Why Digital Communications Governance Is Now Critical
Digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) has shifted from a back‑office compliance task to a strategic imperative as enterprises adopt email, chat, video, collaboration tools and AI assistants. The surge in channel variety creates new regulatory exposure, making comprehensive capture, searchable storage, and proactive supervision essential. Modern DCGA frameworks rely on three pillars—full‑spectrum capture with reconciliation, robust discovery and archiving, and AI‑driven supervision—to turn passive record‑keeping into active risk management. Vendors like Theta Lake are now recognized as visionaries in this evolving market.
Atlancis and EverseTech Launch Sovereign AI Cloud in Kenya
Atlancis Technologies and EverseTech have launched Servernah Cloud, Kenya’s first sovereign AI cloud, hosted in iXAfrica’s Nairobi data centre. The platform merges Atlancis’ Servernah infrastructure with EverseTech’s AI‑as‑a‑Service, allowing Kenyan enterprises and government agencies to run AI workloads within national...
Users Protest as Google Antigravity Price Floats Upward
Google announced a new credit‑based pricing model for its Antigravity agentic AI coding tool, charging $25 for 2,500 credits without clarifying their worth. The change coincides with a slowdown in AI Pro quota refreshes, now updating weekly instead of every five...
Ayar Labs and Wiwynn Partner for Development of Co-Packaged Optical AI Infrastructure
Ayar Labs and server maker Wiwynn announced a partnership to build rack‑scale AI infrastructure that uses Ayar’s co‑packaged optics, specifically TeraPHY engines powered by a SuperNova remote light source. The design can connect up to 1,024 AI accelerators and deliver...
SAP Says FPS01 Puts S/4HANA One Step Short of Autonomy
SAP introduced the first major features update, FPS01, for its hosted private S/4HANA instances. The update adds AI‑driven agents that analyze tasks across systems and suggest concrete actions, stopping short of autonomous execution. SAP positions this as the penultimate step...
Razorpay Bets on AI Agents, Global Expansion to Power Next Phase of Growth
Razorpay is expanding beyond its core payments business by launching AI‑powered agents such as Agent Studio and Liquid, aimed at automating payments, finance and payroll tasks for startups and SMBs. The fintech is also scaling internationally, with operations now in...
Pepperl+Fuchs and Everphone Launch Partnership for Industrial Mobility
Pepperl+Fuchs and Everphone have teamed up to deliver the German maker’s explosion‑protected smartphones and tablets through Everphone’s device‑as‑a‑service (DaaS) platform. The offering bundles 5G, NFC, GPS, dual‑SIM and MIL‑STD‑810H ruggedness with intrinsic safety features for hazardous environments. Customers can rent,...
The Hepatitis B Birth Dose Trial That Triggered the WHO Alarm
The World Health Organization issued a formal warning on 13 February 2026 about a proposed randomized trial in Guinea‑Bissau that would withhold the hepatitis B birth‑dose vaccine from roughly half of 14,000 newborns. The study seeks to measure non‑specific effects...
About 6,600 MW Nuclear Capacity Under Construction in India
India is building roughly 6,600 MW of nuclear capacity, slated for completion by 2029‑30, while another 7,000 MW remains in planning and approval phases. Current nuclear output already exceeds 8,780 MW, reflecting rapid expansion. Parallel projects include 12,723 MW of hydroelectric plants under construction...
IDB Invest, Banco Familiar Expand Credit for Microentrepreneurs in Paraguay
IDB Invest will provide a 540 billion‑guaraní loan to Banco Familiar to finance Paraguayan microentrepreneurs through the EKO digital wallet. The funding comes from IDB Invest’s local‑currency bond issuance program, marking a first for multilateral participation in Paraguay’s bond market. Banco...
Fraud Battle Calls for Cross-Sector Effort
Financial institutions are urging federal rule changes and cross‑sector data sharing to combat AI‑enabled fraud. Panelists highlighted the need for banks, telecoms and social‑media platforms to exchange real‑time signals, creating a unified view of fraud networks. Current safe‑harbor protections under...
Santander and Visa Launch LatAm Agentic Payments Project
Santander and Visa have launched Latin America’s first end‑to‑end agentic commerce pilot, completing real‑world transactions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay using Visa Intelligent Commerce. AI agents bought chocolates in Brazil and books in the other markets, proving that...
Roborock Becomes the World’s No. 1 Smart Cleaning Robot Brand, According to IDC
Roborock has been named the world’s No. 1 smart cleaning robot brand for 2025 by IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Vacuum Robotics Tracker. The Chinese maker shipped 5.8 million units across vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and other household robots, capturing 17.7% of the...
Taiwan Military Tests Drone Strike Tactics in Urban Training
Taiwan’s 58th Artillery Command UAV battalion conducted its first immersive FPV drone training in a simulated urban battlefield on March 10, 2026. The exercise paired long‑endurance reconnaissance drones with first‑person‑view attack drones to locate and strike mock enemy forces inside...
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
Microsoft unveiled a new Copilot feature that lets users upload health records and wearable data for AI analysis, joining Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic in testing similar health‑focused chatbots. The tools promise high‑level health overviews but raise privacy and accuracy concerns....
Epson Robots to Showcase Scalable Retail Automation at Shoptalk Spring 2026
At Shoptalk Spring 2026, Epson Robots will demonstrate scalable retail automation solutions, featuring its compact T‑Series SCARA robots and the RC+ industrial development platform. The showcase highlights applications from back‑office fulfillment—such as picking, packaging, and kitting—to customer‑facing kiosks, emphasizing ease...
Interview with Karolina Aleksandrova, ProMoney Founder & Organiser of the Baltic Payment Forum
PaySpace Magazine Global interviewed Karolina Aleksandrova, founder of ProMoney and the driving force behind the Baltic Payment Forum held in Vilnius on March 3, 2026. The event marked the fourth consecutive year the forum attracted more than 300 C‑level executives...
Infrastructure Resilience in an Era of Escalation: Why Cross-Sector Coordination Is the Critical Path
U.S. intelligence warns foreign adversaries, especially Iran, are intensifying cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The 2025 Threat Assessment highlights coordinated efforts by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea across energy, transport, water, and manufacturing sectors. CISA reports Iranian actors using...
GoodWe Introduces Low-Noise All-in-One Storage System for Rooftop PV
GoodWe has launched a three‑phase all‑in‑one energy storage system for rooftop PV, integrating inverter, battery and AI‑driven energy management in a single unit. The system operates at a whisper‑quiet 30 dB, earning TÜV Rheinland’s world‑first Grade A low‑noise certification, and can reduce...
How AI Is Reshaping What Customers Expect From Consultants
AI tools are empowering clients to conduct their own data analysis, accelerating discovery phases and reshaping expectations of consulting firms. Customers now arrive with AI‑generated insights and demand help that goes beyond problem identification. The differentiator for consultants is strategic...
On-Course Drones Coupled With AR Prove Powerful Duo at PLAYERS Championship
The PGA TOUR deployed four drones for the PLAYERS Championship, including two AR‑enabled units that project true 3D graphics onto the course. Virtual Eye integrated Unreal Engine‑driven visualizations, while robocams received identical AR capabilities for live tracing and putt‑path overlays....
Verily Me: A Safe, Private New Space to Check Your Symptoms
Verily has moved its consumer health app, Verily Me, out of beta and into general availability on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is powered by Violet, an AI companion that conducts a guided, multi‑turn intake...
This $30 Smart Router with a Built-In VPN Is the Travel Gadget I Didn't Know I Needed
The GL.iNet Mango (GL‑MT300N‑V2) is a $29.99 mini smart router that packs VPN support, repeater, WAN, and smartphone‑tethering capabilities into a USB‑powered box. It lets travelers extend free Wi‑Fi, plug in a wired connection, or use a 4G dongle with...
Heat Pumps Are Transforming Domestic Hot Water Production – How to Avoid Hygiene Risks?
Heat pumps are rapidly becoming the preferred method for domestic hot water (DHW) production across Europe, driven by decarbonisation goals and the rise of rooftop photovoltaics. Their low‑temperature operation (45‑55 °C) maximises efficiency but overlaps the growth window of Legionella pneumophila,...
Building a Martech Stack: Eliminating the Complexity Tax for Decision Velocity
Marketers are drowning in data yet lack actionable insights, prompting a call for smarter martech architectures. The piece argues that an AI‑enabled stack built around social intelligence can eliminate the “complexity tax” that slows decision making. It references research showing...
Sherweb Expands Into UK MSP Market
Sherweb announced a strategic expansion into the United Kingdom, aiming to serve more than 11,000 local managed service providers (MSPs). The move builds on its 2025 acquisition of Ireland‑based MicroWarehouse, giving the Canadian cloud marketplace a foothold in the region....
Green IT Meets Database Engineering: How Better Data Architecture Reduces Energy Footprint
Organizations often overlook data architecture as a major source of IT energy consumption. Excess tables, unused indexes, and inefficient schemas increase storage, I/O, and CPU cycles, inflating both costs and carbon footprints. By applying disciplined schema design, index management, query...
Why African Striped Mice Can Be the Best of Dads — or the Worst
Researchers discovered that the Agouti gene acts as a molecular switch governing paternal behavior in African striped mice. Males housed together displayed aggression toward pups, while solitary males became attentive fathers, a shift linked to reduced Agouti activity in the...
Safety-Net Providers Tackle AI Adoption as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Safety‑net health providers are bracing for massive Medicaid cuts enacted by the recent "Big Beautiful Bill," which will strip billions from state programs and impose strict work‑requirement reporting. At the 2026 HIMSS conference, experts warned that these changes could trigger...
Adopting a Time Series Database with InfluxData
Cole Bowden’s DBTA webinar warned against over‑engineered data stacks and advocated a pragmatic approach to time‑series workloads. He urged firms to first assess whether data fits in memory or on a single drive before adopting a specialized database. When scale...
Narcity Media Launches Self-Serve Instagram Story Distribution Tool for Brands
Narcity Media introduced Boost, a self‑serve tool on its Locals.tv platform that lets brands pay local creators to share Instagram Stories. The service taps a network of over 2,000 creators across Canadian cities, allowing campaigns to be launched in minutes...
Best Buy Counters Memory Shortage with Inventory, Vendor Tweaks
Best Buy is confronting a sharp rise in memory‑chip costs driven by an AI‑fuelled data‑center boom. The retailer plans to load warehouses with extra stock, extend vendor forecasting windows, and tighten assortments in high‑pressure categories. It also encourages suppliers to highlight...
US BESS Industry Is ‘Primed for Years of Growth’: Enertis Applus+ on Financing Storage in the FEOC Era
William Lauwers of Enertis Applus+ highlighted that the U.S. battery‑energy‑storage‑system (BESS) market is poised for multi‑year expansion despite looming FEOC regulations. He warned that the new foreign‑entity‑of‑concern rules and evolving Treasury guidance could tighten ITC eligibility, forcing developers to balance lower‑cost...
Instagram-Powered Iranian Influence Operation Against US Dismantled
Meta announced the removal of nearly 300 Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that masqueraded as journalists and commentators. The fake personas collectively attracted about 41,000 followers before disseminating anti‑U.S. and anti‑Israel political messages. Engagement on...
Hisense TVs Caught Showing Non-Skippable Ads when Changing Inputs or Channels
Hisense’s budget TVs running the VIDAA (now Home OS) platform have been delivering non‑skippable advertisements whenever users turn the set on, switch channels, or change HDMI inputs. The behavior, first reported in 2022, has been confirmed in Spain, the UK,...
ZEDEDA Survey: Enterprise Edge AI Reaches Inflection Point as Agentic Edge Capabilities Take Center Stage
ZEDEDA’s 2026 Edge AI Survey shows enterprise edge AI has moved from pilot to core infrastructure. Eighty‑six percent of firms with active deployments are pursuing agentic edge capabilities, with half researching autonomous agents and 15% already in production. Operational efficiency...
ALL.SPACE Signs Viasat Partnership Deal
ALL.SPACE announced a strategic partnership with Viasat, securing Category 4 certification for its Hydra electronically steered terminal on the Viasat Global Xpress (GX) Ka‑band network. The certification enables full‑performance operation across Viasat’s high‑capacity steerable beams for on‑move, on‑pause, and halt scenarios....
PagerDuty Unveils Next Generation of the Operations Cloud Platform with the Spring 2026 Release
PagerDuty announced its Spring 2026 release of the next‑generation Operations Cloud, centering on an autonomous SRE Agent that acts as a virtual responder. The platform now embeds full‑lifecycle incident management directly into Slack and other developer environments via the Model...
Alstom to Deliver CBTC System for Paris Metro Line 8 Modernisation
Alstom has been chosen to supply its I‑CBTC onboard signalling system for Paris Metro Line 8 as part of the OCTYS 2030 modernisation programme. The contract covers an onboard automatic train control solution operating at Grade of Automation 2 and a dedicated radio...
Toshiba Rolls Out AI-Powered Solar Plant Portfolio Management Platform
Toshiba has launched EneTogo, an AI‑driven PV management platform within its Spinex for Energy suite, enabling real‑time monitoring and O&M of distributed solar plants. The system automatically calculates capacity factor, performance ratio, and lost generation while detecting zero‑output faults using...
DIU, Navy Tap Anduril to Prototype Dive-XL Autonomous Submarine
Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Navy have awarded Anduril a contract to prototype the Dive-XL autonomous submarine under the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) program. Anduril must conduct a long‑range, operationally representative demonstration within four months, using a vehicle...
A Bicycle Robot that Can Drive Fast and Jump over Obstacles
Researchers at the Robotics and AI Institute unveiled the Ultra Mobility Vehicle (UMV), a bicycle‑based robot that can drive at 8 m/s, hop over 1‑meter obstacles, and perform flips using only five actuated degrees of freedom. The platform uses a heavy...
America’s Power Shortage Is a Market Failure
America’s electricity grid faces looming capacity shortfalls as winter storms, record demand and aging plants converge. Market designs only signal investment after supply gaps appear, leaving developers with limited time and revenue certainty. The article argues that, like 19th‑century railroad...
PJM Moves to Redefine Behind-the-Meter Power for AI Data Centers
PJM Interconnection announced it will restrict legacy netting for behind‑the‑meter loads that exceed 50 MW, compelling large AI‑scale data centers to adopt new service models. The reform introduces "Connect‑and‑Manage" and "BYOG" constructs to streamline interconnection while maintaining system reliability. By making...
7 Best Invoice Management Software for 2026: My Picks
Finance teams are increasingly burdened by manual invoice approvals, prompting a surge in specialized invoice management platforms. Darshayita Thakur evaluated over 20 solutions and identified seven top performers for 2026: Xero, Paylocity, SAP Concur, BILL AP/AR, Stampli, Payhawk, and SAP Cloud ERP. Each...
Awery Becomes First Company to Integrate IATA CO2 Connect Tool for Cargo
Awery Aviation Software has become the first digital platform to embed IATA’s CO2 Connect for Cargo into its ERP system, giving users real‑time, flight‑specific emissions data within existing workflows. The calculator draws on operational inputs from over 100 airlines, delivering...
The Adecco Group to Scale Agentic AI with Salesforce
Adecco Group signed a multi‑year agreement with Salesforce for unlimited access to Agentforce 360 through 2027, enabling the company to scale agentic AI across its global operations. The partnership builds on a UK pilot that delivered 15 percent recruiter time savings and...
OPay Clarifies Reports on Alleged Office Closure by the Nigeria Revenue Service
OPay refutes online claims that its Lagos and Abuja offices were sealed by the Nigeria Revenue Service over alleged tax violations. The company confirms all locations remain open and fully operational. It explains the rumor originated from an NRS industry‑wide...
PharmaShots Magazine-March-2026 Edition
AI is reshaping clinical trial oversight by moving from periodic checks to continuous, real‑time intelligence. Advanced analytics and machine learning now power predictive, risk‑based monitoring that aggregates data from decentralized sites, wearables, ePROs and multiple clinical systems. This integration enables...
Vijil Unveils Platform Enabling AI Agents to Adapt to Attacks and Failures
Vijil introduced a trust infrastructure that lets enterprises evolve AI agents in critical roles by turning production telemetry into continuous improvement. The new Vijil Darwin module closes the loop from observed attacks and failures to targeted code and instruction updates....