News•Jan 5, 2026
Realbotix Partners with FUTR to Bring AI Agents Into the Physical World
Realbotix Corp. announced a strategic partnership with FUTR Corp. to embed FUTR’s AI Agent platform into Realbotix’s humanoid robots, creating a physical AI assistant. The pilot, slated for the first half of 2026, will let users link their FUTR AI Agent via the app, activate it on a robot, and interact through voice and movement while earning value through FUTR’s token‑enabled payment rails. The collaboration includes development of FUTR‑branded robots, secure API integration, and joint marketing of consumer and enterprise use cases. Results will guide broader commercial rollout.
By AiThority
News•Jan 5, 2026
Getsitecontrol Launches Redesigned Widget Builder 2026: Implementing Agile Editing for Popups and Forms
Getsitecontrol has unveiled a redesigned, no‑code widget builder that gives ecommerce marketers full visual control over popups, forms and teasers. The new editor features a sidebar component tree, drag‑and‑drop reordering, undo/redo, and a built‑in CSS editor for pixel‑level styling. Built...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
Wondershare Accelerates Its AI Innovation Layout, With Its Edrawmax Topping the G2 Rankings
Wondershare’s EdrawMax has been named the No. 1 “Easiest to Use Diagramming Software” in G2’s latest user‑driven rankings. The V15 release introduces a AI‑powered “Draw Agent” that creates and edits diagrams via natural language, while integrating Google’s Nano Banana Pro for...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
Electromate Expands Mobile Robotics Offering with Maxon HEJ 90 High-Efficiency Joint
Electromate Inc. announced the launch of the maxon HEJ 90 High‑Efficiency Joint, a compact, sealed actuator for mobile and legged robots. The joint delivers up to 140 Nm (configurable to 180 Nm) torque, 86 % efficiency, and speeds up to 13 rad/s within a 110 mm × 90 mm...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 5, 2026
AI Tool Catches Pancreatic Cancer in Routine Scans Before Symptoms Appear
Alibaba's Damo Academy unveiled PANDA, an AI system that spots pancreatic tumors in non‑contrast CT scans—images that often miss cancers even for seasoned radiologists. In a clinical trial at Ningbo University Hospital, the tool reviewed 180,000 scans, flagging two dozen...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 5, 2026
Unusual Raises $3.6M to Shape How AI Models Talk About Brands
AI‑focused startup Unusual announced a $3.6 million seed round to help brands control how generative AI models describe them. Backed by investors such as BoxGroup, Y Combinator and Instacart co‑founder Max Mullen, the company offers a platform that probes AI reasoning and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 5, 2026
How Bank Websites Can Build Customer Relationships
The episode examines how banks’ public websites must shift from product‑centric sales pages to advisory, relationship‑building platforms, emphasizing personalized guidance over DIY information. Lea Nonninger of Javelin Strategy highlights common pitfalls such as siloed content, limited quizzes, and a lack...
By Payments Journal
News•Jan 5, 2026
The Case for and Against CTV in 2026 B2B Marketing Budgets
Connected TV (CTV) is gaining traction among B2B marketers planning 2026 budgets, offering a premium storytelling medium that can hedge against rising CPCs and CPAs on saturated platforms. The article highlights static CPM rates, low B2B competition, privacy‑safe targeting, and...
By MarTech
News•Jan 5, 2026
Google Previews New Gemini Features for TV at CES 2026
Google unveiled new Gemini AI capabilities for Google TV at CES 2026, initially rolling out on select TCL models before expanding to other devices. The features let users converse with their TV to discover content, receive plot recaps, and receive...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 5, 2026
Multiverse Cut Dozens of Jobs as Losses Widened
London‑based edtech firm Multiverse announced 55 redundancy payments for the year to March 2025, reflecting its first headcount reduction since founding. The company posted a pre‑tax loss of £63.3 million, up £2.6 million year‑on‑year, even as revenue climbed more than a third to...
By Sifted
News•Jan 5, 2026
Show HN: OSS Sustain Guard – Sustainability Signals for OSS Dependencies
OSS Sustain Guard is an open‑source, multi‑language analyzer that evaluates the health of software dependencies using 24 core sustainability metrics. It scans packages across Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Java, and many other ecosystems, delivering scores on maintainer activity, community engagement,...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 5, 2026
PubMatic Launches AgenticOS, the Operating System for Agent-to-Agent Advertising
PubMatic unveiled AgenticOS, an operating system that enables autonomous, agent‑to‑agent advertising across premium digital inventory. Built on NVIDIA‑accelerated infrastructure, the platform coordinates AI agents to plan, transact, and optimize campaigns in real time. Early deployments with WPP Media, Butler/Till and...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
TiVo OS Expands Entertainment Horizons with New Features, Content Partnerships, and Growing Device Footprint at CES 2026
TiVo OS announced a suite of upgrades at CES 2026, adding a Partner Picks carousel, autoplay hero video trailers, live‑program recommendations and enhanced multilingual voice search. The platform broadened its hardware reach, now supporting 2K‑4K smart TVs, set‑top boxes, soundbars...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
CFPB Must Request Funds From Fed, Court Rules
A federal judge ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must continue requesting funding from the Federal Reserve, rejecting the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel interpretation of “combined earnings.” The decision follows CFPB Director Russ Vought’s effort to...
By Banking Dive
News•Jan 5, 2026
Zeroth Robotics Emerges From Stealth, Enters U.S. Market & Debuts Lineup of Interactive AI Robots
Zeroth Robotics has emerged from stealth to launch a five‑robot portfolio in the U.S., beginning with the 15‑inch Zeroth M1 humanoid home assistant priced from $2,899. The M1 offers multimodal sensing, a safety stack and an app‑based ecosystem, with pre‑orders...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 5, 2026
Catch up on the November 2025 HubSpot Updates
HubSpot’s November 2025 release packs 15 quality‑of‑life upgrades that streamline reporting, segmentation, and AI integration. New branded email templates pull in your brand kit automatically, while the Leads object now works with the Segments tool for dynamic lead lists. Admins...
By MarTech
News•Jan 5, 2026
OceanFirst to Buy Flushing Bank in $579M NY Expansion
New Jersey‑based OceanFirst Financial Corp. announced a $579 million acquisition of Long Island’s Flushing Financial Corp., slated to close in the second quarter of 2026. The merger will add 30 New York branches and roughly $8.9 billion in assets, creating a $23 billion‑asset...
By Banking Dive
News•Jan 5, 2026
Focus Pocus Media Introduces a Paid Media Framework as B2B Companies Increase Digital Advertising Outsourcing
Focus Pocus Media, a B2B‑focused PPC agency, unveiled a structured paid‑media framework aimed at accelerating growth for companies that outsource digital advertising. The model promises faster execution, measurable pipeline and ROAS outcomes, and eliminates the need to expand in‑house teams....
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
Solflare Debuts In-Wallet AI Assistant to Bring ‘Intent-Based’ Trading to Solana Users
Solflare, a leading non‑custodial Solana wallet, unveiled the alpha version of Solflare AI, an in‑wallet large‑language‑model assistant, at Solana Breakpoint 2025. The tool lets users issue plain‑language commands to execute trades, set price alerts, and pull live social‑sentiment data without...
By The Fintech Times
News•Jan 5, 2026
Yes, 404 Status Codes Hurt SEO
A 404 status code signals a missing page but does not act as a direct ranking penalty in Google’s algorithm. Google actually prefers 404 or 410 responses for removed content, treating them as normal web signals. However, when deleted pages...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Jan 5, 2026
From CTV Awards To CES: Brand Metrics Brings Next-Gen CTV Measurement To Las Vegas
Brand Metrics unveiled an SDK‑free interactive measurement suite for connected‑TV at CES, showcasing pause‑ad capabilities and real‑time surveys without requiring in‑app SDKs. The technology is already live with Tier 1 publishers and follows the company’s recent Best CTV Ad Tech Innovation...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
How Brands Can Get Noticed in ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews
Brands seeking visibility in AI-generated answers such as ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews must adopt a multi‑layered approach. The article outlines tactics ranging from high‑quality, E‑A‑T‑focused content and structured data to citation‑based optimization and technical performance. It emphasizes conversational keyword...
By MarTech
News•Jan 5, 2026
ContractPodAI Rebrands as Leah to Expand Agentic Automation Beyond Contract Lifecycle Management
ContractPodAI has rebranded as Leah, adopting the name of its flagship AI platform to signal a broader focus beyond contract lifecycle management. The company now offers an agentic automation suite that spans legal, finance, and procurement functions, while still retaining...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 5, 2026
AITech Interview with Alberto Pan, Chief Technology Officer, Denodo
Denodo CTO Alberto Pan explains how the company’s logical data layer and new DeepQuery capability give generative AI real‑time, governed access to enterprise data. DeepQuery lets AI perform multi‑step, cross‑system investigations, returning structured answers with full lineage and policy enforcement....
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 5, 2026
Trendy Tech Skills to Prioritise in 2026
The Silicon Republic piece outlines the tech competencies poised for high demand in 2026, spanning digi‑health, fintech, education and leadership. It highlights wearables, data analytics, AR/VR, AI, machine learning, blockchain and quantum security as core technical pillars. Soft skills such...
By Silicon Republic
News•Jan 5, 2026
Capita Tells Civil Servants to Wait for Chatbots to Fix Pension Portal Woes
Capita secured a £239 million contract to operate the UK Civil Service Pension Scheme, serving 1.7 million members and managing £189 billion in future benefits. The new pension portal, launched on 1 December 2025, immediately suffered widespread errors, broken links, and placeholder text, prompting user...
By The Register
News•Jan 5, 2026
RealSense Identifies the 5 Trends Defining Robotics in 2026
At CES 2026 RealSense announced five trends that signal a shift from scripted automation to shared autonomy, positioning visual perception as the core capability for next‑generation robots. Advances in depth sensing, sensor fusion and real‑time perception underpin mission‑based humanoids, autonomous...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 5, 2026
The Chatbot Will See You Now: How AI Is Being Trained to Spot Mental Health Issues in Any Language
Researchers at Makerere University are using anonymized call recordings from Uganda’s Butabika Hospital to train an AI algorithm that can recognise mental‑health cues in local languages such as Swahili and Luganda. The goal is to power a multilingual chatbot that...
By The Guardian AI
News•Jan 5, 2026
Forget Follower Count: What Actually Drives Sales, According to a TikTok Marketing Expert
TikTok strategist Jemma Wu argues that follower counts are misleading and that authentic, engaged communities drive sales. She cites a livestream where a 500k‑follower creator generated $350k, dwarfing a 1M‑follower influencer who sold only $5K. Wu’s own brand experience shows...
By HubSpot Marketing Blog
News•Jan 5, 2026
What I’d Say to Me Back Then – Be Kind, Not Nice, Says Epicor’s Kerrie Jordan
Kerrie Jordan, Epicor’s CMO and SVP of Product, shares how a blend of storytelling and technical expertise shaped her career from a literature degree to senior leadership. Early roles at a product‑lifecycle startup and Oracle honed her ability to turn...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 5, 2026
Shoppers Want Flexible Delivery over Free Shipping
The 2025 Delivery Experience Study by Bringg reveals that shoppers now prioritize a reliable, flexible delivery experience over free shipping. Seventy‑one percent of consumers think about delivery before checkout, and 72% consider on‑time arrival essential. Late or inflexible deliveries drive...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 5, 2026
The Challenge for Software Engineers in 2026 — and Beyond
In 2025 software engineers grappled with rapid AI integration, facing skill erosion, cost‑heavy LLM infrastructure, and rising burnout as delivery pressures intensified. Gartner analysts warn that overreliance on AI tools can stunt core engineering capabilities, making upskilling a critical priority....
By CIO Dive
News•Jan 5, 2026
The Isaacman Era Begins at NASA
Jared Isaacman was confirmed by a 67‑30 Senate vote and sworn in as NASA administrator by a federal judge, ending a year‑long nomination saga. He introduced himself at a NASA town hall, emphasizing a faster, less bureaucratic approach to the...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 5, 2026
Houston Deserves a Space Shuttle, but Not Like This
The 2027 "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act" attached to the One Big Beautiful Bill will move the Discovery orbiter from the Smithsonian’s Udvar‑Hazy Center to a Houston non‑profit near Johnson Space Center. Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz engineered the provision after years...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 5, 2026
The Ambitious Plan to Spot Habitable Moons Around Giant Planets
Exomoons have remained undetected not because they are absent, but because existing techniques lack the necessary precision. A new study proposes a kilometric baseline interferometer capable of 1 µas resolution, enabling detection of Earth‑sized moons out to 200 parsecs. The design relies...
By Universe Today
News•Jan 5, 2026
See You on the Other Side: What Jim Lovell's Apollo 8 Mission Taught a Divided World
Jim Lovell’s 1968 Apollo 8 mission marked the first crewed orbit of the Moon and captured the iconic Earthrise photograph, offering a new visual of Earth as a fragile, border‑less sphere. The mission unfolded against a backdrop of domestic upheaval—assassinations, protests,...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 5, 2026
Review: Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon
Jeffrey Kluger’s 2025 hardcover, *Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story*, attempts to redress the perceived neglect of NASA’s Gemini program. The book chronicles Gemini’s ten crewed flights, technical innovations, and astronaut profiles, drawing on NASA oral histories...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 5, 2026
New Zealand Orders Review Into ManageMyHealth Cyberattack
New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown has ordered a comprehensive review of the cyberattack on private health‑record platform ManageMyHealth, which may have exposed data of 6‑7% of the nation’s 1.85 million users. The breach, claimed by a hacker known as Kazu,...
By The Register
News•Jan 5, 2026
Influencer Marketing Strategies: A Practical Framework for Sustainable Growth in 2026
Influencer marketing has shifted from a niche experiment to a core growth engine for brands in 2026, driven by consumer skepticism toward traditional ads. The article outlines a practical framework that ties business objectives to audience insight, creator authenticity, and...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Jan 5, 2026
Techno-Optimists vs Enterprise-Incrementalists – Why Agent Platforms Encode Very Different Futures
The article contrasts two competing philosophies in AI agent platforms: techno‑optimists who champion high‑autonomy, exploratory agents, and enterprise‑incrementalists who embed agents within existing, controlled processes. Although both camps use similar terminology, their underlying beliefs about agency, risk, and value creation...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 5, 2026
VoAgents Launches Enterprise Voice AI Platform to Help Businesses Automate Customer Conversations and Scale Operations
VoAgents unveiled an enterprise‑grade voice AI platform that automates inbound and outbound phone interactions with human‑like conversation quality. The solution leverages a multi‑model architecture, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic and other large language models, and continuously self‑learns from each call. Early adopters...
By AiThority
News•Jan 5, 2026
Nearly Every Corn Seed Planted in Colorado Is Covered in Insecticide: Lawmakers May Restrict the Chemical
Nearly every corn seed planted in Colorado is coated with a neonicotinoid insecticide, a practice that protects seedlings but also introduces the chemical into plants, soil and water. Environmental groups are drafting legislation that would ban such coatings unless farmers...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Jan 5, 2026
Marketing Architects Partners with Jounce Media for Greater Transparency in CTV Buying
Marketing Architects has partnered with Jounce Media to embed the latter’s bid‑stream analytics into its proprietary AI buying platform, Annika®. The integration delivers app‑level supply insights, allowing advertisers to see exactly where CTV ads run and to prioritize high‑quality, direct...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
Neonode Appoints Marec Gasiun as EVP of Sales & Marketing
Neonode Inc. announced the appointment of Marec Gasiun as Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Gasiun brings extensive leadership experience from Google’s automotive software unit, Telia, and SeeReal Technologies. The hire follows Neonode’s recent conversion of a...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 5, 2026
Questa Launches a New Privacy Focused Ai Assistant to Get Insights From Business Files Without Any Ai Training on Them
Questa unveiled Novara, a privacy‑first AI analytics assistant that redacts sensitive data before any large language model processes it. The solution uses a local "Blackbox" anonymizer, available on‑premise or in a dedicated cloud account, to ensure documents never train the...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 5, 2026
J.Jill Names Viv Rettke as Chief Growth Officer
J.Jill has appointed Viv Rettke as its first chief growth officer, a newly created role aimed at accelerating the brand’s expansion. Rettke brings growth expertise from Cole Haan, Reebok and Kraft Heinz, where she led major brand transformations. She will...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Jan 5, 2026
Moon Rush: These Private Spacecraft Will Attempt Lunar Landings in 2026
2026 will see a surge of private lunar landers as Blue Origin, Firefly, Intuitive Machines, and Astrobotic each schedule missions to the Moon. Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 pathfinder will demonstrate a 3‑ton cargo capability and test exhaust‑interaction science. Firefly’s...
By Space.com
News•Jan 5, 2026
XML Sitemap: What It Is And How To Generate One
An XML sitemap is a structured file that lists the URLs a site wants search engines to crawl and index, often including metadata such as last‑mod dates, change frequency, and priority. It boosts crawl efficiency, especially for large or complex...
By Semrush Blog
News•Jan 5, 2026
Forthcoming Machine Learning and AI Seminars: January 2026 Edition
The episode outlines a calendar of free virtual AI and machine learning seminars running from early January to late February 2026, featuring talks on topics such as LLM introspection, causal representation learning for climate teleconnections, AI ethics, combinatorial optimization, generative...
By AIhub
News•Jan 5, 2026
How to Optimize Your Website for SEO (Beginner’s Guide)
Search engines now surface AI‑generated overviews alongside traditional listings, making structured, authoritative content essential. The guide stresses targeting low‑volume, low‑difficulty keywords to capture both organic clicks and AI‑summary citations. It outlines high‑impact steps for new, stagnant, or declining sites, from...
By Semrush Blog