Wisk Aero Unveils Second Gen 6 Autonomous eVTOL Prototype
Wisk Aero, a Boeing subsidiary, has unveiled its second sixth‑generation autonomous eVTOL prototype, registered as N607WA. The full‑scale aircraft is slated for its inaugural flight within weeks, marking a critical milestone toward certification. Wisk maintains its roadmap to launch a four‑passenger, pilotless electric air‑taxi service by 2030. The rollout underscores the company’s progress in scaling autonomous vertical flight technology.
TerraPower Commits $450M to Build Radioisotope Production Plant
TerraPower Isotopes is committing $450 million to build a cGMP‑compliant actinium‑225 manufacturing plant in Philadelphia, a move that will expand production capacity roughly twenty‑fold. The 250,000‑square‑foot facility, slated to begin output in 2029, will create 225 full‑time jobs and benefits from...
LEGO to Install Over 40,000 Solar Panels at Its First U.S. Factory
LEGO announced plans to build an 80‑acre solar park at its new $1.5 billion Virginia manufacturing complex, its first U.S. factory. The project will install over 30,700 ground‑mounted panels (22 MWp) and 10,080 rooftop panels (6.11 MWp), aiming to meet 100 % of the...
1Password Launches New Platform to Rein in Companies’ AI Agents
1Password unveiled its Unified Access Platform, a security layer designed to monitor and control AI agents within corporate environments. The solution automatically discovers AI‑driven tools, secures exposed credentials, and enforces continuous authorization. It also records every action taken by both...
Baltic Towers to Supply Baltica 2 Towers
Baltic Towers has signed a supply agreement with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy to provide the largest batch of offshore wind turbine towers for the Baltica 2 project. The 2027‑commissioned farm, co‑developed by Grupa PGE and Ørsted, will deliver power to roughly 2.5 million customers...
Ohio Citizens Tell Hyperscalers to Take Their Supersized Datacenters Elsewhere
Ohio residents have filed a petition to amend the state constitution, banning datacenters larger than 25 MW. The initiative, led by citizens in Adams, Brown and Clermont counties, collected roughly 1,800 signatures, surpassing the 1,000‑signature threshold to trigger a ballot measure....
Veriff, Prove, alongID Strengthen Executive Teams
Three digital‑identity leaders announced senior hires as enterprises pour capital into trust infrastructure. Veriff appointed Rob Brazier as Chief Product Officer to broaden its offering from pure ID verification to a continuous‑trust platform that includes biometric checks and reusable credentials....
Avantus Completes 159-MW Solar Project in Central Texas
Avantus and Toyota Tsusho America have completed the 159‑MW DC (125‑MW AC) Norton Solar Project in Runnels County, Texas, marking the latest addition to the state’s utility‑scale solar portfolio. Construction, which began in August 2024, was executed by Avantus with RES...
FDA Seeks to Encourage Fewer Animal Studies with New Draft Guidance
The FDA released a draft guidance that details how biopharma firms can validate non‑animal approaches for early‑phase toxicology and safety studies. The document encourages the use of in‑vitro assays, computational modeling, and other modern methods to replace traditional animal testing....
Accelerating Computational Lithography Using Massively Parallel GPU Rasterizer
Siemens EDA unveiled a GPU‑accelerated rasterization algorithm that transforms computational lithography workflows. By decomposing layouts into tiles and processing them on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, the method attains speedups of up to 290× for Manhattan geometries and 45× for curvilinear designs....
Telehouse Parent KDDI Acquires Office Site in London's Docklands Zoned for Data Center Expansion - Report
KDDI, the Japanese telecom group behind Telehouse, has agreed to buy the Republic campus in Tower Hamlets for roughly £250 million. The 483,000‑sq‑ft office site carries planning consent for a 376,000‑sq‑ft, 30 MW multi‑story data centre, directly adjacent to Telehouse’s existing Docklands...
EXoZymes’ Cell-Free Biomanufacturing Platform Gets Positive Feedback From Cayman Chemical
eXoZymes’ cell‑free biomanufacturing platform was independently run by Cayman Chemical at pilot scale, moving from a 1‑L test to a 100‑L reactor. The process produced over 500 g of pharma‑grade N‑trans‑caffeoyltyramine (NCT) with 99.6 % purity and maintained >99 % conversion despite pH...
Digital India Programme Resulted in 97 Percent Reduction in Data Cost per GB: Govt
India's Digital India programme, launched in 2015, has dramatically lowered data prices and expanded connectivity. Broadband subscriptions surged from 25 crore to 103 crore, a 400% increase, while mobile base stations grew to 2.95 million, achieving near‑universal village coverage. Average data usage per...
The AI Revolution Will Be Open-Sourced
At CES 2026 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI will only scale when open innovation extends to infrastructure. Kubernetes, long used for AI, is gaining first‑class support through Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) that reached GA in version 1.34. New...
Health Care Cyberattacks Expose a Critical National Security Failure
The Iranian‑linked Handala Team launched a wiper attack on Stryker Corporation on March 11, destroying the Lifepak cardiac monitor network that links ambulances to hospitals. The outage halted real‑time ECG transmission in Maryland, jeopardizing STEMI patients and exposing the shared vulnerability...
Druva Delivers Critical Identity Intelligence?for Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID
Druva launched Identity Resilience, extending its SaaS platform to protect identities across Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. The solution unifies protection, cyber‑recovery and threat detection, using a graph‑based engine called Dru MetaGraph to map relationships in real...
Want a Job at OpenAI? Take This Online Challenge Today
OpenAI announced the Model Craft Challenge, a global online competition designed to recruit its next generation of AI researchers. The multi‑round contest will test participants on real‑world problems such as Parameter Golf, where candidates build efficient small models under strict...
SMX Now: Learn How Brands Must Adapt for AI-Driven Search
Visibility now hinges on AI-driven search, not just rankings. SMX launches its monthly SMX Now webinar on April 1, featuring iPullRank experts Zach Chahalis, Patrick Schofield, and Garrett Sussman. They will unveil iPullRank’s Relevance Engineering (r19g) framework for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and an...
Leveraging Digital Public Goods: Designing Digital Wallets to Unlock Opportunities for Human Security
Digital wallets are evolving from simple payment tools into digital public goods that can verify eligibility for social benefits, share health records, and certify documents. The UNDP Digital X 3.0 webinar, co‑hosted with Japan, highlighted how integrated wallets can streamline access to...
New Zealand’s Regulators Expand Open Banking Efforts
New Zealand’s financial regulators are extending their open‑banking agenda beyond the December rules, mandating standardized APIs that let approved fintechs access customer data with consent. The reforms aim to tighten security, curb screen‑scraping, and create a level playing field that...
Ransomware Gang Exploits Cisco Flaw in Zero-Day Attacks Since January
The Interlock ransomware gang has been leveraging a maximum‑severity remote code execution flaw (CVE‑2026‑20131) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center since late January, giving them a 36‑day zero‑day window before Cisco’s public advisory on March 4, 2026. The exploit permits unauthenticated attackers...
How to Implement Just-in-Time (JIT) User Provisioning with SSO and SCIM
The article explains how Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning creates user accounts on‑the‑fly during SSO login, contrasting it with SCIM’s pre‑login API‑driven synchronization. JIT leverages SAML or OIDC attributes to eliminate manual onboarding, while SCIM offers full lifecycle management, including deprovisioning. Implementation...
A Number of US Cities Are Pulling the Plug on Flock Safety's AI Cameras
A wave of municipal backlash is forcing Flock Safety, the Atlanta‑based AI camera vendor valued at roughly $7.5 billion, to lose contracts in dozens of U.S. cities. In the past six months, 38 cities have terminated agreements, bringing the total to...
AMD Keeping Samsung Close Amid Memory Shortage
AMD has entered a strategic agreement with Samsung to secure next‑generation HBM4 memory amid a broader industry shortage. The partnership aims to lock in supply for AMD's upcoming AI‑focused GPUs, addressing concerns raised after the company warned of potential shortages...
Small Team, Big Game: How We Built Mr. Beast’s AI-Powered Puzzle in 27 Days
Salesforce built an AI‑powered puzzle for MrBeast’s $1 million game in just six weeks, handling over 275,000 registrations and processing 4.5 billion tokens. The team deployed 78 production orgs and engineered a multi‑org sharding architecture capable of 1.5 million concurrent users without downtime....
Japan Publishes New Guidelines for Flexible Solar Cell Installations
Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has issued new design and construction guidelines for flexible photovoltaic (PV) and perovskite solar installations, focusing on structural load, frameless mounting and flammability. The standards target low‑load rooftops and building walls...
MANUFACTURING & AUTOMATION eXCHANGE (MAX) DEBUTS NEXT WEEK IN NASHVILLE, SPOTLIGHTING THE FUTURE OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IN THE SOUTHEAST
The Manufacturing & Automation eXchange (MAX) launches March 24‑26 in Nashville, bringing together the full manufacturing ecosystem to spotlight AI, robotics, and digital transformation in the fast‑growing Southeast. Produced by BNP Media, the event features six pre‑conference workshops, a two‑day...
Before You Commit At NewFronts, Ask One More Question
NewFronts are prompting marketers to lock in streaming and CTV buys, but many overlook whether their operational infrastructure can handle the resulting creative load. The shift to personalized, AI‑driven ads creates thousands of variants, demanding new governance and delivery processes....
Building the Next Generation of Data Centers: Where Industrial Expertise Meets Digital Urgency
Global data‑center spending is set to more than double by 2032, driven by AI and cloud workloads that could consume up to 8.6 % of national electricity by 2035. Traditional power and cooling architectures are reaching breaking points, prompting hyperscalers to...
Rippling AI Revolutionizes Payroll for 5K‑Employee Company
Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees. Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job,...
How Niche B2B Ecommerce Wins Against Bigger Competitors
The article outlines a repeatable content‑first playbook that lets niche B2B ecommerce brands outrank well‑funded generalists by targeting specification‑level search queries. It shows how technical depth, a precise keyword architecture, and AI‑ready internal linking can shift organic traffic from broad...
The Developer’s Guide to LLMs: From Magic to Math
The post demystifies large language models (LLMs) by framing them as massive next‑word prediction engines rather than knowledge databases. It explains core concepts such as tokenization, showing that 1,000 tokens roughly equal 750 words, and how embeddings turn tokens into...
Choose AI or Deterministic Solutions Based on Accuracy Needs
Questions when starting an AI project: * Do I need a perfectly accurate result every time? ➡️ Use deterministic solution * Is a perfectly accurate result too costly, expensive, or even impossible? ➡️ Use AI to get closer to the result faster...
$42 3D Printer Trades Features for Price in “Race to the Bottom”
A $42 Frequency Division Multiplexing 3D printer has hit the market, slashing desktop printer prices to unprecedented lows. The machine offers a 100 × 100 × 100 mm build volume, 230 °C hot end limited to PLA, and print speeds of 10‑40 mm/s. It lacks automated leveling,...
Apple Bans AI Vibe‑coding Apps over Code‑execution Rule
Confirmed: Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps "Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications, from releasing updates to their mobile apps on the...
Nine Best AI Assistants Reviewed and Ranked
RT @MktgtTechAI Review: The Top Nine AI Assistants https://t.co/06xJrOKkuP [NEW POST] Here's a research-based review of the top nine tools showcased in the #AI Assistants category on https://t.co/rakLQNhaZp. https://t.co/aROJqBIDhM
Can AI Strengthen Democracy? Italy’s Parliament Offers a Test Case
Italy’s parliament is launching a pilot program to embed artificial intelligence across its legislative processes, joining a growing but fragmented global trend. The initiative mirrors diverse international experiments, from Chile’s bill‑drafting assistance to Brazil’s citizen‑participation platforms. The Inter‑Parliamentary Union warns...
Google Tests Discover Tab and UI Overhaul in Gemini
Google is quietly testing a Discover tab in Gemini app, alongside a host of UI changes We found changes to the sidebar, overlay controls, and how Gemini shows its thought process in our latest APK teardown. ✅ Details & screenshots - https://t.co/Nvgp3p6CTS...
Overhyped AI Orchestration Pitch Sparks Fatigue
"Context-aware orchestration layer between humans and AI agents" If I hear this pitch one more time, I can’t guarantee anything.
Fortinet’s AI-Driven Defense for a Machine-Speed Era
At Fortinet Accelerate 2026, the company unveiled FortiOS 8.0 and previewed FortiSOC, its cloud‑delivered Security Operations Platform. The new OS adds AI‑aware controls, deep OCR‑based DLP, expanded SASE capabilities and built‑in post‑quantum cryptography to protect the growing shadow‑AI surface. FortiSOC consolidates...
Spammers Exploit Azure to Enroll Users Without Consent
Microsoft really needs to get a grip on spammers using Azure. It’s far too easy for spammers to sign you up to Azure lists without consent and get into your inbox because the messages come from an Azure alias. This...
AI Budgets Miss the Real Cost: Inference Expenses
Hot take: most AI budgets are measuring the wrong thing. They track licenses and model access fees. They're not tracking inference costs, the operational expense that compounds with every query, every workflow, every automation. That's where the real AI ROI gap is hiding....
Google Adds Opt‑out for Generative AI in Search
Whoa, opting out of AIOs and AI mode could very well happen (for pubs that want that) -> From Google today: "We are developing further updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt-out of generative AI features in Search."...
House Hearing Explores LEO's Future: ISS to Commercial Platforms
House SS&T will hold a hrg on Mar 25 at 10:00 am ET on The Future of LEO: From the ISS to Cmrcl Platforms. NASA's Joel Montalbano (Acting AA for Space Ops Mission Directorate), Dave Cavossa (CSF), Charlie Precourt (mbr,...
Google Docs AI Misjudges Its Own AI Usage Guidelines
Ironic that the Google Docs AI provided bad style feedback on the section of an assignment prompt setting out my standards for AI use. https://t.co/QOZtxgEU2Z
Incumbents Call AI Startup Agents Parasites, Data Belongs to Users
Recent earnings call, Aneel Bhusri of Workday says startups with AI agents are "parasites" This is what system of record incumbents really think of startups. The war is just beginning. The facts: the user data belongs to the users, not...
Repeated Psilocybin Doses Yield 73% OCD Response
A randomized clinical trial of repeated doses of psilocybin for the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder 73.3% were responders (⩾35% reduction in YBOCS scores), with 40% in remission. These effects diminished but remained substantial at 6 months. https://t.co/tp2SPIKDrB
Congress to Examine LEO's Future Beyond the ISS
The House Science Committee's space subcommittee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on "The Future of Low Earth Orbit: From the ISS to Commercial Platforms". https://t.co/OyC3IQLGDd
AEMO's 90s Roots Demand Modern Governance Today
AEMO is a product of the 90s. Its governance needs to reflect the world we’re in now #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/omZiYyslB7 https://t.co/osBifA9CrV
Internet's Missed
replace "customer service" with "primary care" - not to mention that the internet barely made a dent in primary care to begin with... hence the opportunity to leapfrog to Infinite Healthcare @CounselHealth @hippocraticai @sprinterhealth https://t.co/nSgvFePxTe
