Background screening provider Yardstik today announced three connected technologies aimed squarely at AI-driven identity fraud: Detect AI™, a new biometric Identity Verification system, and real-time Continuous Criminal Monitoring. Together, they form what the company is branding as a new category: the Human Trust Platform (HTP).
Enterprise AI budgets are climbing. Confidence? Not so much. New research from Alteryx, the Irvine-based analytics and AI automation vendor, suggests that while companies are pouring money into AI infrastructure and tools, most still can’t get projects out of the lab and into production. Fewer than one in four AI pilots successfully operationalize, according to…
Sydney, Australia – February 11, 2026 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced a set of Mailchimp product innovations that unlock profitable growth for ecommerce businesses. Powered by the Intuit platform, the enhancements include more ways for merchants to connect their…
Marketing agencies are uniquely positioned as custodians of client data across dozens of platforms. How has this role evolved in terms of security responsibility, and why is 2026 a critical year for agencies to address this? Marketing agencies have fundamentally transformed from service providers into data custodians, often holding the keys to their clients’ most…
Tony, there’s a lot of talk about multicultural audiences being “important.” Can you explain? Multicultural audiences are no longer a segment; they’re the primary drivers of U.S. economic growth. Multicultural consumers are fueling most of the country’s buying power. But reaching this deeply nuanced, diverse audience in a privacy-first ad technology environment has never been…
The global technical talent marketplace today announced a major expansion of its Andela AI Academy, transforming what began as a GitHub Copilot training initiative into a full-scale, production-focused AI upskilling engine. The goal: train 15,000 technologists by 2026 and build what it calls the world’s largest just-in-time pipeline of enterprise-ready AI engineers.
By Pat Breen, Area Vice President, ANZ, Cloudflare: On Safer Internet Day, it’s worth recognising a simple reality: AI is reshaping the Internet in two directions at once. The same tools accelerating productivity and innovation are also industrialising cybercrime—making attacks faster to launch, cheaper to run, and harder to spot. We’ve seen the impact in Australia. In…
By Pat Breen, Area Vice President, ANZ, Cloudflare: On Safer Internet Day, it’s worth recognising a simple reality: AI is reshaping the Internet in two directions at once. The same tools accelerating productivity and innovation are also industrialising cybercrime—making attacks faster to launch, cheaper to run, and harder to spot. We’ve seen the impact in Australia. In…
Warehouse operations have spent decades flying half-blind. Digital systems insist inventory is in one place, while the physical world quietly disagrees—costing global logistics companies billions each year in missed shipments, wasted labor, and excess stock. Gather AI wants to eliminate that disconnect entirely, and investors are betting it can.
