PTC Teams with NVIDIA to Unite Design and Robotics Simulation by Connecting Onshape to NVIDIA Isaac Sim
PTC announced a cloud‑native integration that links its Onshape CAD and PDM platform directly with NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim robotics simulation framework. The workflow streams mechanical relationships from Onshape into Isaac Sim, automatically updating physics‑based simulations whenever designs change. Demonstrated at NVIDIA GTC 2026, the solution leverages AWS to keep design and simulation in sync, reducing manual re‑modeling and accelerating development cycles. Early adopters such as FANUC America report faster robot prototyping and smoother project execution.
AI Misses Nuance: Human Insight Still Essential
I'll never forget the moment a founder told me, "I'll just take these transcripts and tell ChatGPT to spit out jobs to be done." We were in the middle of a jobs-to-be-done research project. We'd mapped four or five customer...
Workday Rolls Out Sana, Its Conversational AI Gateway to Enterprise Work
Workday announced the general availability of Sana, an AI‑powered conversational interface that replaces traditional menus for its HR and finance applications. The launch includes three components: Sana for Workday, the Self‑Service Agent that automates routine queries and complex workflows, and...
UK Open Skies Network to Create UK’s First Droneport, AAM Test-Flight Hub
Open Skies Network has partnered with ASONE Park to build the United Kingdom’s first DronePort at St Merryn Aerodrome in north Cornwall. The aviation campus will host eVTOL, eSTOL and BVLOS drone operations, creating a multi‑use environment where traditional and emerging aircraft...
Bristol Airport to Invest £10 Million Into New Energy Centre
British airport Bristol (BRS) announced a £10 million investment to build a new energy centre that will replace its gas boilers with air‑source heat pumps and an electric boiler. The modular facility will generate, store and distribute low‑carbon heat and cooling...
Telcos Are the Best Channel to Democratize AI
The blog argues that while only a fraction of humanity currently interacts with frontier AI, the real bottleneck is distribution, not model size. It posits that the economic unit of AI has shifted to the inference token, which will be...
FANUC Accelerates Physical AI in Industrial Robotics, Leveraging NVIDIA Technologies
FANUC announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate "physical AI" in its industrial robot lineup. The collaboration embeds NVIDIA Jetson edge modules, Isaac Sim, and Omniverse into FANUC's robots and ROBOGUIDE software, enabling photorealistic digital twins and real‑time AI...
Introducing Sana From Workday: Superintelligence for Work That Finds Answers, Takes Action, and Automates Workflows
Workday unveiled Sana, a superintelligence platform that embeds generative AI into its cloud suite. Sana can surface answers from enterprise data, execute actions on behalf of users, and automate routine workflows across HR, finance, and planning functions. The solution leverages...
Inclusive AI Over Speed: Sweden's Call at Delhi Summit
Sweden’s deputy prime minister Ebba Busch called for a more inclusive approach to AI at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. She argued the next phase of AI development should focus on accessibility and solving real-world problems. The bigger question...
Press Release: National Airlines Selects Viasat IFC for A330s
Viasat Inc. announced that its in‑flight connectivity solution has been selected for National Airlines’ three new Airbus A330 aircraft. The airline equipped the jets with Viasat’s GM‑40 Ka‑band terminal, delivering high‑capacity Wi‑Fi capable of HD video streaming and AI‑driven applications...
For Newer Sepsis Diagnostics, What the Studies Show
Newer sepsis diagnostics such as monocyte distribution width (MDW), Intellisep, and MeMed BV are showing promise in early clinical studies but each has distinct limitations. MDW, available on the Beckman Coulter CBC platform, improves sepsis detection when combined with white‑blood‑cell...
Why IT Service Management Platform Migrations Fail — And What IT Leaders Must Do Before Switching Platforms
IT service management platforms are increasingly seen as strategic liabilities as legacy tools fail to meet modern business demands. Rising costs, fragmented vendor relationships, and integration challenges push leaders toward migration, framing it as a business transformation. However, many initiatives...
Orchid Security Recognized by Gartner® as a Representative Vendor of Guardian Agents
Orchid Security has been named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, which focuses on managing identities and access for AI agents with zero‑trust policies. The guide warns that AI agents expand “identity dark matter,” creating...
Blood Test Detects Brain Tumours with 90% Accuracy
Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a blood test that detects brain tumours with 90% accuracy by measuring a pair of proteins. The test, validated in glioblastoma patients, is being evaluated in a multi‑site clinical trial across six...
AI Agents in Health Care: What They Say when We Aren’t Listening
Moltbook, a Reddit‑style platform for autonomous AI agents, has become a live laboratory where "moltbots" discuss health, medicine, and human well‑being without human moderation. By February 2026, over 1,000 posts referenced human health, revealing three dominant themes: AI envisioning its...
Thermal Cameras Used in Drones and Robots Can Be Tricked by Heat Sources, Study Finds
University of Florida researchers uncovered three previously unknown vulnerabilities in thermal‑camera perception systems used by autonomous drones and robots. The flaws—rooted in image equalization, sensor calibration and lens optics—can be triggered by ordinary or malicious heat sources, causing real obstacles...
Transcarent Partners with Bluespine to Launch Payment Integrity Category for Self-Insured Employers
Transcarent has added a new “Payment Integrity” category to its Experience Store through a partnership with AI‑driven health‑tech firm Bluespine. The service targets the $300 billion annual loss from fraud, waste and abuse in U.S. healthcare by analyzing every medical and...
Gamma Adds AI Image-Generation Tools in Bid to Take on Canva and Adobe
Gamma has unveiled Gamma Imagine, an AI‑driven image‑generation tool that lets users create brand‑specific marketing assets such as charts, infographics, and social graphics from simple text prompts. The product plugs into a suite of integrations—including ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, Atlassian, n8n,...
Nvidia's Agentic AI Stack Is the First Major Platform to Ship with Security at Launch, but Governance Gaps Remain
Nvidia unveiled its agentic AI stack at GTC, marking the first major AI platform to ship with security baked in rather than added later. Five security vendors—CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, JFrog, Cisco, and World Wide Technology—each cover a distinct layer...
March 17, 1958: Vanguard 1 Blasts Off
On March 17, 1958 the United States launched Vanguard 1, its second satellite and the world’s first solar‑powered spacecraft. The 3‑pound metal sphere, only 6.5 inches across, entered a high‑altitude orbit that has kept it aloft for more than six decades, making...
A Modern Clerk’s Office: Lessons From Dallas County
In this episode, Dallas County Clerk John Warren discusses the county’s journey from paper‑based record keeping to a fully digital, AI‑enhanced clerk’s office. He explains how early resistance was overcome by demonstrating efficiency gains, such as simultaneous access to documents,...
Where Are the Biggest Opportunities in the Commercial Prepaid Market?
Commercial prepaid card loads reached $426 billion in 2025, signaling a rapidly expanding B2B market. Javelin Strategy’s 2026 report highlights healthcare benefits, employee incentives, and state‑run government programs as the most promising growth segments over the next five years. Corporate travel...
We’re Working with AMP to Transform Waste From Landfills and Remove 200,000 Tons of CO2 by 2030.
A partnership between the unnamed company and AMP targets the removal of 200,000 tons of CO₂ by 2030 by converting municipal solid waste into biochar. AMP’s AI‑powered sortation technology isolates organic material, preventing methane—a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than CO₂—from...
Automated Multi‑Region AWS Environment Deployment Script
So this turned into build an environment to run in. I wrote a script to deploy all the resources with guidance: Tested and deployed so far: Org root user and role Root policies Root permission boundary ou accounts - iam - KMS - dns - jobs - work - backup...
Cato Networks Unveils GPU-Powered SASE with Native AI Security Controls
Cato Networks introduced Cato Neural Edge, a GPU‑powered SASE platform, and Cato AI Security, an AI governance and runtime protection suite. Nvidia GPUs are deployed across more than 85 global points of presence, enabling real‑time traffic inspection, semantic analysis, and...
The AI Bubble, Like the Housing Bubble, Is a Big Problem and It’s Not Complicated
Dean Baker warns that the current surge in AI company valuations mirrors the speculative excesses of the early‑2000s housing boom. He argues that inflated expectations are driving a classic bubble, with venture capital pouring billions into startups that lack sustainable...
LinkedIn VP Reveals Winning B2B Ad Strategies
LinkedIn is the number one channel for B2B marketers (for content, social, ads, you know we love it here) so I had LinkedIn VP Marketing Davang Shah on the podcast this week to go right to the source about what's...
Meta's Delays Cost Businesses $30‑40K in Overspend
Meta rarely, if ever, sends comms in a fast enough manner for bugs like last night. Today please demand them too. Some businesses are waking up to $30-40k in overspending from what I'm hearing. That's a significant amount of $...
Press Release: S&P: Insurance Brief Says Middle East War Is Fuelling Cyber Risk
S&P Global Ratings warns that the ongoing Middle East war is amplifying cyber‑threat activity, with threat actors launching more DDoS attacks, phishing campaigns and network intrusions. While no large insured cyber losses have been reported yet, the situation remains fluid...
The New Threat IBM's Quantum Computing Research Poses to D-Wave
IBM introduced a quantum‑centric hybrid supercomputing architecture in March 2025, blending qubits with classical CPUs and GPUs to accelerate scientific simulations. The model, already tested at the Cleveland Clinic and RIKEN, promises practical enterprise integration. Financially, IBM posted a record...
DDW Highlights: 17 March 2026
In this DDW Highlights episode, Bruno Quinney reviews four major stories: a Mayo Clinic study linking the Parkinson's protein alpha‑synuclein to dramatically faster Alzheimer’s progression in women; a Texas A&M‑funded project testing extracellular vesicle (EV) therapy to modulate microglia and...
Why Sorority Video Recruitment Risks Members’ Digital Identities
Sorority recruitment has shifted toward self‑submitted videos, a trend amplified by platforms like RushTok. These polished clips capture voice, facial features and personal details, creating biometric datasets that AI firms and malicious actors can exploit. In the era of generative...
The Best Switch RPGs to Play Using Switch 2 Handheld Boost Mode
Nintendo’s Switch 2 update introduces handheld‑boost mode, allowing legacy Switch 1 games to run at TV‑level resolution while in portable mode. The feature upgrades the visual fidelity of dozens of RPGs, delivering crisper UI, higher‑resolution textures, and in some cases 60 fps performance....
E.U. Law Tightens Marketplace Selling
The EU’s Digital Services Act, enforceable since February 2024, now obliges online marketplaces to verify seller identities, disclose contract details, and suspend non‑compliant traders. Enforcement has intensified, with authorities seizing 152 million illegal items worth €3.4 billion in 2023, more than double...
AI Empowers Elite Workers to Replace Mediocrity
The cost of being average has never been higher. It's no longer a question. AI helps businesses eliminate mediocre employees. But it's not that AI is replacing workers. It's that ultra-talented team members (now armed with significantly more leverage) can play the role 5...
Mythmatch Review – a Match-Three Game Made in Heaven
Mythmatch, an indie title from Team Artichoke, reimagines the classic match‑three formula by embedding it in a richly narrated ancient Greek setting. Players control Artemis, navigating both Olympian puzzle challenges and a mortal village life‑sim where crafted items unlock new...
IAB Connected Commerce Summit to Highlight the Path for Scalable, Sustainable Commerce Media
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) will host the 2026 Connected Commerce Summit in New York on April 14, gathering senior leaders from retail, brands, and media to address the next phase of commerce media. The event will concentrate on establishing...
Origis Brings Online 210-MW Solar Project in Indiana
Origis Energy has placed its 210‑MW Wheatland Solar farm into commercial operation in Knox County, Indiana, under a 20‑year power purchase agreement with CenterPoint Energy. The project was financed through a mix of tax‑equity from J.P. Morgan and debt from...
Nvidia Unveils DGX Spark with Grace Superchip
Signed $NVDA DGX Spark which features Grace Blackwell superchip (CPU + GPU) & SK Hynix LPDDR5X DRAM memory
Chip Wafer Shortage Will Run Through 2030 as AI Demand Overwhelms Supply: SK Hynix Chief
SK Hynix chairman Chey Tae‑won warned that a global wafer deficit exceeding 20% will persist until at least 2030, driven by soaring AI‑related high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) demand. He said capacity expansion will take four to five years, and SK Hynix,...
Tongyi Lab Releases First Open-Source Multi-Speaker AI Dubbing
"AI dubbing? That's easy, right? Just match the voice to the lips." That's what most people think. But here's the thing: multi-speaker dubbing is actually ONE OF THE HARDEST problems in AI video. And Tongyi Lab just solved it. World's FIRST OPEN-SOURCE AI dubbing...
AI Speeds Insight, but Can't Replace Human Judgment
A founder fed customer interviews into ChatGPT to extract jobs-to-be-done. Output wasn't wrong. Just goofy. It missed hesitation, energy, contradictions. The tension: AI is useful and easy to misuse. AI-assisted ✅ speeds up your work AI-led ❌ replaces judgment
Cancer Vaccines Could Transform Treatment and Prevention – but Misinformation About mRNA Vaccines Threatens Their Potential
Scientists are accelerating development of mRNA cancer vaccines, with more than 120 clinical trials targeting melanoma, brain, breast, lung and prostate tumors. Early studies, such as personalized vaccines for glioblastoma, demonstrate rapid immune activation and improved survival. Simultaneously, a false...
Nvidia Eyes $1T Sales, but Supply Constraints Loom
Nvidia CEO predicts i$1 trillion in sales through 2027. Wow, up .52% You would think the bulls would try harder. Maybe they are concerned about HOW that happens if $TSM is 'encumbered' or energy is 'scarce'. Encumbered Scarcity Trumps "Insane Demand" https://t.co/LVLaK2mfjg
Legacy Forecasts Missed Memory Crisis, Predict 10% Drop
Legacy device forecasting is structurally broken. Siloed analysts entirely missed the memory crisis, turning a projected steady smartphone growth cycle into a massive 10 percent plunge for 2026. Operating without macroeconomic integration destroys revenue projections. 📉🚨 #Telecom #DataAnalytics #MarketTrends
Let Claude Auto‑fix Requests over 500 Ms
If you haven't already, tail your server logs and filter by requests that take longer than 500ms. Copy paste it all into Claude and say "pls fix". Instantly faster app.
Simplify Apple Watch: Fewer Buttons, More Usability
I would pay extra for an Apple Watch with fewer buttons. Never made sense to me that it had the crown and that other button. iPhone now also has too many buttons.
Paralysis Patients Type Using Brain‑computer Interface
A brain-computer interface allowed people with paralysis to type with their minds https://t.co/W5icU6ye8c via @statnews
NemoClaw Blocks Local Models, Reducing to Arduino‑level Functionality
Wait, so NemoClaw doesn't let you use a local model? If you aren't using a local model you might as well be running on an Arduino UNO Q. Tell me I'm wrong. Please.
ASTS Clears Technical Hurdle, Targets Six Satellites Monthly
$ASTS just crossed the Rubicon With the largest commercial antenna ever deployed now operational, the technical risk is gone. Focus shifts to a production cadence of 6 satellites per month. Pitch by @CrossroadsOnX https://t.co/djAsgaqhct