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By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Berg Insight projects that the number of tracking devices installed on rail freight wagons will rise from 875,000 units at the close of 2025 to nearly 1.4 million by 2030, underscoring both the momentum and the untapped potential in rail telematics adoption.Rail freight is among the most challenging transport sectors to digitize at scale. Wagons are durable assets that frequently cross borders and operate across multiple networks, often detached from the locomotives and operators that haul them. This makes real-time visibility far more difficult to achieve than in road transport, where the…

This week, the Cohere AI team launched its first coding model designed for developers, called ‘North Mini Code’. This open-weight model is built specifically for software engineers. It uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 30 billion total parameters, though only 3 billion are activated for each token. The launch centers on the concept of “sovereign” AI. The core idea is straightforward: operate powerful models according to your own requirements. Compact, efficient coding models enable teams to host them independently without needing massive GPU clusters. North Mini Code is designed to fill this exact need. North Mini Code North Mini Code…

  # Introduction  Launching a new business doesn’t require you to seek venture capital right away. A wide range of funding alternatives exist, and the ideal choice largely hinges on the nature of your venture, the progress you’ve made so far, and how much control you wish to retain. Certain funding methods are non-dilutive, meaning you won’t need to surrender any ownership stake. Others provide access to funding, guidance, and investor connections in return for a share of equity. The optimal funding path may also vary based on your startup’s focus. Are you developing a software company, a consumer product,…

With the U.S. election season now in full swing, campaign advertisements are dominating television broadcasts and social media feeds across the country.Candidates, along with the political action committees (PACs) backing or opposing them, are expected to pour a historic $10 billion into advertising during this election cycle. A portion of that spending is being directed toward AI-generated deepfakes.Since November, at least 15 AI-produced campaign ads have aired, according to NBC News. Several of these have employed deepfakes to depict candidates engaging in or saying things that could damage their public image.Transparency advocates warn that such advertisements — which are already…

Hackers no longer need to break in through the back door when infostealers can hand them the keys to the front entrance. Infostealers have become the go-to tool for stealing login credentials. Using these stolen details is now the preferred method for attackers to slip into a target’s systems like an invited guest. It’s faster, simpler, quieter, and far more effective than trying to force their way in. According to Flashpoint, more than 11.1 million devices were compromised by infostealers in 2025. Over 3.3 billion credentials, browser data, session tokens, and other identity-related information are now being traded on underground…

AWS Graviton processors have improved steadily across generations, with each iteration delivering advances in compute performance, price-performance, and energy efficiency. At re:Invent 2025, we announced Amazon EC2 M9g, the first Graviton5-powered instances, in preview. Since then, customers have tested M9g across a wide range of workloads and shared their results. ClickHouse saw a 36% performance boost compared to M8g, with zero code changes. Honeycomb achieved 36% better throughput per core compared to Graviton4, across a 6-month A/B test of production observability workloads. HubSpot deployed M9g for MySQL databases and saw query duration drop by up to 60%. Today, M9g instances are…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Deutsche Telekom IoT is using the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup as a real-world blueprint for how connected stadiums could function — covering everything from parking and logistics to building systems, mobility, safety, and fan services. What stands out here isn’t a specific product reveal, but rather a clear picture of how global IoT connectivity, 5G, and real-time data must collaborate across the demanding environment of a major international event.When people talk about stadium digitalization, they usually focus on the fan-facing side: quicker entry, improved apps, seamless payments, and more relevant information.…

  # Overview  Picture this scenario: a multi-agent system that reads source files, generates patches, executes tests, and cycles through four different services — racking up 400 API calls in a single afternoon. Then the alert pops up: you’ve hit your soft usage cap yet again. Every token carries a cost, every request transmits your proprietary code to an external server, and rate limits keep disrupting long sessions. The only way forward? Pay up. Gemma 4 26B MoE engages just 3.8 billion out of its total 26 billion parameters during each forward pass. It achieves 77.1% on LiveCodeBench v6 and 86.4%…

Layla Hosseini-Gerami draws on her background in chemistry and bioinformatics to help identify failed drugs and fix issues around their toxicity.Credit: Ignota LabsIgnota Labs, a Cambridge-based startup, leverages artificial intelligence to figure out why certain drugs have stumbled in clinical trials, then re-engineers the most viable candidates to give them a second chance at reaching patients.Founded in 2021 by Layla Hosseini-Gerami, Jordan Lane, and Sam Windsor, the company secured $6.9 million in funding in February 2025. Since then, it has assembled a robust pipeline of promising therapies, including treatments targeting autoimmune disorders and blood cancers.Hosseini-Gerami, who serves as the company’s…

Over the past few years, businesses have been eagerly adopting AI in all sorts of ways. Yet, there’s little proof that these hefty investments are actually delivering results. It seems many companies are now facing an “AI plateau”—a stage where initial progress has stalled and productivity gains have flatlined despite continued spending. AI adoption is certainly climbing. The McKinsey State of AI 2025 report reveals that 88% of organizations surveyed now apply AI in at least one business function, up from 78% the year before. Still, the financial returns remain underwhelming. Fewer than 40% of companies say their AI…