Current Hiring Processes Aren’t Built to Find AI-Ready Graduates, Data Finds
SHL’s analysis of over a million assessments shows the class of 2026 graduates consistently outpace non‑graduates on behavioral traits linked to AI readiness. A NACE‑Indeed survey reports a 26% jump in applications in 2025, driven by AI tools that let candidates submit polished resumes at scale. Employers are closing job requisitions early to manage volume, which risks filtering out the strongest, AI‑savvy talent. SHL recommends shifting to behavior‑based screening and increasing graduate intake to capture this emerging workforce.
NASA ETF's SpaceX Edge May Shift Space Fund Flows
This has to be a Top 5 chart of the year.. $NASA vs the OG Space ETFs. You never see a new launch immediately usurp a category- usually takes years (outside of BYOA of course). Why? $NASA is the only...
In South Africa, the Bundle Is the New Battleground
Amazon launched Prime in South Africa as a $3.3‑per‑month bundle that includes Prime Video, Luna gaming, a Twitch subscription, free same‑day delivery and early‑deal access, undercutting the previous R79 price for video alone. The move mirrors a wider shift among...
Why the Insta360 Luna Ultra Could Cost US and EU Buyers Significantly More
The Insta360 Luna Ultra is slated for about $600 in China but will likely retail above $1,000 in the United States and Europe after VAT, import duties and retailer mark‑ups. Its flagship specs— a 1‑inch sensor, Leica‑branded optics, modular build...
Microsoft Trained Its MAI Models on Unlicensed Web Data Despite Promising "Enterprise Grade, Clean and Commercially Licensed Data"
Microsoft’s latest MAI models were partially trained on data harvested from the open web, including the Common Crawl corpus, despite earlier statements that training would rely solely on "enterprise‑grade, clean and commercially licensed" data. The technical paper released by Microsoft...
Ardian, Artefact, Bull, EDF, Capgemini, the Iliad Group, Orange and Scaleway Combine Their Expertise to Run as a Candidate for...
A coalition of eight French leaders—Ardian, Artefact, Bull, Capgemini, EDF, the iliad Group, Orange and Scaleway—has formed the AION consortium to submit a bid for the European Union’s AI Gigafactory program in France. The partnership aims to deliver sovereign, high‑performance...
Energy Vault and Eskom Announce Strategic Development Agreement to Deploy Grid-Scale Gravity Energy Storage Systems in South Africa
Eskom and Energy Vault have signed a strategic development agreement to install a gravity‑based energy storage system at the Hendrina Power Station in Mpumalanga. The first plant will deliver 25 MW of capacity with four hours of storage (100 MWh) and serves...
Design GenAI From Scratch: Beginner-Friendly Masterclass
We wrote a full breakdown of how GenAI systems are actually designed from scratch. It went out in Neo Kim's "The System Design Newsletter": Generative AI Masterclass: Everything You Need to Know to Design GenAI Systems From Scratch. If you're a beginner in...
Otsuka Energizes IgA Neuropathy Space with New Phase 3 Voyxact Data
Japanese drugmaker Otsuka Pharmaceuticals reported interim Phase 3 VISIONARY results showing its APRIL inhibitor Voyxact halted kidney function decline in IgA nephropathy patients, delivering a 0.7 mL/min/1.73 m² rise in eGFR versus a 4.8 mL/min/1.73 m² drop in the placebo arm after 12 months. The...
Bulgaria’s Information Services and Google Cloud Launch AI-Powered National Cybershield
Bulgaria’s national integrator, Information Services, has teamed with Google Cloud to deploy the AI‑powered Cybershield platform across its government. The project creates a federated Security Operations Center that will connect 54 ministries and agencies, leveraging Google’s cloud security suite and...
Data‑Driven Insights Shape the Future of Work
What does the future of work look like and how do we prepare for it? It is such a delight to attend the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Experts Workshop at the breathtaking Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, CA yesterday. The roundtable...
Letter From the Editor: Why Every Fintech Firm Is Starting to Look Like an Infrastructure Provider
Fintech is transitioning from consumer‑focused apps to invisible infrastructure, embedding APIs, settlement engines and compliance layers into core business processes. Companies like Stripe, Plaid and Circle illustrate this shift, moving from brand‑centric products to platform services that other software depends...
Onboarding at Root of QSRs' Turnover Problem; Here’s How to Fix It
Quick‑service restaurants (QSRs) face a staggering 150% turnover rate, turning hiring costs into a profit drain. The article argues that the root cause is weak onboarding that fails to convey purpose, brand story, and ease of entry. It recommends a...
DELEGATE-52 Shows That LLMs Corrupt Your Documents Over Time: Artificial Intelligence Trends
Microsoft Research’s DELEGATE‑52 benchmark evaluates how large language models (LLMs) perform in long‑running, delegated document‑editing tasks across 52 professional domains. Testing 19 models—including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus and the newly released GPT 5.4—researchers measured reconstruction scores after multiple forward‑and‑inverse edits. After 20 interactions,...
REST Service Apache Livy Makes It Out of 9-Year Incubation
Apache Livy, the REST service that lets users submit and manage Apache Spark jobs over HTTP, has officially graduated from the Apache Software Foundation’s incubation phase after nine years. Recent spikes in code commits and contributor activity indicate heightened community...
Veeam Says Enterprises Need AI Agents to Monitor AI Agents
Veeam announced three AI‑driven compliance agents—Consent, Data Subject Request and Assessment—designed to monitor and enforce data‑privacy policies for autonomous AI agents. The company’s Data and AI Trust Gap report shows 88% of senior executives are already using AI agents, yet...
Microsoft Advertising To Update UTM Analytics Auto-Tagging Sep. 2
Microsoft Advertising announced that on September 2, 2026 it will automatically update UTM auto‑tagging for all campaign formats. The new tags will differentiate Search, Audience, Shopping and Performance Max traffic in third‑party analytics platforms such as Google Analytics 4. Microsoft says the...
‘Triad of Trust’ to Strengthen Zero Trust
At the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, leaders from AppGate, Illumio, FireMon and Private Protocol Group unveiled a “triad of trust” framework that unites zero‑trust network access, workload segmentation, and policy governance into a single, automated ecosystem. The integrated solution positions...
Roche Develops Bundibugyo Ebola Test in Six Days
Roche’s TIB Molbiol subsidiary created a PCR test for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola within six days of the virus’s genome being sequenced. The assay is currently limited to research use but is being distributed to laboratories to validate and build...
Malaysia Launches MIDA Expatriate System to Streamline Foreign Talent Applications
Malaysia’s Investment Development Authority will launch the MIDA Expatriate System (MES) on 16 March 2026, creating a one‑stop digital portal for expatriate employment approvals in manufacturing and selected services. The platform consolidates post approvals, Employment Pass and ePass endorsements into a single...
1X Launches World Model Lab to Advance Humanoid Robot Autonomy
1X has launched the 1X World Model Lab to build large‑scale AI world models that will power its Neo humanoid robot. The lab will pretrain foundation models using a mix of internet data, first‑person human video, simulation, teleoperated robot streams...
Innovation in Medicine Is Having a Breakthrough Moment
Decades of U.S. biopharmaceutical investment are bearing fruit as researchers unveil several high‑impact therapies. Revolution Medicines reported a late‑stage trial that doubled median survival for pancreatic cancer patients to 13.2 months, while Eli Lilly’s anti‑obesity candidate achieved weight‑loss results comparable...
AI Server Earnings: Wall Street Sees One Clear Standout
Wall Street highlighted Dell Technologies as the clear AI‑server leader, reporting an 88% revenue surge and a 700% jump in AI‑server sales. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) beat estimates, raised its EPS guidance two years ahead of schedule, and now carries a near‑$65...
Infosecurity Europe: Practical Lessons From Lloyds' Agentic AI Security Playbook
Lloyds Banking Group is approaching agentic AI as an engineering problem, embedding security controls across the AI lifecycle. The bank created an internal agent marketplace, multi‑cloud identity management, and automated red‑team testing to govern more than 50 GenAI use cases....
Stakeholders Want Makary’s Voucher Program Paused, Call for FDA Independence
Stakeholders including doctors, lawmakers and consumer groups urged a temporary pause to the FDA Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher (CNPV) program, citing opaque criteria and political influence. The program, launched by former Commissioner Marty Makary in June 2025 without public comment,...
Coming Soon: The Spirits Business Store
Union Press announced the upcoming launch of The Spirits Business Store, an online marketplace that will sell thousands of spirits ranging from independent tequilas to global whiskies. The platform will pair product listings with editorial content, including recommendations from The...
Only 10% of SOCs Say They’re Getting Excellent Value From AI. Here’s What the Second Wave Has to Deliver
The SOC‑CMM 2026 report reveals a surge in AI adoption across security operations, with off‑the‑shelf LLMs up 55 % YoY, AI co‑pilots up 145 %, and AI agents up 118 %. Despite this, only 10 % of SOCs report excellent AI value, while 71 %...
Anthropic's Mythos Model Is Reportedly Powering NSA Offensive Cyber Ops Against China and Iran
Anthropic's Mythos AI model is being used by the U.S. National Security Agency for offensive cyber operations targeting networks in China and Iran. The company has embedded roughly six engineers within the NSA to tailor the model for these missions....
Thundercomm TurboX C7790 Android and Linux Development Kit Features Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-7790 Edge AI SoC
Thundercomm unveiled the TurboX C7790 development kit, an edge‑AI platform built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing Q‑7790 SoC. The kit combines a 4 nm octa‑core processor, 12 GB LPDDR5X memory and 128 GB flash storage, delivering up to 24 TOPS of AI inference. It ships with...
The 20 AI Agent Platform & Framework CEOs You Need to Know in 2026
The AI Insider cataloged the most influential CEOs steering the rapid expansion of AI agent platforms in 2026, from enterprise‑focused sovereign solutions at Cohere to open‑source frameworks like LangChain and large‑scale cloud bets by Microsoft. These leaders are delivering massive...
What Past Technology Waves Teach Us About AI Adoption
The article argues that today’s surge in agentic AI mirrors earlier technology waves, where hype, early adopters, and gradual value realization followed a predictable arc. It uses Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot rollout as a case study, highlighting early successes, data‑quality gaps,...
Google Home Speaker 2026: Gemini Finally Gets a New Home
Google unveiled the new Google Home Speaker, its first standalone smart speaker since the 2020 Nest Audio, priced at $135 and slated for a June 25, 2026 release. The device is built around Google’s Gemini large‑language‑model AI, delivering faster, conversational interactions via...
Investors Have Poured Billions Into Plaintiff-Side Legal AI, But Defense Could Be The Next Big Opportunity
Investors have funneled roughly $682 million into plaintiff‑side legal AI firms such as EvenUp, Eve, Supio and Darrow, accounting for about 71% of disclosed capital in the sector. These startups benefit from standardized intake, case evaluation and demand‑generation workflows that lend...
Skylytics Launches VEXΛ and VΛST: AI Sovereignty for the Business
Skylytics Data unveiled two new AI solutions: VEXΛ, a private generative‑AI accelerator that runs inside a customer’s Azure environment, and VΛST, an automated platform that validates, scores and tests AI outputs for accuracy and security. Both products are designed to...
Britain Set to Award AI Military Decision-Support Contract
The UK Ministry of Defence will award a direct contract to Defence Holdings PLC to prototype an artificial‑intelligence decision‑support system called Project Strong. The £227,000 contract (about $288,000) covers three months of work and is exempt from open competition under...
ABM Aligns Marketing and Sales by Targeting Sales Capacity
I love writing about ABM (and our audience here seems to like it too) because it is the one motion in B2B where marketing and sales actually stop arguing about credit. It's not about the credit or the score or...
Pixel Studio Retires App, Redirects Users to Nano Banana
Pixel Studio's latest update marks the end of the Pixel-exclusive app as users are now being redirected to use Nano Banana in Gemini The latest one to join Google graveyard 🪦 ✅ Details - https://t.co/n7RL8gonvW https://t.co/ygNZc3Hlp3
Episode 159: Robot Sensing and Manipulation - Maria Koskinopoulou
In this episode, assistant professor Maria Koskinopoulou discusses her lab’s work at Heriot‑Watt University on integrating perception and manipulation for autonomous robotic systems. She explains how their research combines computer vision, force sensing, and machine learning to enable dexterous grasping,...
Music AI’s $5.4B Valuation Driven by Data, Not Tricks
A music AI model is now valued at $5.4 billion. More than most century-old record labels. Investors aren't paying for the audio trick. They're paying for the licensed training data. The model is the commodity now. The corpus is the company. https://t.co/yCzTci7k2i
Lithuania’s Grid Operators Can Now Disconnect Solar Plants without Cybersecurity Measures
Lithuania’s grid operators can now disconnect solar plants that fail to meet newly enforced cybersecurity standards. The rules, applying to facilities over 100 kW, require multi‑factor authentication, secure communications, supply‑chain controls and an audit, with a compliance deadline of June 1, 2026....
The Friday File: Anthropic; EU; FCC
Anthropic announced it will extend access to its Claude Mythos AI model to 150 additional companies across power, healthcare and communications, still under the guarded Project Glasswing framework. The European Commission rolled out a new digital‑sovereignty package that refreshes the...
Tenstreet Analysis Reveals Drivers Prioritize Stability and Connection Amid AI Recruiting Shift
Tenstreet’s analysis of roughly 5,000 carriers shows drivers are staying in their current jobs longer, seeking stability amid market uncertainty. Application volume is only 5% lower than a year ago, and drivers typically re‑enter the market after about 3.8 months....
Homeowners Accelerate Solar‑Battery Adoption as Electricity Bills Surge
Homeowners across the United States are rapidly adding battery storage to solar installations, with more than one in five new residential solar systems including a battery in 2023. Falling lithium‑ion costs—down over 90% since 2010—and federal tax credits are driving...
Google’s NotebookLM Serves Up Jay Shetty‑Style Coaching, Highlighting ChatGPT’s Gaps
Google’s NotebookLM was tasked with delivering a Jay Shetty‑style personal‑coach experience. The AI notebook produced daily affirmations and reflective prompts that the author found more nuanced than ChatGPT’s standard advice, underscoring gaps in mainstream conversational AI’s motivation tools.
Histamine Boost Improves Memory Retrieval and Decision-Making in Human Trial
Researchers published in Nature Communications reported that a single 36‑mg dose of the H3‑inverse agonist pitolisant significantly enhanced memory retrieval, decision‑making and reinforcement‑learning performance in a randomized, double‑blind trial of 58 healthy adults. The findings revive interest in histamine as...
How Breast Cancer Screening Can Predict Heart Disease Risk
Researchers have created an artificial‑intelligence model that automatically scans routine mammograms for breast arterial calcifications (BAC) and quantifies their severity. The study, covering over 120,000 women at Emory and Mayo Clinic sites, found that even modest BAC levels raise cardiovascular...
![[Comment] Finerenone: Kidney Protection Beyond Type 2 Diabetes](/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto,fit=cover/https://www.thelancet.com/cms/asset/8c87fe69-21a9-41a9-aed5-aa5b04ee6220/fx1.jpg)
[Comment] Finerenone: Kidney Protection Beyond Type 2 Diabetes
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) kills roughly every 20 seconds and is projected to become the world’s fifth leading cause of death by 2040. While SGLT2 inhibitors and renin‑angiotensin system blockers have reduced CKD progression, a sizable residual risk remains. Non‑steroidal...
Kobong Hydropower and AI Data Center Project in Lesotho Signs US$6.2bn Deal with Convalt Energy
Lesotho has signed a binding $6.2 billion agreement with U.S. developer Convalt Energy to build the 1,200 MW Kobong pumped‑storage hydropower plant and an AI‑focused data centre in Mokhotlong District. The deal, one of the largest private‑sector commitments in the country, bundles...
Cooling Down the Heat: Why Liquid Cooling Is Now Mission-Critical for AI Datacenters
Enterprise AI and high‑performance computing workloads are expanding rapidly, with IDC forecasting a 52% increase in spending over the next 12‑24 months. This surge is driving heat output beyond the capacity of traditional air‑based cooling systems. IDC also projects global...
Former Salesforce SVP Launches AI Governance Startup, Credits Generative AI
Gabrielle Tao, a former senior vice president at Salesforce, left the cloud‑CRM giant in September to found Tovix AI, an AI‑governance startup. She says generative AI tools like Claude accelerated product development and lowered barriers for small teams, making a...