News•Jan 28, 2026
Assembled Rolls Out Automated Schedule Generation for Customer Support
Assembled Inc. launched general availability of its agentic AI schedule generation feature for customer support teams. The new Schedule Generation board automates workforce scheduling, replacing spreadsheets with AI‑driven optimization, compliance and scaling. Early adopters like ServiceTitan, Backcountry.com and Preply report reducing schedule creation from weeks to minutes while cutting manual errors. The tool integrates with Assembled’s forecasting platform, positioning AI as a collaborative partner rather than a replacement.
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
AI Tool AlphaGenome Predicts How One Typo Can Change a Genetic Story
Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome, a deep‑learning model that can process one million DNA bases in a single context, doubling the reach of its predecessor Borzoi. The system predicts eleven genomic functions at single‑base resolution, delivering a 14.7% improvement in gene‑activity...
By Science News AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Critical and High Severity N8n Sandbox Flaws Allow RCE
Two critical sandbox bypasses were discovered in the n8n workflow automation platform, affecting its JavaScript expression engine (CVE‑2026‑1470, CVSS 9.9) and Python Code node (CVE‑2026‑0863, CVSS 8.5). Both flaws let authenticated users escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 28, 2026
NDSS 2025 – Iris: Dynamic Privacy Preserving Search In Authenticated Chord Peer-To-Peer Networks
The NDSS 2025 paper introduces Iris, a scheme that enables privacy‑preserving searches in authenticated Chord peer‑to‑peer networks while remaining compatible with the existing protocol. Iris defines a new alpha‑delta privacy notion, extending k‑anonymity to protect query information across iterative hops....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
State Legislatures Mull Remittance Restrictions
State legislators in Florida and Missouri have introduced bills that would bar money‑transfer providers from processing remittances for individuals classified as unauthorized aliens. The proposals require firms to verify sender status, submit quarterly compliance reports, and face penalties of up...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 28, 2026
Google Adds One-Click Ad Previews to PMax
Google has added a one‑click preview feature to Performance Max, allowing advertisers to click directly on images or videos within the Asset Groups table to see how ads will appear across placements. The update eliminates the need to navigate to...
By Search Engine Land
News•Jan 28, 2026
PVH Deploys OpenAI to Amplify Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger Brands
PVH Corp., the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has partnered with OpenAI to embed enterprise‑grade AI into its data‑driven operating model. The collaboration will integrate OpenAI APIs and ChatGPT Enterprise to create custom tools for product design, demand planning, inventory...
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Jan 28, 2026
REGENXBIO Delay Could Put Denali in Pole Position for Hunter Syndrome Approval
The FDA placed a clinical hold on REGENXBIO’s RGX‑111 and RGX‑121 after a tumor was found in a five‑year‑old patient potentially linked to the AAV vector. The hold jeopardizes REGENXBIO’s Feb. 8, 2026 PDUFA deadline for its Hunter syndrome gene therapy. Denali...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 28, 2026
Securities Crowdfunding: There Are Over 230 ECSPR Platforms Operating in Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) reports that 237 active ECSPR platforms are now operating across the EU, having raised €4.25 billion since the regulation took effect in 2021. France tops the market with 48 approved platforms, followed by Italy...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 28, 2026
Vitamin Shoppe Debuts AI-Powered Advisor in New NYC ‘Innovation Store’
The Vitamin Shoppe opened an Innovation Store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side featuring an AI‑powered interactive advisor that delivers real‑time inventory checks and personalized product guidance. The space also includes a dedicated events area, same‑day delivery through Instacart, DoorDash and...
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Jan 28, 2026
Amazon to Halt Palm Payments
Amazon announced it will remove all Amazon One palm‑reading payment terminals from its stores by June 3, citing limited customer adoption. The decision coincides with the company’s broader retreat from its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh concepts, some of which may be converted...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 28, 2026
KUKA México to Celebrate 30th Anniversary in 2026
KUKA México will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026, marking three decades of delivering advanced automation solutions to the country's manufacturing sector. Since its 1996 launch, the firm’s first major deployment was with Volkswagen for the Jetta A3 and new...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 28, 2026
New York Robotics Formally Launches Amid Surge In Robotics Investment, Demand, And Talent
New York Robotics (NYR) officially launched, highlighting a fast‑scaling robotics ecosystem across the Tri‑State area. The network now includes over 160 robotics startups—nearly 100 in New York City—and links more than 450 global firms, 300 venture‑capital investors, leading corporations, universities, and...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 28, 2026
How Galidix Analytics Helps Clients Make Successful Trades
Galidix provides a comprehensive analytics platform that merges real‑time global news, technical charting tools, and high‑quality data to help traders of all experience levels make informed decisions. The service delivers regularly updated market information, detailed indicators, and historical price patterns...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
What Happens to AI Hiring When the Uniform Guidelines Disappear?
The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, a 50‑year standard for validating hiring tools, face possible rescission, creating uncertainty for AI‑driven recruitment. In January 2026, Eightfold AI was hit with a class‑action lawsuit alleging it compiles consumer‑report‑like dossiers without notice,...
By ERE
News•Jan 28, 2026
China Greenlights 400,000 Nvidia H200 Chip Imports for Tech Giants, According to Reuters
China has granted ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent permission to import over 400,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips, the company’s second‑most powerful accelerator. The approvals were announced while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was on a multi‑city visit to China and come with...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 28, 2026
HHS Seeks to Protect Drugmakers From Anti-Kickback Laws Ahead of TrumpRx Launch
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a draft rule that would create a safe‑harbor exemption for drug manufacturers participating in the upcoming TrumpRx platform. The proposal seeks to shield companies from the federal anti‑kickback statute when they...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 28, 2026
DeepSeek Boosts OCR Performance With Alibaba Open-Source AI
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-OCR 2, replacing its CLIP‑based architecture with Alibaba's lightweight Qwen2‑0.5b model. The new system improves OCR performance by 3.7% and achieves a 91.09% score on OmniDocBench v1.5. It compresses document pages into 256‑1,120 visual tokens, dramatically lowering...
By eWeek
News•Jan 28, 2026
Social Campaigns Alone Won’t Win Over Gen Z. Here’s What Will
Gen Z’s inflation sensitivity and mobile‑first habits make brand values essential for purchase decisions. While social platforms remain a discovery hub, 65 % of this cohort demands clear moral stances, and authenticity is now a prerequisite. Mobile‑native ads, shoppable videos, and...
By Total Retail
News•Jan 28, 2026
Gulf States Enhances Policyholder Experience with insured.io
Gulf States Insurance Group has partnered with insured.io to deploy a cloud‑based, omnichannel customer engagement platform. The solution includes an Insured Portal, IVR services, outbound notifications, and a First Notice of Loss claims tool, all integrated with Gulf States' policy...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 28, 2026
Zelle Network Expands by 15%
Early Warning Services announced that 337 small banks and credit unions joined the Zelle peer‑to‑peer network in 2025, boosting the total participating institutions by roughly 15% to 2,537. The new members are predominantly community‑focused firms with assets under $10 billion, reflecting...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 28, 2026
Curate Raises $10M in New Funding
Curate, a Los Angeles‑based hospitality platform, announced a $10 million funding round led by ZoomInfo co‑founder Kirk Brown, with participation from K5 Global, NFL star Amon‑Ra St. Brown, and Pieology founder Carl Cheng. The capital will fuel operational expansion and accelerate product development....
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 28, 2026
Home Depot’s Key to Great AI Experiences? Ensure It Remains an Authority
Home Depot is moving beyond a wait‑and‑see approach, actively shaping how AI agents interact with shoppers. The retailer insists that its AI‑driven chat and voice assistants uphold the same brand voice and service standards as an in‑store associate. It is...
By Retail Dive
News•Jan 28, 2026
BoldVoice Raises $21M in Series A Funding
BoldVoice, a New York‑based AI voice‑coaching startup, closed a $21 million Series A round led by Matrix with participation from Flybridge, Xfund, Corazon Capital, Alumni Ventures, Umami Capital and Y Combinator. The funding will accelerate its global rollout and the development of proprietary...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 28, 2026
ICE Launches Reddit Signals and Sentiment Tool for Investors
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has introduced Reddit Signals and Sentiment, a data‑analytics suite that converts millions of Reddit posts into structured market signals. The service, accessible via ICE’s consolidated data feed, provides real‑time and historical sentiment scores along with daily trend...
By Finextra
News•Jan 28, 2026
LinkedIn Will Let You Show Off Your Vibe Coding Chops with a Certificate
LinkedIn announced a verified‑skills program that issues AI‑focused certificates based on real‑time usage of partner tools such as Descript, Lovable, Replit and Relay.app. The AI engine evaluates usage patterns, outcomes and proficiency to generate a badge that appears on a...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 28, 2026
OQ Technology Plots Smartphone Test Amid SpaceX’s C-Band D2D Push
Luxembourg‑based OQ Technology is preparing its first dedicated C‑band direct‑to‑device (D2D) satellite, slated for launch mid‑year, to connect unmodified smartphones from low‑Earth orbit. The move follows successful S‑band IoT tests and a planned dual‑band S/C payload later this year. Simultaneously,...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 28, 2026
Franny Hsiao, Salesforce: Scaling Enterprise AI
Salesforce’s EMEA AI Architect leader Franny Hsiao warns that most enterprise AI pilots fail because they are built on isolated, “pristine island” data environments lacking production‑grade infrastructure and governance. She advocates embedding end‑to‑end observability, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls from the...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Hengrui Blazes Trail as Chinese Drugmakers Aspire to Go Multinational
Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals has surged into the global top‑25 biopharma companies by market value, marking a dramatic shift from its previously low international profile. The Chinese firm leveraged a pipeline of innovative oncology and immunology drugs, securing multiple foreign regulatory...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Google Searches per U.S. User Fell Nearly 20% YoY: Report
U.S. desktop Google searches per user dropped nearly 20% year‑over‑year, while Europe saw only a 2‑3% decline. The fall reflects fewer repeat queries as AI‑generated answers satisfy users instantly. Zero‑click searches now represent about 20% of desktop events, but growth...
By Search Engine Land
News•Jan 28, 2026
How Macy’s Is Flexing Its Style Crew Affiliate Program Beyond Social Media
Macy’s is scaling its Style Crew affiliate program from 600 to 1,000 creators, adding storefronts on macys.com and offering 12% commissions. The initiative drove a 315% revenue jump, 327% traffic surge, and 30‑40% conversion lift among top influencers in 2025....
By Retail Dive
News•Jan 28, 2026
Acoustic Launches Native Integrations with Leading Commerce Platforms
Acoustic announced native, bi‑directional integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce inside its Acoustic Connect platform. The connectors deliver real‑time catalog, order and behavioral data sync, giving retailers a continuously updated view of each customer. Marketers can now trigger omnichannel journeys...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
Starr Adopts Five Sigma AI to Transform Claims Operations
Starr, a global investment and insurance firm, has selected Five Sigma’s AI Claims Management Platform and its multi‑agent AI expert, Clive, to overhaul specialty claims operations. The AI‑native solution will embed intelligence across the entire claims lifecycle, from first notice...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 28, 2026
Chip Firm ASML to Slash 1,700 Jobs and Posts Record Profit for 2025 Thanks to AI Boom
ASML posted a record €9.6 billion net profit in 2025 on €32.7 billion of sales, propelled by surging AI‑driven demand for its extreme‑ultraviolet lithography tools. The Dutch chip‑machine maker announced a 4 % workforce reduction, cutting roughly 1,700 jobs to streamline engineering and...
By Fast Company AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Rogo Raises $75M in Series C Funding
Rogo, a New York‑based AI platform built specifically for finance, announced a $75 million Series C round. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital and featured participation from Henry Kravis, Wells Fargo, and existing backers such as Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Tiger Global...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 28, 2026
Payment Infrastructure for Products with High User Activity
High‑activity digital products embed payments directly into the user journey, turning transactions into a core interaction rather than a peripheral step. Speed, clarity, and uninterrupted flow become critical because any latency or ambiguity instantly erodes trust. These platforms generate dense,...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
Dmr Advertising Chooses Pentaleap to Modernize Its Retail Media and Accelerate Growth
Retail media marketer dmr Advertising has selected Pentaleap as its technology partner to modernize its retail media operations for DocMorris. The transition began with a collaborative upgrade alongside the incumbent system, delivering immediate relevance and user‑experience improvements, before expanding to...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
Veracode’s Platform Enhancements Help Prevent Software Supply Chain Attacks
Veracode unveiled a suite of platform enhancements for the second half of 2025, highlighted by the launch of Package Firewall, a preventive control that blocks malicious third‑party packages before they enter development environments. The feature integrates with major package managers...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 28, 2026
Drupal Reinvents Open Source Content Management with Launch of Drupal Cms 2.0 — New Visual Builder, AI and Templates Redefine...
Drupal Association unveiled Drupal CMS 2.0, the most significant upgrade in its 25‑year history. The new version adds Drupal Canvas, a visual drag‑and‑drop builder, and pre‑configured site templates that can be installed in under three minutes. Optional AI tools let...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
Halozyme Buys Drug Delivery Biotech Surf Bio; Sanofi Backs Sensorion
Halozyme Therapeutics announced a $300 million upfront acquisition of drug‑delivery biotech Surf Bio, adding its PEGylated enzyme platform to Halozyme’s existing portfolio. The deal is expected to broaden Halozyme’s subcutaneous biologics pipeline and accelerate commercialization of next‑generation delivery technologies. Concurrently, Sanofi...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 28, 2026
SolarWinds Warns of Critical Web Help Desk RCE, Auth Bypass Flaws
SolarWinds issued emergency patches for its Web Help Desk platform, fixing four critical vulnerabilities—two authentication bypass flaws (CVE‑2025‑40552, CVE‑2025‑40554), two remote code execution bugs (CVE‑2025‑40553, CVE‑2025‑40551), and a hard‑coded credentials issue (CVE‑2025‑40537). The flaws can be exploited remotely without authentication,...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 28, 2026
Allient Inc. To Attend UAV Technology USA 2026
Allient Inc. announced its participation in UAV Technology USA 2026, scheduled for February 2‑3 in Arlington, Virginia. The company will use the event to showcase its U.S.-manufactured drone components—including propulsion motors, ESCs, gimbals, propellers and mission‑ready kits—that meet stringent defense specifications. By...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 28, 2026
Bedrock Data Extends DSPM to Atlassian Confluence, Mapping SaaS Data to AI Inference Risk
Bedrock Data announced native Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) support for Atlassian Confluence, enabling automatic discovery of spaces, pages and blogs. The platform classifies unstructured content for PII, secrets and intellectual property, resolves inherited permissions, and maps that data to...
By AiThority
News•Jan 28, 2026
Satellite Reentry: Atmospheric Implications
The rapid growth of satellite mega‑constellations means thousands of spacecraft are de‑orbited each decade, releasing heavy‑metal and black‑carbon particles into the stratosphere. Harvard physicist John Dykema warns that these emissions can alter sunlight absorption, disrupt stratospheric circulation, and accelerate ozone...
By Leonard David’s Inside Outer Space
News•Jan 28, 2026
Seen Finance Signs with Nova Credit to Expand Access to Credit
Seen Finance, an affiliate of Snap Finance, announced a strategic partnership with Nova Credit to broaden credit access for qualified applicants. By integrating Nova Credit’s multi‑aggregator cash‑flow data platform, Seen can supplement traditional underwriting with richer financial insights. The collaboration...
By Finextra
News•Jan 28, 2026
Domo Launches App Catalyst to Turn AI Ideas Into Production-Ready Business Applications
Domo unveiled App Catalyst, a new feature of its AI and Data Products Platform that lets users describe an app in natural language and instantly receive a production‑ready, pro‑code framework. The tool pulls data from major cloud warehouses such as...
By AiThority
News•Jan 28, 2026
MNTN’s Latest Innovation, QuickFrame AI, Scales Rapidly With New AI Video Features Including Consistent Characters, Products, and Locations Across Campaigns
MNTN unveiled major upgrades to its QuickFrame AI platform, enabling brands to generate professional TV and social video in minutes. The new release introduces reusable brand building blocks for products, characters, and locations, director‑level controls, an effects library, and an...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
Incubeta Launches New Agentic AI Products to Help Brands Understand What Truly Drives Marketing Performance
Incubeta unveiled two agentic AI solutions—Creative Performance Index (CPI) and OutperformBI—to give marketers clearer insight into what truly drives campaign results. CPI analyzes granular creative elements such as branding, calls‑to‑action, and emotional cues, linking them directly to live performance data...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
U-Space Implementation Handbook: Turning Early Experience Into Guidance
Europe has published the U‑space Implementation Handbook, a comprehensive guide that captures early deployment experience of the continent’s unmanned traffic management framework. Produced by the U‑ELCOME project and co‑funded by CINEA, the handbook consolidates 70 lessons learned, six technical appendices,...
By sUAS News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Cellares Raises $257M in Series D Funding
Cellares, a San Francisco‑based Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization, secured $257 million in Series D financing. The round was led by BlackRock and Eclipse, with participation from T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, and other institutional investors. The new capital lifts total funding to $612 million...
By FinSMEs