2026 Internet of Things 50: AI Is Reshaping The IoT Landscape
AI is rapidly reshaping the Internet of Things, with the 2026 IoT 50 highlighting a wave of new AI‑driven offerings. Siemens partnered with Nvidia to build an Industrial AI operating system that will embed intelligence across manufacturing workflows. HiveMQ expanded its Pulse data intelligence platform to deliver autonomous edge actions, while Advizex projects revenue growth from $1 billion to $2 billion by leveraging Nvidia‑powered AI solutions across retail and food‑service sectors.
The 10 Coolest IoT Connectivity Companies: The 2026 Internet Of Things 50
The 2026 CRN IoT 50 highlights ten connectivity firms reshaping enterprise IoT in the AI era. AT&T’s $5.75 billion acquisition of Lumen’s Quantum Fiber adds 4 million fiber sites, targeting 60 million locations by 2030. Other leaders include Aeris with over 100 million devices, Myriota’s...
No, Your City Doesn't Need Another Dashboard
City governments are drowning in data, spending roughly $143 billion annually on IT and juggling about 112 applications per municipality. The overload fuels burnout—nearly half of city employees feel emotionally drained—while dashboards often miss critical information, as New York City’s recent...
Agent Skills: Disseminating Expertise
dbt Labs unveiled a suite of eight AI agent skills that automate complex dbt tasks, including a migration from dbt Core 1.10 to Fusion that completed without human intervention. These skills distill hundreds of hours of community expertise into concise...
York Space Systems Secures PExT Mission Extension Through 2027 Following BARD Success
York Space Systems announced that NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have extended the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) mission through 2027 after the BARD mission met all primary objectives. The PExT payload, hosted on a York S-CLASS bus, demonstrated...
Global Hotel Alliance Looks at India to Drive Growth
Global Hotel Alliance (GHA) announced that its Indian membership base surpassed one million, a 53% increase over the previous year, driven largely by its long‑standing partnership with luxury chain The Leela. The alliance’s Discovery loyalty program saw a 25% year‑over‑year rise...
ALDI Rolls Out New Website Using Instacart's Enterprise Technology
ALDI U.S. has launched a redesigned website and mobile app powered by Instacart’s Storefront Pro enterprise platform. The partnership makes Instacart the exclusive fulfillment provider for ALDI’s online channels, delivering same‑day delivery and curbside pickup in as fast as an...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Telecom Sleeper Cells, LLM Jailbreaks, Apple Forces U.K. Age Checks and More
The week’s cyber‑threat landscape was dominated by a critical Citrix NetScaler flaw (CVE‑2026‑3055) that is now being actively exploited, a confirmed breach of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email with a $10 million bounty offered, and the emergence of Red Menshen’s BPFDoor...
Seabed Preparation Starts Ahead of Construction of New Dutch Offshore Wind Farm
Seabed preparation has begun on the OranjeWind offshore wind project off the Dutch coast, with Jan De Nul launching a filter‑layer installation campaign. The rock‑installation vessel Simon Stevin will lay the first erosion‑protection layer by May, clearing the way for 53 Vestas V236‑15 MW...
How ‘Vaseline Ghabga’ Turned Ramadan Gatherings Into Entertainment on MBC Shahid
Vaseline, through Unilever Arabia, launched “Vaseline Ghabga,” a four‑episode branded series on MBC Shahid that captures the traditional Gulf Ramadan gathering known as a ghabga. Produced by Team Reactivate Middle East with media agency PHD and influencer agency Mumkin, the...
Skyports Drone Services Brings Automated BVLOS “Drone-in-a-Box” Aerial Surveying to German Construction Leader HOCHTIEF, Piloted From Spain
Skyports Drone Services has deployed an automated BVLOS “drone‑in‑a‑box” system at HOCHTIEF’s Rheinbrücke Leverkusen bridge site in Germany, with all flights piloted remotely from its Madrid operation centre. The weekly surveys generate 2D and 3D outputs via DroneDeploy, giving HOCHTIEF...
From Strategy to Practice
The article outlines BEYOND’s evolving methodology for measuring and reducing embodied carbon in interior fit‑outs, emphasizing real‑project quantities, transparent baselines, and reliable carbon factors. It highlights case studies where early design collaboration and material choices—such as low‑carbon carpet, reused partitions,...
How Amex Exploits New AI Tools
American Express is rolling out artificial intelligence across its operations, from engineering to sales and customer service. The company reports that roughly 11,000 engineers using AI have reduced coding time by more than 30%, while travel advisors in 19 countries...
Glystn Just Landed Stagwell, Influential, Weber Shandwick – CEO Ethan Fassett Says the Agency Intelligence Race Is On
Glystn, the San‑Francisco AI social‑intelligence platform, has inked enterprise partnerships with three of the five largest public agency holding companies—Stagwell Marketing Cloud, Influential and Weber Shandwick. The integrations embed Glystn’s app and its Model Context Protocol directly into agency workflows, turning...
Kardigan Blood Pressure Drug Proves Hypothesis Despite Split Phase 2 Readout
Kardigan reported that its experimental hypertension drug tonlamarsen achieved a 67% average reduction in the angiotensinogen biomarker after five monthly doses, confirming target engagement. However, the Phase 2 trial showed no statistically significant difference in office systolic blood pressure between the...
Fermentation Growth Collides with Manufacturing Shortage – iFAB Aims to Fix It
The iFAB accelerator in central Illinois secured a $51 million federal grant and $30 million state contribution to build a precision‑fermentation hub. Partnering with corn giants ADM and Primient, iFAB creates contract‑manufacturing pathways that let startups use large‑scale facilities instead of building...
Spotify For The Body: Personalized Health Scans With Sensor-Driven Data
Spotify co‑founder Daniel Ek has launched Neko Health, a full‑body scanning startup, with its first U.S. clinic slated for New York. The service combines advanced imaging of vascular, organ and metabolic systems to flag serious conditions, reporting 1.2% of scans...
Powering Africa's Digital Future: Why Infrastructure, Not Access, Will Determine Who Captures Value
In 2024, only about 40 % of Africans are online and most of their traffic runs through servers outside the continent. Africa hosts just 103 data centres, with South Africa holding 61, Nigeria 23 and Kenya 19, compared with the United...
MOL and Hitachi Plan to Convert Used Ships Into Floating Data Centers
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed an MOU to convert second‑hand vessels into floating data centers, with a target launch no earlier than 2027. The partnership will leverage MOL’s maritime conversion expertise and Hitachi’s data‑center operations in Japan,...
Capitol AI Ramps up UK and EU Expansion With Regional Leadership and New Advisory Board
Capitol AI appointed Mike Nayler as Vice President of GTM for the UK and Europe, tasking him with leading the firm’s regional expansion and securing high‑security AI contracts. The company also unveiled a new advisory board featuring former Financial Times...
Biogen Bounces Back With FDA Nod for High-Dose Spinal Muscular Atrophy Drug
The FDA approved a high‑dose formulation of Biogen’s SMA drug Spinraza, cutting the loading phase from four to two injections and adding a four‑month maintenance schedule. The new regimen, backed by the DEVOTE study, showed significant motor‑skill gains versus sham...
Wolters Kluwer Powers High‑Stakes Professional Decision‑Making by Advancing Its Expert AI Strategy
Wolters Kluwer announced the expansion of its Expert AI suite, embedding large‑language‑model orchestration with expert‑curated content across its healthcare (UpToDate) and tax/accounting (CCH Axcess) platforms. The new capabilities promise explainable, traceable answers while cutting manual effort by 20‑30% and have...
Rwanda Races to Meet 2027 Deadline for Digital ID Rollout
Rwanda aims to complete its Single Digital ID System (SDID) by 2027, aligning with the National Strategy for Transformation and a $200 million World Bank‑funded Digital Acceleration Project. So far, 1.5 million citizens have been biometrically enrolled, and the mobile registration drive...
Dark Web Market Lists Alleged 375TB Lockheed Martin Data for $600M
Hackers on the dark‑web marketplace Threat Market claim to have obtained 375 TB of Lockheed Martin data and are offering it for a $600 million buy‑out. The alleged sale, posted via a Telegram account linked to the market and attributed to an APT...
AI Is Fueling a New Arms Race in Healthcare: Here’s How We Stop It
Artificial intelligence is sparking an adversarial arms race in healthcare utilization management, pitting provider‑centric approval bots against payer‑focused denial algorithms. The clash threatens patient access, inflates provider burnout, and undermines trust. Simultaneously, regulators are pushing for real‑time, FHIR‑based authorizations under...
GAO: 5 Out of 6 Federal Agencies Not Using Cyber Workforce Dashboard
The Office of Personnel Management introduced a Cyber Workforce Dashboard in 2023 to give federal agencies a unified view of cyber staffing and enable benchmarking. A GAO review of six agencies found that five agencies—and OPM itself—do not use the...
Saudi Arabia to Fall Short of 130GW Renewables Target by 2030
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 calls for 130 GW of renewable power by 2030, but the country has only installed 13 GW as of 2025 and is projected to reach just 74.2 GW by the deadline. Achieving the target would require adding more than 23 GW...
Voyager Awarded Contract with Icarus Robotics
Voyager Technologies announced a mission‑management contract with Icarus Robotics to fly the free‑flying Joyride robot on the International Space Station. The agreement covers payload integration, safety certification, launch coordination, on‑orbit operations planning and real‑time execution support. Voyager leverages its heritage...
Triple Therapy Momentum: Caterina Brindicci of AstraZeneca on Breztri in Asthma
AstraZeneca is testing its COPD triple‑inhaler Breztri Aerosphere in uncontrolled asthma. Phase III KALOS and LOGOS trials showed 76‑90 mL improvements in FEV₁ and a 14% reduction in severe exacerbations versus standard ICS/LABA therapy. The studies enrolled about 4,300 patients across 20...
CALB Manufactures Batteries for Aridge
Chinese battery maker CALB has begun series production of its R46 cylindrical cells at the Chengdu plant for Aridge, Xpeng’s flying‑car subsidiary. The hybrid liquid‑solid batteries deliver up to 360 Wh/kg and support a 25 C discharge rate, meeting aviation‑grade safety standards...
Deploying Java Applications on Arm64 with Kubernetes
The article details how to optimize Java workloads on Arm64‑based Kubernetes clusters by tuning both the operating system and cluster configuration. It explains Java’s container awareness, recommends matching CPU requests to limits, and using flags like -XX:ActiveProcessorCount and MaxRAMPercentage for accurate...
Future-Proofing Network Connectivity for Healthcare Innovation
Healthcare providers are aligning network connectivity strategies with broader digital transformation goals to support telehealth, cloud‑based EHRs, AI diagnostics, and connected devices. Executives emphasize that the challenge extends beyond bandwidth to building secure, resilient, and adaptable architectures. Cox Business highlights...
Why the AI Boom Can’t Be Compared to the Dotcom Bubble
Redpoint Ventures’ 2026 market update argues the current AI boom differs fundamentally from the dot‑com bubble. AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic now generate over $20 bn in annual recurring revenue, and more than 90% of new data‑center capacity is pre‑committed,...
Neolix Scales RoboVan-as-a-Service Model, Accelerates Expansion Across China and Overseas
Neolix announced that its RoboVan-as-a-Service (RaaS) model has processed over 1.5 million on‑demand delivery orders and logged more than 40 million kilometers of autonomous driving across Chinese cities. In Qingdao, the company now runs one of the largest single‑city autonomous fleets, handling...
Craig Basham Appointed Deputy CIO at the U.S. Secret Service
Craig Basham has been named Deputy Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Secret Service. He previously served as Deputy Executive Director of the DHS Office of the CIO, overseeing IT operations for more than 12,000 personnel across the National Capital...
SEO Tactics for GenAI Visibility
Generative AI search agents like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini now rely on traditional SEO to surface content, making low‑ranked pages invisible to AI‑driven queries. Keyword research must shift toward longer, intent‑rich phrases that mirror conversational prompts, while optimized, problem‑solving content...
Snowflake Research Finds UK Firms Investing in AI but Struggling to Scale Productivity Gains
Snowflake’s latest research, based on 500 senior UK decision‑makers, shows that while 99% of large enterprises intend to maintain or increase AI spending, only 23% have translated that investment into productivity gains at scale. Early or modest gains are reported...
Red Light Therapy’s Regulatory Implications
Red and near‑infrared light therapy, known as photobiomodulation, has shifted from clinics to the consumer health market, prompting a surge in device sales and investor interest. In the United States, products reach consumers via distinct FDA pathways: 510(k) clearance for...
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Pitchdeck Reveals Amazon’s Pitch to Get Advertisers on Rufus
Amazon is preparing to roll out Sponsored Ads on its AI‑driven shopping assistant Rufus, moving the feature from open beta to a general‑availability launch. The leaked pitch deck reveals that advertisers will be charged on a cost‑per‑click (CPC) basis and...
US Startup Begins Manufacturing Grid-Scale Flywheel ESS
Qnetic, a SOSV‑backed startup, is launching low‑volume production of its Q500 solid‑state flywheel energy storage system at a new Sacramento factory. The Q500 is designed for 500 kWh capacity, 125 kW power, and up to twelve hours of discharge at lower power,...
AAIR Touts AI-Powered HVAC System Cutting Costs for Hoteliers
AAIR has launched its AI‑driven Intelligent HVAC system for hotels, promising up to 30% energy savings compared with conventional units. The compact 14.3‑inch design replaces bulky VTAC and PTAC units, freeing interior space and reducing noise. Integrated with building‑management software,...
Deloitte to Hire 50,000 in India; Bets Big on AI Upskilling
Deloitte announced a plan to hire 50,000 employees in India, reinforcing its status as a major global talent hub. The firm has already trained 30,000 staff in AI skills and is transitioning another 20,000 to AI‑focused roles. Around 9% of...
Artemis II: Space Weather Forecasting, Monitoring the Sun’s Hazardous Conniptions
NASA’s Artemis II mission will carry astronauts beyond Earth’s magnetic shield on a ten‑day lunar flyby, the first human deep‑space flight since Apollo. A powerful solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 3, 2024 underscores the threat of space‑weather events....
Walbridge Uses Contech to Reduce Waste on $2.5B Ford Build
Walbridge partnered with Michigan‑based Woodchuck to cut waste on Ford's $2.5 billion BlueOval Battery Park project. In the first three months, the builder realized 40% of its projected material‑savings, diverting thousands of tons of wood, cardboard, plastic and metal from landfills. Woodchuck’s...
A3 Launches Introduction to Industrial Robotics Course
Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has introduced an on‑demand Introduction to Industrial Robotics course, a 2.5‑hour program aimed at professionals across manufacturing and operations. The curriculum offers a vendor‑neutral, system‑level view that blends business and technical concepts, with pricing set...
New Hope for Children with Severe Epilepsy
Scientists at Manchester University have identified a recessive RNU2‑2‑related neurodevelopmental disorder as one of the most common genetic causes of childhood epilepsy. The condition, which manifests with seizures and severe delays in speech and walking before age one, has been...
New E-Bike Bill in Congress Could Bring Long-Awaited Federal Regulation
A bipartisan Safe SPEEDS Act has been introduced to give the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission authority to create national classifications, labeling and age guidelines for electric bikes, e‑motos and similar micromobility devices. The bill would replace the patchwork of state...
Why CREST-2 Trial Results Should Inform, Not Replace, Clinical Judgment
The New England Journal of Medicine released the CREST‑2 results, a pair of parallel randomized trials that compared intensive medical management (IMM) alone with IMM plus either carotid stenting (TFCAS) or carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with asymptomatic high‑grade carotid...
India’s Folk and Tribal Musicians Are Getting a YouTube-Sized Stage
On March 25, 2026 the Indian Ministry of Culture signed a Memorandum of Understanding with YouTube to bring folk, tribal and traditional musicians onto the digital platform. The agreement will equip artists with training in content creation, channel management, monetization,...
Examining the Architecture of Next-Gen Biotherapeutic Modalities
BioPharm Drug Digest will host a free webinar on April 17, 2026, exploring how the biopharma sector is redesigning antibodies, RNA therapies, and cell therapies with multifunctional architectures. The session highlights programmable biology, next‑generation delivery platforms, and digitized biology models...