Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize “actionable intelligence” on its audience. According to USA Today CEO Mike Reed, the goal is to “build a common intelligence layer” on reader data to “monetize those relationships faster and at […]

Multi-year agreement deepens Sigma’s relationship with AWS, expanding joint go-to-market, co-selling, and availability in AWS Marketplace to help enterprises build and scale on governed cloud data. Sigma, the layer to build and scale analytics, apps, and agents, today announced it has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Under the

Firebird launches one of the world’s fastest-deployed NVIDIA DSX AI factories, accelerating its global expansion across emerging markets. NVIDIA’s investment will accelerate Firebird’s expansion of AI infrastructure across emerging markets. Firebird’s three-phase expansion in Armenia plans to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms with more than 70,000 NVIDIA GPUs. Firebird’s global AI infrastructure pipeline is

Companies form strategic partnership to help enterprises deploy AI at scale Eldridge today announced it has acquired a significant stake in Sudolabs, a provider of custom agentic AI systems and consulting services for enterprise clients. The investment will accelerate Sudolabs’ growth in the United States through the formation of a strategic partnership with Eldridge. Day-to-day

The partnership pairs ACL Digital’s enterprise engineering depth with Hubbl’s AI-powered Salesforce intelligence to turn insight into impact in days. ACL Digital, part of the ALTEN Group, a trusted AI-led Digital Enterprise & Systems Engineering Partner driving innovation by designing and building intelligent systems across the full technology stack from chip to cloud, announced a

Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners. As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber and Lyft drivers’ cars to scan the license plates of every vehicle that drove past them — in effect turning

New Africa/Shutterstock A teenager joins an online video chat. Within seconds, artificial intelligence analyses their face and gives them a score out of ten for “attractiveness”. They are compared in real time with another user who scores higher and is declared the winner. The game is live-streamed, and the audience ridicule the loser in the

The gap between ambition and infrastructure Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to get canceled by the end of 2027, a June 2025 prediction driven by rising costs, murky business value, and thin risk controls. MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 report published that August found 95% of generative AI pilots fail

Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average of 699.99 pings per day. This deluge isn’t the regular flood of spam, newsletters, and unwanted deals that fill many

When station wagons headed for the same retirement home as the vinyl roof and the opera window, Subaru looked at its sensible Legacy wagon and had a different idea. Raise it a few inches, wrap the lower body in plastic cladding, name it for the Australian bush, and suburban families would drive to soccer practice