Precisely and Matillion Partner to Accelerate Data Modernization and Agentic AI Readiness
Precisely announced an OEM partnership with Matillion to embed cloud‑native ETL capabilities into its Data Integrity Suite. The integration adds low‑code, scalable transformation and pipeline automation to Precisely’s existing data quality, governance, and enrichment services. By unifying extraction, transformation, and loading within a single platform, organizations can reduce fragmented tooling and accelerate AI‑ready data delivery. The joint offering targets hybrid and multi‑cloud environments, promising faster time‑to‑insight for analytics and automation initiatives.
Global Trade at Your Fingertips: How Ecer.com Is Powering the Mobile Revolution in B2B
Ecer.com is spearheading the mobile B2B revolution by consolidating messaging, AI‑driven translation, and transaction tools into a single smartphone app. The platform enables real‑time negotiations, illustrated by a Spanish buyer finalising a deal with a Chinese supplier in under 24...
Deepdub New Voice AI Model, Phantom X 3.2 Brings Studio-Grade Dubbing and Ultra-Low Latency Voice Agents to Global Enterprises
Deepdub unveiled Phantom X 3.2, a new voice AI model that delivers studio‑grade dubbing and ultra‑low latency voice agents for global enterprises. The model supports zero‑shot voice cloning from as little as one second of audio, expanded emotion styles, and...
The End of Static Ads: Gifr.ai Debuts AI Image-to-GIF Tool to Streamline Content Production
Gifr.ai launched an AI‑driven platform that turns static images into high‑quality GIFs within seconds, using text prompts to define motion. The tool promises up to three times higher engagement compared with still graphics and eliminates the need for specialized animation...
Tired of the Art on Your Frame TV? Here’s How to Curate Your Own Gallery
Frame TVs like Samsung’s The Frame let owners display artwork instead of typical TV content, but built‑in art stores often require paid subscriptions for full access. Users can bypass these fees by sourcing high‑resolution, 16:9 images from free museum and...
Meta Revamps Ad Payment Policy
Meta Platforms announced that, starting April 1, a subset of advertisers will no longer be able to pay with credit cards and must switch to monthly invoicing or direct bank debits. The company did not disclose the spending thresholds or the...
UK Government Pivots Its Digital ID Pitch to War on Red Tape
The UK government released a digital ID consultation, recasting the programme from a migration‑control tool to a means of simplifying citizen interactions with public services. The proposal now lets individuals choose between a government‑issued credential, private‑sector alternatives, or traditional documents,...
Turning Farms Into Jet Fuel Factories Won’t Fix Aviation Emissions
The aviation sector is betting on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to cut emissions, but crop‑based SAF may negate carbon gains due to indirect land‑use change and water use. Waste‑oil SAF offers high reductions but lacks scalability, while corn, soy and...
The Future of Enrollment: AI, Trust, and the Next Era of Student Engagement
University Business announces a 30‑minute Ed Talk on April 7, 2026, focusing on AI‑enabled enrollment for adult learners. Speakers Brian Hartnack and Jill Maksymec will explore how immediacy, transparency, and continuity reshape the traditional enrollment funnel into a connected, omnichannel experience. The...
NERC Overstates Reliability Risks in Long-Term Assessment: Grid Strategies
Grid Strategies contends that NERC’s 2025 Long‑Term Reliability Assessment exaggerates U.S. grid risks by inflating demand forecasts, especially the 90 GW data‑center load projected for 2030. The consulting firm argues the LTRA underestimates supply, ignoring projects in interconnection queues and non‑firm...
BBC Studios Set to Partner with Bauer Media Audio in First of Its Kind Commercial Deal in Seven European Markets
BBC Studios has teamed with Bauer Media Audio to become the exclusive third‑party seller of its podcast advertising in seven European markets – Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Slovakia and Portugal. The deal, executed through Bauer’s audioXi digital audio marketplace,...
Microsoft Flips Windows Autopatch to Default Hotpatch Security Updates
Microsoft will automatically enable hotpatch security updates in Windows Autopatch for eligible devices managed via Intune or the Microsoft Graph API, beginning with the May 2026 security release. Hotpatch, introduced a year ago, lets critical fixes install without a reboot, accelerating...
Insightin Health Discloses Its Second Data Security Incident in Two Years (1)
Insightin Health disclosed a March 4 2026 breach that stemmed from a zero‑day flaw in the GoAnywhere file‑transfer tool, allowing an unauthorized actor to access health‑plan data between September 17‑23 2025. The compromised files contained member names, dates of birth, insurance IDs and, in...
Niantic Spatial Partners with Coco Robotics to Accelerate the Future of Autonomous Delivery
Niantic Spatial announced a strategic partnership with Coco Robotics to embed its Visual Positioning System (VPS) into Coco’s autonomous delivery fleet. The collaboration aims to overcome GPS limitations in dense urban environments by delivering centimeter‑level localization using spatial AI and...
'BlackSanta' EDR Killer Targets HR Workflows
Russian‑speaking actors have launched the BlackSanta campaign targeting HR recruitment workflows. The malware is delivered via résumé‑themed ISO files that embed a malicious payload in steganographic images, then uses a shortcut and obfuscated PowerShell to load signed kernel drivers. Once...
Veritone Announced the Launch of Veritone Data Marketplace
Veritone announced the Veritone Data Marketplace (VDM), a new platform that links rights‑holders with accredited AI developers to trade ethically sourced, multi‑modal datasets. VDM works alongside Veritone Data Refinery, tokenizing unstructured media into AI‑ready assets and delivering them through a...
Newcastle Systems Set to Unveil Latest Hybrid Solution at MODEX 2026
Newcastle Systems will unveil its newest hybrid‑automation mobile workstation at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta, April 13‑16. The device combines on‑board scanning, printing and data access with ergonomic design to cut motion waste and fatigue. Positioned as a cost‑effective alternative to...
Base Power Launches 100MW VPP Programme in Texas
Base Power announced a 100 MW virtual power plant (VPP) programme with Denton County Electric Cooperative (CoServ) in North Texas, its largest deal to date. The initiative will install interconnected residential battery‑energy‑storage systems (BESS) that provide dispatchable capacity during peak demand...
TradeStation Securities Announces New Integration with Global Financial AI’s Financial AI Platform
TradeStation Securities announced an integration with Global Financial AI’s Financial AI Platform, linking AI‑driven strategy design to TradeStation’s brokerage execution. The partnership lets traders use natural‑language prompts to create, test, benchmark, and optimize multi‑asset strategies across equities and options. The...
Attackers Use AiTM Phishing Kit, Typosquatted Domains to Hijack AWS Accounts
Datadog researchers uncovered an AiTM phishing campaign that uses spoofed AWS security alerts and typosquatted domains to harvest AWS console credentials. The attackers operate a live proxy, relaying authentication requests to AWS while stealing usernames, passwords, and MFA codes in...
‘Scale Is How You Win’: Macquarie’s Ed Northam on Green Investing
Macquarie Asset Management’s global head of green investments, Ed Northam, emphasized that scale is the decisive factor in winning the green‑investment race. He highlighted abundant opportunities in U.S. renewable power despite a slowdown in project delivery timelines. Northam noted that...
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re Reading About a U.S. Senator Probing FDA, BioNTech Founders Leaving, and Much More
BioNTech co‑founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci will leave the company by year‑end to launch an unnamed mRNA‑focused venture, with BioNTech retaining a minority stake and licensing key technology. The split allows BioNTech to concentrate on its late‑stage cancer pipeline...
New "LeakyLooker" Flaws in Google Looker Studio Could Enable Cross-Tenant SQL Queries
Researchers at Tenable disclosed nine cross‑tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio, dubbed “LeakyLooker,” that could let attackers execute arbitrary SQL queries against BigQuery, Spanner, PostgreSQL, MySQL and other GCP data sources. The flaws, ranging from zero‑click SQL injection to data‑source...
This Founder Bet Against the ChatGPT Hype. Now Her ‘Boring’ AI Startup Is Worth $1.9 Billion
May Habib founded Writer in early 2020 to deliver enterprise‑grade AI agents, not consumer chatbots. While the pandemic froze budgets, she doubled down, betting that large firms would adopt AI through governance, security, and integration. Writer built proprietary language models...
SRM Institute of Science and Tech Licenses Its Cell Encapsulation Technology to Anabond
SRM Institute of Science and Technology has licensed its five‑year‑developed cell‑encapsulant technology to industrial adhesive maker Anabond Ltd. The agreement provides SRMIST with an upfront ₹1 crore and royalties for seven years, while the encapsulant promises up to a 50 percent increase...
New Collaboration Between ACS and FANUC Robotics Powers Single-Source Delivery of Facility Design and Automation Implementation
ACS announced its certification as a FANUC systems integrator, enabling the company to deliver fully integrated facility design and robotics implementation from a single source. The partnership merges ACS's engineering, controls, and construction expertise with FANUC's industrial robots, covering specification,...
After Outages, Amazon to Make Senior Engineers Sign Off on AI-Assisted Changes
Amazon announced that senior engineers must now sign off on any AI‑assisted code changes after a series of high‑impact outages. The incidents, affecting both its retail platform and AWS services, were linked to generative AI tools used without established safeguards....
Fintraffic and Siemens Mobility Ran Finland’s First Automated Train Drive with ETCS and ATO
Fintraffic and Siemens Mobility completed the Nordic region’s first automated train run using ETCS Level 2 and Automatic Train Operation on a 19‑km stretch between Juurikorpi and Hamina. The GoA2 trial achieved automated stops within 30‑80 cm at 100 km/h, demonstrating system stability...
Is RegTech Consolidation Creating New Platform Risks?
RegTech vendors are merging their offerings into larger, unified platforms that cover surveillance, reporting, identity and risk functions. Proponents argue that consolidation reduces operational fragmentation, delivers economies of scale, and strengthens security through enterprise‑grade infrastructure. Critics counter that platform concentration...
XGSynBot Debuts Z1 Wheeled Robot, Targeting the "Last Mile" Of Industrial Embodied AI
XGSynBot unveiled the Z1 wheeled robot, featuring a modular quick‑change end‑effector system and proprietary high‑performance joint modules. The robot’s dual‑system central brain separates high‑level reasoning from 100 Hz real‑time motor control, enabling rapid task switching and millisecond‑level stability on factory floors....
GigaDevice Unveils Edge AI, Robotics Tech at Embedded World 2026
At Embedded World 2026, GigaDevice displayed a suite of system‑level solutions spanning humanoid robotics, industrial automation, automotive electronics, and edge AI. The company highlighted its high‑performance GD32 MCU families, including the Cortex‑M7‑based GD32H75E, GD32A7 automotive series, and the GD32VW553 wireless...
Amazon Big Spring Deals Day Have Landed, and These Huawei Smartwatch Deals Have Savings of up to 42%
Amazon’s Big Spring Deals Day launched in late March, featuring a range of cycling‑related discounts. Among the offers, Huawei’s GT 5 Pro smartwatch is slashed by 42 % to £189.99, while the newer GT 6 Pro drops 19 % to £265.99. Both watches boast titanium cases,...
Cisco Blends Splunk Analytics, Security with Core Data Center Management
Cisco has embedded Splunk IT Service Intelligence directly into its Nexus Dashboard, the core management platform for Nexus 9000 and 8000 series data‑center switches. The native integration streams high‑fidelity telemetry, enabling faster fault detection, automated root‑cause analysis and remediation without...
Skyhigh Security Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization for Skyhigh DSPM
Skyhigh Security announced that its Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution has earned FedRAMP High authorization, the most rigorous cloud security certification for U.S. federal agencies. The DSPM now joins Skyhigh’s CASB and Secure Web Gateway as FedRAMP‑certified offerings, meeting...
3 Practical Ways Vertical AI Reshapes Fashion Retail Operations
Vertical AI is reshaping fashion retail by aligning inventory with hyperlocal demand, preventing costly markdowns, and accelerating trend analysis. Predictive models ingest local sales data, social signals, and logistics metrics to forecast store‑level needs, reducing out‑of‑stock incidents. AI agents recommend...
Qualcomm and Wayve Collaborate on Pre-Integrated ADAS/AD System for Auto Makers
Qualcomm Technologies and Wayve announced a joint effort to deliver a pre‑integrated ADAS and autonomous driving (AD) system built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride SoC and Wayve's AI Driver software. The solution bundles high‑performance compute, active safety stack and end‑to‑end AI...
I Wrote Off ChatGPT's Voice Mode, Then Found 7 Ways It's Genuinely Useful
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice Mode, now available on mobile apps and browsers, lets users interact via spoken prompts and receive spoken responses. The ZDNET author highlights seven practical use cases—from instant translation and hands‑free dictation to interview practice and real‑time copy...
Hammerspace and Secuvy Partner to Make At-Scale Data AI-Ready, Fast and Safe, Across On-Premises and Cloud
Hammerspace announced a partnership with Secuvy to deliver a “Data‑First” integration that unifies unstructured data across edge, on‑premises, and multi‑cloud environments. The joint solution creates a global namespace, continuously discovers, classifies, and catalogs data, and applies policy‑driven security without copying...
How Osprey Approach Is Supporting Hannays Solicitors’ Long-Term Compliance and Operational Confidence
Hannays Solicitors has relied on Osprey Approach’s cloud‑based practice and case‑management platform since 2009, citing enhanced data security and operational resilience. The software delivers 100 % accurate accounts, enabling the firm to pass every SRA audit without issue. Recent upgrades add...
FAULHABER BXI: Made for the Next Generation of Robotics
FAULHABER introduced the BXI, its most powerful integrated drive system yet, delivering up to 20 Nm torque within a 34 mm package. The unit combines an internal‑rotor motor, stepped planetary gearhead, and a 15‑bit absolute encoder, operating up to 50 V. Its flat...
Embedder v0.3.1 Nominated for Embedded Award 2026 as the AI Firmware Platform Moves Into Production
Embedder’s AI‑powered firmware platform v0.3.1 has been nominated for the Embedded Award 2026 in the Startup category, signaling its shift from experimental to production‑validated. The tool grounds large‑language‑model agents in hardware‑specific documentation, enabling real‑time code generation, compilation, flashing and hardware‑in‑the‑loop...
Mend.io Launches AI System Prompt Hardening Solution to Secure LLM Instructions
White Source Ltd., operating as Mend.io, introduced System Prompt Hardening, a solution that automatically detects and mitigates vulnerabilities in the hidden system prompts that guide large language models. The tool assigns a 1‑100 severity score, offers remediation recommendations, and integrates...
ColorTokens Launches Xshield AI Agent to Automate Microsegmentation Policy Enforcement
ColorTokens introduced Xshield AI Agent, an AI‑driven engine that automates microsegmentation policy design and enforcement. The solution claims to shrink policy rollout from days to minutes, enabling rapid isolation of critical assets during breaches. In pre‑release tests, customers reported up...
China Is Going After the World's Most Expensive Drugs: Endpoints Signal
China is actively targeting ultra‑expensive gene therapies, challenging the notion that these treatments are immune to price competition. Recent regulatory approvals and centralized procurement initiatives have forced manufacturers to negotiate steep discounts on therapies that once commanded multi‑million‑dollar price tags....
Exclusive: Virtana Customizes Its Observability Platform for AI Workloads
Virtana unveiled an Application Observability platform that extends its existing suite to cover the full stack, including AI workloads, infrastructure, and networking. The solution creates a system‑level dependency graph that automatically correlates logs, traces, and metrics to pinpoint root causes...
Darwinium Launches Agent Intent Intelligence to Tackle Fraud in AI-Driven Commerce
Darwinium UK Ltd. unveiled an intent‑based authentication and orchestration platform aimed at securing AI‑driven commerce. The solution identifies whether a request originates from a verified AI agent, a human, or malicious automation and applies one of four adaptive responses—permit, verify,...
Zoom Introduces Agentic AI Capabilities to Drive Productivity and Action at Work
Zoom announced the expansion of its enterprise agentic AI platform with AI Companion 3.0, adding custom agent building, ten secure third‑party connectors, and new productivity tools such as AI Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The enhancements extend across Zoom Workplace, Meetings,...
Allstacks Launches Agent to Close the Spec Gap Limiting AI-Assisted Development
Allstacks unveiled its Spec Readiness Agent, an AI‑driven tool that evaluates and improves software specifications before code is generated. The agent integrates with Jira, Azure DevOps and Linear, assigning readiness scores and auto‑generating acceptance criteria, edge cases and draft stories...
FDA Widens Use of Leucovorin without New Trial Data
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the generic form of leucovorin, also known as folinic acid, for treating cerebral folate deficiency (CFD). The decision widens the drug’s label despite the absence of new clinical trial data, relying on...
A Brand with a Face, Alan Jones and Mao Lao Lin Mascotte.AI
Alan Jones has joined Mascotte.AI as Strategic Executive Partner, aligning his entrepreneurial expertise with the firm’s mission to reshape human‑AI interaction. Mascotte.AI builds photorealistic digital humans—originally created for brands like LVMH and Adidas—to serve as AI companions for business training,...