News•Jan 14, 2026
Lightbits Labs Sees Record Growth as NVMe/TCP Powers AI Infrastructure
Lightbits Labs reported record growth in 2025 as enterprises adopt its NVMe over TCP software-defined storage to modernize AI and analytics workloads. The company saw a 3‑times year‑over‑year increase in software purchases, a 2‑times rise in average deal size, and a record deployment exceeding four times typical capacity. Lightbits’ solution delivers up to five times greater hardware efficiency than legacy SDS, cutting costs and power consumption. New integrations with Kubernetes, Supermicro and other partners broadened its ecosystem across finance, e‑commerce and cloud providers.
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 14, 2026
Global Commodity Market Valued at USD 6 Trillion Enters a New RWA Era on High-Performance Public Blockchain
Asara Group and Bloom Technology’s Locus Chain have signed an agreement to build a real‑world‑asset tokenization platform for global commodity trading. The initiative targets the roughly $6 trillion annual commodity market, including a $1.5 trillion steel segment, by moving transactions onto a...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 14, 2026
NASA Pessimistic About Odds of Recovering MAVEN
NASA announced on Jan. 13 that recovering the MAVEN orbiter is "very unlikely" after the spacecraft lost contact on Dec. 6 and telemetry indicated it is tumbling out of its planned orbit. Attempts to locate MAVEN using Curiosity’s camera and to re‑establish...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Evolution of AI Platforms with Enterprise Copilots: Why 2026 Is the Inflection Point
Enterprise copilots are reshaping AI platforms from isolated models into a central decision‑making layer, with more than 60% of large firms already using AI in core functions by 2026. These copilots translate contextual data into actionable instructions, delivering 25‑40% productivity...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 14, 2026
FiscalNote Achieves Major Milestone for PolicyNote, Completing Customer Migration From Legacy FiscalNote Platform
FiscalNote announced the completion of migrating all customers from its legacy platform to the new PolicyNote solution, a unified AI‑driven policy intelligence suite. The transition was executed with minimal churn and has already sparked stronger user engagement. Impact Summaries now...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 14, 2026
SOC 2 Certification Solutions for Modern Organizations
SOC 2 certification has shifted from a luxury to a necessity as organizations grapple with continuous data flows, remote work, and third‑party integrations. It evaluates responsibility through trust principles rather than pure technical ability, offering a systematic approach to security. Modern...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 14, 2026
Netradyne Unveils Video LiveSearch: Industry First On-Device Search Capability Powered By Natural Language and Edge AI
Netradyne introduced Video LiveSearch, the fleet industry’s first on‑device, real‑time video search powered by natural‑language prompts and edge AI. The solution indexes virtually 100% of road‑facing footage directly on each vehicle, allowing managers to retrieve before‑during‑after clips across the entire...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 14, 2026
Lunar Gives Customers Visual View of Yearly Spending Habits
Lunar has introduced “Wallet story,” a visual annual summary that turns users’ transaction data into a narrative of their spending across categories like housing, travel and everyday purchases. The feature eschews traditional charts, scores or financial advice, offering a purely...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
Capi Money Get UK EMI Licence
Capi Money Group announced that its UK subsidiary has received Electronic Money Institution authorisation from the FCA. The licence allows Capi UK to issue e‑money and provide regulated payment services, targeting the £80 billion annual UK‑Africa capital flow. With eight African...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
Orion Innovation Expands Kochi Presence with New Facility and Launch of OI Envision Studio
Orion Innovation announced a major expansion of its Kochi operations, unveiling a larger, state‑of‑the‑art facility and the new OI Envision Studio. The studio serves as a collaborative hub where clients, engineers, designers, and domain experts co‑create AI‑driven solutions. Orion emphasizes...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 14, 2026
Darktrace Appoints Terry Doyle as Chief Information Officer
Darktrace announced the appointment of Terry Doyle as Chief Information Officer, joining the executive committee to lead a newly consolidated enterprise IT and data function. Doyle will unify technology services across the business, building enterprise‑scale systems that support Darktrace’s rapid...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 14, 2026
Thomson Reuters Convenes Global AI Leaders to Advance Trust in the Age of Intelligent Systems
Thomson Reuters Labs has launched the Trust in AI Alliance, uniting Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud and OpenAI to define shared principles for trustworthy, agentic AI. The alliance will focus on engineering trust into AI architectures used in high‑stakes professional environments...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 14, 2026
Hippocratic AI Builds in Life Sciences with Grove AI Buy
Hippocratic AI announced the acquisition of Grove AI, a pharma‑R&D specialist, and launched a dedicated life‑sciences division headed by Dr Ahad Wahid. The move adds the Grace agent, which automates clinical‑trial tasks, to Hippocratic's safety‑first generative AI portfolio. The company,...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 14, 2026
Fender Is Bringing Its Play Learning Platform to TVs for the First Time, in Partnership with Samsung
Fender is expanding its Play video‑based learning platform to Samsung smart TVs, launching globally in 2026 across 49 countries. The partnership is exclusive, positioning the app as a native TV experience with a new "jam mode" that adds Dolby Atmos...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 14, 2026
Wall Street Quants Move Into Prediction Markets to Hunt for Arbitrage, Not to Bet
High‑frequency trading firms and quant hedge funds such as DRW, Susquehanna International Group and Jump Trading are launching dedicated desks for prediction markets. They aim to apply traditional quantitative playbooks—identifying mispricing, arbitrage gaps, and providing market‑making—rather than simply betting on...
By Finance Magnates Fintech
News•Jan 14, 2026
Lidl GB Promotes Insider to Lead Its Customer Business
Lidl GB has elevated long‑time insider Louise Weise to chief customer officer, adding her to the board of directors. In her new role she will steer brand, marketing, loyalty, customer insight, in‑store experience and care. The promotion follows Lidl's strongest...
By DecisionMarketing
News•Jan 14, 2026
Open Cosmos Awarded Liechtenstein Spectrum Filings for LEO Broadband Constellation
Open Cosmos has been awarded Liechtenstein’s priority Ka‑band spectrum filings to build a sovereign low‑Earth‑orbit broadband constellation for Europe. The company will launch the first two 100‑150 kg satellites by the end of Q1 2026 using Rocket Lab from New Zealand. Open Cosmos,...
By Via Satellite
News•Jan 14, 2026
Cloud Marketplace Pax8 Accidentally Exposes Data on 1,800 MSP Partners
Cloud commerce platform Pax8 inadvertently emailed an internal spreadsheet to fewer than 40 UK partners, exposing business data for roughly 1,800 managed service providers. The CSV listed more than 56,000 entries, including partner IDs, customer names, Microsoft SKU counts and...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 14, 2026
Affirm Adds Account Balances and Cash Flow Trends to Underwriting
Affirm is enhancing its underwriting engine by incorporating real‑time account balances and cash‑flow trends from linked bank accounts and its own Money Account. The new data layer is already live for Affirm Card users and will soon roll out to...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 14, 2026
#JPM26: Day 3 at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
Day three of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference saw sessions winding down as investors turned their attention to key presentations, notably from Chinese contract research giant WuXi AppTec. The company used its slot to unveil a refreshed drug‑development platform and hint...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 14, 2026
Graphene–Perovskite Hybrids Achieve Ultrasensitive Broadband Photodetection
Researchers have created graphene‑perovskite hybrid photodetectors by inkjet‑printing mixed‑phase CsPbBr₃/Cs₄PbBr₆ films directly onto CVD graphene. The intimate photogating between the high‑mobility graphene channel and the perovskite layer yields responsivities above 5.7 × 10⁴ A W⁻¹ and detectivities exceeding 10¹⁶ Jones at 312 nm. The “raisin‑bread” perovskite...
By Graphene-Info
News•Jan 14, 2026
Fintech Awards London 2026 Launches at House of Lords with S&W as New Headline Sponsor
The Fintech Awards London 2026 officially launched at an exclusive ceremony in the House of Lords, signalling the sector’s growing prominence. S&W announced its partnership with Aon as a new headline sponsor, underscoring confidence in the UK fintech ecosystem. The...
By The Fintech Times
News•Jan 14, 2026
How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts
In early 2024 the leading U.S. AI firms—Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI—publicly opposed military applications of their models, but within a year each reversed course, signing contracts and partnerships with the Pentagon and allied defense firms. OpenAI quietly lifted its...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 14, 2026
Nearly Half of Consumers Would Choose Dental Visit than Wait a Week for Refund
TodayPay’s survey of 14,000 U.S. shoppers finds 44% would rather schedule a dental appointment than wait a week for a refund. An overwhelming 94% say an instant‑refund guarantee makes them more likely to complete a purchase, while 92% would shop...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 14, 2026
Banks Aim for Agentic AI Scale in 2026: Report
Banks are accelerating the deployment of agentic AI in 2026, leveraging cloud platforms to build brand‑aligned, compliant AI agents. Accenture forecasts that 57% of banking executives will embed agents in risk, compliance, audit, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring, while 56%...
By CIO Dive
News•Jan 14, 2026
Space Operations Will Become More Dynamic This Year
2026 will see a surge of dynamic space operations driven by on‑orbit refueling and servicing capabilities. The U.S. Space Force and DARPA are fielding missions such as Tetra‑5, Victus Haze, Surgo, and Salo to prove autonomous docking, rapid‑response launches, and...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 14, 2026
UK and EU Regulators Sign MoU to Strengthen Oversight of Critical Third Parties
The Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England and Prudential Regulation Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Supervisory Authorities. The MoU formalises cooperation on supervising critical third parties that operate under the UK’s CTP regime. It establishes...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
ClearBid Global Markets Selects Archax as Digital Asset Partner for UK and EU Expansion
ClearBid Global Markets announced a partnership with Archax, the FCA‑regulated digital asset exchange, to extend its cross‑border digital bond trading and data platform into the United Kingdom and European Union. The collaboration gives CBGM access to Archax’s compliant custody, settlement...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
PayPal and Deutsche Bank Strike Global Payments Deal
PayPal and Deutsche Bank announced an expansion of their long‑standing partnership to deliver enhanced payment solutions across the United States, Europe, and Asia‑Pacific. The deal integrates PayPal’s digital wallet and merchant services with Deutsche Bank’s banking infrastructure, enabling faster cross‑border...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
Cuepilot.ai Is the Only Indian Company to Make It to the 2026 Gsv Cup 50.
India‑based CuePilot AI, an AI‑powered voice‑native preschool management platform, has been named to the 2026 GSV Cup 50, the global edtech competition that shortlisted 50 startups from more than 3,000 nominations. The selection positions CuePilot as the sole Indian entrant,...
By AiThority
News•Jan 14, 2026
#JPM26: Q&A with Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Chris Boerner on 2026 Outlook
Chris Boerner, in his third year as Bristol Myers Squibb CEO, opened the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference with a forward‑looking Q&A on the company’s 2026 outlook. He outlined a $45 billion revenue target, driven by late‑stage oncology and immunology assets, while emphasizing...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 14, 2026
Citeline, Risklick Partner to Improve Protocol Design and Optimization
Citeline and Swiss AI firm Risklick have announced a partnership to deliver an end‑to‑end digital protocol development platform that combines Citeline’s clinical data and AI models with Risklick’s authoring workflow and AI assistant. The integrated solution automates protocol design, operational...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 14, 2026
Victorian Department of Education Says Hackers Stole Students’ Data
The Victorian Department of Education disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed a database containing personal details and school‑issued email addresses of current and former students, along with encrypted passwords. More sensitive information such as birth dates, home addresses, and phone...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 14, 2026
Why Human-in-the-Loop Is Key for Insurance AI
Insurance firms are rapidly launching AI projects—77% of carriers started major initiatives in 2024—but most remain in pilot mode. By 2025, nearly 90% will use AI, yet only about 7% are expected to scale beyond testing. The barrier is trust...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 14, 2026
How Neglectful People Processes Could Create the Next Financial Crisis
During FinextraTV’s Predict 2026, Harrington Star co‑founder Nadia Edwards‑Dashti and financial‑services executive Samantha Emery warned that the industry’s retreat from robust diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives could sow the seeds of a new financial crisis. They argued that labeling...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Convergence of SaaS and AI: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
The article argues that artificial intelligence is evolving from a peripheral add‑on to the foundational layer of SaaS platforms. It outlines how AI‑driven automation, predictive analytics, and personalized experiences are reshaping product design, pricing models, and growth strategies. Real‑world examples...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 14, 2026
G7 Sets 2034 Deadline for Finance to Adopt Quantum-Safe Systems
The G7 Cyber Expert Group has issued a recommended roadmap urging financial institutions and public entities to fully adopt post‑quantum cryptography by 2034. The plan outlines six phases—from awareness and inventory to migration, testing and validation—spanning 2025‑2035. While advisory, it...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 14, 2026
Reprisk Bolsters Leadership To Scale Trusted Ai Solutions For Business Conduct Risk Transparency
RepRisk, a Microsoft Frontier Firm providing reputational risk data, announced two senior hires to accelerate its AI‑driven business conduct solutions. Mikko Katila joins as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing client growth, sales and partnerships, while Rebecca Bleasdale becomes Chief Marketing Officer,...
By AiThority
News•Jan 14, 2026
Cross River Bank Advocates for Maintaining Stablecoin Yield Regulations
Cross River Bank has urged the U.S. Senate to preserve the newly enacted GENIUS Act provisions that allow yields on stablecoin deposits. The bank argues that these rules create competitive parity between digital and traditional financial products and protect consumer...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 14, 2026
Drill, Baby, Drill! How Walmart's Agentic Experimentation with Google and OpenAI Promises a New Shopping Experience
Walmart is teaming with Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to embed native checkout directly inside AI conversations. The UCP will let users complete purchases without leaving Google Search, Gemini or ChatGPT, while Walmart supplies inventory data and its...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 14, 2026
New Research: 64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification
New research shows 64% of third‑party applications on websites access sensitive data without a clear business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Only 39% of security leaders have deployed dedicated web‑exposure solutions, despite 81% ranking web attacks as a top...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 14, 2026
ExtractAlpha Release Analyst Model Global
ExtractAlpha unveiled its Analyst Model Global, extending the firm’s AI‑driven stock‑selection engine to cover the United States, EMEA, APAC and the broader Americas. The new offering promises a single, consistent signal that can be applied across all major equity markets....
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
N Brown Group Appoints Natalie Rogers as Chief Operating Officer
N Brown Group has created a chief operating officer position and appointed Natalie Rogers, who has served as chief people and sustainability officer since 2024, to fill it. Rogers previously led people functions at Moonpig and Unum UK. The new role is...
By The Retail Bulletin
News•Jan 14, 2026
JPM: Illumina Launches 'Unprecedented' Disease Biology Atlas
Illumina unveiled the Billion Cell Atlas, a genome‑wide perturbation database that profiles 20,000 genes across 250 disease‑relevant human cell types using CRISPR. The initial release contains data from 150 million cells and aims to expand to five billion cells within three years,...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 14, 2026
Conferma Names Mark Ledsham as CEO
Conferma, a global corporate travel payments leader, announced Mark Ledsham as its new chief executive officer. Ledsham brings a track record of scaling fintech and financial services businesses, having held senior roles at Currencycloud, XE.com, Euronet Worldwide, OFX, Macquarie Group...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
DIGDUG.DO Enters Zero Phase Public Testnet, Advancing a Transparent Model for Crypto Discovery and Distribution
Crypto discovery protocol DIGDUG.DO has entered its Zero Phase public testnet, offering a minimalist terminal interface that emphasizes transparency and verifiable progress. The system uses the native USDDD unit as an internal, non‑transferable fuel to manage access and pacing while...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 14, 2026
Built for Mars: Monzo Savings Challenge Highlights Persistent Retention Gap
Monzo’s 1p Savings Challenge, a gamified deposit product, quickly attracted users, demonstrating the bank’s capacity to mobilise a large audience at launch. Built for Mars’ analysis shows the challenge’s strongest performance occurs in the first few days, with engagement plummeting...
By Finextra
News•Jan 14, 2026
Ex Nunc Intelligence Secures Funding to Expand Legal AI
Lausanne‑based LegalTech startup Ex Nunc Intelligence closed an oversubscribed €1.8 million pre‑seed round led by Spicehaus Partners. The capital will speed development of its Silex platform, add specialised AI agents, and reinforce its secure data‑silo infrastructure. Ex Nunc positions Silex as...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 14, 2026
Zypto Wallet Review: Is It the Best DeFi Wallet?
Zypto positions itself as an all‑in‑one non‑custodial DeFi wallet that supports over 24,000 crypto assets across multiple blockchains. The app combines self‑custody, in‑app swaps, and real‑world payment tools such as crypto debit cards, bill payments, and a gift‑card marketplace. It...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 14, 2026
Customer-Led Content Trends – Digital Silk Reveals 7 Common Idea Sources
Digital Silk’s new analysis maps seven primary sources organizations use to generate content ideas directly from customers. The study highlights questions, reviews, surveys, internal team insights, social interactions, community forums, and usage data as key inputs for content planning. By...
By MarTech Series