OpenAI Reveals Major Hire to Lead Global Stargate Data Center Expansion
OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025, targets sovereign AI infrastructure for ten partner nations in its first round. Osborne will begin his role in January 2026 and is slated to represent OpenAI at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The hire signals OpenAI’s intent to deepen government collaborations as it scales AI services worldwide.
Focus on One Asset: Build Your Audience
You feel like a mess. But they think you're a machine. The gap between how you see yourself and how the world sees you is massive. Inside your head? It is loud. You are overthinking every move. You are doubting...
Persistent AI Agents Remember Code, Boosting Productivity
tried this. It's a different vision for how coding tuis should work, but clicks pretty quickly and makes a ton of sense: Instead of ephemeral sessions you chose and continue to train a agent each session. Using their MemGPT type...
“A Band-Aid on a Giant Gash”: Trump’s Attacks on Science May Ruin His AI Moonshot
Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...
Accelerating Drug Combination Discovery with Machine Learning
St. Jude researchers unveiled Combocat, an open‑source platform that merges acoustic liquid handling with machine‑learning models to screen drug combinations at unprecedented scale. The system tested 9,045 drug pairs on a neuroblastoma cell line, identifying multiple synergistic hits that were...
The Best Growth Tactics of 2025
The episode distills the top growth experiments of 2025, revealing that outbound/ABM, partner ecosystems, and events/community dominate despite AI hype, while tactics span content, PLG, launches, and paid ads. Readers shared 50+ real‑world tactics—from LinkedIn engagement outreach and intent‑based ABM...
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Apple engineers have customized an open‑source computer‑vision AI to spot color errors on ImageTek's bacon label prints, preventing a major client loss. The effort is part of Apple’s broader $600 billion U.S. manufacturing investment and its newly launched Apple Manufacturing Academy,...
Ghost Jobs, Robot Gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let Me Tell You About the Bleak New Age of Job Hunting |...
Eleanor Margolis describes a deteriorating UK job market where 40% of 2024 listings are "ghost jobs"—vacancies posted to project growth rather than fill roles. Applicants now face AI‑driven resume filters that prioritize keyword matches, often reproducing bias. Even when a CV...
Why B2B Payments Are Becoming the Next Acquirer Battleground
Mastercard is urging payment acquirers to shift focus from consumer‑centric models to B2B card acceptance, highlighting an estimated $80 trillion addressable opportunity in accounts payable and receivable. It argues that commercial‑card economics now outpace legacy B2B2C margins, especially as acceptance moves...
"AI Is Too Big for the European Internet" - so It's Time for Companies to Work Together, Nokia Says
Nokia’s latest research warns that AI traffic is overwhelming Europe’s internet infrastructure, with 86% of European enterprises saying current networks can’t keep pace. The study also shows similar concerns in the United States, where 88% of telecoms and enterprises cite...
Kharon and Digital Science Launch Integration to Strengthen Research Security
Kharon and Digital Science have announced a strategic integration that embeds Kharon’s sanctions, export‑control and affiliation risk intelligence into the Dimensions Research Security platform. The joint solution lets universities, funders and government agencies automatically surface foreign affiliations of concern, export‑control...
PayPal’s US Banking Ambition Signals a Strategic Shift
PayPal has filed applications with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the FDIC to launch PayPal Bank, marking its first attempt to obtain a U.S. banking charter. The move would shift the company from a pure payments platform to...
As AI Accelerates How Fast Code Ships, Netlify Delivers the Production Tools Built for This AI Era
Netlify announced the general availability of three new platform capabilities—Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerender extensions—designed to streamline the post‑deployment phase of AI‑accelerated development. The features give developers real‑time insight into production behavior, simplify integration of multiple AI models, and ensure...
Optimizely Unveils New Research on AI-Powered Content Ecosystems
Optimizely released a new report revealing that today’s marketing ecosystem contains over 15,000 tools, a ten‑fold increase in the past 14 years. The study introduces the concept of “agentic content ecosystems,” where AI actively creates, shapes, and optimizes content across...
SHARED INTEL Q&A: This Is How ‘Edge AI’ Is Forcing a Rethink of Trust, Security and Resilience
Edge AI is moving real‑time inference workloads from centralized clouds to embedded devices, demanding far greater compute, memory, and energy efficiency at the silicon level. Infineon’s Thomas Rosteck explains that this shift forces a redesign of trust models, embedding hardware‑root‑of‑trust...
Uberall Launches First Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio in Collaboration with AthenaHQ to Help Multi-Location Brands Get Recommended by AI
Uberall, together with AthenaHQ, launched the industry’s first Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio to make multi‑location brands AI‑ready. The platform lets brands monitor how AI systems view each location, generate structured, locally relevant content, and distribute it across Google Business...
Federated Learning Boosts AI Without Leaving Data Behind
When sensitive data must remain in place, yet collective intelligence is needed, a distributed approach to artificial intelligence emerges. Federated learning enables this balance, allowing models to improve across networks without compromising data sovereignty or transparency. #FederatedAI #PrivacyFirst #AI
Advanced AI Must Be Rooted in Empathy and Ethics
The more sophisticated AI becomes, the more essential it is to ground it in empathy and ethics
BIO IP Conference Looks at Academics and Perceptions of IP
The BIO IP Counsel Committee Conference addressed growing skepticism toward patents in biopharma, amplified by pandemic‑era messaging that frames IP as a barrier to care. Panelists argued that patents remain vital incentives for costly research and development, despite public concerns...
Embedded AI Frees Employees for Higher‑value, Human‑centric Work
The real promise of enterprise AI is not automation for efficiency, it is freeing people to focus on higher value, human-centred work In my recent conversation with Timo Elliott , Innovation Evangelistat SAP , we explored how embedded AI inside...
5 Predictions for AI’s Growing Role in the Media in 2026
Fast Company columnist Pete Pachal outlines five predictions for AI’s influence on media in 2026. He emphasizes that copyright disputes will intensify as publishers block AI crawlers while AI firms cling to fair‑use defenses. Google retains a competitive edge because...
‘A Missed Opportunity’: What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for UK Startups?
The Autumn Budget introduced modest tweaks to the UK startup tax regime, notably expanding the EMI share‑scheme and doubling investment limits under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). While the EIS increase was praised as a positive surprise, the reduction of...
Roblox Brings AI Into the Studio to Speed up Game Creation
Roblox has embedded generative AI directly into its Studio development environment, giving creators on‑demand tools for asset generation, text‑to‑speech and real‑time translation. The new Assistant can turn simple prompts into fully functional objects, initially for vehicles and weapons, and connects...
Headset Hassles and Empty Content Stall Virtual Worlds
Why haven't virtual worlds caught on with the masses yet? The founder of Second Life sparked an interesting discussion on this topic with hundreds of replies. My take (I was on the team that built Microsoft's first virtual world in Second Life...
Patient Advocates Urge Action on PPRV to Help Fight Rare Disease
Patient advocates at BIO’s December Coffee Chat urged Congress to reauthorize the Pediatric Priority Review Voucher (PPRV) program before year‑end. The voucher scheme, which expired in 2024, has awarded 63 vouchers for 47 rare pediatric diseases, turning four treated conditions...
This Guy’s Obscure PhD Project Is the only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Image Chaos
Dr. Eric Wengrowski, a Rutgers PhD graduate, turned his decade‑long steganography research into Steg AI, a startup that embeds invisible watermarks in images to track their movement online. The technology has gained unprecedented attention as AI‑generated imagery proliferates, prompting the...
One‑Click AI Coding Platform Now Open‑Source via Cloudflare
Your own AI coding platform in one click. ICYMI @Cloudflare opensourced VibeSDK, letting anyone spin up their own vibe coding environment 🤯 → LLM code gen + fixes → Safe runs in CF Sandboxes → Infinite scale via `Workers for Platforms` → GitHub export Demo +...
Strata, a Strategic Communications Agency for Deep-Tech B2B Brands, Launches
Strategic communications agency Strata has launched to serve deep‑tech B2B brands, leveraging the founders’ decades of experience from Publitek and McClenahan Bruer. The firm employs an earned ecosystem approach that aligns media, analyst, social, and community channels to match how engineers...
AI Is Moving to the Edge – and Network Security Needs to Catch Up
Small and mid‑size businesses are rapidly deploying AI at the edge, moving workloads from centralized data centers to retail stores, clinics, and remote sites. This shift delivers real‑time insights, resilience, and faster deployment but strains network bandwidth and security controls....
Later Surpasses $2.4 Billion Annual GMV Run Rate and More Than $250 Million in Cumulative Creator Payouts, One Year After...
Later announced that its unified creator commerce platform now runs at a $2.4 billion annual GMV run rate, more than $1 billion higher than a year ago, and has paid over $250 million to creators since acquiring Mavely. The company highlighted a record...
Insightly CRM Introduces Conversational AI Copilot Built to Transform Mid-Market CRM Efficiency
Insightly announced Copilot, a generative AI‑powered assistant designed for mid‑market CRM users. The tool lets sales, marketing and customer‑success teams issue natural‑language commands to automate tasks, retrieve insights, and maintain data hygiene. By turning the CRM into a conversational partner,...
AI Browsing Agents Pose Serious Security Risks
Letting AI Browse The Web For You Sounds Great Until It Goes Wrong AI-powered #browseragents promise to transform how we #search , #shop and work online by acting directly on our behalf. This article explores the real #security #risks behind...
Mundial Media Taps National Political Strategy Leader Junelle Cavero Harnal to Lead AI-Driven Political Campaign Division
Mundial Media announced the hiring of Junelle Cavero Harnal, a veteran political strategist, to head its new AI‑driven political campaign division. The move positions the company to serve electoral campaigns, advocacy groups, and nonprofits ahead of the 2026 midterms and...
Persistent and DigitalOcean Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Accessible, Scalable and Secure AI
Persistent Systems and DigitalOcean have forged a strategic partnership to run Persistent’s SASVA AI platform on DigitalOcean’s Gradient AI Agentic Cloud. The collaboration promises to make artificial intelligence more accessible, scalable, and secure for enterprises and developers by combining Persistent’s...
AI Agents Drive Enterprise’s 2026 Tech Transformation
Thank you for reading my latest article AI Agents Lead The 8 Tech Trends Transforming Enterprise In 2026. Here at LinkedIn and at Forbes I regularly write about management and technology trends. To read my future articles simply join my...
Vonage Deepens Native Contact Center with Salesforce’s Agentforce Voice Integrations
Vonage announced a native integration of its Contact Center with Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 voice AI, creating a single AI‑powered platform for voice and digital interactions. The solution combines Vonage’s skills‑based routing and network APIs with Salesforce’s Agentforce Voice, enabling automated fraud...
ClaimScore Rebrands as Covalynt, Expanding Data Science Platform for Complex Litigation
ClaimScore has rebranded as Covalynt, shifting from a single fraud‑detection tool to a full‑service data‑science platform for complex litigation. The new suite includes ClassResolution, DeepValidation, an expanded ClaimScore engine, and Bespoke Data Solutions, covering the entire case lifecycle from discovery...
Afripol Focuses on Regional Cyber Challenges, Deepening Cooperation
Law‑enforcement officials from more than 40 African countries gathered in Algiers for Afripol’s sixth heads‑of‑national‑liaison meeting, focusing on cross‑border cybercrime, equipment standardisation, and investigator training. The forum highlighted a surge in digital adoption that has produced an average of 3,153...
AI Agent Highlights Expensive X API and New TOS Compliance
I'm having @blevlabs's AI agent (cognitive architecture) read all my lists tonight and this is the first thing it noticed that people are talking about in the AI Community. Hitting the X API is expensive, but oh so good. By...
Data Shows Chatbots Outperform Search Engines in B2B
AI Chatbots vs. Search Engines: The Data Behind the Disruption Debate - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/5j3EPpPO5L https://t.co/TLo5nGxlcW
AI Expands Data, Researchers Struggle for Reliable Insights
As AI reshapes how we work, researchers face a growing challenge: finding accurate, reliable insights in an ever-expanding sea of information. https://t.co/mYVnvm8Pg2 #ScienceDirectAI #AI #Research #Elsevier
Cloudflare: The Unsung Internet Backbone Stealing the Spotlight
How @Cloudflare , ‘the most important internet company you’ve never heard of,’ took center stage https://t.co/N4R7NBRWZ1 via @FastCompany A really good read.
AI-Powered Phones Are About to Arrive
AI phones are coming.
Nanobanana vs ChatGPT Images: Which AI Wins?
.@GeminiApps's nanobanana 🍌 (left) VS @Openai ChatGPT Images (right) Who wins? https://t.co/MpeCZVkOV6
2026: The Rise of Retrieval‑Augmented Generation
2026 will be the year of RAG
Start Building with Hugging Face Robot Today
Getting started with @huggingface robot. Are you? https://t.co/gi1bY0df6W
New Stereo Model Beats Rivals, Realizes Coauthor’s
“Our model outperforms existing real-time stereo models by a large margin.” I wrote two books on spatial computing over the past decade. One of my coauthors, Shel Israel, died this year, but his dreams, and mine, are shipping literally every day.
From Rules to Data: How Machines Truly Learn
What is Machine Learning? From rule-based AI to data-driven learning — this video explains how machines learn from data, why traditional rules failed, and how Machine Learning fits into the bigger AI picture. #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AIExplained #DeepLearning #ComputerVision
AI Artists Elevate Tools and Storytelling, Raising Contest Standards
I have helped judge a few of these kinds of contests and every time the work improves. Which makes sense, AI Artists and Film Makers are getting way better tools, but they also are telling better stories. Added to my...
