The LLMs Have Spoken: Yelp Is the Top Source for AI Local Search
AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode now serve as the primary entry point for local‑business discovery, and they rely heavily on trusted review sites for answers. A joint analysis by AirOps and Yelp found that Yelp was cited 512,680 times in Q4 2025—3.4 times more than any competitor. Over half of those citations stemmed from “near me” queries, with Yelp capturing 72.5% of Google AI Mode and 62.1% of Perplexity citations. The data shows that consumers favor AI‑generated recommendations backed by Yelp’s reviews, photos and structured data.
Xiaomi Just Launched a Premium Smartwatch that Makes the Samsung Galaxy Watch Look Overpriced
Xiaomi unveiled its AIoT‑focused wearables, the premium Watch S5 46mm and the feature‑rich Smart Band 10 Pro. The Watch S5 sports a stainless‑steel or ceramic case, a 1.48‑inch 2,500‑nit AMOLED screen, dual‑band GNSS and a 21‑day battery, priced at about $210. The Smart...
MPN’s Weekly Video Podcast: Inside AI on the Lot 2025: Amazon’s Project Nara, Google Gemini and Hollywood’s AI Revolution
At AI on the Lot 2025, Amazon unveiled Project Nara, an end‑to‑end AI production suite now available to independent filmmakers through a grant program, and Google demonstrated Gemini Omni Flash, a multimodal tool that creates video, audio, text and images from...
AI Listens to Insect Body Signals to Guide Cyborg Cockroaches
Researchers at the University of Osaka introduced the Insect Synergy Circuit (ISC), a bio‑intelligent system that fuses a cockroach’s heartbeat, neural signals, and motion data with AI to infer its internal state. A wearable backpack captured these signals, enabling a...
IPC, 24X National Exchange Team up to Deliver Market Data Connectivity for Overnight US Equities Trading
IPC Systems has partnered with 24X National Exchange to provide market‑data connectivity for overnight U.S. equities trading. Leveraging IPC’s resilient, low‑latency global network, the collaboration enables 23/5 trading and real‑time data distribution across key Asia‑Pacific hubs such as Hong Kong,...
More Opposition to the EU’s New Space Law, This Time From European Companies
European aerospace leaders at SmallSat Europe voiced strong opposition to the EU’s draft Space Act, calling it monopolistic, slow and overly rigid. They warned that a twelve‑month licensing process would cripple the fast‑moving commercial space sector. Critics argue the legislation...
Google Cloud Responds to AI-Accelerated Cyberattacks with a Platform that Aims to Close Security Gaps in Minutes
Google Cloud unveiled AI Threat Defense, an end‑to‑end platform that automatically discovers, evaluates, and patches security flaws across enterprise environments. The solution stitches together Gemini for code analysis, Wiz’s risk‑assessment engine (acquired for $32 billion), DeepMind’s Codemender for auto‑generating patches, and...
Sesame, the Conversational AI Startup From Oculus Founders, Launches Its iOS App
Conversational‑AI startup Sesame, founded by Oculus’s original team, unveiled a public preview iOS app that lets users interact with four distinct AI agents. The app leverages fast parallel search and retrieval so the agents can pause, think and inject up‑to‑date...
Tieto Banktech Layers AI Defence Against Payment Fraud
Tieto Banktech’s Financial Crime Prevention unit has rolled out a multi‑layered AI architecture that blends real‑time detection with human oversight. Its Token Enrolment Monitoring (TEM) system now blocks 70‑80% of token‑based card fraud before activation, while Card Transaction Monitoring (CTM)...
We're Getting Our First Call of Duty Game on a Nintendo Platform in 13 Years
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is set to launch on October 23 across Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Xbox and PlayStation, marking the franchise's return to Nintendo after a ten‑year hiatus. Infinity Ward confirmed the release following a brief, now‑removed YouTube leak. The...
Attackers Move Past Typosquatting to Realistic Package Impersonation
Sonatype’s latest research of 4,309 malicious open‑source packages reveals a dramatic shift away from classic typosquatting. Only 9% of the threats rely on misspelled names, while 91% use naming‑variant tactics such as suffixes, prefixes, and version mimicry. The most common...
Low Noise Amplifier, PEC-30-10M20-SFF
Planar Monolithics (PMI) introduced the PEC‑30‑10M20‑SFF, an ultra‑low noise amplifier covering 0.01 to 20 GHz. It delivers a typical gain of +27.6 dB with ±2 dB flatness at 18 GHz and a 3 dB noise figure. Output power reaches a minimum 13 dBm at 1 dB compression and a...
Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer
Threat actors exploited a critical pre‑authentication API bypass (CVE‑2026‑35616) in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server to push a credential‑stealing payload disguised as a legitimate update. The attack leveraged the legitimate fortitray.exe to run a Base64‑encoded PowerShell script that downloaded FortiEndpoint_Patch.exe, harvesting...
NewSpace Systems Announces European Expansion with New Netherlands Subsidiary
NewSpace Systems announced the creation of a European subsidiary in the Netherlands during the SmallSat Europe conference, marking a key step in its continental growth strategy. The new entity will initially focus on business development, customer engagement, and technical support...
Ghana Rolls Out Biometric Digital Visas as Part of Travel Modernization Push
Ghana has launched a biometric digital visa platform that offers free visas to African passport holders and charges $260 for non‑African applicants. The system, built through a public‑private partnership, processes applications online within 48 hours and integrates with chip‑enabled passports...
Digital Phase Shifter, PS-100M20G-8B-SFF-MIL-SM
Planar Monolithics introduced the PS-100M20G-8B-SFF-MIL-SM, a digitally controlled phase shifter operating from 0.1 GHz to 20 GHz. The device delivers continuous 0°‑360° phase adjustment with 13 dB insertion loss and ±5° phase‑shift error. It switches in 500 ns, offers ±1 dB amplitude error, and meets...
Wealthsimple to Offer Early Access to IPO Trading
Wealthsimple announced that its platform will now allow retail investors to request shares of selected U.S. and Canadian IPOs at the initial offering price, a privilege traditionally reserved for institutions and accredited investors. The service operates through allocations from investment...
Japan’s IHI Begin to Benefit From ICEYE SAR Imagery
Japan’s IHI corporation will start using ICEYE’s synthetic‑aperture‑radar (SAR) imagery as the first two of a four‑satellite constellation become operational. The procurement, signed in October 2025, covers four Japan‑built SAR satellites with an option for 20 more. The high‑resolution radar data...
Digital Debit Card Use Surged in the First Quarter, a Galileo Report Finds
Galileo’s inaugural Debit Spend Index shows debit card usage climbing sharply in Q1 2026. Restaurant transactions rose more than 18%, while saved‑card purchases grew to 24% of all debit activity and posted an average ticket of $61.23, 65% higher than...
The AI Decisions Hotel CEOs Are Signing Right Now Will Look Like Fax Machines by 2029
Hotel CEOs are rushing to sign multi‑year AI platform contracts based on flashy probabilistic demos, but experts warn those solutions will be obsolete by 2029. Adam Harris of Cloudbeds argues that only deterministic AI—systems that take actions with certainty—can reliably...
AI Prototype Aims to Close Feedback Gaps Driving Marine Corps Attrition
The Marine Corps has unveiled an AI‑enabled survey prototype called PULSE Check, designed to deliver near‑real‑time insight into Marines' day‑to‑day stressors. By shifting climate data collection from an annual cadence to monthly cycles, commanders can spot issues such as pay...
Germany Pushes European Military Space Command Initiative
Germany has unveiled a proposal to create a European Space Component Command, to be hosted in Germany and open to allied participation. The plan seeks to coordinate military space operations across Europe, preventing redundant capabilities such as multiple satcom constellations...
FAA Grounds Starship/Superheavy Pending Completion of SpaceX’s Investigation
The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Starship and SuperHeavy launch system following a mishap on the May 22 Flight 12 mission, where the SuperHeavy booster experienced engine failure during its return to the Gulf of America. The agency requires SpaceX to conduct a...
Empire AI Is Already Making Rapid Progress in Drug Discovery
Empire AI, a New York university consortium based at the University at Buffalo, has moved quickly from concept to operational high‑performance computing. The October 2023 inauguration of $10 million "alpha" machines from the Simons Foundation and a forthcoming $30‑40 million "beta" GPU...
Christophe Pettus: Twenty Years, Three CVEs, One AI
PostgreSQL has released patches for three heap‑buffer overflow CVEs (CVE‑2026‑2005, CVE‑2026‑2006, CVE‑2026‑2007) affecting the pgcrypto and pg_trgm extensions. The most severe flaw, in pgcrypto’s PGP handler, enables arbitrary code execution under the PostgreSQL OS user. Two of the bugs were...
Hyperscalers Didn’t Set Out to Be Power Companies. The Grid Left Them No Choice.
AI hyperscalers such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google are rapidly becoming power generators, securing more than 20 GW of nuclear and small‑modular reactor capacity to meet exploding data‑center electricity needs. Global data‑center consumption is projected to hit about 1,050 TWh, driven...
Anker's Pokémon Tech Collection Looks Adorable, but There's a Catch ('Em All) – It's a Shame as We Really Want...
Anker has unveiled a Pokémon‑themed tech collection to mark the franchise’s 30th anniversary, featuring a 70W Pikachu fast charger, a multi‑port travel adapter, a matching pouch, and Soundcore C50i open‑ear earbuds in Pikachu and Eevee colors. Japanese pricing translates to...
Here Comes Ojai, Waymo’s New Chinese-Made Robotaxi
Waymo is deploying a new fleet of pale‑blue Ojai robotaxis in California and Arizona, with service beginning in the next few weeks. The Ojai minivans, built in China, feature a full suite of sensors and retain a steering wheel despite...
Lanai Launches Token Tuner to Turn AI Token Spend Into Measurable Business Value
Lanai, an enterprise AI accountability firm, unveiled Token Tuner, a feature that links AI token consumption to measurable business outcomes across departments. The tool provides workflow‑level visibility, efficiency scores, and spend‑optimization recommendations, helping CFOs pinpoint high‑cost models and low‑value use...
Observable Space Raises $90M Series A
Observable Space, formed by the merger of PlaneWave Instruments and OurSky, closed a $90 million Series A round led by Lux Capital. The funding will expand laser‑communication ground stations, ground‑based sensing, and in‑space optical payload production, including new manufacturing capacity in Detroit....
FDA Oncology Roundup: AbbVie’s Rare Cancer Approval, AstraZeneca in Breast Cancer Limbo
The FDA approved AbbVie’s CD123‑targeting antibody‑drug conjugate Decnupaz for blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), an ultra‑rare aggressive blood cancer, after the CADENZA trial reported a 69.7% composite complete response in newly diagnosed patients and 15.7% in relapsed/refractory cases. The...
Inside Nasa's Plans for a Lunar Base
NASA’s Artemis program is moving toward a permanent lunar presence, with a crewed landing slated for 2025 and a surface habitat to follow by the late 2020s. The agency plans to use the Lunar Gateway as an orbital staging point,...
Europe’s AI Champion Mistral Defends Military Use of Artificial Intelligence
Europe’s leading AI firm Mistral defended the military use of artificial intelligence while announcing a new 10 MW data centre in Les Ulis, France. Valued at roughly $12.8 bn, the company supplies the French armed forces and is positioning itself as a...
Sneak Peek at New Siri App Reveals Apple’s Plans to Take on ChatGPT and More
Apple is preparing a dedicated Siri app that will sit inside the Dynamic Island and use Google’s Gemini AI to challenge ChatGPT and other chatbots. The update embeds AI‑powered search into Spotlight, letting users swipe down for instant, context‑rich answers,...
Thea Energy Raises $100 Million Series B
Thea Energy announced a $100 million Series B round led by a coalition of venture firms, including Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund and General Innovation Capital Partners. The capital will be used to expand magnet manufacturing capacity and speed the build‑out...
Liberia Restructures National ID Deal with OSD, Plans Issuance Restart
Liberia has reached a concession agreement with Austrian firm OSD International to restart its stalled national ID card program. The public‑private partnership will have OSD finance enrollment and issuance infrastructure, operate the system for a defined period, and then hand...
OpenAI Turns on Cost-per-Action Ads Inside ChatGPT
OpenAI has activated cost‑per‑action (CPA) advertising inside ChatGPT, allowing advertisers to pay only when users complete a defined action such as a click, sign‑up, or purchase. The feature is currently limited to a pilot group of advertisers and relies on...
Experts Say Space Nuclear Power’s Biggest Obstacles Are Logistical, Not Technical
A workshop at AIAA’s ASCEND event highlighted that the primary barriers to space nuclear power are logistical, not technical. Experts noted that despite $20 billion spent over six decades, mission planning, policy continuity, and regulatory frameworks have repeatedly stalled progress. The...
The Impact of PV Module Degradation on Inverter Clipping Losses
Solargis researchers found that PV‑module degradation alters inverter clipping behavior, making standard one‑year LTA simulations inaccurate by more than 3 %. Using multi‑year, sub‑hourly (1‑minute) data, they showed that clipping losses shrink 2‑3 % over a 25‑year plant life, a shift that...
‘Deep Pockets’ Vs. ‘Long Pockets’ in DPI: What Instant Payments and Open Finance Tell Us About Sustainable Funding for Digital...
Digital public infrastructure (DPI) such as instant payment systems and open finance does not require massive upfront capital, but it does need sustained, long‑term funding. The authors argue that governance—pricing rules, participation mandates, and ownership—determines how ongoing costs are allocated...
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Databricks’ Co-Founder on What Kills Enterprise AI Deals
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Databricks co‑founder Arsalan Tavakoli‑Shiraji warned that enterprise AI deals are now dying from operational instability rather than weak models. He explained that large firms have moved past curiosity and are scrutinizing implementation risk, governance, workflow disruption,...
Google Launches a Tiny Board that Runs Gemma 3 Locally
Google unveiled the Coral Board at I/O, a compact single‑board computer that brings on‑device AI to tiny form factors. Powered by a Synaptics Astra SL2619 processor, 2 GB RAM and a 1 TOPS Coral NPU, it can run the open‑source Gemma 3 270M language...
Democratizing AI Adoption with Tether’s Bitnet LLM Fine-Tuning Framework
Tether unveiled an edge‑first LoRA fine‑tuning framework for Microsoft’s Bitnet large language model, allowing 13‑billion‑parameter models to be trained on consumer‑grade GPUs and smartphones. By integrating Vulkan and Metal backends, the system bypasses CUDA‑only constraints and runs on heterogeneous devices,...
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Belmoney, DigiPay Enable Congolese Remittances From France and Belgium
Belmoney and DigiPay Group have launched the DigiTransfer mobile app to serve the Congolese diaspora in France and Belgium, enabling instant transfers to mobile‑money wallets and bank accounts in the Republic of Congo and the DRC. The service routes funds...
Fingerprint’s Bet on Policy-Led Communications Oversight
Regulators are shifting from simple record‑keeping to active, policy‑driven supervision of all communications, prompting firms to seek automated solutions. Fingerprint, recognized as a market leader in eComms surveillance by the Global State of RegTech 2026 report, offers a unified platform...
Travel’s Top AI Operators
The travel sector has shifted from three years of AI hype to large‑scale deployment in 2026. CEOs are now fielding questions on model‑training costs and agentic infrastructure, while chief AI officer roles proliferate across hotels, airlines, OTAs and airports. Companies...
MSPs Turn To Specialization, AI To Stand Out
Managed service providers (MSPs) are turning to AI‑driven services and niche specializations to overcome a steep drop in new customer acquisition, with 71% naming sales as their biggest hurdle. Conversations about AI quickly surface data‑visibility and security gaps, prompting MSPs...
Expansion Of Mythos-Level LLMs Makes Exploitability The Key Focus: CISO
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, a frontier LLM designed for automated vulnerability discovery, is expected to become publicly available within the next six to twelve months. Optiv CISO Rob Gregory says this development forces organizations to move from counting total vulnerabilities to prioritizing...
Biohub Open-Source AI Model Targets Protein Design for Drug Discovery
Biohub, part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched an open‑source AI system that models protein biology at evolutionary scale to aid early‑stage drug discovery. The platform, described as a “world model,” was used to design protein binders targeting cancer and...
Hackers Pivot From Marimo RCE Flaw to Credential Theft and Malware Deployment
Researchers have confirmed active exploitation of the critical Marimo remote‑code‑execution flaw (CVE‑2026‑39987), which grants unauthenticated shell access via the /terminal/ws WebSocket endpoint. Attackers moved from initial compromise to rapid credential harvesting, targeting .env files, SSH keys, API tokens, and database...