IBM Tackles Cloud, AI Sovereignty with New Platform
IBM announced Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises run cloud and AI workloads under their own sovereign control. The solution embeds data‑localization and governance controls directly into the software, offering a customer‑operated control plane. Available in tech preview February and slated for general availability mid‑year, it runs on Red Hat’s open‑source stack and can be deployed on‑prem, in‑region clouds, or via service providers. Gartner forecasts over 75% of non‑U.S. enterprises will adopt sovereign cloud strategies, underscoring the market relevance.
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[Interview] Building for Where Retail Is Going? Sreeraman MG, Co-Founder Fynd
Co‑founder Sreeraman MG outlines Fynd’s 2026 UK launch, positioning its AI‑native commerce layer as a plug‑in solution for mid‑market and enterprise retailers. The company will target fashion, beauty and grocery categories, tackling two core UK pain points: trustworthy cross‑channel attribution and...
Cybersecurity Spending Keeps Rising, so Why Is Business Impact Still Hard to Explain?
Cybersecurity budgets are set to increase again, yet security leaders still struggle to demonstrate clear business value. Finance executives express uneven trust in security teams’ ability to translate risk mitigation into financial outcomes, creating friction in budget approvals. Divergent definitions...
US Legaltech Unicorn Harvey Is Pushing Hard Into Europe. Can It Win?
Harvey, the US legal‑tech unicorn backed by Andreessen Horowitz, EQT and Evantic, is accelerating its European push with new offices in Paris, Spain and Germany and a growing London team. The company now reports $190 m in annual recurring revenue and...
Lunar Space Traffic Management and the Future of Cislunar Operations
Rapidly increasing lunar missions are turning cislunar space into a congested corridor, prompting the emergence of Lunar Space Traffic Management (LSTM). The unique three‑body dynamics, limited stable orbits, and communication blind spots demand new navigation, surveillance, and safety‑zone protocols distinct...
China’s JNBY Group Is Making a Case for Faux Fur, as the Real Thing Falls Out of Fashion
China’s JNBY Group introduced a plant‑based faux‑fur vest for its Croquis menswear line, marking the first large‑scale retail rollout of BioFluff’s Savian material. The collaboration leverages JNBY’s vertically integrated network of over 2,100 stores, allowing the eco‑fur product to reach...
The NSA Lays Out the First Steps for Zero Trust Adoption
The National Security Agency has published the first two documents in its Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines series—a Primer and a Discovery Phase guide. The Primer explains the structure and principles of the series, while the Discovery Phase directs organizations to...
Rachel Buscall | Recovery Room Attacks New Capital Link CEO
Rachel Buscall, CEO of New Capital Link, faced a coordinated smear campaign from an unregulated recovery‑room operation that sought to tarnish the firm’s reputation. The investigation revealed that New Capital Link operates as a regulated alternative‑investment introducer, connecting sophisticated investors with vetted...
How to Build a One-Page Retirement Plan (That You’ll Actually Use)
A one-page retirement plan condenses the entire retirement strategy onto a single, printable sheet, forcing four core decisions: goals, savings rate, asset mix, and guardrails. The template includes a clear goal amount, a sustainable savings percentage, a three‑part allocation with...
FTC Seeks Contempt Ruling Against Payment Processor for Breaching Decade-Old Fraud Prevention Order
The Federal Trade Commission has asked a Nevada federal court to hold payment‑processor Cliq Inc., its CEO Andrew Phillips and CTO John Blaugrund in contempt for breaching a 2015 court order that mandated strict fraud‑prevention controls. The agency alleges Cliq...
Walmart Backed Fintech OnePay Achieves $4 Billion Valuation Milestone
Fintech firm OnePay, backed by Walmart, announced a valuation exceeding $4 billion following an employee share‑buyback program. The new figure doubles the $2.5 billion valuation set after a $300 million funding round led by Walmart and Ribbit Capital in late 2024. OnePay’s super‑app...
KLHL6 Ubiquitin Ligase Fuels CD8+ T Cell Resistance
Researchers have identified the ubiquitin ligase KLHL6 as a critical driver of CD8+ T‑cell resistance in cancer. KLHL6 promotes degradation of the inhibitory receptor PD‑1, thereby sustaining T‑cell activation within the tumor microenvironment. In mouse models, genetic ablation or pharmacologic...
Comprehensive Fund Comparison: Unlocking Insights with ISS Market Intelligence
ISS Market Intelligence has launched a comprehensive fund‑comparison platform that blends real‑time data, AI‑driven analytics, and customizable dashboards. The solution lets investors evaluate performance, fees, risk, and benchmarks across global funds in a single interface. By integrating advanced risk‑assessment tools...
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt RedVDS Global Cybercrime Service
Microsoft and international law‑enforcement agencies, including Europol, dismantled RedVDS, a cybercrime‑as‑a‑service platform that has stolen roughly $40 million since March 2025. The operation seized the service’s marketplace, customer portal, and associated domains, cutting off access to cheap virtual dedicated servers rented for...
Mira Murati’s Startup, Thinking Machines Lab, Is Losing Two of Its Co-Founders to OpenAI
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab announced the departure of co‑founder and CTO Barret Zoph, who, along with co‑founder Luke Metz and researcher Sam Schoenholz, are returning to OpenAI. Soumith Chintala will replace Zoph as CTO....
How CJ Darcl Is Using AI to Bring Discipline to One of India’s Most Complex Supply Chains
CJ Darcl Logistics in India has deployed AI‑enabled driver assistance, fatigue monitoring, and its cloud‑native MoveX platform to bring operational discipline to its complex multimodal supply chain. Within three months, harsh braking and overspeeding fell 35% and 28% respectively, violations...
Navigating the Global Space Data Landscape: A Visual Guide
An extensive visual guide maps the world’s open space data ecosystem, covering Earth observation archives, cloud‑based platforms, and regulatory registries. It highlights key resources such as NASA’s Earthdata, ESA’s Copernicus portal, USGS EarthExplorer, and cloud services on AWS that democratize...
5 Signs that ChatGPT Is Hallucinating
The article outlines five tell‑tale signs that ChatGPT is hallucinating, from overly specific details without sources to outright nonsense logic. It explains how the model’s predictive nature can generate confident yet fabricated information, including bogus citations and contradictory follow‑ups. Readers...
India’s Emversity Doubles Valuation as It Scales Workers AI Can’t Replace
Emversity, a Bengaluru‑based workforce‑training startup, raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Premji Invest, valuing the company at $120 million. The funding will fuel expansion of its AI‑resistant, grey‑collar talent pipelines across healthcare, hospitality and soon EPC and manufacturing. To...
Exchange Association Says Regulators Should Prioritize Gen AI Threats over Quantum Computing
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) warned regulators that they are over‑emphasizing quantum‑computing risks at the expense of more immediate generative AI threats. WFE estimates a 5‑10+ year horizon before cryptographically relevant quantum computers appear, recommending proportionate resource allocation. The...
Keye Launches AI Co-Pilot for Private Equity Due Diligence
Keye has unveiled Odin, an AI‑driven co‑pilot designed to streamline private‑equity due diligence for investment teams. The tool leverages large‑language models and proprietary NLP pipelines to extract financial metrics, covenant clauses, and risk factors from data‑room documents. Early pilots claim...
Keye Launces AI Co-Pilot for Private Equity Due Diligence
Keye has introduced Odin, an AI‑powered co‑pilot designed to streamline private‑equity due‑diligence. The tool lets deal teams pose plain‑English questions and receive deterministic, audit‑ready analysis instantly. Powered by Keye’s proprietary Deterministic Creativity, Odin combines natural‑language understanding with code‑based execution, eliminating...
Open Responses: What You Need to Know
Open Responses is an open‑source inference standard that extends OpenAI’s Responses API, aiming to replace the legacy Chat Completion format for agentic workloads. It unifies text, image, JSON, and video generation while enabling provider‑side tool execution and autonomous sub‑agent loops....
Psychotropic Medications and Their Interactions with Subcortical Brain Volume in Bipolar Disorder: An ENIGMA Mega-Analysis
The ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group pooled MRI data from 6,729 participants to examine how psychotropic medications influence subcortical brain volumes in bipolar disorder. Lithium use was associated with larger hippocampal and thalamic volumes, whereas antipsychotics and valproate correlated with...
Coat Paints Adds AI Feature
Paint brand Coat Paints has unveiled a new AI-powered colour visualiser
Superionic Composite Electrolytes with Continuously Perpendicular-Aligned Pathways for Pressure-Less All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries
The study presents a biomimetic composite electrolyte that couples perpendicularly aligned 2D LiMPS nanosheets with polyethylene oxide, forming continuous superionic conduction pathways (CSCPs). This architecture achieves 10.2 mS cm⁻¹ ionic conductivity at 25 °C for the LiCdPS variant and 6.1 mS cm⁻¹ for LiMnPS, while...
Associations Between Mosaic Loss and Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder of Young Age
Recent genomic studies reveal that somatic mosaic loss, particularly mosaic chromosomal alterations, is significantly associated with early‑onset schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Analyses of over 12,000 schizophrenia cases identified recurrent somatic copy‑number variants disrupting NRXN1 and ABCB11, while prenatal mutational signatures...
Depthfirst Secures $40M to Expand Agentic Approach to Software Security
Depthfirst Inc. announced a $40 million Series A round led by Accel to accelerate its AI‑native security platform. The startup’s General Security Intelligence platform deploys custom AI agents that continuously analyze code, infrastructure and workflows, delivering context‑aware vulnerability detection. In its first...
PROTAC Bottleneck Breakthroughs
The latest generation of intracellular PROTACs now offers precise spatial activation, tunable persistence, and expanded ubiquitin‑ligase recruitment, addressing the pharmacokinetic and toxicity hurdles of earlier candidates. Chinese research groups have pioneered formulations that release the degrader only within target cells...
EMA and FDA Collaborate on Framework for AI Use in Drug Development
The U.S. FDA and Europe’s EMA have jointly published ten guiding principles for the use of artificial intelligence across the drug development lifecycle. The framework covers human‑centric design, risk‑based validation, data governance, multidisciplinary expertise, and clear communication of model performance....
Smartphone Measures Vasomotor Function via Fingertip Elasticity
Researchers published a study demonstrating that a standard smartphone can assess vasomotor function by measuring fingertip arteriolar elasticity using green‑light photoplethysmography combined with a volume‑oscillometric method. The technique captures blood‑volume oscillations to infer arterial pressure changes, offering a non‑invasive proxy...
Aikido Security Raises $60M Series B at $1B Valuation to Unify Application Security
Belgian cybersecurity firm Aikido Security announced a $60 million Series B round that values the company at $1 billion, making it Europe’s fastest unicorn in the sector. The funding will accelerate its unified application security platform, which combines static and dynamic testing, software...
A New Form of Graphene-Derived Material Could Unlock Next-Generation Printed Electronics
Researchers at Monash University have created a graphene‑derived material called dense‑block reduced graphite oxide (DB‑rGtO) that can be dispersed at concentrations up to 200 mg mL⁻¹ without any binders or surfactants. The 3‑D block morphology prevents the sheets from restacking, keeping viscosity...
Supermassives to Fuzzballs: Every Black Hole Type Explained
The New Scientist video maps the full spectrum of black‑hole phenomena, from stellar‑mass and intermediate‑mass objects to the gargantuan supermassive varieties at galaxy cores. It also surveys speculative constructs such as wormholes, gravastars and string‑theory fuzzballs, highlighting the latest observational...
ChromaDB Explorer
Chroma Explorer is a native macOS desktop client designed for ChromaDB, enabling users to browse collections, perform semantic searches, and manage vector embeddings through a polished interface. The app supports multi‑profile connections to local, remote, or Chroma Cloud instances and...
OpenAI Signs Deal, Worth $10B, for Compute From Cerebras
OpenAI has signed a multi‑year, $10 billion agreement with AI‑chipmaker Cerebras to provision 750 megawatts of compute power from 2024 through 2028. The partnership focuses on delivering low‑latency, real‑time inference that speeds up OpenAI’s customer‑facing services. Cerebras claims its wafer‑scale chips outperform...
Where Does the Trash Go? And How Artemis 2 Astronauts Stay Organized
In a Canadian Space Agency video, astronaut Jeremy Hansen explains how the Artemis II crew will manage storage and waste aboard the Orion spacecraft during its nine‑day, four‑person mission. The crew will use labeled stowage bags and dedicated trash bags to...
CrowdStrike Shareholders Lose Battle to Recoup Losses From 2024 Outage
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman dismissed a class‑action lawsuit by CrowdStrike shareholders alleging securities fraud over the July 2024 outage. While the court found two statements plausibly misleading, it ruled the plaintiffs did not sufficiently allege scienter, a required element...
Lawsuit Alleges Oracle Made Misleading Statements Around Debt Sale for AI Infrastructure
Oracle faces a class‑action lawsuit alleging it misled bond investors in the offering documents for an $18 billion debt sale. The suit claims the company overstated its financial position after announcing a $300 billion, five‑year AI infrastructure contract with OpenAI. Seven weeks...
Cryo-EM Maps Autoantibody Hotspots on NMDA Receptors in Autoimmune Encephalitis
A study in Science Advances used cryo‑electron microscopy to map the exact binding sites of anti‑NMDAR autoantibodies on the GluN1 amino‑terminal domain of NMDA receptors. The researchers showed that mouse‑derived antibodies bind the same two hotspots as those isolated from...
Robot Learns to Lip Sync by Watching YouTube
Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines Lab unveiled a humanoid robot that learns realistic lip‑sync by observing itself and YouTube videos. The robot’s flexible face, driven by 26 micro‑actuators, first mapped its own motor actions via a mirror, then trained a vision‑to‑action...
Four Takeaways On The State Of Social Suites
The episode highlights how social suites have become essential in martech, evolving from basic management tools to unified platforms that combine content planning, listening, creator marketing, and customer response. Four key takeaways are discussed: AI is moving from assistive to...
AI and Embedded Finance Are New Medicine for Healthcare Supply Chains
Healthcare procurement, long dominated by static forecasts and delayed payments, is being reshaped by artificial intelligence and embedded finance. AI-driven platforms now analyze consumption data to fine‑tune inventory buffers, prioritizing life‑critical items and moving toward just‑in‑time replenishment. Embedded finance integrates...
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Jan 14, 2026
The SaaSRise Mastermind on Jan 14, 2026 delivered a rapid‑fire playbook for SaaS CEOs covering digital marketing, geographic expansion, new product validation, go‑to‑market tactics, trial‑to‑paid ownership, AI‑driven UI/UX, and display‑ad performance. Attendees were urged to allocate 90% of ad spend to Meta,...
Bank of America CEO Says AI Paying Off as Bank Cuts Costs
Bank of America reported that its AI-driven platforms, especially the Erica virtual assistant, are delivering measurable cost and productivity gains in Q4 2025. Erica logged 169 million interactions with 20.6 million users, while Zelle transaction volume rose to $144 billion, underscoring the bank’s...
How to Build a Stateless, Secure, and Asynchronous MCP-Style Protocol for Scalable Agent Workflows
The tutorial demonstrates how to construct a Minimal Communication Protocol (MCP) that is stateless, cryptographically signed, and capable of handling asynchronous, long‑running tasks. Using Python, Pydantic models enforce strict schema validation for every request and response, while HMAC signatures guarantee...
Graphene Coatings Can Serve as an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Biocides
Researchers at Norway's NTNU have developed graphene‑based polymer nanocomposite coatings that act as an eco‑friendly alternative to traditional biocidal anti‑fouling paints. The coatings combine graphene, graphene oxide, and metal‑oxide nanoparticles with epoxy or silicone matrices, physically damaging fouling organisms on...
Neutral-Atom Arrays, a Rapidly Emerging Quantum Computing Platform, Get a Boost From Researchers
Columbia researchers have combined optical tweezers with nanophotonic metasurfaces to create a 600 × 600 neutral‑atom array, yielding 360,000 individual traps on a 3.5 mm chip. They demonstrated trapping of 1,000 strontium atoms and showed the design can scale beyond 100,000 qubits with...
Airbus Plans Space Radio Access Network Demonstrator With Tech Partners
Airbus announced the UpNext SpaceRAN demonstrator to test a software‑defined 5G non‑terrestrial network satellite, beginning with a ground‑based simulation of a two‑satellite LEO constellation. The program will progress to an in‑orbit payload launch in 2027, with testing slated for 2028,...
Scribe Therapeutics Plans to Test Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy This Summer
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