DeepRoute.ai Presents 40B VLA Model for Scalable Autonomy
DeepRoute.ai unveiled a 40‑billion‑parameter vision‑language‑action (VLA) foundation model at Nvidia GTC 2026, compressing the autonomous‑driving data‑processing cycle from over five days to roughly 12 hours per iteration. The model simultaneously drives, analyzes events, and critiques trajectories, automating high‑value training data generation without manual labeling. DeepRoute has already integrated its autonomous‑driving stack into more than 250,000 production vehicles and aims to reach one million by the end of 2026, holding about 40% of the third‑party market. The self‑reinforcing loop promises faster performance gains and lower data‑curation costs.
Adult Social Care Providers Are Not Using Care Technologies
A Department of Health and Social Care survey shows 27% of adult social care providers in England still use no care technologies, while 73% have adopted at least one tool. Monitoring sensors are the most common (43%), followed by personal...
Scalvy and Valeo Validate Modular EV Power Architecture
Scalvy and Valeo have completed a concept evaluation of Scalvy’s distributed Power Neuron architecture for electric‑vehicle powertrains under WLTC laboratory conditions. The modular platform achieved a peak inverter efficiency of 98.3 % at 10,000 RPM, kept motor temperatures below 62 °C and power‑device...
Glencore-Owned Raglan Achieves Autonomous Haulage Milestone at Anuri
Raglan Mine, owned by Glencore, marked a milestone when its first autonomous haul truck successfully discharged ore at the Anuri underground operation in Quebec. The unload was executed from a remote control centre 14 km away using Sandvik’s AutoMine® platform, which...
Toshiba Releases AEC-Q101 Photocoupler for EV Power Systems
Toshiba introduced the TLX9920 photocoupler, a photovoltaic‑output device designed for automotive solid‑state relays (SSRs). It delivers 5,000 Vrms isolation, an 8 mm creepage distance, and operates from –40 °C to 125 °C. Qualified to AEC‑Q101, the component targets high‑voltage applications such as battery‑management systems,...
Innodisk and Aetina Demo Heavy Vehicle AI Safety at GTC 2026
Innodisk and its subsidiary Aetina showcased a heavy‑vehicle safety platform at Nvidia GTC 2026 that merges surround‑view perception with AI‑driven driver monitoring on the Jetson AGX Orin. The solution stitches eight GMSL2 camera feeds via a custom capture card, delivering real‑time...
Triple Zero Guardian to Ponder Minimum Mobile Network Performance Rules
The Australian government will launch a comprehensive review of the triple zero (000) emergency‑calling framework, asking the designated custodian to consider minimum mobile network performance standards. The move follows two major Optus outages, one of which caused emergency‑call failures linked...
AiDEN Auto and Volvo Trucks Tackle Poland SENT Compliance
AiDEN Auto partnered with Volvo Trucks to launch an in‑cab solution that satisfies Poland’s SENT (System for Electronic Transport Supervision) regulation, which mandates electronic monitoring of certain goods. Developed through Volvo Group’s CampX innovation arena, the system moved from concept...
Videosoft to Showcase Long-Range Drone Video Streaming at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026
Videosoft Global will demonstrate its long‑range video streaming platform at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026, showcasing a 1,000 km beyond‑visual‑line‑of‑sight (BVLOS) drone flight from Klagenfurt, Austria to Düsseldorf, Germany. The live demo uses an AIR8 medium‑lifter equipped with Gotonomi’s Velaris multi‑link module, a...
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition: 10,496 Cores, 32 GB GDDR7, and Finally a GPU that Fits in a...
NVIDIA introduced the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, a single‑slot, passively cooled GPU delivering 10,496 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, and a 165 W TDP. The card targets enterprise workloads such as inference, virtual desktops, video encoding, and edge AI, offering...
Wellbeing Marketplace Healf Tops Sifted’s Third UK and Ireland Leaderboard
London‑based Healf, a curated high‑end wellbeing marketplace, topped Sifted’s 2026 UK & Ireland leaderboard with a staggering 1,403% two‑year revenue CAGR. The ranking, which measures the fastest‑growing private firms by revenue growth, placed Fuse Energy and Apron in second and...
Microsoft Weighs Legal Action over $50bn Amazon-OpenAI Cloud Deal
Microsoft is reportedly considering legal action after Amazon secured a roughly $50 billion cloud partnership with OpenAI. The deal, which positions Amazon Web Services as the primary infrastructure for OpenAI’s next‑generation models, threatens Microsoft’s dominant role in the AI‑cloud market. Sources...
NVIDIA’s AI Push Is Getting Even Bigger; Huang Raises the Target to $1 Trillion
At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a new AI infrastructure outlook, targeting at least $1 trillion in orders for current and future AI chip systems by the end of 2027. This doubles the previous $500 billion forecast and reflects accelerating demand...
AI Confidently Guesses, Not Knows: Hallucination Reality
This might be the most accurate illustration of 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 I’ve seen in a while. You ask a simple question. The model answers 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆. And then… reality strongly disagrees. Working with AI every day, I see this pattern often. Large language models don’t actually know...
$20 Chewy Promo Code | March 2026
Chewy is offering a suite of March 2026 promotions, including a $20 e‑gift card for first‑time orders over $49 with code WELCOME and a 20% discount on prescription meds via RX20. Existing customers can access $20 off orders of $49+ using...
AT&T Promo Codes and Bundle Deals: Save $50 in March
AT&T is rolling out a suite of March promotions that target new and existing customers across wireless, prepaid, and fiber services. New prepaid plans start at $25 a month with unlimited talk, text and data, while the Samsung Galaxy S26...
Amadeus Links UnionPay Payments to Airline Booking Channels
Amadeus’s Outpayce unit partnered with UnionPay International to embed UnionPay cards directly into airline payment systems via the Xchange Payments Platform. Native acceptance across direct and indirect booking channels is slated for the first half of 2026, with a global...
SA Is Off the FATF Grey List – Now It’s Time to Modernise Compliance
South Africa exited the Financial Action Task Force grey list in October 2025 after completing a 22‑point AML/CFT action plan. The removal lifts cross‑border restrictions and restores investor confidence, giving local banks a chance to expand. Analysts argue that compliance...
Zoyk: Cost-Effective Payment Processing for Small Businesses in Southern Africa
Zoyk has launched an integrated payment platform aimed at small businesses across Southern Africa, unifying mobile‑money, card and online transactions into a single gateway. The solution offers real‑time dashboards, QR‑code links and Android‑based POS hardware, eliminating the need for multiple...
Booming Online Sales and Generational Differences: Australia’s Year in E-Commerce
Australia Post reports a record $82.6 billion in e‑commerce transactions for 2025, a 14% year‑on‑year rise. While total spend surged, the average basket slipped to $96 as shoppers make smaller, more frequent purchases—four extra orders per consumer annually. Millennials dominate frequency...
AI Accelerationists Poorly Pitch Human Disempowerment
AI accelerationists are doing a terrible job of selling the idea of a world of complete human disempowerment. Why would we want to live in a world where we're merely slaves or pets of a machine? Why wouldn't we just ban...
How to Build AI Agents with LangGraph: A Practical Handbook
The post argues that most AI agents are fragile prompt chains lacking proper error handling, memory, and human oversight. It introduces LangGraph, a framework from the LangChain team that structures agents as graphs of nodes, edges, and a shared state....
AI-Powered Robot Learns How to Harvest Tomatoes More Efficiently
Osaka Metropolitan University researchers unveiled an AI‑driven robot that evaluates the “harvest‑ease” of each tomato before attempting to pick it. The system blends image recognition with statistical analysis to select optimal picking angles, achieving an 81% success rate in field...
AI Negotiation in the News
OpenAI has become the focal point of multiple AI‑negotiation disputes, ranging from high‑profile copyright lawsuits by fiction authors and the New York Times to an internal board crisis that saw CEO Sam Altman ousted and reinstated. The legal actions allege that OpenAI...
Trump Administration Defends Anthropic Blacklisting in US Court
The U.S. Department of Defense blacklisted AI firm Anthropic, labeling it a national‑security supply‑chain risk after the company refused to lift guardrails on autonomous‑weapon and surveillance uses. In a Tuesday court filing, the Trump administration defended the move as lawful,...
LLMs Can Unintentionally Expose API SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Q: When is an SQLi bug just a sparkling API? A: When you ask an LLM to grab a bunch of data from a website, and it realizes that one is there. imho, this is one of those "don't hate the finder,...
Gen Z Doesn’t Hate Your Brand, They Hate Being Talked Down To
Brands that try too hard to mimic Gen Z often backfire, eroding credibility. Successful examples like Tower 28, SULT, and Hinge demonstrate that treating Gen Z as peers, embracing transparency, and leveraging authentic long‑form storytelling resonate better. The article outlines...
Watch Live Today: NASA Astronauts Conducting Spacewalk Delayed by ISS Medical Evacuation
NASA postponed a long‑delayed EVA after the International Space Station’s first medical evacuation forced a reshuffle of crew assignments. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will now perform a 6.5‑hour spacewalk on March 18, marking the first EVAs of 2026 and...
Why One Creator Commerce Platform Is Connecting Brands and Creators for ‘Flat-Fee’ Campaigns
Creator commerce platform LTK has introduced Quick Collabs, a new feature that lets brands launch flat‑fee, one‑click campaigns that creators can opt into. The tool leverages LTK’s data on 44 million monthly shoppers, $6 billion in annual spend, 400,000 creators and 8,000...
That Time Wernher Von Braun’s Rocket Tried To Kill My Father (Repost)
On March 18, 1945, Germany’s Battery 485 launched a V‑2 missile from The Hague that struck London minutes later, narrowly missing the father of NASA Watch founder Keith Cowing. The V‑2’s groundbreaking propulsion and guidance technology was seized after the war and...
Advertisers Aren’t Happy About Picking up Meta’s European Tax Tab
Meta will begin charging advertisers a "location fee" starting July 1, 2026 to cover European digital services taxes. The fee varies by country—2 % in the U.K., 3 % in France, Italy and Spain, and 5 % in Austria and Turkey—adding directly to ad spend....
Some Creators Don’t See Immediate Value in Instagram’s Controversial ‘Shop the Look’ AI Test
Instagram tested an AI‑driven “Shop the Look” feature that automatically tags products in creator posts, aiming to boost social commerce. The rollout, launched in February, sparked backlash as tags appeared without creators’ consent, linking followers to unvetted items and knockoffs....
Illumination Strategies for Reliable Defect Detection in High-Speed Quality Inspection
High‑speed conveyor inspection hinges on illumination as much as camera technology. Conventional lighting often lacks the intensity needed, resulting in shadows, motion blur, and inconsistent image quality. Ultra‑bright LED bar lights and precision‑synchronised strobe systems provide short, intense pulses that...
AI Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry – with Sumathi Arcot
In this episode, Lean‑Agile transformation leader Sumathi Arcad from AstraZeneca discusses how the PMI‑CPM AI certification and methodology guide AI projects in the highly regulated pharmaceutical sector. She explains that CPM AI’s business‑first, governance‑by‑design approach turns AI initiatives into governed...
Why Parker Thatch Transformed Its Strip-Mall Storefront Into a Livestreaming Studio
Parker Thatch, an eight‑figure luxury handbag DTC brand, has turned its Orinda strip‑mall store into a hybrid retail‑studio space for weekly livestreams. The Friday broadcasts reach 179,000 Instagram followers and 101,000 YouTube subscribers, driving sales spikes of up to 50%...
Money and Me: The AI Capex Spend - Who Are the Current Winners?
In this episode, Michelle Martin and AI‑investment specialist Alvin Chow dissect the $700 billion AI infrastructure spend, highlighting the massive CapEx by hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle and the ripple effect across hardware, memory, storage and photonics suppliers....
Scientists Used 7,000 GPUs to Simulate a Tiny Quantum Chip in Extreme Detail
Berkeley Lab researchers used the ARTEMIS exascale tool on the Perlmutter supercomputer, employing nearly 7,000 NVIDIA GPUs to simulate a 10 mm quantum chip with 11 billion grid cells. The full‑wave, time‑domain electromagnetic model captured material properties, wiring, and resonator geometry, allowing...
FinTech Australia Launches New Data Horizons Summit to Spotlight Real-World Open Banking Impact
FinTech Australia announced the inaugural Data Horizons Summit, a one‑day event on 8 May 2026 in Sydney. The summit builds on its successful Consumer Data Right and Net Zero gatherings, highlighting that more than one million Australians now use open‑banking...
Third-Party Risk Management Must Now Confront AI, Cybersecurity, and Technology Risk Head-On
Third‑party risk management is undergoing a fundamental shift, requiring AI, cybersecurity and broader technology risk to be embedded in core vendor assessments. Traditional categories like corruption and sanctions remain relevant but are insufficient as vendors now provide cloud services, AI...
Watsons Malaysia Celebrates Raya with ‘The Raya Glam Stage’ Campaign via MBCS
Watsons Malaysia, in partnership with Omnicom’s MBCS, launched the “Pentas Raya Glam” campaign to celebrate the Hari Raya festive season. The multi‑channel activation features a humorous film starring local celebrities, a #WatsonsPentasGlamRaya dance challenge on Instagram and TikTok, and in‑store sensory...
Japanese SaaS Stocks Are Undervalued Growth Gems
The bull case for Japanese software: - Revenues in yen so not hurt by JPY appreciation - SaaS penetration rate is 5-7 years behind the US - Growth is hard to find in Japan, but in SaaS - yes - Incremental margins in...
AGI Future: Endless Creation, Not Endless Leisure
Thus, the post AGI world won’t be a life of leisure where we frolic in nature 24x7 and stop working Because the most fun thing to do will be to build cool new stuff using AGI 24x7. We’ll be glued to...
Assessing Asana's Net Promoter Score: Your Rating?
On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend Asana to a friend?
Meta Delays Mandatory Invoicing After Overspending Bug
It’s only fitting that as a make good for this massive overspending bug that Meta should kick mandatory invoicing down the road.
Court Upholds Net Billing, Setbacks California Rooftop Solar
U.S. court upholds current net billing mechanism, dealing blow to rooftop solar in California #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/w0WlbqCtQX
Fast Stabilisation Boosts Grid‑Scale Battery Performance
Stabilisation Speed: A Differentiator in Grid-Scale BESS Performance #energysky -- via Energy Storage News: https://t.co/CGZ8HeAHQn
Nemotron 3 Super Hits 103 T/S, Room for More
First full test: 103 t/s * Nemotron 3 Super (Q4) * LMStudio w/ LM Link Plenty of headroom. Going to try to leverage NVFP4 to get max speed. https://t.co/svzTVgaUdY
Exclusive NYC AI‑Finance Mixer: Limited Spots for Fintech Leaders
Hosting an exclusive AI in Finance mixer in NYC on Friday, April 3rd at one of the city's hottest social clubs. Limited spots for top minds in fintech, trading, and AI. Comment "invite” for details. https://t.co/0Bwnx8CsD6
Govern AI in ERP: Essential First Step Companies Overlook
Governing AI agents in your ERP is a critical first step many companies miss. It requires active process management, defining future workflows, and preparing your teams through training and updated job roles. #AIGovernance #BusinessStrategy https://t.co/DbSSUBP8Il
Seeking a Test for AGI Amid Everyday Magic
Does anyone know anymore what a test for AGI would look like? Because I feel like I see magic happen every day. Surreal.