Dstillery Brings Predictive AI Audiences to Microsoft Media Marketplace as Launch Partner
Dstillery announced that its predictive AI‑powered audiences are now available on Microsoft Advertising’s Media Marketplace, joining as a launch partner. The integration lets advertisers discover, plan and activate AI‑driven audience segments across more than 30 demand‑side platforms and 1,400 direct publishers in nearly 200 countries. Curated omnichannel packages cover CTV, video, display and native inventory, including over 30% of streaming supply. Dstillery’s DS‑1 conversational AI platform is also being offered through Microsoft Teams.
Complex Solar Portfolios Fragment O&M Data, Threatening Asset Returns
The Sandia‑led PVMAC study warns that expanding, complex solar portfolios are creating fragmented operations and maintenance (O&M) data, which could erode output performance and financial returns. The research surveyed 24 O&M software providers covering more than 1.1 TW across 115,000 sites...
China Sets Framework for Advanced Therapeutic Development
China’s new Order 818 creates a hospital‑centric pathway that lets 3A tertiary hospitals translate cell, gene and other advanced therapies without first securing National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) drug registration. The regulation, effective May 1, aims to speed personalized treatments to...
11 Words From Nvidia CFO Colette Kress That Should Have AMD and Intel Investors Worried
Nvidia unveiled the Vera CPU, a purpose‑built processor for agentic AI, expanding its product line beyond GPUs. CFO Colette Kress said the new platform opens a $200 billion total addressable market and provides visibility to about $20 billion in CPU revenue this year....
Live Coverage: SpaceX to Launch Intelligence-Gathering Satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office
SpaceX is set to launch its third National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) mission of the year, designated NROL‑179, from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 19. The Falcon 9 will carry an undisclosed number of Starshield satellites, a classified variant of Starlink,...
Beyond the Pilot Trap: How Healthcare Can Scale AI Without Losing Trust
Healthcare leaders now face the "pilot trap"—AI models that shine in isolated proofs‑of‑concept but crumble when scaled across complex, real‑world environments. The article argues that scaling AI requires a continuous, governed platform rather than a series of projects, emphasizing three...
Banking OS: Only Viable AI Path for Legacy Systems
Banks have three options for AI on legacy tech. Only one works. ↳ Do nothing — bolt AI onto fragmented systems. Innovation theater. Never scales ↳ Full cloud rip-and-replace — 94% of modernization projects exceed deadlines, 50%+ over budget ↳ Banking OS —...
AI Agents Now Fix Errors in Next-Generation Quantum Programs
Researchers at the University of Melbourne unveiled QBugLM, a multi‑agent framework that leverages large language models to automatically debug OpenQASM 3.0 quantum programs. By systematically injecting faults and validating repairs, a single retry lifts the Pass@1 success rate from under 25 %...
Acoustic Neural Chips Slash AI Power, Boost Speed
Turns out sound waves have a surprising superpower: Run brain-inspired chips with acoustic connections in a neural network, and AI energy use drops, while speed increases. Could AI's future be supersonic? https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-acoustic-chips?share_id=9622812
Before You Worry About Voltage Drops – Worry About Data Drops
Solar developers often finance 25‑year revenue streams with incomplete early‑stage data, contributing to an industry‑wide underperformance of about 8.6%. The article argues that data drops during software handoffs and missing business context—such as interconnection limits or construction realities—lead to non‑bankable...
Visa Teams with Mintoak to Launch Merchant SaaS Platform for APAC Acquirers
Visa has partnered with merchant SaaS fintech Mintoak to deliver a cloud‑native, API‑driven platform that lets acquirers in Asia‑Pacific move from pure payment acceptance to full‑stack merchant engagement. The alliance aims to boost SME onboarding, increase transaction volume and open...
South African Fintech Giant Tapping a Secret R1 Trillion Economy
South African technology conglomerate Altron reported that its FinTech division is tapping the informal township economy, estimated at R500 billion‑R1 trillion (≈$52‑$105 billion). The unit processes R220 billion ($11.6 billion) in transactions a year, posted 34% revenue growth and a 36.6% operating margin for FY2026....
VSCO Unveils Studio Pro Mobile App and $500‑A‑Year All‑In‑One SaaS Suite
VSCO launched Studio Pro, a mobile‑first photo‑editing SaaS app for iOS, and announced a $500‑per‑year VSCO One subscription that bundles editing, client‑gallery, and business tools. The move pits the consumer‑focused company against Adobe’s Creative Cloud in the professional photography market.
GAM Launches A Chatbot For Troubleshooting Ad Campaigns
Google Ad Manager introduced Ask Ad Manager, an AI chatbot to help publishers troubleshoot ad campaigns. Currently in beta with select publishers, the tool offers instant diagnosis, detailed bidder queries, and UI navigation guidance. Built on Gemini AI, it uses only first‑party...
Crunchyroll Expands to Taiwan and South Korea, Boosting Subscription SaaS Footprint in Asia
Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini unveiled plans to launch a fully localized service in Taiwan this summer and in South Korea in 2026. The rollout follows aggressive growth in India and Thailand and underscores a subscription‑based, community‑centric go‑to‑market strategy for the...
Microsoft Is Making Significant Advances in Quantum Computing Across Multiple Qubit Modalities
Microsoft Quantum announced Majorana 2, a topological processor with 20‑second qubit lifetimes and 1,000× stability, pushing its million‑qubit roadmap to 2029. The company also advanced neutral‑atom computing, delivering 24‑28 logical qubits with Atom Computing and preparing the 50‑qubit commercial Magne system...
BlackFog Launches ADX Vision for macOS to Curb Shadow AI Leaks
BlackFog Inc. has launched ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow‑AI detection platform to Apple devices. The native system‑extension inspects AI‑related data on the endpoint before encryption, covering desktop apps, IDE plugins and local agents. The release closes a visibility...
Sound Waves Give Neuromorphic Chips a Brain-Simulating Edge
Researchers at the University of Arizona have built an acoustic neuromorphic synapse that leverages sound‑wave phase bits (phi‑bits) to perform parallel computations. The three‑rod device demonstrated 96.7% classification accuracy on the iris dataset using only 39 parameters and consumed roughly...
Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and Co-Founder of FieldAI | Live From HumanX 2026
In this episode, Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and Co‑Founder of FieldAI, discusses the company’s mission to create general‑purpose AI brains for robots that can safely operate in real‑world environments. He explains how FieldAI embeds uncertainty and confidence metrics into its...
Study: Programmatic CTV Pause Ads More Effective Than Traditional Spots
WunderKIND Ads released a study showing programmatic CTV Pause Ads capture nearly twice the viewer attention of traditional 60‑second CTV spots. The analysis, based on TVision data from millions of impressions across 13 verticals, found Pause Ads delivering 34‑second attention...
XD Huang, CTO at Zoom | Live From HumanX 2026
In this HumanX 2026 live interview, Zoom CTO XD Huang discusses the company’s shift from merely hosting meetings to enabling "conversation‑to‑completion" (C2C), leveraging AI to automate and enhance every stage of work. He highlights Zoom’s breakthroughs in speech recognition, the...
Google DeepMind Unveils Plan to Protect Itself From Its Own Rogue AI Agents
Google DeepMind released a 35‑page security roadmap that treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats, adding layered defenses beyond traditional alignment. The plan introduces dynamic, task‑based access controls, real‑time behavior monitoring, and a taxonomy called TRAIT&R modeled on...
What the Satellite Servicing Economy Can Borrow From Carbon Credits
The article proposes an orbital chemistry credit system, modeled on carbon‑trading, to price the atmospheric impact of satellite re‑entries and incentivize in‑space servicing. With the FCC authorizing 15,000 Starlink Gen2 satellites and filings for 88,000 Starcloud and 1 million SpaceX satellites,...
Introducing Ask Ad Manager, the AI Agent that Will Help You Get More Done
Google announced Ask Ad Manager, an AI‑powered conversational agent built on Gemini, to help publishers troubleshoot ad issues, generate custom performance reports, and navigate the platform more efficiently. The beta launches this month, with additional features and developer tools slated...
Adobe Adds AI Agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and More Creative Cloud Apps
Adobe announced the public‑beta rollout of its AI‑driven Creative Agent across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io, with After Effects in private beta. The assistant, built on the Firefly platform, lets users describe a desired outcome and automates multi‑step tasks...
Imminent De Minimis Rule Change Adds Complexity for Retailers
Effective 1 July 2026 the EU will scrap the €150 (≈ $162) de minimis customs exemption and impose a flat €3 (≈ $3.24) tariff on each item in a parcel. The change targets ultra‑low‑cost imports from Chinese platforms such as Shein and Temu, but adds...
Benjamin Joyner: What Can Big Law Learn From the Rise of AI-Native Law Firms?
AI-native law firms have entered the market promising faster turnaround times and novel billing models built on aggressive AI integration. While the exact definition of an AI-native firm remains fluid, their emergence creates a new competitive pressure for traditional large...
Maryland Lawmakers Back Data Center Transmission Cost Complaint at FERC
A coalition of 80 Maryland legislators has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, challenging PJM Interconnection’s method of allocating transmission costs for projects that primarily serve out‑of‑state data centers. The complaint cites a projected $1.6 billion burden...
Grace Herman, Reveal: Reveal Brings Private Deployment, Aji AI, and Logikcull FOI to EMEA
Reveal announced the launch of private‑deployment options, its aji GenAI review engine, and Logikcull’s FOI automation across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The new offerings let corporate legal teams keep litigation data within EU borders, satisfying GDPR and local...
Autonomous Infrastructure Breaks Data Silos to Accelerate Enterprise AI
Pure Storage is promoting autonomous infrastructure that maps and classifies data across on‑prem, cloud and SaaS environments, turning fragmented repositories into a live data layer for AI agents. By integrating with CMDB tools like ServiceNow, the company spins up containers...
Hanzo: Claude for Legal Is Here – Now Legal Teams Need the Workflow Layer to Scale Its Impact
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Legal, bundling 12 practice‑area plugins, over 20 MCP connectors, and native workflow integrations. The launch follows similar moves by OpenAI and Gemini, signaling a rapid expansion of AI tools in the legal space. A pilot with...
The EU’s Secret Weapon for Enlargement: AI
The European Commission has deployed its own generative AI tool, GPT@EC, to accelerate the assessment of candidate countries' legislation against EU law. Officials say the system helps manage a surge in workload as Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania and others push...
Daniel Ivtsan: The Litigation AI Arms Race Has Already Started and Both Sides Are Armed
Daniel Ivtsan warns that an AI‑driven arms race is reshaping civil litigation, with insurance carriers pouring billions into generative AI to capture a projected $50‑70 billion revenue boost. Around 78% of property‑casualty insurers already use AI, while plaintiff firms are rapidly...
True Anomaly Declares Mission X-3 Success
True Anomaly announced that its autonomous orbital vehicle Jackal successfully completed all test objectives of Mission X-3, the most complex self‑funded flight test to date. The mission demonstrated end‑to‑end uncooperative rendezvous and proximity operations, including closed‑loop tracking of maneuvering targets,...
RIB Unify Platform Launches for Construction
RIB Software has introduced RIB Unify, a cloud‑native, AI‑enabled SaaS platform for the UK construction sector. The solution merges document management, process management and estimating into a single browser‑based environment, replacing fragmented desktop tools and spreadsheets. Initially aimed at civil...
Apple Faces Price Hikes as Memory Costs Rise
The range of options has run out. When will Apple raise prices? Tim Cook warns memory costs to be passed-on to customers. https://asymco.com/2026/06/18/the-range-of-options-has-run-out-when-will-apple-raise-prices/
Speed, Confidence, Control: Keys to Advertising's Future
Mark Zagorski, CEO of @doubleverify , joins @JeremyBloomHere and AdTechGod to discuss DV Neura, agentic advertising, AI slop, fraud prevention, and why the future of advertising depends on speed, confidence, and control. https://t.co/hgRN5gRliF https://t.co/1YJ9pua3pi
HR Techbytes: Hirevue Adds AI Voice Interviewer
Hirevue unveiled its AI Interviewer, a voice‑based platform that conducts two‑way interviews and scores candidates against validated rubrics. Built on two decades of hiring science and more than 180 million completed assessments, the tool promises faster, evidence‑backed candidate prioritization. The launch...
ESentire Links AI-Led Penetration Testing with MDR Through Atlas Preempt
eSentire unveiled Atlas Preempt, an AI‑driven platform that continuously conducts offensive penetration testing against client environments. The tool automatically discovers attack surfaces, validates vulnerabilities, and streams real‑time findings into eSentire’s 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service. Human oversight ensures...
Nine Themes Defining the Unified Data and AI Platform: TheCUBE Insights From the Databricks Data + AI Summit
At the Databricks Data + AI Summit, theCUBE research highlighted nine themes that define a unified enterprise data and AI platform. Companies like PepsiCo are adopting lakehouse architectures to consolidate fragmented data, improve governance, and accelerate analytics. The focus is...
How Digital Business Cards Are Transforming Modern Recruitment and Talent Acquisition
Digital business cards are emerging as a strategic tool for recruiters, enabling instant sharing of comprehensive contact details, branding assets, and scheduling links. By replacing static paper cards, they ensure information stays current and can be distributed across virtual events,...
AI Agents Are Getting Their Own Search Engine
Google, Microsoft, and a coalition of ten leading tech firms have unveiled Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open‑source specification that lets AI agents locate and verify tools, skills, and other agents across the web. ARD introduces catalog and registry layers—akin...
Magnite Adds A Data-Quality Layer To Its CTV Inventory
Magnite announced a new integration with data‑validation firm Truthset, embedding Truthset’s Data Rated Audience scores directly into its supply‑side platform. The partnership addresses the common 50 % accuracy loss that occurs each time an identifier hops between ad‑tech platforms. By providing...
Boeing Demonstrates Quantum Protocol in Payload Set for 2027 Launch
Boeing announced that its Q4S quantum‑networking payload successfully demonstrated high‑fidelity entanglement swapping in ground tests, clearing a key hurdle before a scheduled 2027 on‑orbit experiment. The one‑year mission will validate the protocol on space‑qualified hardware, following a 2025 International Space...
Discovery Is Now Performance in the Age of AI
The article argues that AI is collapsing the gap between brand discovery and performance marketing, moving influence upstream in the consumer journey. Marketers must now engage shoppers while intent is still forming, using conversational signals rather than traditional keyword queries....
The Strongest Teams of AI Agents Will Be Built Using Different Models
AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of enterprise workforces, now accounting for one‑third of McKinsey’s 60,000‑person staff and projected to reach millions at NVIDIA. Research shows that diverse agent teams outperform homogeneous ones, delivering up to 25% faster...
Shopify Wants To Be Merchants’ Built-In AI Agency
Shopify unveiled Campaign Autopilot, an AI‑driven tool that lets merchants launch and manage both paid and organic marketing campaigns from a single dashboard. The platform automatically allocates spend across Meta ads, the Shopify Shop app, and email, while recommending the...
Nation-State Rivals Linked to Majority of Consequential Attacks Targeting Critical UK Sites
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre reported that nation‑state actors were behind roughly 75% of the 200 serious cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure over the past year. The most high‑profile breach, a multi‑week attack on Jaguar Land Rover, cost the British...
Perion Launches Ask Perion, an Agentic Self-Serve Mobile App Designed to Accelerate Omnichannel Execution and Increase Efficiency
Perion unveiled Ask Perion, an AI‑driven, self‑serve interface embedded in the Perion One platform and delivered via a new mobile app. The solution pairs an Insights Agent that answers performance queries in plain language with a Planning Agent that transforms...
Why Healthcare Workforce Management Software Reduces Burnout
Healthcare workforce management software is emerging as a key tool to curb clinician burnout. By automating scheduling, real‑time coverage alerts, and time‑and‑attendance tracking, the platforms create fairer rosters, reduce overtime, and eliminate payroll errors. Integrated dashboards turn hidden fatigue signals—such...