Worth, the Startup From the Founders of Stax, Just Raised $30 Million to Deliver ‘Simplicity for Small Businesses’
Worth, the fintech startup founded by Stax alumni Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani, announced a $30 million Series A round. The funding, led by Amex Ventures, Fulcrum Equity Partners and TTV Capital, reflects the founders' proven track record and strategic investor relationships. Worth’s platform uses AI to unify credit assessment, fraud detection, and KYC/KYB processes for small‑business onboarding and underwriting. The capital will accelerate product development and market expansion targeting underserved SMBs.
Agents for Finance Startup Zalos Raises $3.6M to Transform Finance Departments
Zalos, a London‑San Francisco fintech, raised a $3.6 million seed round led by 14Peaks Capital to develop AI agents that automate finance‑team workflows. The startup’s agents log into existing ERP, CRM, spreadsheet, and banking systems, handling tasks without requiring a stack...
AiStrike Launches Continuous Detection Engineering at RSA 2026
AiStrike unveiled Continuous Detection Engineering at RSA 2026, a platform that shifts security operations from reactive alert triage to proactive, detection‑as‑code optimization. The solution claims up to a 90% reduction in alert noise by continuously validating and refining detection rules...
What OpenAI’s 4% Checkout Fee Means for the Future of Commerce
OpenAI has added a 4 % checkout fee for Shopify merchants selling through ChatGPT, aiming to offset its roughly $400 million monthly cash burn. The fee undercuts Amazon’s 8‑15 % referral rates, positioning OpenAI as the first platform to monetize the emerging agentic...
Winning the Energy Transition on Oʻahu: It’s Not About Technology
Oʻahu’s clean‑energy roadmap is technically viable, with solar, batteries, district cooling and limited wind meeting the island’s roughly 6,000 GWh annual demand. The real obstacles are land‑use constraints, a fragmented regulatory and interconnection process, and high electricity costs that threaten affordability....
HMRC Greenlights Sole Bidder AWS for £500m Cloud Migration Deal
HM Revenue & Customs has awarded Amazon Web Services a near‑£473 million contract to migrate data and services from three legacy datacentres to the public cloud. The deal, valued at roughly $600 million inclusive of VAT, was confirmed after AWS emerged as...
32% of Top-Exploited Vulnerabilities Are over a Decade Old
Cisco Talos’s 2025 Year in Review shows exploitation timelines are compressing: newly disclosed flaws like React2Shell are weaponized within weeks, while 32% of the top‑targeted vulnerabilities are over a decade old, exemplified by the lingering abuse of Log4Shell. Attackers favor...
Worldpay Becomes European Payments Initiative (EPI) Principal Member
Worldpay announced its admission as a principal member of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), the continent‑wide effort to build a unified, low‑cost payment scheme. The move gives Worldpay direct influence over EPI's governance and access to its expanding network of...
Brits Are Apparently Overwhelmed by Domestic ‘Smart’ Tech
Unilever has introduced Persil and Comfort "Smart Series" laundry consumables designed for auto‑dose washing machines, positioning them as the first detergent optimized for such appliances. Kantar research for Unilever found that 31% of Britons plan to buy a smart device...
Mozilla Introduces Cq, Describing It as 'Stack Overflow for Agents'
Mozilla has launched cq, an open‑source platform dubbed a “Stack Overflow for AI agents,” to let autonomous agents share and retrieve problem‑solving knowledge. The Python‑based project includes Docker deployment, SQLite storage, and plug‑ins for Claude Code and OpenCode, with a three‑tiered...
Google "Working" On Expanding AI Mode Personal Intelligence Globally
Google announced that its Personal Intelligence feature has entered AI Mode for U.S. users who opt in, removing the previous requirement for a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription. The rollout was limited to the United States, leaving international subscribers...
How Far Has AM in Healthcare Really Come? Find Out at RAPID + TCT 2026
The RAPID + TCT 2026 Healthcare Conference track highlighted how additive manufacturing (AM) is moving from theoretical potential to concrete production in medicine. Speakers covered scaling custom orthotics through standardized workflows, navigating FDA‑driven documentation via OEM collaborations, and using bioprinting to create...
Polymaker Expands Consumer Webshop to Six European Markets
Polymaker has extended its direct‑to‑consumer webshop to six additional European markets—the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Czechia and Spain—offering faster shipping and localized support. The rollout also introduces a dedicated EU wholesale portal for VAT‑registered businesses, streamlining bulk orders across...
Superconducting the AI Era: Rethinking Power Delivery for Gigawatt Data Centers
The data‑center industry is confronting a new bottleneck as AI workloads push campuses toward gigawatt‑scale power consumption. Traditional copper distribution struggles with cost, space, and heat, prompting executives like MetOx CEO Bud Vos to champion high‑temperature superconducting (HTS) cables as a...
Can Computer Simulations Make Metal AM Certification in Aviation Faster and More Affordable?
NASA and the FAA released a 195‑page strategy that proposes using validated computer simulations to streamline certification of metal‑additive‑manufactured aviation parts. Developed by the CM4QC steering group of industry leaders and universities, the roadmap outlines a Simulation Maturity Level framework...
Coro Expands AI-Driven Security Ops, Automates 92% of Alerts
Coro announced expanded AI‑driven security operations that automate the full detection‑to‑remediation lifecycle. Over the past year the platform automatically handled 92.3% of security tickets worldwide, moving beyond alerting to real‑time response. New features include automated triage, SOC‑level response actions, and...
Integrated Broadband IQ Vector Modulator, PIQ-1-SMT
Planar Monolithics (PMI) introduced the PIQ-1‑SMT, an integrated broadband IQ vector modulator featuring fully differential RF and LO ports with single‑ended I/Q baseband inputs. An on‑chip broadband quadrature generator delivers multi‑octave frequency coverage, simplifying wideband system design. The device runs...
How Potentially Unwanted Programs Affect Healthcare Data Privacy and Compliance
Healthcare’s rapid digitization has expanded electronic health records, cloud services, and connected devices, but it also widens the attack surface for potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). These low‑profile applications often arrive through bundled installers or browser extensions, silently collecting and transmitting...
When AI Drives the M&A Deal, Reality Arrives Fast
AI has become a headline driver in large software acquisitions, with PwC reporting roughly one‑third of the biggest 2025 deals citing AI as a strategic rationale. The momentum continues into 2026, but post‑deal realities often clash with lofty AI‑led growth...
Balancing Costs, ESG Compliance, and Global Competitiveness with India’s Upstream Solar Policy
India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has expanded its Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) framework to include solar ingots and wafers, creating ALMM List‑III that will take effect on June 1, 2028. The mandate forces all qualifying solar projects...
No Successful Hacking of eGov App Despite 1,000 Daily Attempts — DICT
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reported that its eGov mobile app has withstood over 1,000 daily cyber‑attack attempts, including spikes of 5,000‑6,000 attempts, without any successful breach. Officials attribute this resilience to multiple security layers, full‑data encryption,...
How to Ace Your Mega Sales Campaign: Best Practices for Merchants
E‑commerce’s double‑digit sales events such as 11.11 and 12.12 are intensifying competition, prompting merchants to adopt rigorous campaign planning. Alibaba’s Singles’ Day generated a record $84.5 billion in GMV, underscoring the revenue potential of well‑executed mega‑sales. Marketers are urged to follow...
Beyond Keywords: AI Classification For Forensic Email Review
Traditional keyword searches often fail to surface the nuanced, context‑driven emails that signal financial fraud, leaving investigators with thousands of irrelevant hits. Technology‑Assisted Review (TAR) mitigates volume but suffers from a cold‑start problem and requires extensive training, making it ill‑suited...
NGX Rolls Out ExaScale Block Storage for AI Workloads
NGX announced the ExaScale software‑defined block storage array, a scale‑out system that can grow from a few terabytes to exabytes of usable capacity. Designed for AI, analytics and other data‑intensive workloads, it leverages NVMe, RDMA and three‑way replication to deliver...
Microsoft Details AI Prompt Abuse Techniques Targeting AI Assistants
Microsoft released a detailed guide on AI prompt abuse, outlining how crafted inputs can manipulate large language models to bypass safety controls and expose sensitive data. The guide categorizes attacks into direct prompt overrides, extractive abuse, and indirect injection via...
Nebraska Advances Energy Storage and Data Centre-Focused Bill
Nebraska lawmakers have advanced LB1010, the Large Load Customer Regulation Act, to clarify eminent‑domain rights, regulation and taxation for battery energy storage systems (BESS). The bill also mandates data‑centre electricity‑use disclosures and updates provisions affecting cryptocurrency mining. Nebraska is the...
Prestige Biopharma Reports Topline P-III (SAMSON-II) Study Results for HD204 (Biosimilar, Avastin)
Prestige Biopharma announced topline results from its phase‑III SAMSON‑II trial comparing HD204, a biosimilar to Avastin (bevacizumab), with the reference product in 625 patients with advanced non‑squamous non‑small cell lung cancer. The study demonstrated an objective response rate (ORR) of...
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Clear Drop Soft Plastic Compactor Review: Eco Experiment
Clear Drop’s Soft Plastic Compactor (SPC) is a stainless‑steel, 61‑pound appliance that crushes up to three pounds of household soft plastics into a shoebox‑sized block for mail‑back recycling. The unit costs $799 upfront plus a $49 monthly fee for two...
It's Past Time for Paper Checks to Follow the Penny Into Extinction
Paper checks remain a costly, fraud‑prone legacy in the United States. In 2024 the Federal Reserve processed $175 billion in checks, incurring nearly $700 million in support costs, while checks accounted for 65% of payment‑fraud losses. Check volume has dropped 83% over...
Low Noise Amplifier, PEAFS3-14-0R2535R0-6R5-23-12-292MF
Planar Monolithics (PMI) has introduced the PEAFS3‑14‑0R2535R0‑6R5‑23‑12‑292MF, an 8‑to‑18 GHz low‑noise amplifier. It provides over 13 dB gain with ±1 dB flatness, a 4 dB noise figure, and an OP1dB of at least 24 dB. The device features a 2.0:1 VSWR, SMA connectors, and a...
$2 Trillion in Mobile Money Transactions Were Clocked Last Year
The GSMA’s 2026 State of the Industry Report shows mobile money transactions surpassed $2 trillion in 2025, doubling the value reached just four years earlier. Active 30‑day accounts grew 15% to 593 million, driven largely by Sub‑Saharan Africa, while monthly usage climbed...
Breaching the Customer Engagement Gap: How Retail Teams Can Finally Break Free to Innovate
Retail and ecommerce teams face a widening gap between consumer expectations for seamless, personalized experiences and their ability to deliver due to fragmented data and cumbersome tech stacks. InternetRetailing’s new bluepaper, created with imagino, identifies these operational bottlenecks and proposes...
Critical Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Poised for Exploitation, Security Firms Warn
Citrix has issued emergency patches for a critical‑severity vulnerability, CVE‑2026‑3055 (CVSS 9.3), that enables an out‑of‑bounds read and sensitive memory leak in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when configured as a SAML Identity Provider. The update also fixes CVE‑2026‑4368, a high‑severity...
Apnimed Set to Exit Sleep Disorder Joint Venture with Shionogi for $100M Upfront
Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is buying out Apnimed’s 50% stake in their sleep‑disorder joint venture for an upfront payment of $100 million. The acquisition gives Shionogi full control over the partnership’s pipeline, which focuses on treatments for conditions such as obstructive...
ERCOT After RTC+B: How Real-Time Optimisation Is Reshaping Battery Storage Economics
ERCOT introduced Real‑Time Co‑Optimization plus Batteries (RTC+B) in December 2025, integrating energy and ancillary services with five‑minute co‑optimisation and explicit state‑of‑charge constraints. Early data shows battery offers adjusting, ancillary service prices rising, and a shift from “structural alpha” to “system alpha”...
Optasia Wants to Do for Banks What It Did for Telcos
Optasia, the South African fintech that pioneered AI‑driven credit vetting via mobile wallets, is expanding into formal banking. The company’s micro‑financing line now generates 63% of revenue and posted a blended default rate of 1.2% for 2025. FirstRand Group invested...
‘Warcraft… with Pure Thought Control’ — 100 Days with Neuralink ‘Feels Like Science Fiction’ to Early Brain Chip Pioneer
British Army veteran Jon Noble has spent 100 days with Neuralink’s N1 brain‑computer interface implanted in his motor cortex, allowing him to play World of Warcraft using only thought. The implant translates neural activity into digital commands, letting him navigate...
Launch of NetRise Provenance Reveals Who and What Are Behind Open Source, And How Risk Propagates Through the Supply Chain
NetRise, a software supply‑chain security firm, launched NetRise Provenance, a product that links open‑source components to their maintainers and assesses contributor risk across enterprise portfolios. The solution enriches SBOMs with provenance data, offering a policy engine that can automatically block...
AVL and Ansible Advance Vehicle Validation with Integrated Simulation and Driver-in-the-Loop Testing
AVL Mobility Technologies and Ansible Motion have teamed up to fuse AVL’s VSM real‑time vehicle simulation platform with Ansible’s driver‑in‑the‑loop simulators. The integrated solution lets manufacturers model components, systems and full vehicles, then immediately test chassis dynamics, power‑train behavior, ADAS...
Hanwha Ocean Enters Greek Naval Market Through Partnership with ONEX
South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean has signed a strategic teaming agreement with Greece’s ONEX Shipyards & Technologies, the nation’s largest shipbuilding and defense firm. The deal makes the two companies exclusive partners on submarine and other naval projects for the Hellenic...
Mobileye Announces US OEM Win for Driver Monitoring System (DMS)
Mobileye announced that a leading U.S. automaker will integrate its Driver Monitoring System (DMS) with the EyeQ6L system‑on‑chip, targeting production start in 2027. The deal expands an existing ADAS program to span millions of vehicles across multiple models and model...
Highlight AI Raises $40 Million Series A to Build the Shared Intelligence Layer for the Agentic Age of Work
Highlight AI announced a $40 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, bringing on former Discord VP of Product Sergei Sorokin as its new CEO. The funding aims to accelerate development of its intelligent operating system that unifies AI agents and...
Trust Is the New Currency in B2B Buying: SurveyMonkey, Reddit
A joint SurveyMonkey‑Reddit study finds B2B buyers now prioritize peer validation over vendor marketing, with 73% trusting recommendations from colleagues. Decision‑makers are largely self‑directed, with 83% conducting research before speaking to sales and 65% completing it within a week. High‑stakes...
Carbon Management Platform Zevero Raises £5m
Carbon‑management startup Zevero announced a $7 million seed round, bringing its total capital to $14 million. The AI‑driven platform automates emissions data collection, creating reusable datasets for ESG disclosures, product design and sourcing decisions. Funds, led by Spiral Capital with Gazelle Capital...
Why I Pick This $200 Motorola Phone over Cheap Google and Samsung Models
Motorola’s 2026 Moto G refresh sticks closely to the 2025 model, offering a $200 mid‑range Android phone with a sleek vegan‑leather back and a bold pink finish. It features a 6.7‑inch HD+ display with 120 Hz refresh, a 50 MP main camera...
Addi Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026
Addi, the point‑of‑sale financing platform, has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. The company recently closed a $200 million Series C round, bringing total funding to $350 million and expanding its operations into the United States....
AeroShield Alliance Establishes Mississippi Headquarters
AeroShield Alliance and its merger partner Aero Velocity are opening a new headquarters in Mississippi to expand AI‑driven infrastructure analytics and drone data collection for state and local governments. The hub, partnered with Holmes Community College, will support a Rural...
The Most Innovative Architecture Companies of 2026
Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Architecture Companies list showcases firms that blend design excellence with climate action, technology, and social impact. HKS earned top honors for Astra Tower, a 41‑story skyscraper in Salt Lake City that filters incoming air and...
The Most Innovative Retail Companies of 2026
The 2025‑2026 retail innovators used technology to address margin pressure, labor costs, and sustainability. Shopify opened its platform to AI shoppers through ChatGPT, while Walmart turned low‑price grocery strategy into profitable e‑commerce and advertising growth. Fanatics launched a content studio,...
Make Benefits Easy to Use with Smart Systems Integration
Guardian reports that 65% of organizations now rank systems integration as a top priority for employee benefits. By linking benefit platforms to HR and payroll systems through APIs, companies can deliver personalized, context‑driven resources such as caregiving or wellness options...