Enterprise AI Agents Keep Operating From Different Versions of Reality — Microsoft Says Fabric IQ Is the Fix
Microsoft announced a major upgrade to its Fabric IQ semantic layer, making the business ontology accessible via the Machine‑Controlled Protocol (MCP) to any AI agent, regardless of vendor. The update also adds enterprise planning capabilities and introduces a Database Hub that consolidates Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server under a single management plane. By providing a unified, queryable context layer, Microsoft aims to eliminate fragmented understanding among multi‑agent systems. The move positions Fabric as a potential default infrastructure for enterprise AI deployments.
As Chinese Biotechs Recognize Their Value, the Bargain Era May Be Over
Chinese biotech licensing activity surged in 2025, with 92 deals—a jump from 64 the prior year—and total deal value reaching a record $137.7 billion. The average upfront payment climbed from $102 million to $141 million, signaling that Chinese assets are no longer deep‑discount...
Best Sports Earbuds 2026: For Runners, Swimmers and Other Fitness Enthusiasts
Live Science’s 2026 roundup identifies the top sports earbuds for runners, swimmers, hikers and budget‑conscious fitness fans. The guide highlights CMF by Nothing Buds Pro 2 as the best low‑cost option, Beats Powerbeats Fit for ultra‑secure fit, Raycon Impact for military‑grade...
Lilly-Backed China Startup Debuts With $68.7M Seed to Advance Next-Gen T Cell Engagers
Excalipoint Therapeutics, a Shanghai‑based biotech, closed a $68.7 million seed round, including a $41 million founding raise and a $27.7 million extension led by MPCi, Centurium Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, and Eisai Innovation. The capital will fund six tri‑specific T‑cell engager candidates, notably...
Nokia Rebuilds Its Optical Engine, One Building Block at a Time
Nokia’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Infinera is bearing fruit as the company unveils a modular "building‑block" optical engine featuring four new DSPs and interchangeable indium‑phosphide, silicon‑photonic, and lithium‑niobate front ends. The approach lets customers mix and match components to serve 13...
AI Tools Enter Retail Platforms as Canadian Adoption Grows
Canadian small‑business owners are moving from AI experimentation to everyday use, according to a 2026 Square survey showing 60 % of respondents already employ AI tools and 74 % are familiar with them. Commerce platforms such as Square, Shopify and Lightspeed are...
Hitachi Vantara Expands Hitachi iQ Capabilities for Responsible Agentic AI
Hitachi Vantara announced a suite of upgrades to its Hitachi iQ portfolio, adding new NVIDIA Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs, expanded AI blueprints, and tighter Hammerspace integration. The enhancements target on‑prem and virtualized environments, enabling enterprises to build, coordinate, and govern...
FT‑Targeted Biotech Stocks Deliver Short‑Term Alpha
Good read on Biopharma M&A by RBC , little mention to Betaville, Bloomberg, FT , oand ofc the standout $RVMD Our biopharma team is out with an M&A discussion piece - given the importance of M&A to the sector, it is...
STAT+: J&J Wins Approval for First-of-Its-Kind Psoriasis Pill
Johnson & Johnson received FDA clearance for Icotyde, the first oral daily pill for moderate‑to‑severe plaque psoriasis. The drug, originally called icotrokinra, is approved for patients aged 12 and older and is designed to replicate the efficacy of injectable biologics...
Bing Business Profiles With Image Slider
Microsoft Bing has rolled out an image slider within its Business Profiles local panel, allowing users to scroll through a business’s photos directly on the search results page. The feature, confirmed live on March 18, 2026, appears in listings that...
IPhone 17 vs 17e: 15 Reasons to Spend the Extra $200
Apple launched the budget‑friendly iPhone 17e at $599, while the standard iPhone 17 starts at $799. The price gap translates into a suite of upgrades, including a smoother ProMotion display, longer battery life, enhanced camera optics, and advanced spatial‑computing hardware....
UK Startups Offered Use of National AI Supercomputers
Britain’s Sovereign AI Unit has launched the AIRR programme, allocating £500 million to give strategically significant UK AI startups access to national supercomputing resources. Around 10 % of the capacity of the Isambard‑AI and DAWN supercomputers—valued at roughly £20 million per year—will be...
Adpro& Group Wins Fine Tissues Mandate Across the Levant Region
Adpro& Group has been appointed by Fine Levant to lead the creative, social and media mandate for Fine Tissues across Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq. The deal revives a partnership that ended in 2017 and adds the Fine Baby...
Mondoo Announced the Launch of Agentic Managed Vulnerability Service
Mondoo unveiled its Agentic Managed Vulnerability Service, pairing AI‑driven analytics with expert security teams to deliver a 60% reduction in vulnerabilities and a mean‑time‑to‑remediation (MTTR) under 16 days. The offering includes an optional Automated Remediation Setup Service that configures instant,...
SaaS Evolves: Serving AI Agents, Not Humans
Is SAAS Dead due to the advancement of AI Agents? Yes & No! Yes- In a traditional sense, i.e. human using SaaS. No- Agents will be using the SaaS endpoint to think, to decide, to perform tasks. So the SaaS companies will evolve...
Logic Pursuits Announces Strategic Consulting Partnership with Glean to Guide Enterprise AI Transformation
Logic Pursuits announced a strategic consulting partnership with Glean, the Work AI leader, to accelerate enterprise AI transformation. As a Consulting Partner, Logic Pursuits will guide organizations through AI strategy, architecture, governance, and change enablement, leveraging Glean’s AI‑driven search, assistant,...
Here's What I Learned After 100 Posts on Substack
The author celebrated 100 Substack posts for Tracy’s Tidbits, reflecting on lessons learned about audience composition, publishing cadence, and content formats. Consistency—publishing every Wednesday—proved essential, while cross‑posting to LinkedIn emerged as the primary traffic source. Visuals and short “Notes” added...
Microwave Quantum Network Shows Resilience Against Heat-Related Disturbances
Researchers in Shenzhen have built a superconducting microwave quantum network that remains coherent despite thermal noise, using radiative cooling and tunable couplers to purge heat photons. The system transmits quantum states through a channel warmed to up to 4 K and...
Salicru Strengthens Indonesia’s Railway Infrastructure
Salicru has expanded its footprint in Indonesia’s railway sector by deploying uninterruptible power‑supply (UPS) solutions for PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) across key hubs in Java and Sumatra. Working with local partner PT BINA SERVICES, the company installed new...
Nvidia's CEO Goes Full Principal Skinner in Response to DLSS 5 Backlash — Says It's the Gamers Who Are 'Completely...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the newly unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, dismissing gamer criticism as "completely wrong." The technology claims to fuse generative AI with developer‑controlled rendering to enhance graphics on RTX 5000 GPUs. Early demo footage, however, sparked backlash for...
Building 150 AI Projects: My Lisbon Talk Tonight
🇵🇹 If you're in Lisbon, I'll be speaking tonight about my experience building over 150 projects with AI coding at AI Builders #Lisbon > https://luma.com/lis-mar18 (free)
£5 Million Innovate UK Funding Competition Seeks to Drive Growth of Secure and Resilient Software Supply Chains
Innovate UK has launched a £5 million competition to accelerate secure and resilient software supply chains through the government’s Software Security Code of Practice (SSCoP). Eligible projects must request between £250,000 and £750,000, begin by August 2026 and run for 12‑18 months,...
ActiveState Announced the Launch of Curated Catalogs
ActiveState launched the Curated Catalog, a private, secure repository of open‑source components built from source. The catalog draws from a library of more than 79 million vetted packages across 12+ language ecosystems and integrates with major artifact managers. It offers SLSA...
CVE-2026-3888: Ubuntu Desktop 24.04+ Vulnerable to Root Exploit
Qualys discovered CVE-2026-3888, a high‑severity local privilege escalation flaw in Ubuntu Desktop 24.04+. The vulnerability exploits a timing window in systemd‑tmpfiles and snap‑confine, allowing an unprivileged user to gain root after 10‑30 days. It carries a CVSS score of 7.8...
Deal Roundup: KKR Buys Into Indian E-Bus Fleet in $310m Deal, Warburg Pincus Backs TheGuarantors
Private equity giant KKR is investing up to $310 million to acquire a majority stake in Allfleet, the electric‑bus platform of India’s PMI Electro Mobility Solutions, aiming to deploy more than 5,000 e‑buses. Warburg Pincus has taken a controlling interest in...
How Currency Overlay Is Reshaping Portfolio Management in 2025
Currency volatility surged in 2025 as the U.S. dollar slipped roughly 10% against major peers, marking its steepest decline since 2017. Asset owners are responding by centralising currency‑overlay functions, integrating hedging decisions across equities and fixed income within a Total...
Master the Secrets of Autonomous LLM Agents
The Fundamentals Of Building Autonomous LLM Agents A 38-page PDF that uncovers the secrets of building AI agents that are "agentic" Get it here:
LeakNet Boosts Ransomware with ClickFix Lures, Stealthy Deno Loader
LeakNet is expanding its ransomware campaign by deploying mass‑market ClickFix lures on compromised legitimate websites and coupling them with a stealthy Deno‑based loader that runs malicious code almost entirely in memory. The ClickFix technique tricks users into executing an msiexec...
AI Is Changing How Shoppers Find Products – with Signs Pointing to Brands Creating AI-First Marketing Strategies
The Criteo 2026 Commerce & AI Trend Report shows AI is reshaping product discovery, with 47% of shoppers using it for comparison and 39% for finding new items, yet only 8% rely on AI to finalize purchases. Consumers crave “relevant...
Hesai Brings LiDAR to E-Scooters as Per-Unit Costs Plummet
Hesai has slashed LiDAR prices to about $200 per unit, enabling its FTX blind‑spot sensor to be fitted on Niu Technologies' new NXT2 e‑scooter. The partnership marks a turning point for affordable perception technology, previously limited to high‑end EVs and...
Invest Now: Top 24 Digital Health Tech Trends
AI and Digital Health are booming. In this book, we explain why now it's a good time to invest in Digital Health and give recommendations on where to invest by looking at the top 24 technological trends we find the...
Fixing Federal Permitting
The House passed H.R. 5419, the Enhancing Administrative Reviews of Broadband Deployment Act, directing the Interior and Agriculture departments to assess and report on administrative barriers to broadband permits on federal lands within a year. The bill follows previous executive...
Cayosoft Debuts Agentic AI Identity Change Controls, IR Offering at RSA 2026
Cayosoft unveiled Guardian 7.2, adding change monitoring and automated rollback for AI‑agent identities across Microsoft Entra and hybrid AD environments. The update embeds non‑human identities into existing ITDR workflows without a new dashboard. Simultaneously, the company launched an Identity Forensics...
Myriad Genetics Receives the US FDA Approval for MyChoice CDx Test as a Companion Diagnostic for GSK’s Zejula
Myriad Genetics announced FDA approval of its MyChoice CDx test as a companion diagnostic for GSK’s Zejula (niraparib) in advanced ovarian cancer. The clearance follows the PRIMA trial, which showed that patients identified as HRD‑positive derived significant benefit from Zejula...
Samsung Agrees AI Memory Deal with AMD
Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with AMD to supply next‑generation AI memory, including HBM4 for AMD’s MI455X accelerators, DDR5 for the Helios system, and advanced DRAM for 6th‑generation EPYC CPUs. The agreement also opens discussions about a future...
Pick a Niche, Stay Consistent, Get Early Traction
New blogger? Do these 5 things immediately: • Pick a clear niche • Publish helpful content • Comment on other blogs • Network with bloggers • Stay consistent Speed + consistency = early traction.
Twitter Adds Unlabeled Sponsored Posts to Following Feed
Twitter has switched to showing people you don’t follow in your following feed, without saying it’s an ad
Designing for Global Payment Systems
In 2019 a fintech processed a $1.2 million payment 47 times, costing $50 million due to missing idempotency across regions. The post explains why global payment systems are inherently complex, juggling distributed databases, currency conversion, and over 200 regulatory regimes while handling...
LLMs Can Boost Learner‑centric Thinking Despite Speed
I agree that handwriting kindles thought. And I also believe that LLMs can suppress thought by arriving at the answer quickly. However, the iterative dynamic of an LLM can offer an extraordinary opportunity to drive a unique and powerful "learner-centric"...
Wittgenstein's Language Games Forecast AI Ethics
What we can we learn from Wittgenstein on language and AI? Family resemblance, language games, forms of life and ethics. He was surprisingly prescient.... https://t.co/S1aAP3t1g8 https://t.co/1tru31pQtH
Agibot Stages Robot-Led Live Show to Demonstrate Humanoids Operating at Scale
Agibot staged “Agibot Night,” the first fully robot‑led live gala streamed to millions. The 60‑minute show featured humanoid robots performing dance, magic, comedy and music, while also collaborating with humans and quadruped robots. The event demonstrated large‑scale coordination across Agibot’s...
Don’t Let Fear Stall Your AI Switch
ChatGPT uninstalls spiked 295% in a single day. Claude hit #1 in the App Store. But most business owners who want to switch are still holding back. Here’s why they shouldn’t. https://t.co/rKlQsE24Iy
CTrack Brings AI-Enhanced Software Platform to the UK for Intelligent Fleet and Asset Management
Ctrack has launched its AI‑enhanced platform Crystal in the UK, extending a global rollout after acquiring Inseego’s telematics business. The modular solution combines telematics, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to deliver real‑time insights, driver‑behaviour monitoring and workflow automation for fleets...
Navigating the Valley of Death: A How-To From an Investor’s Perspective
Biotech startups face the notorious "valley of death" as they move from proof‑of‑concept to commercialization, but investors remain active, with a 70.9% jump in venture‑financing deal value between Q2 and Q3 2025. A GlobalData survey shows 39% of respondents are...
Tech Disruption as a Day Job - Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charles Nunn on AI, Digital Transformation, and Why His...
Lloyds Banking Group says its digital bank has expanded by 50%, now serving 23 million digitally active retail customers who generate roughly 7 billion interactions annually. The group has hired 9,000 new engineering and tech staff and already runs 800 AI models,...
Hope Rises for Vaccine Against Hookworm Parasite
A phase 2 trial of the Na‑GST1/Al–CpG vaccine demonstrated near‑complete protection against hookworm infection in healthy adults, with vaccinated participants shedding a median of zero eggs per gram versus 67 in the placebo group. The study, conducted in Washington, DC,...
Closing the Gap: Theta Lake’s Reconciliation Tools
Regulatory frameworks across the US, Canada, Europe and the CFTC impose strict record‑retention periods, ranging from one to seven years, leaving firms little margin for missing communications. Gaps in data ingestion trigger regulator scrutiny and can signal heightened operational risk....
Robots Gain Touch Sensation with TactileAloha
TactileAloha: Empowering #Robots with the Sense of Touch by @IntEngineering #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #EmergingTech #Innovation https://t.co/7zgVBwX9ig
AI Leaps From Toddler to Einstein in a Year
AI intelligence improvement from the beginning of 2026 to the end of this year will be equivalent to a toddler gaining Einstein-level knowledge in just 365 days.
L’Oréal and Nvidia Expand Partnership to Create AI Engine for Rapid Formulation Discovery
L’Oréal has deepened its collaboration with Nvidia by embedding the Alchemi machine‑learning framework into its research and innovation ecosystem. The joint effort will power an AI‑driven formulation engine that simulates molecular interactions at an atomic level, allowing scientists to evaluate...
