Getting Started with Smolagents: Build Your First Code Agent in 15 Minutes
Hugging Face’s smolagents library lets developers create Python‑based AI agents in minutes by having large language models generate executable code instead of static JSON. The tutorial walks through building a weather‑fetching agent that calls the free wttr.in API and optionally saves results to a file, using the Qwen2.5‑Coder‑32B‑Instruct model via the Hugging Face inference API. With fewer than 20 lines of core logic, the agent can reason, select tools, and run code autonomously. The guide highlights the framework’s lightweight, open‑source nature and its suitability for rapid prototyping.
3 Reasons to Switch From Traditional Cables to Magnetic Charging Cables
Magnetic charging cables replace the traditional plug‑in connector with a detachable magnetic tip that stays in the device port, allowing one‑handed attachment and easy release. This design reduces friction, extending the lifespan of both the cable and the device’s charging...
Audi Mapping Vehicle Spotted in Dresden
Audi’s high‑definition mapping vehicle was photographed navigating the narrow, cobblestone streets of Dresden’s Old Town. The car, bearing German plates IN 1127, is equipped with lidar, cameras, and precision GPS to collect detailed road geometry and sensor data. This deployment is...
THE ROBOT REVOLUTION IS HERE: Why the Robotics and A.I. Booms and Ensuing Historic Metals Demand Will Trigger the Greatest...
Humanoid robot maker Unipath is already deploying kitchen‑grade robots in Chinese homes, marking the first large‑scale consumer rollout of AI‑driven robotics. The article warns that within the next two to three years billions of such machines will be built, creating...
Ayana Therapy
Ayana Therapy is a digital mental‑health platform that delivers culturally responsive virtual therapy to BIPOC and other marginalized communities. It matches users with licensed clinicians who understand diverse cultural backgrounds, aiming to improve trust, engagement, and treatment outcomes. Founder Eric...
More on Vendor AI Risks
Companies are grappling with how to treat AI‑enhanced vendor upgrades under existing shadow‑AI bans. The article argues that such upgrades are fundamentally an IT control issue—un‑tested software entering production—rather than a new compliance violation. It highlights recent high‑profile incidents like...
Why Choose Robot Vacuum Cleaners for House Cleaning?
The global robot vacuum market is set to reach $13.78 billion by 2031, driven by rising consumer demand for hands‑free cleaning. Modern units combine voice control, smart navigation and AI‑based learning to deliver continuous, scheduled cleaning without human intervention. They can...
Tesla Optimus Delayed as China Holds the Magnets
Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot is encountering production delays after China reclassified its actuator components as dual‑use technology, requiring export licenses and giving priority to domestic suppliers. The reclassification jeopardizes Tesla's access to rare‑earth magnets, which China supplies 90% of, and...
What Do Frontier AI Companies' Job Postings Reveal About Their Plans?
Analysis of job postings at leading AI labs reveals a sharp shift toward go‑to‑market roles. At OpenAI and Anthropic, sales‑related positions have risen to roughly 30% of all openings, while research hires have fallen below 10%. The postings also expose...
How Indonesia Is Protecting 80 Million Children From Online Harm
Indonesia will enforce a new regulation on March 28 that sets a minimum age of 16 for creating accounts on any digital platform deemed high‑risk, including social media, AI chatbots, and gaming apps. The law requires platforms to conduct a...
The Earliest Days of Apple ↦
Harry McCracken’s Fast Company oral history chronicles Apple’s first decade, spotlighting a vivid anecdote from veteran engineer Chris Espinosa. While programming BASIC on an Apple‑1 at the Byte Shop, Espinosa recalls a barefoot teenager being interviewed by Steve Jobs, who...
Awaab’s Law Phase 2: What It Covers and What Housing Providers Should Be Doing Now
Phase 2 of Awaab’s Law, due later in 2026, expands the mandatory hazard‑remediation regime for social landlords to five additional categories such as excess cold, structural instability and fire risks. The government estimated Phase 1 already adds about £129 million (≈ $161 million) in...
The Future of Agriculture: AI-Driven Precision Farming & Sustainable Food Systems
The agriculture sector is rapidly transitioning from fragmented, labor‑intensive practices to AI‑driven, data‑rich operations. Machine‑learning models now parse soil, weather, and crop health data to fine‑tune irrigation, fertilization, and pest management, while autonomous tractors and drones automate field work. Parallel...
AI Keynote Speaker for Manufacturing: Driving Smart Factories and Industry 4.0 Transformation
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping manufacturing, turning legacy factories into smart, data‑driven operations. Ian Khan’s keynote highlights how predictive maintenance can slash downtime by up to 50%, while AI‑powered vision systems boost product quality and consistency. The talk also covers...
Ultimate Seedance 2 & Nano Banana 2 Workflow for Short Films With AI
Seedance 2.0 and Nano Banana 2 are AI‑driven platforms that together streamline short‑film production. Seedance 2.0 handles lifelike character generation, 4K rendering and dynamic multi‑shot camera setups, while Nano Banana 2 focuses on frame‑by‑frame storyboarding and micro‑shot planning. The combined workflow lets creators feed real‑world or...
New Images of the 2nd-Gen Onn 4K Pro Leak Out with a Clear View of the Ports
New line‑drawings of Walmart’s second‑generation Onn 4K Pro streaming box reveal its port layout, confirming Ethernet, a full‑size USB‑A, and built‑in microphones. The device appears to retain the Google TV Streamer’s silhouette but adds a gray mesh top and a...
Beyond the Hype: How Ian Khan’s Futurist Keynote Insights Help Organizations Navigate the AI Revolution
Ian Khan, a globally recognized futurist, offers AI insights grounded in real‑world applicability, helping leaders cut through hype. He blends deep technical knowledge with human‑centric analysis to map concrete pathways for AI adoption. His keynote themes—human‑AI partnership, ethical frameworks, adaptive...
Vodafone, Satellite Connect Europe Make Satellite Video Call in Ireland
Vodafone Ireland and Satellite Connect Europe, the joint venture with AST SpaceMobile, completed Ireland’s first mobile video call via satellite using a regular smartphone and the AST Bluebird satellite. The call originated from a dead‑zone on Clare Island, County Mayo,...
Globacom's MoneyMaster PSB Tweaks Banking App, Gifts Customers Data and Airtime
Globacom’s MoneyMaster Payment Service Bank (MMPSB) has rolled out a refreshed mobile banking app that features a cleaner visual design and streamlined menus for account and denomination selection. The update introduces logical tabs—hot, daily, weekly, monthly, exclusive and special—to organize...
Putting Citizens and Businesses at the Heart of Public Services
Public sector digital services must adopt private‑sector‑style user experiences, treating platforms as evolving products rather than one‑off projects. Made Tech leaders stress early collaboration between policy and delivery teams, launching minimum viable products (MVPs) to gather real‑world feedback. Rapid sprints...
Orange Poland Starts New Smartphone Trade-In Offer
Orange Poland has launched a new smartphone trade‑in program available in its retail stores. The scheme accepts any handset that can power on, rewarding customers with a voucher starting at PLN 40 (about $10) toward a new device. For phones that...
VivoPower Receives Nasdaq Approval of Ticker “TEMB” For Planned Tembo Listing at a Targeted Valuation of $838 Million
VivoPower PLC announced Nasdaq’s approval of the “TEMB” ticker for the forthcoming Tembo Group N.V., the entity to be created through its merger with Cactus Acquisition Corp. I. The deal values Tembo at an indicative pre‑money equity of about $838 million,...
The Economist Refines B2B Offering to Jump Start Growth
The Economist Group launched Economist Enterprise, consolidating its B2B information services and media solutions into a single brand. For the six months to Sept. 30 2025, the B2B segment generated £53.8 million (about $67 million), a 2.2% decline year‑over‑year, while rivals such as the...
Norway and Iceland to Join the EU’s GOVSATCOM and IRIS2 Programmes
Norway and Iceland have signed agreements to join the European Union’s GOVSATCOM and IRIS2 secure communications programmes. GOVSATCOM, launched in January, provides interim secure satellite capacity, while the €10.6 billion IRIS2 project will deploy about 290 satellites by 2030. Iceland will...
10 GitHub Repositories to Master OpenClaw
OpenClaw is emerging as a modular framework that lets autonomous AI agents execute tools, manage workflows, and integrate external services. The ecosystem is supported by a growing collection of GitHub repositories that cover core code, skill libraries, memory layers, model...
Closing the Experience Gap – Interview with Qualtrics Executives From X4
Qualtrics executives at the X4 Seattle event emphasized that the biggest challenge for customer experience (CX) teams has shifted from gathering data to taking action, urging the use of AI‑driven “experience agents” to close the feedback loop. Brad Anderson called...
AI That Listens Like a Lawyer: A Side-by-Side Comparison of General AI Notetakers and Legal Conversational Intelligence
Legal tech vendor Querious released a side‑by‑side comparison highlighting the shortcomings of generic AI notetakers for law firms. While general‑purpose tools promise automatic transcription, their terms of service often prohibit storing privileged information and limit data ownership. In contrast, Querious’s...
Two Popular Apps Poisoned in One Week – Don’t Fall Victim!
Two supply‑chain poisoning incidents hit popular development tools this week, the first involving Apifox’s content‑delivery network. After March 4, the app loaded a tampered 77KB JavaScript file instead of the legitimate 34KB version. The malicious script leveraged Apifox’s Electron framework, which...
A Couple Of AI Things
USV has overhauled its operating system using Claude Code and Tasklet, a portfolio‑company AI platform, enabling the firm to double its team size without hiring additional staff. The transformation was led by Spencer Yen with support from Nick and Nikhil. In parallel,...
Kerlink Unveils M2 Wirnet iStation for Enhanced IoT and Edge Connectivity in Remote Footprints
Kerlink has launched the Wirnet iStation M2, a multi‑mode connectivity gateway that combines cellular, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and LoRa radios. The device is built in France and engineered for harsh, power‑constrained environments such as remote industrial sites. It targets core verticals including...
LiteLLM Incident: Mitigated and Contained with SAP LeanIX
LiteLLM, an open‑source large language model framework, was hit by a malicious supply‑chain attack that injected compromised code into its dependencies. SAP LeanIX’s security team identified the breach within hours and executed a coordinated response that isolated the threat and...
Qdrant Raised $50M to Build Composable Vector Search as Core Infrastructure
Qdrant announced a $50 million Series B round led by AVP, with participation from Bosch Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Spark Capital, and 42CAP. The company positions its Rust‑built vector database as low‑latency, billion‑scale infrastructure for AI retrieval, emphasizing composable primitives over fixed pipelines....
Zymtrace Secures $12.2M to Recover Billions in Wasted GPU Spend Through Autonomous Optimization
Zymtrace announced a $12.2 million funding round, including an $8.5 million seed led by Venture Guides, to scale its autonomous AI‑infrastructure optimization platform. The company’s eBPF‑based solution continuously profiles GPU and CPU workloads, automatically generating pull‑requests that fix bottlenecks without code changes....
OFC 2026: Marvell Launches Next-Generation CXL Switch, Enabling Memory Pooling to Break Through the AI “Memory Wall”
Marvell announced the Structera S 30260, a 260‑lane CXL 3.0 switch that enables rack‑level memory pooling for AI workloads. The device offers up to 4 TB/s aggregate bandwidth and works with Marvell’s Structera A accelerators, Structera X expansion controllers, and Alaska P retimers to provide disaggregated memory...
Agentic AI Poised to Shape Both Offensive and Defensive Cyber Measures: Munich Re
Munich Re’s 2026 cyber‑insurance report warns that agentic AI will soon automate multi‑stage attacks, generate hyper‑personalised phishing, and manipulate AI models through prompt injection and data poisoning. The technology expands the attack surface while also offering defenders autonomous tools to...
RSAC 2026: N-Able Report Reveals Why AI-Powered, Layered Cyber Defense Is Essential for Business Resilience
N‑able’s 2026 State of the SOC report shows a sharp resurgence of network‑perimeter attacks and a dramatic rise in alert volume, with the SOC processing roughly two alerts per minute in 2025. AI now automates about 90% of investigation tasks,...
Revolutionizing Omnichannel Fulfillment with Always-On RFID: RFID Journal Case Study
International fashion retailers struggling with manual stock counts adopted PervasID's TrackMaster 3X always‑on RFID platform. The system provides continuous, item‑level visibility across store floors and stockrooms, delivering near‑100% read accuracy and one‑meter location precision. After deployment, retailers reported up to 50%...
How ChatGPT Health Exposes the Flaws in Modern Primary Care
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a consumer AI that can ingest medical records, wearable data, and personal health history to give real‑time, context‑aware guidance. The platform serves 230 million weekly users asking health questions, exposing how primary‑care systems have failed to provide...
Court Reporting Services Provider Steno Amasses $49M in Series C Funding
Steno, a cloud‑based court reporting provider, closed a $49 million Series C round led by The Legal Tech Fund. The capital will fuel a U.S. market expansion, accelerate development of its AI‑driven transcription engine, and support the launch of new workflow tools...
Morgan Lewis's Chief AI Officer: Firm &Lsquo;Staffing Models Will Evolve to Reflect Hybrid Skill Sets'
Chief AI and Knowledge Management Officer Colleen F. Nihill says Morgan Lewis will redesign staffing models to blend legal expertise with AI and data skills. She emphasizes that AI will foster deeper collaboration between clients and firms but will not...
First Draft, Final Say: Why In-House Litigation Begins Inside
In‑house legal departments are increasingly drafting the first version of litigation documents rather than relying on external partners. Advanced AI and legal‑ops platforms enable faster, more strategic creation of complaints, motions and discovery plans. This shift gives corporations tighter control...
Enterprise Agentic AI Architecture Design Guidance – Part 2
Part 2 of PwC’s Enterprise Agentic AI Architecture series details the operational and governance layers needed to move prototype agents into production. It outlines protocol selection, coordination patterns, message schemas, discovery methods, confidence‑based escalation, and deadlock prevention. The guide also defines...
How to Quadruple Your Steam Deck’s FPS With One Simple Plugin
The DLSS Enabler plug‑in brings Nvidia‑only DLSS4 multi‑frame generation to AMD‑based Steam Deck devices, delivering up to four times the original frame rate. Installation uses Decky Loader and simple DLL linking, allowing users to fine‑tune resolution scaling and choose upscalers...
Claude Can Now Code Websites “By Sight” Here’s How It Works
Claude's new Drawbridge plugin turns Chrome into a visual AI‑coding assistant, letting users annotate screenshots, HTML snippets and comments to direct Claude in building or fixing web pages. The free, open‑source extension supports three operational modes—Step, Batch and YOLO—so users...
After the LA Court Verdict, the UK Must Disrupt Surveillance Capitalism Business Models
A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta and YouTube are liable for deliberately engineering addictive products and failing to protect users. The verdict marks the first U.S. judgment holding major social‑media platforms accountable for engagement‑driven design that fuels the attention...
One Command to Turn Any Code Repository Into a Learnable Course
Developers increasingly rely on AI‑generated code, often ending up with functional but opaque projects—a phenomenon dubbed “vibe coding.” This knowledge gap hampers troubleshooting, maintenance, and team collaboration. Zara Zhang’s open‑source tool codebase‑to‑course offers a single‑command solution that transforms any repository into...
The Importance of Compliance by Design in the Remote Work Era
Compliance by design has become essential as workforces become increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed. Shifting regulations across state, city and local levels mean that employee relocations instantly trigger new legal obligations. HR leaders are urged to embed location‑tracking, automated alerts...
7 New EDC Gear Surprises From Early 2026
The first quarter of 2026 delivered a wave of inventive everyday‑carry gear, from MetMo’s Pocket Grip that resurrects a 1913 patent into a five‑tool multi‑tool, to Streamlight’s pencil‑shaped Wedge SL flashlight that sits flat in pockets. Knafs introduced the Doodler folder...
Military Medics Trial AI for the Battlefield
The UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory teamed with the US DARPA under the In the Moment program to test AI‑aligned battlefield medical triage. Trials in October 2025 at Merville Barracks and Brize Norton used VR scenarios where AI mimicked a...
How The Wall Street Journal Is Reaching the Next Generation on TikTok
The Wall Street Journal surpassed one million followers on TikTok by pairing platform‑friendly formats with its hallmark journalism. The newsroom’s strategy hinges on purposeful videos, a Talent Lab that equips reporters to promote themselves, and dedicated social video producers who...