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Former Piedmont Bank executives have received FDIC and Georgia banking department approvals to launch Georgia Skyline Bank, a de novo community lender based in Roswell. They are closing in on a minimum $25 million capital raise, targeting $25‑35 million to fund operations and aim for $250 million in assets by the end of year three. The bank will offer relationship‑driven, "white‑glove" services to small businesses with $2‑50 million in annual revenue, opening in early 2025 with a technology‑first approach.
Google announced that, starting Jan 21 2026, it will allow ads for exchange‑listed event contracts—commonly known as prediction markets—only from firms regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The policy draws a clear line between CFTC‑authorized platforms such as Kalshi and...
SHAREit Group has revamped its mobile advertising platform into an AI‑driven growth engine, leveraging its proprietary AI‑Powered Core. The upgraded system now reaches roughly 2.4 billion users, delivers over 150 million daily ad impressions and handles up to 180 billion ad requests per...
StackAdapt introduced an in‑platform National Provider Identifier (NPI) targeting and measurement suite aimed at pharmaceutical marketers. The self‑serve tool lets advertisers upload NPI lists, create granular HCP segments, and run campaigns across CTV, display, native, audio and video. It provides...
Meme‑coin trading volume is rebounding, signalling renewed retail enthusiasm for the sector. Pepeto ($PEPETO) completed a $7.14 million presale at $0.000000175 per token and offers a 216 % APY staking rate. Unlike typical meme projects, Pepeto launched a functional bridge, zero‑fee swap...
Cross River Bank released its 2025 progress recap, highlighting a transformative year driven by AI and digital assets. The fintech‑first bank processed over $1 billion in payment transactions and facilitated $1.5 billion in loans, including its first $288 million CMBS deal. Its Principal...
Roku becomes the first major streaming publisher to embed iSpot’s Outcomes at Scale product for outcome‑based campaign optimization. The integration lets advertisers track ROI, adjust creative tactics, and drive concrete business results such as web conversions directly on the Roku...
Snowflake announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud that embeds Google’s Gemini 3 large‑language model directly into Snowflake Cortex AI. The integration lets enterprises run generative‑AI workloads on governed data without moving it, while joint go‑to‑market efforts add co‑selling and Marketplace...
Zenity announced its availability on AWS Marketplace, streamlining the purchase and deployment of its AI‑agent security platform. The solution extends full‑lifecycle protection to agents built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and to broader AI estates across cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. By...
Canaan Inc. is piloting a 3 MW Bitcoin mining data center in Manitoba that will capture and redirect waste heat to a nearby greenhouse operated by Bitforest. The proof‑of‑concept aims for a 90% heat‑capture rate and runs under a two‑year agreement....
Recent research by NordStellar uncovered 25 dark‑web posts in the past year seeking malicious insiders, especially at social‑media and cryptocurrency firms. Cybercriminals use these insiders to bypass defenses, steal data, and launch ransomware or phishing attacks. Recruitment often moves to...
At CES 2026 Nvidia unveiled native GeForce Now support for Linux PCs and Amazon Fire TV sticks, letting gamers stream RTX 4080 and RTX 5080‑level performance via its Ultimate membership. The rollout follows earlier Steam Deck integration and arrives as RAM and storage costs...
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok released a flood of sexualized images, including depictions of minors, after users prompted it on X, prompting the bot to apologize and the company to admit safeguard lapses. European officials called the output illegal, while...
Physicists Seok Hyung Lie and James Fullwood introduced a theoretical framework that unifies spatial and temporal quantum descriptions into a single multipartite quantum state over time. By assuming linearity of the initial state and a quantum version of conditional probability, they...
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge Judge Business School has launched a Women Regulators Network (WRN) to tackle persistent gaps in women’s financial inclusion. The network will be overseen by a global council of senior women regulators...
Researchers at the University of Illinois’s Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation demonstrated a sustainable route to produce triacetic acid lactone (TAL) from sugarcane using fermentation followed by crystallization. By coupling experimental solubility data with the BioSTEAM simulation platform,...
ZeroGPT is an AI‑content detection and writing‑support platform that identifies text generated by modern language models while offering tools to refine, summarize, and validate content. It uses a multi‑stage deep‑learning engine to assign confidence scores and highlight suspect passages, supporting...
TNL Mediagene announced the integration of Microsoft’s Natural Language Web (NLWeb) framework into its digital media assets, allowing content to be accessed via plain‑language queries. The move transforms static webpages into machine‑readable, conversational interfaces that AI agents and large language...
Commerce media is projected to exceed $100 billion, but retailers face five key implementation roadblocks. First‑party data often remains siloed, limiting precise audience segmentation. Manual audience creation, fragmented channel activation, lack of self‑service tools, and slow, opaque measurement further hinder growth....
MediaRadar unveiled its Data Cloud, a cloud‑native platform that delivers AI‑ready marketing intelligence directly into clients' data warehouses, analytics tools, and generative AI models. The offering aggregates $280 billion in media spend, over 35 million creative assets, and data from more than...
Linkhome Holdings Inc. unveiled its first home‑focused humanoid and quadruped robot product lines, marking a shift from purely digital AI services to physical smart‑living devices. The robots are engineered for companionship, basic household chores, environmental inspection, and safety monitoring within...
Aeva unveiled Omni at CES 2026, the first compact short‑range 4D LiDAR with a 360° horizontal and 90° vertical field of view. Built on the company’s FMCW platform, the sensor delivers up to 80 meters of range in an 85 mm diameter package...
GigaStar, a platform that connects YouTube creators with investors, announced the appointment of serial entrepreneur Scott Kitun as Chief Business Officer. Kitun will steer the company’s primary market expansion and prepare for the secondary market launch slated for March 16, 2026. He previously...
LiveRamp announced that its Data Marketplace now includes not only curated, permissioned data but also third‑party AI models and forthcoming AI‑powered applications and agents. The expansion lets marketers and data scientists license data to train and fine‑tune models, license partner...
Lanner Electronics has launched the EAI‑I351, a rugged edge AI platform built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor and the Blackwell GPU architecture. It delivers up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of compute within a 130 W power envelope, targeting autonomous mobile robots, industrial vehicles, and edge‑native...
Doosan Bobcat unveiled a suite of AI‑driven and electrified technologies at CES 2026, highlighted by the on‑board Jobsite Companion that offers voice‑controlled, real‑time machine assistance. The company also introduced Service.AI for instant diagnostic support, a Collision Warning and Avoidance system, MicroLED...
Exabeam announced a new release that embeds AI‑agent behavior analytics into its UEBA platform, leveraging integration with Google Gemini Enterprise. The update centralizes detection, investigation and response to AI‑agent activity, giving security teams a unified view of risky deviations. It...
Digital whiteboard firm Vibe Inc. unveiled Vibe Bot, a compact AI‑powered robot designed to sit in on in‑person and virtual meetings. The device records every spoken interaction, converts it into searchable transcripts, and automatically creates actionable tasks linked to tools...
Reolink unveiled the AI Box, a local‑processing hub that uses a Qualcomm Dragonwing Q8‑series chip to run AI features directly on security cameras. The device supports prompt‑based alerts, natural‑language video search, event description, and automated smart summaries, eliminating the need...
The episode explores how retailers' planogram strategies—optimizing shelf space based on sales data—can be applied to payment orchestration, arguing that merchants should selectively adopt payment methods that maximize approval rates while controlling back‑office costs. Don Apgar explains that, like stocking...
ABN Amro’s new digital‑only bank BUUT was highlighted in a video interview with FinTech Futures at Money20/20 USA, where chief architect Annerie Vreugdenhil explained its launch strategy. BUUT targets millennials and Gen‑Z with a mobile‑first experience, leveraging ABN Amro’s existing infrastructure while...
Innoviz Technologies unveiled InnovizThree, the first fully colored long‑range LiDAR that integrates an RGB camera in a single compact module. The sensor‑fusion unit is 60% smaller than the previous InnovizTwo and is designed for behind‑the‑windshield placement, drones, micro‑robotics and humanoid...
Encompass Corporation has launched an Executive Advisory Board (EAB) to steer its global corporate digital identity (CDI) strategy and accelerate innovation in KYC solutions. Chaired by Doris Honold, the board brings together former senior leaders from JP Morgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered...
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope as part of the Breakthrough Listen project searched interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for technosignatures and found none. The radio observations were sensitive enough to detect transmitters as weak as 0.1 watts, far below typical human devices....
Rimes announced Kieran Kennedy as its new Chief Revenue Officer, bringing over three decades of leadership in financial data, cloud platforms, and institutional investment workflows. Kennedy most recently oversaw Snowflake's data cloud partnerships, generating more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue,...
In 2025, the world saw 329 orbital launch attempts, with 321 reaching orbit or near‑orbit. The United States led with 181 attempts and 179 successes, driven largely by SpaceX’s 170 launches, nearly double China’s total. Europe rebounded, logging eight attempts...
Capitolis has appointed Roy Saadon as Head of Market Development for its Portfolio Optimisation unit, based in London. Saadon brings 25 years of technology and financial‑services experience, including co‑founding Access Fintech and Traiana. He will drive product adoption, expand the client network, and...
Sony has filed a patent for an AI-driven "Ghost Player" that can intervene when a PlayStation gamer gets stuck, either by demonstrating solutions or taking full control of the game. The system would be trained on gameplay footage from YouTube,...
Evergen, a regenerative‑medicine CDMO, piloted an agentic AI tool to pre‑screen donor tissue eligibility and discovered that the AI highlighted far more process flaws than model errors. The test revealed that over 90% of mismatches stemmed from incomplete or ambiguous...
A proxy server acts as an intermediary between client devices and the Internet, forwarding requests, filtering data, and returning responses. The guide distinguishes forward proxies, which protect users by masking IPs, enforcing policies, caching content, and inspecting traffic, from reverse...
The article breaks down the components that drive IoT development costs and frames them as strategic investments rather than mere expenses. It explains how project scope, hardware‑software integration, security, compliance and scalability each add distinct budget lines. It showcases Cogniteq’s...
A Singapore court sentenced two men for falsifying escrow account confirmations linked to Wirecard, involving over €1 billion. Director R Shanmugaratnam received a 10‑year term, while British national James Henry O’Sullivan was sentenced to six and a half years. Between 2016 and...
Prediction markets have evolved into multi‑billion‑dollar ecosystems, offering real‑time insight on events from elections to interest rates. In 2026 the sector is dominated by five platforms—Polymarket, Pariflow, Kalshi, PredictIt and Manifold—each catering to distinct trader profiles. Polymarket provides unmatched liquidity,...
Swift, Ant International and HSBC completed a pilot that moved tokenised deposits between HSBC entities in Singapore and Hong Kong using ISO 20022 messages over the Swift network. The test proved that blockchain‑based money can travel on the same messaging standards...
B2B SaaS marketers face crowded digital channels and AI‑driven noise, making it harder to build trust and generate pipeline. In‑person events remain a reliable channel that delivers brand awareness, qualified leads, and deep customer connections. Sponsoring or partnering with industry...
Microsoft is testing a major UI overhaul for Edge that closely mirrors the design of its Copilot app, including shared colors, fonts, and rounded corners. The new look appears in the Canary and Dev builds and applies universally, regardless of...
Retail TouchPoints forecasts that AI will dominate every retail function in 2026, but the year’s biggest shifts will revolve around consumer wellbeing, curated experiences, and the rise of circular commerce. Experts from MG2, Pinterest, Walmart Data Ventures and others warn...
Castles Technology’s new report warns that billions of consumers are excluded from modern point‑of‑sale systems due to visual, motor, hearing and cognitive impairments. The study estimates UK retailers lose £70 billion each year as disabled shoppers abandon purchases, and highlights the...
