Wassist Raises $1.1M to Bring No-Code AI Agents to WhatsApp Commerce
Wassist announced a $1.1 million pre‑seed round led by Playfair to turn WhatsApp into a default storefront for online retailers. The startup’s no‑code platform lets brands launch AI‑powered agents on WhatsApp in minutes, handling product queries, order updates and recommendations. In its first ten months the service grew from roughly 2,000 to over 80,000 user conversations without paid advertising. Early adopters such as beauty brand Hollywood Browzer are already converting WhatsApp chats into sales.
How to Level-Up From SEO Tactician to Search Visibility Leader
The rise of AI in search has vaulted SEO from a low‑budget function to a C‑suite priority, creating high‑paying leadership roles. The article argues that traditional tactical skills—keyword research, audits, link building—no longer secure advancement; instead, SEOs must adopt a...
Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp
WhatsApp has asked a U.S. court to hold NSO Group in contempt after the spyware firm allegedly breached a 2025 permanent injunction that barred it from targeting the messaging service. Meta’s security team disrupted recent NSO‑linked phishing attempts, removed test...
Inside Dexory's Factory - Custom Everything, Skunk Works Culture, and a Robot that Reaches 18 Meters
Dexory unveiled a completely redesigned warehouse‑scanning robot in February, extending its reach from 14 to 18 meters and boosting scan speed to 15,000‑16,000 pallet locations per hour. The company is scaling production from four‑to‑six units a week to a target...
107: Using Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to Win the AI Search Race with Cole Casperson
In this episode, Chris Daigle talks with Cole Kasperson, Chief Data Officer at Crank Tank, about Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) – the emerging practice of optimizing content for large language models and AI‑driven search. They explain how AI is shifting...
Why Radiologists Prefer Domain-Specific AI over Generic AI
A recent npj Digital Medicine study shows that domain‑specific AI models generate radiology impressions that are far more concise than those produced by generic large language models. Custom models trained on 500 million radiology reports averaged 34.2 words per impression, compared...
The Benefits of a Unified Billing, Payment, Communications Platform
Utilities are turning to unified billing, payment and communications platforms to replace fragmented legacy systems. A single operating environment aligns billing events, payment activity and customer outreach through a shared data model, giving every channel a real‑time view of the...
Agentic Commerce: AI Is Now Your Shopper’s First Stop. Showing up Is Just the Beginning.
Retail’s front door has shifted from search and social to AI assistants that research, compare, and recommend products. In Q1 2026, AI‑referred traffic to U.S. retail sites jumped 393% YoY and converted 42% better than other sources. Brands must make product...
10 MCP Servers to Connect LLMs with Databases
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as the de‑facto bridge that lets large language models issue natural‑language commands against databases. The article surveys ten vendor‑backed MCP servers covering relational, NoSQL, graph, vector and data‑warehouse platforms—including AWS Aurora, Google BigQuery, Elastic...
Why CFOs Are Turning to NetSuite to Fix Their Intercompany Transaction Problem
Multi‑entity companies struggle with manual intercompany reconciliations that slow month‑end close. NetSuite OneWorld includes native intercompany tools—dedicated accounts, a framework, and automated transaction generation—that many firms haven’t fully enabled. Proper configuration, including multi‑currency alignment and entity representation, eliminates spreadsheet work...
AI-Driven Engineering and Design Insights: Manufacturing’s Next Competitive Edge
Manufacturers are losing billions because engineering teams rely on legacy, siloed tools that hide critical production data, leading to costly quoting errors. An AI‑driven data‑intelligence platform can stitch together PLM, ERP and other systems, surfacing design insights and part‑consolidation opportunities...
Reinventing Finance and Tax: Leaders See AI and E-Invoicing as Agents of Change
A new Hanover Research and Avalara survey shows AI and automation have become mainstream in finance and tax, with 84% of teams using AI heavily—a jump from 47% a year earlier. While 86% of respondents feel prepared for global e‑invoicing...
Works on My Machine: How We Use AI to Reproduce Reported Bugs
Sentry’s SDK teams maintain 159 open‑source packages and face a flood of bug reports that often require elaborate setup to reproduce. To streamline this, they created a Claude‑based “repro” skill that ingests a GitHub issue, builds a minimal test project,...
From Delayed Invoices to Improved Cash Flow: The Case for More Flexible Payments.
Intuit’s Small Business Late Payments Report shows 56% of SMBs are owed an average of $17,500, with nearly half of invoices overdue by more than 30 days. A new partnership embeds Affirm’s buy‑now‑pay‑later option into QuickBooks Payments, allowing merchants to...
How Traffic Intelligence Helps Cities Host Major Sporting Events
Cities hosting mega‑sporting events face unprecedented traffic surges that differ from normal rush‑hour patterns. Modern traffic intelligence lets planners model crowd movements, separate demand by user type, and adjust signals in real time. Case studies from Qatar 2022, London 2012...
How Self-Service Is Revolutionizing State and Local Government
State and local governments are rapidly adopting digital self‑service solutions to replace labor‑intensive, paper‑based processes. Cloud‑based platforms now automate tax filing, business licensing, public‑record retrieval, DMV transactions, and court operations, cutting manual effort and error rates. Agencies report faster revenue...
15 Tough Cybersecurity Questions Every CISO Must Answer
The article outlines 15 hard‑hitting questions that every CISO should ask to keep security programs agile and business‑aligned. It stresses measuring ROI by linking prevented incidents to financial impact, protecting critical processes, and tracking detection metrics such as mean‑time‑to‑detect. The...
Apple Found a Way to Sharply Cut Token Use
Apple’s machine‑learning engineers have devised a technique that slashes AI token usage by as much as 60 percent while preserving model performance. The breakthrough was developed internally and is being rolled out across Apple’s AI‑driven services. By reducing the number...
2026 ADA | Innovent Presents Multiple Clinical and Preclinical Results of Next-Generation Obesity & Metabolic Pipeline
Innovent Biologics unveiled a suite of next‑generation obesity and metabolic candidates at the 2026 ADA Scientific Sessions, including oral GLP‑1 receptor agonists IBI3032 (daily) and IBI3042 (weekly), a novel amylin analog IBI3040, and an INHBE‑targeting siRNA IBI3046. Preclinical studies showed...
Innodisk Showcases Full Qualcomm Dragonwing Edge AI Lineup at Computex 2026, Spanning Dragonwing IQ8 Through IQ10
Innodisk showcased the complete Qualcomm Dragonwing edge‑AI portfolio at Computex 2026, spanning the IQ8, IQ9, IQ10 and IQ‑X generations and delivering from 20 to 350 TOPS of dense compute. The lineup includes COM‑HPC mini modules, starter kits, fanless edge systems...
STARK Debuts Cascade and Gambit Drones with UK Partner
STARK, a European defence‑tech firm, unveiled two new unmanned systems targeting NATO forces: the Cascade tube‑launched loitering munition with up to 100 km range and a six‑cell launcher, and the Gambit lightweight quadcopter for ISR and short‑range strike up to 25 km....
The Case for Automated KYC in Regulated Financial Services
Manual KYC checks are draining resources across banks, fintechs and payment providers, with an average cost of $69 per verification and up to $136 for high‑risk cases. Scaling these expenses across thousands of customers translates into millions of dollars annually...
ARIS Announced as Exclusive Process Intelligence Launch Partner for AWS European Sovereign Cloud
ARIS announced it will serve as the exclusive process intelligence launch partner for Amazon Web Services’ European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). The partnership aims to help European enterprises accelerate AI adoption while meeting strict data residency and digital sovereignty requirements. ARIS...
AMD Commits up to £2 Billion to Accelerate AI Innovation and Research in the United Kingdom
AMD announced a up‑to £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) five‑year investment to boost AI research and advanced computing across the United Kingdom. The plan includes new collaborations with Imperial College London, Oriole Networks, and Dell Technologies to expand sovereign AI infrastructure such as...
Will the EU’s Data Center Efficiency Rules Undermine Its AI Ambitions?
The European Commission introduced a Technological Sovereignty Package that includes a Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in Energy, mandating efficiency labels for data centres starting in 2027. The scheme rates facilities on energy and water use, clean‑energy adoption, and...
Why Everyone Is Talking About the iOS 27 AI Update
Apple’s iOS 27 rollout introduces a suite of AI‑powered tools that reshape how users interact with their iPhones. The update adds advanced image generation, AI‑enhanced writing assistance, natural‑language shortcut creation, real‑time camera intelligence, and a dramatically upgraded Siri powered by Google’s...
Opinion: $2 Million Gene Therapy Cures Require a Financing Model
Gene therapies that can cure diseases like sickle cell are priced at $2 million per patient, concentrating decades of health value into a single intervention. While the clinical benefits are clear, the U.S. health‑care system lacks mechanisms to fund such large...
Eli Lilly’s Retatrutide Delivers Significant Improvements in Weight, A1C, Knee Osteoarthritis Pain, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
Eli Lilly’s triple‑agonist retatrutide delivered robust outcomes in two Phase 3 studies. In the TRIUMPH‑1 obesity trial, participants lost up to 28.3% of body weight, with a 85‑lb reduction in those starting with a BMI ≥ 35, while also cutting knee‑osteoarthritis pain by roughly...
Penetration Testing for Websites Using LLM
Researchers unveiled a reproducible, safety‑bounded framework that combines large language models (LLMs) with traditional web scanners for penetration testing. The LLM reasoning module delivers context‑aware triage, constrained payload proposals, and evidence‑grounded analysis, dramatically improving detection performance. Across four benchmark platforms...
Artificial Intelligence-Based Modeling of the Dynamics and Regulation of Intracellular Signaling Pathways
Researchers introduced a hybrid artificial‑intelligence framework that merges physics‑informed neural networks, temporal convolutional networks, and graph neural networks to model intracellular signaling dynamics. The system was trained on 23,456 multi‑omics samples spanning key pathways such as MAPK/ERK and PI3K. Results...
Legal Innovation Summit 2026 Convenes Africa’s Legal and Business Leadership as Ai Becomes a Present Investment, a Governance Obligation and...
The Legal Innovation Summit 2026 convened in Johannesburg, bringing together Africa’s top legal departments, corporate leaders, and legal‑tech founders to address AI as a current investment and governance duty. Headlined by AI law expert Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Legaltech...
Quintain Expands Into Third-Party Management for BTR Platform
Quintain Living, the Build‑to‑Rent arm of UK developer Quintain, announced a new third‑party management service for its BTR platform. The move opens the platform to institutional landlords, allowing them to lease existing and future assets under Quintain’s operational model. Quintain...
Secure Clicks AI Expands Access to AI-Powered Business Automation and Customer Engagement Solutions
Secure Clicks AI, founded by Daniel Jimenez, announced expanded access to its AI‑powered chatbot and workflow automation platform, targeting businesses of all sizes. The solution lets companies train custom agents on proprietary data and integrates with CRM, scheduling and social...
This Open-Source App Lets You Use Your Whoop without a Monthly Fee
An open‑source app lets Whoop band owners access fitness data without a subscription. The app works offline, syncing via Bluetooth on Android and macOS, and provides strain, sleep, recovery, HRV and heart‑rate metrics comparable to the official app. It also...
Spain-Style Blackout Risk Rises As ERCOT Flags Boston-Sized Data Center Loads Tripping Offline
ERCOT’s May 21 report revealed that multiple clusters of proposed data‑center and crypto loads failed voltage ride‑through tests, each capable of shedding more than 5,000 MW – roughly the electricity use of a city the size of Boston. The sudden loss of...
Screwfix Highlights Speed with New Mo Farah Activity
Kingfisher-owned Screwfix has launched a new phase of its ‘No Stopping You’ brand platform, featuring Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah to emphasize speed and convenience. Developed with M&C Saatchi, the campaign promotes the retailer’s Sprint Delivery (as fast as 20 minutes), Click & Collect (as...
AI.cc Data Shows 83% of Enterprise AI Projects Fail to Scale Due to Infrastructure Bottlenecks
AI.cc’s 2026 survey of 920 enterprise engineering teams reveals that 83% of AI projects that clear proof‑of‑concept never reach full production. The primary culprits are infrastructure bottlenecks, not model quality, with 71% of failures tied to rate‑limit saturation, token‑cost escalation,...
Safety‑Aware Cybersecurity Gateway Secures Autonomous Vehicles
How to ensure autonomous vehicle security in the modern era and meet the national and international standards and regulations? We've developed a special embedded gateway that utilizes the Safety-Aware Cybersecurity approach — a unified architecture that accounts for both functional safety...
How ITIL® Version 5 Strengthens Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
ITIL® Version 5, launched by QA in February 2026, expands the classic IT service‑management framework to include digital product management, AI‑first automation, sustainability and experience‑led value. The update aligns ITIL with Agile and DevOps, giving public‑sector teams a structured yet flexible model...
How Generative AI Is Expected to Revamp Insurance?
A recent EIOPA market study of roughly 350 European insurers, analyzed by WTW, outlines eight ways generative AI will reshape the insurance value chain. The report emphasizes AI as a force multiplier for human workers rather than a replacement, targeting...
Karrie Demonstrates AI Mechanical Engineering Capabilities for Accelerated Computing at Computex 2026
At Computex 2026 in Taipei, Karrie unveiled its next‑generation AI server chassis and rack‑scale mechanical solutions, emphasizing high‑density, modular and liquid‑cooling‑ready designs. The company, added to NVIDIA’s approved vendor list in September 2025, showcased 1U, 2U and 6U chassis built...
India Becomes a Huge Data Centre Market After Government's AI Push: Submer's Dev Tyagi
India is rapidly emerging as a leading data‑centre market as the Modi government accelerates AI infrastructure initiatives. Capacity is slated to grow from roughly 1.5 GW today to 8‑10 GW by 2030, attracting about $30 billion in capex. Submer’s president Dev Tyagi urges a...
Hyperlayer CEO Says Core Banking Solutions Debate Misses the Point
Rob Rooney, CEO of Hyperlayer, argues that banks are not ready to let AI agents act on customers' behalf, despite the sector’s strong trust advantage. He says the focus on replacing core banking systems misses the real hurdle: connecting fragmented...
Bank of America Says Checks Are Slowing Treasury Down
Bank of America’s treasury product executive Irfan Ahmad warned that paper checks are a major drag on corporate treasury operations, slowing settlement and inflating costs. He highlighted that consumers now expect instant refunds, claims payouts and disbursements, pushing firms toward...
Pyra AI Launches Lead Seeker, an AI-Powered Prospecting Workspace for Revenue Teams
Pyra AI unveiled Lead Seeker, an AI‑driven workspace that lets B2B revenue teams generate prospect lists using plain‑English prompts. The platform combines natural‑language search, verified contact data, intent‑signal recommendations via Lead Compass, and research‑backed dossiers in a single interface. Built‑in...
Wire Payments Become Data Platforms as Banks Modernize
Wire payments are evolving from simple transaction conduits into data‑rich platforms as banks adopt ISO 20022 and cloud‑native architectures. The new messaging standard injects detailed compliance and participant information, but also raises operational complexity for legacy systems. Institutions that modernize...
AI Agents Force Finance to Fix the Sandbox Problem
Enterprise AI in finance is trapped in sandboxed pilots that never reach decision‑making. CFOs report models that surface insights but sit idle as quarterly pressures close dashboards. The issue stems from finance’s emphasis on control and auditability, turning AI outputs...
Why iPadOS 27 Is the AI Update You Can’t Ignore
Apple unveiled iPadOS 27, embedding advanced artificial‑intelligence tools that shift the tablet from a visual platform to a productivity powerhouse. New AI‑powered Safari Tab Groups automatically cluster tabs by context, while an upgraded Spotlight Search, driven by Siri 2.0, handles natural‑language queries...
RedMagic’s $22 Wired Gaming Earphones Quietly Bring Back the 3.5mm Jack
RedMagic, Nubia’s gaming sub‑brand, has introduced a budget‑friendly wired gaming earphone priced at about $13 in China and $21.90 internationally, offering both 3.5 mm and USB‑C connectors. The earphones feature a large 14.2 mm dynamic driver, an in‑line remote with mic, and...
Oriole Networks Deploys Photonic AI Network in First Commercial Rollout with AMD
UK photonic networking startup Oriole Networks announced the first commercial deployment of a large‑scale AI system that runs on a pure photonic network, built together with AMD. The PRISM platform replaces electronic switches with nanosecond optical circuit switching, delivering an...