NTT DATA Unveils Multivendor Agentic Services Experience for Enterprise Infra
NTT DATA launched its Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Services Agent, a conversational, multivendor orchestration platform for enterprise IT. The agent acts as a digital twin, using natural‑language prompts to sense, reason and act across networking, hybrid data‑centers, cybersecurity and digital‑workplace environments. It delivers predictive intelligence, faster issue resolution and sustainability insights, turning routine infrastructure tasks into measurable business outcomes. The service marks a shift from single‑vendor AI assistants to an enterprise‑grade, AI‑first infrastructure management model.
LLM System Design Interview #36 - The Isomorphic MLP Trick
In a Meta senior AI‑engineer interview, candidates are asked to replace a ReLU‑based feed‑forward network with SwiGLU while keeping the classic 4× expansion factor. The trap is that SwiGLU introduces a third weight matrix, inflating the FFN parameter count by...
BASF and Nutrien Partner to Help U.S. Farmers Access Low-Carbon Biofuel Markets
BASF and Nutrien have launched a joint initiative that links BASF’s xarvio digital farming platform with Nutrien’s on‑farm agronomy network to help U.S. corn growers document and lower the carbon intensity of their crops. The xarvio BIOENERGY tool records field‑level carbon...
Identity Over Integration
Ken Sinclair reports that a live BIMStorm exercise demonstrated rapid integration of BIM and KNX data using IFC GUID anchors and RDF/Turtle semantics. The teams linked building information models and automation protocols in hours without prior schema alignment or shared...
3 Ways You Didn’t Know AI Is Changing The Future of Work
Artificial intelligence is shifting from a productivity buzzword to a tangible cost center within enterprises. Companies now track AI compute spend alongside salaries because each prompt and inference adds a payroll‑like expense that can reach five‑figure annual totals for heavy...
Can We Achieve “Super Abundance” Without AI Doom?
In a new episode of *What Could Go Right?*, author Sebastian Mallaby sits down with host Zachary Karabell to dissect the mindset of DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, the architect of today’s most powerful AI systems. The conversation explores Hassabis’s “Ender’s...
Update: The Decline of Graphics Card Manufacturers Continues: GALAX Is Ceasing Global Operations, Palit Is Taking over, and the Entire...
GALAX announced it will discontinue independent operations worldwide, laying off its entire global workforce. Palit Microsystems, GALAX's parent since 2008, will take full control of the brand, inventory, warranty obligations and future product roadmap. The move is attributed to AI‑driven...
Gen AI Fuels Insurance Fraud Arms Race
Generative AI is dramatically amplifying insurance fraud, with AI‑enhanced cases soaring from under 20,000 in 2022 to more than 80,000 in 2025. Fraudsters now generate entire claim packages—photos, invoices, and assessments—that appear internally consistent and can evade traditional automated checks....
How AI Is Changing the World of Development Grantmaking
Rhodri Davies explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping development grantmaking, a topic featured in Devex. AI-driven analytics are automating eligibility screening, predicting project impact, and extracting insights from legacy grant data. Philanthropic foundations are adopting predictive models and real‑time dashboards...
Extra #9 - The Regression Playbook Part 1 (Code)
The blog post launches Part 1 of a five‑part Regression Playbook, demonstrating how to build, train, and visualize five core regression techniques using Python’s scikit‑learn library. It walks through Linear Regression, Stochastic Regression, Decision Tree Regression, Random Forest Regression, and k‑Nearest...
Your AI-Coding Budget Just Got a Lot More Complicated
AI‑coding tools have moved from simple chat interfaces to agentic systems that execute commands, call APIs, and access the internet, dramatically increasing token consumption. Vendors such as GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, Windsurf, and Cursor are responding with token‑based pricing, tighter limits,...
Greece’s AI Smart Policing System Ruled Unlawful After €4 Million Public Spending\
In 2019 the Hellenic Police awarded a €4 million (≈ $4.3 million) contract to Intracom Telecom for a “Smart Policing” system that equips officers with portable devices for facial‑recognition, fingerprint and license‑plate scanning. The AI‑enabled tools were intended to speed up identity checks...
Researchers Boost SLA Resin Conductivity With PEDOT:PSS
Researchers have formulated a UV‑curable SLA resin infused with the conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS and nano‑graphite, delivering measurable electrical conductivity while preserving the fine resolution and surface finish typical of stereolithography. The blend overcomes the usual light‑attenuation and viscosity penalties of...
EDRi Responds to European Commission’s Consultation Call on the Digital Omnibus
The European Commission has opened a consultation on its Digital Omnibus package, a set of technical tweaks aimed at simplifying EU digital law. Civil‑rights group EDRi submitted a response warning that the draft could erode core safeguards in the ePrivacy...
The Smarter AI Gets, the Less You Can Trust It on the Hard Stuff
Anthropic’s new ICLR 2026 paper shows that as language models become larger and reason longer, their errors shift from systematic to random, a phenomenon the authors label “incoherence.” The study, which evaluated Claude Sonnet 4, OpenAI’s o3‑mini/o4‑mini and Qwen 3 across GPQA, MMLU,...
The EU AI Office Must Prioritise Setting up the Advisory Forum
A coalition of 35 civil‑society groups and researchers has urged the EU AI Office to publish a clear timeline for establishing the Advisory Forum, the sole formal channel for non‑governmental input on the AI Act. The Forum, whose call for...
AI Documentation Tool Transforms Adult and Children’s Social Care
System C is rolling out its AI‑driven FormFlow Assistant to 15 English local authority social‑care teams, automating real‑time documentation during assessments. Early data show documentation time halved, with a 68% efficiency gain in the paperwork stage and a 40% overall...
It’s Not Just Spyware Scandals: EU Is Funding the Industry that Spies on Europeans
In February 2026 Greece sentenced four people for the Predatorgate espionage scandal, marking the first criminal conviction of executives from spyware maker Intellexa. Investigations reveal that EU subsidies, loans and investment funds have funneled hundreds of thousands to millions of...
UK Gets First Marketplace for Second-Hand Steel Bridges
The UK has launched Re‑Bridge, an online catalogue that lists redundant steel bridge components for reuse, aiming to lower material costs and embodied carbon. Asset owners can upload detailed specifications, creating a searchable inventory for engineers, contractors and local authorities....
How Coding Agents Become Legal Tech Allies
Vesence’s coding agents let lawyers describe a task in plain English and receive a custom script that manipulates PDFs, Excel files, Word documents, and Outlook emails on the spot. The agent runs in a sandboxed bash environment, writes code, executes...
U.S. CISA Adds Microsoft Windows Shell and ConnectWise ScreenConnect Flaws to Its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: a high‑severity path‑traversal issue in ConnectWise ScreenConnect (CVE‑2024‑1708) and a lower‑severity Windows Shell spoofing flaw (CVE‑2026‑32202). The ConnectWise bug scores...
The Needle and the Damage Done
The post uses the century‑long evolution of recorded‑music formats—from wax cylinders to streaming—as a metaphor for today’s AI boom. It outlines how each new medium sparked novelty, legal gray zones, rapid obsolescence, and eventually consolidation into a commodity platform. The...
"Leverage" AI, Systems Thinking, and Mental Models to Become a Solopreneur in 2026
The post argues that moving from a 9‑5 job to solopreneurship in 2026 is a systems problem, not just a courage issue. It shows how AI is reshaping the structures that once protected employees and offers five mental models, four...
Claims AI Requires Strong Operational Guardrails
Artificial intelligence is reshaping insurance claims by cutting cycle times, improving fraud detection, and lowering administrative costs. However, the true differentiator is not model accuracy but the operational guardrails that manage erroneous outputs. Insurers must embed human review for complex...
Is Your AI Ethical, Human-Centered and Pro-Social?
The column argues that AI adoption in higher education must move beyond efficiency metrics to prioritize ethical, human‑centered, and pro‑social outcomes. It highlights insights from three leading models—ChatGPT 5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Gemini 3—showing a consensus that AI choice is now an ethical...
Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Personal Growth (and Where It Falls Short)
The article reframes AI from a speed‑up tool to a thinking partner that helps individuals interrogate their own assumptions, fears, and decision frameworks. It outlines a series of eight prompts—three for hard‑core self‑audit and five for deeper reflection—to guide users...
Is AI Actually Making Your Legal Team Faster?
Legal AI tools dramatically cut drafting time, but firms often overlook where the saved minutes go. Junior lawyers can produce a first draft in minutes, yet partners spend extra hours verifying output and reconciling data across fragmented systems. Most firms...
Italy's Software Fiscalization Shift: Lower Hardware Costs, Higher Compliance Complexity
Italy is rolling out a software‑based fiscalization system that will replace traditional fiscal printers with a certified, distributed architecture. The change promises lower upfront hardware costs, reduced maintenance, and fewer local service dependencies for retailers. However, the model shifts compliance...
China Suspends New Robotaxi Permits After Baidu's Wuhan Outage, Report Says
China has suspended the issuance of new robotaxi permits after a mass outage of Baidu’s Apollo Go fleet in Wuhan. The incident on March 31 left several autonomous vehicles stalled on busy overpasses, prompting a safety review by three regulatory agencies. The...
Unpredictability Creates Alpha: Stock Picking
A new NBER working paper by Lauren Cohen et al. uses machine‑learning to forecast the quarterly holdings of U.S. equity funds from 1990‑2023, correctly predicting 71% of fund trades. The study finds that stocks easily identified by a fund’s style—value,...
Oulu’s Chip Design Expertise Enters Europe’s Semiconductor Debate
Oulu, Finland’s leading semiconductor design hub, hosted the high‑profile “Chips from the Very North” conference, drawing EU officials, industry executives, and academia. Professor Aarno Pärssinen highlighted the city’s decades‑long synergy of research, industry, and education that fuels complex microchip design....
Bevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
Bevey Miner, EVP of Healthcare Strategy at Consensus Cloud Solutions, explained that digital cloud faxing isn’t the interoperability problem—unstructured fax data is. The company’s eFax platform now includes an AI‑driven extraction engine called Clarity, which converts PDFs, TIFFs and scanned...
8 Applicant Tracking System Courses to Master ATS Proficiency
The article reviews eight top Applicant Tracking System (ATS) courses, ranging from broad HR certifications like the HRCI PHR prep to platform‑specific trainings for Greenhouse, Zoho Recruit, and iCIMS, as well as platform‑agnostic options such as Elevify and beginner‑focused programs...
MiciMike Board Converts Google Home Mini Into Local Home Assistant Voice Device
The MiciMike Home Mini Drop‑In PCB is an open‑hardware add‑on that converts a first‑generation Google Home Mini into a fully local Home Assistant voice device. The board slots into the existing speaker without case modifications or soldering, reusing the original...
Google’s UCP Just Won Agentic Commerce. Stripe, Amazon, and Microsoft Walked Into the Room
On April 24, 2026 Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) expanded its Tech Council to include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and Stripe, joining founding members Shopify, Etsy, Target, Wayfair and Google. The move shifts the battle from a demo‑centric checkout race...
The End of Gas Pain? Oregon Launches Nation’s First Road-User Charge
Oregon is moving its experimental OReGO road‑user charge from a voluntary pilot to a mandatory program that will begin on July 1 2027, initially targeting electric and hybrid vehicles. The per‑mile fee is set at just over two cents, linked to the...
Word Games: How Moderna Is Selling Its Newest Vaccine without Using the “V” Word
Moderna’s $776 million federal award for a bird‑flu vaccine is under scrutiny after U.S. officials targeted mRNA technology, prompting the company to warn it may halt late‑stage vaccine programs. Simultaneously, Moderna and Merck are advancing an mRNA‑based cancer treatment, which Merck...
NVIDIA N1X in the Spotlight at Computex: Leak Suggests a 2026 Demo, but only a Late Market Launch
NVIDIA and MediaTek are rumored to unveil an ARM‑based notebook SoC, the N1X, at Computex 2026, with a demo slated for June. Leaks suggest the first laptops could ship in October 2026, with broader availability in early 2027, but no official...
Nokia Reports AI Boost Following Nvidia Partnership: The Former Mobile Phone Giant Is Profiting Again From the Networks of the...
Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia posted Q1 2026 revenue of €4.5 billion (≈$4.9 billion) and comparable operating profit of €281 million, driven by a 49 percent surge in its AI & Cloud segment, which now represents 8 percent of sales and generated €1 billion (≈$1.1 billion) of new orders. The...
Graphene Instead of Silicon? Simulations From Kiel Show Light-Controlled Electrons in the Femtosecond Range
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Tianjin University reported semiconducting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide with a 0.6 eV bandgap and carrier mobility above 5,000 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹. In September 2025, the University of Kiel simulated femtosecond laser pulses that can locally excite electrons in graphene...
USB Colors Explained: Why White, Black, Blue, or Red Ports Often Cause More Confusion Than Clarity
USB port colors are a long‑standing visual cue, but they are not a strict standard. White and black historically signal USB 1.x and 2.0, while blue is widely used for 5 Gbps SuperSpeed (USB 3.2 Gen 1). Colors such as teal, red, yellow, and orange...
XPENG Releases World Model Technical Report, Powering VLA 2.0 Model R&D And Verification
XPeng (NYSE: XPEV) released its X‑World technical report, detailing a controllable, multi‑view generative world model built on video diffusion technology. The model powers the company’s VLA 2.0 autonomous‑driving stack, enabling real‑time, cross‑view video simulation for closed‑loop testing, online reinforcement learning, and...
Hands-On with Leion Hey 2 Glasses: Living Life with Subtitles
The Leion Hey 2 AR glasses deliver real‑time subtitle translation with claimed 98% accuracy in over 100 languages, projecting text onto a high‑brightness 2500‑nit Micro‑LED display. The device relies on a paired smartphone for Bluetooth‑based audio streaming to cloud servers, resulting...
Pacific Routing Security Sets a Deadline
At the APNIC Sub‑Regional Forum during PITA 30 in Rarotonga, routing‑security chair Terry Sweetser asked Pacific telco leaders whether they filter forged BGP announcements. The discussion revealed widespread uncertainty, with only 49 of 116 regional ASNs showing any protection and many...
The AI Agent Stack in 2026
In 2026 the AI agent architecture has evolved from a linear stack to an operating‑system‑like model. Agents now surface across IDEs, Slack, browsers, dashboards and approval queues, turning the interface into a distinct top layer. Coding harnesses such as Claude Code,...
Polling Rate, Latency, and the Future of Input: Between Marketing Promises and Measurable Reality (Continued, Part 2 of 2)
Igor’s Lab revisits the debate over 8 K mouse polling rates, emphasizing that end‑to‑end latency remains the primary metric for most gamers but that higher refresh‑rate displays expose new factors such as harmonic jitter and temporal distribution of inputs. The follow‑up...
MoreSense MS-07 – An ESP32-S3 Indoor Air Quality Monitor with SEN66 Multisensor and Home Assistant Support
The MoreSense MS-07 is an indoor air‑quality monitor that replaces the MS‑06’s SCD40 sensor with Sensirion’s multi‑parameter SEN66, adding PM1‑10, NOx and VOC detection. It runs on an ESP32‑S3 MCU, features a 3.5‑inch capacitive IPS touchscreen, 512 MB microSD logging, and...
E-Fuels in Cars: Unaffordable for Drivers
An independent study commissioned by Transport & Environment finds that producing e‑petrol by 2030 will cost about €4 per litre (≈$4.40) and sell at roughly €7 per litre (≈$7.70), four times the price of fossil gasoline. The analysis shows that...
CRL Release Update – No Litigation War yet, but New Citizen Petition Beats the Drums
The FDA has begun posting Complete Response Letters (CRLs) for unapproved NDAs, ANDAs, and BLAs, releasing 127 documents to date, including 36 that had never been publicly disclosed. A Washington‑based law firm filed a Citizen Petition on April 20, 2026,...
Outsider Insights | You Can't Measure AI ROI If You Can't Measure Marketing ROI
A recent webinar highlighted dramatic AI‑driven results—a FinTech firm lifted weekly leads to 3,274 and another client hit its annual sales target in 90 days. Both successes hinged on having a clear pre‑AI measurement baseline, allowing teams to attribute gains...