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This post is co-written with Sunaina Kavi, AI/ML Product Manager at Omada Health. Omada Health, a longtime innovator in virtual healthcare delivery, launched a new nutrition experience in 2025, featuring OmadaSpark, an AI agent trained with robust clinical input that delivers real-time motivational interviewing and nutrition education. It was built on AWS. OmadaSpark was designed to help members identify their own motivational challenges like emotional eating, improve food decisions, set goals, and sustain lasting behavior change. The following screenshot shows an example of OmadaSpark’s Nutritional Education feature, demonstrating how members receive personalized nutrition education in real time. In this post,…

With nearly 300 LocusBots operating across Radial’s network, the partnership demonstrates how AI-powered automation is redefining modern warehouse efficiency and scalability. WILMINGTON, Mass., January 12, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Locus Robotics, the leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for warehouse and fulfillment operations, today announced that its partnership with Radial, Inc., a leader in eCommerce solutions, has surpassed 25 million units picked in Radial’s Shepherdsville warehouse. This milestone highlights how Locus’s proven and advanced automation and Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) models are transforming fulfillment by delivering greater scalability, operational resilience, and consistent high-volume performance. “Consumers are no longer buying products, they’re buying confidence in delivery,”…

For several years, the space-based geospatial intelligence industry has been chasing a logical vision for AI: use it to make our existing systems faster and smarter. Train models to detect objects. Automate change detection. Speed up analysis. These capabilities have delivered operational benefits. But they’ve also kept us focused on a specific paradigm — collect an image from space, process it, apply AI and deliver insights via dedicated access platforms. We’ve built impressive AI tools on top of a traditional architecture that was designed before the onset of our increasingly AI-powered world. In short, we’ve been using AI to improve…

Report Overview The Global Bare Metal Cloud Market size is expected to be worth around USD 102.4 Billion By 2035, from USD 12.4 billion in 2025, growing at a CAGR of 23.5% during the forecast period from 2026 to 2035. North America held a dominan Market position, capturing more than a 34.2% share, holding USD 4.2 Billion revenue. The bare metal cloud market refers to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings that provide dedicated physical servers for enterprise workloads without the overhead of virtualisation layers. These services deliver raw compute resources on demand, combining the performance and customisation of traditional physical servers with…

Automation in 2026 is no longer judged by the volume of experiments, but by the reliability of the evidence they produce. As complex biology and tighter budgets collide, industry leaders are pivoting toward automated workflows to secure the data integrity required for confident, early-stage decision-making. Automation is well-established in early drug discovery, but its growing importance in 2026 reflects practical constraints rather than incremental uptake of laboratory hardware. Large pharmaceutical companies and well-funded biotechs are applying automation more deliberately as biological models become more complex, data volumes increase and expectations around cost and time to decision tighten. What distinguishes the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matt Blumberg, a four-time technology CEO who now leads Markup AI, maker of an AI platform designed to help brands safely scale AI-generated content. He is based in New York City. This story has been edited for length and clarity.Since I run an AI company, I try to build AI agents and use AI as much as I can. In October, I got an idea to build what I call a fantasy board of directors from another CEO, and with his permission, I made a version of my own to use…

Every day, hotel front desk staff welcome new guests and collect their personal identifiable information (PII), such as names, addresses, emails, credit card numbers, and even passport data. This trove of data makes hotels attractive targets for cyber-attackers—but it’s not just the data that draws them in. The hospitality industry is founded on a culture of trust and service. Front desk staff, in particular, are trained to be responsive, helpful, and quick to accommodate guests’ needs. Unfortunately, this hospitable nature makes them prime targets for social engineering cyberattacks. Even if a hotel has a robust cybersecurity posture, including the use…

Blockchain’s next leap won’t be powered by code alone: It will be shaped by regulation. Drawing on Europe’s experience as home to the world’s most comprehensive digital-asset framework to date, this Tracker examines how evolving guidance is beginning to create the foundations for safe, scalable blockchain adoption. It explores the trust architecture emerging where policy and technology converge. It also looks at the implementation challenges that continue to complicate progress. Regulatory clarity is not arriving all at once, but it will ultimately determine how quickly blockchain moves from experimentation to widespread deployment. We examine regulatory developments in Europe through three…

The global cloud computing market is experiencing rapid expansion as it is influenced by some major factors, such as the increasing need for scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient computing resources. Another such factor is an increase in the demand for remote work solutions, data storage, and disaster recovery services. Apart from this, businesses are adopting cloud solutions to smoothen their operations and reduce IT infrastructure costs, which is leaving a positive impact on the industry expansion. An increase in the demand for remote work solutions, data storage, and disaster recovery services has also increased the market share. Along with this, the…

BBCNEO the domestic robot is launching to customers this yearThe idea of having a friendly robot butler that can do all the dull duties of running a home has existed for decades.But now, thanks to AI, it’s genuinely happening and this year the first truly multi-purpose domestic bots will start to enter homes.In Silicon Valley, they’re being trained at speed to fold laundry, load the dishwasher, and clean up after us. Their excitable human creators are making big promises but I wanted to see how realistic the idea of a robot housekeeper really is.So I went to meet Eggie, NEO,…