VIDEO | AgXeed Series 7 Tested in the Field: Can It Handle Heavy Tillage and Tight Headlands?
The AgXeed AgBot Series 7 was put through a real‑world field trial on a French arable farm, pulling a heavy cultivator and navigating tight headland turns. The video demonstrates the robot’s ability to maintain precise trajectories while delivering the power needed for intensive tillage. Operators observed consistent performance without manual intervention, highlighting the system’s autonomous control algorithms. The test serves as a practical benchmark for the next generation of farm robotics.
One Doctor Helped Kickstart US Nuclear Medicine’s New Wave. Now He’s Refining It.
Dr. Ebrahim Delpassand, a pioneer of U.S. nuclear medicine, launched the first FDA‑approved lutetium‑based radioligand therapy (Lutathera) in 2010 and later helped bring Pluvicto to market, driving blockbuster sales in 2025. He founded Excel Diagnostics, where he ran the sole...
AI Solutions for Life Underwriting
In this episode, Dale Hall interviews Whitney Barnes, Director of Sales for Insurance at Digital Owl, about how AI is transforming life insurance underwriting. Whitney explains how AI can process millions of medical record pages, extract relevant risk factors, and...
327. SAE Standards: Building Consensus for Moving Mobility Forward
In this episode, SAE standards experts Christian Thiele and Dave Frank explain how consensus‑based standards turn emerging mobility technologies—like electric‑vehicle charging, autonomous systems, and AI‑driven design—into safe, scalable products for both automotive and aerospace sectors. They illustrate the process with...
OpenClaw for Normies Is Here
In this episode of The Long Game, hosts Jake Sullivan and John Feiner discuss the surprising Iran cease‑fire announcement and its implications for U.S. policy, then shift to a deep dive with Marvin Von Hagen, CEO of Polk, about his...
OPSWAT Adds Predictive AI Engine to MetaDefender for Pre-Execution Threat Detection
OPSWAT introduced Predictive Alin AI, its first proprietary AI‑driven threat detection engine, into the MetaDefender platform. The static‑analysis engine predicts malicious intent in milliseconds, delivering sub‑100‑ms inference while maintaining a tiny memory footprint. In internal tests the engine achieved 99.99%...
Palo Alto Networks, SonicWall Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall each released emergency patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities, including two high‑severity flaws. Palo Alto fixed three bugs—most notably CVE‑2026‑0234 affecting Cortex XSOAR/XSIAM’s Microsoft Teams integration—and added dozens of Chromium security updates. SonicWall patched four issues in...
Artemis II Commander Calls Earth "Special Place" As Spaceship Heads Home
NASA’s Artemis II crew began its return to Earth on April 9, with commander Reid Wiseman describing the view of the Moon eclipsing Earth as a reminder that our planet is a “special place.” The Orion spacecraft, launched on April 1, set a...
How Insurance Leaders Can Leverage AI Without Sacrificing Trust
Capgemini’s WNS unit outlines how insurers can embed control, privacy and compliance into AI deployments while still fostering cross‑jurisdiction collaboration. Techniques such as geographic data restrictions and federated learning enable model training without moving raw data. High‑impact AI use cases...
Russian Hackers Exploit SOHO Routers for DNS Hijacking Campaign
Russian-linked threat group Forest Blizzard has been hijacking home and small‑office routers since at least August 2025, turning them into covert DNS infrastructure. Microsoft reported over 200 organizations and more than 5,000 consumer devices infected, enabling passive traffic monitoring and targeted...
Making Tax Digital: HMRC Equality Review Finds Possible ‘Minor Impacts’ Based on Disability, Age and Religion
HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) regime now requires about 800,000 self‑employed individuals and landlords to submit income‑tax returns via accredited software, with nearly a million more slated for 2027 and 2028. An initial equality screening found only minor impacts for...
Shooting $100 Billion in Taxpayer Funds to the Moon Is Not a Win
Washington is proposing to spend roughly $100 billion of taxpayer money on a renewed lunar program, even as Americans face high inflation, stagnant wages, and a housing shortage. The article argues that such a massive allocation diverts resources from pressing domestic...
NFPA’s Comprehensive Battery Safety Code Nears Finish Line
The National Fire Protection Association is set to release NFPA 800, its first comprehensive battery safety code covering the entire lifecycle of stationary energy‑storage systems and consumer‑grade batteries. The provisional standard, expected later this month after a fast‑tracked vote, will define...
GOV.UK Eyes API Overhaul, GraphQL Could Do the Job
The UK government’s central digital platform, GOV.UK, is evaluating a major API redesign, exploring a shift from its legacy REST endpoints to a GraphQL‑based architecture. Officials say the change aims to deliver more flexible, robust and easier‑to‑integrate services for citizens...
Broker’s Call: Amagi Media Labs (Buy)
Anand Rathi Research initiates coverage of Amagi Media Labs with a Buy rating, setting a target of ₹450 (≈ $5.4) while the stock trades at ₹335.95 (≈ $4.0). The cloud‑based SaaS platform, which lets content owners launch and monetize internet channels, posted...
When Robots Build Robots, Bottlenecks Shift Upstream
Robots building robots. It sounds futuristic, but it’s becoming a real direction. Once humanoids can assemble components, handle tools, and operate in human-designed environments, manufacturing starts to change fundamentally. You don’t just automate tasks. You automate the creation of the systems themselves. That has implications: Faster...
I Asked 5 Data Leaders About How They Use AI to Automate - and End Integration Nightmares
Data leaders across industries are turning to generative AI and automation to tame complex data‑integration projects. Thomson Reuters is piloting an internal AI tool for M&A due diligence, while Create Music Group runs more than 600 pipelines with Astronomer’s Astro...
AI-Caution Prompts Rising Demand for Authentic, Human-Led Content in Social Buying Journeys
New research from the Retail Technology Show surveyed over 1,000 shoppers and found that 53% distrust AI‑generated social content, rising to 58% among Gen Z. More than half (51%) believe AI threatens brand trust on social platforms, while 43% say authentic,...
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT Sets Out Digital Delivery Goals and Priorities for 2026/27
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust outlined its 2026/27 digital delivery roadmap, emphasizing data‑driven community health, home‑based technology, and staff productivity. The plan pivots on an electronic patient record, a federated data platform, and positioning the NHS App as...
Google ChromeOS Flex Just Pulled the Rug Out From Under Windows 11 and I’m Absolutely Delighted
Google has launched ChromeOS Flex, a free, cloud‑based OS that can be installed on legacy Windows or macOS hardware via a $3 USB kit from refurbisher Back Market. The move arrives as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support ends, leaving millions of older PCs...
Global AI Secures Enterprise Agentic AI Deployment with Fortune Global 500 Pharmaceutical Leader
Global AI Inc. announced a full‑scale production rollout of its Agentic AI Platform with a Fortune Global 500 pharmaceutical company. The solution now runs end‑to‑end across regulatory reporting and payroll functions, linking inventory, ERP, HR and finance systems into a...
The Equation Just Broke: What Block’s AI Restructuring Means for Every Company & Industry. Highlights From A16Z Podcast.
Block, the parent of Square, Cash App and Afterpay, announced a restructuring that eliminated more than 40% of its workforce despite being profitable and ranking in the top quintile for gross profit per employee. The cuts focused on engineering after...
How Huntington Modernized without Touching the Core Ft. Qolo
Huntington National Bank partnered with payments platform Qolo to launch a virtual‑account‑based product called Connected Deposits, layering modern functionality over its legacy core. The solution creates sub‑accounts that behave like real bank accounts—complete with routing numbers, inbound wires and automated...
European Union Deep Tech Plan Too Late for Quantum Champions IQM and Pasqal
Europe’s two leading quantum‑computing firms, Finland’s IQM and France’s Pasqal, announced U.S. SPAC listings to secure the capital needed for next‑generation hardware. Their moves coincide with the European Commission’s rushed €3 bn (≈$3.2 bn) ScaleUp Europe fund, designed to keep late‑stage deep‑tech...
For U.S. Bank, Embedded Finance Was Step One. The Self-Reinforcing Model Is Step Two.
U.S. Bank launched a generative AI assistant on its developer portal in early 2026 to accelerate API integration, then closed its purchase of Amazon’s small‑business credit‑card portfolio and extended home‑improvement loan terms. These actions illustrate a shift toward an embedded‑finance...
Samsung to Invest $4 Billion in Chip Packaging Site in Vietnam
Samsung Electronics announced a $4 billion investment to build a chip‑packaging plant in Thai Nguyen province, northern Vietnam. The project will roll out in multiple phases, with an initial $2 billion tranche slated to start construction soon. The facility aims to boost Samsung’s...
XMax Advances AI Strategy Through Development and Deployment of An AI Inference Platform
XMax Inc., through its wholly‑owned subsidiary XMax AI, signed an agreement with Cloud Alliance Inc. to develop and deploy a cloud‑based AI inference platform on Amazon Web Services. The platform will deliver large‑model API access, intelligent routing, authentication, integrated payments,...
Renewable Natural Gas: What Investors Should Know
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is poised for a surge in M&A activity as investors chase climate‑friendly fuel credits and long‑term contracts. Analyst Dave Lindenmuth warns that while the sector offers strong ESG appeal, it also faces feedstock volatility, regulatory patchwork,...
Fingerspitzengefühl As Corporate Structure
Block, led by Jack Dorsey, is piloting an AI‑driven reorganization that replaces traditional hierarchical coordination with a continuously updated world model built from its Cash App and Square transaction data. The system combines modular financial capabilities, an intelligence layer that...
How OpenClaw Became Google's Next Big AI Threat After ChatGPT
OpenClaw, an open‑source autonomous AI assistant, has surged in early 2026, offering messaging‑driven agents that operate locally on personal computers. The platform can create subordinate agents, manage files, and execute multistep tasks without constant cloud access, drawing praise from Nvidia’s...
The Death of the CV
DY/DX warns that AI‑generated résumés are stripping the CV of its signalling power, prompting firms to rethink hiring. While South African recruiters are adopting AI for bulk screening, the consultancy argues that keyword‑driven tools can miss high‑potential candidates with non‑linear...
Epson Adds Compact UV Flatbed Printer for Sign Shops
Epson has launched the SureColor V4000, a compact UV flatbed printer aimed at sign shops and custom‑gift producers. The machine offers a 27.5" × 38.5" print area, three PrecisionCore Micro TFP heads, and a 10‑color UltraChrome UV ink set that includes red,...
Last Turbines Arrive at One of Sunshine State’s Biggest Wind Projects, with a Big Battery Included
The final 41 turbines have arrived at Queensland’s Wambo wind farm, completing the 254 MW second stage and bringing the total capacity to 506 MW across 81 turbines. Stage one’s 252 MW is already connected to the grid, and the project includes a...
ARK Invest Is Betting on Underdog Drone Delivery Company Manna to Beat Out Alphabet and Zipline
Manna, the Irish drone‑delivery startup, closed a $50 million Series B round led by ARK Invest, bringing total funding to $110 million. The company has already completed more than 250,000 deliveries in Ireland, Finland and Texas and partners with Uber, DoorDash, Deliveroo and Just Eat....
Microsoft Finally Begins Removing Copilot From Notepad on Windows 11 — but the AI Still Persists
Microsoft has begun stripping the Copilot brand from Windows 11 apps, starting with Notepad. The latest Insider build removes the Copilot icon and renames the AI menu to “writing tools,” while preserving the underlying functionality. Settings now list the AI toggle...
OpenAI Halts Stargate UK Data Centre Project
OpenAI announced it is suspending the construction of its Stargate data centre in the United Kingdom, a project originally slated to cost roughly £200 million (about $250 million). The facility was intended to house some of the world’s most powerful AI compute...
Meta Adds $21B AI Cloud Spend, Total $35B
Meta Platforms $META has committed to spend an additional $21 billion on AI cloud infrastructure from CoreWeave $CRWV This comes on top of a prior deal for Meta to spend $14.2 billion with CoreWeave - CNBC
Dominate Zero‑Click Keywords to Become Google’s Trusted Source
Target ZERO-CLICK keywords strategically. Instead of avoiding keywords where Google shows the answer directly, dominate them. When people see you're the source of Google's answer, they trust you for deeper questions.
Hugging Face's Safetensors, Meta's Helion Join PyTorch Foundation
The PyTorch Foundation announced that Meta’s Helion DSL and Hugging Face’s Safetensors format have joined its portfolio of open‑source AI projects. Helion provides a domain‑specific language for writing custom machine‑learning kernels, while Safetensors delivers a fast, secure tensor serialization method....
Amazon's AI Strategy Mirrors Its Core Consistency Blueprint
Amazon’s most consistent, fundamental corporate strategy, the one that’s made the e-commerce/cloud giant into the powerhouse it is today, is also its AI strategy: $AMZN https://t.co/RC1LAKEh4n https://t.co/e5Dn7VESOn
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB Awards Contract for Digital MSK Self-Management
The Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has awarded a two‑year, £206,692 (≈ $263,000) contract to getUBetter for a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) self‑management platform. The app, a Class 1 medical device certified by DTAC, will be embedded across...
GLM-5.1 Claims Top Performance Over GPT, Anthropic, Gemini
https://t.co/PA3A2NtsOG ups ante in open-source LLMs with GLM-5.1 https://t.co/NmEFxGdoho https://t.co/PA3A2NtsOG launched GLM-5.1, its flagship open-source model that claims to outperform OpenAI's GPT-5.4, Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE Bench Pro benchmarks for…
Tiny Audio Add‑on Makes Portal Gaming Ultra‑comfortable
After adding this tiny audio accessory to my PlayStation Pulse Explore earbuds, gaming on my Portal has never been comfier. https://t.co/260g4qw7QE
The Clock Is Ticking: Coal Is Down, Prices Have Fallen, but Wind Projects Are Very, Very Late
Australia’s National Electricity Market is seeing coal’s share dip below 50% and evening‑peak prices fall sharply, driven by growing battery capacity and reduced coal generation. However, the anticipated wind build‑out is stalling, with developers missing final investment decisions and construction...
Free EdTech Tools Teach Kids Money Skills This April
🤑 National Financial Literacy Month is an ideal time to delve into financial literacy in the classroom. 🎯 This April, help kids learn to earn, save, spend, & donate with free EdTech resources from #ChaChing #MoneySmartKids https://t.co/boTCJsQArA
Learn From Losses, Don't Skip the Lesson
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Document Management for UK Accountants: Why an Intelligent Workspace Beats a Patchwork of Tools
UK accounting firms are confronting a surge in document volume as Making Tax Digital for Income Tax goes live in April 2026. Most practices rely on a fragmented stack—IRIS, SharePoint, Outlook, DocuSign—leading to version‑control headaches and manual signing. SuiteFiles offers...
Italy ‘Definitely’ Most Attractive European Market for Solar Development
Jan‑Philip Kock, chief of staff at German IPP Encavis, said Italy is the most attractive European market for solar‑only projects, citing strong industrial demand, high gas‑driven power prices and the government’s Energy Release scheme that subsidises electricity for renewable investors....
The Publisher’s Playbook for the Google Zero Era
Publishers are confronting a steep drop in Google Search referrals, with traffic falling 33% worldwide and 38% in the U.S. between November 2024 and November 2025. AI‑generated snippets now capture the top of the results page, reducing click‑through rates to just 8%...
Zephyr Energy Loses £700K in Cyber Hit that Rerouted Contractor Payment
Zephyr Energy plc disclosed a cyber‑fraud incident that diverted about £700,000 (≈$890,000) from a routine contractor payment to an attacker‑controlled account. The attack, described as “highly sophisticated,” hit a U.S. subsidiary but left day‑to‑day operations intact. Zephyr promptly involved law...
