
MassPay announced a partnership with TaxBandits to embed full‑stack tax compliance into its payout orchestration platform. The integration adds automated 1099 and 1042 form generation, streamlined W‑8/W‑9 collection, and real‑time IRS TIN matching directly into the payment workflow. By consolidating these functions, businesses can eliminate separate compliance tools and reduce manual administrative overhead. The service is immediately available to existing MassPay customers and complements recent integrations such as Visa Direct and stablecoin settlements.

Canadian astronomers using the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory have completed the Global Magneto‑Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS) of the northern sky, producing the first full‑spectrum map of the Milky Way’s magnetic field. The effort, led by Dr. Jo‑Anne Brown and Dr....
The global payment gateway market is projected to reach $114.3 billion by 2030, expanding at a 21.8% CAGR. Growth is fueled by the rapid rise of e‑commerce and the need for seamless, secure checkout experiences. Both hosted and non‑hosted solutions are...

WordPress introduced a new Claude connector that lets site owners share back‑end data with Anthropic’s chatbot on a read‑only basis. Users can select which data to expose and revoke access at any time. The integration enables queries such as traffic...
A data engineering team discovered that a three‑year SCD Type 2 backfill executed day‑by‑day produced 47,000 overlapping records, timeline gaps, and unrecoverable errors. The author introduced "Healing Tables," a framework that separates change detection from period construction and rebuilds the dimension in...

Narvar’s February 2026 report shows holiday return volume surged 11% year‑over‑year, nearly double the 6% rise in purchase orders. The spike coincides with a 12‑year low in consumer confidence, prompting shoppers to treat returns as a final budget filter. Retailers...
Sanofi announced that its glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) inhibitor for Fabry disease failed to meet the primary efficacy endpoint in a late‑stage trial. The double‑blind study enrolled roughly 280 patients and showed no statistically significant improvement in key renal or cardiac...
Today, the only companies getting headlines are tripling year on year. The landscape is ripe with talk of startup vs. incumbent. AI FOMO is real. And… what the heck is RevTech? Join me Monday on Run The Numbers as I tackle...
Coincidence that $HIMS has suddenly taken down all ads touting “the same active ingredient as Wegovy”? $HIMS may have finally called enough attention to their bullshit antics to get regulators to finally crack down on them. This could...

Bank stocks have outperformed the broader market as software shares tumble, with the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index gaining over 2% in the past month while the S&P Software Index dropped more than 20%. Analysts note that banks’ direct exposure to...
Ralph Lauren reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $2.41 billion, a 12.2% year‑over‑year increase. Digital and direct‑to‑consumer sales powered the growth, with Asian e‑commerce up 35% and a U.S. TikTok shop debut. The company also rolled out the Ask Ralph AI shopping...

Scientists at ICFO have experimentally mapped the fundamental noise limits of continuously operating multiparameter quantum sensors using a hybrid RF/DC optically pumped magnetometer. By varying probe and pump powers over wide ranges, they quantified photon shot noise, spin‑projection noise, and...
🧔♂️ Non-AI startups: - Lots CSMs (vs FDEs) - AI is slow / noncompetitive, not true #1 focus of company - Not gaining market share - Customers don’t want to pay 2x-10x more for AI Agent (honest truth: not great) - Still very large teams...

Flare researchers have uncovered a threat group called TeamPCP that targets cloud‑native environments by abusing exposed Docker, Kubernetes and other orchestration interfaces. First seen in late 2025, the campaign leverages AI‑driven automation and known flaws such as CVE‑2025‑29927 and React2Shell...
Ide Hidetaka, a Kyoto University and LSE‑trained economist, co‑founded Sentan Capital Management in 2020 to marry macro‑economic research with systematic risk control. The firm, headquartered in Denver but now expanding in Japan, offers long‑term asset allocation supported by AI‑driven analytics...

A recent study demonstrates that applying modulated UV‑C light to harvested guavas can significantly prolong their shelf life. The researchers found that pulsed UV‑C treatment suppresses microbial growth while using roughly 30% less energy than continuous exposure. Shelf life extensions...
In jiu-jitsu, when someone taps, you let go. Always. Except when letting go is what hurts them. There's a difference between a real tap and a panic tap. A panic tap is when someone new gets caught in a choke, freaks out, and...

1. Some news about #flu & #measles in the US: 8 more kids have died from flu this winter. That brings the pediatric death toll to 60 & flu season isn't over. Flu B activity seems to be increasing & flu...

President Donald Trump unveiled TrumpRx, a direct‑to‑consumer drug platform promising to let Americans purchase prescription medicines without traditional insurance intermediaries. The rollout was framed as a fulfillment of broken political promises to lower drug costs. However, early feedback highlights that...

Australian Droid + Robot (ADR) has teamed with Intel to embed Xeon and Core Ultra processors into its Explora autonomous inspection robots for underground mining. The edge‑AI platform processes 3D lidar, thermal imaging, and gas‑sensor data in real time, enabling...

Recent research highlights AI‑driven discovery of tetrahydrocarbazoles as click‑activated, broad‑spectrum antitumor agents, while a plant‑derived limonoid, DHL‑11, targets IMPDH2 to inhibit triple‑negative breast cancer. A U.S. survey shows patients still favor in‑clinic cervical cancer screening over home tests, and a...

ULI Europe’s C Change programme has released an Asset Sustainability Committees Best Practice Guide to help owners, occupiers and property managers coordinate decarbonisation in multi‑let commercial buildings. The guide, built on interviews with twelve leading European real‑estate firms, outlines how structured...

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released new VLBI images that pinpoint the launch point of M87*'s relativistic jet. By exploiting intermediate baselines, researchers identified a compact emission region about 0.09 light‑years from the black‑hole shadow, linking it to the jet’s...

The U.S. Marine Corps unveiled HANX, its first 3D‑printed first‑person view drone that meets National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) security requirements. Developed by Sgt. Henry David Volpe at the II Marine Expeditionary Force Innovation Campus, the drone is approved by...

Higher education is confronting student‑driven demand for seamless, AI‑enhanced digital experiences, making IT service management (ITSM) a strategic necessity. Legacy systems and fragmented processes hinder on‑demand services such as Wi‑Fi, digital resources, and 24/7 help desks. Modern, AI‑powered ITSM platforms...
Viasat reported a modest 3% year‑over‑year revenue increase to $1.16 billion in Q3 FY2026, driven primarily by its Defense and Advanced Technologies segment, which grew 9%. The company announced that its second ViaSat‑3 satellite (F2) is about 34 days from on‑station...
In this episode, Kathleen Weng breaks down the seven top freelancing platforms for 2026—Fiverr, Toptal, Upwork, 99designs, TaskRabbit, Creative Circle, and Freelancer.com—detailing each site’s costs, strengths, and drawbacks. She explains key criteria for choosing a platform, such as trustworthiness, payment...

Mercor’s APEX‑Agents benchmark revealed AI agents lagging far behind human lawyers, with scores under 25% earlier this year. Anthropic’s latest Opus 4.6 model shattered that record, achieving just under 30% on one‑shot legal tasks and about 45% when given multiple attempts....

The episode explores how moving data into modern warehouses and lakes introduces hidden risks that go beyond technical challenges, emphasizing governance, data quality, and transformation controls. It highlights that inconsistencies in source systems, ambiguous definitions, and poorly documented transformation logic...
Researchers at National Jewish Health published a study showing that particulate matter from military burn pits provokes markedly stronger inflammatory and oxidative responses in lung macrophages than ordinary desert dust. The work identifies Toll‑like Receptor 2 (TLR2) as the primary sensor...
SAP Americas CFO Sonja Simon is championing a "failure culture" to speed AI and automation adoption within the finance organization. Her 30‑person team, responsible for roughly 40% of SAP's global revenue, integrates AI through regular discussions, volunteer showcases, and a...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a powerful X4.2 solar flare on February 4, 2026, visualized in extreme ultraviolet light. The flare, one of the strongest recorded this solar cycle, erupted from the Sun’s surface and was highlighted in blue‑red colorization. Such X‑class...
A recent government advisory highlights that the Nitrogen ransomware family cannot be decrypted, even by its own operators. Victims who pay the ransom receive no guarantee of a working decryption key, and recovered files may remain corrupted. The warning underscores...
Researchers using the full Landsat archive confirmed that the world’s boreal forest has expanded and migrated northward over the past four decades. Between 1985 and 2020 the forest grew by 0.844 million km², a 12% increase, and its mean latitude shifted...

In 2012 the iContact founder sold the company for $169 million after growing ARR to over $50 M. He explains that SaaS exits differ by size: below $3 M ARR you sell a product and founder, above $10 M ARR you attract competing asset...

Researchers from JPMorgan Chase demonstrate that the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) can outperform the classic Frieze‑Jerrum semidefinite programming (SDP) method on Max‑k‑Cut problems for specific graph degrees. They introduce an iterative formula that predicts QAOA performance on high‑girth regular...
In this episode, former Shopify insider Steve Hutt explains how press‑release marketing has become a core, repeatable channel for Shopify brands in 2026, driving authority, branded search depth, and AI visibility. He outlines a programmatic approach—choosing real news hooks, using...
Josh Ogden, CEO of AVSS, warns that Canada’s drone sector has dwindled to fewer than 20 manufacturers that merely assemble foreign components rather than develop core technology. He points to historic successes like Aeryon Labs, many of which were acquired...
Everyone doing outbound should read Gene 's post. 👇 As a Founder in GTM tech, it's terrifying the best GTM organizations in the world are experiencing “outbound fatigue” and shutting down automation teams as the ROI of automation plateaus. Highly complex workflows...

$255K in profit from fixing how gyms sell. Live on @acquiredotcom: hardware + SaaS that turns in store visits into guided consults, subs, and recurring revenue for gyms. > $1.16M TTM revenue > $255K TTM profit > 206% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/8TlNbA4mqT https://t.co/H2XkQg3xJK
Researchers in China have demonstrated device‑independent quantum key distribution (DI‑QKD) across 100 km of optical fiber, marking the first city‑scale implementation. By leveraging single‑photon interference and quantum frequency conversion, the team achieved high‑fidelity atom‑atom entanglement and maintained CHSH Bell inequality violations...
OK it took us a while to get @clay going at SaaStr, but it's clearly the best enrichment tool out there, by far Added to the top AI Agents we use #kudos
interesting “While I could bridge the gap by writing skills files to explain how to automate each of my tasks, I think these skills would be personal, context-dependent, and continuously evolving. Skills alone cannot scale to become my virtual coworker.”

Mortgage industry groups, led by the Mortgage Bankers Association, are urging the House to approve the Housing for the 21st Century Act, a comprehensive bill aimed at modernizing federal housing finance and development policy. The legislation, which cleared the House...

What translates from SEO ➡️ AI Search Optimization? The fundamentals don't disappear, they just get applied differently. The skills that made you good at understanding audiences and creating valuable content become your primary competitive advantage. Here's how ⬇️ https://t.co/t2fgxHfLYv

A recent Science #Robotics study uses a #bioinspired robot to demonstrate that “bout-and-glide" swimming, seen in aquatic animals such as zebrafish and humpback whales, is more energy efficient than continuous swimming. https://t.co/8EWURPmuCh https://t.co/bUXSw19YsT

Crypto.com co‑founder Kris Marszalek is launching ai.com, a consumer‑focused platform that lets users create personal AI agents without coding. The service, debuting on Feb. 8 alongside a Super Bowl commercial, offers free access and paid tiers for higher token limits. Agents...
Blue Origin unveiled TeraWave, a planned constellation of 5,280 low‑Earth‑orbit and 128 medium‑Earth‑orbit satellites linked by optical cross‑links and operating in the Q/V‑band. The service is aimed at roughly 100,000 enterprise and data‑center customers seeking fiber‑like throughput and resilient middle‑mile...

Google has launched a beta feature that lets advertisers run structured A/B tests on creative assets within a single Performance Max asset group. Users can define control and treatment asset sets, split traffic—commonly 50/50—and run the experiment for several weeks...

Software engineering leaders must proactively design their organization and delivery model to align with the CIO‑defined IT operating model, rather than reacting to legacy structures. The article outlines how to evaluate alternatives, choose between service‑optimized and value‑optimized models, and build...