Mariana Says Copper One Set to Be World Pioneer Autonomy-First Mine and Refinery
Mariana Minerals announced that its Copper One site in Utah will become the world’s first autonomy‑first copper mine and refinery. The company will roll out its MarianaOS platform—combining MineOS, PlantOS and CapitalProjectOS—to automate mining, processing and capital project execution, targeting 50,000 t of refined copper annually from both ore and scrap. Integrated AI and reinforcement‑learning will optimize drill patterns, haulage routes, and solvent‑extraction‑electrowinning operations, reducing costs and variability. The dual‑feedstock model also aims to cut US copper scrap exports by processing domestic recyclates.
Protagonist’s First Approval Spells Trouble for Pharma’s Immunology Heavyweights
Protagonist Therapeutics received FDA approval for icotrokinra, marketed as Icotyde, becoming the first oral IL‑23 receptor blocker for plaque psoriasis. The clearance arrived ahead of schedule, unlocking a $50 million milestone from Johnson & Johnson and setting up royalty terms of 6‑10% on...
Marks & Spencer Becomes ‘Exclusive Digital Wholesale Partner’ for David Gandy Wellwear
Marks & Spencer has launched David Gandy Wellwear on its Brands at M&S platform, becoming the brand’s exclusive digital wholesale partner. The partnership adds the designer’s best‑selling T‑shirts, loungewear, underwear and robes to M&S’s expanding third‑party menswear portfolio. Gandy, who...
Product Management Principles I Learned Building 80+ Enterprise APIs
CDK Global launched over 80 enterprise APIs to modernize automotive commerce, learning that product‑centric decisions trump technical completeness. By focusing first on high‑value, read‑only APIs like the Vehicle Inventory endpoint, the firm achieved rapid dealer adoption and sub‑200 ms response times....
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Launches Interactive Wellness Hub
Mass General Brigham Health Plan partnered with mPulse to launch an interactive wellness hub for commercial, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and dual‑eligible members. The platform uses predictive analytics to deliver personalized nutrition, activity, sleep and stress‑management tools through audio, visual and...
Introducing Aid4Mail: Closing Email Evidence Gaps for Investigators
Fookes Software Ltd announced a 2026 sponsorship with Forensic Focus to promote Aid4Mail, its 25‑year‑old email forensics platform. Aid4Mail tackles gaps left by generic investigation tools by handling over 40 email formats, retrieving cloud‑based attachments, and recovering deleted messages. The...
K-State Salina Drone Safety Summit to Connect First Responders with UAS Experts
Kansas State University Salina will host a Public Safety UAS Summit on April 22, bringing together law enforcement, fire, and emergency management agencies with drone experts. The day-long event features FAA briefings on Part 107, BVLOS, and emergency waivers, as well as...
Former Uber CEO Says Waymo ‘Obviously’ Ahead of Tesla in Robotaxi Race
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said Waymo is clearly ahead of Tesla in the robotaxi race, citing Waymo’s proven sensor suite, lower hardware costs and 400,000 weekly rides across ten U.S. cities. He contrasted this with Tesla’s vision‑only approach, which...
TalentNeuron Launches Synappy, Bringing Conversational AI to Workforce Intelligence
TalentNeuron unveiled Synappy, an AI‑driven conversational assistant that translates massive labor‑market data into instant, evidence‑based answers for workforce decisions. Built on a platform that ingests more than 3 million job postings daily across 200+ markets, the tool tracks 65,000 skills and...
Why Apple’s LiTo Research Could Matter To 3D Printing
Apple researchers introduced LiTo, a latent 3D representation that jointly models object geometry and view‑dependent appearance. The method captures surface points, color, and viewing direction, improving reconstruction of glossy and reflective objects that challenge existing image‑to‑3D pipelines. While LiTo is...
Merchants Sound Alarm as Swipe Fees Hit $198B
Swipe fees in the United States surged to a record $198.25 billion in 2025, a 5.9% increase over 2024 and an 80% jump since the pandemic began. Credit‑card fees dominate, with Visa and Mastercard alone accounting for $118.8 billion, while total credit‑card...
ALL.SPACE Achieves Industry-First Multi-Orbit Certification for SES O3b mPOWER
ALL.SPACE announced on March 18, 2026 that its electronically scanned antenna terminal received the industry’s first certification for simultaneous multi‑orbit connectivity on SES’s O3b mPOWER MEO constellation. The ESA can track GEO, MEO and LEO satellites concurrently without mechanical parts, offering...
Valbenazine
Valbenazine (Ingrezza®), an oral selective VMAT2 inhibitor from Neurocrine Biosciences, received FDA approval for treating tardive dyskinesia and Huntington’s disease‑associated chorea. In the Phase 3 KINECT‑3 trial, a once‑daily 80 mg dose produced a statistically significant reduction in AIMS dyskinesia scores after...
Specialized DNS Proxy Needed for Detecting Beacon
I work up thinking about this and think I’m going to update my agent framework to use traffic inspection proxy that only allows specific domain names for DNS. There are other reasons you might want to do that which I’ve...
Luminys Unveils LumiAgent AI and Comprehensive Security Ecosystem Expansion Ahead of ISC West 2026
Luminys Systems announced LumiAgent, an AI‑powered natural‑language video search tool that leverages Vision Language Models and Large Language Models to turn recorded footage into searchable events. The company also expanded its LumiCloud ecosystem with direct‑to‑cloud cameras, longer‑term cloud storage options,...
Technical Analysis of SnappyClient
In December 2025 Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered SnappyClient, a C++‑based command‑and‑control implant delivered through the HijackLoader dropper. The malware provides screenshot capture, keylogging, remote terminal access, and browser data theft while employing multiple evasion methods such as an AMSI bypass, Heaven’s...
Emotion-Driven Marketing Wins: Heated Rivalry Powers Panels
Happy to report I did indeed incorporate Heated Rivalry into all 3 of my panels at SXSW - Viral Nation’s Emotion Economy of Social Media - Heated Rivalry made people feel seen. Tap into emotion in marketing Patreon’s Building Brands...
Match AI Models to Tasks, Not Seek the “Best”
Why Picking the Best AI Model Is the Wrong Question in 2026 Instead of asking which AI model is “best,” leaders should focus on matching the right model to specific tasks, risks and outcomes across the business. Read more 👉...
Marelli and AWS Pioneer AI-Based System for Validation of Software-Defined Vehicle Solutions
Marelli partnered with Amazon Web Services to launch an AI‑driven System Test Generation (STG) Agent that automatically creates system test cases from engineering requirements for software‑defined vehicles. The solution leverages AWS Nova foundation models, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and the...
NemoClaw and the Healthcare Agent Trust Problem
NemoClaw is NVIDIA’s open‑source stack that wraps autonomous coding agents in out‑of‑process policy controls via the OpenShell runtime. The architecture provides a sandbox, policy engine, and privacy router to enforce filesystem, network, and data‑handling constraints, preventing compromised agents from breaching...
Condor Software Raises $24M for Life Sciences Finance Platform
Condor Software announced a $24 million Series A round, led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $36 million. The capital will accelerate development of its AI‑driven financial intelligence platform that unifies clinical, operational, and accounting data for life‑science firms. Early adopters—including...
LLMs Remix Existing Ideas; True Innovation Remains Human
What you think are new ideas from your LLM aren't actually new. They may be new "to you", but they're actually someone else's ideas that the LLM was able to access and communicate back with mind-melting speed. Even when your...
'Claudy Day’ Trio of Flaws Exposes Claude Users to Data Theft
Researchers at Oasis Security uncovered a trio of vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude AI that can be chained into a full‑scale attack dubbed “Claudy Day.” The chain combines an invisible prompt‑injection via URL parameters, an open‑redirect flaw, and a data‑exfiltration route through...
GuardDog Telehealth Accesses Sensitive Medical Records Under False Pretenses
GuardDog Telehealth admitted to accessing patient medical records under false pretenses, claiming treatment needs while actually selling the data to law firms. The lawsuit, supported by Epic and Health Gorilla, alleges the use of sham providers to request records from...
IdeaForge Receives Its First Purchase Order in the United States for Its Drones to Ensure Student Safety in a School...
IdeaForge Technology Limited secured its first U.S. purchase order, deploying Indian‑made drones to secure schools in Texas. The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District will use the SWITCH and Q6 V3 UAVs across 20‑25 campuses for aerial monitoring and rapid threat response....
STAT+: A Huntington’s Researcher on the UniQure-FDA Fray
UniQure’s experimental gene‑therapy for Huntington’s disease, which previously reported a 75% slowdown in disease progression, has received a third consecutive rejection from the FDA. The trial’s lead investigator, Ed Wild of University College London, praised the early data but warned...
The "Anti-Churn" Early Warning System
Brian’s outdoor‑gear subscription box faced a silent churn problem, with the churn rate climbing to 12% and costly Facebook ads needed to replace lost customers. He realized the need to predict cancellations rather than react after they occurred. By feeding...
Capital One Deprecated an AI Tool It Once Championed. Its DevEx Chief Says That’s the Point.
Capital One’s developer experience (DevEx) team, led by SVP Catherine McGarvey, recently retired an AI‑driven ticket‑assignment tool after engineers expressed dissatisfaction. The group emphasizes "enablement"—providing the right tools, knowledge, and feedback—to boost productivity across its 14,000 technologists. AI tooling is...
StorMagic and HiveRadar Partner to Deliver Mobile Edge Infrastructure with Built-In Resilience
StorMagic and HiveRadar have teamed up to launch a combined edge‑computing offering that pairs StorMagic’s SvHCI virtualization software with HiveRadar’s Portable Edge Data Center hardware. The solution delivers enterprise‑grade virtual machines, encrypted storage and real‑time telemetry in a rugged, off‑grid...
AI Drives Cybersecurity Consolidation Around Data‑Rich Platforms
AI is forcing a shift in cybersecurity - here’s who benefits 👇 AI accelerates attacks and expands the surface area. At the same time, it’s forcing consolidation around platforms with data, scale, and automation. Investing
Thrad Extends Its Partnership with Betadine Through iNova Pharmaceuticals
Thrad has extended its partnership with Betadine through iNova Pharmaceuticals to launch digital‑first, AI‑native advertising campaigns for healthcare brands. The first effort is a Betadine Feminine Care initiative that aims to create supportive, informative spaces for women. By combining Betadine’s...
Meta's GEM: Bringing LLM-Scale Architectures to Ads Recommendation
Meta introduced GEM (Generative Ads Model), a foundation‑model approach that treats ad recommendation like a large language model. The architecture separates sequence and non‑sequence features, uses an InterFormer to handle long user histories, and adds a Student Adapter to keep...
New AI Image Generator Runs Using 10 Times Fewer Steps than Today's Best Models — and It's Coming to Smartphones...
Researchers at the University of Surrey and Stability AI unveiled Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash (SD3.5‑Flash), an image generator that creates high‑quality pictures in just four diffusion steps—about ten times fewer than conventional models that need 30‑50 iterations. The compression preserves visual fidelity...
Inside Space Systems Command: Col. Menschner | Spacepower Podcast
In this episode, Colonel Andrew Menchner, Deputy Commander of Space Systems Command (SSC), explains how SSC acquires, builds, and fields critical space capabilities—such as GPS, missile warning, and satellite communications—for the joint force, allies, and partners. He highlights the command’s...
To Strengthen Power Reliability in Extreme Weather, Diversify Grid Resources
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime spotlight on utility poles sparked a conversation about America’s aging grid, highlighting how extreme weather is exposing systemic fragility. Recent storms in Texas, from the 2021 freeze to Winter Storm Fern, illustrate that diversified resources—wind,...
AI Startup Basecamp Research Announces Trillion-Gene Project
Basecamp Research, an AI‑focused biotech startup backed by Microsoft and Nvidia, announced a trillion‑gene sequencing initiative. The company aims to collect genetic sequences for over a trillion proteins within the next two years. Leveraging high‑performance cloud computing and advanced generative‑AI...
Anyone Can Build AI Agents in Hours
We gave every person at Wynter 1 week to build their own AI agent. Budget of about 4 hours each. Today was demo day. Everyone presented what they built. Most had never built anything like this before. Some had zero technical background....
Interactive Map Visualizes NPS Materials Flagged For Removal
An interactive map now visualizes a leaked Interior Department spreadsheet that lists 798 National Park Service sites where content was flagged for removal under the Trump administration. The map provides searchable entries, each featuring historical narratives, archived photographs, and Wayback...
Agent-Driven Micro‑payments Will Unlock New Digital Revenue Models
Agents will outnumber human users on the web by orders of magnitude. Just like people, they will need a way to pay for services they use. They may run into propriety health or finance data they need to pay for...
Prioritize End‑to‑End Process Redesign Over Quick Automation
Rushing S/4HANA implementation? Automating old processes speeds things up now but costs more long-term. Focus on end-to-end process improvement for real benefits, not just faster old ways. #S4HANA #SAP #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/ivIup3tf3s
AT&T Launches New App to Simplify Customers’ Digital Experience
AT&T announced the rollout of a new unified mobile app that lets customers manage both wireless and home internet services from a single interface. The app features a generative AI assistant, usage insights, device controls, and an upgraded shopping experience,...
TradeDesk Likened to Ryanair, Charging for Every Breath
"TradeDesk is the Ryanair of the programmatic world, won't be long before they charge you for breathing next to someone logged into Kokai" $TTD as seen on @Reddit 🤣🤣🤣
AI Excels, yet Still Can’t Learn Like Toddlers
1/ New paper from @ylecun et al on alternative approach for AI to learn more biologically... paper basically says AI is super smart but still can't learn like a toddler can... the main critique https://t.co/QcHpTmcRbZ
Today's AI Is the Model T of Technology
Current state of AI like a Model T is a nice way to think about it.
Launch Fast, Let Locals Replicate and Sell
Zhong Xu opened 10 offices in one quarter during COVID. All virtual. His logic: if the idea works in one country, someone local will copy it everywhere. Get there first. Let your early adopters sell for you. https://t.co/OQxdDHrAK0
Google Rolls Back Photos Editor Changes, Tests TikTok‑style Feed
Google is reversing some of the changes it made to the photo editors inside the Photos app Along with the re-redesign, Google is also testing a new Explore feed inspired by TikTok. ✅ Details and screenshots - https://t.co/B39U55g3IN
TransFi Secures $14M Series A From Tether’s Arm
Big congratulations to @thefintechfund portfolio co @getTransFi, who just raised their $14M Series A from @Tether's investment arm, Turing Financial. https://t.co/YnhLl63Gau
AI in Healthcare Fails Without a Digital Strategy
80% of healthcare practices that invest in AI automation fail to see ROI. Not because the tools don't work, but because there was no digital strategy. Don't be the 80% See more & JoinUs https://t.co/05FgGDavR7 #healthcare #ai #businessautomation #smallbusiness #medical #doctor...
Most Firms Ignore AI Tool Security, Risking Breaches
66% of orgs see AI’s impact on cyber, but only 37% check tool security before deployment. Personal agents like OpenClaw are brilliant productivity boosters—and a CISO’s worst nightmare. Don't be a statistic: https://t.co/KfaNBOyWmm #CIO #CISO #AI #Agentic #Cybersecurity #RSAC2026
Hanover Park Raises $27M to Power $100T Infrastructure
Chris, Nick, and @hanoverpark have been on a tear the past 20 months. Have never seen a company build so much trust with customers so quickly. They just raised $27M to continue assembling the dream team to build the financial infrastructure...