Elearning Characters, Generating AI Images: ID Links 3/17/26
The latest Elearning Links roundup curates fresh perspectives on character‑driven learning, AI‑powered image creation, and cognitive research. It highlights Teresa Moreno’s coping‑model approach for boosting learner self‑efficacy, agentic workflows that auto‑refine graphics, and the release of Midjourney’s Niji v7 for anime‑style visuals. Additional resources cover AI‑assisted assessment scoring, memory studies blurring episodic‑semantic boundaries, and practical tools for designers. Upcoming webinars promise hands‑on AI visual‑design training for instructional professionals.
Azara Healthcare Joins MEDITECH Alliance to Integrate Population Health Platform
Azara Healthcare has entered the MEDITECH Alliance, linking its Azara DRVS population‑health platform with the MEDITECH Expanse electronic health record. The integration is aimed at community and critical‑access hospitals, offering an out‑of‑the‑box data aggregation layer that combines clinical records, claims...
EMA Marketing Authorization of New Drugs in February 2026
In February 2026 the European Commission and the CHMP granted marketing authorisations and positive opinions for a slate of innovative therapies spanning COVID‑19, oncology, cardiology, immunology and rare diseases. Notable approvals include Moderna’s mNEXSPIKE COVID‑19 vaccine, Hansoh’s Aumseqa for EGFR‑mutated...
Thor Wind Farm Begins Powering Danish Grid
RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm, a 1.1 GW project off Denmark’s west coast, has begun feeding electricity into the Danish grid after the first turbine was installed. The venture, owned 51% by RWE and 49% by Norges Bank Investment Management, is...
Google AI Repeats False $6k Trucking Cost Claim
Was pretty depressing to see how Google AI integrated the false $6000 per year number for trucking costs from the FP. Also mimicked the responses to calling it out: "it's the CFR", or "it's the industrial carbon tax." Once you...
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How to Use Salesforce for Marketing [Maximizing CRM for Effective Campaigns]
Salesforce Marketing Cloud consolidates customer data, campaign management, and analytics into a single platform, enabling marketers to deliver personalized experiences across email, social, mobile, and web. Features such as Journey Builder and Einstein AI automate multi‑step journeys and predict customer...
FreezOpt Controls Ice Nucleation, Preserves Cells in Cryopreservation
I've always been fascinated by animals that can survive being frozen—cell walls are delicate and can be destroyed by ice crystals. HOHCells just launched FreezOpt, which is designed to keep cells intact during cryopreservation. It enables controlled initiation of ice...
Press Release: Palm Launches Pulse: The AI Assistant for Treasury Teams
Palm introduced Pulse, an AI‑driven conversational assistant that sits atop treasury management systems and ERPs. The tool lets treasury professionals ask natural‑language questions about cash positions, forecasts, investments, debt and FX exposures, delivering answers and charts in seconds. Pulse combines...
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What Is Salesforce Connect? [Powerful Tool for Data Integration]
Salesforce Connect enables real‑time access to external data by mapping external tables to virtual Salesforce objects, eliminating the need for data replication. It supports OData, cross‑org, and custom Apex adapters, allowing seamless integration with ERP systems, databases, SharePoint, and other...
O2 Speeds up Deployment with Pre-Assembled Mobile Mast
O2 has introduced a pre‑assembled mobile mast that shifts most of the complex antenna, radio and cabling work to a factory environment. The approach slashed on‑site installation time from two days to four hours and reduced cable connections from roughly...
Terminal Feels Faster; App Simplifies Multitasking with Claude Code
Really enjoying working with Claude Code in the terminal. But I still find myself going back to the app sometimes. The terminal feels faster and more natural for development. The app feels easier when juggling multiple threads of work. Curious where others have landed.
Bones Studio to Release BONES-SEED - the First Multimodal Motion Dataset Purpose-Built for Humanoid Robotics
Bones Studio announced the release of BONES‑SEED, a multimodal motion dataset tailored for humanoid robotics. The open‑source collection contains 142,000 high‑fidelity human motion sequences, each enriched with up to six natural‑language captions, precise temporal segmentation, and detailed skeletal metadata. Built...
AI-Generated Text Dilutes Writing's Signal of Thought
LLMs can write. The prose is often smooth and the structure is darn convincing. And when language can be generated that easily and at that scale, writing begins to lose some of what made it feel substantial in the first...
AI Misses Nuance: Human Insight Still Essential
I'll never forget the moment a founder told me, "I'll just take these transcripts and tell ChatGPT to spit out jobs to be done." We were in the middle of a jobs-to-be-done research project. We'd mapped four or five customer...
PTC Teams with NVIDIA to Unite Design and Robotics Simulation by Connecting Onshape to NVIDIA Isaac Sim
PTC announced a cloud‑native integration that links its Onshape CAD and PDM platform directly with NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim robotics simulation framework. The workflow streams mechanical relationships from Onshape into Isaac Sim, automatically updating physics‑based simulations whenever designs change. Demonstrated at...
Workday Rolls Out Sana, Its Conversational AI Gateway to Enterprise Work
Workday announced the general availability of Sana, an AI‑powered conversational interface that replaces traditional menus for its HR and finance applications. The launch includes three components: Sana for Workday, the Self‑Service Agent that automates routine queries and complex workflows, and...
UK Open Skies Network to Create UK’s First Droneport, AAM Test-Flight Hub
Open Skies Network has partnered with ASONE Park to build the United Kingdom’s first DronePort at St Merryn Aerodrome in north Cornwall. The aviation campus will host eVTOL, eSTOL and BVLOS drone operations, creating a multi‑use environment where traditional and emerging aircraft...
Bristol Airport to Invest £10 Million Into New Energy Centre
British airport Bristol (BRS) announced a £10 million investment to build a new energy centre that will replace its gas boilers with air‑source heat pumps and an electric boiler. The modular facility will generate, store and distribute low‑carbon heat and cooling...
Telcos Are the Best Channel to Democratize AI
The blog argues that while only a fraction of humanity currently interacts with frontier AI, the real bottleneck is distribution, not model size. It posits that the economic unit of AI has shifted to the inference token, which will be...
FANUC Accelerates Physical AI in Industrial Robotics, Leveraging NVIDIA Technologies
FANUC announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate "physical AI" in its industrial robot lineup. The collaboration embeds NVIDIA Jetson edge modules, Isaac Sim, and Omniverse into FANUC's robots and ROBOGUIDE software, enabling photorealistic digital twins and real‑time AI...
Introducing Sana From Workday: Superintelligence for Work That Finds Answers, Takes Action, and Automates Workflows
Workday unveiled Sana, a superintelligence platform that embeds generative AI into its cloud suite. Sana can surface answers from enterprise data, execute actions on behalf of users, and automate routine workflows across HR, finance, and planning functions. The solution leverages...
Inclusive AI Over Speed: Sweden's Call at Delhi Summit
Sweden’s deputy prime minister Ebba Busch called for a more inclusive approach to AI at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. She argued the next phase of AI development should focus on accessibility and solving real-world problems. The bigger question...
Press Release: National Airlines Selects Viasat IFC for A330s
Viasat Inc. announced that its in‑flight connectivity solution has been selected for National Airlines’ three new Airbus A330 aircraft. The airline equipped the jets with Viasat’s GM‑40 Ka‑band terminal, delivering high‑capacity Wi‑Fi capable of HD video streaming and AI‑driven applications...
For Newer Sepsis Diagnostics, What the Studies Show
Newer sepsis diagnostics such as monocyte distribution width (MDW), Intellisep, and MeMed BV are showing promise in early clinical studies but each has distinct limitations. MDW, available on the Beckman Coulter CBC platform, improves sepsis detection when combined with white‑blood‑cell...
Why IT Service Management Platform Migrations Fail — And What IT Leaders Must Do Before Switching Platforms
IT service management platforms are increasingly seen as strategic liabilities as legacy tools fail to meet modern business demands. Rising costs, fragmented vendor relationships, and integration challenges push leaders toward migration, framing it as a business transformation. However, many initiatives...
Orchid Security Recognized by Gartner® as a Representative Vendor of Guardian Agents
Orchid Security has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, which focuses on managing identities and access for AI agents with zero‑trust policies. The guide warns that AI agents expand “identity dark matter,” creating...
Blood Test Detects Brain Tumours with 90% Accuracy
Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a blood test that detects brain tumours with 90% accuracy by measuring a pair of proteins. The test, validated in glioblastoma patients, is being evaluated in a multi‑site clinical trial across six...
AI Agents in Health Care: What They Say when We Aren’t Listening
Moltbook, a Reddit‑style platform for autonomous AI agents, has become a live laboratory where "moltbots" discuss health, medicine, and human well‑being without human moderation. By February 2026, over 1,000 posts referenced human health, revealing three dominant themes: AI envisioning its...
Thermal Cameras Used in Drones and Robots Can Be Tricked by Heat Sources, Study Finds
University of Florida researchers uncovered three previously unknown vulnerabilities in thermal‑camera perception systems used by autonomous drones and robots. The flaws—rooted in image equalization, sensor calibration and lens optics—can be triggered by ordinary or malicious heat sources, causing real obstacles...
Transcarent Partners with Bluespine to Launch Payment Integrity Category for Self-Insured Employers
Transcarent has added a new “Payment Integrity” category to its Experience Store through a partnership with AI‑driven health‑tech firm Bluespine. The service targets the $300 billion annual loss from fraud, waste and abuse in U.S. healthcare by analyzing every medical and...
Gamma Adds AI Image-Generation Tools in Bid to Take on Canva and Adobe
Gamma has unveiled Gamma Imagine, an AI‑driven image‑generation tool that lets users create brand‑specific marketing assets such as charts, infographics, and social graphics from simple text prompts. The product plugs into a suite of integrations—including ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, Atlassian, n8n,...
Nvidia's Agentic AI Stack Is the First Major Platform to Ship with Security at Launch, but Governance Gaps Remain
Nvidia unveiled its agentic AI stack at GTC, marking the first major AI platform to ship with security baked in rather than added later. Five security vendors—CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, JFrog, Cisco, and World Wide Technology—each cover a distinct layer...
March 17, 1958: Vanguard 1 Blasts Off
On March 17, 1958 the United States launched Vanguard 1, its second satellite and the world’s first solar‑powered spacecraft. The 3‑pound metal sphere, only 6.5 inches across, entered a high‑altitude orbit that has kept it aloft for more than six decades, making...
A Modern Clerk’s Office: Lessons From Dallas County
In this episode, Dallas County Clerk John Warren discusses the county’s journey from paper‑based record keeping to a fully digital, AI‑enhanced clerk’s office. He explains how early resistance was overcome by demonstrating efficiency gains, such as simultaneous access to documents,...
Where Are the Biggest Opportunities in the Commercial Prepaid Market?
Commercial prepaid card loads reached $426 billion in 2025, signaling a rapidly expanding B2B market. Javelin Strategy’s 2026 report highlights healthcare benefits, employee incentives, and state‑run government programs as the most promising growth segments over the next five years. Corporate travel...
We’re Working with AMP to Transform Waste From Landfills and Remove 200,000 Tons of CO2 by 2030.
A partnership between the unnamed company and AMP targets the removal of 200,000 tons of CO₂ by 2030 by converting municipal solid waste into biochar. AMP’s AI‑powered sortation technology isolates organic material, preventing methane—a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than CO₂—from...
Automated Multi‑Region AWS Environment Deployment Script
So this turned into build an environment to run in. I wrote a script to deploy all the resources with guidance: Tested and deployed so far: Org root user and role Root policies Root permission boundary ou accounts - iam - KMS - dns - jobs - work - backup...
Cato Networks Unveils GPU-Powered SASE with Native AI Security Controls
Cato Networks introduced Cato Neural Edge, a GPU‑powered SASE platform, and Cato AI Security, an AI governance and runtime protection suite. Nvidia GPUs are deployed across more than 85 global points of presence, enabling real‑time traffic inspection, semantic analysis, and...
The AI Bubble, Like the Housing Bubble, Is a Big Problem and It’s Not Complicated
Dean Baker warns that the current surge in AI company valuations mirrors the speculative excesses of the early‑2000s housing boom. He argues that inflated expectations are driving a classic bubble, with venture capital pouring billions into startups that lack sustainable...
LinkedIn VP Reveals Winning B2B Ad Strategies
LinkedIn is the number one channel for B2B marketers (for content, social, ads, you know we love it here) so I had LinkedIn VP Marketing Davang Shah on the podcast this week to go right to the source about what's...
DLSS 6 Turns Greyboxed Assets Into Real-Time Final Renders
DLSS 6 mode on about to take greyboxed 3d assets to final render. Ai video-to-video foreshadowed this; many said it could never happen in real time. Yet here we are. https://t.co/PC3JwZHlEF
AI Platforms' Data Control Threatens Fintech Competition
When AI platforms - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google,.. - compete with their own customers, who wins? Control over training data & APIs = market power. Foreclosure risk is real for downstream fintechs & innovators. The antitrust playbook needs updating for the AI...
Two Phones Launch Today, Including POCO X8 Pro Iron Man
It's not often that you get two phone launches on the same day. This is the POCO X8 Pro Iron Man Edition: https://t.co/XAfoncIoZv https://t.co/4UuU8Ns8MR
AI Teammates Build Unbeatable Sales Moats
Why an AI Teammate will Enable Your sales Team to Create a Moat for Your Business by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/G0DbnKsbw3 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess
US Leads AI Race; Early Investment Compounds Advantage
AI competitiveness isn’t evenly distributed 🌍 Stanford AI Vibrancy Index: 🇺🇸 USA: 78.6 🇨🇳 China: 36.95 🇮🇳 India: 21.59 Metrics include: R&D, talent, governance, infrastructure, economy. AI advantage is compounding. Countries investing now are shaping the next decade. #AI #Geopolitics #Innovation
Nvidia Eyes $1T Sales, but Supply Constraints Loom
Nvidia CEO predicts i$1 trillion in sales through 2027. Wow, up .52% You would think the bulls would try harder. Maybe they are concerned about HOW that happens if $TSM is 'encumbered' or energy is 'scarce'. Encumbered Scarcity Trumps "Insane Demand" https://t.co/LVLaK2mfjg
Google Gemini Adds Conversation Branching for New Chat Threads
Google Gemini to introduce conversation branching, allowing users to spin off new chats from existing threads ✅ Details - https://t.co/YWlr5TfWB4 #Gemini #AI https://t.co/fpqcu9aEmd
AI Speeds Insight, but Can't Replace Human Judgment
A founder fed customer interviews into ChatGPT to extract jobs-to-be-done. Output wasn't wrong. Just goofy. It missed hesitation, energy, contradictions. The tension: AI is useful and easy to misuse. AI-assisted ✅ speeds up your work AI-led ❌ replaces judgment
Legacy Forecasts Missed Memory Crisis, Predict 10% Drop
Legacy device forecasting is structurally broken. Siloed analysts entirely missed the memory crisis, turning a projected steady smartphone growth cycle into a massive 10 percent plunge for 2026. Operating without macroeconomic integration destroys revenue projections. 📉🚨 #Telecom #DataAnalytics #MarketTrends
Claude AI Reviews PRs, Catching Real Logic Bugs
1/6 Anthropic shipped Code Review for Claude Code last week. When you open a PR, Claude spins up a team of agents to read through it and find bugs. Not style nits. Not "consider renaming this variable." Actual logic bugs. https://t.co/7E1zv7Llw7...