AppDirect Acquires PartnerStack to Create Unified Partner-Led Growth Platform
AppDirect announced the acquisition of Toronto‑based PartnerStack, its sixth deal in a year, to merge PartnerStack’s 138,000‑partner network with AppDirect’s marketplace. The deal, terms undisclosed, is positioned as a step toward a single subscription‑commerce platform for partner‑led growth and a $1 billion gross annual recurring revenue target.
Your Agent Needs a SOUL.md You Can't Write From Scratch. I Built a 45-Minute Prompt that Writes It for You.
The episode critiques the hype around AI agents, arguing that merely installing an agent isn’t enough to boost productivity. The host explains that many developers are busy cloning popular frameworks like OpenAI’s agent tools without understanding how to effectively prompt...
Amazon Launches Fire TV Stick HD with Smaller Design and Alexa+ for $34.99
Amazon unveiled the Fire TV Stick HD, a budget‑friendly streaming dongle priced at $34.99. The new model is 30% smaller than its predecessor and draws power directly from a TV’s USB‑C port, eliminating the need for a wall adapter. It...
TelevisaUnivision Joins The Streaming Self-Service Bandwagon
TelevisaUnivision has partnered with ad‑tech firm fullthrottle.ai to make its streaming inventory available through a self‑serve platform. The integration adds a dedicated ad bidder, clean‑room data matching and ZIP‑code level targeting for U.S. Hispanic audiences. Fullthrottle reports a 90% match‑rate...
Only 43% of SaaS Startups Sustain Growth—Reset GTM
New data: Growth endurance in software is down to only 43%. This is a wake-up call for SaaS 👀 - Fewer than 1-in-5 startups maintained or improved their growth rate from 2024 to 2025. - A startup growing between 25-49%...
Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Goes Viral After Chasing Wild Boars in Warsaw
A Unitree G1 humanoid robot, nicknamed Edward Warchocki, was captured chasing a pack of wild boars through a Warsaw parking lot, sparking a viral sensation. The stunt showcases the robot’s speed, autonomy and the growing market for consumer‑grade humanoids, while...
What Is AI Sales Enablement for Industrial Automation?
Industrial automation firms face lengthy sales cycles as customers demand instant, technical answers. AI sales enablement integrates data, insights, and automation into a single platform, giving sales engineers rapid access to pricing, specifications, and compliance information. The technology adds predictive...
Bank7 Posts 16% Q1 Profit Rise, Highlights Single‑Digit Loan Growth and Stable NIM
Bank7 Corp. posted a 16% jump in first‑quarter net income to $12.01 million, while its loan portfolio grew 11.9% year‑over‑year. Management emphasized modest single‑digit loan growth, a stable core net interest margin and a strong capital position.
Congress Grapples with FISA Section 702 Reauthorisation as Deadline Looms
U.S. Congress is debating a clean 18‑month extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires on April 20. The program, credited with thwarting terrorist plots and aiding cyber‑security responses, faces bipartisan criticism over warrantless collection of Americans’ communications.
Effective Defense Against Hacks at the Edge
PQShield unveiled its MicroCore IP, a post‑quantum security suite that fits within as little as 5 KB of SRAM for edge‑device IoT applications. The offering covers secure boot, post‑quantum TLS, and side‑channel‑resistant cryptography, all deliverable as software‑only updates or with optional...
Aussie Fintech Unicorn Zeller to Take on UK Market
Australian fintech unicorn Zeller, valued at $1 bn after a 2022 funding round, announced its first overseas expansion by launching in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2020, Zeller offers an integrated business‑payment and financial‑management platform that has quickly attracted millions of...
Broadcom Announces VMware Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations for Security, PaaS Simplicity
Broadcom unveiled the VMware Tanzu Platform agent foundations, a secure, pre‑built PaaS layer for AI agents that runs on VMware Cloud Foundation. The offering leverages cloud‑native Buildpacks, structural secrets isolation, and zero‑trust networking to harden containers against malware and data...
The Art of Human Prompting: Why the Most Important Questions in an AI-Powered Organization Aren't Asked to Machines
Ninety‑seven percent of executives report deploying AI agents in the past year, and 35% of enterprises have adopted agentic AI that can act autonomously. While organizations pour money into prompt‑engineering and AI toolkits, investment in training humans to think alongside...
Replimune Shares Tumble 64% After FDA Issues Second CRL on RP1 Vaccine
Replimune's shares dropped about 64% on April 10 after the FDA issued a second Complete Response Letter rejecting the RP1 vaccine. The setback forces the company into job cuts, raises questions about its pivotal IGNYTE‑3 trial, and slashes analyst price...
Eliminating Silos in IT/OT Cybersecurity Is a Funding Challenge, Not a Technical One
Tom Guarente of Armis argues that the biggest obstacle to securing converged IT and OT environments is not technology but fragmented funding. While the White House’s Cyber Strategy for America calls for holistic protection of critical infrastructure, agencies remain stuck...
Platform9's Channel Program Doubles in Two Quarters, Boosting Cloud Migration Sales
Platform9 announced that its Global Channel Partner Program grew by 100% in the last two quarters as enterprises accelerate migration away from VMware. The surge, driven by VARs, MSPs and system integrators, underscores rising demand for the company's Private Cloud...
Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2026: Beyond Chat
Forrester’s 2026 Top 10 Emerging Technologies list marks a pivot from chat‑centric AI to a three‑layer framework—Interact, Build, and Fuel. It highlights layer‑zero experiences that overlay apps, physical AI and robotics delivering 20‑50% efficiency gains, and multi‑agent systems that coordinate autonomous...
How to Share Your AI Context and Skills Across Devices
Claude Code users need a reliable way to share AI context files and custom skills across multiple devices and team members. The author tested Dropbox, iCloud, GitHub, and Obsidian Sync, exposing path‑dependency issues, skill‑folder limitations, and steep learning curves. After...
You Can’t Scale What You Don’t Practice: The Case for AI Role Play
Sales organizations struggle to adopt role‑playing, yet it’s essential for scaling performance. The article likens sales drills to athlete and pilot training, showing how repeated practice builds confidence, focus, and stress resilience. It argues that generative AI can serve as...
Understanding Open Model Licenses
Google unveiled Gemma 4, its latest multimodal open‑weight model, and notably switched its distribution to the Apache 2.0 License. The permissive terms remove usage caps, grant patent protection, and allow commercial integration without open‑sourcing derivatives. The move underscores a broader industry shift...
Nvidia Pushes AI Factory Strategy as DLSS 5 Looms, Amid Soaring AI Hardware Spend
Nvidia is amplifying its AI‑factory vision and teasing the upcoming DLSS 5 upgrade as AI‑related capital spending climbs to $650 billion. The move comes as analysts warn that AI hardware, including Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, loses economic value within three years, while Chinese...
Google Is Replacing Dynamic Search Ads With AI Max via @Sejournal, @Brookeosmundson
Google will retire Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) and migrate eligible campaigns to its AI Max platform starting in September 2026. The transition unfolds in two phases: a voluntary upgrade window now open, followed by an automatic migration of remaining DSA,...
Chip Giants AMD, Qualcomm and Arm Back Driverless Car Startup Wayve with Fresh Funds
British autonomous‑driving startup Wayve secured an additional $60 million from chip makers AMD, Qualcomm and Arm, bringing the total of its recent funding round to $1.2 billion. The capital, while modest relative to the round, is strategic, giving Wayve access to a...
Video Wednesday
Flickstop’s blog showcases two image‑only posts from 2020 and 2021 that highlight the company’s work in medical robotics—one depicting a robotic surgery and another illustrating an autonomous pandemic‑response robot. The latest entry, titled “Video Wednesday” on April 15, 2026, contains no text...
Serial SaaS Founder Shares Secrets in Upcoming Book
My buddy Jason Cohen has built not one but two companies worth over a billion dollars (we met in Hampton). - First he founded SmartBear. Grew it, sold it. - Then he starts WP Engine, a managed WordPress hosting platform. - Bootstrapped the...
Amazon Rebrands Fire TV as Ember, Debuts Artline Rival
Amazon's Fire TVs are being re-named to Ember TVs, and we saw the new Samsung Frame rival Amazon Ember Artline in action https://t.co/4eUlSocJBR
Gitar, a Startup that Uses Agents to Secure Code, Emerges From Stealth with $9 Million
Gitar, a San Mateo AI startup founded by former Intel Labs, Google, and Uber executive Ali‑Reza Adl‑Tabatabai, emerged from stealth with a $9 million Series A led by Venrock and Sierra Ventures. The company offers a subscription platform that deploys AI...
SoundPeats Air6 HS Refine AirPods 4’s Tip‑less Design
The new SoundPeats Air6 HS take the tip-less build of the AirPods 4 and make some improvements. https://t.co/3BnPRHVW6x
Score a Ultra‑cheap MacBook Air M5 at Best Buy
Here's how to get your hands on a very, very cheap new MacBook Air M5 model at Best Buy. https://t.co/uRNsPrLIEi
Eight Allergy Companies to Watch in 2026
The allergy‑treatment landscape is moving from symptom relief to disease‑modifying therapies, with eight biotech firms leading the charge in 2026. Allergy Therapeutics secured German approval for its short‑course Grassmuno vaccine, while Aravax bolstered its board ahead of a phase 3 launch...
Amazon Revamps Fire TV UI, Launches Slimmer HD Stick
Amazon is refreshing its Fire TV interface for 2026 with new organisation and new streaming channels. Plus, it's bringing out a new, slimmer Fire TV HD Stick. https://t.co/HyZVm7w9gh
RECOM Expands Portfolio with Discrete Power Solutions
RECOM has broadened its product line by launching a suite of discrete power ICs and surface‑mount transformers, enabling engineers to build custom isolated DC/DC converters from modular blocks. The new portfolio covers flyback, push‑pull and full‑bridge driver ICs, with options...
Gizmo Secures $22M Series A to Advance AI-Powered Education
London‑based AI learning platform Gizmo announced a $22 million Series A round led by Shine Capital, with participation from Ada Ventures, Seek Investments, GSV and NFX. The funding will fuel the company’s push into the U.S. college market and expand its engineering...
Windows 11 Pro Is Now Less Than $15
Microsoft has slashed the price of Windows 11 Pro to under $15, making the premium OS accessible to a broader range of professionals. The Pro edition adds productivity‑boosting features such as Snap Layouts and the AI‑driven Copilot assistant. It also bundles enterprise‑grade...
Adobe Embraces Conversational AI Editing, Marking a ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Creative Work
Adobe announced the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational interface that lets creators edit images, video and other assets by typing natural‑language prompts. The tool integrates with Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, Lightroom, Express and other Creative Cloud apps, handling multi‑step workflows and...
Magnetic Metals’ Tape Wound Cores Optimize the Performance of Sophisticated Electronic Components
Magnetic Metals announced its tape‑wound toroidal and cut magnetic cores, built from advanced soft‑magnetic alloys such as amorphous, nanocrystalline and cobalt‑iron. The cores deliver virtually complete magnetic circuits, lower electrical losses, and higher power density than traditional transformer laminations. They...
GameSir Unveils Tarantula Pro For Xbox & PC, Described As 'The Best Xbox Controller In Symmetry'
GameSir announced the Tarantula Pro, a wired Xbox and PC controller that builds on its existing multi‑platform line. It features the company’s new Mag‑Res™ TMR sticks, dual‑mode Hall Effect/micro‑switch triggers, four rumble motors, and up to a 1000 Hz polling rate. The...
Browser Run: Give Your Agents a Browser
Cloudflare has rebranded Browser Rendering as Browser Run, a globally distributed headless Chrome service designed for AI agents. The update adds Live View, Human‑in‑the‑Loop handoff, direct Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) access, MCP client support, WebMCP integration, session recordings, and a...
Sample Creators Will Get Payouts From Splice’s New GenAI Tools
Splice announced three generative‑AI tools—Variations, Craft, and Magic Fit—designed to let musicians remix, convert, and adapt catalog samples in real time. The company emphasized that original sample creators will receive a royalty each time their sound is used as a source...
Amazon Is Launching a New Fire TV Stick HD But It Won’t Run on Android
Amazon unveiled its slimmest streaming device, the Fire TV Stick HD, priced at $34.99 and optimized for direct USB power. The stick runs on Amazon’s in‑house Vega OS, delivering about 30% faster performance and supporting Wi‑Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3, though it...
I Talked to Amazon About the Ember Artline, and the End of "Confusing" Fire TV Branding
Amazon announced its Ember Artline TV, a matte‑finish model that also signals a major branding overhaul. All Amazon‑made televisions will now be sold under the Ember TV name, separating the hardware from the broader Fire TV software ecosystem. The company...
InvoiceCloud Taps AI for Billing and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/15/26
InvoiceCloud unveiled its AI‑driven Billing Experience, promising end‑to‑end automation for invoicing and payments. Meanwhile, Zelle granted scholarships to ten MBA candidates at historically Black colleges, and Venmo broadened its Stash rewards with a 5% cash‑back perk at select merchants. The...
Oncology Innovation Outpaces Managed Care’s Ability to Keep Up
Rapid advances in precision oncology are outpacing managed‑care systems, leaving gaps in biomarker testing, pharmacogenomics, CAR‑T access, and clinical pathway adherence. A study showed only 35.6% of eligible NSCLC patients receive targeted therapy, while DPYD testing—costing $175—could prevent $180,000‑plus in...
Adobe’s New Firefly AI Assistant Wants to Run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and More From One Prompt
Adobe unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, an agentic tool that lets creators run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Creative Cloud apps from a single natural‑language prompt. The assistant can call on roughly 100 built‑in tools, outputting native PSD, AI and...
In Defiance of the Prognosticators, ISOs Are Thriving Again
Independent sales organizations (ISOs) once predicted to disappear are experiencing a resurgence as modern point‑of‑sale (POS) systems grow in complexity. Rather than selling terminals door‑to‑door, ISOs now provide consultative, vertical‑focused services, partnering with POS platforms and training sales teams on...
Navigating the Global Payments Frontier - an Interview with Fastspring's Christopher Bunk
FastSpring’s new Chief Product & Technology Officer Christopher Bunk explains how the company’s merchant‑of‑record (MoR) platform abstracts tax, compliance, fraud and currency handling for game studios. He argues that as AI‑driven development accelerates global launches, the operational complexity of selling...
AgileBlue Amplify Program Targets MSP Revenue Growth From Existing Customers
AgileBlue launched the Amplify Partner Program to help managed service providers (MSPs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) generate revenue from their existing customer base. The program replaces traditional certification‑heavy models with a Blueprint framework that delivers go‑to‑market plans, campaign...
This Startup Is Betting Tokenmaxxing Will Create the Next Compute Giant
Parasail, a cloud‑compute broker focused exclusively on AI inference, closed a $32 million Series A round. The startup claims to process 500 billion tokens a day by dynamically allocating GPU capacity across 40 data centers in 15 countries, buying excess compute on liquidity...
Register Domains Wherever You Build: Cloudflare Registrar API Now in Beta
Cloudflare announced the beta launch of its Registrar API, letting developers programmatically search, check availability, and register domain names. The API is built for integration with editors, CI pipelines, and AI agents, enabling a seamless, three‑call workflow that completes in...
Amazon's Most Interesting TV Ever Is Launching in the UK at Last, Along with a New Fire TV Stick
Amazon has finally introduced its Ember Artline TV to the UK and EU, rebranding the line as Ember TVs that ship with Fire TV OS pre‑installed. The 55‑inch model costs about $1,190 and the 65‑inch version about $1,500, each including...
