Over 60% of Coding At Rapido Is Done By AI: Cofounder Rishikesh SR
Rapido, India’s leading bike‑taxi platform, reports that roughly 66% of its code is now written with AI assistance, a share the co‑founder expects to rise. The AI‑driven workflow has slashed the idea‑to‑production cycle from over two months to about two weeks, with current release cycles averaging one week. A recent feature, Bikes for Women, was prototyped in 24 hours and launched within days. The company just closed a $240 million round, part of a larger $730 million fundraising effort aimed at market expansion and technology investment.
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Matrix Robotics showcased its flagship humanoid robot, MATRIX‑3, at the BEYOND Expo in Macao from May 27‑30, 2026. The robot demonstrated human‑like walking at 3.9 km/h, a 27‑degree‑of‑freedom hand with micron‑level precision, and four‑hour continuous operation while carrying up to 15 kg....
NordVPN Isn't Just a VPN Anymore, but a Full Security Suite - Here's What You Get Now
NordVPN is rebranding its consumer app into a comprehensive security suite that merges its traditional VPN service with next‑generation antivirus and threat‑monitoring tools. The revamped offering is organized around three pillars—Connect (VPN), Protect (antivirus), and Monitor (dark‑web, phishing, and data‑breach...
AI-Driven Attacks Shrink Window for Vulnerability Remediation
AI is dramatically accelerating cyber‑attack speed, scale and cost efficiency, forcing enterprises to shrink remediation windows. Threat actors now use AI to automate social engineering, exploit identity, endpoint and cloud exposures, with average breakout times falling to 29 minutes. Pentera...
GDS Leader Picks AI Agents as Area with ‘Biggest Work to Do – but Most Potential’
The Government Digital Service (GDS) announced that artificial‑intelligence agents represent the biggest work‑to‑do and the greatest upside for future public‑service delivery. While GDS has successfully digitised the front‑end of GOV.UK, it acknowledges that current user journeys remain siloed with many...
Workday Horizon Returns to South Africa – Turning AI Into Business Impact
Workday announced its Horizon Johannesburg conference for 2 June 2026, gathering senior HR, finance, and technology leaders to explore turning AI from a pilot into measurable business value. The event will feature global CTO Jens Löhmar, who will share insights on embedding AI...
Supply Chain Battles Intensify as Takedowns Meet AI-Driven Noise
On May 26, CrowdStrike, Google and the Shadowserver Foundation dismantled the GlassWorm botnet, cutting off its four command‑and‑control channels and halting the distribution of malicious VSCode extensions and compromised npm and Python packages. The takedown illustrates coordinated disruption of open‑source...
I'm an iPhone User, but Gemini with Android Auto Beats Siri in the Car Any Day - Here's Why
Google’s Gemini AI is now usable as an in‑car assistant through Android Auto, offering iPhone users a compelling alternative to Siri. By setting Gemini as the default digital assistant and enabling hands‑free activation, drivers can ask for navigation, send texts,...
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Reports the US FDA Approval of Linzess to Treat Pediatric Patients (≥2yrs.) With Functional Constipation
U.S. FDA has approved an expanded label for Ironwood Pharmaceuticals’ Linzess (linaclotide) for children aged two years and older with functional constipation. The decision follows a 12‑week Phase III trial in 2‑ to 5‑year‑old patients, where the 72 µg dose significantly increased...
Schindler Expands Fleet of Elevator Shaft Robots
Schindler has increased its fleet of R.I.S.E elevator shaft robots to seven worldwide, adding two more units. Since launch five years ago, the robots have been deployed at 36 sites, installing roughly 50,000 anchor bolts across seven countries. The self‑climbing...
EuroHPC Debuts EuroQCS-Spain, Advancing Hybrid Quantum-HPC Access in Europe
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking inaugurated EuroQCS‑Spain, an analogue quantum annealer hosted at Barcelona Supercomputing Center and linked to the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer. The first‑generation system provides 10 physical qubits and will soon be calibrated for user access. The €8.5 million project is...
AI Agents Are Exposing Martech’s Weak Point
AI agents promise to automate marketing workflows at machine speed, but a new SaaS‑founder‑driven report reveals most martech APIs are not ready. The SaaStr AI Agent API Report Card graded 152 B2B APIs, finding an overall average of 72 / 100 (C+)...
Mistral Rebrands LeChat as Vibe, Betting Its Chatbot's Future Is as a Full-Blown Work Agent
Mistral AI has renamed its Le Chat assistant to Vibe, positioning it as a full‑blown work agent that can handle email, generate reports, and ship code to pull‑request status. The platform now integrates with Google Workspace, Outlook, SharePoint, Slack and GitHub,...
Managed Security Firewalls: A Practical Guide to Stronger Threat Protection
Managed security firewalls add continuous oversight to traditional perimeter defenses, ensuring rules stay current, patches are applied promptly, and alerts are triaged around the clock. The service typically includes rule review, software updates, 24/7 monitoring, and executive‑level reporting, turning a...
Machine Learning Can’t Pick Winning Funds. But It Can Help You Avoid Losers
A 2023 Journal of Financial Economics paper claimed machine‑learning models could generate a 2.4% net annual alpha by selecting long‑only mutual funds. A 2025 replication discovered a coding error that gave the algorithms future returns, creating a classic look‑ahead bias....
Top Machine Learning Use Cases in Finance & Trading
159 page PDF download. The best examples of how machine learning is used in finance and algorithmic trading. Grab the paper here:
How P4B Law Modernised Its Legal Tech with Osprey Approach
P4B Law, a 20‑year‑old specialist employment firm, replaced its aging case‑management system with Osprey Approach. The UK‑based provider delivered a user‑friendly platform that streamlined time‑recording and remote collaboration. Migration of legacy data proceeded smoothly, and tailored onboarding gave staff direct,...
The Download: Climate Tech Goes Public and the AI Hype Index Returns
Climate‑tech firms Solv Energy, X‑energy and Fervo Energy went public this year, achieving combined market capitalizations of roughly $30 billion and underscoring investor appetite for grid‑scale power solutions. The surge aligns with rising electricity demand from data centers and broader decarbonisation...
National Cyber Shield Could Be Ready in Five Years
The UK’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ announced a five‑year plan to deploy an AI‑driven "national cyber shield" that will automatically detect and remediate threats to critical infrastructure such as energy, water, health, transport and finance. The system will embed agentic...
AI Visibility Index Redefines How Customers Find Banks
The way customers discover financial institutions is changing rapidly. Search engines are no longer the only gateway. AI platforms are increasingly shaping recommendations and influencing trust. In this episode, I break down the AI Visibility Index and what it means for...
UK Unveils Energy Cyber Security Strategy
Britain has launched a four‑year Energy Sector Cyber Security Strategy designed to embed cyber resilience across its evolving power system. The plan, coordinated by the National Energy System Operator, Ofgem and the National Cyber Security Centre, targets renewable, nuclear and...
ERCOT Incentivises Grid-Forming BESS with US$25 Million Programme
ERCOT has launched a one‑time $25 million incentive programme to spur inverter‑based resources, chiefly battery energy storage systems, to adopt grid‑forming technology. Eligible projects receive $1,500 per MW, adjusted for availability, paid 12 months after successful deployment. Applications are accepted on a first‑come,...
The Distributed Future
Power planners are focused on the soaring electricity needs of massive AI data centers, yet a parallel shift toward distributed AI model training could dramatically cut those centralized power demands. Emerging AI technologies are moving computation to edge and micro‑data‑center...
Coming Soon: New Oura Features to Help You Stay Ahead of Your Health
Oura is launching the fifth‑generation Oura Ring alongside a suite of new software features that roll out in June 2026. The updates include Health Radar, which continuously monitors blood‑pressure signals and nighttime breathing, GLP‑1 Insights that sync medication data with...
Acceldata Launches Autonomous Data & AI Platform for Agentic AI Era
Acceldata unveiled its Autonomous Data & AI Platform, an xLake compute solution that lets AI agents run across hybrid, on‑prem, cloud and sovereign data stores. The platform promises petabyte‑scale, governed compute, autonomous workload routing and cost optimization, targeting Fortune 500 and...
3D-Printed Lymph Nodes Could Widen Access to CAR T-Cell Therapy
Researchers have shown that 3D‑printed lymph‑node scaffolds can grow CAR‑T cells more quickly and at a lower cost. The bioprinting method compresses the manufacturing timeline from several weeks to just a few days, potentially cutting expenses by up to 70...
7 Real World AI Projects to Build in 2026 (with Guides)
The article presents seven hands‑on AI project guides designed for 2026, each targeting a real‑world workflow such as job hunting, research, investment analysis, market trends, invoice handling, chart digitization, and personalized exercise coaching. Every project includes step‑by‑step tutorials, GitHub repositories,...
Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (The Attention Zone Problem Nobody Talks About)
The article reveals a hidden "attention zone" problem in AI prompting: large language models focus heavily on the beginning and end of a prompt while skimming the middle. This primacy‑recency effect mirrors human memory patterns and explains why many prompts...
Conavi Medical Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2026 Results and Operational Highlights
Conavi Medical Corp. secured FDA 510(k) clearance for its next‑generation Novasight™ Hybrid intravascular imaging system, integrating IVUS and OCT into a single workflow. The company also earned the 2026 MedTech Breakthrough and TAG Innovation awards, underscoring the technology’s clinical promise....
Inside Institutional Payments At Scale with Debo Sen, Head of Payments, Services, Citi | Episode 490
In this episode, Debo Sen, Head of Payments for Services at Citi, shares insights from nearly three decades at the bank, highlighting how Citi’s $6 trillion‑a‑day scale gives it a unique view of global payment trends and regulatory developments. He explains...
Expanding Mental Health Support for Children and Families Through Teleconsultation
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is expanding teleconsultation programs to bolster mental‑health care for children, pregnant women, and new mothers. Its Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) initiative funds 54 programs across 46 states, DC, two tribes and...
#858 Paying for Growth in 2026
In this episode Max Sinclair, founder of Snowball Creations and creator of SaaSAdsStudio, walks listeners through paid‑ads strategies for 2026, starting with how to decide if a product is ad‑ready and which platforms to prioritize. He breaks down a tiered...
Oura's Ring 5 Is a Dramatically Thinner Smart Ring
Oura unveiled the Ring 5, a smart ring 40% thinner than its predecessor and offered in sizes 6‑13. The redesign cuts signal pathways from 18 to 12, boosts LED power fourfold, and maintains a week‑long battery life with an optional month‑lasting charging...
UK Achieves First Laser Data Download From Satellite with Deployable Ground Station
On 27 May British engineers achieved the United Kingdom’s first optical downlink from space, using a deployable laser communications ground station built by Archangel Lightworks for Dstl. The TERRA‑M system, only 1.1 m tall and 0.7 m in diameter, transferred multiple gigabytes...
They’ve Finally Made the Oura Ring Smaller and Lighter
Oura unveiled the Ring 5, a $399 smart ring that’s 40% smaller and up to 0.8 g lighter than its predecessor. The titanium device retains a six‑to‑nine‑day battery life and introduces a wireless charging case that stores five full charges. Alongside the...
CoreWeave Pushes Continuous AI Agent Learning Into Production
CoreWeave unveiled a unified agentic AI platform that lets enterprises run autonomous agents in production while continuously refining them with live data. The stack combines serverless reinforcement learning, always‑on inference, and Weights & Biases observability into a closed‑loop system. By separating...
Introducing GLP-1 Insights
Oura announced GLP‑1 Insights, a new in‑app experience launching in June 2026 for Ring Gen3 and newer users in the United States, United Arab Emirates, and India. The feature bundles dose tracking, side‑effect logging, weight monitoring and a personalized Oura...
Why Your Email Account Is the Most Valuable Target You Are Overlooking
Email accounts have become the de‑facto identity hub for individuals and enterprises, linking banking, payroll, HR, health, and legal services. Because passwords, account recovery, and two‑factor verification all flow through the inbox, a compromised email provides a direct pathway to...
Close Faster: Send Proposals Instantly After Discovery Calls
Most service offers leak revenue at the same point. The discovery call ends, the proposal goes out 3 days later, and the buyer has already lost momentum. Send the proposal during the call. Or at minimum, send a 3-line summary that recaps...
Ming Yang Joins Norwegian Offshore Wind
Ming Yang Europe has become a member of Norwegian Offshore Wind (NOW), Norway’s largest offshore‑wind cluster of roughly 300 companies. The move follows its earlier entry into Germany’s BWO and aligns with Norway’s target of 30 GW offshore capacity by 2040,...
Protecting Heterojunction Solar Modules with UV-Downshifting, UV-Blocking
German researchers examined UV‑induced degradation in lightweight silicon heterojunction (HJT) solar modules using encapsulants with varying UV transmission. They discovered that a dual‑layer architecture—combining a UV‑downshifting EVA layer with an underlying UV‑blocking encapsulant—preserves more than 98% of initial performance after...
Kirkland & Ellis Sets Aside $500 Million to Build Its Own AI Tools
Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest‑grossing law firm, has earmarked $500 million (about £370 million) to build a proprietary artificial‑intelligence platform. The firm will spend more than $100 million this year on custom AI services, with hundreds of millions slated for the next...
How Deno’s New Firewall Stops AI Agents From Leaking Passwords
Deno has open‑sourced Claw Patrol, a firewall that sits between AI agents and external systems to protect credentials, control actions, and monitor activity in real time. The framework uses HashiCorp Configuration Language for flexible rule definition and supports secure tunnels...
Claude Pricing Raises New Budgeting Questions for CFOs
Enterprise adoption of Anthropic's Claude AI is prompting CFOs to confront consumption‑based pricing that mirrors utility costs. Microsoft recently curtailed internal Claude Code licenses as token expenses spiked, while Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget by April after deploying...
The New M&A Logic of Owning the Workflow Before AI Does
Fintech and AI firms are buying the operational layers that sit beneath transactions before artificial intelligence takes over those processes. NMI’s purchase of Dwolla adds ACH and real‑time bank‑transfer capabilities, while Anthropic’s acquisition of Fractional AI brings generative‑AI workflow expertise....
Unified Context Turns AI From Noise to Value
AI without context is just noise. In my work as an author, I’ve learned that even the best ideas fail if they are in the wrong chapter. In business, "the wrong chapter" means fragmented data. To move from a co-pilot to...
Google Strongly Warns Against Manipulating Mentions For AI
Google’s Search Central Live Sydney 2026 highlighted a firm warning against buying or manipulating brand mentions to influence AI‑driven search features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. Gary Illyes stressed that such tactics are treated like paid links, which...
Ingeteam Unveils High-Density String Inverter for Utility-Scale Solar
Ingeteam has launched the Ingecon Sun 300TL, a high‑density string inverter aimed at utility‑scale photovoltaic plants. The 300 kW unit packs a single MPPT, 99.05% peak efficiency and an IP66 rating into a compact 1.045 m square, 115 kg package. It operates from...
CAAS and SESAR JU to Advance Shared Vision in Air Traffic Management
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and Europe’s Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) signed a Joint Declaration on May 26, 2026 to synchronize air traffic management (ATM) capabilities between Singapore and Europe. The partnership will feed into ICAO’s...
Bad Vibes: AI-Generated Code Is Vulnerable, Researchers Warn
Georgia Tech researchers have unveiled the Vibe Security Radar, a tool that scans public vulnerability databases to identify security flaws introduced by AI‑generated code. The radar has already flagged 74 vulnerabilities, including 14 critical and 25 high‑severity issues such as...