Novo Nordisk, OpenAI Bring AI Into Core Operations to Accelerate Time to Market
Novo Nordisk has teamed up with OpenAI to embed advanced artificial intelligence across its entire value chain, from early‑stage research to manufacturing, distribution, and commercial operations. The partnership aims to accelerate drug discovery, streamline production, and shorten the time it takes to bring therapies like Ozempic and Wegovy to patients. Pilot programs start now, with full AI integration slated for completion by the end of 2026. A core component is workforce upskilling and strict data‑governance to meet pharmaceutical regulatory standards.
New Video Frontiers 2026: What to Expect
VideoWeek’s New Video Frontiers 2026 conference kicks off tomorrow in London, gathering broadcasters, agencies, platforms and brands for two days of CTV, AI and ad‑tech discussions. Day 1 features a fireside on brand‑marketer pressures, Omdia’s CTV forecasts, AI‑powered ad‑trading infrastructure, and...
GitHub Invokes Spirit of Phabricator with Preview of Stacked PRs
GitHub has introduced Stacked PRs, a private‑preview feature that lets developers create a series of dependent pull requests. Each PR in the stack can be reviewed and merged independently, provided its predecessors are merged first, encouraging smaller, more manageable changes....
GitHub Invokes Spirit of Phabricator with Preview of Stacked PRs
GitHub has opened a private preview of Stacked PRs, a feature that lets developers build a series of dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged one at a time or all together. By encouraging smaller, logical units of...
I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses
Meta has launched AI‑powered smart sunglasses that look like ordinary Ray‑Ban or Oakley frames but hide Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, speakers, microphones and a wide‑angle camera. The glasses feature a voice assistant that can speak in celebrity tones such as Kristen Bell,...
When It Comes To Marketplaces, More Is Exponentially Better
Mirakl’s 2026 Sellers Report, covering 100,000 sellers and $15 billion in GMV, shows multi‑channel marketplace sellers vastly outperform single‑channel peers. Sellers on two or more marketplaces generate an average $10.1 million GMV, a 17.5‑fold increase over those on a single platform. Brands...
How to Record Video Content That Translates Cleanly with AI
The article explains that AI‑driven video translation only mirrors the quality of the original recording, so creators must treat multilingual distribution as a primary goal. It advises speakers to plan structure, pause briefly, keep sentences short, avoid idioms, and ensure...
Conversational CRM: What It Is and Why It Matters
Conversational CRM blends real‑time messaging, AI, and traditional customer data to let teams manage relationships directly within the collaboration tools they already use. By automatically capturing emails, chats, and SMS, the approach eliminates manual data entry and surfaces insights through...
HubSport Launches Spring 2026 Release
HubSpot announced its Spring 2026 release, adding over 100 new and updated products aimed at AI‑enhanced go‑to‑market operations. The flagship HubSpot AEO tool extends SEO into answer‑engine optimization for platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. New assistants—including Breeze Assistant, Prospecting Agent,...
Evergent Introduces Agentic Revenue Orchestration Platform
Evergent unveiled its Agentic Revenue Orchestration Platform, a suite of AI‑driven tools designed for subscription businesses in streaming, pay‑TV, telecom and gaming. The platform introduces three agents—Retention, Operations and Customer Support—that predict churn, streamline product creation via natural language, and...
Tekmetric Launches Digital Ads and Tekmetric Phones
Tekmetric announced at its Tektonic 2026 conference the launch of two new services: Tekmetric Digital Ads, a self‑serve platform that boosts auto‑repair shops’ visibility on Google Maps and Yelp, and Tekmetric Phones, an integrated calling solution that surfaces customer history, vehicle...
Khoros Launches Iris AI
Khoros unveiled Iris AI, an AI‑native platform that merges social listening, publishing, engagement and analytics into a single system. The tool processes billions of posts in 187 languages, offering real‑time moderation, sentiment analysis and automated routing of interactions to the right...
AutoRaptor Launches AI Voice Agent
AutoRaptor, a CRM provider for independent auto dealerships, unveiled its AI Voice Agent, a fully automated conversational system that answers inbound calls, qualifies prospects, captures lead details, and schedules appointments. The agent instantly identifies caller intent, routes queries, and logs...
You Are Using Claude Wrong (And So Is Everyone You Know)
Claude surged to the top of the US App Store in early 2026 after a high‑profile Pentagon demo, prompting millions of new users to treat it like ChatGPT. The article argues this is a framing error, because Claude is built...
The CCaaS Opportunity Ahead: How Vendors Can Lead the Next Wave
The contact‑center‑as‑a‑service (CCaaS) market remains a core platform for CX organizations, delivering telephony, omnichannel orchestration, and session management. While AI is emerging as the intelligence layer, it relies on CCaaS for channel transport and data flow. Vendors must expand the...
How Public Records Requests Could Help ‘Fight AI with AI’
Public records requests are overwhelming state and local agencies, a problem amplified by AI‑generated bulk inquiries. Experts argue that the same technology can be repurposed to automate document retrieval, initial review, and redaction, easing the administrative load. Madison AI’s CEO...
Google Adds AI Skills to Chrome to Help You Save Favorite Workflows
Google announced "Skills," a new Chrome feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts across web pages. The capability builds on Gemini, Google’s generative AI already embedded in the browser, and can be triggered via a slash command or...
Social Media Platforms Need To Stop Never-Ending Scrolling, UK's Starmer Says
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged social‑media firms to strip away infinite‑scroll features for users under 16, as Britain widens its child‑online‑safety consultation. The government is weighing bans, curfews and app‑time limits to curb addictive usage, and more than 45,000...
How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
Google Chrome introduced "Skills," a suite of more than 50 AI‑powered prompts that run through the Gemini chatbot in the browser sidebar. Users can invoke a Skill with a forward slash command, letting Gemini analyze page content to summarize videos,...
Chrome Skills Let You Save Your Favorite Gemini Prompts for Easy Access
Google is rolling out a new "Skills" feature to Chrome on desktop, letting users save favorite Gemini prompts for instant reuse. Users can store prompts directly from the Gemini chat history and retrieve them with a forward slash or the...
OneAZ Credit Union Extends Strategic Digital Banking Partnership with Lumin Digital
OneAZ Credit Union has renewed its strategic partnership with cloud‑native provider Lumin Digital for an additional five years, extending a relationship that began in 2021. The credit union, serving more than 230,000 members and holding $4.3 billion in assets, relies on...
Google Ads Advertisers Report Wave of Unexplained Ad Disapprovals
Google Ads advertisers are facing a wave of sudden ad disapprovals tied to DNS lookup failures and HTTP 500 server errors, even though their landing pages appear functional for users. In some cases, more than 1,500 ads were rejected within minutes,...
BMW Digital Founder Urges Brands to Trade Moments for Commitments
NeAndre Broussard, chief executive of BMW Digital and founder of the Black Menswear movement, told ADWEEK’s Social Media Week that brands should abandon fleeting viral moments in favor of lasting community commitments. Drawing on six years of building a culturally resonant Black‑men’s fashion...
Claude Code Routines
Anthropic introduced Claude Code Routines, a cloud‑hosted automation feature that bundles a prompt, repositories, and connectors into a reusable task. Routines can be triggered on a schedule, via an API call, or by GitHub events, and multiple triggers may be...
7 Hip-Hop Artists Who Have Experimented With AI
A Vice/Noisey feature spotlights seven hip‑hop artists—50 Cent, Timbaland, Wyclef Jean, RZA, Will.i.am, K Camp and Kanye West—who are actively experimenting with generative AI in music creation. The piece details how each artist uses AI, from 50 Cent’s AI‑reimagined classics to RZA’s cost‑saving...
TechJutsu Launches Browser Extension to Bring MFA to the Web
TechJutsu, a Calgary‑based identity‑access firm founded in 2015, unveiled its Caller Verify Universal Connector, a browser extension that embeds multi‑factor authentication (MFA) into any web application. The plug‑in works in Chrome and Edge and integrates with major CRM and collaboration...
'Sweater for Houses' Could Reduce Heating Bills by at Least 15%
Researchers at UMass Amherst have created a photothermal “skin” for buildings—a removable fabric panel coated with a PEDOT‑Cl polymer that converts sunlight into heat. Lab tests show the panels can raise indoor temperatures by about 4.8 °C and slash heating energy...
How Computer Vision Libraries Are Used in Real Life
Computer vision libraries have moved from research labs to everyday systems, enabling real‑time interpretation of video streams across sectors. Platforms such as Savant AI provide end‑to‑end pipelines, letting developers focus on business logic rather than low‑level image processing. The technology now...
RBM20 Genetic Variants Linked to Arrhythmogenic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
A large cohort study using UK Biobank, All of Us, and an international registry shows that RBM20 gene variants contribute to arrhythmogenic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). While pathogenic missense RBM20 variants are linked to severe disease, truncating RBM20 variants present later...
Rent the Runway Turns to Marketplace, Other Sideline Businesses to Stoke Revenue
Rent the Runway is diversifying beyond rentals by offering dry‑cleaning services to hotels, expanding its advertising arm, and launching an online marketplace in March. Revenue rose 7.7% year‑over‑year to about $330 million, while gross margin slipped, yet the company posted a...
As AI Agents Transform Digital Advertising, Where’s the Privacy Architecture?
AI agents are reshaping digital advertising by autonomously creating, placing, and optimizing campaigns, yet privacy considerations are largely missing from the conversation. Rowena Lam argues that without built‑in privacy guardrails, agents could misuse consumer data, create sensitive inferences, and obscure...
How Your CCTV Becomes a Hacker’s Spy
CCTV systems are increasingly exploited by hackers who use default factory passwords to breach IP cameras worldwide. In India, a cyber‑crime ring stole 50,000 video clips from 80 cameras across 20 states, selling each for roughly $9‑$50. In response, India...
Core AI Holdings, Allianca Launch JV to Speed AI Data Center Delivery
Core AI Holdings and Allianca Group have launched a joint venture to fast‑track AI‑ready data center delivery, combining Core AI’s capital‑market expertise with Allianca’s turnkey construction model. The partnership promises an integrated platform that handles site selection, power planning, modular...
Distributed Batteries Get Legislative, Utility Lift in California
California lawmakers are advancing SB 913 to count aggregated residential batteries and electric vehicles as resource‑adequacy capacity, leveling them with traditional generators. Ava Community Energy has launched an $11.25 million SmartHome Battery incentive, offering $500/kWh rebates for low‑income households and $90/kWh for...
Shawn Davis, MD, on Access, Coverage, and the Future of Obesity Therapy
The FDA’s approval of oral semaglutide (Rybelsus) was hailed as a breakthrough for obesity treatment, yet uptake has lagged as patients on injectable GLP‑1s show little interest in switching to a daily pill. Early market confusion stemmed from the drug’s...
Unseen AI, Unchecked Risk: The CISO Wake-Up Call
Shadow AI—unauthorized use of generative AI tools—is emerging as a blind spot for security teams, exposing proprietary code and sensitive data without detection. More than a third of companies still lack formal AI compliance policies, leaving employees free to paste...
Beyond by RS2 Joins Hakisa in Boosting Digital Expense Management for Social and Public Entities
Fintech innovators Beyond by RS2 and Hakisa have launched an integrated digital card‑based expense management platform aimed at social institutions, welfare organisations, and municipalities. The solution combines RS2’s payment processing capabilities with Hakisa’s local market reach to deliver real‑time tracking,...
Spotlight Interview: Stephen Klein, CEO and Co-Founder of Saivory
Saivory, founded by former Bain consultant Stephen Klein, offers AI‑powered tools that help restaurant chains reclaim first‑party digital sales. Its platform combines dynamic local landing pages with AI‑guided ordering flows to improve search visibility, reduce cart abandonment, and increase average...
Top 10 Metasearch Marketing Agencies for Independent Hotels
The article ranks the ten leading metasearch marketing agencies that help independent hotels capture direct bookings, featuring firms such as TravelBoom, Bookassist and Mirai. It explains how metasearch platforms—Google Hotel Ads, Trivago and Kayak—let hotels bypass costly OTA commissions that...
Google Messages Is Finally Getting the Customization Samsung Users Will Miss
Google Messages’ latest beta build contains code for a full custom‑theming system, allowing users to add photos, titles, backgrounds and adjust bubble colors—features long available in Samsung Messages. Currently, Google’s app only offers hidden bubble‑color changes, making the new options...
Regulators Approve Georgia Power’s BYO Clean Resources Plan for Large Loads
Georgia regulators unanimously approved Georgia Power’s Customer Identified Resource (CIR) program, allowing large electricity customers to finance and connect up to 3 GW of clean energy projects through 2035. Participants receive renewable energy certificates and credit for the energy value of...
Venice Hydraulic Pump System Hacked, Hackers Claim Power to Create Floods
A hacker group identifying as “Infrastructure Destruction Squad” or “Dark Engine” claims to have breached Venice’s hydraulic pump system that protects Piazza San Marco, asserting it can open floodgates. The group says it stole administrative credentials for the flood‑risk management...
Wealth.com’s Proprietary AI, Ester Intelligence, Enters a New Era
Wealth.com announced that its proprietary AI platform, Ester Intelligence, has evolved from a document‑analysis tool into a fully integrated intelligence layer for wealth management. The system now synthesizes estate documents, tax returns, balance sheets and planning logic, delivering contextual, actionable...
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NOBLELIFT unveiled NobleOne, the material‑handling industry’s first fully integrated AI forklift platform, at MODEX 2026. The system pairs AI‑driven operator coaching, advanced driver‑assist safety, and direct control of autonomous mobile robots with Gather AI’s MHE Vision camera that records every pallet move...
AI Is Delivering Tangible Benefits This Tax Season
Tax professionals are increasingly deploying AI tools such as Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Tax & Audit to streamline workflows, reduce manual research, and improve accuracy during the busy tax season. At Minnesota‑based Copeland Buhl, 67 staff members using AI have cut...
The 2026 MDO Medtech Startups Special Report
Medical Design & Outsourcing released its 2026 Medtech Startups Special Report, a free guide packed with technical tips and strategic advice for early‑stage medical device companies. The report highlights a tightening fundraising environment as venture capital pours into AI and...
Black Basta’s Playbook Lives on as Former Affiliates Launch Fast-Scale Intrusion Campaign
A loose network of former Black Basta affiliates has launched a fast‑scale intrusion campaign, targeting over 100 senior employees across dozens of organizations. The attackers employ mass email bombing and Microsoft Teams help‑desk impersonation to gain rapid remote access, often...
Ukraine Strikes Drone Production, Military Support Deal with Germany
Ukraine and Germany have sealed a strategic defence partnership that links German military aid with access to Ukraine’s cutting‑edge drone expertise. Germany will fund several hundred U.S.-made Patriot missiles and support co‑production ventures to boost Ukraine’s air‑defence and drone output....
Denver International Airport and Southwest Airlines Introduce Dedicated TSA PreCheck Touchless ID Self-Bag Drop Option for Passengers
Denver International Airport and Southwest Airlines have launched a dedicated TSA PreCheck Touchless ID self‑bag‑drop lane for Southwest flyers at the Jeppesen Terminal. The service uses facial‑comparison technology to verify identity without a physical ID scan, allowing eligible travelers to print tags and...
Tariffs, War Impact Fastenal Growth in Q1
Fastenal reported fiscal Q1 sales growth, driven primarily by an expanding digital footprint that outpaced overall revenue. The company highlighted macro‑level headwinds, including higher oil prices, carrier surcharges, and tariff uncertainty linked to the U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran. These pressures...