Dürr Unveils Robotic System that Prints Custom Designs on Vehicle Bodies
Dürr introduced EcoNextJet, a robotic drop‑on‑demand printing system that applies custom graphics directly onto vehicle bodies during the paint process. The system uses a 2,000‑nozzle printhead capable of two‑color, 720 dpi resolution and five‑micron paint thickness, replacing traditional film decals. Developed with paint maker Axalta and printhead supplier XAAR, EcoNextJet is now available for testing in Germany and the United States. The technology promises higher design freedom, reduced waste, and labor savings for automotive manufacturers.
Meta Plans Four In-House AI Chips In Two Years
Meta Platforms announced a rapid rollout of four custom AI accelerators—MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450 and MTIA 500—targeted for deployment by the end of 2027. The MTIA 300 is already powering smaller‑model training for ranking and ad recommendation, while the MTIA 400 has cleared lab...
Intel Rules Out RAN Exit and Champions Granite Rapids over Nvidia
Intel confirmed it will not spin off its Network and Edge (NEX) unit, reaffirming its commitment to the 5G/6G RAN market with the Granite Rapids processor. The decision follows a $7 billion funding infusion from Nvidia and SoftBank that helped the...
George Medicines Partners with Ahngook Pharmaceutical to Commercialize GMRx2 in Korea
George Medicines has signed an exclusive licensing and supply agreement with South Korea’s Ahngook Pharmaceutical to bring its triple‑combination antihypertensive pill, GMRx2, to the Korean market. The single‑pill formulation blends telmisartan, amlodipine and indapamide in three dose strengths, aiming for...
ASRock Industrial Expands Motherboard Lineup for AMD CPUs
ASRock Industrial unveiled a new line of industrial motherboards that support AMD EPYC 4005/4004 and Ryzen 9000/8000/7000 series processors. The portfolio spans ATX (IMB‑A1700), Micro‑ATX (IMB‑A1302) and Mini‑ITX (IMB‑A1002/ A1003) platforms, each featuring DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen5 expansion, and multi‑display...
Eni Signs Up for 15-Year Biomethane Supply From France
Eni’s renewable arm Plenitude and Seya Group’s Methagora have signed a 15‑year agreement for the supply of 50 GWh of biomethane per year from French production. Methagora, which converts existing biogas sites into certified biomethane, has already delivered 35 GWh and plans...
Grammarly Removes AI Feature Which Used Real Authors' Identities, Faces Class Action Lawsuit
Grammarly has discontinued its AI‑powered Expert Review feature after criticism that it leveraged the names and personas of living and deceased writers without consent. The tool, launched in August, let users select specific authors to generate feedback, prompting backlash from...
Codoxo’s Deepfake Detection Identifies AI-Generated Medical Records for Health Plans
Codoxo has launched Deepfake Detection, an AI‑driven solution that scans medical documentation, diagnostic images and claim context in seconds to flag synthetic or manipulated records. The tool embeds explainable risk scores into payer fraud‑prevention workflows, enabling health plans to intercept...
AI Users Report Stronger Workplace Connections, According to Gensler Survey
Gensler’s 2026 Global Workplace Survey of 16,400 office workers across 16 countries finds that AI power users—about 30 % of respondents—spend less time alone and more time learning and interacting with colleagues, contradicting the notion that AI isolates workers. These users...
CES 2026: Connected Vehicles Accelerate the Pace of AI
At CES 2026 the spotlight shifted from prototype showcases to production‑ready connected vehicles, underscoring the convergence of robotics, AI and automotive electronics. Qualcomm announced a partnership with Chinese startup Leapmotor to equip the D19 with a dual Snapdragon Elite platform, marking the...
Banks Use AI to Make Credit Card Rewards More Personal
Banks and payment networks are deploying artificial intelligence to reshape credit‑card rewards, moving the battle from the checkout to an AI‑driven offers feed. By mining transaction histories and behavioral signals, issuers can generate merchant discounts and category bonuses that match...
Digest: Meta Hikes Ad Prices; AI Agents Cannot Act on Your Behalf Without Platform Permission, Rules US Judge; IPA Unveils...
Meta announced a 2%‑5% fee increase for ads delivered in Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK, citing local digital service taxes. A California federal judge ruled that AI agents cannot access a platform’s systems without the platform’s explicit...
Richard Yen: Debugging RDS Proxy Pinning: How a Hidden JIT Toggle Created Thousands of Pinned Connections
Richard Yen discovered that AWS RDS Proxy was pinning thousands of client connections after asyncpg temporarily disabled PostgreSQL JIT during type introspection. The JIT toggle altered session state, which RDS Proxy could not track, causing each connection to become permanently...
Vulnerability Reports: Increase in Quantity, Decrease in Quality?
cURL founder Daniel Stenberg has shut down his HackerOne bug bounty program after a sharp rise in low‑quality, AI‑generated vulnerability reports. In early 2026 his team reviewed 20 submissions, seven arriving within 16 hours, none of which were genuine flaws....
Closing the Gap: Why Timely Pediatric ADHD Assessment Is a Digital Health Imperative
ADHD affects roughly 7 million children in the United States—about 11.4% of the 3‑17‑year‑old population—and prevalence has risen by a million since 2016. Nearly 30% of diagnosed children receive no medication or behavioral therapy, and formal assessment remains uneven across geography,...
In Vitro Generation of Highly Infectious Recombinant Prions Adopting Structural Architectures of Bona Fide Prions
Researchers have developed a protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) assay that reliably produces recombinant prion fibrils with infectivity comparable to the RML brain‑derived strain. Cryo‑EM analysis shows these fibrils adopt the characteristic V‑shaped, parallel in‑register β‑sheet architecture, though the C‑terminal...
Unified Real-Time Anomaly Detection Across Retail Fraud and Network Intrusion Streams Using Dependency-Aware Feature Extraction
A unified, domain‑aware anomaly detection pipeline maps retail transaction and network traffic streams to a common event schema, enabling real‑time monitoring of rare, high‑impact events. The approach extracts temporal features (e.g., time‑since‑last‑event) and contextual typicality without data leakage, then trains...
Aerowash Selected by IAG to Supply Aircraft Washing Robots to British Airways at Heathrow
Aerowash has been awarded a multi‑year leasing contract by International Airlines Group to provide aircraft‑washing robots for British Airways at London Heathrow. The deal follows a competitive tender and will see several automated washers deployed across BA’s Heathrow operations. CEO...
Bluente Launches Open-Source MCP Server, Bringing Format-Preserving Document Translation Directly Into AI Workflows
Bluente has released an open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents translate documents while preserving original formatting. The server, available on GitHub under an MIT license, supports over 120 languages and a range of file types, from...
UK Government Removes Offshore Wind Energy Tariffs to Help Manufacturers Save Millions
The UK government will waive import duties on 33 wind‑farm components from 1 April, using an “authorised use” customs measure that eliminates tariffs on items such as cables, blades and rotors. Officials say the relief will save manufacturers millions of pounds...
Fatigue Life Prediction of Ceramic Matrix Composite Materials Based on Physical Constraint Multi-Scale Attention Network
Researchers introduced a physically constrained multi‑scale attention network (PC‑MSANet) to predict fatigue life of ceramic matrix composites under high‑temperature, high‑stress conditions. Experiments on Cf/SiC specimens generated macroscopic stress, time‑domain, and frequency‑domain features for model training. PC‑MSANet achieved an RMSE of...
Exploring Spatial Inequities and Livability: A Mixed-Methods Study Using Artificial Intelligence and Community Insights
A mixed‑methods study in St. Louis combined a vision‑language model with community interviews to map micro‑scale built‑environment features across 7,848 Google Street View segments. AI detected high prevalence of basic infrastructure—street lighting (85%) and continuous pavement (77%)—but uncovered severe shortages...
IPcook Launches Low-Cost Proxy Infrastructure to Reduce AI Data Collection Costs
IPcook has launched a low‑cost rotating proxy service aimed at AI developers and enterprises that need to scrape large volumes of web data for generative‑AI training. The offering starts at $0.50 per gigabyte, can handle up to 100,000 simultaneous requests,...
Zalando Reports Double-Digit Growth in 2025 as It Accelerates Investment in AI Innovation
Zalando posted double‑digit growth in 2025, with GMV rising 14.7% to €17.6 billion, revenue up 16.8% to €12.3 billion and EBIT reaching €591 million. Active customers hit a record 62 million and non‑fashion categories grew 13%. The July 2026 acquisition of ABOUT YOU is expected...
Illinois to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Renewables and Skip the Line
Illinois lawmakers have introduced the Protecting Our Water, Energy, and Ratepayers (POWER) Act, which would let data centers that procure their own clean power receive fast‑track grid interconnection and guaranteed service. The bill also obliges facilities to pay for transmission...
C2N Diagnostics Partners with BeauBrain Healthcare to Offer PrecivityAD2 Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease in South Korea
C2N Diagnostics has signed a partnership with BeauBrain Healthcare to introduce its PrecivityAD2 blood test for Alzheimer’s disease in South Korea, targeting patients aged 50 and older with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. Clinical studies published in JAMA and npj...
A Comparative Study of Elderly and Young Adults’ Needs of Smart Home Security Systems: Evidence From an Extended Technology Acceptance...
The study compares senior citizens’ and young adults’ acceptance of smart home security systems using surveys of 220 seniors and 215 younger participants. Findings reveal seniors value simple, one‑click and voice‑controlled interfaces, while younger users focus on ecosystem integration. Researchers...
Experimental Study on the Construction of a Rabbit Biliary Stent Model via Transduodenal Puncture and the Placement of an Modified...
Researchers have created a New Zealand rabbit model that mimics biliary stenting by using a transduodenal wall puncture and a modified intravenous catheter. The experimental group achieved an 86.7% technical success rate, with most complications being mild and transient. Serum liver...
ASUS Expands Strix OLED Range With Three New 27-Inch QHD Displays
ASUS has expanded its ROG Strix OLED lineup with three new 27‑inch QHD monitors: the WOLED‑based XG27AQDMG Gen2, the 280 Hz QD‑OLED XG27ACDMS, and the entry‑level QD‑OLED XG27AQDMES. The models share a 0.03 ms response time, factory calibration, and adaptive‑sync support, but differ...
Number of Legal Departments Using Gen AI Almost Doubles in a Year – Study
Corporate legal departments are rapidly embracing generative AI, with usage nearly doubling in a year. The latest FTI Consulting and Relativity General Counsel Report shows 87% of chief legal officers now employ AI tools, up from 44% last year, and...
AMD Rumored to Ready FSR Diamond for Xbox Project Helix
AMD is reportedly developing a new graphics feature set called FSR Diamond for Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox platform, rumored as Project Helix. Unlike previous FidelityFX Super Resolution iterations, FSR Diamond is said to bundle AI‑assisted upscaling, frame generation, neural rendering and...
India Introduces Bug Bounty Program to Target Gaps in Aadhaar Ecosystem
India’s Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) launched a formal bug bounty program to harden the Aadhaar ecosystem. A panel of 20 vetted security researchers will probe the official website, myAadhaar portal, and the Secure QR Code app for vulnerabilities. Rewards are...
MSI Expands Intel 800 Series With New Z890 and B860M Boards
MSI has added two Intel 800 series motherboards to its portfolio, the PRO Z890‑S WIFI6E W ATX board and the B860M GAMING PLUS WIFI6E micro‑ATX board. The PRO model features a white PCB, multiple full‑length PCIe slots, Wi‑Fi 6E, 2.5 GbE Ethernet and 20 Gbps USB‑C, positioning it as a...
Photoluminescence Enhancement in Erbium Nanoparticles via Controlled Phase Transformation
Erbium nanoparticles produced by pulse laser ablation in liquid were thermally annealed from 200 °C to 1000 °C. At 600 °C the mixed cubic‑monoclinic structure fully converts to a pure cubic Er₂O₃ phase, eliminating surface hydroxyl groups and compacting the particles. This structural...
SiteCapture Launches SiteCaptureAI to Power a New Era of Field Service Efficiency
SiteCapture unveiled SiteCaptureAI, an AI‑driven platform that automates the analysis of photos, videos, and documentation collected by field service crews. The solution delivers real‑time alerts, automated quality‑control checks, and custom workflow creation, promising to cut quality‑control costs by up to...
The AI Guidance Gap Is a Mental Health Problem
Universities are grappling with an AI guidance gap that leaves students uncertain about permissible use, prompting many to avoid generative tools altogether. A recent survey shows only 36% of students receive institutional AI skill support, while the OIA reports a...
HBM4E Raises The Bar For AI Memory Bandwidth
Rambus unveiled HBM4E, the latest high‑bandwidth memory that doubles HBM4’s data rate to 16 Gbps per pin, delivering up to 24.6 TB/s aggregate bandwidth across a six‑device stack. The new standard retains HBM’s low‑power, low‑latency characteristics while expanding channel count to 32...
Embention Integrates Veronte Autopilot with Gotonomi SATCOM for Enhanced BVLOS Operations
Embention has integrated its Veronte Autopilot 1x with Gotonomi SATCOM terminals, creating a plug‑and‑play BVLOS solution that leverages Viasat’s L‑Band satellite network. The new hardware version 4.12 adds a native Ethernet port, removing RS485‑to‑Ethernet converters and reducing UAV weight. VeronteLink...
India Outlines Legal Framework to Protect Children From AI and Online Harm
India’s government announced a comprehensive legal framework to shield children from AI‑driven online harms. Existing statutes such as the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 are being leveraged to mandate rapid removal of illegal...
Rethinking Voice AI At The Edge: A Practical Offline Pipeline
Arm and NVIDIA unveiled an offline, real‑time voice AI pipeline on the DGX Spark platform, combining the faster‑whisper speech‑to‑text engine with the vLLM large‑language‑model server. The heterogeneous design assigns latency‑critical transcription to Arm Cortex‑X/A CPU cores while the GPU handles...
Serial Wire Debug (SWD) Protocol: Efficient Debug Interface For Arm-Based Systems
The Serial Wire Debug (SWD) protocol offers a two‑pin alternative to traditional JTAG, delivering high‑speed debug access for Arm Cortex‑M based SoCs. By using a single clock (SWCLK) and a bidirectional data line (SWDIO), SWD halves the pin count while...
AI Power on the Edge
Edge AI is reshaping device design by making power and thermal constraints primary, not optional, considerations. Engineers must build hardware architectures from the ground up and adopt a hardware‑software‑model co‑design approach to meet milliwatt budgets and fanless thermal envelopes. Memory...
Scale-Up, Scale-Out Get a New Partner
The article outlines three AI‑focused data‑center scaling models—scale‑up (in‑rack, latency‑centric, copper‑based), scale‑out (inter‑rack, jitter‑centric, RDMA and optical), and the newer scale‑across (cross‑data‑center, long‑distance congestion management). It details how each approach uses distinct interconnect strategies and resource allocation methods, and cites...
Customizing Foundation IP For Ultra-Low-Voltage Designs
Synopsys customized its Foundation IP to enable an ultra‑low‑voltage (0.4 V) optical networking chip designed for edge AI workloads. The team created a new memory compiler, added dual‑rail voltage support, and applied power‑gating and low‑leakage cells to meet aggressive power‑performance‑area (PPA)...
Dreame-Backed NXMind Enters Commercialization with Tianqiong Chips, Targets Orbital Computing
NXMind, backed by Dreame, announced that its Tianqiong chip series has entered mass production and will be integrated across Dreame’s home‑robot lineup. The heterogeneous system‑on‑chip combines a multi‑core CPU, dedicated NPU and microcontroller to enable real‑time LiDAR, vision fusion and...
Volkmann Collaborates with HP to Offer Contained Metal Powder Handling System
German equipment maker Volkmann GmbH has partnered with HP Additive Manufacturing Solutions to launch the vPort powder handling system for HP’s Metal Jet S100 binder‑jet printers. The semi‑automated solution combines Volkmann’s PowTReX technology with a glove‑box interface, offering sieving, recovery...
PC Price Hikes and a Test for Taiwan
Global PC manufacturers announced price increases of 5%‑10% as semiconductor shortages and higher freight costs persist. The hikes hit both consumer and enterprise segments, squeezing budgets for schools and businesses. Taiwan, home to major chip fabs and motherboard producers, faces...
Exclusive: Oro Labs, Which Uses AI to Streamline Corporate Procurement, Raises $100 Million
Oro Labs announced a $100 million Series C round, led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital, bringing its total funding to $160 million. The Silicon Valley AI startup, which overlays existing ERP and procurement systems with an orchestration platform, reported...
AIRMO Raises €5M for Airborne and Space-Based GHG Monitoring
AIRMO announced a €5 million seed round led by Ananda ImpactVentures, with participation from several venture firms and strategic investors. The funding will finance its first satellite mission slated for 2027 and broaden its airborne monitoring footprint across Europe, MENA and...
Honeywell Chosen by U.S. Air Force to Design Prototype Engine System for CCA
Honeywell Aerospace secured a U.S. Air Force prototype contract to design a propulsion system for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) using its new SkyShot 1600 engine. The SkyShot 1600 can operate as a turbojet or turbofan, delivering 800‑2,800 pounds of...