News•Jan 6, 2026
How to Avoid Phishing Incidents in 2026: A CISO Guide
By 2026 phishing emails will mimic legitimate messages, evading traditional filters. CISOs are turning to behavior‑based sandbox analysis to see the full attack chain within seconds, dramatically cutting verdict times. Automated interactivity and real‑time threat context enable faster, more accurate triage, boosting investigation throughput up to threefold while reducing false positives and handoffs. The approach also auto‑generates comprehensive incident reports, eliminating manual documentation bottlenecks.
By HackRead
News•Jan 6, 2026
Signals Q4’25: Who Authorized This Agent?
Fintech funding surged in Q4 2025, reaching $12.98 billion—a 36% rise quarter‑over‑quarter and 61% year‑over‑year. While the total capital pool expanded, the number of equity raises slipped 14% QoQ, pushing the average deal size up 57% QoQ (11% YoY). The market is...
By This Week in Fintech
News•Jan 6, 2026
5 Content Marketing Ideas for February 2026
The article outlines five timely content‑marketing ideas for February 2025, using cultural milestones such as Charles Schulz’s death anniversary, the Pet Rock fad, Global Movie Day, Cinderella’s 75th anniversary, and a monthly shopper update. It recommends specific formats—blog posts, nostalgic...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Jan 6, 2026
System: Control Your Mac From Anywhere Using Natural Language
SYSTEM lets users control their Mac from any device using natural‑language prompts, pairing a Cloudflare Workers‑based AI agent with a local bridge that runs AppleScript, shell commands, and Raycast extensions. The split architecture keeps the brain in the cloud while...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 6, 2026
Crunchbase Predicts: 15 Companies That Could Go Public In 2026 As The IPO Market Gains Momentum
The IPO market is regaining momentum as stabilizing interest rates and renewed growth appetite open the listing window. Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence identified 15 late‑stage private firms across AI, enterprise software, fintech, space, defense, health and consumer tech that could realistically...
By Crunchbase News
News•Jan 6, 2026
Nanoparticles Show Unexpected Ability to Activate Immune System Against Melanoma
Cornell researchers have shown that ultrasmall core‑shell silica nanoparticles, dubbed "prime dots," can reprogram the tumor microenvironment of melanoma, activating innate immunity and converting immunologically "cold" tumors into "hot" ones. The study published in Nature Nanotechnology documents multiple mechanisms—including pattern‑recognition...
By AZoNano
News•Jan 6, 2026
Brits Turn Back to Cash as ATM Withdrawals Reach Record
Nationwide data shows UK ATM withdrawals reached £4.2bn in 2025, a new record surpassing the 2017 peak. The number of withdrawals rose 6% to 34.7 million and the average amount per transaction increased to £120. About 13% of Britons say using...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 6, 2026
BIA Explained: How ChainThat’s Building the Future of Insurance Finance
ChainThat’s Beyond Insurance Accounting (BIA) platform automates the entire insurance finance workflow, capturing transactions at policy binding and generating real‑time accounts and billing schedules. By ingesting data from bordereaux, bank statements and emails with Gen‑AI tools, BIA eliminates manual reconciliations...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 6, 2026
Pluto Debuts AI-Driven Lending Platform for Private Assets
Pluto Financial Technologies has unveiled an AI‑driven lending platform targeting investors with private market assets. The service, backed by $8.6 million in equity and hundreds of millions in lending capacity, offers a Wealth Equity Line of Credit that can be repaid...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 6, 2026
Equinox’s New Year Campaign Undercuts AI Slop With Human Portraits
Equinox launched its “Question Everything But Yourself” New Year campaign, juxtaposing absurd AI‑generated images with realistic human portraits to stress authenticity. Developed by Angry Gods and rolled out on Jan 5 across out‑of‑home, digital and social channels, the ads feature bizarre...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 6, 2026
What Is Identity Dark Matter?
Identity dark matter describes the growing pool of unmanaged human and non‑human identities spread across SaaS, IaaS, on‑prem and shadow applications. Traditional IAM and IGA tools only cover the managed half, leaving bots, service accounts and orphaned users invisible. This...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 6, 2026
VAST Data Redesigns AI Inference Architecture for the Agentic Era with NVIDIA
VAST Data unveiled an AI inference platform that runs its AI Operating System directly on NVIDIA BlueField‑4 DPUs, creating a shared, pod‑scale key‑value cache for long‑context, multi‑turn and multi‑agent workloads. The design collapses traditional storage tiers, delivering deterministic, line‑rate access...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
Yuze and Zand Join Forces to Provide SMEs with Digital Business Accounts
Yuze, an AI‑enabled digital business banking platform, has teamed up with Zand, a UAE‑based AI and blockchain‑powered digital bank, to launch digital business accounts for eligible SMEs, startups, and entrepreneurs. The joint offering provides fast onboarding, an IBAN account, and...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
VS Code Forks Recommend Missing Extensions, Creating Supply Chain Risk in Open VSX
AI‑powered forks of Microsoft VS Code such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity and Trae have been found recommending extensions that do not exist in the Open VSX registry. Because the extension names are unclaimed, threat actors can publish malicious packages under those...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 6, 2026
Open WebUI Bug Turns the ‘Free Model’ Into an Enterprise Backdoor
Security researchers have uncovered a high‑severity vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑64496) in Open WebUI, a self‑hosted interface for large language models. The flaw resides in the Direct Connections feature, where unsafe handling of server‑sent events lets a malicious model server inject JavaScript that...
By CSO Online
News•Jan 6, 2026
Jaguar Land Rover's Q3 Sales Crash Amid Cyber-Attack Fallout
Jaguar Land Rover reported a sharp sales decline in Q3 2025 after a late‑August cyber‑attack crippled its factories. Retail volumes fell 25.1% year‑on‑year to 79,600 vehicles, while wholesale shipments plunged 43% to 59,200 units. Production stoppages in September and lingering...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 6, 2026
Global Mofy AI Limited Establishes U.S. Subsidiary Eaglepoint AI
Global Mofy AI Limited announced the creation of Eaglepoint AI Inc., a Delaware‑based subsidiary in which it holds a 51% stake through GMM Discovery LLC. Eaglepoint brings together engineers from the U.S., Germany and Ethiopia and has launched Aquila, an...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
Ascentiz Debuts Modular Exoskeleton
At CES 2026, Ascentiz unveiled its first commercial modular exoskeleton, a compact system designed for everyday mobility, outdoor activities, and occupational endurance. The platform features interchangeable hip and knee modules controlled by an AI motion engine that adapts assistance across...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 6, 2026
Overdraft Fee Income Is on the Rise at These Big Banks
Several large U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citizens Financial and TD Bank, reported higher overdraft‑related revenue in the first three quarters of 2025, with JPMorgan up 7.66% and Citizens up 16.9% year‑over‑year. The increases come despite overall overdraft income remaining...
By American Banker Technology
News•Jan 6, 2026
Europe’s Drone-Filled Vision for the Future of War
During NATO’s Hedgehog exercise in Estonia, Britain’s 4th Light Brigade demonstrated Project ASGARD, an AI‑driven "digital targeting web" that links drones, sensors and shooters in under a minute. The system, built in four months, lets operators select strike options on...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Jan 6, 2026
Top Read Retail CX Stories in 2025: Consumer Behavior, AI Ethics, Brand Tech Deployments
RetailCustomerExperience.com’s 2025 most‑read CX stories highlighted a wave of technology‑driven initiatives across the sector. Walmart pushed drone delivery, GenAI assistants and digital shelves, while Verizon rolled out AI‑powered personalization across every customer touchpoint. Brands such as The North Face, Oh Polly...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 6, 2026
Citi Signs with CredAble for White Label Trade Finance Verification Package
Citi has partnered with fintech CredAble to launch a white‑label trade‑finance verification platform. The solution digitises invoice validation, cross‑checking more than ten critical fields against government‑backed digital infrastructure. By automating verification, it reduces exceptions, cuts manual follow‑ups, and accelerates capital...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
No, Microsoft Didn’t Rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has not renamed its Office suite to Microsoft 365 Copilot; the confusion stems from the Office.com landing page promoting the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, which aggregates the traditional Office apps with AI assistance. The site’s note “formerly Office” references the legacy web‑based Office...
By The Verge
News•Jan 6, 2026
Telit Cinterion to Showcase Next-Generation IoT Modules, AI-Powered Edge Intelligence, and 5G Connectivity at CES 2026
Telit Cinterion will unveil a suite of next‑generation IoT modules, AI‑powered edge platforms, and 5G connectivity at CES 2026. The showcase includes the Nokia Cognitive Digital Mining demo, which pairs Telit’s advanced modules with an NVIDIA GPU‑enabled Black Box for...
By AiThority
News•Jan 6, 2026
ADATA Pioneers New Era of AI Innovation at CES 2026
ADATA Technology showcased a broad AI‑focused portfolio at CES 2026, highlighting its TRUSTA AI Scaler Toolkit that offloads large‑language‑model inference across GPU, DRAM and SSD. The company introduced a PCIe 5.0 T7P5 SSD delivering 13,500 MB/s reads, 447 MB/s‑W power efficiency, and DDR5...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
Chinese Robotics Company Agibot Enters U.S. Market with Full Humanoid Robot Portfolio
Chinese robotics firm Agibot announced its U.S. market debut at CES, claiming to have shipped more than 5,000 humanoid robots and entered mass production. The company showcases a unified “one body, three intelligences” architecture that integrates locomotion, manipulation and interaction...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 6, 2026
Cash Withdrawals Rise for Fourth Year in a Row
UK ATM cash withdrawals reached a record £4.2 billion in 2025, surpassing the 2017 peak of £4 billion. Nationwide reported 34.7 million withdrawals, a 6% rise from 2024, with the average transaction climbing to £120. The growth occurs alongside a wave of bank‑branch...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
StoneX Secures MiCA Authorisation
StoneX Group announced that its digital arm, StoneX Digital, has received a Crypto‑Asset Service Provider licence under the EU’s Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation (MiCA) from the Central Bank of Ireland. The CASP authorisation allows the firm to offer regulated execution...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
TON Foundation Taps OpenPayd for Global Fiat Infrastructure
The TON Foundation announced a partnership with OpenPayd to provide a single‑API global fiat infrastructure for its blockchain ecosystem. The integration will enable seamless multi‑currency treasury management and faster grant disbursements across borders. TON’s blockchain, embedded in Telegram’s Mini App...
By The Fintech Times
News•Jan 6, 2026
MulticoreWare Showcases Cloud-to-Car AI Workflow at CES 2026
MulticoreWare demonstrated a complete “cloud‑to‑car” AI workflow at CES 2026, leveraging Qualcomm AI Hub, AIMET quantization tools, and QCR100 cloud‑based AI instances. The demo showed OEMs and Tier‑1 suppliers can train, test, and optimize ADAS perception, planning, and sensor‑fusion models in...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
GenAI Data Policy Violations More than Doubled in 2025
GenAI‑related data policy violations more than doubled in 2025, with organizations now averaging 223 incidents per month and the top 25 percent facing 2,100 monthly breaches. User‑generated prompts surged 500 percent to 18,000 per organization, while regulated‑data uploads account for 54 percent of...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 6, 2026
Clipto.AI Announces New Funding to Accelerate On‑Device AI Innovation
Clipto.AI announced a new funding round that lifts its valuation above $250 million, backed by investors such as HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital and others. The company has completed a series of pre‑Series A rounds since July 2025, underscoring confidence in its...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
Avenga Appoints Clay Van Doren as Chief Executive Officer
Avenga announced that Clay Van Doren will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer on January 12, 2026, succeeding Ludovic Gaudé after a five‑year integration phase. Van Doren arrives from Atos, where he most recently served as Group Chief Growth...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
Revolut, Wise and Bits Join the European Payment Council
The European Payments Council (EPC) announced that Revolut Bank, Wise and Bits became members on 1 January, raising the council’s total to 83 payment service providers and associations. The EPC positions itself as the key scheme manager for European account‑to‑account (A2A)...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
Sagent Appoints Chris Marshall as CEO
Sagent announced that board chairman Chris Marshall will assume the role of chief executive officer on January 5, while retaining his board seat. Current CEO Geno Paluso will transition to vice‑chairman and serve as senior advisor during the handover. Marshall brings extensive mortgage‑banking...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
VoPay Establishes Global Headquarters in Qatar
VoPay International Inc. announced that it will locate its global headquarters in Doha, Qatar, positioning the Gulf state as the central hub for its fintech infrastructure platform. The move supports VoPay’s strategy to modernize financial systems across the Middle East,...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
Nigeria's Sterling Bank Joins Thunes’ Direct Global Network
Sterling Bank has joined Thunes’ Direct Global Network to offer Nigerians abroad faster, more transparent cross‑border payments. The partnership leverages Thunes’ infrastructure to roll out instant transfers across multiple European markets, serving an estimated 17 million Nigerian diaspora. Existing and new...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
5 AI-Powered Tools Streamlining Contract Management Today
Artificial intelligence is reshaping contract lifecycle management by reading contracts at scale, extracting key terms, and flagging risky clauses. Five AI‑powered platforms—Agiloft, Ironclad, Icertis, LinkSquares, and ContractPodAi—stand out for their distinct strengths, from no‑code configurability to generative legal assistants. Each...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Jan 6, 2026
Validic Powers Scalable AI-Driven Remote Care at CES 2026
Validic announced at CES 2026 that its AI‑enabled platform converts high‑volume wearable and device data into concise, actionable clinical insights. The solution embeds these insights directly into Epic, Oracle Health and Salesforce Health Cloud workflows, reducing data overload for clinicians....
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 6, 2026
How to End the IT Blame Game
The debate over IT’s strategic value resurfaces as AI and automation fuel expectations, yet studies show only about a quarter of AI projects meet their goals. Scholars argue that blaming IT for failures overlooks a deeper issue: business leaders often...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 6, 2026
AI-Driven Patient Access: Revolutionizing Healthcare Communication and Efficiency
AI is transforming patient access by shifting communication from reactive to proactive, real‑time engagement. Tools such as automated scheduling, predictive reminders, and conversational chatbots streamline administrative tasks while remaining HIPAA‑compliant. Studies show AI can cut no‑show rates and boost capacity...
By Just AI News
News•Jan 6, 2026
GTreasury Acquires Solvexia
Ripple-owned GTreasury has acquired Solvexia, a data‑driven reconciliation and compliance software provider, to extend its treasury management platform. The integration will automate reconciliation and regulatory reporting across fiat and digital‑asset transactions, replacing manual spreadsheet processes that heighten fraud and audit...
By Finextra
News•Jan 6, 2026
Elementor Just Made It Easier to Improve Website Accessibility
Elementor has expanded its Ally accessibility plugin into a free, browser‑based scanner, removing the need for WordPress plugin installation. The tool not only audits WCAG compliance but also offers remediation suggestions, acting as a “Remediation Engine.” This move addresses rising...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 6, 2026
Inhalable Therapy Aims for One-Two Punch Against Advanced Melanoma
Columbia engineers have created BEAT, an inhalable nanotherapy that uses engineered exosomes to co‑deliver PD‑1/PD‑L1 and Wnt/β‑catenin inhibitors directly to lung metastases of melanoma. In mouse models resistant to checkpoint inhibitors, inhaled BEAT achieved superior lung retention, dramatically suppressed tumor...
By World Pharma News
News•Jan 6, 2026
2025’s AI Chip Wars: What Enterprise Leaders Learned About Supply Chain Reality
In 2025 the AI chip shortage became the dominant constraint on enterprise AI projects, as U.S. export controls and a severe high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) crunch limited access to Nvidia GPUs and other accelerators. Enterprise AI spend is projected at $85,521...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Jan 6, 2026
Walmart Opens Up Ads in Gen AI Shopping Agent Sparky
Walmart has begun serving ads inside Sparky, its AI shopping assistant, after a pilot last fall. The sponsored prompts appear when shoppers ask for product recommendations, and 81 % of Walmart customers have already used Sparky to check availability. Leveraging its...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 6, 2026
Critical N8n Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary Command Execution (CVE-2025-68668)
A critical vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑68668) in n8n’s Python Code Node lets authenticated users bypass the sandbox and execute arbitrary system commands. The flaw affects all n8n versions from 1.0.0 up to, but not including, 2.0.0 and carries a CVSS score of...
By The Cyber Express
News•Jan 6, 2026
OpenAI's Rumored Acquisition Plans for Pinterest Provoke Fury Among some Users
A speculative piece in The Information suggested OpenAI might acquire Pinterest, igniting a strong backlash from the platform’s user base. Despite the rumor lacking any confirmed deal, Pinterest’s shares rose on market optimism about a potential AI‑driven partnership. Users expressed...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 6, 2026
Legal AI Start-Up Harvey to Open Dublin Office with 20 Jobs
Harvey, the OpenAI‑backed legal AI startup, announced the launch of its first Dublin office in March, beginning hiring today for 20 positions across control, recruitment, sales and customer success. The company leverages a multi‑modal model stack that includes OpenAI’s GPT,...
By Silicon Republic
News•Jan 6, 2026
Bluefish Releases 2025 Holiday AI Commerce Report: How Generative AI Rewrote the Holiday Marketing Playbook
Bluefish AI’s 2025 Holiday AI Commerce Report reveals that generative AI now dominates holiday shopping, with paid media accounting for virtually none of the AI‑generated product recommendations. Brands that invested in high‑quality, well‑structured owned and earned content captured the bulk...
By MarTech Series