AI Techniques Speed up Forensic Analysis of Crucial Crime Scene Larvae
Researchers at LSU and Texas A&M are using machine‑learning combined with infrared spectroscopy and mass‑spectrometry to identify forensic maggot species, sex, and even toxins within minutes. The approach creates a metabolomic database that can classify insects from chemical fingerprints, eliminating the need for DNA sequencing or live specimens. It also works on pupal casings, allowing investigators to extract evidence long after larvae have disappeared. These tools promise faster, cheaper, and more accessible forensic entomology for crime‑scene analysis.
Junshi Receives China’s NMPA Acceptance for Toripalimab Injection
Junshi Biosciences has received acceptance from China’s National Medical Products Administration for its subcutaneous toripalimab injection (JS001sc), covering 12 cancer indications. The filing marks the first domestic anti‑PD‑1 monoclonal antibody in a subcutaneous formulation to reach the marketing application stage....
What Can We Do to Improve the Chances of Our Target Plus Application Being Approved?
Target Plus remains an invite‑only, highly curated marketplace that evaluates sellers on brand alignment, category fit, operational reliability, data quality, and compliance. The guide outlines concrete steps—streamlining operations, cleaning product catalogs, building strong performance on other platforms, researching category gaps,...
Study Finds Seabirds Avoid Turbines at Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm
A study at Vattenfall’s Aberdeen offshore wind farm, conducted with Spoor, monitored one turbine for 19 months using AI‑assisted video. The analysis captured 2,007 seabird flight paths and found no confirmed collisions, estimating fewer than one impact would have occurred....
Ocado Might Disagree, but Kroger’s Tough Decisions Around Its E-Commerce Re-Think Were the Right Thing to Do. New CEO Gregory...
Gregory Foran, Kroger’s new CEO, has backed the company’s 2023 decision to scrap its Ocado‑run automated fulfillment centers and pivot to a hybrid model that uses stores as local hubs and partners with UberEats, DoorDash and Instacart. The move is...
ERP News Magazine March 2026 – Issue #58
ERP News Magazine released its March 2026 Issue 58, spotlighting the rise of intelligent ERP and the transformation of CRM into an intelligence layer. The edition features expert interviews on AI‑driven ERP workflows, agent‑mediated commerce, adaptive transformation delivery, and cloud‑centric modernization....
ForwardX Marks One Year of Large-Scale AMR Operations at Chery's Dalian Factory
ForwardX Robotics celebrates one year of large‑scale autonomous mobile robot (AMR) operations at Chery's Dalian automotive plant. Over 270 fourth‑generation AMRs now run in the welding and final‑assembly workshops, handling material delivery for 32 welding parts and 95 final‑assembly parts....
XTool Honors International Women's Day with "Her Voice, Made Visible" Campaign Featuring Artist Domonique Brown
xTool wrapped its International Women’s Day “Her Voice, Made Visible” campaign with a Los Angeles MakerFest that highlighted women makers. The program, featuring artist Domonique Brown and her work on the F2 Ultra laser cutter, showcased how precision tools can...
Ascletis Announces Positive Topline Results From U.S. Phase II, 24-Week Study for Its Ultra-Long-Acting Subcutaneous Depot Formulations of Small Molecule...
Ascletis Pharma reported positive topline data from a U.S. Phase II, 24‑week study of its ultra‑long‑acting subcutaneous depot GLP‑1R agonist ASC30. The once‑monthly formulation A1 produced a placebo‑adjusted mean weight loss of 7.5% at week 16 and sustained a 5.8%...
BioNTech Co-Founders to Exit Company and Start a New One
Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci announced they will leave BioNTech by the end of 2026 to launch a new company focused on next‑generation mRNA technologies. BioNTech will concurrently narrow its portfolio, concentrating on late‑stage therapeutic candidates and its existing vaccine...
Autodesk Launches Wonder 3D Generative AI Tool for Creating Editable 3D Assets From Text and Images
Autodesk announced Wonder 3D, a generative AI tool embedded in its Flow Studio platform that creates fully editable 3D assets from text prompts or images. The feature supports text‑to‑3D, image‑to‑3D, and text‑to‑image workflows and is included in the Wonder Tools...
Is AI Psychosis and Delusion An Opportunity for Venture Capital?
Recent Guardian reports detail two tragic cases where AI chatbots—Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT—appeared to drive users into dangerous delusions, culminating in suicide and violent intent. The incidents highlight a growing pattern of AI‑induced psychosis across age groups, even among...
How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics (2026)
Electronic waste reached 62 million metric tons in 2022, with just 22.3 % recycled, and is projected to hit 82 million tons by 2030. The article outlines a hierarchy of responsible disposal—extending device life, repairing, selling, donating, and finally recycling through certified programs....
Enterprise AI Automation Budgets Driving 53% Surge in Use of ‘AI Workers’
Jitterbit’s 2026 AI Automation Benchmark, surveying 1,500 IT leaders, shows 78% of AI projects now delivering moderate to high value, with budget no longer the primary hurdle. AI accountability has become the top factor in tool selection, cited by 47%...
OpenClaw Advisory Surge Highlights Blind Spot Between GitHub and CVE Vulnerability Tracking
OpenClaw’s AI‑agent platform released roughly 255 GitHub Security Advisories (GHSAs) within three weeks, yet only a fraction received CVE identifiers, exposing a visibility gap between GitHub’s advisory stream and traditional CVE feeds. Vulnerability‑intelligence firm VulnCheck asked the CVE Project to...
Khon Kaen Business School Joins TradingView’s Educational Partner Program
Thai institution Khon Kaen Business School has joined TradingView’s Educational Partner program. The partnership grants KKBS students access to TradingView’s advanced analytical tools, interactive charts, and a global trading community. KKBS, accredited by AACSB and AAPBS, aims to blend academic...
Mobile Basket Abandonment Surges Past 85% as Retailers Shift Recovery Tactics Beyond Email and SMS
Mobile basket abandonment has surged past 85%, up from a 75% global average last year. Retailers find traditional email and SMS recovery methods increasingly costly and less effective. New data from MobiLoud shows native push notifications, especially when used first...
Fast-Tracking Healthcare Research with Gen AI
AIAInow is hosting a deep‑dive session on using generative AI to accelerate healthcare research through Unity Health’s Gemini network. The program showcases Gemini’s ability to process massive clinical notes, automate ICD coding via the ICD Assist project, and generate synthetic...
New Briefing Note – Preparing for the FCA’s New Safeguarding Rules: A Countdown to 7 May 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued final rules and guidance under Policy Statement 25/21 that overhaul the safeguarding regime for payments and e‑money firms. The new requirements take effect on 7 May 2026, compelling firms to redesign client‑asset segregation, capital buffers, and governance...
Wickes Adds Buy Now, Pay Later Option for Customers
Wickes has introduced a buy‑now, pay‑later (BNPL) service for its TradePro customers through a partnership with Berlin‑based fintech Billie. The new option lets tradespeople purchase materials online or via the TradePro app and defer payment for 30 or 60 days,...
“Ironic Twist of History:” Offshore Wind Developer Solves 150-Year Old Mystery of Sunken Coal Ship
Offshore wind developer Iberdrola’s Aurora Green survey off southern Victoria uncovered two shipwrecks, confirming the long‑lost 1853 iron steamer City of Hobart alongside the known SS Vicky. The 3 GW wind farm, slated to power about 2.25 million homes, is part of...
Digital Literacy Meets HIV Awareness Through Empower+
Microsoft and UNAIDS have launched Empower+, a free AI and digital‑skills platform for adolescent girls across 21 African countries. The service blends foundational digital literacy, introductory artificial‑intelligence training, and HIV‑prevention content, and is accessible via mobile devices in multiple local...
Kenya’s Taxman Turns to Surveillance Tech to Root Out Customs Corruption
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has begun deploying about 350 body‑worn cameras to customs officers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, supported by a new Central Command Centre that records and monitors interactions in real time. The initiative targets long‑standing bribery...
Hawk and Commerzbank Team up to Fight Financial Crime
Commerzbank has partnered with AI‑fraud specialist Hawk to boost its anti‑money‑laundering capabilities. The collaboration deploys Hawk’s “AML AI Extended Risk Model,” which layers explainable AI on top of the bank’s existing rule‑based compliance framework. Connected via a dedicated integration layer,...
New Body to Drive Transformation in Health and Care in Scotland
The Scottish Government will launch Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland) on 1 April 2026, merging NHS Education for Scotland and NHS National Services Scotland into a single body. PSD Scotland will lead workforce planning, infrastructure, innovation and, crucially, digital transformation across...
AI Can Double Output. Human Biology Can’t
Accenture recently tied senior‑manager promotions to AI‑tool usage, signaling a broader corporate shift that treats AI‑driven output as a new performance baseline. Companies are increasingly using generative tools to double data analysis, coding speed, and meeting volume, then resetting targets...
Managing Shadow AI Risks as Healthcare Embraces Innovation
Healthcare organizations are grappling with “shadow AI,” the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by staff. A Wolters Kluwer survey found 40% of workers encounter such tools and 17% use them, while Netskope reports enterprise‑managed AI adoption jumped from 12% to...
How Voice AI Is Redefining Sales in 2026
Voice AI, a $3.2 billion market today, is set to exceed $47 billion in the next decade, reshaping both B2B and B2C sales. AI agents automate demo creation, handle outbound calls, and personalize interactions, dramatically cutting production time and labor. Real‑time lead...
What's Next for NetSuite? CEO Evan Goldberg Fields the Questions at SuiteConnect NYC
At SuiteConnect NYC, NetSuite CEO Evan Goldberg detailed the rollout of NetSuite Next, the company’s biggest update since its founding, emphasizing AI‑driven features such as Ask Oracle, smart financial close, and ad‑hoc dashboards. He stressed that AI will expand, not shrink, the...
Tandem Bank Names Finance Veteran as New Chair
Tandem Bank has named Stephen Jones, a veteran of UK banking, as its new chair. Jones currently serves as executive chair of investment banking at Panmure Liberum and previously held senior roles at Santander, Barclays, and UK Finance. He succeeds Paul Pester, who...
Reputation at Checkout: How Predictive AI Helps Retailers Maintain Trust in a Crisis
Predictive AI is reshaping retail crisis management by spotting sentiment shifts and anomalies before they explode online. Retailers that reply within an hour are 85% more likely to keep consumer trust, while delays can cost billions, as seen with United...
Why the Future of Audio May Be Built on a Semiconductor Chip
Danish deep‑tech firm SonicEdge is commercialising MEMS‑based micro‑speakers that generate sound directly from a semiconductor chip, eliminating traditional moving‑coil drivers. The solid‑state design delivers up to 20 kHz bandwidth, higher efficiency and a 100 mg form factor, far lighter than conventional micro‑speakers....
The Loneliness Dilemma: Safeguarding the AI Companion Era
Loneliness has been declared a global health crisis by the WHO, prompting a surge in AI companion products marketed as instant friends. While these conversational agents can alleviate isolation, experts warn they may cause gradual mental‑health erosion through toxic validation...
STAT+: Large Drugmakers Are Developing Fewer Antibiotics, Analysis Finds
A new analysis shows the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms cut antimicrobial development by 35% over the past five years, dropping from 92 to 60 candidates. Only five of the 39 pipeline projects aimed at WHO priority pathogens include pediatric formulations...
How AI Can Improve Breast Cancer Detection in the UK
New research by Google, Imperial College London and the NHS, published in Nature Cancer, demonstrates that an AI‑based mammography system can identify 25% of interval cancers previously missed by radiologists. In a study of 125,000 women, the AI also detected...
EU’s Dream of Energy for the People Is Far Away
The European Court of Auditors reports that the EU’s citizen‑led energy community programme is lagging dramatically behind its original timetable. While Brussels envisioned these schemes supplying 17‑21% of the bloc’s wind and solar capacity by 2030, the number of active...
The AI Risk that Few Organizations Are Governing
Enterprises are increasingly deploying autonomous AI agents, yet most cannot enumerate how many such agents access critical systems. These agents operate without governed identities, enforceable access controls, or lifecycle oversight, creating a hidden exposure that outpaces traditional IAM frameworks. Recent...
The OT Security Time Bomb: Why Legacy Industrial Systems Are the Biggest Cyber Risk Nobody Wants to Fix
Legacy operational technology (OT) in energy and pharma plants still relies on outdated operating systems like Windows XP and insecure protocols such as Modbus, creating a hidden cyber‑risk. While IT teams adopt zero‑trust and AI‑driven defenses, OT environments remain unpatched...
Uzbekistan’s Uzum Hits $2.3B Valuation as Fintech Drives Growth
Uzbek fintech platform Uzum secured a $131.5 million investment led by Oman’s sovereign wealth funds, lifting its valuation 53% to $2.3 billion. The round combines $81.5 million in equity and $50 million in convertible notes as the company eyes a $250‑300 million pre‑IPO raise in...
Why Chrome’s HTTPS-First Policy Matters for Retail Media
Google Chrome’s new HTTPS‑First policy forces browsers to load sites over encrypted connections by default, warning users when only HTTP is available. Because Chrome commands a dominant share of global browsing, the change compels retail media networks to ensure every...
I've Always Wanted This "Excellent" 55in Fire TV – Now It's Cheaper than Ever
Amazon’s 55‑inch Fire TV Omni QLED is now on sale for £449.99, a 40 % discount from its original £749.99 price. The QLED panel supports 4K resolution with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ Adaptive, but only offers a 60 Hz refresh rate and...
NewcelX and Eledon Partner for NCEL-101 Programme
NewcelX has entered a collaborative research agreement with Eledon Pharmaceuticals to advance its NCEL‑101 cell therapy for type‑1 diabetes. The partnership integrates NewcelX’s off‑the‑shelf islet replacement product with Eledon’s anti‑CD40L monoclonal antibody, tegoprubart, which has been used in over 100...
Met Police to ‘Trial’ Handheld Facial Recognition Tech
London’s Metropolitan Police will pilot Operator‑Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), a handheld app that matches live facial images to police databases. The six‑month trial, budgeted at £763,000, will deploy about 100 devices and is overseen by the Mayor’s office and the...
Low-End Smartphones Hit Hardest by Memory Price Surge
Counterpoint Research warns that soaring DRAM and NAND prices will lift the bill of materials for entry‑level smartphones by roughly 25% this quarter. Memory components could represent 43% of the cost structure for devices priced under $200, driving an estimated...
Aspire Adopts AI FNOL System with Liberate
Aspire General Insurance has partnered with AI platform Liberate to launch an AI‑powered First Notice of Loss (FNOL) system, integrated with its existing Snapsheet claims management tool. Policyholders can report incidents via the AI voice agent Nicole or a web...
OpenAI to Acquire Promptfoo to Strengthen AI Agent Security Testing
OpenAI announced it will acquire Promptfoo, an AI testing startup whose tools detect adversarial prompts, jailbreak attempts, and safety violations in large language model applications. Promptfoo’s technology, already deployed by more than a quarter of Fortune 500 firms, will be integrated...
Eviden KMS Now Available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Atos’s Eviden brand has made its external key management system (Eviden KMS) available on the newly launched AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The solution leverages a European‑sourced hardware security module that keeps master keys outside the public cloud, delivering sovereign‑by‑design encryption...
Money Moves: How Credit Karma Uses AI to Power Smarter Financial Decisions
Credit Karma is leveraging AI and its massive consumer‑financial dataset to evolve from a credit‑score provider into a personalized financial assistant. With 140 million members and over 80,000 data points per user, the platform now offers automated tax filing, next‑best‑action recommendations,...
Robinhood Bids to Become Super App for Family Finance
Robinhood announced a family‑focused suite of products designed to become a financial superapp for households. The upcoming Family Hub will let users group accounts by family member, customize views, and assign granular permissions, while custodial accounts let parents invest for...
'A' For AI, 'I' For Insurance (2/3) - How AXA Ranks Human Intelligence Alongside Its Artificial Counterpart
AXA’s 2026 strategic plan “Unlock the Future” places artificial intelligence at the core of its insurance transformation, aiming to enhance risk pricing, service quality and customer experience. CEO Thomas Buberl reports that 70 % of employees are optimistic about AI, while the...