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Experian has partnered with Fincentive to launch a pension data platform that digitises the traditional annual pension payslip into up to twelve monthly digital updates. The solution leverages Experian’s data‑enrichment and PayDashboard infrastructure combined with Fincentive’s pension‑specific intelligence to provide real‑time engagement insights and vulnerability detection. It aims to help providers meet Consumer Duty requirements by evidencing member outcomes, especially for the 49% of UK adults at risk of financial vulnerability. The platform also flags eligibility for unclaimed Pension Credit, potentially unlocking £2,100 per household annually.
Club Employés, a French employee‑benefits platform, has chosen Mangopay to overhaul its payment infrastructure as it prepares to expand across Europe. The partnership introduces a wallet‑first, multi‑party payment model that streamlines funding, distribution and redemption of benefits. Mangopay’s solution offers...
Intellia Therapeutics received FDA clearance to resume one of its two pivotal Phase 3 gene‑editing trials targeting hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR). The agency had placed a partial clinical hold earlier this year over safety concerns, but after additional data the hold...
New theoretical work by Colin McInnes at the University of Glasgow shows that both stellar engines and Dyson bubbles—hypothetical alien megastructures designed to harvest a star’s energy—can achieve passive gravitational stability under specific conditions. The study, published in Monthly Notices of...
Concourse announced the general availability of its enterprise‑grade AI agent platform for finance teams and closed a $12 million Series A round led by Standard Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, CRV and Y Combinator. The platform now lets any finance team connect...
Meta Platforms has entered a multi‑year, $6 billion agreement with glassmaker Corning to supply optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions for its expanding U.S. data‑center portfolio. The partnership will boost Corning’s manufacturing capacity in North Carolina, adding up to 20 % more...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its clinical hold on Intellia Therapeutics' MAGNITUDE‑2 Phase III trial of the CRISPR‑based therapy nex‑z for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv‑PN). The company announced that patient enrollment will resume, prompting a 10 % rise...
Earned‑wage‑access providers DailyPay and MoneyLion have filed motions to dismiss New York Attorney General Letitia James’s lawsuits alleging illegal, usurious loans. The companies contend their on‑demand‑pay services are not loans, referencing a CFPB advisory opinion that excludes many EWA products...
1Kosmos and Hopae have announced a global partnership to integrate Hopae Connect into the 1Kosmos platform, extending support to more than 60 government‑issued digital identity schemes. The joint solution enables organizations to verify eIDs securely without centralized databases, aiming to...
Asda’s income tracker shows that nearly six in ten UK households feel their weekly salaries stretch less than a year ago, with average discretionary income falling to £256 per week. Growth in disposable income stalled in December, erasing gains from...
Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...
Risotto announced a $10 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures, backed by Y Combinator and other investors. The startup builds an AI‑driven middleware that sits between ticket‑management platforms like Jira and the internal tools used to resolve issues. By leveraging prompt...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reports that credit‑card delinquencies fell in the third quarter of 2025 despite rising balances and spending. Past‑due balances dropped to 3.29 percent for 30‑day delinquency and 1.62 percent for 90‑day delinquency, while the net charge‑off rate...
The article curates a list of essential AI and cybersecurity podcasts for 2026, highlighting shows that deliver deep technical insight, business strategy, and security expertise. It emphasizes the rise of AI agents, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI security...
Kidas, founded by gaming‑fraud veterans, now offers AI‑driven protection against multi‑channel scams that leverage deep‑fake audio, video and large‑language models. CEO Ron Kerbs says traditional filters miss sophisticated GenAI‑generated attacks, prompting the company to expand from Discord and gaming chat to...
GSK’s adjuvanted recombinant RSV vaccine Arexvy received European Commission approval on Jan. 26, 2026 for all adults 18 years and older, expanding beyond its prior indication for seniors and high‑risk 50‑59‑year‑olds. The EU estimates roughly 158,000 adult RSV‑related hospitalisations each year, underscoring the...
Sage Group reported a 10% revenue increase to £674 million for the quarter ending 31 December, led by a 15% rise in its Business Cloud segment. CEO Stephen Hare highlighted early AI monetisation through the Sage Co‑Pilot bundle, but stressed that large‑scale...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center completed tests on a second early‑version frequency reference system, a core component of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The hardware, built by BAE Systems, stabilizes the infrared lasers that must measure distances to...
Researchers at Censys have uncovered a growing ecosystem that weaponizes fake CAPTCHA pages to deliver malware. While the pages visually resemble legitimate verification challenges, they conceal more than 30 distinct payload types, including clipboard‑driven scripts, MSI installers, and server‑controlled, fileless...
Ohio-based Kemba Credit Union, with 14 branches in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, has selected Velera to provide debit and credit card processing services beginning in August. Velera, a credit union service organization serving more than 4,000 financial institutions across North...
Modern ransomware has moved beyond file encryption to a pressure‑centric extortion model that weaponizes stolen data, regulatory threats, and reputation damage. 2025 saw ransomware groups fragment into affiliate networks, making attribution harder while scaling double‑extortion campaigns. Research shows SMBs in...
Databricks’ 2026 State of AI Agents report shows multi‑agent workflow usage exploding 327% over four months, yet only 19% of surveyed enterprises have deployed agents at scale. The study, based on activity from over 20,000 customers—including 60% of the Fortune 500—highlights...
Leatherology introduced "Yours, Truly," an AI‑driven design tool that lets shoppers create or upload artwork for debossed leather products on its direct‑to‑consumer site. Launched in October ahead of Cyber Week, the feature helped the brand exceed its holiday sales goal...
Astronomers at ESA deployed an AI‑driven neural network called AnomalyMatch to comb through roughly 100 million Hubble Legacy Archive cutouts in just 2.5 days. The system flagged about 1,400 anomalous objects, of which more than 800 have never been recorded in the...
Airtable unveiled Superagent, an AI‑driven multi‑agent platform, even as its market cap slumped from $11.7 billion to roughly $4 billion. The new product coordinates specialized AI assistants to produce interactive market analyses, drawing on premium data such as FactSet, Crunchbase, and SEC...
UARX Space spent five years in stealth, delivering a full TRL 9 product line before announcing publicly. Its flagship OSSIE platform offers a modular, high‑performance in‑orbit validation bus, now partnered with Dawn Aerospace for a docking‑and‑refueling port slated for a 2026...
NASA has placed the Artemis 2 Space Launch System on Launch Complex‑39B and is streaming the rocket’s status 24/7 on YouTube. After a 12‑hour rollout on Jan 17, the vehicle will undergo a wet‑dress‑rehearsal fueling test on Feb 2, just days before the...
HeyMarvin unveiled Agentic Ask AI, the first enterprise‑level, multi‑agent search platform for customer research. The system deploys specialized discovery, analysis, validation, citation, and synthesis agents that autonomously break down queries, cross‑check evidence, and surface insight‑backed answers from millions of data...
Plotly unveiled Plotly Studio, an AI‑native analytics platform that merges traditional BI with Python development. The tool can connect to any Python‑accessible data source, including Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, and generate interactive, production‑grade dashboards in under a minute. AI agents...
Meta’s ad platform is exposing users to an estimated 15 billion high‑risk finance advertisements each day, generating roughly $7 billion in annual revenue. A study by BrokerChooser of over 1,200 active finance ads found that 43.36% of UK‑targeted ads are classified as...
Communicate Telecoms has upgraded its long‑standing GoCardless Direct Debit integration with the Same Day Settlement+ feature, which uses AI and machine learning to settle payments on the day they are charged. The new capability trims the typical two‑day payout lag,...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now offered on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new EU‑resident‑operated infrastructure designed for highly regulated sectors. The sovereign cloud ensures data residency and compliance under EU law, targeting finance, healthcare, and public‑sector customers....
Tenable has made its Tenable One AI Exposure product generally available, extending the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to provide unified visibility, discovery, and governance of AI assets across SaaS, cloud, APIs and on‑premises agents. The solution continuously identifies both...
Bolt announced a strategic partnership with Affirm, making the BNPL provider the default financing option across Bolt's U.S. checkout experience. The integration will appear alongside card payments for both logged‑in and guest shoppers without extra merchant development. Rollout begins with...
NYC‑based Nerd Apply, a privacy‑first college counseling platform, announced a $3.2 million seed round. The round was led by Riverpark Ventures and featured investors such as Alumni Ventures, 1.61 Ventures, Google Ventures CEO David Krane, and others. Nerd Apply currently supports...
Midship, an AI-native platform for Sarbanes‑Oxley compliance, announced a $4.15 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures. The funding will accelerate product scaling and drive adoption among public companies facing rising audit complexity and talent shortages. Midship’s agentic AI automates the...
Syncro and IRONSCALES announced a partnership that places the AI‑driven email security platform in the Syncro Marketplace. MSPs can now provision IRONSCALES protection instantly and have all licensing fees consolidated through Syncro’s Universal Billing. The integration removes the need for...
AstraZeneca has terminated its Phase II cardiovascular drug program, pulling the study from the clinical pipeline. The decision coincides with the simultaneous dissolution of a collaboration between biotech Lisata and Chinese partner Qilu, ending a joint development effort. Both moves...
The article highlights that typical B2B enterprises rely on six to ten disparate systems to support a single customer journey, leading to fragmented experiences and slow commercial change. It argues that true unified commerce is not about consolidating all functions...
Leaptree announced a suite of AI‑powered enhancements to its Optimize platform, enabling full‑coverage quality assurance across voice, email and chat within Salesforce. The new features automatically audit every interaction, generate dynamic scorecards, and deliver real‑time trend dashboards. By embedding these...
In 2026 vehicles will evolve from static media channels into rolling operating systems that deliver real‑time, contextual brand experiences. Early pilots in China already show drivers receiving traffic‑aware prompts and personalized content, a model that can expand globally as connected...
A Morgan Stanley report reveals that artificial intelligence led to an 8% net reduction in UK employment in 2025. The figure stems from corporate disclosures across multiple industries, highlighting automation’s accelerating impact. The analysis points to pronounced job losses in...
GRIN, a leading creator management platform, introduced instant, self‑serve access with month‑to‑month pricing, eliminating demos, contracts, and long‑term commitments. The new offering includes a 30‑day free trial and credit‑card billing, allowing brands of any size to launch and scale creator...
Fraud losses surged to $12.5 billion in 2024, a 25% rise, as criminals embed illicit activity within everyday payments. The article distinguishes transaction screening—pre‑approval checks against sanctions, PEPs and watchlists—from transaction monitoring, which analyzes post‑payment behavior for anomalous patterns. Relying on...
Afiniti announced Outcome Orchestration, a new enterprise‑AI category designed to unify and steer contact‑center data, intelligence, and decision‑making toward measurable business outcomes. The solution sits alongside existing tools, acting as an overarching intelligence layer rather than replacing infrastructure. Built on...
Sigma Computing has teamed with Snowflake to launch an end‑to‑end data platform for the energy sector, targeting the Overall Process Effectiveness paradox. The joint solution unifies IT, OT and IoT data, allowing oil, gas, power and utility firms to align...
An independent NASA evaluation has validated the quality of PlanetiQ’s GNSS radio occultation data, finding it comparable to benchmark missions like COSMIC‑2. The review highlighted PlanetiQ’s total electron content measurements as best‑in‑class, with high signal‑to‑noise and deep lower‑troposphere penetration. NASA...
A new study by Binghamton University researchers challenges the prevailing push to replace human workers with robots, arguing that a collaborative, complementary approach yields greater economic value. The research contrasts a "substitute" view with a "complementary" view, finding that firms...
Agri Spray Drones and WinField United have signed a co‑marketing agreement to promote drone‑based crop application across the United States. The deal makes each company a preferred vendor in the other’s network, linking ASD’s spray‑drone systems with WinField’s adjuvant portfolio....
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2.5, an open‑source multimodal model that processes text, images, and video after training on 15 trillion mixed tokens. In benchmark tests it matches or outperforms proprietary rivals such as Gemini 3 Pro, GPT 5.2, and Claude Opus 4.5 on coding and video‑understanding tasks....
