AI Reality Check: The Data Quality Crisis No One Wants to Admit
In this week's edition of AI Reality Check, we focus on data, specifically the availability of sufficient data quality. AI is running out of clean, human-generated data. This article exposes the hidden crisis threatening scaling laws, model reliability, and the future of frontier AI.
A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment
Training a modern large language model (LLM) is not a single step but a carefully orchestrated pipeline that transforms raw data into a reliable, aligned, and deployable intelligent system. At its core lies pretraining, the foundational phase where models learn general language patterns, reasoning s...
Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice
Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual generation. Unlike previous iterations that prioritized simple conversion, this release emphasizes natural-language audio tags, native support for more...
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
Entrust Names Ajay Jindal and Erika Cowen to Senior Leadership Team
Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, announced the appointments of Ajay Jindal as Senior Vice President of Business Process & Automation and Erika Cowen as Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Both leaders report to Tony Ball, CEO of Entrust, and join the company’s ...
Splashtop Launches Unified Platform for Modern IT Operations
With autonomous endpoint management at its core, the AI-assisted, cloud-native platform unifies IT operations, security, remote support, and remote access into one streamlined experience. After 20 years of trusted remote performance, Splashtop® has announced the launch of its unified platform for mo...
ThreatModeler, the leader in AI-driven threat modeling, has appointed Kevin Gallagher as Chief Executive Officer. Gallagher will lead the company’s strategy, go-to-market execution, and post-merger integration following ThreatModeler’s acquisition of IriusRisk, the landmark deal that united the top ...
Q4 acquires Virtua Research, adds AI consensus to IR workflows
Q4 Inc. Acquires Virtua Research to Bring AI-Powered Consensus Management to IR Operations Acquisition adds analyst consensus data to Q4 platform—with Q4’s AI applied to help IR teams identify shifts and proactively manage market expectations Q4 Inc. (Q4), the leading provider of AI-driven IR Ops so...
New Solution Delivers Instant, Package-Level Answers, Decision-Ready Insights and Context Without Dashboards, Spreadsheets, Or Manual Analysis Reveel™, the only Shipping Intelligence™ Platform with Parcel Spend Management 2.0 (PSM 2.0) technology, today announced the launch of Reveel IQ, a new AI-po...
Yobi, Microsoft Partner on AI for Predictive Behavior Insights
Collaboration unlocks unprecedented access to AI-powered personalization for enterprises Yobi and Microsoft technologies propel Wolverine Worldwide Inc.’s (NYSE: WWW) Merrell and Saucony brands to higher ROI and accelerated new customer acquisition across priority audiences Yobi, the leading behavio...
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI
Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual an...
The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercis...
Google Launches ‘Skills’ in Chrome: Turning Reusable AI Prompts into One-Click Browser Workflows
Google just announced the release of Skills in Chrome, a new feature built into Gemini in Chrome that lets users save frequently used AI prompts as reusable, one-click workflows called Skills. The rollout begins April 14, 2026, targeting Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS users who have their Chrome languag...
Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts
One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI's recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic's current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain.
A Coding Implementation of Crawl4AI for Web Crawling, Markdown Generation, JavaScript Execution, and LLM-Based Structured Extraction
In this tutorial, we build a complete and practical Crawl4AI workflow and explore how modern web crawling goes far beyond simply downloading page HTML. We set up the full environment, configure browser behavior, and work through essential capabilities such as basic crawling, markdown generation, str...
Invicti, a leader in application security testing, today announced the availability of its new DAST-to-SAST correlation capability, designed to help organizations rapidly identify and fix runtime vulnerabilities with unmatched accuracy and speed. Modern DevOps teams face increasing pressure to deliv...
Evolution Equity Partners Hosts 4th Presidents Forum for Cyber Leaders
Former Governor and Film Star Arnold Schwarzenegger Delivers Keynote at Exclusive Event During RSA Conference Week in San Francisco; Wiz Founder & CEO Assaf Rappaport Named 2026 CEO of the Year Evolution Equity Partners, a leader in venture capital investment in cybersecurity, held the fourth Annual...
ID.me now available in Epic Toolbox as a digital identity option for MyChart
ID.me today announced that it is available in Epic Toolbox for the Identity Verification for MyChart category. The integration provides health systems a turnkey option to support identity verification within MyChart workflows—helping patients securely create and recover accounts while reducing admin...
Haast Raises $12M to Solve AI Compliance Bottlenecks
US-based startup Haast embeds organizational policy and risk frameworks directly into enterprise workflows, automating high-effort manual compliance processes at scale. Today, Haast, the leading AI-powered enterprise compliance engine, announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by P...
Ascendion Named a Market Leader for Agentic Services by HFS Research
Ascendion has been named a Market Leader in HFS Research’s Horizons: Agentic Services, 2026 report. Ascendion’s client impact – innovation velocity, capital unlock, and risk management – demonstrates the potential value available when agentic AI is correctly combined with a modern AI-native methodol...
Milesight, a leading provider of innovative IoT products, announced the launch of the EG71 Building IoT Gateway, designed to address smart building integration challenges. As smart buildings scale in complexity, integration remains the industry’s key bottleneck. Fragmented protocols, including BACne...