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Unity AI Gateway Unifies Data and Agent Governance
SocialApr 16, 2026

Unity AI Gateway Unifies Data and Agent Governance

If you ask our customers what Databricks' biggest value is chances are that you hear 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠. In the last three years, we provided governance for Agents, MCP Servers, Tools/Skills and Unstructured data as part of our AI Gateway. Today...

By Ali Ghodsi
Glioblastoma's Immune Microenvironment Blocks Checkpoint Therapy
SocialApr 16, 2026

Glioblastoma's Immune Microenvironment Blocks Checkpoint Therapy

The glioblastoma tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) is an immunosuppressive barrier to therapy that encumbers glioblastoma responses to immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI). https://t.co/rgIKZ8N0Q4

By Liz Parrish
Smart Shutoff Device Detects Leaks and Acts Instantly
SocialApr 16, 2026

Smart Shutoff Device Detects Leaks and Acts Instantly

A bulletin from the front: Brad vs. the Moen Flo Shutoff game-changing smart water device that monitors for leaks and immediately takes action to help prevent them. Yes, we are now in that Brave New World where “AI” doesn’t understand...

By J. Bradford DeLong
OpenAI's New Image Model Beats Gemini Nano Banana
SocialApr 16, 2026

OpenAI's New Image Model Beats Gemini Nano Banana

I tested OpenAI’s upcoming image model against Gemini Nano Banana 2 with high thinking enabled. Same prompts. Better outputs. The OpenAI results were genuinely stunning. The level of detail head-to-head is wild. ChatGPT is about to get a win. https://t.co/vj6eHM2oan

By AJ Ghergich
Fresnel Lens Heats Rocks, Drives Simple Stirling Generator
SocialApr 16, 2026

Fresnel Lens Heats Rocks, Drives Simple Stirling Generator

Pretty amazing if it works - concentrate sunlight with movable fresnel lens to heat rocks to 1000 degrees C and then a simple Stirling engine to generate power. Nothing that couldn’t have been built a century or more ago.

By Peter Suzman
Local AI Models Soon Run Well on Phones
SocialApr 16, 2026

Local AI Models Soon Run Well on Phones

Local models running on shitty computers (IE your phone) are about to get great. @ErickSky lays it out (translated from Spanish by Grok, which is a really awesome feature).

By Robert Scoble
Synthetic Biology Localizes Drug Production, Ending Fragile Supply Chains
SocialApr 16, 2026

Synthetic Biology Localizes Drug Production, Ending Fragile Supply Chains

Most pharmaceutical APIs still travel thousands of miles through fragile global supply chains before they reach a patient. COVID and the Russia-Ukraine war showed exactly what that fragility costs. Synthetic biology offers a different model: program cells to manufacture the molecules in...

By John Cumbers
Pad 2’s 33‑engine Plume Differs Noticeably From Pad 1
SocialApr 15, 2026

Pad 2’s 33‑engine Plume Differs Noticeably From Pad 1

The exhaust plume from 33 engines on Pad 2 looks noticeably different than on Pad 1.

By Stephen Clark
Decagon’s Duet Blends Slow Reasoning with Fast Task Solving
SocialApr 15, 2026

Decagon’s Duet Blends Slow Reasoning with Fast Task Solving

How does $4.5B-valued Decagon incorporate new SOTA models? "If you look at what these big AI labs are pumping out now, it's a lot of these slow reasoning models. They want to be good at coding, but you want to...

By Alex Konrad
30 Top Media Leaders at SynBioBeta Can Make You Viral
SocialApr 15, 2026

30 Top Media Leaders at SynBioBeta Can Make You Viral

📰 𝟯𝟬 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗴𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 📰 With a combined reach of 500M+ monthly visitors, the journalists in the room at @SynBioBeta know how to get your work in front...

By John Cumbers
Solar‑plus‑storage Can Supply 90% of India’s Electricity
SocialApr 15, 2026

Solar‑plus‑storage Can Supply 90% of India’s Electricity

Solar-plus-storage could meet 90% of India’s power demand #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/54zp6ZcAUX

By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Meta's New Link‑click Focus Inflates Traffic, Drops CVR
SocialApr 15, 2026

Meta's New Link‑click Focus Inflates Traffic, Drops CVR

Traffic up and CVR down lately? Here are 2 of the causes: 1. Meta made ads more link-clicky. Swiping up to view comments on reels (see post below) or tapping to expand feed ads can now drive link clicks to site....

By Barry Hott
Sonnedix Wins Key Capacity in Italy’s FER X Auction
SocialApr 15, 2026

Sonnedix Wins Key Capacity in Italy’s FER X Auction

How Sonnedix secured capacity in Italy’s ‘crucial’ FER X auction #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/t9cz3dWn3a

By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Roadmaps Feel Like Progress; Customers See Product Instability
SocialApr 15, 2026

Roadmaps Feel Like Progress; Customers See Product Instability

Your roadmap feels like progress to you. To customers, it feels like the product won’t sit still. That gap is where adoption goes to die. Full post:

By Hiten Shah
Machine-to-Machine Communication Will Skyrocket Processing Demands
SocialApr 15, 2026

Machine-to-Machine Communication Will Skyrocket Processing Demands

General-purpose processing demands will multiply once machines are talking to machines. https://t.co/J4yo86mxLl #CPUs @Arm #AgenticAI #chiplets #NPU #GPU #datamovement

By Ed Sperling
Horizontal LLM Apps Consolidate Into Single Product
SocialApr 15, 2026

Horizontal LLM Apps Consolidate Into Single Product

Horizontal LLM applications fulfilling their promise is basically that these should all be the same product. These will all merge before end of year.

By Braden Dennis
Choose Your AI Path Now for Competitive Edge
SocialApr 15, 2026

Choose Your AI Path Now for Competitive Edge

The “Made by Humans” Premium: Why You Need to Pick an AI Lane Now by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/wjmKxBqwE0 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #Leadership #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ContentMarketing #MarketingTips #MarketingEthics

By Tim Hughes
AI Typos Hook Readers Into the Correction Trap
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Typos Hook Readers Into the Correction Trap

wrote 'enflish' to prove why AI posts fail you stopped scrolling to correct it see the trap?

By Nabil Chiheb
Allbirds' AI Pivot Disappoints More than Ill‑fitting Shoes
SocialApr 15, 2026

Allbirds' AI Pivot Disappoints More than Ill‑fitting Shoes

I have an Allbirds collection that I love, and its AI pivot feels worse than poorly-fitting shoes https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/i-have-an-allbirds-collection-that-i-love-and-its-ai-pivot-feels-worse-than-poorly-fitting-shoes

By Lance Ulanoff
Australian Home Batteries Match 10% of Global Utility Additions
SocialApr 15, 2026

Australian Home Batteries Match 10% of Global Utility Additions

Australian home battery installations equal to almost 10 pct of global utility capacity brought online in March #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/41vFHcvKbU https://t.co/u8Hrf4b9Tc

By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Thomson Reuters Leverages Potentially Pirated Open‑
SocialApr 15, 2026

Thomson Reuters Leverages Potentially Pirated Open‑

so thomson reuters is building its own AI model on open source models such as those of “meta or mistral” both of which are trained using pirated libraries, including content from TR's own competitors... https://t.co/h7UFiomggV

By Andrew Arruda
Mutated TP53 Turns Tumor Suppressor Into Cancer Promoter
SocialApr 15, 2026

Mutated TP53 Turns Tumor Suppressor Into Cancer Promoter

The TP53 gene makes the p53 protein, which normally helps prevent cancer by controlling cell growth and triggering damaged cells to die, but when it’s mutated it not only loses this protective role but can also help tumors grow. https://t.co/wPedodwV2U

By Liz Parrish
AI Hype Threatens Existential or Economic Catastrophe
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Hype Threatens Existential or Economic Catastrophe

Generative AI in nutshell: "If the technology is as formidable as the [tech CEO's] claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and thus less valuable than the hype suggests, then they...

By Gary Marcus
Agentic‑first Companies Will Dominate; Others Will Perish
SocialApr 15, 2026

Agentic‑first Companies Will Dominate; Others Will Perish

using our own personal agents will soon be the preferred way to access the internet. either you become an agentic-first company or you die.

By Rob Leclerc
Early GLP‑1 Rodent Studies Showed Weight Loss Before Diabetes Focus
SocialApr 15, 2026

Early GLP‑1 Rodent Studies Showed Weight Loss Before Diabetes Focus

I don't think this is correct from @nytimes op-ed on GLP-1s - wt loss known from early rodent studies involving injection into CSF as I recall. DM2 more tractable as initial pharma indication, esp at that time - many still...

By David Shaywitz, MD, PhD
MCP Unifies Siloed Network AI Systems, Not New
SocialApr 15, 2026

MCP Unifies Siloed Network AI Systems, Not New

Slightly late to the game, @7signal is talking about MCP Makes the point that multiple silo’d AI systems for networks / WiFi / IT helpdesk can use it to work better together Speaker wrongly claims it was created “in the...

By Dean Bubley
TSMC Q1 Earnings Preview Amid Record AI Compute Surge
SocialApr 15, 2026

TSMC Q1 Earnings Preview Amid Record AI Compute Surge

Good morning from Taipei. TSMC reports 1Q earnings & hosts an IR call later today. The AI compute sector is at its hottest level on record. I’ll have full coverage soon after the call. Straight to your inbox from https://t.co/yt0PGDxqqi

By Tim Culpan
AI, Quantum Computing Redefine Cybersecurity Landscape – Prof. Brooks
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI, Quantum Computing Redefine Cybersecurity Landscape – Prof. Brooks

Cyber Solutions – The Intersection of AI, Quantum and Cybersecurity with Prof. Chuck Brooks | https://t.co/MzmJurZmns https://t.co/tQshTKmETs

By Chuck Brooks
When AI Takes the Wheel, Email Becomes Terrifying
SocialApr 15, 2026

When AI Takes the Wheel, Email Becomes Terrifying

Truly automating your email and life is scary. Super scary. When an AI is responding to your email without your hands on the wheel it's like being in an autonomous vehicle for the first time. "Will it kill me?" Change is...

By Robert Scoble
Advantage Reward Model Boosts Towel‑Folding Success to 99.4%
SocialApr 15, 2026

Advantage Reward Model Boosts Towel‑Folding Success to 99.4%

New paper achieves 99.4% success rate on bimanual towel-folding using a new Advantage Reward Model (ARM), an upgrade of SARM. Key Innovation: Swaps strict monotonic progress for a simple relative advantage signal (-1, 0, +1). This handles messy demos and DAgger...

By Philip Fung
Titanium Poised to Replace Vanadium in Flow Batteries
SocialApr 15, 2026

Titanium Poised to Replace Vanadium in Flow Batteries

Titanium emerges as a vanadium alternative for redox flow batteries #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/InfLwlxCHc

By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
AI Replaces Tasks, Not the Ownership of Jobs
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Replaces Tasks, Not the Ownership of Jobs

AI is not replacing jobs. AI is replacing tasks. A real job means having goals and the agency to figure out how to reach them. Deciding what tasks matter. Owning the outcome either way. AI just executes. It doesn't own anything. If you don't...

By Matt Watson
Seeking Mobile Tools for Editing Markdown Outside GitHub
SocialApr 15, 2026

Seeking Mobile Tools for Editing Markdown Outside GitHub

how do you all read/edit md files on your phone? don’t tell me thru github

By Ben Tossell
AI Fluency: The New Competitive Edge for Companies
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Fluency: The New Competitive Edge for Companies

My latest newsletter is online 👉 https://lnkd.in/gJPKyFfU A few recent updates: 🤖 A growing part of my role at SOSV is now focused on AI + Automation: training colleagues, sourcing use cases, and building practical tools and workflows. ⚡ Our...

By Benjamin Joffe
Google Gemini Forces Fast Model, Ignoring Compute Limits
SocialApr 15, 2026

Google Gemini Forces Fast Model, Ignoring Compute Limits

Thanks Google for reminding me dozens of times a day that you are too compute constrained. Each time I open a new chat in gemini -> defaults to Fast model. I have to change it every single time. Even Anthropic who's arguably more...

By Oleg Ciubotaru
New CXO Advisor Services Cut Cyber Risk Fast
SocialApr 15, 2026

New CXO Advisor Services Cut Cyber Risk Fast

We are expanding CXO Advisor with new services across pen testing, incident response, and transformation. The goal is to fundamentally help companies reduce their cybersecurity risk. If you are trying to improve your security posture in a practical way, happy to...

By Sean D. Mack
ESA Pushes Tb/S Optical Links; KeplerComms Lands Second Prime Contract
SocialApr 15, 2026

ESA Pushes Tb/S Optical Links; KeplerComms Lands Second Prime Contract

.@esa advances Tb-per-second HydRON program; multiple optical terminal providers, space and ground; @KeplerComms signs 2nd contract as system prime. @mynaric @mbryonics @Tesat @Vyoma_space #Astrolight @DLR_SpaceAgency @csa_asc.https://t.co/12Dn9ijeda https://t.co/6HfkJV0MWl

By Peter B. de Selding
AllBirds AI Pivot Sparks Bold Market Experiment
SocialApr 15, 2026

AllBirds AI Pivot Sparks Bold Market Experiment

I’m excited about the AllBirds AI pivot because this is the first completely pure act of retardmaxxing in the public markets and I’m so on board with watching that journey play out.

By Mitchell Hashimoto
New NEJM Review Links Hormone Therapy to Cardiovascular Risk
SocialApr 15, 2026

New NEJM Review Links Hormone Therapy to Cardiovascular Risk

Sex hormones, clotting disorders, and cardiovascular risk An important new @NEJM review for MHT and testosterone latest data https://t.co/UNqXAwjsKM https://t.co/4ckJsc4YyE

By Eric Topol
Progress MS-34 Fueled for April 26 ISS Resupply
SocialApr 15, 2026

Progress MS-34 Fueled for April 26 ISS Resupply

Roskosmos reports completion of propellant and pressurized gases loading aboard Progress MS-34 spacecraft in preparation for ISS resupply mission on April 26: https://t.co/RJw3e4HJ5Y https://t.co/LELndrx6iy

By Anatoly Zak
Molift Raiser Pro Delivers High-Capacity Assistance in Confined Spaces
SocialApr 15, 2026

Molift Raiser Pro Delivers High-Capacity Assistance in Confined Spaces

Molift Raiser Pro: High-Capacity Stand-Up Assistance in Tight Spaces by @gigadgets_ #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/vumqKwh3lm

By Ron van Loon
World Unprepared for Rumored New OpenAI Image Model
SocialApr 15, 2026

World Unprepared for Rumored New OpenAI Image Model

the world is not ready for the rumored new OpenAI image model // @flowersslop https://t.co/KdyNmjFh6C

By Blake Robbins
Open-Source Tools Quantify AI Offense-Defense Gap
SocialApr 15, 2026

Open-Source Tools Quantify AI Offense-Defense Gap

👀 Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode https://m.cje.io/4mxNV3P

By Casey Ellis
NASA Picks Voyager for Seventh Private Astronaut ISS Mission
SocialApr 15, 2026

NASA Picks Voyager for Seventh Private Astronaut ISS Mission

NASA has chosen Voyager Technologies for the 7th Private Astronaut Mission (PAM) to the ISS. Axiom Space got the first five, but it's expanding now. Vast got the 6th and now Voyager the 7th. https://t.co/2wNTeOpJYU Axiom, Vast and Voyager each are...

By Marcia Smith
AI Becomes the Next Sales Enablement Teammate
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Becomes the Next Sales Enablement Teammate

The Evolution of the “Sales Enablement” Role: Why AI is the New Teammate by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/O9HsMURJtm @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence

By Tim Hughes
Mesh/Tree Industrial WiFi Challenges Private 5G
SocialApr 15, 2026

Mesh/Tree Industrial WiFi Challenges Private 5G

Interesting mesh/tree industrial WiFi solution from @PicoCELA Indirectly competes with private 5G, I think https://t.co/5PlFbmucrm

By Dean Bubley
Banking's Future: Digital and Physical Must Coexist
SocialApr 15, 2026

Banking's Future: Digital and Physical Must Coexist

The future of banking is not digital or physical. It is both working together. In this episode, I break down insights from the latest Digital Banking Report on why branches still matter. Watch the full episode now: https://t.co/Lg9jRpKff4 https://t.co/y04HeW940x

By Jim Marous
AI's Promise Demands Community Investment, Not Cost Shifting
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI's Promise Demands Community Investment, Not Cost Shifting

I believe AI will deliver enormous gains to the global consumer: better products, better services, better healthcare, and tools that make ordinary people more capable, even superhuman. The upside is so large, and the geopolitical stakes so real, that we...

By Sarah Guo
China Urges Platforms to Stop AI‑fear Amplification
SocialApr 15, 2026

China Urges Platforms to Stop AI‑fear Amplification

There was an editorial in China's Science & Technology Daily last month saying that internet platforms should not amplify content about falling behind if you don't use AI. https://t.co/h9qdo6Uni4 (seen via @mattsheehan88's Substack) https://t.co/vgi6mK6kOa https://t.co/6Oboqu56BI

By Joe Weisenthal