Contextual Intelligence Becomes the New Standard For Exceptional CX in 2026
APAC consumers call for explainable, transparent AI as over three-quarters register higher demands compared to a year ago Zendesk releases today its 2026 Customer Experience (CX) Trends report, revealing that Contextual Intelligence – the ability to combine AI, data, and human understanding in real ...
CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to go to CES kind of at the last minute. Over the holiday break, contacts from China kept messaging me about their travel plans. After the umpteenth “Se...
Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn
French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet.
Study: Just 1% Fully Adopt JIT Privileged Access as AI IDs Rise
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, today announced findings from new research revealing a significant gap between organizations’ confidence in their privileged access programs and the reality of their day-to-day practices as AI rapidly expands the identity-centric attac...
Brado, Santé Ventures Partner to Transform Patient Navigation and Engagement
Investment spurs creation of Brado AI, a dedicated technology entity focused on extending provider reach through conversational AI Brado, a healthcare engagement and technology company, today announced a strategic investment partnership with Santé Ventures, a leading healthcare and life sciences ven...
Webroot Recognized for Lightweight Protection by Expert Consumers
Expert Consumers has recognized Webroot for its lightweight approach to antivirus protection, highlighting the software’s ability to deliver essential security features while maintaining minimal impact on system performance. Best Antivirus Software As cyber threats continue to target everyday intern...
A Unified Brand Reflecting Combined Strength as a Differentiated Managed Services Leader CloudFirst, a leading cloud hosting and IT solutions provider, today announced that Performive will officially adopt the CloudFirst brand effective immediately. This milestone marks the next phase following the ...
From January 6 to 9, CES 2026, held in Las Vegas—brought together 4,112 leading enterprises from around the world. As a leading Chinese medical device company, Yuwell Medical made its debut at CES. At the exhibition, Yuwell Medical showcased a comprehensive product portfolio covering respiratory hea...
Paul Chua Joins Health-ISAC® as Asia Pacific Operations Director
Chua will spearhead Health-ISAC’s expansion into the APAC region, enhancing cybersecurity and resilience in the global health sector Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Chua as its new Asia Pacific (APAC) Operations Director. In...
Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries
This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.
A Coding Guide to Demonstrate Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Deep Learning by Label Flipping on CIFAR-10 with PyTorch
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a realistic data poisoning attack by manipulating labels in the CIFAR-10 dataset and observing its impact on model behavior. We construct a clean and a poisoned training pipeline side by side, using a ResNet-style convolutional network to ensure stable, comparable le...
CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up
CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird, and relevant (and some not so relevant) tech, and of course the people working on it. AI has been a...
How to Build Portable, In-Database Feature Engineering Pipelines with Ibis Using Lazy Python APIs and DuckDB Execution
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how we use Ibis to build a portable, in-database feature engineering pipeline that looks and feels like Pandas but executes entirely inside the database. We show how we connect to DuckDB, register data safely inside the backend, and define complex transformations usi...
One Genomics, CiRA Partner to Advance Precision Genome Engineering
AI-Focused Genomics Company Advancing De-Aging Science Collaborates with Leading iPS Cell Manufacturing and Research Foundation One Genomics, an AI-focused genomics company advancing de-aging research and co-founded by Harvard Professor George Church alongside former Harvard and MIT research fellows...