Quantum Pioneers Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard Win $1 Million Turing Award
IBM researcher Charles Bennett and University of Montreal professor Gilles Brassard have been awarded the 2025 ACM Turing Award, sharing a $1 million prize for their 1984 BB84 quantum key distribution protocol. Their win spotlights the urgency of quantum‑secure communications as large‑scale quantum computers loom.
HDX-MS Plus Computational Methods Provide Novel Approach to Study of Protein-Protein Interactions
Regeneron scientists have integrated hydrogen‑deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX‑MS) with AI‑driven computational analysis to pinpoint binding sites, geometry, and stoichiometry in sandwich ELISA assays. The approach rapidly distinguishes protected versus exposed regions of antibodies, boosting assay specificity and sensitivity. By...
Electrorheoimaging Helps Manage Droplet Viscosity in Real-Time
Researchers at the University of Guelph introduced electrorheoimaging (ERI), a technique that merges electric‑field forcing, rheological measurement, and microscopic imaging to monitor droplet viscosity in real time. By adjusting the frequency of an applied electric field, they achieved instantaneous, reversible...
China’s Shenzhou‑21 Crew Completes 7‑Hour Spacewalk to Install Debris Shield
China’s Shenzhou‑21 crew performed a seven‑hour extravehicular activity on March 16, installing a space‑debris protection device on the Tiangong station. The EVA marks the mission’s second spacewalk, the 26th overall for Chinese astronauts, and brings commander Zhang Lu’s total to...
Benchtop Bioreactor Simplifies Macrophage Manufacturing
Scientists at Hannover Medical School have introduced a standardized protocol that generates macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells using a 10‑50 mL benchtop bioreactor. The 24‑day workflow produces tens of millions of cells per harvest and allows multiple collections from a...
Enterprise AI Fails at Scale—Latency Is the Deal‑Breaker
Here's a stat that should make every enterprise leader uncomfortable: only 16% of agentic AI initiatives actually scale. That's IBM's number. McKinsey puts it at 10%. We call it the great AI divide … and the larger the enterprise, the...
I Disabled Background Activity for These 5 Android Apps and Now My Battery Lasts Much Longer
The author disabled background activity for five Android apps—Google Play Store, Settings Services, Google, Spotify and Messenger—on a Pixel 9 (Android 16) and an OnePlus Open. Battery levels that typically fell to 65‑70% overnight rose to 80‑90% after the changes. Both devices showed similar improvements...
Multiply Raises $9.5M to Deploy Self-Learning AI Ads, Claims 300-500% Pipeline Boost
San Francisco‑based Multiply announced a $9.5 million Series A led by Mayfield to launch its Self‑Learning Advertising platform. The startup says its AI agents can deliver 300%‑500% more pipeline for B2B advertisers by continuously updating campaigns from sales‑call data.
CAR T Production Bottlenecks Best Tackled with AI, Automation, and Skilled Staff
Patient‑specific CAR‑T therapies face a global production bottleneck due to centralized facilities, manual processes, and high variability in patient cell quality. Researchers highlight that decentralizing manufacturing, eliminating cryopreservation, and accelerating in‑process monitoring can cut vein‑to‑vein times. Automation and artificial intelligence...
Threat Actors Target the Entire Retail Supply Chain
Black Kite’s 2026 report warns that threat actors now view wholesalers and retailers as a single, highly interconnected organization, exposing the entire retail supply chain to systemic cyber risk. Over 70% of major retailers, nearly 60% of wholesalers, and more...
GCash Enters International Money Transfer Market
Globe Telecom’s e‑wallet GCash introduced GCash International Transfers, enabling users to remit funds to bank and e‑wallet accounts in at least 16 countries. The service promises same‑day credit in most destinations and next‑day delivery to the United States, with a...
KYA: Why Your AI Agent Needs a Digital ID to Spend Your Money with Chandler Fang
Agentic AI is moving beyond recommendation to autonomous financial actions, but existing payment systems lack mechanisms to verify software entities. A trust gap emerges as consumers are hesitant to let AI execute purchases, and security professionals worry about rogue agents....
STAT+: Clearing Tumors in Mice, Azalea Therapeutics Advances Dream of in Vivo CAR-T Therapy
Azalea Therapeutics, a spinout from Jennifer Doudna’s lab, reported in Nature that its in vivo CAR‑T approach can generate functional CAR‑T cells directly within mice and eradicate both solid and hematologic tumors. The technique uses infused gene‑editing particles that precisely...
Synthetic Data Vault: Powering AI’s Future
🚨 Synthetic Data is the Future of AI Introducing The Synthetic Data Vault (SDV). This is what you need to know:
Drone Wars: Countries Are Looking for Answers but Do Companies Have the Solutions?
Manufacturers are accelerating counter‑drone (CUAS) development as nations rush to buy systems for battlefield and homeland protection. Recent Middle‑East flare‑ups, including the US‑Israeli strike on Iran and Iran’s retaliatory attacks, have underscored the growing threat of uncrewed aerial systems highlighted...
ChatGPT Health Excels on Textbook Cases, Fails Real Emergencies
Is "textbook performance" enough for medical AI? The first independent stress test of ChatGPT Health is out in @NatureMedicine. The Good: Near-perfect triage for textbook stroke and anaphylaxis. The Bad: A 51.6% under-triage rate for true emergencies. But there’s a massive elephant in the...
Descope's Agentic Identity Hub Secures AI Agent Access
Looking for bulletproof security for AI agent access? @DescopeINC just changed the game with their Agentic Identity Hub 🔥 → MCP server authentication backing OAuth 2.1, PKCE, DCR, and CIMD → A secure vault stocked with 50+ templates and short-lived tokens → Strictly scoped,...
Ibex Medical Analytics Unveils Ibex 4, the Next-Generation AI Platform Setting a New Standard in Comprehensive Cancer Diagnostics and Patient...
Ibex Medical Analytics unveiled Ibex 4, a next‑generation AI platform designed to modernize pathology diagnostics. The solution delivers an end‑to‑end breast workflow, featuring automated H&E analysis and “zero‑click” IHC quantification for HER2, ER, PR and Ki67. It also adds prioritized...
Track Multiple Objects Seamlessly with Roboflow and OpenCV
🔍 Mastering Multi-Object Tracking with Roboflow & OpenCV 🏀🚗 From tracking basketball players to monitoring traffic, detection alone isn’t enough-you need Multi-Object Tracking (MOT). With Roboflow Trackers + OpenCV, you can assign persistent IDs to objects across frames, even in high-speed...
EXCLUSIVE: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Butts Heads With Former FTC CTO Over AI Regulation
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt debated AI regulation with former FTC CTO Latanya Sweeney at the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. Schmidt warned that emergent AI behaviors are unpredictable, limiting pre‑emptive safety controls, while urging tolerance for ongoing development. Sweeney countered...
Drone Spraying Proposal Comes with Opportunities, Risks
Health Canada has opened a public consultation on proposed rules that would permit pesticides to be applied by drones already registered for aerial use. The move follows years of pressure from the House of Commons agriculture committee and the Alberta...
Trillion Gene Atlas: Cool Concept, No Data Yet
Well, I love PacBio generally and the Trillion Gene Atlas sounds kind of cool. But as far as I can tell, none of this has been released publically and I cannot find a paper or preprint on the Trillion...
DirectorMoves
The latest DirectorMoves briefing reports several high‑profile board reshuffles across major public companies. Kevin Lobo departs Parker‑Hannifin’s board while joining GE HealthCare Technologies alongside Stryker’s CEO. Old Mutual promotes Roger Jardine to chair‑designate and sees Trevor Manuel retire. AIG’s James...
Combine Intent, CRM, and Hiring Data for Instant Warm Leads
Find accounts actively researching your category and hiring to solve problems YOUR PRODUCT SOLVES - in <4 minutes... No heavy ABM motion, no weird back and forth between marketing and sales. Not properly prioritizing your accounts with signals kills your conversion rates,...
AI Agent Interactions Spawn Unpredictable Emergent Chaos
Chaos Agents: When Multiple AI Systems Interact in Unpredictable Ways In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore Chaos Agents, a concept that examines what happens when multiple AI agents interact, collaborate, or compete within the same environment....
Atom Computing Integrates NVQLink Into Quantum Systems
Atom Computing announced that it has successfully integrated NVIDIA’s NVQLink, a low‑latency, high‑bandwidth communication interface, into its proprietary quantum control‑systems stack. The integration delivers ultra‑low latency pathways that accelerate logical‑qubit cycle speeds and support scaling to thousands of qubits. Validation...
Use Deterministic Scripts, Not AI, for Meeting Attendee Data
I just saw a post about using AI to query meeting attendees. I personally would never use an AI prompt for that if I needed an accurate result. I don’t think it is the right tool for that problem. It will...
Umba
Umba, a Kenya‑based digital bank targeting underserved African consumers, has raised $5 million to expand its vehicle and SME lending operations in Kenya. The platform already offers free checking accounts, instant peer‑to‑peer transfers, and credit products through a mobile‑first experience. By...
FinExtra: Fido Alliance Sets Sights on Latin America
The FIDO Alliance announced the launch of the FIDO Americas Adoption Forum (FAAF), a new initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of open authentication standards across Latin America. The region’s mobile‑first ecosystem has spurred rapid payments innovation, but rising fraud...
Nvidia NemoClaw
NVIDIA introduced NemoClaw, an open‑source stack that wraps the OpenShell runtime to run OpenClaw always‑on assistants in a sandboxed environment. The platform installs the OpenShell gateway, creates a container with Landlock, seccomp and network‑namespace policies, and routes inference calls to...
Mastercard Keeps Tabs on Fraud with New Foundation Model
Mastercard has unveiled a large tabular model (LTM) trained on billions of anonymized card‑transaction records to strengthen fraud detection. Unlike large language models, the LTM analyzes multi‑dimensional tabular data, identifying behavioral anomalies without relying on personal identifiers. Early tests show...
FDA Approves JenaValve TAVR System for Aortic Regurgitation
JenaValve received FDA clearance for its Trilogy Transcatheter Heart Valve System, marking the first TAVR device expressly approved to treat symptomatic, severe aortic regurgitation (AR). The approval follows the ALIGN‑AR trial, which demonstrated the valve’s safety and efficacy in a...
Swapping Batteries for Hydrogen Gives Drones a Whole New Range
Researchers at Norway's SINTEF have built a hydrogen‑fuel‑cell drone that swaps its battery for a lightweight hydrogen tank, delivering multi‑hour flight endurance. The prototype can inspect long stretches of power lines, conduct search‑and‑rescue missions, and map terrain, offering a cheaper,...
Xandres Expands Its Secondhand Service Online
Xandres has launched its second‑hand platform, Xandres Preloved, via a dedicated website covering the Benelux region and Germany. After pilot programs in Ghent and Bruges, the brand is rolling out the service nationwide, allowing customers to buy and sell pre‑owned...
AI Demands a Composable Martech Canvas, Not Stacked Tools
Bryce Peake, who led marketing decision sciences at Domino’s, says this in my new report with Databricks, released this morning — and I think it gets to the heart of it: “We’ve been trying to modify the same martech stack we’ve...
AI Strategies Grow From Real Experiments, Not Top‑down Plans
Seismic didn’t start with a grand AI strategy. It built one through an internal incubation team experimenting with real use cases. Instead of top-down planning, the strategy emerged from what actually worked. Maybe that’s how most AI strategies will form going forward. https://t.co/yOdAyCDOlV...
Scandlines Races To Fully Electrify Ferry Services As Fehmarn Tunnel Stalls
Scandlines launched Baltic Whale, an all‑electric freight ferry, on the Puttgarden–Rødby route, increasing freight capacity by 27% and featuring a 10 MWh battery that charges in under 15 seconds. The vessel joins a hybrid fleet, part of a €400 million program to...
Beazley Acquires kWh Analytics to Boost Renewable Underwriting
Beazley to acquire kWh Analytics to expand renewable underwriting #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/wCWG390fQB
Freedom Requires Cultural Protection, Not Engineered Optimization
"Human freedom is not randomness; it is the capacity to reinterpret who we are and what counts as a good life... That capacity cannot be engineered—it must be socially and culturally protected" @MCoeckelbergh on the risks of 'behavior optimizing AI....
AI Made Developers Faster. So Why Are Product Teams Still Slow?
At DevSparks 2026, Indexnine’s Anand Hariharan warned that AI coding assistants, while dramatically speeding individual developers, often leave product teams lagging. The speed boost is eroded by a “verification tax” as senior engineers must validate AI‑generated code against architecture and...
Mitochondrial Transfer Shows Promise Against Parkinson’s in Animals
Potential of mitochondrial transfer to prevent or treat Parkinson' s disease, in mouse and monkey models @CellCellPress https://t.co/c0oqfagddX https://t.co/KyBc1zQttc
AI Filtering Faces Same Overlap as Bears and Tourists
as i think about the challenges of filtering ai content and replies, i’m reminded of this quote by a park ranger on the challenges of designing trash cans: “there is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the...
New Tools Boost Multi‑Die Assembly Yield and Speed
How new equipment and methodologies are improving reliability, yield, and time-to-market for multi-die assemblies. https://t.co/aO5qUKLpbY #semiconductor #advancedpackaging #metrology @cohu_inc @oontoinnovation @yieldWerx #ASE #DataAnalytics #metrology https://t.co/draBrAqta5
US EVA-94 Spacewalk Begins on ISS at 1246 UTC
Spacewalk US EVA-94 is underway on the ISS. Astronauts Meir and Williams, in suits 3015 and 3003 and with SAFER packs 15 and 18 depressurized the airlock past 50 mbar at 1246 UTC, opened the hatch at 1251 UTC and...
Comparing Psychedelic Trials to Antidepressants Skews Results
Does it stack the deck in favor of the standard antidepressants to pull data from placebo-controlled trials for one condition (the psychedelic) and compare it with single condition data for the standard antidepressants? Also...
AI‑driven Live Code Awareness Eliminates Version Control
🔮Future: Real-time AI codebase awareness kills version control; you don’t need version control when everything is understood in the present moment. The next accelerated version kills bugs as they occur, before a user sees them.
Cursor AI Offers Reusable Security Templates, Sparks Trust Debate
A new release from @cursor_ai turns its internal security agents into reusable templates teams can deploy themselves. For developers, that could mean continuous security checks — but it raises questions about trusting AI to review code. 🔗Story here: https://t.co/yp2DZC9LrL https://t.co/ugKk1HaKki
UK, Germany See Surge in Clean Tech Demand Post‑Iran War
Companies in the UK and Germany have received more inquiries for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs since the Iran war started https://t.co/JQoD10Lhq6
Overreliance on AI Undermines Critical Thinking in Product Work
This is the biggest practical problem with overuse of AI in product work right now. Highly competent founders and executives are seeing this happen on a ~daily basis, with team members who used AI to draft a proposal (fine) but...
Search Decline Hits Small Publishers Hardest
New data suggests small publishers (10k daily pageviews or less) are hit hardest by search traffic declines —Chatbots only drive 1% of all traffic referrals, so they can't make up the gap —News sites get most page views from AI platforms, but...
