Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf o...
OneSpan to Acquire Build38 to Boost Mobile App Protection
The acquisition will expand OneSpan’s SDK-based mobile application security capabilities to help financial institutions combat evolving threats OneSpan Inc. (NASDAQ: OSPN) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Build38, a leader in next-generation mobile applicati...
OutSystems Welcomes SaaS Veteran Fay Sien Goon as Chief Financial Officer
Former AppFolio CFO and ServiceNow executive joins leading AI development platform to drive global financial strategy and operational excellence OutSystems, a leading AI development platform, today announced the appointment of Fay Sien Goon as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Goon will o...
Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Brazil's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI companies from using its business API to offer chatbots on the app. The agency has also started an investigation against the company to determine if the policy is anti-competitive.
Seasoned SaaS and Payments Leader Brings Deep Product and Platform Expertise to Support Mid-Market Growth and Industry Innovation Acumatica, the industry-leading cloud ERP provider, today announced the appointment of Jon Pollock as Chief Product Officer (CPO). In this role, Pollock will lead Acumati...
Acquisition delivers scalable, insight‑driven healthcare payments efficiency for providers Zelis®, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, announces the acquisition of Rivet, a leader in revenue cycle analytics. Building on the companies’ successful partnership, the acquisition unders...
Cast AI Valued at Over $1 Billion With the Launch of Its GPU Marketplace
OMNI Compute is a unified compute marketplace that enables enterprises to access, provision, and operate GPUs across any cloud or region, with no code changes required Cast AI, the leading Application Performance Automation platform, today introduced OMNI Compute, a unified compute control plane tha...
Tredence’s New Agentic Commerce Accelerators Bolster its Accelerator Ecosystem and Enable Retailers to Quickly Unlock Truly Personalized Shopping Experiences Tredence, a global data science and AI solutions provider, today announced the launch of its Agentic Commerce accelerators. These enterprise-g...
Introducing “TaylorAI,” Impilo’s Digital Health Concierge Agent
Today, Impilo announced the launch of a new AI-powered support experience for its e-commerce store, The Digital Health Store, bringing intelligent, always-on assistance to patients purchasing remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices online. At launch, the experience is powered by TaylorAI, Impilo’s D...
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Geode® 2.0
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced the availability of Apache Geode® 2.0. Geode 2.0 represents one of the most significant modernization efforts in the Apache Geode project’s history, delivering comprehensive upgrades ac...
Tenable Named 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for CNAPP
Tenable® Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TENB), the exposure management company, today announced it has been recognized as one of only two vendors recognized as a 2025 Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs). Based solel...
DDN Earns Top Spot on CRN’s Cloud 100 List for 2026
DDN, the world’s leading AI data platform provider, today announced that it has been recognized on the 2026 Cloud 100 list by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. This prestigious list spotlights 100 leading channel-focused cloud companies across five key categories: cloud infrastructure, cloud mon...
HealthLeap Appoints New Executive Leadership to Accelerate Growth in 2026
Experienced healthcare and AI leaders join as the company scales to deliver its mission to improve patient outcomes and hospital margins HealthLeap, an AI platform that helps clinicians prioritize and care for patients, today announced the addition of new executive leadership as the company enters i...
Findhelp Partners with SimplePractice to Expand Behavioral Health Access
Findhelp, the nation’s leading social care platform, today announced a new partnership with SimplePractice, the most comprehensive practice management and electronic health record (EHR) platform in behavioral health. The partnership, unveiled at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, connects people...
TextOre, Carahsoft Partner to Deliver OSINT Solutions to Public Sector
Transformative Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Capabilities Now Available to Government Agencies TextOre, Inc., Transforming OSINT into Actionable Insights, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft w...
Anchor Browser Powers Groq’s Agent Platform, Enables AI Access to the Web
Anchor Browser, the browser agent platform built for AI systems, today announced that it powers Groq’s agent infrastructure, providing the reliable, high-performance browser capabilities behind Groq’s AI agents. Groq, a leading AI company known for high-speed inference and agentic systems, selected ...
Tree-Preconditioned Differentiable Optimization and Axioms as Layers
arXiv:2601.06036v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces a differentiable framework that embeds the axiomatic structure of Random Utility Models (RUM) directly into deep neural networks. Although projecting empirical choice data onto the RUM polytope is NP-hard in general, we uncover a...
CrossTrafficLLM: A Human-Centric Framework for Interpretable Traffic Intelligence via Large Language Model
arXiv:2601.06042v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While accurate traffic forecasting is vital for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), effectively communicating predicted conditions via natural language for human-centric decision support remains a challenge and is often handled separately. To ad...
Enabling Long FFT Convolutions on Memory-Constrained FPGAs via Chunking
arXiv:2601.06065v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The need for long-context reasoning has led to alternative neural network architectures besides Transformers and self-attention, a popular model being Hyena, which employs causal 1D-convolutions implemented with FFTs. Long convolutions enable efficien...
Filtering Beats Fine Tuning: A Bayesian Kalman View of In Context Learning in LLMs
arXiv:2601.06100v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a theory-first framework that interprets inference-time adaptation in large language models (LLMs) as online Bayesian state estimation. Rather than modeling rapid adaptation as implicit optimization or meta-learning, we formulate task- and ...
"They parted illusions -- they parted disclaim marinade": Misalignment as structural fidelity in LLMs
arXiv:2601.06047v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The prevailing technical literature in AI Safety interprets scheming and sandbagging behaviors in large language models (LLMs) as indicators of deceptive agency or hidden objectives. This transdisciplinary philosophical essay proposes an alternative r...
From RLHF to Direct Alignment: A Theoretical Unification of Preference Learning for Large Language Models
arXiv:2601.06108v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences has become essential for safe and beneficial AI deployment. While Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) established the dominant paradigm, a proliferation of alternatives -- Dire...