Innov8.ag Launches Industry’s First Operational Intelligence Service for Agriculture
Innov8.ag unveiled HarvestReplay™, the first operational intelligence service that transforms a farm’s own data into daily decision‑making insights. The managed platform delivers visual analytics and AI‑generated audio briefings, targeting labor, production and harvest cost inefficiencies. Estimated savings range from $25,000 for small farms to over $750,000 for large agribusinesses. Launch follows Innov8.ag’s recent acquisition, positioning the company as a full‑stack specialty‑crop decision platform.
Five London Hotels Capture 57% of AI Recommendations: What a New Study Reveals About AI Travel Distribution
A LuxDirect CS7 study of 2,700 AI queries across 25 London luxury hotels found five properties captured 57% of AI recommendations. The concentration appears faster than early SEO trends and is independent of hotel size or brand, with a 26‑room...
Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Talk to An Experts. Before It’s Too Late
At Legalweek, Michel Sahyoun of NopalCyber warned that law firms are overlooking cybersecurity as generative AI becomes mainstream. He highlighted that the average time to exploit a breach is just 29 minutes, and AI tools can continuously scan for weaknesses....
GeoComm Launches Service to Accelerate GIS Indoor Mapping
GeoComm unveiled Conversion Services, a new offering that accelerates the creation of indoor GIS maps by more than 50%, turning PDFs and other legacy floor plans into dynamic, data‑rich layers. The service targets 911 centers, public‑safety agencies, and municipal GIS...
Meta to Spend Up to $27 Billion on Nebius AI Infrastructure
Meta announced a multi‑year agreement to purchase up to $27 billion of artificial‑intelligence infrastructure services from Nebius Group. The five‑year contract will give Meta access to Nebius’s high‑performance compute and storage platforms, accelerating its generative‑AI initiatives across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp....
KiloClaw Updates: Persistent Packages, Browser Support, and Connected Accounts
KiloClaw released a suite of March updates that make agents more durable and connected. Users can now link Google and GitHub accounts directly, while package installations via pip, uv, and npm persist across restarts. The default image now includes a...
Vidu Unveils the World’s First AI Solution for Animated Series Production at SXSW 2026
ShengShu Technology unveiled Vidu Q3, the world’s first AI solution built specifically for animated series production, at SXSW 2026. The platform tackles persistent hurdles such as character instability, prompt complexity, shot continuity, and audio‑visual misalignment. By integrating specialized training, a...
SOLVE-TAVI: Patient Sex, for the Most Part, Doesn’t Sway Outcomes by Valve Type
The five‑year SOLVE‑TAVI trial shows that self‑expanding and balloon‑expandable transcatheter aortic valves deliver comparable long‑term efficacy and durability in both men and women with severe aortic stenosis. Stroke incidence was markedly lower in women receiving the self‑expanding valve (0.9% vs...
D-ID Launches V4 Expressive Visual Agents for Real-Time, LLM-Connected Interaction at Enterprise Scale
D‑ID unveiled its V4 Expressive Visual Agents, a diffusion‑based generation of ultra‑high‑fidelity digital humans that operate in real time with sub‑0.5‑second latency and up to 4K resolution. The avatars integrate directly with large language models, adapting facial expressions and tone...
CRMLS Expands RealReports Partnership
California Regional MLS (CRMLS) announced that its RealReports AI‑powered home‑report service will be offered as a no‑cost core product to all its members. The move follows strong adoption by multiple real‑estate associations, prompting CEO Art Carter to extend the tool...
Apple Introduces MacBook Neo Alongside iPhone 17e and iPhone 17
Apple unveiled three new products—MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, and iPhone 17—aimed at expanding its ecosystem with more affordable yet high‑performance devices. The MacBook Neo starts at R11,999, features the A18 Pro chip, a 13‑inch Liquid Retina display, and up to 16 hours...
Japan’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Enters Commercial Operation: 220-MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada Offshore Wind Farm Feeds Electricity Into the Grid
Japan’s largest offshore wind farm, the 220 MW Kitakyushu Hibikinada project, began commercial operation in early March 2026. The facility comprises 25 turbines of 9.6 MW each and is expected to generate about 500 million kWh annually, enough for roughly 170,000 households. Operated by...
Apple Debuts $549 AirPods Max 2 Headphones With Live Translation, Better Noise Canceling
Apple unveiled the AirPods Max 2, a $549 over‑ear headset that builds on the original 2020 model with 1.5× stronger active noise cancellation and a suite of features previously limited to the AirPods Pro line. The new headphones add live translation, a...
Dutch Startup Plans Roll-to-Roll Factory for Perovskite Solar Cells
Dutch research institute TNO has spun off Perovion Technologies to industrialise lightweight, flexible perovskite solar cells. The company aims to construct the first roll‑to‑roll perovskite manufacturing line in the Netherlands by 2030, targeting applications where glass panels are impractical. A...
AGI Hype Masks Undefined Goals, Urging Corporate Accountability
The "race to AGI" is framed as positive for society, or at least the people talking about their society or government. This framing or narrative implies the following: - There is a globally accepted definition of AGI (there isn't). -...
Placenta: Century‑Old Medical Resource Beyond Waste
Actually yes. The placenta has been used in medicine for over 100 years. The amniotic membrane is used in eye surgery for corneal reconstruction. It's used as a graft for burn treatment and wound healing. It's used in dental and orthopedic...
Attackers Abuse LiveChat to Phish Credit Card, Personal Data
Researchers at Cofense have uncovered a new phishing campaign that hijacks the LiveChat SaaS support platform to steal sensitive data. The attackers impersonate Amazon or PayPal, using email lures that direct victims to a LiveChat‑hosted page where a human‑operated operator...
Kent and Medway Mental Health Introduces Tools to Capture Peer Support Outcomes in EPR
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust has added three digital tools to its electronic patient record (EPR) to capture peer support outcomes, including the Hope, Agency and Opportunity (HAO) measure, a dedicated peer‑support tab, and a specific SNOMED activity...
Instant Checkout in ChatGPT Reflects Enormous Challenge
OpenAI announced its Instant Checkout feature for ChatGPT in late 2025, but in March 2026 the company said it is scaling back the rollout to focus on merchant‑site integrations. The pause reflects the difficulty of embedding AI agents in e‑commerce,...
Build a V1 AI Agent Now, Beat 99%
It's still early in the agent building / AI app building world. We're looking for a marketer who has built stuff (agents, apps etc) with AI - and most people still applying with links to AI generated images, content or even...
NeoGenomics’ PanTracer LBx Receives Medicare Coverage, Expanding Access to Comprehensive Liquid Biopsy Profiling
NeoGenomics announced that its PanTracer™ LBx liquid biopsy test has received Medicare coverage under CMS’s MolDX program. The CLIA‑certified assay profiles more than 500 genes, including MSI and blood‑tumor mutational burden, with a seven‑day turnaround. Coverage allows Medicare beneficiaries to...
Arctech Presents Dry Cleaning Robot Weighing Just 38 Kg
Chinese firm Arctech Solar has launched the Star Shine I, a 38 kg autonomous dry‑cleaning robot for utility‑scale photovoltaic plants. The robot can travel 10‑18 m per minute, covering up to 3 km round‑trip (9 km one‑way) and achieves more than 99.5 % cleaning efficiency....
AI Music Generation Goes Consumer with Google’s MusicFX DJ
Google DeepMind’s MusicFX DJ is a web‑based tool that turns text prompts into a continuous, high‑fidelity music stream in real time. Leveraging the Lyria RealTime diffusion model, it lets users layer up to ten prompts and adjust intensity, chaos and...
Sentynl Therapeutics Enters Licensing Agreement with PRG S&T to Advance Progerinin
Sentynl Therapeutics, a Zydus Lifesciences subsidiary, has licensed Progerinin, an oral small‑molecule candidate for Hutchinson‑Gilford Progeria Syndrome, from PRG S&T. The agreement grants Sentynl full development rights, making Progerinin its second HGPS therapy and giving it orphan‑drug status from the FDA....
Meta's Layoffs Fund Massive AI Investment, Not Distress
$META up nearly 3% premarket on reports of 20%+ workforce cuts while carrying $115B-$135B in AI capex guidance for 2026. Markets are reading this as margin discipline, not distress. They're probably right. This is a replay of the 2022 "Year of...
Understood Care Raises $5M in Seed Funding
Understood Care, a New York‑based AI‑native patient advocacy platform, announced a $5 million seed round led by Rethink Education and Zeal Capital Partners. The funding follows a $3.4 million pre‑seed round backed by 1984 Ventures and Y Combinator. The capital will accelerate...
Relentless Focus on Top Accounts Beats Mass Outreach
Chet Holmes managed a magazine dead last in market share out of 15 competitors. He found 167 accounts drove 95% of industry revenue. He stopped pursuing the other 1,833. Cold turkey. Every 2 weeks: direct mail + phone call + fax. 4 months later:...
Jeanologia Launches AI Platform for Laser Design
Jeanologia introduced Billy AI, an artificial‑intelligence platform that converts a single denim photograph into a production‑ready laser design. Trained on over 5,000 real and synthetic laser patterns, the system reads contrasts, shadows and texture to recreate authentic wear effects in minutes....
Measure Visibility, Citation, Sentiment in the AI Era
There’s no clean attribution when a buyer reads about you in ChatGPT, sleeps on it, & signs up 3 days later... What metrics can brands lean into in this new AI era? Here are a few pillars to think about: - Visibility...
Chatbot Risks Evolve: From Self‑Harm to Mass‑Casualty Threats
From me this weekend: Lawyer behind AI psychosis cases says the risk profile of chatbots may be shifting from self-harm cases to potential mass-casualty incidents. https://t.co/Gx2sqHpp7J via @techcrunch 1/
The Fine Print
Colonial Williamsburg, celebrating its 2026 centennial, has launched a pilot project that uses a large‑language model to create AI‑driven digital content for visitors and staff. The model is being trained on a broad corpus of 18th‑century philosophical treatises, letters, pamphlets...
AI-Driven Digital Biology Delivers Custom Cancer Vaccine for Dog
The era of digital biology, exemplified by making a bespoke and effective vaccine for cancer in a dog, is taking off. Access to the AI-Coscientist. A new feature @NatureMedicine https://t.co/AR9lqne7E1
Clean-Energy Investment Now Almost Twice Fossil Fuels
Now seems like a good time to remember that global clean-energy investment is nearly double fossil fuels https://t.co/bHhEwRKgy7
Your Medical Record Is Too Big To Read. AI May Be The Fix.
Modern electronic health records now contain years of notes, labs, imaging and messages, creating a “storage unit” that clinicians cannot fully review in the few minutes before a visit. This overload forces doctors to perform a real‑time “chart biopsy,” often...
Building AGI Is Essential to Avoid Imminent Extinction
“If nobody builds it, everyone dies” Nick Bostrom’s latest piece on artificial superintelligence makes the point that, given we are all on course for dying in (by and large) the next few decades, developing a transformative technology like AGI is worth...
Kids' Over‑Ear Trend Signals AirPods Max Refresh
Not surprised to see a refresh of the AirPods Max considering how the kids all walk around with over the ear headphones nowadays
Ortec Finance Launches a New Standard in Strategic Asset Allocation Powered by Scenario-Based Machine Learning
Ortec Finance has launched GLASS PRISM, a strategic asset allocation (SAA) optimizer that leverages its Scenario‑Based Machine Learning (SBML) engine. The tool replaces static, mean‑variance models with a forward‑looking, multi‑scenario framework that can handle non‑linear, multi‑period objectives and constraints. Designed for...
Only Join Platforms Where Your Customers Gather
Should you be on [insert social platform here]? If your goal is to solicit customers, and they’re there, then be there. If your goal is to be social with a specific group of people who are there, then be there Else don’t.
Blockchain Smart Contracts Enable Trusted Healthcare Data Sharing
Healthcare systems manage sensitive data across fragmented platforms with limited mutual trust. A blockchain ledger with smart contracts introduces verifiable records and controlled consent, so hospitals coordinate data access without losing governance. Microblog @antgrasso https://t.co/8wxDrb3IZG
Data Centers Overtake Offices in US Construction-Spending Shift
Spending on U.S. data‑center construction surpassed office projects for the first time at the end of 2025, reflecting a rapid shift toward digital infrastructure. Meta’s Ohio hub, launched in 2017, attracted Amazon, Google and Microsoft, creating a regional tech cluster....
Longer SaaS Queries Boost Reddit’s SERP Presence
When it comes to SaaS... The longer the query: The more likely Reddit starts to show up in the SERP. More here: https://t.co/PlWF0NT1Gq https://t.co/FgrZjhWLCj
AI Bridges Patients, Providers, Payers, and Public Health
Last week at #HIMSS26, the Oracle Health and Life Sciences team showcased how AI can connect patients, providers, payers, and public health organizations. See what you missed and learn how our AI-powered tech can help your organization. https://t.co/JphBBwbFT2
Kingston Debuts XTS-AES 256-Bit Secure Hardware USB Drive
Kingston Digital has launched the IronKey Locker+ 50 G2, a next‑generation hardware‑encrypted USB flash drive. The device features FIPS 197‑certified XTS‑AES‑256‑bit encryption, digitally signed firmware to block BadUSB attacks, and brute‑force password protection that locks out users after ten failed attempts. It supports both...
Six Biotech Companies Advancing the Next Generation of Prostate Cancer Therapies
Six biotech firms are pushing next‑generation prostate‑cancer therapies through late‑stage trials and financing milestones. Candel Therapeutics secured a $100 million royalty deal to fund aglatimagene’s launch, while Coherus Oncology closed a $50.1 million offering and partnered with J&J for a CCR8 antibody...
Orca Strengthens Fraud Detection for Africa’s Digital Payments
Orca, a fraud‑detection platform focused on Africa’s burgeoning digital payments market, has closed a new funding round to accelerate product development and regional expansion. The company’s real‑time analytics layer scans transaction streams across banks, fintechs, and payment providers, flagging suspicious...
One Intelligence (1-i.ai) Launches AI Control Plane to Help Enterprises Build and Operate Production AI
One Intelligence (1‑i.ai) unveiled its AI Control Plane, a unified platform that lets enterprises design, publish, and run production‑grade AI applications with built‑in governance, routing, and cost visibility. The solution inserts a provider‑agnostic control layer between apps and model APIs,...
Most People Job Search Completely Wrong. Here's the System that Fixes It.
The post argues that most job seekers merely apply for positions instead of conducting a strategic job search. It defines job searching as a skill set involving targeted CVs, active LinkedIn use, recruiter‑focused interview prep, and savvy offer handling. To...
Progress MS-31 Undocks From ISS Poisk Module
The Progress MS-31 cargo ship undocked from the ISS Poisk module at about 1324:12 UTC Mar 16
L3Harris Honors Goddard Centennial with Advances in Nuclear and Electric Propulsion
L3Harris Technologies commemorated Robert Goddard’s 100‑year rocket milestone by accelerating next‑generation propulsion, including 3D‑printed RS‑25 engines, advanced electric thrusters, and nuclear thermal concepts. The company is hot‑fire testing new RS‑25 units that cut production costs by 30 percent while delivering...
Jason Hoffman’s Interview Packs Dense AI Insights
Can't emphasize enough the amount of valuable AI insights per word in this masterpiece by Jason A. Hoffman, CSO @Switch. Got to this after he was interviewed by the great @furrier https://t.co/dlM9fL53Xi https://t.co/UcyXJnkcrg