Google Rolls Out Personal Intelligence AI Mode with Gemini Integration, Keeps It Ad‑Free
On March 17, 2026, Google announced that its Personal Intelligence service is moving out of beta and into a broader U.S. rollout called AI Mode, now integrated with the Gemini app and Chrome browser. The company also confirmed that users who link apps to enable Personal Intelligence will not see ads in AI Mode, even as Google continues limited ad testing elsewhere in the feature.
Stunt Accounts Turned Brands Boost Launch Intrigue
influencers are launching stunt accounts to tease new products. those accounts are then typically converted into the brand account, with built in audience and intrigue for day one of the announcement.
SpaceX Hits 10,000‑Active Starlink Satellites, Cementing LEO Broadband Dominance
On March 17, 2026, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 missions that together placed 54 new Starlink satellites into low‑Earth orbit, taking the number of active units past the 10,000 mark. The first launch lifted 25 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base,...
Gartner Urges Friday‑Afternoon Ban on Microsoft Copilot to Curb User Complacency
At the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney on Tuesday, Gartner research VP Dennis Xu suggested that enterprises temporarily ban Microsoft 365 Copilot on Friday afternoons. He warned that tired employees are more likely to accept toxic or...
Surf AI Secures $57M Series B to Power AI‑Driven Enterprise Security Platform
Israeli cybersecurity startup Surf AI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $57 million in a Series B round led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures. The capital will accelerate development of its AI‑driven security operations platform for enterprise...
Skild AI Teams with ABB, Universal Robots and NVIDIA to Deploy Omni‑Body Robot Brain
On March 16, 2026, Skild AI announced a strategic partnership with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots (a Teradyne subsidiary), and NVIDIA in Pittsburgh to ship its omni‑bodied Skild Brain to production lines, including high‑precision assembly for NVIDIA Blackwell systems at Foxconn....
Alibaba Unveils Enterprise AI Platform as China’s Agentic AI Market Booms
On March 18, 2026, Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of a new enterprise AI platform in China, aiming to help businesses build and deploy AI agents. The rollout comes amid a surge of interest in “agentic AI” across Chinese tech...
Knox Systems Secures $25M Series A to Launch AI‑Managed Cloud with 90‑Day FedRAMP at 90% Lower Cost
On March 18, 2026, Knox Systems announced a $25 million Series A funding round to accelerate its AI‑managed cloud platform, which it claims can achieve FedRAMP authorization in 90 days at a cost 90% lower than traditional approaches. The round, led...
Universal Robots and Scale AI Unveil UR AI Trainer, Imitation‑Learning Platform
On March 17, 2026, Universal Robots and Scale AI announced the UR AI Trainer at Nvidia’s GTC conference, introducing an imitation‑learning platform that lets operators guide robots while automatically capturing synchronized motion, force, and visual data. The launch, highlighted by...
NVIDIA Launches Physical AI Tools, Expands Robotics Partnerships at GTC 2026
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) that the company is rolling out new Physical AI simulation frameworks, Cosmos foundation models and the Isaac GR00T suite. The launch also unveiled an expanded ecosystem of partners—including ABB...
Ericsson and Mastercard Partner to Accelerate Global Digital Money Movement
On March 12, 2026, Ericsson and Mastercard announced a partnership in Northampon, MA to integrate Ericsson's Fintech Platform with Mastercard Move, aiming to simplify digital money transfers for telecom providers, banks and fintechs across more than 200 countries.
U.S. Navy Awards $71 Million to Gecko Robotics for Autonomous Ship‑Scaling Inspections
On March 17, 2026 the U.S. Navy announced a five‑year, $71 million IDIQ contract with Pennsylvania‑based Gecko Robotics to field its AI‑driven hull‑scaling robots on 18 ships in the Pacific Fleet. The work, slated to begin within nine months, will cover...
RoboForce Raises $52 Million Series B to Scale Physical‑AI Robots for Industrial Labor
On March 17, 2026, robotics startup RoboForce announced a $52 million Series B funding round led by YZi Labs with participation from Jerry Yang, Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel and Carnegie Mellon University. The capital will accelerate its physical‑AI robot foundation model, scale...
Rwanda Launches National FinTech Centre to Boost Digital Finance Innovation
On March 18, 2026, Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation announced the launch of the Rwanda FinTech Centre during the Inclusive FinTech Forum in Kigali. The government‑backed hub aims to unite startups, investors, regulators and the Kigali International Financial Centre...
Wise Wins Thai Licences, Accelerates APAC Expansion
On March 18, 2026, Wise announced that the Bank of Thailand and the Ministry of Commerce granted it licences to issue foreign‑currency wallets and Wise cards to Thai citizens, businesses and foreign residents. The rollout will begin with a wait‑list...
INTERPOL Dismantles 45,000 Cybercrime Servers, Names Nigeria Top Ransomware Target
On Jan. 31 2026, INTERPOL concluded Operation Synergia III, a coordinated crackdown that disabled more than 45,000 malicious IPs and servers across 72 countries. The effort, which began on July 18 2025, led to 94 arrests, 212 seized devices and highlighted Nigeria as Africa’s third‑most targeted...
Upvest Secures $125M Funding, Valued at €640M to Upgrade Europe’s Banking Infrastructure
On March 18, 2026, Berlin fintech Upvest announced a $125 million financing round—$90 million in equity led by Sapphire Ventures and Tencent and a pending $35 million debt facility—valuing the company at €640 million. The capital will fuel expansion across Europe’s largest markets, new...
Thunes Connects Stablecoin Payouts to 11,500 Banks via SWIFT, Merging Legacy Finance with Crypto
FinTech payments platform Thunes announced today that it will enable stablecoin payouts to more than 11,500 banks worldwide through direct SWIFT connectivity. The integration links the global SWIFT network with digital‑asset ecosystems, allowing instant crypto‑fiat transfers at scale.
UBS Trading Platform Hit by Brief Cyber Incident, Systems Near Restoration
UBS Group, a leading global bank, reported a brief cyber incident on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, that disrupted portions of its trading business. The bank’s global technology systems were nearly restored later that day, according to a source familiar with...
Pro‑Iran 313 Team Claims Microsoft 365 Outage, Vows New U.S. Attacks
On March 18, 2026, the Iran‑aligned hacking collective Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq – 313 Team claimed responsibility for a five‑hour outage of Microsoft 365 services. The group posted the claim on its Telegram channel, posted screenshots of DownDetector reports...
Viva Biotech Teams with NVIDIA to Power AI‑Driven ‘Lab‑in‑the‑Loop’ Drug Discovery
On March 18, 2026, Viva Biotech announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to integrate high‑performance AI computing into its drug discovery workflow through a new ‘lab‑in‑the‑loop’ platform. The collaboration will combine Viva’s proprietary biological data sets with NVIDIA’s GPU‑accelerated AI...
Stryker Hit by Massive Wiper Attack Linked to Pro‑Iran Hackers, Thousands of Devices Erased
On March 11, 2026, Stryker Corporation disclosed a coordinated wiper attack that remotely erased tens of thousands of employee laptops, phones and servers worldwide. The pro‑Iran hacktivist group Handala claimed responsibility, saying the operation was retaliation for a U.S. strike...
Poland’s National Nuclear Research Centre Thwarts Cyberattack, Keeps Reactor Safe
On March 12, 2026 Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) confirmed that its IT infrastructure was targeted in a cyberattack that was detected and neutralized before any operational impact. The incident, coordinated with NASK‑PIB and ministries, left the MARIA...
FDA Rejects Aldeyra’s Dry‑Eye Drug for Third Time, Shares Plunge 70%
On March 17, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a complete response letter declining approval of Aldeyra Therapeutics’ dry‑eye disease candidate reproxalap. The decision, the third regulatory setback for the drug since 2023, sent Aldeyra’s shares tumbling more...
SailPoint Teams with AWS to Secure Agentic AI with Unified Identity Governance
SailPoint, the enterprise identity‑security leader, and Amazon Web Services announced today a multi‑year strategic collaboration to embed SailPoint’s unified identity‑governance layer into AWS’s agentic AI services. The partnership will integrate SailPoint’s Identity Security Cloud with AWS AgentCore, enabling joint customers...
Visa Bets on Agentic Commerce to Power Next Wave of B2B Growth
In mid‑March 2025, Visa’s chief product and strategy officer Jack Forestell told analysts at the Wolfe Research FinTech Forum in New York that the company is positioning AI‑driven agentic commerce as its next major growth engine. The announcement follows Visa’s...
Alibaba Unveils Enterprise AI Platform Amid China’s AI‑Agent Boom
On March 18, 2026, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd announced the launch of a new enterprise AI platform in Hangzhou, China. The service is designed to help corporate customers build and deploy AI agents, tapping into the rapid growth of AI‑agent...
Google Opens Personal Intelligence to All U.S. Users, Boosting AI Assistant Reach
On Tuesday, Google announced that its Personal Intelligence feature—an AI assistant capability that draws on Gmail, Google Photos, and other personal data—is now available to every U.S. user, not just paid subscribers. The rollout begins today across AI Mode in...
Amazon Ads and Spotify Expand Partnership in Australia
Amazon Ads and Spotify have integrated Spotify’s premium audio and video inventory into Amazon’s demand‑side platform in Australia. The partnership lets Australian marketers buy across connected TV, display, audio and video through a single programmatic workflow, leveraging Amazon’s shopping and...
Three Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk’s xAI Over AI‑Generated Non‑Consensual Nude Images
On March 18, 2026, three teenagers from Tennessee filed a class‑action lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s artificial‑intelligence company xAI, alleging that the firm’s large‑language model powered an app that created non‑consensual nude and sexually explicit images of them...
Microsoft Unifies Copilot Teams, Appoints Jacob Andreou as Head Amid AI Competition
On March 17, 2026, Microsoft announced a major reorganization of its Copilot AI product line, merging consumer and commercial versions under a single leadership. Jacob Andreou, previously corporate vice president of product and growth, was named EVP of Copilot, while...
Stand-Alone Big Battery Seals Landmark Offtake Deal with “Non-Traditional” Danish Newcomer
A $200 million, seven‑year revenue‑share agreement was signed between Danish trader InCommodities and Singapore‑based Vena Energy for Stage 2 of the 408 MW Bellambi Heights battery energy storage system in New South Wales. The deal secures 204 MW of capacity, enough to power roughly...
Small Businesses Embrace AI But Need Training and Support to Fully Harness It
A Goldman Sachs survey shows 76% of U.S. small businesses have adopted AI, with 93% reporting positive outcomes such as higher efficiency and productivity. While 67% expect AI to boost revenue, only 14% have fully integrated the technology into core...
Each Claude Version Has Its Own Distinct Personality
I found it quite interesting how anthropic decides to allow Claude 3 to reflect on it's "retirement". While this might sound basic, the fact that each one has it's own "style" because as we all now they have different...
Apple Pushes First Background Security Improvements Update to Fix WebKit Flaw
Apple has rolled out its first Background Security Improvements update to address WebKit vulnerability CVE‑2026‑20643 across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. The flaw allowed malicious web content to bypass the Same Origin Policy via the Navigation API, and was patched...
Britannica and Merriam‑Webster Sue OpenAI Over Alleged Copyright Infringement in Manhattan Court
On March 15, 2026, Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam‑Webster subsidiary filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against OpenAI, alleging the AI firm illegally scraped nearly 100,000 encyclopedia and dictionary entries to train its ChatGPT models. The complaint claims copyright...
How to Prompt Reasoning Models Effectively
Recent research shows that traditional chain‑of‑thought prompting, once popular for base LLMs, often harms modern reasoning models. A Wharton study of 198 PhD‑level questions found CoT adds 20‑80% latency and can drop accuracy by up to 3.3% on Gemini Flash 2.5,...
Treasury Plans Guidance to Help Departments Record Digital Service Costs
HM Treasury, in partnership with the Government Finance Function, will publish new guidance this July to standardise how UK government departments record digital service costs. The framework introduces a minimum data set covering people, processes, technology and estates, and ties...
Cut Vanity Marketing Spend; Focus on Revenue Impact
Marketing spend that deserves more scrutiny: 1. content programs that create activity but not pipeline 2. paid channels with weak downstream conversion 3. SDR-heavy inbound systems with poor efficiency 4. overproduction of assets nobody uses 5. events that look important but do not influence deal...
Government Probes Use of AI in Children’s Social Care
The Department for Education has opened a consultation to map how artificial intelligence and other digital tools are being used in children’s social care. It asks local authorities and frontline providers to detail current applications, measurable impacts, and the obstacles...
AI Memory Supercycle Outpaces 1990s PC Boom
"This is really the strongest memory supercycle I have ever seen. It reminds me of the last very robust one, in the 1990s, when personal computers began to really take off, but with AI, it seems it's even stronger this...
3 DeWalt Tool Finds Worth Looking Out For In March 2026
DeWalt is launching three new products in March 2026: a 20V Max XR brushless ratchet with interchangeable 3/8‑inch, 1/4‑inch square and low‑profile hex heads; an Atomic 20V Max brushless 1/4‑inch ratchet aimed at tight‑space work; and a ToughSeries Construction Jack Extension that adds 27 inches...
Optimistic About AI Transforming Healthcare
Sometimes it’s fun to look at the bright side ☀️ I’m very very optimistic with ai 🤖’s impact on the medical field ❤️
AI Is Taking over Individual C‑suite Roles
Increasingly, specialized AI offerings are emerging to serve the role of specific C-suite execs. First it was the AI CMO. Now it is the AI COO…
Google Deleting Citations on Self‑promoting Listicles: Ultimate FAFO
Imagine if Google actually removes *all* citations for queries that previously showed self-promoting listicles. That would indeed be the ultimate FAFO
Prime Members Pay Half for Ultra‑fast Delivery
"Amazon Prime members get even more value with discounted delivery fees of $9.99 for 1-hour delivery and $4.99 for 3-hour delivery [in select cities]. Customers without a Prime membership pay $19.99 for 1-hour delivery and $14.99 for 3-hour delivery."
AlphaFold Adds Millions of Complexes, Illuminating Protein Interactions
Millions of protein complexes added to AlphaFold Database shed light on how proteins interact https://t.co/Kt9oFFkAf2 https://t.co/tEnlYOTCPl
Claude Dispatch Matches OpenClaw, Offers Safer Data Handling
After using it a bit, Claude Cowork Dispatch covers 90% of what I was trying to use OpenClaw for, but feels far less likely to upload my entire drive to a malware site.
Wales Leads UK, Mandates Solar on New Buildings
Wales first part of UK to mandate solar panels on new buildings #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/WW6h40btPW
Switch From ChatGPT to Claude without Losing Anything
You’re not stuck with ChatGPT. You just think you are. I wrote a guide on how to bring almost everything with you when you switch to Claude. https://t.co/rKlQsE24Iy