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 % see limited or no benefit. The shortfall stems from a fragmented architecture that adds isolated AI assistants to existing tools without shared context. A second‑wave, fabric‑style AI platform that spans the entire SOC lifecycle is needed to unlock true value.
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...
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
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,...
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...
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[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...
Analysts Lift Broadcom Targets to $640 as Stock Falls 14% on AI Outlook
Following Broadcom's Q2 earnings, a slate of Wall Street houses raised their price targets, with BNP Paribas moving its goal to $640 and Jefferies to $550. The upgrades come as the shares tumbled about 14% after the company fell short of...
Volvo Automates Dam Building at Garpenberg
Volvo Autonomous Solutions completed a dam‑building project at Boliden’s Garpenberg mine using its autonomous haulage fleet. The operation moved nearly 700,000 tonnes of rock—about the combined weight of 100 Eiffel Towers—under a transport‑as‑a‑service (TaaS) model. The automated trucks handled all material...
SuperX Unveils 1.6 Tbps Optical Modules at Interop Tokyo, Targeting AI Data Center Supply Chain
SuperX AI Technology Limited announced the launch of its 1.6 Tbps optical module solution at Interop Tokyo 2026, alongside a full‑stack AI compute and power portfolio. The rollout aims to accelerate AI data‑center deployments in Japan and globally, tightening the telecom‑compute...
Amneal Secures FDA Approval for Romidepsin Injection, Gaining 180-Day Exclusivity
Amneal Pharmaceuticals announced FDA approval of a ready‑to‑use 27.5 mg/5.5 mL romidepsin injection for cutaneous T‑cell lymphoma. The designation as a Competitive Generic Therapy gives the company 180 days of market exclusivity, and shares rose 2.45% to $13.19 on the Nasdaq.
Shein Buys Everlane for $100 Million, Securing U.S. Warehousing and Fast‑fashion Foothold
Chinese fast‑fashion giant Shein has completed a $100 million acquisition of American brand Everlane, gaining a U.S. warehousing network and a sustainability‑focused label. The deal intensifies debate over scale, ethics and tariff strategies in cross‑border retail.
Google AI Max: What It Is, What It Does and Whether Your Account Is Actually Ready
Google’s AI Max, rebranded from Search Max, is rolling out as a mandatory upgrade for Search, ACA and broad‑match campaigns by September 2026. The feature bundles three AI‑driven tools—broad‑match‑style term expansion, dynamic text generation, and final‑URL expansion—into existing campaigns rather...
HP and Ferrari Unveil $5,599 AI‑Powered Limited‑Edition Laptop
HP and Ferrari announced a limited‑edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC priced at $5,599, with only 4,999 numbered units. The laptop blends Ferrari’s design language with HP’s AI‑ready hardware, targeting collectors and enterprise users seeking premium performance.
UK MP and New Claimants Sue Elon Musk's xAI Over Grok-Generated Sexualised Images
Labour MP Jess Asato and a growing group of claimants have filed a high‑court lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company’s Grok AI tool of producing non‑consensual sexualised images and video. The case, described as the first test of...
GH Therapeutics Hits Primary Endpoint in Phase 2a Postpartum Depression Trial
GH Research PLC announced that its inhaled candidate GH001 met the primary endpoint in a Phase 2a trial for postpartum depression, delivering a mean 35.4‑point reduction on the MADRS scale and 100% remission within two hours among ten patients. The...
Teradata CEO Freezes Raises to Fund AI Push, Sparking Employee Backlash
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told the company's 5,100 employees that annual salary increases for 2026 are being cancelled and the budget will instead fund AI initiatives. The move, made amid a $16 million CEO pay package and a 40% stock surge,...
Valve Confirms Summer 2026 Launch of Steam Machine and Steam Frame
Valve confirmed that its long‑delayed Steam Machine living‑room PC and Steam Frame VR headset will ship in summer 2026. The company rolled out a Verified program to assure developers of out‑of‑the‑box performance, even as global memory shortages keep pricing under...
Trump's Executive Order Shifts 8,000 Federal Tech Officials to At‑Will Status
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reclassifies roughly 8,000 senior federal employees—many in cybersecurity, data, and AI roles—into an at‑will category. The move revives Schedule F mechanisms, eliminates traditional appeals, and is expected to trigger lawsuits and operational upheaval...
Rubrik Posts Record $1.57 B Subscription ARR, 32% YoY Growth
Rubrik reported a record first‑quarter subscription ARR of $1.57 billion, a 32% year‑over‑year increase, as its Rubrik Security Cloud gains traction with large enterprises. The company also raised its fiscal‑2027 revenue outlook, underscoring momentum in the enterprise security market.
Anthropic Unveils Open‑Source AI Framework for Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery
Anthropic has published an open‑source reference implementation that uses its Claude model to automate the full vulnerability discovery and remediation loop. The framework, hosted on GitHub, is positioned as a building block for DevSecOps pipelines, while a managed Claude Security...
Apple Tests Camera‑enabled AirPods to Give Siri Visual Awareness
Apple is field‑testing AirPods that embed low‑resolution cameras, aiming to give Siri visual context for requests. The hardware is reportedly ready, but executives worry Siri’s vision models aren’t mature and that the feature could raise privacy alarms.
SK Group Reconsiders SK Siltron Sale as AI Chip Supply Chain Value Rises
SK Group is reevaluating the planned sale of silicon‑wafer maker SK Siltron as the AI‑driven semiconductor upcycle lifts the strategic value of upstream wafer supply. Doosan Semiconductor was selected as the preferred bidder for a 70.6% stake, but negotiations have...
NYDFS Fines Delta Dental $2 Million over Data Breach and IT Compliance Failures
The New York State Department of Financial Services levied a fine exceeding $2 million against Delta Dental Insurance Company for violating its own data‑retention rules, mishandling incident response, and failing to properly notify customers after a breach. Regulators said the lapses...
Texas DIR Announces New Agency CIO to Oversee IT and AI Programs
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is hiring a dedicated agency chief information officer to direct its IT and artificial‑intelligence initiatives. The role, reporting to state CIO and DIR executive director Tony Sauerhoff, offers a monthly salary of $17,417‑$17,917...
Waymo Repurposes Retired Robotaxi Batteries for Grid Storage in Texas and California
Waymo announced a partnership with B2U Storage Solutions to convert thousands of retired robotaxi batteries into grid‑scale storage, delivering hundreds of megawatts of backup power to Texas and California. The move aims to capture surplus solar energy and reduce reliance...
PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network
Researchers at Hunt.io uncovered a 230‑node cloud‑based email relay network operated by the threat actor PCPJack. The group compromised servers across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, turning them into SMTP proxies after leaving a misconfigured HTTP directory that exposed...
Check Out This Gachapon-Inspired Custom PC with a Floating Heart on Top, and Mini RAM Sticks in Its Capsules
A gachapon‑inspired custom PC debuted at Computex, built on a Thermaltake Tower 600 case and featuring a floating pink heart, spinning crank, and capsule‑styled RAM sticks. The machine houses an RTX 5060 GPU, a Ryzen 5 9600X CPU, and a custom water‑cooling loop, while...
TerraPower CEO Calls SK Group’s SMR Funding ‘Prescient’ as AI Drives Power Demand
TerraPower chief executive Chris Levesque hailed South Korea’s SK Group for its early investment in the company’s Natrium small‑modular reactors, saying the move anticipates soaring electricity needs from AI, chips and data centers. He added that the reactors could be...
Asana Deploys AI “Chief of Staff” To Convert Slack Chaos Into Structured Work
Asana introduced Dash, an AI “chief of staff” that pulls follow‑ups from Slack, email and calendars into its Work Graph, promising to turn unstructured communication into trackable work. The launch, announced at the Work Innovation Summit in London, is part...
Before You Buy the Model: A Healthcare AI Readiness Framework for IT Leaders
Healthcare AI demos often look impressive, but many pilots stall when deployed at scale because the underlying infrastructure is weak. The article argues that the real bottleneck is not the model but fragmented data, poor integration, and lack of governance....
GrowthIQ and Winnesota Show Operations-First AI Payback with NAVI Platform
GrowthIQ’s NAVI platform is delivering an operations‑first AI solution for Winnesota, a regional cold‑chain logistics provider. By connecting live trucking data, custom rules, and workflow memory, NAVI automates daily customer updates, proof‑of‑delivery reports, and document generation. The pilot produced 2,729...
AI Boom Triggers $1.1 Trillion Power Push and $5 B High‑Density Rack Market Surge
Exelon and other utilities are committing roughly $1.1 trillion over the next five years to power the AI‑driven data‑center boom, while the high‑density AI rack market is projected to grow from $1.6 billion in 2026 to $5 billion by 2036. The twin pressures...
University of Tokyo Creates 1‑nm Semiconducting Nanotubes, Paving Way for Ultra‑small Transistors
Scientists at the University of Tokyo have synthesized single‑walled molybdenum disulfide nanotubes only 1 nanometer in diameter, encased in boron‑nitride tubes. The achievement validates long‑standing theory on band‑gap scaling and opens a realistic path to gate‑all‑around transistors far smaller than today’s...