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The price point hurts, but the device is nice: Meet the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a special printing technique that embeds digital instructions directly into the skin. Images and information...

Shield AI today announced the expansion of their partnership with Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) to co-develop and proliferate Artificial Intelligence (AI) across a wider range of autonomous drone applications using Shield AI’s...

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

"You’re shutting him down. And yes – I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth," one user said.

ASTM International will hold an organizational meeting on March 4–5, 2026, to explore the potential establishment of a new ASTM Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Systems. The meeting will take place at ASTM headquarters in West Conshohocken, PA and is open to all intere...

New IBM Business Partner status strengthens Gallea Ai’s ability to support secure, scalable AI adoption across North America and the United Kingdom Gallea Ai, an advisory led consultancy specializing in applied artificial intelligence for small and mid sized businesses (SMBs), today announced it has...

Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) today announced it has demonstrated, in collaboration with OpenAI, an AI system that autonomously designed, executed, and learned from biological experiments with minimal human involvement. In a new preprint, the company reports the system reduced cell-free protein synthe...

Former Johnson & Johnson CHRO joins as Censia becomes the system of intelligence powering capability, workforce planning, and org design decisions Censia AI, the enterprise workforce system of intelligence, announced today the appointment of Peter M. Fasolo to its Board of Directors. Fasolo brings d...

On Safer Internet Day, explore how AI-driven security solutions are transforming cyber defense and protecting users online. Safer Internet Day, which falls on the coming Tuesday, serves as an annual reminder that the internet has always existed as an unsafe environment. Cyber threats continue to inc...

This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I have been using Claude Code for a variety of purposes, and one thing I’ve realized is that the more it understands about the functionality of the system (the domain, the use cases, the e...

An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies.

An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies.

Despite Growing Adoption of WAAP Platforms, Specialized Client-Side Protection Solutions Remain Essential for Critical Security and Compliance Needs, Such as PCI DSS v4 Jscrambler, the pioneering platform for client-side protection and compliance, today announced its inclusion in the Forrester repor...

An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies.

Discover how the convergence of quantum computing and AI is creating an un-auditable "black box" in global finance, posing a systemic risk that could trigger a microsecond market crash. This op-ed explores the dangerous opacity of quantum trading algorithms, the failure of current regulation, and pr...

Reddit says its search business, including AI answers, is an "enormous" opportunity.

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It's a lot of money!

EnCompass executes AI agent programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts, finding the best set of outputs generated by an LLM. It could help coders work with AI agents more efficiently.

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

Schemas, and Composable DataFrame ContractsIn this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build robust, production-grade data validation pipelines using Pandera with typed DataFrame models. We start by simulating realistic, imperfect transactional data and progressively enforce strict schema constraints, c...

Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others.

Building AI in healthcare is hard enough without fighting your own data systems. In Austin, Takeda is tackling that problem head-on, creating a platform designed for scale, compliance, and real-world impact.