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EMASS announced its next‑generation 16 nm ECS‑DoT edge AI SoC is entering final development stages, moving toward tape‑out at TSMC. The new chip builds on the 22 nm version while adding an integrated BLE subsystem, expanded on‑chip SRAM, fine‑grained power management, a dedicated object‑detection accelerator, and FP16/FP32 floating‑point support. These enhancements preserve the ultra‑low‑power ethos and maintain software compatibility, enabling developers to scale to more demanding always‑on workloads without redesign. EMASS positions the device as a catalyst for new edge‑intelligence use cases that require higher performance and longer battery life.
HoneyBook’s 2026 review highlights a user‑friendly CRM tailored for creative professionals and small service‑based businesses. The platform combines contact management, invoicing, contracts, scheduling, and automated workflows into a single, intuitive interface. Pricing is tiered from $16 to $66 per month,...
At its Emerald 2025 conference, FIS outlined a new loyalty playbook for banks, urging a shift from chasing share of wallet to capturing share of mind first. The firm promotes "embedded loyalty," weaving rewards and engagement directly into the customer...
U.S. Bank was named Tearsheet’s Best Bank for SMBs, recognizing its Business Essentials suite that unifies checking, payments, payroll, and spend controls into a single digital platform. The bank’s data shows growing adoption of these tools, with small‑business owners consolidating...
Swedish startup TrialMe has launched a mobile platform that connects women with clinical trials, aiming to close the long‑standing gender data gap in medical research. The app digitises pre‑screening, sends personalised trial notifications, and offers point‑based rewards, thereby cutting recruitment...
A Rimini Street survey of 4,300 C‑suite executives found that 46 % of CIOs rank AI adoption and automation as their top priority for the next five years. Executives also cite cybersecurity, compliance, and cost optimization as near‑term goals. However, ROI...
Director Adam Bhala Lough’s new documentary *Deepfaking Sam Altman* chronicles his quest to interview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which stalled after months of silence. To break the deadlock, Lough commissioned a full‑body deepfake—Sam Bot—produced in India, turning the synthetic avatar into the film’s...
Smart Data Solutions (SDS) announced the appointment of Mark Fidow as chief technology officer to accelerate its AI‑native healthcare workflow automation platform. Fidow brings more than 30 years of technology leadership across healthcare, payments, fintech and aviation. He will steer...
Syncrux unveiled Optix, an agentic AI platform designed to operate as a browser‑based digital employee that can plan, execute, and verify multi‑step workflows without rigid scripts. The system adapts in real time to UI changes and offers a Watch Mode...
By December 2025, Wall Street banks have moved AI from pilot projects to daily operations, with generative tools lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. JPMorgan reports a 6% productivity rise and aims for 40‑50% gains, while Wells Fargo anticipates...
A new CodeRabbit study finds AI‑generated pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than human‑written code, averaging 10.83 problems versus 6.45. The defects span critical and major categories, with security, logic and performance errors notably higher. While AI reduces spelling...
Insurance leaders Allianz, Aviva and Zurich have moved AI from pilot projects to production tools that sit directly in daily workflows. Allianz’s Insurance Copilot automates claim data gathering, document analysis and email drafting, speeding settlements. Aviva’s generative‑AI summariser condenses lengthy...
AVASOFT announced its membership in the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), joining an ecosystem of security vendors integrated with Microsoft’s security stack. The company’s solutions now tightly connect with Microsoft Entra, Intune, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Purview, Sentinel, and...
Deutsche Bank has launched the full‑functionality Wero digital payments app for retail customers of both Deutsche Bank and Postbank, adding real‑time e‑commerce payments across Europe. The rollout expands the European Payments Initiative (EPI) flagship wallet into Germany’s largest banking market,...
OpenAI has unveiled the "Academy for News Organizations," a new learning platform designed to help journalists and publishers adopt artificial‑intelligence tools. Developed with the American Journalism Project and the Lenfest Institute, the on‑demand program offers practical training, translation examples, and...
ESET has identified a previously unknown China‑aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group, dubbed LongNosedGoblin, targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan. The group’s hallmark is the abuse of Windows Group Policy to distribute a suite of custom C#/.NET tools,...
The FBI transferred a list of 630 million stolen credentials to Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned after seizing devices from a single suspect. Approximately 46 million of those passwords were new to HIBP, expanding its breach database. Security experts say...
AstraZeneca is scaling AI‑driven clinical‑trial tools beyond the lab, embedding them in Thailand’s national health system and screening over 660,000 patients. Its CREATE study showed a 54.1% positive predictive value for an AI chest‑X‑ray algorithm, prompting a three‑year, 415 million‑baht rollout...
OpenAI announced that developers can now submit ChatGPT applications for inclusion in a new directory accessed via the Tools menu. Submissions will undergo a review process, and approved apps can be launched directly in conversations using the “@” command. A...
TileDB launched Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. The integration unifies complex scientific data—genomics, proteomics, imaging, and documents—across TileDB arrays and Snowflake tables within a single catalog. Automatic RSA key...
In February 2025, engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after attackers used AI‑generated video and audio to impersonate senior leaders and convince an employee to transfer funds. The breach highlighted a critical weakness: a lack of identity resilience, the ability to...
Researchers from Marshall University and the University of Missouri unveiled G2PDeep, a web‑based deep‑learning platform that fuses six major omics data streams to predict complex health outcomes. The peer‑reviewed study in *Biomolecules* demonstrates the tool’s ability to identify molecular markers,...
Glow, an independent social and digital marketing agency, has introduced CreatorView, an AI‑driven platform that vets influencers for brand safety and alignment. The move reflects a broader trend of agencies expanding into software sales as AI shortens product development cycles...
Nissan Motor Co. has chosen Clarivate’s IPfolio platform to modernize its intellectual‑property management. The cloud‑based solution will introduce advanced workflow automation, API‑driven integration, and analytics to streamline patent handling. Nissan aims to build a scalable IP management system that enhances...
A recent AI Security Institute report shows that one‑third of UK citizens have turned to artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction. Nearly one in ten users engage with chatbots weekly and 4 % do so daily, with general‑purpose...
Researchers at the IGTP demonstrated that delafloxacin inhibits intracellular Legionella replication more effectively than levofloxacin in a macrophage model. The fluoroquinolone achieved bacterial killing at concentrations five to ten times lower than the current standard, except for L. longbeachae where...
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise as much as $100 billion, which could lift its valuation to roughly $750 billion—a 50% jump from its October share sale. The company reports an annualized revenue run rate of $19 billion and aims for $30 billion...
Fortinet and Arista Networks unveiled a Secure AI Data Center solution, first deployed at Monolithic Power Systems, that merges Fortinet’s ASIC‑accelerated security with Arista’s ultra‑low‑latency networking. The reference architecture offers a modular, zero‑trust design, zero‑touch provisioning and hardware‑offloaded TLS that...
Penguin AI, a healthcare AI specialist, announced a partnership with global advisory firm FTI Consulting to embed its AI platform into FTI’s revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation services. The integration aims to automate claims denial and appeals workflows, delivering faster...
GPT0.app unveiled an AI Content Detector that claims up to 99.7% accuracy in identifying AI‑generated text. The tool integrates with the platform’s existing writing suite, including the AI Humanizer, allowing users to both detect and refine content. It targets educators,...
10to1PR has launched IVY Press Room, an AI‑optimized press‑room platform that converts client announcements into question‑and‑answer formats for generative AI consumption. The service leverages the firm’s GEO (Answer Engine Optimization) strategy, aiming to become the direct answer in AI queries...
Following the deadly Bondi beach attack, AI‑generated deepfakes and manipulated images flooded social platforms, especially X, with false narratives ranging from psy‑ops to misidentified perpetrators. Prominent examples included a deep‑faked video of NSW Premier Chris Minns, fabricated crisis‑actor photos, and...
Wondershare launched EdrawMax V15, an AI‑powered diagramming platform featuring the new Edraw Agent that creates and refines diagrams via natural‑language interaction. The release adds support for over 50 AI‑generated diagram types, integrates Google’s Nano Banana Pro for scientific visuals, and...
CreatorIQ has been named a Leader in IDC’s 2025‑26 MarketScape for Worldwide Influencer Marketing Platforms targeting large enterprises. The report highlights the platform’s AI‑driven creator discovery, enterprise‑grade integrations, and comprehensive brand‑safety and compliance tools. IDC’s assessment underscores CreatorIQ’s strong product...
Semrush has introduced an official app within ChatGPT, allowing marketers to pull live Semrush data directly through conversational prompts. The integration leverages Semrush’s OpenAI SDK and Model Context Protocol, removing the need for custom API coding and enabling single sign‑on...
Barclays recently altered its online login flow, forcing users to choose between mobile access and a PINsentry card reader, which many customers mistake for their usual mobile PINsentry method. The ambiguous labeling leads to repeated access failures, wasted time, and...
Chris Skinner’s "Things worth reading" roundup highlights the most consequential fintech stories of December 2025, from the sector’s biggest headlines and a surge in UK hiring to a landmark industry‑communication report. The list also spotlights credit‑debit innovation, the AI compliance...
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
Lyssna is a user‑research platform that lets marketers test messaging, ads, and digital experiences with a global panel in hours rather than weeks. It offers a suite of methods—including five‑second, first‑click, card sorting, and live‑site testing—plus AI‑generated summaries to turn...
The episode spotlights General Intuition, a stealth AI startup developing a universal agent and world model, now in late‑stage fundraising for several hundred million dollars at a valuation exceeding $2 billion. It recaps the company’s technology vision—building a general‑purpose AI that...
Google introduced Gemini 3, an upgraded AI model now embedded in Google Maps, enabling conversational, context‑aware navigation. The integration lets users ask natural‑language queries for coffee shops, scenic lunch spots, or traffic‑aware detours, and receive real‑time, multi‑criteria recommendations without leaving the...
Adobe faces a proposed class‑action lawsuit alleging it used pirated books to train its SlimLM language model. The suit, filed by author Elizabeth Lyon, claims the model’s training data derives from the SlimPajama‑627B dataset, which copies the RedPajama and Books3...
Xtalpi announced that veteran biotech executive Tam Man Hong will assume the role of President, Business Development, effective immediately. The appointment comes as the company finalizes a $150 million Series B financing round to expand its AI‑driven protein therapeutics platform. Hong, who...
Two independent research groups have pinpointed reduced expression of the mitochondrial protein FDX2 as a novel therapeutic axis for Friedreich ataxia, publishing their findings in Nature. The studies argue that frataxin (FXN) and FDX2 function as a stoichiometric pair, and...
Transformers v5 introduces a major redesign of tokenizers, consolidating each model’s tokenizer into a single, transparent file and exposing the full architecture—normalizer, pre‑tokenizer, model, post‑processor, and decoder—as inspectable properties. The library now defaults to a Rust‑based backend for speed, while...
The SaasRise mastermind will pause its calls for two weeks, returning on January 7 2026. The session highlighted a shift toward holistic, multi‑channel marketing systems, emphasizing omnipresence across paid ads, outbound email, and content. CEOs received tactical advice on ABM data sourcing...
OpenAI has opened ChatGPT to third‑party developers, allowing apps to be invoked directly within conversational flows via @‑mentions or contextual suggestions. Early partners such as Adobe, Target, Canva and Figma are already offering image editing, shopping and design tools that...
U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as the next NASA administrator, finalizing a nomination that President Trump withdrew and later reinstated. Isaacman, founder of Shift4 Payments and a private astronaut, steps into leadership as the agency pivots toward a...
The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in a 67‑to‑30 vote. Isaacman, a former SpaceX space‑tourist who has flown on commercial missions and performed a private citizen spacewalk, will lead the agency during a critical period. He pledged...
