What BVNK’s Report Reveals About How Consumers Are Using Stablecoins
BVNK’s new report, based on a YouGov‑sponsored survey of 4,658 crypto and stablecoin holders across 15 countries, shows a sharp rise in stablecoin demand. Nearly half of respondents increased their holdings in the past year and 56% plan to acquire more, signaling a shift from niche trading tools to mainstream assets. The study highlights strong interest among younger users and in low‑income regions, with 76% of African participants intending a first stablecoin purchase. Overall, stablecoins are becoming a significant component of personal savings portfolios.
The Healthcare Roles Least, Most Vulnerable to AI: Washington Post
Researchers at GovAI and the Brookings Institution released an AI‑exposure tool that ranks more than 350 healthcare occupations by vulnerability to automation. The analysis shows healthcare support workers and physician assistants face the lowest risk, while medical secretaries and administrative...
IQM and Zurich Instruments Launch Real-Time Quantum Error Correction Demonstrator with NVIDIA NVQLink
IQM Quantum Computers, Zurich Instruments and NVIDIA announced a joint effort to build a real‑time quantum error correction (QEC) demonstrator. The system merges IQM’s 20‑qubit superconducting processor, Zurich’s ZQCS quantum control hardware, and NVIDIA’s NVQLink GPU‑accelerated link. By enabling closed‑loop,...
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA Approves Label Changes for Use of General Anesthetic and Sedation Drugs in Young Children
The FDA has approved label changes for general anesthetic and sedation drugs used in children under three, adding a warning that prolonged exposure—more than three hours or multiple procedures—may harm brain development. The revisions incorporate animal study data showing neuronal...
Calif. Sheriff's Department to Answer Non-Emergency Calls with AI
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office launched an AI‑driven system to field non‑emergency calls, routing callers to the appropriate service without tying up 911 dispatchers. The pilot diverted about 20% of roughly 400,000 annual non‑emergency calls, cutting average hold time...
Zero Lessons Learned: Convicted Scammer Allegedly Ran Another Athlete-Focused Phishing Scam From Federal Prison
Kwamaine Jerell Ford, a 34‑year‑old Georgia man, allegedly operated a new phishing operation against NBA and NFL athletes while incarcerated for a prior cyber‑fraud scheme. Posing as an adult‑film star, he tricked victims into revealing iCloud login credentials and MFA...
Winning Hearts and Minds: Ensuring Adoption of OPM’s HR 2.0 Initiative
The Office of Personnel Management’s HR 2.0 platform is the most ambitious federal HR‑IT overhaul in decades, but its success depends on more than technology. OPM must adopt a human‑centered change strategy that tackles agency anxiety, loss of flexibility, and fear...
Leaked Records and Smart Glasses Expose DHS Surveillance Drift
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Industry Partnerships (OIP) has formalized a pipeline that awarded over 1,400 contracts worth $845 million to more than 6,800 firms for AI‑driven biometric and video‑analysis tools. Leaked records show projects ranging from smartphone‑based fingerprint...
Why An AI Event Strategy Is Becoming A Leadership Issue, Not A Technology One
B2B event teams face flat budgets, rising costs and demanding Gen Z‑Millennial audiences, while vast amounts of event data sit idle. AI adoption has surged, with 43% of firms using it to repurpose content and 40% for analytics, but many...
AHA Responds to RFI on Diagnostic Imaging Interoperability From ASTP/ONC
The American Hospital Association (AHA) replied to the Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology/Office of the National Coordinator’s request for information on diagnostic imaging interoperability. The AHA endorsed the shift from physical media to electronic data exchange and asked for...
The ROI of HR Digital Transformation: Balancing Capital Investment with Data Integrity
HR digital transformation is becoming essential as firms seek efficiency, better employee experiences, and data‑driven decisions. Deloitte research shows fully‑adopted HR tech can lift productivity by 22% and cut turnover by 17%, while AI‑enabled validation can slash data errors up...
HIMSS26: Understanding Clinical Care Resilience as an Ongoing Process
At HIMSS26, healthcare leaders emphasized that clinical care resilience must be an ongoing process, not a one‑time fix. Amazon Web Services highlighted the limitations of reverting to paper charting during EHR outages, noting many clinicians lack training. Sentara Health described...
Zoom Expands Pindrop Deepfake Detection to Customer Service
Zoom is extending its partnership with voice‑biometrics firm Pindrop by embedding Pindrop Passport authentication and Pindrop Protect risk analysis into its Zoom Contact Center. The move adds real‑time deepfake detection, previously offered via Pulse for Meetings, to the platform’s customer‑service...
CMS Announces Centralized Platform for Managing Independent Dispute Resolution Operations
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new centralized platform, the IDR Gateway, to manage independent dispute resolution (IDR) operations under the No Surprises Act. The system will replace the current single‑use web forms, allowing users to initiate...
Schneider Electric Teams with NVIDIA to Develop Validated Blueprints to Design, Simulate, Build, Operate and Maintain Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and AVEVA unveiled a suite of validated blueprints to design, simulate, build, operate and maintain gigawatt‑scale AI factories. The new NVIDIA Vera Rubin reference design confirms 480 VAC power distribution and 45 °C loop temperatures, while supporting MaxP/MaxQ operating...
Frog-Cell 'Neurobots' Grow Self-Organized Nervous Systems and Alter Gene Activity
Researchers at the Wyss Institute have created the first “neurobots,” living robots built from frog embryonic cells that incorporate neuronal precursor cells to form self‑organizing nervous systems. The neurobots develop mature neurons that connect internally and extend processes to surface...
AHA Launches New Ad Celebrating Hospitals’ Compassion and Care
The American Hospital Association (AHA) unveiled a new television and digital advertisement that spotlights the compassion and care delivered by hospitals across the United States. The ad, released during Patient Safety Awareness Week, weaves together authentic patient narratives and frontline...
A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case
A California appellate court exposed a bizarre chain of AI‑hallucinated legal citations that traveled from a Reddit blog post to a dog‑custody case and ultimately appeared in a signed court order. Both parties’ attorneys copied the fictitious cases without checking...
Coles Sets up Standard Data Streaming Platform Groupwide
Coles Group has deployed an enterprise‑wide data streaming platform built on Confluent Cloud, unifying its real‑time data pipelines under a single Apache Kafka foundation. Previously, isolated event‑streaming stacks created silos, inconsistent models, and governance challenges. The new "enterprise event platform"...
Europe’s Spectrum Rocket Returns to the Skies with Onward and Upward
German startup Isar Aerospace is set for the second flight of its Spectrum launch vehicle, dubbed “Onward and Upward,” from Andøya Space in Norway on March 19. The mission marks the rocket’s first customer payload flight, carrying five CubeSats and a...
Virtual Event to Focus on Cyber Incident Response and Recovery
A virtual event will convene cybersecurity leaders to discuss incident response and recovery strategies, drawing lessons from recent high‑profile breaches such as Stryker’s global ransomware attack. The agenda incorporates new government initiatives, including the White House’s executive order on state‑sponsored...
Managing AI in Schools: Practical Strategies for Districts
Education Week’s upcoming webinar tackles the surge of AI tools in K‑12 classrooms, offering district leaders a roadmap for responsible adoption. Attendees will learn how to craft clear AI usage guidelines, control access, monitor risks, and communicate transparently with parents....
As HHS Looks to Speed up AI in Clinical Care, the Big Questions Are Burden, Trust and What Comes Next
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has closed a major request for information (RFI) to gather public input on speeding AI adoption in clinical care. The initiative follows the OMB’s AI guidance and HHS’s own AI Strategy,...
The 9 Best Grocery Delivery Services of 2026
CNET’s 2026 roundup evaluates nine grocery‑delivery platforms, from Amazon Fresh and Walmart+ to niche players like Misfits Market and Hungryroot. Test orders measured selection breadth, pricing, delivery speed, and freshness, revealing Amazon Fresh’s extensive catalog and Prime‑free shipping, Walmart+’s rural...
GTC 2026 - Everpure Tackles Data Readiness and Flexible Consumption for Enterprise AI
Everpure unveiled three major announcements at GTC 2026, beginning with record‑setting AI storage benchmarks for its FlashBlade//EXA and FlashBlade//S500 platforms. The company introduced DataStream, an AI‑ready data pipeline that automates ingestion, anonymization, vectorization and indexing, complemented by the 1touch.io acquisition...
Eric Felsberg Discusses AI's Role in Leadership Talent Strategies
Eric Felsberg, a partner at Jackson Lewis, discusses how AI is reshaping leadership talent strategies in an InformationWeek feature. He emphasizes that IT, HR, and business leaders must collaborate to integrate AI tools that assess potential team leaders while staying...
From Infrastructure Validation to Market Validation: Rafay and NVIDIA DSX Air
NVIDIA DSX Air provides a full‑stack simulation that lets cloud providers validate networking, GPU servers, storage and connectivity before any rack is shipped. Rafay layers a self‑service orchestration platform on top, enabling multi‑tenant, governance and workflow testing alongside the hardware...
IBM, Nvidia Tackle AI Data Woes
IBM expanded its partnership with Nvidia at GTC 2026 to address enterprise AI data management challenges. The collaboration integrates Nvidia’s cuDF toolkit with IBM’s Presto query engine and adds Nemotron models to IBM’s Docling PDF reader. Nvidia GPUs will also power...
Nvidia Releases Open Physical AI Models for Healthcare Robotics
At its GTC conference, Nvidia unveiled a suite of open physical AI models tailored for healthcare robotics. The models provide pre‑trained control frameworks for surgical robots, enabling faster integration of AI into operating rooms. Early adopters include surgical robotics firms...
Dell’s AI Story Electrified by Lightning
Dell unveiled an AI Data Platform built with Nvidia that adds a four‑layer architecture and a new parallel file system called Lightning. Lightning delivers up to 150 GB/s per 1‑RU enclosure and can be stacked to achieve roughly 6 TB/s per rack,...
US Committee Demands Big Tech Share Private Comms with EU Officials
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee sent letters to ten major tech firms, demanding they preserve and produce all communications with European Commission officials related to the EU Digital Services Act, including auto‑deleting messages. The subpoena, issued in February, targets companies...
Synopsys Builds Hardware-Accelerated Agentic AI Stack with Nvidia
Synopsys announced a collaboration with Nvidia to create an open, secure, hardware‑accelerated agentic AI stack spanning from silicon design to system‑level applications. The stack leverages Nvidia GPUs and AI accelerators to deliver high‑performance inference and training for agentic models. In...
Memories AI Is Building the Visual Memory Layer for Wearables and Robotics
Memories.ai announced a partnership with Nvidia to build a visual‑memory layer for AI wearables and robotics, using Nvidia's Cosmos‑Reason 2 and Metropolis tools. The startup launched its Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) in July 2025, positioning it against Google’s Gemini Embedding 2. It...
Nvidia DGX Spark and DGX Station with NemoClaw Deliver Autonomous Agents Platform
Nvidia announced that its DGX Spark and DGX Station systems, paired with the NemoClaw software stack, now deliver a full‑stack platform for building and running autonomous AI agents. The solution is designed to support always‑on agents that can reason, plan,...
Millions of Protein Complexes Added to AlphaFold Database Shed Light on How Proteins Interact
A joint effort by EMBL‑EBI, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA and Seoul National University has added millions of AI‑predicted protein complex structures to the AlphaFold Database, marking the largest collection of such data to date. The release focuses on high‑confidence homodimers, delivering...
Agilent Launches S540MD Slide Scanner System
Agilent Technologies introduced the S540MD slide scanner, a whole‑slide imaging system now on sale in select European markets. The scanner holds up to 540 slides, supports continuous loading, standard rack compatibility, automated scanning modes, and AI‑assisted tissue detection. It is...
IDT Unveils NGS Portfolio
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) announced a new next‑generation sequencing (NGS) portfolio that includes the DNA EZ v2 library preparation kit, the xGen Exome v2 Hyb spike‑in panel, a 1,536‑member set of full‑length unique dual‑index adapters, and an upgraded whole‑genome sequencing system. The suite targets...
Illumina Launches Software for Multiomic Analysis
Illumina unveiled Illumina Connected Multiomics, a cloud‑based platform that unifies single‑cell, spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and methylation data for large‑scale analysis. The system aggregates thousands of samples from Illumina and third‑party assays, delivering reproducible results through DRAGEN secondary analysis. AI‑driven tools...
FDA Clears Cepheid Xpert GI Multiplex PCR Test
Cepheid’s Xpert GI panel received FDA clearance, offering a multiplex PCR test that identifies 11 bacterial, viral, and parasitic gastrointestinal pathogens from a single stool sample. The assay delivers results in roughly 74 minutes and operates on the existing GeneXpert...
FDA Clears Copan PhenoMatrix Software
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) clearance to Copan Group’s PhenoMatrix, an AI‑driven image‑assessment tool that runs on the WASPLab automation platform. Classified as a class II device, the software automatically sorts and evaluates bacterial culture plate images across...
Banks Struggle to Scale AI as Legacy Tech Devours IT Budgets
Banks are finding it difficult to scale artificial‑intelligence initiatives because legacy systems consume a disproportionate share of IT spending. Capgemini’s survey shows only 29% of budgets target transformative tech while 43% fund maintenance of outdated infrastructure. New AI‑driven products are...
When Disaster Strikes, Census Data Can Help Show Who Is in Harm’s Way
The U.S. Census Bureau upgraded its OnTheMap for Emergency Management tool (v4.26.1), adding the latest 2020‑2024 American Community Survey five‑year estimates and 2023 LEHD Origin‑Destination data. The platform now overlays disaster‑event boundaries with up‑to‑date population, housing, and workforce information, letting...
What’s New in the AirPods Max 2? Breaking Down Apple’s Headphone Update
Apple unveiled the AirPods Max 2, a refreshed version of its premium over‑ear headphones, priced at $549 and shipping in April. The update centers on the H2 chip, delivering 1.5× stronger active noise cancellation, a new amplifier, and software features like...
4D Printing Technology Uses Waste Sulfur to Enable Self-Actuating Soft Robots
Researchers at KRICT, Hanyang University and Sejong University have unveiled the world’s first 4D‑printing platform that uses sulfur‑rich polymers derived from petroleum‑refining waste. By engineering a loosely cross‑linked sulfur polymer network, the material can be extruded, printed, and programmed to...
New "Vibe Coded" AI Translation Tool Splits the Video Game Preservation Community
Gaming Alexandria researcher, a "vibe‑coded" AI translation tool built on Google Gemini, was released to automate OCR and Japanese‑to‑English conversion of thousands of game‑magazine scans. The project used Patreon funds, costing roughly $0.50‑$1.50 per issue, prompting a sharp backlash from...
How Trump Drove a Wedge Between Florida Republicans Over A.I.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis championed an AI Bill of Rights that would require disclosures and ban AI in mental‑health counseling, but the measure stalled as the Florida House declined to act. President Donald Trump publicly opposed state-level AI regulation, urging...
Niqo Robotics Charts Path to Profitability as Physical AI Weeding Platform Expands Into New Crops, Markets, and New Generation of...
Niqo Robotics announced that its core AI‑powered weeding business is on track to become profitable in its first full commercial year, a first for agricultural robotics. The company’s one‑time‑purchase RoboWeeder, which delivers 99% edge‑AI accuracy without recurring fees, has gained...
DOD's New CIO Headlines Our First Power Breakfast of 2026
The Department of Defense introduced its new chief information officer, Kirsten Davies, at the inaugural Power Breakfast of 2026. Davies outlined a roadmap for IT transformation, cyber resilience, and aligning the CIO office with the Pentagon’s “Arsenal of Freedom” strategy,...
Congress Reauthorized the Technology Modernization Fund Through the Fiscal Year. Why that Matters and What’s Next
Congress reauthorized the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through September 30, 2026, allowing the board to keep selecting high‑impact federal IT projects. The fund operates as a revolving vehicle, requiring agencies to repay investments so the same dollars can finance future...
Chinese Space Station Astronauts Harvest Space Tomatoes
Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have harvested a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes grown in a small aeroponic cultivation system. The system uses a nutrient mist and full‑spectrum LEDs, enabling water‑efficient plant growth in micro‑gravity. This marks the...