhythmias in Veteran Athletes
Occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias in endurance male athletes age 50+ correlated with prior heart scarring (myocardial fibrosis), not exercise patterns https://t.co/CTWLLEZVSI https://t.co/fqVhTkV7BN
New Marine-Derived Polyketides Unlock Antibiotic Potential
Researchers have isolated a series of novel marine‑derived polyketides that exhibit potent antibacterial activity, particularly against multidrug‑resistant strains such as MRSA and VRE. Structural analysis revealed an unprecedented macrocyclic scaffold, prompting a rapid synthetic route to enable larger‑scale testing. In...
YouHodler CEO Ilya Volkov’s 2026 Crypto Predictions for Stablecoins, AI, Lightning, Bitcoin and More
YouHodler CEO Ilya Volkov predicts that by 2026 Bitcoin will shift from a speculative token to a macro‑hedge akin to gold, with sovereign funds and pension managers taking modest positions. The Lightning Network is expected to double cross‑border remittance volumes,...
Torq Raises $140M at $1.2B Valuation to Scale AI-Driven Security Hyperautomation
Security automation startup Torq announced a $140 million Series D funding round, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The capital will be used to scale its AI‑driven, no‑code hyperautomation platform that connects to existing security tools and deploys autonomous AI agents for alert...
Kepler Network to Link OroraTech Sensors for Earth Monitoring
OroraTech has signed a multi‑year partnership with Kepler to mount its SAFIRE Gen4 thermal sensors on Kepler’s optical communications constellation. The first four sensors launched aboard a Falcon 9 on Jan 11, expanding OroraTech’s active fleet to 15 instruments and advancing its...
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in OpenCode
OpenCode, an open‑source AI coding assistant, shipped an unauthenticated HTTP server that ran silently on startup in versions prior to 1.1.10. The server exposed endpoints for arbitrary shell execution, PTY sessions, and file reads, allowing any local process or web...
FUSE Is All You Need – Giving Agents Access to Anything via Filesystems
The article proposes using FUSE to expose any data source as a sandboxed filesystem for AI agents, illustrated with an email‑assistant example. By implementing standard file operations, agents can browse, read, move, and flag items using familiar Unix commands, eliminating...
One‑Time Billionaire Tax Is Just First Step
My take on California’s “One-Time” Billionaire Tax. It’s much worse than it looks. 📉 Will it pass? Yes, likely. It only needs 50%+1 voter approval. SEIU + CTA have done this before—Prop 55 won 63% in 2016. ⚖️ Will it...
Bipedal Robot Regains Balance After Falls on Rough Terrain
This All-Terrain Bipedal #Robot Keeps Its Balance—and Gets Back Up After Falling via @ZappyZappy7 #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #AI #ML https://t.co/HIWIuBUfLm
Insurtech Cowbell to Focus on Business Growth, Global Expansion with Key Appointment
Cowbell, an adaptive cyber and specialty insurer, announced its “Next Cycle” initiative aimed at sustained growth, operational profitability, and aggressive global expansion. The plan follows its recent entry into Australia and includes five strategic drivers such as international cyber expansion...
Pete Hegseth Joins Elon Musk at SpaceX Visit
Pete Hegseth will visit SpaceX in Brownsville tomorrow (Monday) and "deliver remarks to the workforce and leaders at SpaceX, alongside its founder, Elon Musk." It's part of his Arsenal of Freedom tour. https://t.co/cNf7ohcSQp
C1: Cute Humanoid Robot for Senior Care
Meet C1: PHYBOT’s Cute Humanoid Robot Designed for Senior Care by @CyberRobooo #AI #Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MI https://t.co/J7uOPRuhf8
The Rising Role of Boutique Offshore Banks in a Fragmented Global Economy
Boutique offshore banks are gaining prominence as the global economy fragments into regional supply chains, divergent regulations, and heightened digital interdependence. Their lean structures let them navigate multiple jurisdictions, offering bespoke financial solutions that large megabanks struggle to provide. By...
