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Quantum Shore Chicago is set to completely transform the lakefront where I used to call home. If you grew up in or near Chicago, you know the city was once the site of many steel mills. Now, it is being reimagined with a greater focus on technological innovation, namely quantum. Once the site of steel mills that built this nation’s bridges and skyscrapers, today the area of Chicago is being reimagined to forge new ideas and industries that will shape the forefront of technology for decades to come. The former U.S. Steel South Works site at 8080 S. DuSable Lake…
People without coding backgrounds are discovering that they can build their own custom apps using vibe coding — solutions like Lovable that turn plain-language descriptions into working code. While these prompt-to-code tools can help create nice prototypes, launching them into full-scale production (as this reporter recently discovered) can be tricky without figuring out how to connect the application with external tech services, such as those that can send text messages via SMS, email, and process Stripe payments. Ilan Zerbib, who spent five years as Shopify’s director of engineering for payments, is building a solution that could eliminate these back-end infrastructure…
There has been a clear shift over recent years in how scientists assess the risks of engineered nanoparticles, calling for toxicity evaluations that are predictive, mechanism-based, and grounded in real-life exposure scenarios. Study: Predictive and Mechanism-Based Toxicity Evaluation of Engineered Nanoparticles. Image Credit: TheCorgi/Shutterstock.com An editorial published in Nanomaterials synthesizes findings from a recent Special Issue, reflecting how the field is moving beyond short-term toxicity tests toward more integrated and forward-looking safety frameworks. Get all the details: Grab your PDF here! Engineered nanoparticles (NPs), typically measuring between 1 and 100 nanometers, behave very differently from their bulk material counterparts. Their high surface area…
Boyd Gaming Corporation reported higher revenue for both the fourth quarter and full year 2025, while a major asset sale delivered a sharp boost to annual net income, the company said Thursday. For the three months ended December 31, Boyd, which operates casinos and resorts across the United States, generated $1.1 billion in revenue. That was up from roughly $1 billion in the same period a year earlier. Net income for the quarter, however, declined to $140.4 million, or $1.79 per share, from $170.5 million, or $1.92 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2024. Adjusted earnings totaled $173.5 million,…
Amid growing industry buzz, agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to move beyond whiteboard concepts into early pilots across sales, marketing, and revenue teams. As early proof-of-concept initiatives gain traction, enterprises are increasingly viewing agentic AI not merely as a suite of tools but as a transformative system of intelligence that can reshape growth services. Its promise extends beyond efficiency, signaling a shift toward dynamic, self-learning marketing operations where agents autonomously plan, execute, and optimize campaigns, engage with customers, and tackle creative workflows. Reach out to discuss this topic in depth. Highlight: Agentic AI represents a natural evolution from traditional automation to intelligent orchestration. Powered by Large Action Models (LAMs), these agents…
Bharti Airtel’s Q3 FY26 results highlight more than financial growth. A closer look at the company’s operational metrics suggests that recent network investments are beginning to reflect in how users experience the service across mobile and broadband.The company reported Rs 39,226 crore in India revenue, a 13.2% year-on-year increase, driven by mobile premiumisation, strong traction in the Homes segment, and stable performance from Airtel Business. India EBITDA rose to Rs 23,676 crore, up 19.3% YoY, with margins improving to 60.4%. Consolidated net income, before exceptional items, stood at Rs 6,920 crore.While these figures underline financial strength, the underlying drivers point…
That was certainly the case for Claude Opus 4.5, the latest version of Anthropic’s most powerful model, which was released in late November. In December, METR announced that Opus 4.5 appeared to be capable of independently completing a task that would have taken a human about five hours—a vast improvement over what even the exponential trend would have predicted. One Anthropic safety researcher tweeted that he would change the direction of his research in light of those results; another employee at the company simply wrote, “mom come pick me up i’m scared.” Credit: METR.ORG But the truth is more complicated…
When your CISO mentions “AI security” in the next board meeting, what exactly do they mean? Are they talking about protecting your AI systems from attacks? Using AI to catch hackers? Preventing employees from leaking data to an unapproved AI service? Ensuring your AI doesn’t produce harmful outputs? The answer might be “all of the above”; and that’s precisely the problem. AI became deeply embedded in enterprise operations. As a result, the intersection of “AI” and “security” has become increasingly complex and confusing. The same terms are used to describe fundamentally different domains with distinct objectives, leading to miscommunication that…
Today’s “AI everywhere” reality is woven into everyday workflows across the enterprise, embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and a rapidly expanding universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Yet most organizations still rely on legacy controls that operate far away from where AI interactions actually occur. The result is a widening governance gap where AI usage grows exponentially, but visibility and control do not. With AI becoming central to productivity, enterprises face a new challenge: enabling the business to innovate while maintaining governance, compliance, and security. A new Buyer’s Guide for AI Usage…
VANCOUVER — As major development plans move ahead across British Columbia, the absence of a province-wide EV-ready building standard risks locking in higher future costs as more drivers switch to electric vehicles, warns a new roadmap released today by Clean Energy Canada and the Community Energy Association. The report, Making All New B.C. Homes EV-Ready, draws on a year of research and engagement with B.C. local governments, utilities, developers, and EV charging experts, and sets out a stakeholder-informed pathway for implementing a province-wide EV-ready standard for new residential construction. Its release comes as B.C. has seen sustained EV adoption over…