Physical AI – the branch of artificial intelligence that controls robots and industrial machinery in the real world – has a hierarchy problem. At the top, OpenAI and Google are scaling multimodal foundation models. In the middle, Nvidia is building the platforms and tools for physical AI development. And then there is a third camp:

AI dairy farming has found its most ambitious deployment yet – not in a Silicon Valley lab nor a European agri-tech campus, but in the villages of Gujarat, India, where 36 lakh (3.6 million) women milk producers are now being served by an AI assistant named Sarlaben. Amul, the world’s largest dairy cooperative, has launched

A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Mastercard showed what it described as its first fully authenticated “agentic commerce” transaction. In the demo, as reported by Times of India, an AI agent searched

7Rivers has secured $5 million in Series A funding, led by Inoca Capital Partners, which has taken a minority stake in the Milwaukee-based company. The investment supports 7Rivers’ continued expansion as a Snowflake Elite Partner, helping enterprises modernize data systems and integrate AI into core operations. The company positions itself as a strategic services firm

Ubicquia Inc. has closed a $106 million Series D funding round to accelerate growth in grid modernization, smart lighting, and public safety technologies. The round was led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, with participation from existing investors Hamilton Lane, ClearSky, GMS, and strategic partner Sercomm. The new capital comes as utilities, cities, and

WestFax Comprehend Now Available Across All Service Tiers, Automating Medical Document Classification, Data Extraction and Workflow Routing WestFax, a provider of HIPAA-compliant cloud fax and healthcare document exchange solutions, today announced the official launch of WestFax Comprehend, an AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform designed to automate medical document intake, classification, extraction and routing for

Here’s a little bit of snark from developer John Crickett on X: Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity. Also software engineers: I’m now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1,800 commits a day. Crickett’s quip lands perfectly because it is not actually a joke. It’s a preview of the next management fad, wherein we replace

There is a growing belief that AI will dramatically reduce the need for experienced software engineers. It won’t. The demonstrations are compelling. We see AI connected to Figma for design context, Jira for tickets, source control for repository history, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment. A feature request goes in, code comes out, and a pull

Today, it is nearly impossible for anyone in a software development role to avoid AI technology. That’s not a bad thing; individuals and teams can realize numerous potential benefits from AI-driven development. One thing is certain: Software developers who haven’t already done so must adapt their skills to meet the demands of this new era.

A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s administrator announced Saturday that a new problem will require the removal of the rocket from its launch pad in Florida. The latest issue appeared Friday evening, when data showed