Inside Iron Mountain’s Data Center Battery Project
Data center operator Iron Mountain is installing a 23 megawatt‑hour lithium‑ion battery system from Tesla at its New Jersey facility, slated for commissioning before the end of 2026. The storage will work alongside a 7.2‑MW rooftop solar array to reduce grid reliance, lower peak‑demand costs, and provide frequency‑support services that generate revenue. Iron Mountain has structured the project as an operating‑lease with Calibrant Energy, eliminating upfront capital outlay. The initiative reflects broader growth, with U.S. commercial‑industrial storage installations up 8 % in 2025.
Electric Trucks Are Getting A Lift From You-Know-Who
Republican cuts to federal EV tax credits have slowed vehicle sales, but the charging sector is forging ahead. California startup EV Realty, backed by logistics giant Prologis, is building a network of high‑power truck chargers across key freight corridors, already...
UK Backs Port Talbot Floating Wind Hub
The UK government has pledged up to £64 million (about $81 million) to help develop a floating offshore wind hub at Port Talbot in the Celtic Sea. The funding will allow Associated British Ports to complete design and engineering work, targeting at...
Sanas Broadens Real‑Time Speech AI Platform for Global Enterprises
Sanas unveiled a real‑time language translation feature covering more than 13 languages and a major upgrade to its speech‑enhancement engine, both designed to run on‑device with sub‑second latency. The enhancements preserve speakers’ vocal identity while boosting audio fidelity, and they...
Philippines: Green Xentro to Deploy 2,500 E-Taxis Through Green GSM
Green Xentro, a subsidiary of the Xentro Group, announced it will expand its electric‑taxi fleet in the Philippines to 2,500 units through a partnership with Green GSM. The first batch of VinFast Nerio Green EVs has already begun service in Rizal...
ZAKK WYLDE Explains Why He's Not Really Afraid Of A.I. Music
Zakk Wylde, frontman of Black Label Society, told Qobuz he isn’t worried about AI‑generated music replacing human artists. He argues AI can only mimic existing styles and serves as a tribute rather than a true creative force. Wylde cites iconic...
AI-Powered Dependency Decisions Introduce, Ignore Security Bugs
Sonatype’s latest research reveals that even the most advanced AI models—referred to as frontier models—frequently generate erroneous software‑dependency recommendations, with nearly 28% of suggestions being outright hallucinations. The study examined 258,000 recommendations across Maven, npm, PyPI and NuGet, finding that...
GAN Integrity Launches AI Analytics and Dashboards, Giving Compliance and Third-Party Risk Teams Real-Time Intelligence to Prove Program Effectiveness
GAN Integrity unveiled AI Analytics and Dashboards, adding a purpose‑built intelligence layer to its compliance and third‑party risk platform. The new tools turn raw risk data into instant, plain‑language answers and live visualizations, letting teams respond to board and regulator...
Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) Sourcing $2.9B Solar Equipment in China Amid Burgeoning AI Energy Opportunity
Tesla is in talks to acquire about $2.9 billion of solar‑manufacturing equipment from Chinese suppliers, including screen‑printing machines from Suzhou Maxwell Technologies. The move supports Elon Musk’s goal of adding 100 GW of solar capacity in the United States and addresses rising...
Adecco Group Taps Salesforce, Inc. (CRM) for Agentforce Following Nvidia Pact
Adecco Group announced a multi‑year agreement with Salesforce to obtain unlimited global access to the Agentforce 360 platform, allowing the staffing giant to scale agentic AI across its operations. The deal follows Salesforce’s recent partnership with Nvidia, which integrates Nvidia’s Nemotron...
Nexi and Danish Banks Expand Partnership to Deliver SEPA Direct Debit Services
Italian payments leader Nexi has deepened its collaboration with three major Danish banks to roll out SEPA Direct Debit services across the Eurozone. The expanded partnership will enable merchants in Italy, Denmark and the wider EU to initiate and settle...
Solar Project Turning Laundromat Into Resilience Hub for Pine Ridge Reservation
Everybody Solar and the One Spirit nonprofit are installing an 18‑kW rooftop solar array with battery storage at Pine Ridge Reservation’s first district laundromat. The system will produce roughly 25,672 kWh of clean electricity each year, lowering utility expenses and providing...
Jliveo Introduces AI-Driven Platform for Global Wholesale and Cross-Border E-Commerce Operations
Jliveo, a veteran B2B e‑commerce solutions provider, has launched an AI‑driven platform that consolidates global wholesale sourcing, dropshipping, and fulfillment into a single system. The solution leverages artificial intelligence to automate content workflows, enable multilingual communication, and streamline supply‑chain operations...
MOVE 2026
MOVE 2026, the eighth edition of the commercial forum for auto, fleet, energy and tech leaders, will take place June 17‑18 at ExCel London. Organized by Terrapinn, the two‑day event will host over 300 world‑class speakers from automotive OEMs, fleet...
Jona and Everlywell Partner to Launch AI-Powered Gut Microbiome Test
Jona, an AI‑driven gut microbiome startup, has teamed up with Everlywell to bring a high‑resolution microbiome test to the U.S. consumer market. The test employs deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing, delivering strain‑level data on bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. Jona’s proprietary...
Visual Components Brings Future-Ready Simulation Technology to Automate 2026
Visual Components will showcase a live demonstration at Automate 2026, featuring a KUKA KR AGILUS robot equipped with Roboception’s vision system. The company’s 3D simulation software will render the robot’s picking and handling tasks in real time, giving attendees an accurate, immersive...
UK Startup MINDLINK Launches Local AI That Executes Excel Tasks Without Formulas
UK startup MINDLINK TEC LTD launched Mica, an AI assistant that performs Excel operations through natural‑language commands, eliminating the need for formulas or VBA scripts. The tool runs locally on Windows, supporting Excel versions from 2007 to Microsoft 365, and...
Blackstone Invests $250m Into UAE Payments Infrastructure Platform
Blackstone has pledged a $250 million investment into Advanced Digital Gaming Technology, a newly launched UAE‑based payments and data‑intelligence platform. The capital injection is aimed at scaling the firm’s infrastructure to support faster, more secure digital transactions across the Gulf. Blackstone’s...
International Data Center Day: Future Frontiers 2030-2070
International Data Center Day 2030 featured a global student competition where middle‑school teams built self‑sustaining tabletop data centers, integrating micro‑solar, wind, robotic operators and AI agents to manage power, cooling and workloads. The event highlighted emerging edge‑first architectures and real‑time...
Linear Moves Sideways to Agentic AI as CEO Declares Issue Tracking Dead
Linear introduced the Linear Agent, an AI‑driven assistant that can create and assign issues directly from chat in its web, mobile, and desktop apps, as well as via Slack, Teams and Zendesk integrations. The beta‑only feature is bundled with business...
At the Intersection of Personalized Health and GLP-1s
A NutraIngredients webinar highlighted how GLP‑1 agonists, wearables, and at‑home diagnostics are reshaping personalized health. Over 25‑30 million people are currently on GLP‑1 drugs, a figure expected to double by 2030, while roughly 100 million U.S. consumers now wear devices that generate...
ITRS Unveils Agentic AI Capabilities Built for Mission-Critical, Regulated IT Operations
ITRS introduced a suite of AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) agents designed to accelerate root‑cause analysis, support tasks, and website monitoring for mission‑critical, regulated IT environments. The agents ingest live telemetry—metrics, events, logs, and traces—in real time and provide recommendations...
Best AI Stocks to Buy Now
Morningstar’s Global Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Index jumped 40.85% over the past year, highlighting strong AI sector momentum despite a recent “anything but AI” sell‑off. The index’s top constituents—Nvidia, Microsoft, TSMC, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, Alibaba, Tencent and Arista—are all rated...
AI Data Centers Face Water Backlash — Can Air Solve the Crisis?
AI‑driven data centers are encountering growing resistance from local communities over rising electricity costs, pollution, and especially water consumption. The surge in AI workloads is expanding data‑center footprints, intensifying demand for cooling water. Startup Atoco proposes atmospheric water harvesting that...
Kodiak’s Phase 3 Eye Drug Success; Innate Discontinues Anti-CD20 Program
Kodiak Sciences announced that its experimental eye drug Zenkuda (tarcocimab tedromer) achieved positive topline results in the GLow2 Phase 3 trial for diabetic retinopathy, outperforming sham treatment. The study met its primary endpoint, delivering a statistically significant gain in visual acuity...
Data Pipeline Failures Cost Enterprises $3 Million per Month, Fivetran Benchmark Finds
Fivetran’s 2026 enterprise data infrastructure benchmark, based on a survey of 500 senior data leaders at firms with over 5,000 employees, reveals that fragile data pipelines are costing large organizations roughly $3 million in lost revenue each month. Nearly 97% of...
Amplify Expands Leadership Roster with New President and Chief Revenue Officer
Amplify Technology announced Jason Rowley as President and Kimberly Hill as Chief Revenue Officer, bolstering its leadership as the AI‑native RIA platform scales. Rowley, formerly chief of staff and general counsel, will manage day‑to‑day operations, while Hill shifts from CFO...
From Acoustic Detection and Ranging to Ceiling Cobots
The LogiMat 2026 Best Product awards honored three breakthrough solutions: Sonair’s Acoustic Detection and Ranging (ADAR) sensor, CeiliX Technology’s SkyBot ceiling‑mounted cobot, and Erhardt Partner Group’s EPG Aura Observer AI video‑analytics platform. ADAR equips autonomous robots with a 180°×180° ultrasonic 3‑D field...
Samsung’s Next Big Update, One UI 8.5, Is Now in Beta on These Older Galaxy Devices
Samsung has broadened its One UI 8.5 beta to a wide range of older Galaxy devices, adding the S24 series, S25 FE, Fold 6, Flip 6, and several Tab S11 models. The beta now reaches the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 with a second iteration, while the...
Colruyt Partners with Retail Media Platform in Which Ahold Delhaize Holds a Stake
Colruyt Group has teamed up with advertising platform Adhese to accelerate its retail media services, aiming to deliver omnichannel campaigns that leverage first‑party data. The partnership will provide the retailer with technology infrastructure, onboarding support, and scalable campaign management tools....
Legal Tech in 2026: 8 Key AI and Courtroom Developments Every Law Firm Should Know
Legal technology is reshaping the UK legal sector, backed by more than £1 billion (≈ $1.3 billion) in recent investment. AI‑driven evidence analysis, predictive litigation analytics, and fully digital courtrooms are now mainstream, with over half of firms employing AI for document review....
OLED Monitor Sales Surged 92% in 2025 — Asus Led with 2.7 Million Units Shipped as Gamer-Friendly Panel Tech Goes...
OLED monitor shipments surged 92% in 2025, reaching 2.735 million units as the technology becomes both reliable and affordable for gamers. Asus led the market with a 21.6% share, shipping roughly 2.7 million units and overtaking Samsung. The boom is driven by...
Comcast's DOCSIS 4.0 Deployment Now Covers 'Millions' Of Homes
Comcast announced that its DOCSIS 4.0 rollout now serves "millions" of homes, expanding far beyond the ten markets and roughly one‑million premises covered in 2024. The carrier has installed about 225,000 digital nodes and 300,000 full‑duplex amplifiers, many of which are...
AviaGames Opens Global Trust Centre in Singapore to Boost Real-Money Game Security
AviaGames has opened a Global Trust Centre in Singapore to centralise cybersecurity and data‑protection for its real‑money games. The facility will be overseen by former AWS security leader Dr. Jan Wang, who will drive compliance strategy across multiple jurisdictions. AviaGames...
Meta Ray-Ban Rival Even Realities Brings Real-Time Conversation Coaching to Smart Glasses
Even Realities unveiled a major software upgrade for its Even G2 smart glasses, adding a real‑time conversation coaching feature called Conversate with Prep Notes. The new Prep Notes lets users upload briefing documents and receive contextual prompts, suggested answers and...
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Names First Chief AI and Innovation Officer
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has appointed Nathan Allen as its inaugural chief AI and innovation officer, marking a strategic move to embed artificial intelligence across its circular‑economy initiatives. Allen brings two decades of experience, including eight years leading sustainability efforts...
Limble and VibeCloud Integration Automates Work Orders From Condition Monitoring Alerts
Limble and VibeCloud have launched an integration that automatically creates and closes work orders in Limble’s maintenance platform based on condition‑monitoring alerts from vibration, ultrasound and motor‑circuit analysis. The connection eliminates the manual step of translating sensor alerts into tickets,...
DT's AI Factory Brings in the Lawyers
Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud, branded as the AI Factory, is now powering Noxtua’s legal‑tech platform, offering a sovereign European environment for processing highly sensitive legal data. The partnership addresses concerns over the US CLOUD Act by keeping data under...
Wi-Fi 7 Phase 2 Trials by WBA Validate Wi-Fi 7 MLO for Enterprise Wi-Fi Reliability, Bandwidth and Performance
The Wireless Broadband Alliance released Phase 2 field‑trial results showing that Wi‑Fi 7’s multi‑link operation (MLO) with enhanced multi‑link single‑radio (eMLSR) dramatically improves enterprise Wi‑Fi performance. Tests with AT&T, RUCKUS Networks and Intel recorded up to 116% uplink throughput gains and 66%...
Researchers Gene-Edit the Bitterness Out of Grapefruit
Researchers at Israel's Volcani Center used CRISPR/Cas9 to inactivate the 1,2RhaT gene in Citrus paradisi, effectively halting production of bitter compounds such as naringin, neohesperidin, and poncirin in leaf tissue. The gene edit eliminates the bitter taste pathway, and the...
Leak Bazaar Converts Stolen Corporate Data Into Organized Criminal Marketplace
Leak Bazaar, a new Russian‑speaking cyber‑crime service, debuted on March 25, 2026, offering a structured marketplace that transforms raw stolen corporate data into refined, buyer‑ready datasets. The platform combines automated filtering, machine‑learning analysis, and human validation to repackage information into...
TikTok for Business Accounts Targeted in New Phishing Campaign
A new phishing campaign is specifically targeting TikTok for Business accounts, luring users with fake “Schedule a Call” pages that mimic TikTok and Google Careers interfaces. The malicious sites are hosted on a shared Google Storage bucket and use Cloudflare...
Komprise’s Flash Stretch Tiers NAS to Cloud for Flash Capacity Savings
Komprise introduced its Flash Stretch Assessment service, which analyzes on‑prem NAS environments and recommends moving rarely accessed files to public‑cloud disk to free up expensive SSD capacity. The offering arrives as NAND shortages drive SSD prices up roughly 130% by...
G2 Introduces Innovations to Help Software Companies Build Trust and Win in the AI Answer Economy
G2 unveiled a suite of AI‑focused product upgrades designed to cement its role as the trust layer for B2B software buying. New structured FAQs, guided discussion prompts, and feature‑list reviews make buyer feedback easier for both humans and AI engines....
GomSpace Joins Danish LUNA Consortium to Advance Nanosatellite Antenna Performance
Denmark’s LUNA consortium—Aalborg University, Pri‑Dana Elektronik and GomSpace—has launched a three‑year effort to create low‑loss, multiband nanosatellite antennas with mechanical beam steering. Backed by Innovation Fund Denmark, the project receives roughly $3 million in funding, with GomSpace contributing about $1.1 million. The...