Reward has integrated Experian Mosaic into its Intelligence and Activation suite, merging first‑party transaction data from ten million UK banking customers with Experian’s demographic and lifestyle segmentation. The combined offering links the "what" of purchase behaviour to the "who" of consumer profiles, giving retailers and brands a fuller, actionable view of UK shoppers. Early analysis shows Mosaic segments such as "Budding Families" and "Affordable School Years" lifted health‑and‑wellness spend by 23% in January 2025 versus December 2024. The partnership aims to turn seasonal intent into precise marketing activation.
AI4Eyes announced the closing of CAD 6.5 million in new capital, comprising a CAD 3.7 million internal financing round and CAD 2.8 million in non‑dilutive funding. The proceeds will fund regulatory approval efforts in Canada and the United States, expand clinical programs, and accelerate product development....

Sheridan Capital Partners announced the completion of its investment in ICANotes, a cloud‑based practice management and electronic health record platform built for behavioral health providers. The capital infusion arrives as demand for mental‑health services and associated documentation compliance intensifies, creating...
Airdrop strategies have transformed from simple social‑media tasks to sophisticated, multi‑layered engagement models. Between 2017 and 2021 projects moved from retweets and forms to on‑chain transactions, while 2022‑2024 introduced retroactive rewards based on usage depth. By 2025‑2026 eligibility hinges on...

In this episode, Michael Hammond talks with Trina, Senior Director of Servicing Product Strategy at ICE Mortgage Technology, about how AI is reshaping mortgage servicing. She explains that tools such as call prediction, note summarization, chatbots, and intelligent virtual agents...
SoftServe announced a dedicated Google Cloud Business Unit to accelerate AI‑driven enterprise transformation, expanding a partnership that began in 2017. The unit concentrates on AI acceleration, data readiness, application modernization, and API integration through SoftServe’s Gemini Enterprise Accelerator and Adaptive...

eToro announced the launch of 250 new UCITS ETFs aimed at European investors, expanding its product suite as demand for regulated funds surges. European UCITS ETF inflows reached a record €330.6 billion in 2025, pushing total assets to €2.57 trillion. The new...
Duos Edge AI, a subsidiary of Duos Technologies Group, has installed a patented modular Edge Data Center in Hereford, Texas, in partnership with the Hereford Independent School District. The facility delivers on‑premises, low‑latency compute and connectivity to support AI‑enabled educational...
Obyte Friends replaces passive staking with "Active Staking," where users lock assets for at least a year and must complete a real‑time, mutual friend connection each day to earn rewards. Successful daily connections add 1 % to the locked balance and...

Knowtex has rolled out its ambient clinical AI platform at the Veterans Affairs Kansas City site, marking the first production launch within the VA health system. The deployment supports primary‑care workflows and has already shown strong clinician adoption and high...
Floating Fleet AI announced the hiring of Norbert Lingaya, a veteran optimization expert, to strengthen its technical leadership. Lingaya brings over two decades of experience from AD OPT, Sabre, and academic research at GERAD, focusing on large‑scale aviation scheduling. The company...

A study in *Materials* shows that copper nanoparticles produced via a beetroot‑based green synthesis exhibit markedly stronger antimicrobial activity when embedded in polypropylene than both silver‑based composites and chemically reduced copper. The green‑synthesized copper particles are smaller, less prone to...

Visa is launching a subscription management hub that gives consumers real‑time visibility into their recurring payments and automatically transfers credentials when cards change. The platform leverages AI‑driven decisioning and near‑real‑time data to alert users to price changes, upcoming charges, and...
BRGM, a Hover Group company, announced veteran marketing strategist Kensel Tracy as its new Operating Partner. Tracy brings over three decades of experience across private brands, tourism, government and non‑profits, and will lead strategic marketing, sponsorship and partnership development. He...

FinTech and cryptocurrency firms are accelerating their pursuit of bank charters, favoring national trust bank charters as the most practical route to scale and credibility. The OCC’s recent openness to innovative activities has made federal charters attractive, offering nationwide reach...

Walmart’s e‑commerce business is rapidly closing the distance with Amazon, though the gap remains wide. In Q3 2025 Amazon captured 56% of U.S. online retail spend while Walmart held 9.6%, but Walmart’s sales grew 27.2% year‑over‑year, nearly three times Amazon’s rate....
SymphonyAI unveiled the next‑generation CINDE Merchandising Agents, a suite of role‑based, agentic AI tools that embed real‑time decision‑making into weekly sales, promotions, new‑item launches, and reset workflows. Powered by Microsoft Foundry on Azure, the agents—Merchant Planner, Promo Coach, Launch Analyst,...

Card programs are evolving into intricate, multi‑party financial products that require coordination among banks, networks, processors, compliance, fraud and support teams. PYMNTS Intelligence’s December Embedded Finance Tracker highlights two primary build strategies—owning program management in‑house or outsourcing to specialist partners,...
Synheart, a Vancouver‑based startup, launched its Human State Infrastructure (HSI), a privacy‑preserving layer that lets software interpret real‑time physiological and behavioral signals as a native system input. The HSI 1.0 specification defines a canonical JSON contract for on‑device computed human...
Researchers at McMaster University, in partnership with Espervita Therapeutics, reported preclinical data showing that the small‑molecule EVT0185 can both prevent and reverse liver fibrosis in mouse models of metabolic dysfunction‑associated steatohepatitis (MASH). The compound simultaneously inhibits the enzymes ACLY and...

PointClickCare announced the upcoming launch of Referral Advisor, an AI‑driven intake platform for skilled nursing facilities. The tool integrates directly into the company’s EHR to extract, validate and summarize clinical and financial data from referral packets. By automating the traditionally...

The piece argues that AI‑driven shortcuts and constant digital bombardment are eroding deep focus, making sustained attention a scarce but essential skill. Wealthy families and tech leaders are deliberately engineering information scarcity—through screen‑free schools, distraction‑free devices, and even “dumb phones”—to...

In this episode, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson discuss how 37signals lets strong ideas migrate across its product suite, giving each product its own design voice while allowing concepts to evolve and multiply. They explore the balance between reviving...
SEO veteran Scott Keever, founder of Reputation Pros and Forbes Agency Council member, has published "Future‑Proof Your SEO: Staying Ahead in a Dynamic Digital World." The guide warns that AI‑driven search tools such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity...
National Tiles, a leading Australian tile and timber retailer, has implemented a unified data architecture using Domo and Snowflake. The new platform consolidates disparate systems into a secure, governed data foundation, delivering real‑time insights to over 500 employees. It has...

Monroe University disclosed that a December 2024 cyberattack compromised personal, financial, and health data of more than 320,000 individuals. Attackers accessed the network for two weeks, from Dec 9 to Dec 23, before the breach was detected. The university began notifying affected...
wsup.ai has launched a next‑generation AI character platform that merges conversational AI, storytelling, and creator‑driven publishing into a single ecosystem. The service lets users chat with persistent AI personas, generate images with free daily credits, and build comics or visual...

Ryan Anderson, CEO of Filevine, outlines how his legal‑tech SaaS transformed into an AI‑native business, now earning more new revenue from AI than its core platform. He emphasizes tearing down legacy systems, turning data into contextual AI assets, restructuring architecture...
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The Search Engine Journal webinar, hosted by Loren Baker on January 14, 2026, will feature Tom Capper, Senior Search Scientist at STAT Search Analytics, presenting data‑driven insights into Google’s evolving SERP landscape. The session will dissect AI Overviews, the new AI Mode...

Cleo AI’s survey of 5,000 UK adults aged 28‑40 shows growing curiosity about AI‑driven financial tools, with one‑in‑five respondents interested and 12% excited. Despite this interest, 37% admit poor self‑discipline and 80% feel they lack financial knowledge, leading to lower...
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Nullspace Inc. unveiled an upgraded electromagnetic simulation suite aimed at large‑scale antenna and radar projects, featuring AI‑assisted CAD cleanup and a Fast Adaptive Frequency Sweep engine. The new Nullspace Prep tool automates removal of non‑RF mechanical details, while Nullspace EM...
Blue Origin and Nimbus Power Systems have completed rigorous shock and vibration testing of Nimbus’s advanced, gravity‑independent fuel‑cell hardware, confirming it meets performance targets for NASA Artemis lunar missions. The fuel cells generate electricity, heat and potable water, while a...
Mansa AI’s developer has submitted a strategic $400 million offer to acquire CoinGecko, the leading crypto market‑data platform. The deal aims to merge CoinGecko’s real‑time pricing and liquidity metrics with Mansa AI’s agentic Web3 automation framework. By embedding comprehensive market intelligence...
MIT graduate student Taylor Hampson is leading NASA‑sponsored research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), a technology that heats hydrogen with nuclear energy to generate thrust. NTP promises double the specific impulse of conventional chemical rockets, potentially halving travel time to...
A research team at the National University of Defense Technology has introduced a six‑parameter orbital mapping system for objects near the Earth‑Moon collinear Lagrange points. By applying canonical transformations and center‑manifold theory to the circular restricted three‑body problem, the framework...
lomarlabs and Signal Fusion announced a strategic collaboration to embed predictive behavioural analytics into maritime operations, beginning with a 2026 pilot on Lomar’s fleet. The partnership leverages Signal Fusion’s AI‑driven voice and performance analytics to provide real‑time human‑readiness intelligence, turning...
China’s space regulator submitted ITU filings covering more than 200,000 satellites across 14 constellations, including two networks of over 90,000 satellites. The filings follow the ITU’s first‑come‑first‑served allocation rules and are required two to seven years before launch. China frames...

Spot Ship, a UK‑based SaaS platform that applies AI and machine learning to ship chartering, closed a £1 million financing round led by Lisbon VC Ventures.eu. The round also featured Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc and Marcel Kind. Spot Ship’s API‑first solution compresses...
Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is positioning itself as a leading candidate to reach $1 by 2026, currently in presale phase 7 at $0.04 per token with roughly $19.7 million raised. The project combines two lending models—Peer‑to‑Contract and Peer‑to‑Peer—offering both predictable yields and customizable...

OPPO has rolled out ColorOS 16 for its Reno 15 series, introducing smoother animations, system‑level AI, and a refreshed Flux Home Screen. The update is powered by a new Luminous Rendering Engine and Trinity Engine, which together enhance visual fluidity and handle...
Nabla Bio, a Harvard spin‑out founded in 2020, is developing an AI‑driven platform that automatically completes biologics designs while preserving manufacturability. The technology, created in George Church’s lab, targets the persistent bottleneck of translating complex protein candidates into scalable therapeutics....

Shane Ashby‑Roche, Head of Organisational Development and Culture at The White Company, returns as a judge for the 2026 People in Retail Awards. He reflects on a decade of L&D experience, including a two‑year IBM secondment, and how his role...

Visa announced a partnership with stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK to integrate stablecoin capabilities into its Visa Direct network. The collaboration will enable select business customers to pre‑fund payouts and receive payments in stablecoins, expanding beyond traditional fiat. BVNK, backed by...
Scientists have developed a technique to 3D‑print micrometer‑scale structures inside living cells using a light‑sensitive photoresist and two‑photon laser polymerization. The method achieves sub‑micron resolution, allowing shapes such as barcodes, geometric patterns, and a miniature elephant to be fabricated intracellularly....

Klarna’s app now supports peer‑to‑peer payments across 13 European markets, letting users send money via phone number, email, QR code or saved contacts. The feature is initially limited to transfers between existing Klarna users, with plans to open it to...

ThreatQuotient, now part of Securonix, capped 2025 with seven prestigious awards, reinforcing its leadership in threat intelligence and security automation. The June acquisition created an AI‑powered unified SIEM platform that combines external intelligence with real‑time analytics. Expansion into the USA,...

Gem positions itself as an AI‑first, all‑in‑one recruiting platform that merges ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, promising 30‑50% cost reductions through consolidation. Juicebox, by contrast, is a point‑solution focused on AI‑driven list building and outreach that layers onto existing...