News•Jan 29, 2026
TrueLayer and Stripe Tap Into Finnish E-Commerce with Kustom Checkout Deal
TrueLayer and Stripe have extended their Pay by Bank service to Finland by embedding it in Kustom’s checkout platform. The rollout instantly equips more than 24,000 Kustom merchants with a direct‑bank payment option that eliminates card details. Finland’s high online‑banking penetration means the feature reaches virtually the entire population, promising higher conversion rates. The move deepens the existing TrueLayer‑Stripe partnership, which already covers the UK, France and Germany.
By The Fintech Times
News•Jan 29, 2026
Lorikeet Launches Coach: An Analytics Agent to Perk up AI Customer Support
San Francisco‑based Lorikeet has launched Coach, a self‑service analytics agent now generally available to diagnose AI‑driven customer support tickets. Coach combines thematic analysis and a ticket quality score to pinpoint failing topics, sentiment shifts, and configuration issues across both AI...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 29, 2026
Legion Intelligence Introduces Centurion
Legion Intelligence unveiled Centurion, a field‑deployable edge AI platform that combines hardware, software, and sustainment into a single system. Designed for Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments, Centurion can operate offline, form a mesh of nodes, and synchronize with...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
A Massive Clump of Dark Matter May Lurk in the Milky Way
Scientists have identified a massive dark‑matter clump roughly ten million times the Sun’s mass located about a kiloparsec (3,260 light‑years) from Earth. The discovery emerged from precise timing measurements of a pair of nearby pulsars, whose pulse‑rate shifts indicated an...
By ScienceNews - Space
News•Jan 29, 2026
Starbucks Canada Rolls Out Tiered Rewards Program
Starbucks Canada launched a revamped Starbucks Rewards program on March 10, introducing three tiers—Green, Gold, and Reserve—to deliver faster, more personalized benefits. The redesign, driven by extensive member feedback, adds features such as a 60‑Star $2‑off redemption, non‑expiring Stars for higher...
By Retail Insider Canada
News•Jan 29, 2026
How to Find Great Writers (and Other Content Marketing Struggles)
The article outlines a practical framework for locating and retaining great content writers amid a crowded marketplace flooded with AI tools and low‑cost freelancers. It stresses evaluating fundamentals such as grammar, readability, and audience focus, and prioritizing writers skilled in...
By Search Engine Land
News•Jan 29, 2026
RobCo Raises $100M in Series C Funding
RobCo, a Munich‑based physical AI robotics firm, announced a $100 million Series C round. The financing was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group. The company plans...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 29, 2026
How IBM Became an AI Darling
IBM has reinvented itself once again, emerging as a leading AI player after decades of strategic pivots. The company moved from mainframe hardware to IT services in the 1990s and off‑loaded its PC business to Lenovo in 2005, freeing capital...
By The Economist » Business
News•Jan 29, 2026
Don’t Be Fooled. AI Bosses Are Regular Capitalists
A court fight between Elon Musk and OpenAI has pulled back the corporate curtain on the AI sector’s capitalist roots. Musk alleges OpenAI abandoned its original non‑profit charter and demanded a massive payout, citing its lucrative partnership with Microsoft as...
By The Economist » Business
News•Jan 29, 2026
Datalinx Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding
AI data refinery Datalinx announced a $4.2 million seed round, led by High Alpha with participation from Databricks Ventures, Berkeley Frontier Fund and Aperiam. The funding will be used to scale its platform that converts unstructured data into AI‑ready assets...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 29, 2026
US Army Puts Out the Call for Space Soldiers
The U.S. Army announced a new Military Occupational Specialty, Tactical Space Operations Specialist, opening applications for enlisted personnel from specialist to sergeant major. The initial cohort will consist of 1,000 soldiers, with plans to grow to 1,500 by 2032, and...
By Payload
News•Jan 29, 2026
Cost Analysis of Obesity Treatment in Iran
Iran’s obesity prevalence has risen to about 25%, driving a sharp increase in treatment demand and costs. Direct medical spending on obesity now exceeds 1% of the national health budget, with bariatric surgery accounting for nearly half of that outlay....
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 29, 2026
France Fines Unemployment Agency €5 Million over Data Breach
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has imposed a €5 million fine on the national employment agency, France Travail, for a massive data breach. The breach, discovered in early 2024, exposed personal details of up to 43 million job seekers, including names, birth...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 29, 2026
9 Weeks to 9 Days: How Autonomous Drilling Is Transforming Data Center Construction
DEWALT and August Robotics have launched an autonomous concrete‑floor drilling system that mounts a DEWALT rig on the Lionel AMR, using CAD files to drill with 1/8‑inch accuracy. The solution targets data‑center construction, where thousands of rack‑anchor holes are required....
By The Robot Report
News•Jan 29, 2026
HealthEdge, Suki Introduce Ambient Clinical Intelligence for Care Management
HealthEdge and Suki announced a partnership that embeds Suki’s ambient clinical intelligence into the GuidingCare care‑management platform. The AI‑driven listening tool automatically captures and summarizes care manager conversations, allowing documentation to be saved directly in GuidingCare. The integration reaches more...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Introducing AI Answer Engine
American Banker unveiled the AI Answer Engine, a generative‑AI search tool trained on more than ten years of its award‑winning journalism. The engine delivers concise, citation‑backed answers and traditional search results, all sourced exclusively from American Banker content. Subscribers receive...
By American Banker Technology
News•Jan 29, 2026
AstraZeneca Pledges $15B More in Chinese Investments for Cell Therapies, Radiopharma
AstraZeneca announced a $15 billion investment in its China operations through 2030, aimed at bolstering capabilities in cell therapies and radioconjugates. The funding will support the full drug development chain, from design to manufacturing, and expand existing production sites in Wuxi,...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 29, 2026
Over 40% of AI Upskilling Enrolments in India Come From Senior Professionals: Study
Great Learning’s 2025 data shows senior professionals dominate AI upskilling in India, making up over 40% of enrollments in generative AI and machine‑learning programs. Overall demand surged, with AI courses growing 17% year‑on‑year and freshers accounting for 48% of participants....
By Indian Express AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Sanofi Suffers Another Sales Dip For 'Gift to Public Health' Vaccines
Sanofi reported a 2.5% decline in 2025 vaccine revenue to €2 bn, marking a continued sales dip amid rising U.S. vaccine skepticism. The drop was offset by a 31.5% surge in flu and COVID‑19 vaccine sales, driven by higher virus circulation...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 29, 2026
The A.I. Boom’s Uncertain Payoff
Meta announced a capital‑expenditure budget of $115‑$135 billion for 2026, with the bulk earmarked for artificial‑intelligence initiatives, sending its stock up 8%. Microsoft reported $37.5 billion in capex for the latest quarter, a 65% year‑over‑year increase, yet its shares slipped more than...
By The New York Times – DealBook
News•Jan 29, 2026
'We Are Pushing the Frontier Across Our Entire AI Stack': Microsoft's Latest Results Show New Cloud and AI Returns -...
Microsoft reported a 17% year‑over‑year revenue increase, driven by strong growth in its Azure cloud and AI services. The company highlighted progress across its AI stack, including new chips and integrated OpenAI models. Despite the top‑line beat, shares fell 6%...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 29, 2026
ThreatsDay Bulletin: New RCEs, Darknet Busts, Kernel Bugs & 25+ More Stories
The FBI’s seizure of the RAMP cybercrime forum underscores law‑enforcement pressure on underground marketplaces, while Meta confronts a U.S. lawsuit alleging unauthorized access to WhatsApp messages. CISA published its first list of post‑quantum cryptography‑compatible products, urging organizations to prepare for...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Barbados Government and BioMed X Partner to Improve AI-Based Early Diabetic Kidney Disease Modeling
BioMed X, a German pharma innovation hub, has teamed up with the Barbados government and the EU’s PharmaNext programme to launch an AI‑enabled research initiative targeting early diabetic kidney disease in the island’s type‑2 diabetes population. The project will combine...
By GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
News•Jan 29, 2026
The Fraud Visibility Gap Created by Agentic Shopping
Agentic shopping leverages AI‑driven assistants to automate the checkout process, eliminating the manual steps that traditionally generate rich behavioral data. By bypassing page‑level interactions, these autonomous flows erase signals such as mouse movement, dwell time, and device fingerprinting that fraud...
By E-Commerce Times
News•Jan 29, 2026
A New Method to Search for Ultralight Dark Matter with Advanced Optical Cavities
Northwestern University researchers have demonstrated a novel laboratory search for ultralight dark‑matter particles using two Fabry‑Perot optical cavities of different lengths. By exploiting the pendulum‑like response of rigid cavities in the 34‑64 kHz band, the experiment can detect minute length oscillations...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Gaia Data Reveal Three Galactic Open Clusters in Detail
Astronomers used ESA’s Gaia Data Release 3 to conduct a detailed analysis of three Milky Way open clusters—Berkeley 17, 18 and 39—identifying 600, 1,042 and 907 probable members respectively. The study reports ages ranging from 3.4 billion to 9.1 billion years, stellar masses from 536 M☉ to...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Banks Remain Most Breached Sector as Attacks Hit Record
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2025 breach report shows financial services endured 739 data compromises, the highest of any sector for a second straight year. Physical card‑skimming attacks resurfaced as “Skimming 2.0,” with Bluetooth‑enabled overlay devices driving incidents from four to...
By American Banker Technology
News•Jan 29, 2026
US Data Breaches Hit Record High but Victim Numbers Decline
The Identity Theft Resource Center recorded a record 3,332 data compromises in the United States for 2025, a 5 % rise over the previous year. Despite more incidents, victim notices fell sharply to 279 million, the lowest level since 2014, as the...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 29, 2026
Making Payments Part of the Workflow: Embedded Finance in 2026
Embedded finance is becoming the connective tissue for large enterprises, allowing payments to flow directly within existing workflow applications such as travel booking and expense management. In an interview, Eva Reda, Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Services Products at...
By Tearsheet
News•Jan 29, 2026
Sleep Disturbance and Mobile Phone Use: Network Links
A recent study employing network analysis links mobile phone usage patterns to sleep disturbance. The research finds that high-frequency nighttime screen time, especially blue‑light exposure, is the strongest predictor of reduced sleep duration and poorer sleep quality. Young adults and...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 29, 2026
Salesforce President Ariel Kelman’s 25-Year Playbook for Marketing at Scale
Salesforce President and CMO Ariel Kelman shared his 25‑year marketing playbook on the Marketing Vanguard podcast, emphasizing trust‑driven storytelling, AI grounded in first‑party data, and executive‑led AI experimentation. He illustrated the “show, don’t tell” approach with the AgentForce City exhibit,...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Google Ads Advertiser Verification Page Moving
Google has relocated the Advertiser Verification page within the Google Ads console to the Admin → Policy → Account section, renaming it simply "Account." The new hub consolidates verification tasks with business information, certifications, and compliance status. The change was highlighted by industry voices...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 29, 2026
BlackIce Introduced as Container-Based Red Teaming Toolkit for AI Security Testing
Databricks unveiled BlackIce, an open‑source Docker‑based toolkit that bundles 14 leading AI security utilities into a single, reproducible environment. By containerizing both static command‑line tools and dynamic Python‑driven frameworks, BlackIce removes the setup friction and dependency clashes that have long...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Jan 29, 2026
Shoppers Want to Feel Seen and Understood, Suggests New Tesco Media Report
Tesco Media’s third annual "We Know the Nation 2026" report reveals British shoppers are seeking community and shared values, moving beyond pure transactions. With roughly 80% of UK households holding a Clubcard, the data shows event‑driven sales spikes—such as scones...
By InternetRetailing
News•Jan 29, 2026
Two Startups Want to Replace How AI Learns: One Just Raised $180M, Another Is Seeking up to $1B
Two AI‑focused startups are courting massive capital to reinvent how machine learning models acquire knowledge. Flapping Airplanes secured $180 million from GV, Sequoia and Index to build systems that learn with human‑like data efficiency, targeting a 100,000‑to‑1,000,000‑fold reduction in required data....
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 29, 2026
Google Personal Intelligence Creates AI Frankenstein Recipes
Google’s Personal Intelligence (PI) is delivering AI‑generated “Frankenstein” recipes that blend content from multiple sources. In a recent test, the tool produced a Key Lime Pie recipe attributed to the food blog Inspired Taste but with incorrect ingredients, bake time,...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 29, 2026
How Regulatory Convergence Is Reshaping Affordability Assessments
Regulators across the UK are converging on a new affordability paradigm that relies on real‑time transaction data rather than static income multiples. The FCA’s July 2025 expansion of the Modified Affordability Assessment widens mortgage eligibility, while the CP25/23 rules bring BNPL...
By Finextra
News•Jan 29, 2026
WEF’s Space Debris Report Projects Significant Costs
The World Economic Forum’s "Clear Orbit, Secure Future" report warns that space‑debris congestion could cost the satellite industry between $25.8 billion and $42.3 billion over the next decade, even without a single catastrophic collision. It breaks the projected losses into $14.2‑$30.7 billion from...
By Payload
News•Jan 29, 2026
Roche Predicts Its Breast Cancer Pill Could Become Its Biggest-Selling Drug
Roche’s oral breast‑cancer therapy is gaining momentum after two positive late‑stage trial readouts demonstrated strong efficacy and tolerable safety. The company has submitted a U.S. FDA filing and expects a decision later this year. An additional pivotal trial will report...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Google Ads API Version 23 Now Available
Google has launched version 23 of the Google Ads API, marking the first release of 2026 and a shift to a faster release cadence. The update adds dozens of new features, including expanded asset and reporting metrics, granular billing data, and...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 29, 2026
IAAH Goes Live on EIS OneSuite to Modernise Core Systems
Industrial Alliance Auto and Home (iAAH) has gone live on EIS OneSuite, the SaaS core insurance platform, marking a key milestone in its long‑term modernization programme. The cloud‑native solution supports underwriting, pricing and servicing for auto and home lines through...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 29, 2026
Following Abivax, Formation Bio Licenses miR-124 Drug From China
Formation Bio announced a licensing agreement to acquire rights to a miR‑124‑based drug candidate from a Chinese partner, mirroring the target of French biotech Abivax’s recently successful ulcerative colitis therapy. The deal positions Formation Bio to enter the rapidly expanding...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 29, 2026
ACH B2B Volume Hits 8.1 Billion Payments
ACH network B2B payments climbed to 8.1 billion in 2025, a 9.9% increase from 2024. Overall ACH volume reached 35.2 billion payments, valued at $93 trillion, while Same‑Day ACH surged 16.7% to 1.4 billion transactions. Healthcare claim payments rose 7.3% to 548 million, underscoring broader...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 29, 2026
What Would Artemis Participation Mean for Türkiye’s Space Industry and Space Diplomacy?
Turkey’s space ecosystem has matured, demonstrated by the indigenous Türksat 6A satellite, a growing Earth‑observation fleet, and an ambitious lunar‑mission program targeting a 2027 orbit and a 2030s surface landing. Private firms are advancing hybrid‑rocket propulsion and analog‑habitat research, while a...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 29, 2026
Most Consumers Can Identify AI Videos
According to Animoto’s 2026 State of Video Report, 83% of consumers say they can identify AI‑generated videos, and they perceive such content as diminishing brand trust. The study found that robotic gestures, unnatural voices, and lack of emotional tone are...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 29, 2026
Philip Pich, Founder of Passive Digital Asset, on Why Cash-Flowing Digital Businesses Are Emerging as a Serious Alternative Asset Class
Investor Philip Pich argues cash‑flowing digital businesses are emerging as a serious alternative asset class. These eCommerce brands generate recurring revenue, offer transparent data, and require less capital than traditional private‑equity deals. Pich emphasizes applying M&A rigor—structured deals, earn‑outs, and...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 29, 2026
How to Choose the Best OCR Software
The 2026 OCR Software Guide outlines how AI‑driven OCR platforms now extract text from over 13,000 document types across more than 250 countries in under a second. OCR Studio leads the market with specialized modules—ID‑scan, MRZ‑scan, BANK‑scan, ID‑verify and CODE‑scan—each...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 29, 2026
Conditional Access Enforcement Change Coming to Microsoft Entra
Microsoft announced that starting March 27 2026, Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra will be enforced during sign‑ins even when resource exclusions are configured, with a phased rollout through June 2026. The change specifically targets sign‑ins from client applications that request only OIDC...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 29, 2026
Sanofi Says Its €15B Dealmaking Budget, R&D Spend Should Help Ease Looming Dupixent Patent Cliff
Sanofi announced a €14‑15 billion budget for mergers and acquisitions in 2026, alongside a bolstered R&D spend of roughly €7 billion. The pharmaceutical giant aims to counter the looming revenue gap from Dupixent’s patent expiration expected around 2027. Management expects the combined...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 29, 2026
N-Able Brings AI to Endpoint, Security, and Recovery
N‑able unveiled AI‑enhanced capabilities across its endpoint management, security operations, and data‑protection suite. Leveraging telemetry from over 11 million managed devices and a network of 25,000+ service providers, the company now offers agentic AI that automates scripting, threat detection, and recovery...
By Help Net Security