ABB Manufacturing Facility in SC to Meet 80% of Electricity Needs with On-Site Solar
ABB’s 47‑year‑old electrification service plant in Florence, South Carolina, now sources about 80% of its electricity from a new on‑site 840‑kW solar array. The facility also achieved over 90% waste diversion through a waste‑to‑energy program and implements ABB Ability Nsight and INTEGRA controls to optimize energy use. By focusing on targeted digital and efficiency upgrades rather than full‑scale retrofits, ABB demonstrates how legacy industrial sites can improve profitability, resilience, and progress toward its Mission to Zero net‑zero goal by 2050.
Top Cloud Privileged Access Management Best Practices to Prevent Privilege Abuse
Cloud privileged access abuse underpins the majority of major cloud breaches, often stemming from unmanaged service accounts or inherited IAM roles. Cloud PAM aims to discover, control, and enforce least‑privilege across all human, machine, and AI identities at scale. Implementing...
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Is $200 Off for the First Time
Samsung has slashed the price of its flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200, bringing the unlocked 256GB model to $1,099 across major retailers. The device remains the only S26 series phone with a Privacy Display that obscures the screen from...
A Breath Test Reveals Infections Deep Inside Tissues
UCSF researchers have created a breath test that injects ^13C‑labeled sugars into the bloodstream, allowing bacteria deep in tissues to convert them into detectable ^13CO₂. In mouse models of muscle, bone, lung and bloodstream infections, the test identified infection within...
Australia’s Biggest Stock Exchange Needs Tougher Competition, or We All Risk Paying the Price
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has been condemned by a nine‑month ASIC inquiry for systemic, cultural flaws that have led to repeated technology outages and costly mix‑ups. Holding 81.5% of domestic turnover, the ASX enjoys near‑monopoly status with only Cboe...
Akamai Expands Channel Reach Through Arrow Partnership
Akamai announced a partnership with Arrow Electronics to broaden its channel reach, allowing Arrow’s partner network to resell Akamai’s edge, cloud, and security services. The deal integrates Akamai’s platform into Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions, streamlining procurement, onboarding, and billing for...
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Piaggio Fast Forward announced its hybrid navigation technology for the kilo® robot at MODEX 2026, combining edge AI with deterministic control. The system lets the robot infer a leader’s intent and switch seamlessly between AI‑driven and algorithmic modes for forward...
White House Adds AbbVie's Humira to TrumpRx Alongside Cheaper Biosimilars
The White House’s drug‑discount portal TrumpRx now lists AbbVie’s Humira at $950 per month, a steep cut from its typical $5,000‑plus price. The listing appears alongside two lower‑cost biosimilars that target the same inflammatory conditions. TrumpRx aims to provide seniors...
How AI and Automation Are Changing Home Insurance Claims in 2026
AI and automation have reshaped home insurance claims, slashing average processing time from ten days to 36 hours. Insurers now rely on drones, satellites, and AI models to assess damage, often without notifying homeowners, while fraud detection accuracy has risen...
How Manufacturers Are Training Their Workforce for AI-Powered Operations
Manufacturers are rapidly deploying AI for predictive maintenance, machine‑vision inspection, and real‑time scheduling. The speed of implementation has outstripped workforce preparation, resulting in underused systems and ignored alerts. Companies are shifting training from generic software demos to role‑specific AI literacy,...
Understanding Agentic AI: Innovation Exec and Ford Scientists Share Tips
IndustryWeek’s Production Pulse episode features Ron Norris, Sanjay Ahire and Nagadithya Nookala discussing agentic AI, a step beyond generative AI that can not only retrieve information but also synthesize insights and act on them. They illustrate the concept with Google...
How MassMutual and Mass General Brigham Turned AI Pilot Sprawl Into Production Results
MassMutual and Mass General Brigham (MGB) tackled rampant AI pilot sprawl by imposing disciplined governance, turning experimental projects into production‑grade solutions. MassMutual reported a 30% boost in developer productivity, help‑desk resolution dropping from 11 minutes to one, and customer calls...
Mouser Electronics Explores How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Everyday Technologies and Experiences
Mouser Electronics launched the 2026 edition of its Empowering Innovation Together (EIT) series, "Engineering AI for Daily Life," highlighting how artificial intelligence is becoming integral to consumer and connected devices. The initiative includes a podcast, video, technical articles, and an...
Taiwan Joins Others in Asia Restarting Coal-Fired Units Due to Iran War
Taiwan Power Co. will restart two coal‑fired units at the Mailiao plant, delivering roughly 1 GW of capacity for at least three months starting in May. The move responds to heightened electricity demand and recent disruptions to LNG supplies caused by...
Third-Party Agents Lose Access as Anthropic Tightens Claude Usage Rules
Anthropic announced that, effective April 4, Claude Pro and Max subscribers can no longer use their subscription limits to power third‑party agent frameworks such as OpenClaw. Affected users must move to pay‑as‑you‑go bundles or direct API keys, receiving a one‑time...
College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI
College students are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models, turning classroom discussions into AI‑driven monologues. At Yale, students have been observed typing prompts into ChatGPT during lectures, resulting in flat, predictable dialogue. Recent research in *Trends in Cognitive...
How to Learn From Any Expert Without Paying Consulting Fees (Using NotebookLM)
Google’s free NotebookLM research tool now offers a Chrome extension that can import entire YouTube channels with a single click, turning hundreds of hours of video into a searchable notebook. Users can ask questions, generate summaries, mind maps, quizzes, and...
Fox to Use Kalshi Predictive Data in News, Weather Forecasts
Fox Corporation has signed a sponsored integration with prediction‑market platform Kalshi, embedding its data into Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Weather and the streaming service Fox One. The deal excludes election coverage, where Fox will continue to rely on its...
The Galaxy S26 Ultra Has Everything — but the Regular S26 Is the Smarter Buy
Samsung's new Galaxy S26 and S26 Ultra are flagship phones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor. While the Ultra adds a 200 MP camera, S Pen, and faster 60 W charging, it costs roughly $400 more than the regular S26. The reviewer finds the...
Anthropic Rolls Out Cyber AI Model Days After Source Code Leak
Anthropic has launched Claude Cyber, a new AI model built specifically for cybersecurity tasks, just days after a leak of its source code raised concerns about model safety. The model is designed to identify threats, parse security logs, and suggest...
The AI Imperative: Reshaping Healthcare Media for Impact and Integrity
AI is poised to overhaul healthcare and life‑science media by delivering highly targeted, data‑driven experiences. Large language models already help clinicians sift through up to 5,000 new papers daily, while programmatic platforms can serve personalized messages at critical decision points....
Bobbie's Chief Brand Officer on the Cardi B Partnership that Sparked a Cultural Conversation
Bobbie teamed with Cardi B as its "Chief Confidence Officer," launching a bold campaign that lifted brand awareness 16% in the first week and drove a 195% surge in Net Promoter Score among Gen Z parents. The partnership sparked a cultural conversation...
Temple University Student Highlights IEEE Membership Perks
Temple University junior Kyle McGinley, an IEEE student member, showcases how the society’s perks have propelled his academic and professional growth. He helped rebuild an older lab robot into an AI‑integrated android that assists Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers, using Python,...
Magnetic Coil Setup Guides Microrobots without Seeing Them
SMU researchers have built a triaxial Helmholtz coil system that creates a uniform magnetic field gradient, enabling microrobots to be guided without continuous visual tracking. The six‑coil arrangement, calibrated with a triaxial magnetometer and refined by Tikhonov regularization, delivers consistent...
Apple, Google, and Microsoft Join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to Defend World's Most Critical Software
A coalition of tech giants—including Apple, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, Cisco, and others—has launched Project Glasswing with Anthropic to defend the world’s most critical software. The initiative will deploy Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI model, which has already identified thousands of...
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Is Now Available, but Not for You
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier large‑language model offered exclusively to a select group of partners through Project Glasswing. The model outperforms Anthropic’s Opus on the CyberGym benchmark, scoring 83.1% versus 66.6%, and has already identified thousands of...
CEOs Are Making Billion-Dollar Decisions Based on AI-Generated Data They Can’t Verify — and That’s a Huge Risk
CEOs are increasingly turning to artificial‑intelligence tools to streamline boardroom analysis, but many of these systems operate as opaque black boxes. The rapid pace of AI adoption has outstripped the development of governance frameworks, leaving leaders to make billion‑dollar decisions...
Tech Giants Launch AI-Powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to Identify Critical Software Vulnerabilities
Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing, a coalition of Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks that will use the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview AI model to hunt for hidden software flaws. In early testing the...
Anthropic Is Worried Hackers Could Abuse Its Claude Mythos AI Model – so It's Asking Big Tech Partners to Test...
Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, a collaborative effort with Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Microsoft, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and the Linux Foundation to test its new AI security model Claude Mythos. The model, offered as Mythos Preview, has already identified thousands of zero‑day...
Anthropic Debuts Preview of Powerful New AI Model Mythos in New Cybersecurity Initiative
Anthropic unveiled a preview of its new frontier AI model, Mythos, under a cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing. The model, described as one of the company’s most powerful, is being tested by more than 40 partner organizations—including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple,...
How WealthTech Can Shape the Next Generation of Investors
WealthTech platforms have democratized financial access, enabling users to manage money, save, and invest from their smartphones. A World Economic Forum study shows 30% of Gen Z begin investing in university, double the rate of Millennials. Industry leaders such as...
Oracle Signals Massive AI Opportunity as Layoffs Hit
Oracle is accelerating its AI push while cutting 20,000‑30,000 jobs to reallocate resources toward high‑growth areas. The company disclosed a $553 billion backlog, a 325% YoY increase, and lifted its FY2027 revenue target to $90 billion, giving unprecedented forward visibility. Oracle secured...
Iranian Hackers Launching Disruptive Attacks at U.S. Energy, Water Targets, Feds Warn
U.S. federal agencies have issued a joint alert that Iranian‑affiliated advanced persistent threat actors are exploiting internet‑facing operational technology, specifically programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from Rockwell Automation/Allen‑Bradley. The attacks have disrupted PLC functions across energy, water, and government sectors, manipulating...
Fed Agencies See Cyberthreats as Key Barrier to Tech Improvements
Federal leaders are making cybersecurity a top priority as they map out 2026 technology‑modernization plans, according to EY's latest survey. Fifty‑six percent of respondents listed cyber defense among their highest priorities, and roughly one‑third said escalating threats impede modernization goals....
Kraus Hamdani Aerospace Awarded $270 Million AFCENT Contract to Accelerate Deployment of K1000ULE
Kraus Hamdani Aerospace secured a $270 million single‑source IDIQ contract from U.S. Air Forces Central to fast‑track deployment of its K1000ULE unmanned aerial system. The electric, modular UAS offers the longest endurance in its class, two‑person logistics, and secure SATCOM for...
SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Carissa Christensen, BryceTech
Nearly 2,800 smallsats—97% of all 2024 launches—highlight the sector’s explosive growth. BryceTech’s latest report shows $1.4 billion poured into Series A rounds for 69 startups, the strongest first‑round funding since 2021. Founder Carissa Christensen, a veteran entrepreneur and space policy adviser, will...
APEC 2026: Menlo Micro Brings MEMS-Based Power Switching on the Strength of Navy Program Milestone
Menlo Micro showcased its Ideal Switch MEMS power‑switching technology at APEC 2026, highlighting a Navy‑backed milestone that completed Task 4 of the U.S. Navy’s 10 MW Advanced Circuit Breaker Development Program. The demonstration featured a 1,000 V, 500 A panel delivering 0.5 MW, built...
F.W. Webb Launches Mobile App for Trade Professionals
F.W. Webb, a wholesale distributor with more than 100 locations across the Northeast, launched a native mobile app on March 31, 2026 to let trade professionals order plumbing, HVAC and other parts directly from their phones. The app delivers real‑time...
NASA Artemis II Photo Captures Moon Eclipse of Sun — 'Absolutely Stunning'
NASA’s Artemis II mission captured a striking image of the Moon eclipsing the Sun during its six‑hour lunar flyby, a moment NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman called “absolutely stunning.” The crew also broke Apollo 13’s 56‑year‑old record for the farthest distance traveled by...
Construction of $20bn Terafab Project in Austin, Texas Advances as Intel Comes on Board
Intel announced its participation in Elon Musk’s $20 billion Terafab semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas. The joint venture, involving Tesla, SpaceX and now Intel, targets a 1 TW/year compute output to supply AI, robotics and space data‑center chips. Musk envisions a nine‑month...
AI-Driven Brute Force: Why Traditional Rate Limiting Is Dead in 2026
AI‑driven brute‑force attacks have surged, rising 89% year‑over‑year to roughly 11,000 attempts per second in early 2026. Traditional rate‑limiting, which blocks traffic based on per‑IP or per‑session thresholds, is increasingly ineffective as AI‑powered botnets distribute low‑rate, human‑like requests across millions...
Google Maps Uses Gemini to Write Captions for Your Photos
Google Maps is adding Gemini‑powered caption suggestions for photos shared on the platform. The feature launches today on iOS in the United States, with an English‑only rollout that will expand to Android worldwide in the coming months. By automatically generating...
NAB 2026: Synamedia to Demonstrate AI by Quortex
Synamedia will showcase its AI by Quortex framework at NAB Show 2026, offering on‑demand AI processing for video workflows instead of continuous operation. The system leverages smart‑sampling to trigger AI only when meaningful changes occur, promising up to ten‑fold reductions in...
The Guardian View on Artemis II: The Light and Dark Sides of the Moon | Editorial
NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully sent astronauts, including Christina Koch, around the Moon’s far side on April 6, 2026, marking the first crewed flight beyond low‑Earth orbit since Apollo. The flight rekindled public awe, echoing the Earthrise image’s cultural impact, while also highlighting...
Digits Announces Outcome-Based Pricing for Accounting Firms
Digits, the AI‑native accounting platform, launched an outcome‑based pricing model that charges firms only when it achieves at least 95% zero‑touch transaction automation. The model ties Digits’ revenue to measurable reductions in manual work, letting firms pay solely for proven...
NAB 2026: AWS to Showcase AI and Cloud Media Technologies
Amazon Web Services will occupy booth W1701 at NAB Show 2026, demonstrating AI‑powered media tools such as AWS Elemental Inference, which creates vertical video from live streams in 6‑10 seconds. The service, already adopted by Fox Sports Digital and NBCUniversal,...
AI Infrastructure Drawn Into Geopolitical Tensions as Iran Threatens Regional Data Centers
Iran has warned it may target U.S.-linked AI and energy infrastructure in the Middle East, specifically naming the $500 billion "Stargate" data‑center initiative backed by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle. The threat follows recent strikes that damaged Amazon Web Services facilities in...
Pol Theta Enzyme Identified as Key Driver of Cancer Resilience
Researchers at Scripps Research discovered that the enzyme Pol θ mediates microhomology‑mediated end joining (MMEJ) directly at collapsed replication forks, overturning the previous belief that break‑induced replication (BIR) was the primary responder. Fork‑MMEJ, initiated by RPA, produces distinctive asymmetric deletions that...
TradeCentric, Commercetools Partner on B2B Ecommerce
TradeCentric and commercetools have formed a strategic partnership to integrate B2B e‑procurement with AI‑first commerce platforms. The collaboration enables suppliers to connect digital storefronts directly to buyers’ procurement systems, leveraging TradeCentric’s PunchOut capabilities to slash purchase‑order processing time by 80%...
FINEOS Wins MAIB Contract for Claims Platform Overhaul
Tasmania’s Motor Accidents Insurance Board (MAIB) has selected FINEOS to replace its aging Motor Accidents Claims System with a modern, secure platform. The new solution addresses cybersecurity gaps, limited data access, and reporting constraints while aligning with MAIB’s client‑centric strategy....