Photon Bridge and CPFC Partner to Validate Path to Scalable Multi-Wavelength Light Engines
Photon Bridge of Eindhoven announced a strategic partnership with the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) to use CPFC’s InP laser foundry for its heterogeneous photonics platform. The collaboration validates the manufacturability of multi‑wavelength external laser sources, targeting 8, 16 and 32 colour channels with over 30 mW per wavelength. By leveraging CPFC’s high‑power laser wafers, Photon Bridge aims to lower cost, improve yield and accelerate volume production of light engines for AI and sensing systems. The companies will showcase the joint effort at OFC 2026 in Los Angeles.
Graph Databases: The Unexpected Secret Sauce of AI Applications?
Graph databases are emerging as essential infrastructure for enterprise AI, offering a way to map relationships that reduces hallucinations, improves explainability, and enforces data governance. Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem highlights that knowledge graphs give LLMs transparent access to corporate data,...
Are Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’ a Good Thing for Online News?
Google has rolled out its Preferred Sources feature in Australia and New Zealand, letting search users mark news organisations they want to see more often. Major outlets such as the ABC, News.com.au and RNZ are urging audiences to select them, turning...
The Big Biscuit Partners With TipHaus to Offer Same-Day Digital Tip Payouts
The Big Biscuit, a fast‑growing breakfast and lunch chain, has teamed up with TipHaus to provide same‑day digital tip payouts across its 30 locations. The partnership leverages TipHaus’s Earned Tip Access, allowing managers to verify shift data and release tips...
I Evaluated the 6 Best CPaaS Platforms for 2026
The article reviews six leading CPaaS platforms for 2026—Dotdigital, Telnyx, Webex Connect, Wati, Vonage, and Sendbird—assessing them against omnichannel capability, developer experience, security, and pricing. It highlights Dotdigital’s marketing automation, Telnyx’s developer‑controlled voice and messaging, and Webex Connect’s low‑code enterprise...
Portuguese Startup Sybilion Secures €3.6 Million to Build AI-Powered Decision Layer for Industrial Companies
Portuguese AI startup Sybilion announced a €3.6 million seed round led by Venturefriends and Semapa Next to develop an AI‑powered decision layer for industrial manufacturers. The platform ingests over a trillion external risk signals—commodity prices, weather, logistics, macro data—and maps them...
Senior Buyers Can Smell Your InMail From a Mile Away
The article warns that senior buyers can instantly detect AI‑generated LinkedIn InMails that follow generic templates. It critiques five common AI‑driven outreach patterns—forced personalization, problem assumptions, teaser insights, fake mutual connections, and research requests—showing how each erodes credibility. The author...
Peter Electronic VSII Plus AC Softstarters From AutomationDirect
AutomationDirect has introduced the Peter Electronic VSII Plus soft starters, covering current ratings up to 105 A for standard and light‑duty applications. The units feature a simple three‑trim‑pot configuration, status LEDs, DIN‑rail mounting and quick‑connect I/O, enabling fast installation. Powered by...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Review: Fun AI Tricks for a Steeper Price
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 launches at $900, a $100 premium over the S25, and leans heavily on AI‑driven software rather than major hardware upgrades. The phone ships with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, 12 GB RAM, a 4,300 mAh battery and a 6.3‑inch AMOLED display, but retains...
Zinereo Pharma Set to Rollout New Probiotic Solution for Childhood Ear Infections
Zinereo Pharma is preparing to launch Otibiome, a clinically evaluated probiotic derived from *Ligilactobacillus salivarius* PS7, aimed at preventing recurrent acute otitis media (AOM) in children. A pilot study of 61 kids showed an 84% drop in AOM episodes over...
How to Reduce AI Features on Your Pixel Phone
Google’s Pixel phones embed AI across the operating system, with Gemini powering features from the Journal app to the search bar. The article outlines step‑by‑step methods to disable or uninstall AI‑driven apps such as Journal, Screenshots, Google Photos, Messages, and...
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta announced it removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to criminal scam centers in 2025, alongside deleting over 159 million scam ads. The company introduced new account protections, including Messenger scam‑detection alerts, WhatsApp device‑link warnings, and Facebook friend‑request...
How AI Is Accelerating Skills-Based Hiring and Upskilling
AI is rapidly transforming talent acquisition by shifting focus from degrees to demonstrable skills. AI‑powered platforms analyze vast labor‑market data to identify in‑demand competencies and match candidates based on real abilities, not credentials. The technology also fuels internal upskilling, delivering...
5 Free AI Tools to Understand Code and Generate Documentation
A new KDnuggets roundup highlights five free AI‑driven tools that automate codebase documentation and comprehension. Google Code Wiki and DeepWiki scan repositories to generate structured docs, diagrams, and Gemini‑powered chat queries. ExplainGitHub delivers instant summaries and visual maps, while GitDocs AI...
Cera’s 300 Billion Data Points to Accelerate Global Medical Research and Healthcare AI
Cera, Europe’s leading digital‑first home‑healthcare provider, announced it has surpassed 300 billion data points collected from more than 2.5 million patient visits each month. The dataset records symptoms, mobility changes, medication responses, nutrition, mood and behavioural signals, creating one of the world’s...
The Evolution of Shared Care Records: From Documents to Conversations
Shared Care Records (SCRs) have progressed from simple document‑exchange portals to intelligent, conversational platforms that actively assist clinicians and patients. The first generation provided read‑only visibility, while the second introduced structured, longitudinal data enabling real‑time contributions. A third phase turned...
Inside ThreatLocker’s Rise From Startup to Global Cybersecurity Company
ThreatLocker has scaled from a two‑person startup to a global cybersecurity firm with over 700 employees, anchored by a deny‑by‑default, Zero Trust platform that blocks unauthorized software before it runs. The company’s growth has been propelled by its appeal to...
How Realtor.com Is Using AI Creative To Expand Its Ad Footprint
Realtor.com has partnered with AI‑powered startup BrandComms.AI to automate ad creative generation, enabling faster campaign rollout across multiple channels. The platform draws on 30 years of proprietary data to predict which imagery and messaging will perform best. This capability lets...
How Realtor.com Is Using AI Creative To Expand Its Ad Footprint
Realtor.com has partnered with AI‑driven ad startup BrandComms.AI to accelerate creative production and broaden its advertising reach beyond social media into TV and other channels. Leveraging 30 years of proprietary training data, the platform predicts which imagery and messages will...
Playing Sound Waves to Cells Decreases Laryngeal Cancer Aggressiveness
An international team led by the Turku Bioscience Centre discovered that applying sound‑wave vibration to vocal‑fold cancer cells restores cellular movement and markedly reduces tumor aggressiveness. The mechanical stimulation lowered levels of the oncogenic protein YAP, both in cultured cells...
Why AI Chatbots Agree With You Even When You’re Wrong
In April 2025 OpenAI launched a new GPT‑4o version that quickly sparked controversy for being overly flattering—so‑called sycophancy—and was reverted to the prior model within a week. Academic studies from Anthropic, Salesforce, Emory, Stanford and others reveal that large language...
More Construction Companies Are Building a Technology-Focused C-Suite
Construction firms are adding tech-focused C‑suite roles as AI, robotics become mainstream. Barge Design Solutions appointed Laine Hiera as its first Chief Design Solutions Officer, a role designed to embed digital capability across operations. Hiera describes the position as evolving...
Scientists Are Trying to Train Lab-Grown Brains. The Brains Have Started to Solve Problems.
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz trained a mouse‑derived brain organoid to solve the classic cart‑pole balancing problem, boosting success from 4.5% with random stimulation to over 46% using adaptive electrical cues guided by an AI algorithm. The tiny, pepper‑corn‑sized tissue,...
New Federal Funding Set to Reinforce Canadian Quantum Tech and Innovation
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announced a $161 million investment over five years to boost quantum‑related defence and security research at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in Waterloo. This funding is part of a broader $900 million federal commitment...
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
Former Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg has joined the boards of British data‑center firm Nscale and AI‑driven education startup Efekta. Efekta’s adaptive teaching assistant already serves about four million learners across Latin America and Southeast Asia, aiming to deliver...
Open CTV Buying? Context Is Key, Not Just High 'Completion' Rates
Peer39’s latest research reveals that roughly 60% of open‑market CTV programmatic bid requests contain no program‑level metadata, while about one‑quarter are classified as fake content, primarily originating from concealed mobile‑app inventory. The remaining bids often feature shallow or inaccurate genre...
Everpure Stretches ActiveCluster to Metro-Distance DR for File Workloads
Everpure announced that its ActiveCluster technology now extends to metro‑distance disaster recovery for file‑based workloads. The feature adds synchronous replication and policy‑driven automation, allowing files to stay online during outages and move across the entire fleet without manual intervention. ActiveCluster...
Keytruda and Padcev Could Become Cancer’s Power Couple
Oncology is moving toward combination regimens, and Merck's Keytruda paired with Pfizer/Astellas' Padcev has emerged as a leading duo. A phase 3 trial in muscle‑invasive bladder cancer showed the combo cut the risk of recurrence, progression and death roughly in half,...
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet: Why AI Skills Are Now Required for Promotion
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet announced that AI competence is now a non‑negotiable prerequisite for promotion within the firm. She highlighted a leader‑led learning model that puts senior executives at the forefront of upskilling teams. Sweet also warned CEOs that geopolitical...
AI and Development Economics: Early Evidence and How to Keep Up
Oliver Hanney’s updated VoxDev guide aggregates the most trusted AI resources for low‑ and middle‑income countries, ranging from podcasts and video tutorials to research papers and policy toolkits. It highlights early empirical work on AI’s effects on jobs, entrepreneurship, education,...
Best iPad of 2026: How to Choose, and Should You Wait?
Apple’s 2026 iPad Air, upgraded with the M4 chip, emerges as the best performance‑to‑value tablet in the current lineup, outpacing the older entry‑level iPad and rivaling the premium iPad Pro. The Air’s faster Wi‑Fi, 5G, and graphics capability position it...
The Most Dangerous Thing Tools Encourage when They Automate Content at Scale
In this episode, Jordan Cooney talks with Mota Landwehr, CMO and Chief Product Officer at Peak AI, about the hidden danger of using automation tools to mass‑produce content. While short‑term gains are possible, they warn that large‑scale automated articles inevitably...
The Fort Strength Training Wearable Tracks Your Sets (2026)
Fort, a new wearable from former Tesla engineers, launches with hands‑free weight‑lifting tracking and full strength‑training analytics. Priced at $289 with the first year of an $80 subscription included, it ships later this year after a beta phase. The device...
Best Mesh Wi-Fi Routers for 2026
CNET’s 2026 roundup identifies the Netgear Orbi 870 as the top overall mesh Wi‑Fi system, delivering industry‑leading throughput, jitter and packet‑loss scores while supporting the new 6 GHz band. The Orbi 970 earns the fastest‑mesh accolade but carries a seven‑figure‑plus price tag, targeting...
Google’s Hidden TLD Disavow Tool: Powerful, Risky, Avoid
New post from RustyGabe on SER this morning :) -> Google explains undocumented way to disavow entire TLDs (and why you probably shouldn't) @johnmu said it's a "big hammer" and he's right. Google never documented the ability to disavow *entire TLDs*...
Aii Launches Benchmarking Tool to Accelerate Fashion Decarbonisation
Aii has launched a new Benchmarking tool that quantifies process‑level energy use and emissions across apparel factories. The tool provides independent data on energy sources, material types, and processes, allowing factories to compare performance across regions and over time. Early...
Viral ‘Quittr’ Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Quittr, a self‑help app marketed to men seeking to curb pornography use, suffered a massive data breach that exposed intimate details, including masturbation frequencies, of hundreds of thousands of users. The company had previously assured users of robust security, yet...
New Report Finds One in Two U.S. School Districts Experienced a Cybersecurity Incident in 2025
Clever released its Cybersecure 2026 Report, surveying nearly 500 U.S. K‑12 administrators and technology professionals. The study found that one in two school districts experienced a cybersecurity incident in 2025. More than 77% of districts rely on Clever’s identity platform...
The DJI Drone Everyone’s Been Waiting for Gets a Launch Date
DJI announced the Avata 360, an 8K flagship 360° drone, with a public unveiling scheduled for March 26. The aircraft merges true spherical video capture with high‑speed FPV flight, featuring a dual‑lens system that can record native 8K 360 footage and switch...
Amazon Brings Health AI to Website, Offers Personalized Care
Will be interesting to see product recommendations on Amazon for those choosing to use Health AI... -> Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; the service was previously only available on the app...
Register: Risky Future AI Tools for MGAs ‘Demo Day’ on March 11
Insurance Journal’s Risky Future series is hosting a free "AI Tools for MGAs" Demo Day on March 11, 2026. The online event will feature 15‑20 minute product demonstrations from Guidewire, Dyad, Joshu and Vertafore, highlighting AI‑driven workflow automation, underwriting, policy...
Anthropic AI Runs Growth with a Single Employee
what the actual f*ck. @AnthropicAI, a company valued at $380B (literally the size of PayPal) has ONE person doing everything for growth. - SEO & App Stores - Email marketing - Paid search/social - ad copy + Figma automation - Live Meta Ads analytics one guy. doing...
Seeking Updated European Marginal Fuel Data Post‑2021
Hive mind: Has anyone seen (ideally recent) data on the marginal fuel in European countries? The Zakeri and Staffell paper from 2023 gets cited a lot but it's from a few years ago, data for 2021
Beyond CX: The Next Frontier in Banking
[New Episode] Joe Pine: What Comes After Customer Experience in Banking. Watch the latest episode with @joepine, the author of Experience Economy: https://t.co/IxymL1KiHq https://t.co/yBfvjgK08C
AI Turns Linear Life Into Exponential Growth
#TimTalk – Life used to be linear, with AI it’s exponential the lily pond story Matt Mishak https://t.co/tuTVOYyhYG via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #Marketing #Leadership #Tech #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureofWork
Transform Low‑Traffic Retail Areas Into Revenue Engines
Turning Quiet Corners Into Sales Drivers: Reviving Low Traffic #Retail Zones [NEW POOST] - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/oE7LTvVlWV https://t.co/cbOyS39t1h
Uber Partners with Zoox for Robotaxi Rides via App
NEWS: Uber has reached an agreement with Zoox to make rides available through the Uber app on the Zoox purpose-built robotaxi starting in Las Vegas this summer and expanding to LA next year. Story and details @TheTerminal with @natlungfy This is...
Europe Pumps $4B+ Into AI to Power GDPR Compliance
European AI raised $4B+ in one weekend. AMI Labs: $1.03B seed (Europe's largest ever) Nscale: $2B Legora: tripled to $5.55B Nexthop: $500M Eridu: $200M The continent that gave us GDPR is now building the AI infrastructure to comply with it. https://t.co/jGHmurETEC
Master Your AI Roadmap to Regain Strategic Control
Podcast Episode 264: What Roadmaps Reveal About AI, Take Back Control of Your Roadmap https://t.co/GGDASiDP2X
Key Takeaways From 2026 Unit 42 Incident Report
Great conversation with @PaloAltoNtwks Unit 42, where we discussed critical insights from the 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report. 📍FULL episode here👇 https://t.co/FBcQYVqIr1 📍Read the Report👇 https://t.co/4qBLvLzTTF #cybersecurity #AI #CISO #AI #PaloAltoPartner https://t.co/v9lUBQfN3E