The Skylines of the Future Will Be Made of Wood
Architects are increasingly turning to engineered wood—cross‑laminated and glue‑laminated timber—to construct high‑rise buildings that rival steel and concrete. The 284‑foot Ascent MKE in Milwaukee opened in 2022 as the world’s tallest timber tower, and Vancouver’s Hive recently became North America’s tallest brace‑framed, seismic‑resistant timber structure. Mass timber not only flexes like a tree in wind and earthquakes but also sequesters carbon, turning forests into long‑term climate assets. New damping systems and rocking‑wall cores prove that wooden skyscrapers can be both safe and sustainable.
Software Winners & Losers in the Age of AI (W/Alex Rubalcava & Paul Bricault) | #626
In this episode, MedFavor hosts venture partners Alex Rubalcava and Paul Bricault of Amplify LA to discuss how AI is reshaping the software landscape, distinguishing between vulnerable, commoditized SaaS products and mission‑critical, data‑rich enterprise solutions that remain defensible. They explain...
7 Validation Rules to Get Your Salesforce Org AI-Ready
Salesforce admins can quickly harden data quality for AI and automation by deploying seven simple validation rules. The rules cover preventing future dates, enforcing conditional required fields, locking closed records, restricting negative or out‑of‑range values, ensuring logical relationships between dates,...
Telix Reports US FDA Acceptance of NDA for TLX101-Px (Pixclara) in Glioma Imaging
Telix Pharma announced that the U.S. FDA has accepted the resubmitted New Drug Application for TLX101‑Px, marketed as Pixclara, an investigational 18F‑FET PET imaging agent for glioma detection in adults and children. The agency set a PDUFA action date of...
How to Use AI without Harming People and Planet, with Nikoline Arns and James Gauci
The Good Experts podcast debuted with hosts Anna Patton and Matt Haworth discussing how social enterprises can harness artificial intelligence responsibly. Guests Simon Glenister of Noise Solution and Gina Romero of Mettamatch share practical steps to align AI with mission,...
Classical Data Limits Quantum Computing’s Broad Impact
Researchers led by Haimeng Zhao have introduced a framework called quantum oracle sketching to solve the data‑loading bottleneck that limits quantum computers from handling real‑world, classically generated datasets. The method streams data, applying incremental quantum rotations to build an accurate...
RWE Installs CO2-Reduced Steel Tower and Recyclable Blades at Thor
RWE has installed an offshore wind turbine at the Thor project using a reduced‑CO₂ steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The 1.1 GW farm, located 22 km off Denmark’s west coast, now delivers its first power to the grid and will host...
RWE Installs CO2-Reduced Steel Tower and Recyclable Blades at Thor
RWE has installed an offshore wind turbine at Denmark’s Thor wind farm using a reduced‑CO₂ steel tower and recyclable rotor blades. The turbine is part of the 1.1 GW project, which began delivering power to the Danish grid and will host...
Pasqal Partners with True Nexus on Quantum Food Protein Design
Quantum computing firm Pasqal has teamed up with computational‑intelligence specialist True Nexus to use Pasqal’s neutral‑atom quantum processors for protein modeling in alternative food systems. The partnership will develop the first fully vectorized, dynamic 3‑D model of protein gelation, integrating...
Top UK Drone Startup Wins Pentagon Test, Yet Departs Britain
Yesterday a Russian warship escorted sanctioned tankers through the English Channel, unchallenged. Today we're about to lose one of the most exciting defence startups in the country to America. > A small British team just topped the Pentagon's own Drone Dominance...
Could Your Sales Be up to 11% Better?
Retailers face a chronic inventory accuracy problem, with more than 60% of records containing errors that can erode sales by 4‑11%. TSC Auto ID argues that a hybrid labeling strategy—combining traditional barcodes with RFID—delivers real‑time traceability, reduces shrink, and improves...
Ethio Telecom Launches RFID ‘Non-Stop’ Expressway Toll System via Telebirr
Ethio telecom, together with the Ethiopian Toll Roads Enterprise, has rolled out an RFID‑based toll collection system on the Addis Ababa‑Adama Expressway that integrates directly with the telebirr mobile‑payment platform. The solution allows vehicles to pass toll gates without stopping, automatically...
Amgen’s Lung Cancer Drug Tarlatamab Wins China Approval
Amgen’s bispecific antibody tarlatamab, marketed in the U.S. as Imdelltra, has received approval from China’s National Medical Products Administration. The drug is designed for adults with extensive‑stage small cell lung cancer that has progressed despite chemotherapy. Amgen will commercialize the...
Why Fundamental Research in Photovoltaics Remains Critical for an Established Technology
A new paper led by Professor Rebecca Saive of the University of Twente warns that fundamental research in photovoltaics is losing traction as scientists drift toward other fields. The authors cite a 15% drop in dedicated funding over the past...
New Pentagon Memo Complicates DJI Drone Ban Reversal
The Pentagon released a memo reaffirming its opposition to any reconsideration of the FCC’s “Covered List,” which bars foreign‑made drones and critical components from U.S. sale. The memo cites both classified and unclassified intelligence, including a classified annex submitted to...
US Summons Bank Bosses over Cyber Risks From Anthropic’s Latest AI Model
The U.S. Treasury summoned CEOs of major banks, including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, to discuss the cyber risks associated with Anthropic’s newly released Claude Mythos AI model. Anthropic warns the model poses unprecedented cybersecurity threats, such as generating sophisticated phishing...
South Korea to Fund Medical AI Device Rollout and More Briefs
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare will allocate 8 billion won ($5.3 million) from the AX‑Sprint programme to fund commercialization of AI‑based medical devices, supporting consortia with hospitals for clinical validation and reimbursement between 2026‑27. Singapore's Nanyang Technological University launched the...
Blaize Announces Planned Launch of Blaize AI Services to Turn AI Infrastructure Into Production-Ready APIs
AI hardware maker Blaize Holdings announced the upcoming launch of Blaize AI Services, a platform that turns AI infrastructure into production‑ready, application‑level APIs. The solution bundles modular APIs, hybrid inference scheduling, and Forward Deployed Engineering to speed pilot‑to‑production, cut query...
Quantum 2025 Trends: Error Correction Dominates, Simulation Lags
On his blog https://t.co/OV89KJngtS, the friend and colleague @quantum_minhsiu presents the 2025 "trends in quantum research". He offers the results of a comprehensive analysis of quantum papers and their ranking on SciRate, having run sophisticated scripts. Some trends do not surprise...
(Updated) CPUID Offline After Reports of Malware in CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
CPUID, the maker of popular diagnostic utilities CPU‑Z and HWMonitor, faced a suspected supply‑chain breach when official download links began delivering malware instead of the expected installers. The compromised files, masquerading as HWMonitor 1.63 and CPU‑Z 2.19, were hosted on a Cloudflare...
Lawyers Embracing AI but Leaving Clients in the Dark
Clio’s 2026 UK & Ireland Legal Insights Report surveyed over 500 lawyers and 500 members of the public, revealing that 89% of legal professionals now use AI tools, yet only 7% of clients recall being told about AI involvement. While...
Trailblazing UK Floating Wind Project Sold for £1 After Contract Cancelled
Hexicon sold its TwinHub floating offshore wind project for £1 after the UK government cancelled its Contract for Difference. The 32 MW Celtic Sea pilot had secured the first UK floating wind CfD at £87.30/MWh ($115.69) but faced soaring inflation‑driven costs...
Container-Sized AI 'Pods' Could Be the Answer to Dragging Data Centre Plans, HPE Says
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is mass‑producing container‑sized AI “pods” that function as miniature data centres, with a factory capable of delivering a unit in a matter of months. The modular pods bundle compute, storage, networking and cooling into a single...
Artemis Astronauts to Shed Light on Space Health Risks
NASA's Artemis II mission sent four astronauts on a lunar flyby, exposing them to deep‑space radiation levels far beyond those in low‑Earth orbit. The agency equipped Orion with radiation sensors, collected blood, saliva, and smartwatch health data, and installed bio‑mimetic chips...
Logarithmic-Depth Quantum Circuits Possible Without Error Correction
In the absence of quantum error correction, and under fairly general—possibly even non-unital—noise models, one can still hope to achieve quantum circuits of logarithmic depth. While these can still be quite deep in practice, this insight is important when planning...
Anonymous Video Model Tops Leaderboards, Creator Remains Hidden
My AI says it got it wrong tonight on top of https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ. +++++ Last night I wrote that Alibaba's HappyHorse was behind the mystery video model that topped the leaderboards. I was wrong. HappyHorse just posted a clarification: they are part of Alibaba's ATH...
Sarenza Opens Its First Brick-and-Mortar Store, with More to Come
Sarenza, the online shoe retailer owned by French fashion group Beaumanoir, opened its first physical outlet, Sarenza Studio, at the L’Atoll shopping centre in Angers. The store is a women‑only, premium concept that mirrors a department‑store experience while extending the...
Unito Expands Partnership with Asana, Now Included in Enterprise Offering for AI-Driven Workflow Integration
Unito has deepened its strategic partnership with Asana by becoming the first technology partner offered directly through Asana’s procurement channel. The no‑code sync engine is now an add‑on for enterprise customers, enabling two‑way integration with more than 60 enterprise tools...
Ringbot: Star Wars‑inspired Monocycle Balances, Recovers, Hits
This is Ringbot, a Star Wars - inspired monocycle robot developed by Kim Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2024. It uses a circular wheel and two legs with independent modules to move, balance, and control direction. It can avoid...
No Coding Needed: AI Builds Full-Featured Apps
You realize I'm an idiot, right? I have no freaking idea how to code. But it built this for me: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ 100% of it. Did a security review. And built me all sorts of fun features like a feed for your...
AI Voice Scams, Airline Fee Hacks and the Apps Keeping You Hooked
The Rich on Tech weekend show highlighted three pressing tech trends: AI‑generated voice scams are becoming more convincing as bots outnumber humans online, allowing fraudsters to clone personal voices from brief recordings. Airline travel costs are climbing, with checked‑bag fees...
UK Cancer Trial Targets Difficult-to-Treat Tumours in Children
A new CAR T‑cell immunotherapy trial, called Mighty, will enroll up to 60 children and young adults with hard‑to‑treat solid tumours in the UK and US. The study targets rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma and soft‑tissue sarcoma, cancers that behave differently from...
Run Your Own AI on a Laptop You Already Own
The author installed Google’s free Gemma 3, a 4‑billion‑parameter model, on a 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel i5, 16 GB RAM) and used it to generate a poem in three minutes. The slow, imperfect output highlights that AI speed is a hardware issue, not...
Can AI-Assisted Arbitral Awards Survive Enforcement Under the New York Convention?
The American Arbitration Association‑International Centre for Dispute Resolution launched an AI‑native pilot in November 2025 that lets an algorithm draft arbitral decisions for human review. While the pilot has not yet faced a court test, the New York Convention’s enforcement framework was...
If We Lost Everything, Here's the Media Company We'd Build (527)
In this episode of This Old Marketing, hosts Joe Polizzi and Robert Rose imagine building a media company from scratch in 2026 with no audience, brand, or team. They explore which formats—newsletters, podcasts, or other digital content—offer the best path...
Multi-Agent AI Delivers Reliable and Scalable Insights for Single-Cell Omics
Nygen Analytics, a Lund‑based startup founded by computational genomics expert Parashar Dhapola, is deploying multi‑agent AI to streamline single‑cell omics analysis. The platform automates cell‑type annotation, handling millions of cells while reducing error rates that can misguide drug discovery. By...
Attabotics Returns with a Clearer Path Forward
The episode explores the resurgence of Attabotics, a high‑density robotic fulfillment system, after its bankruptcy and its new partnership with Lafayette, a long‑standing automation integrator. Guests Bruce Robbins (founder of Lafayette), Art Eldridge (SVP of Sales & Software at Attabotics),...
Carbon Emissions Data at Your Fingertips
Upsun has integrated annual carbon‑emissions data directly into its Console’s Billing section, making the 2025 figures instantly available to organizations and project owners. The data, calculated through a partnership with Greenly, adheres to GHG Protocol standards and reflects updated electricity...
Breaking the Stranglehold: Responses to Data Sovereignty Risk
In January 2026, 45 UK MPs tabled an Early Day Motion demanding a digital‑sovereignty strategy after data showed that 95% of public‑sector organisations rely on US hyperscalers, with the five biggest spenders—MoD, HMRC, Home Office, DWP and NHS England—pouring roughly $1.36 bn,...
JWX Partners with QuantumPath to Give Media Buyers Holistic Control Across Their Programmatic Ad Buys
JWX announced an exclusive agreement with QuantumPath to launch a multi‑DSP agentic orchestration layer that sits above existing programmatic buying platforms. The new layer automates campaign setup, pacing, optimization and reporting across more than a dozen DSPs, reducing manual effort...
How to Generate Cinematic AI Video Clips With SeeDance 2.0 in Minutes
SeeDance 2.0, accessed through the PI API platform, lets developers and creators generate cinematic‑grade video clips using multimodal inputs and sound‑synchronization. The service charges $0.40 for a 5‑second fast‑quality clip, with costs scaling by duration, quality and style. Structured prompts...
Microsoft Recall Flaw Exposes Decrypted User Data, Researchers Find
Microsoft re‑launched its Recall feature with a hardened security stack that includes VBS enclaves, AES‑256‑GCM encryption, Windows Hello, and a Protected Process Light host. Researchers discovered that while the encrypted vault remains secure, the AIXHost.exe process that renders decrypted data...
Nio Supplier Seyond Reaches 1 Million LiDAR Delivery Milestone
Seyond, the LiDAR supplier for Nio, announced it has shipped over one million units, with 750,000 Falcon and 250,000 Robin models delivered. First‑quarter shipments jumped 340% year‑on‑year to about 181,400 units, and the company expects full‑year 2026 deliveries to rise...
When AI Bots Become Clients: How FantasticLawyers.com Is Discovered by Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity Etc
FantasticLawyers.com has recently been discovered by leading AI bots such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity, highlighting a new channel for legal service discovery. The blog post details how artificial intelligence is reshaping interactive services for law firms, from automated client...
Open‑source MemPalace Merges LLM Intelligence with Deterministic Code
I've been legit impressed by @m_jovovich and MemPalace. The awesome thing about open source is you can learn a lot about how people do things, and come up with what makes sense for you. GBrain is MemPalace built natively for...
Google Wallet Redesign Adds Favorites, Sorting, and Search
Google Wallet's big redesign starts rolling out gradually with features such as favorites, sorting and search The updated UI focuses on frequently used cards and passes ✅ More details with screenshots - https://t.co/k2FcpkbTlX https://t.co/KYaCmSQXRG
Philippine Navy Develops Prototypes of Autonomous Logistics Drones
The Philippine Navy has signed an agreement with Cebu Technological University to build two autonomous logistics platforms – a Hybrid Marine‑Air Vehicle (HMAV) and a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS). Both prototypes aim to improve inter‑island transport, disaster response and...
Samsung Extends Gemini Scam Detection to Foldable Phones
Samsung is preparing to expand its Gemini-powered Scam Detection feature to its upcoming foldable lineup Galaxy S26 was the first non-pixel device to get on-device scam detection feature ✅ More details - https://t.co/2SQhflEGmv https://t.co/7iJjpIiBNl
AI Infrastructure: The Hidden Layer Driving Innovation
AI infrastructure—encompassing high‑performance compute, storage, networking, and MLOps tools—is the hidden layer that enables large language models, real‑time analytics, and other AI applications to move from prototype to production. The article explains how GPUs, TPUs, HPC clusters, and hybrid cloud‑edge...
Infometry Launches INFOFISCUS Conversa for macOS to Interact with Enterprise AI Analytics Using Natural Language
Infometry has released a native macOS version of its INFOFISCUS Conversa platform, letting executives ask plain‑English questions and receive AI‑generated insights without writing SQL or consulting dashboards. The app translates natural language into optimized queries for cloud warehouses such as...