Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed palm-sized drones that use bat-inspired ultrasound and AI to navigate through fog, smoke, and other challenging conditions. The device mimics how bats use simple echolocation to navigate dark, cluttered environments with minimal neural processing. The Ghost Murmur mission report illustrates how real-world operations depend on detecting and
0:02 | Apr 16, 2026, 10:36PM EDT How Altana Is Fixing The Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem With AI Supply chains used to be an invisible back-office function—until global shocks, shifting geopolitics, and new tariffs made them a C-suite emergency. Forbes’ Maggie McGrath chats with Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder of Altana, to discuss how his
The shock, turmoil, and heartache of being handed a pink slip or weathering a downsizing is hard to fathom. Yet, after a recent round of Oracle layoffs, there’s now a way to peek behind the corporate curtain. Several workers at the Texas-based tech giant expressed the shock of being part of what one former employee
Tesla’s Semi is arriving at scale just as Europe’s largest truck manufacturers are in federal court fighting the climate policies designed to prepare them for exactly this moment. The auto industry has made this mistake before. Daimler Truck, Volvo Group, and Traton — the parent company of International Motors — filed a motion through the
Last week marked a landmark moment in tech history when a Los Angeles jury ruled that social media giants Meta and YouTube were negligent in designing features that harmed a 20-year-old’s mental health. The seven-week trial kicked off in February, more than two years after California-based “Kaley G.M.” sued the platforms in 2023, alleging that
Fiber Optical cables connected to ethernet ports.gettyBharti Airtel—controlled by billionaire Sunil Mittal—and a group of investors are investing $1 billion in data center projects in India to tap into the AI boom in the world’s most populous country. Under the deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, three U.S. private equity firms will inject fresh…
According to Sam Altman’s prediction made two years ago, this would be the first trillion dollar (billion) company created by AI alone. And now, just last month, his prediction has become perhaps the hottest topic of conversation in the world of Business. Many founders have told their own stories of managing $1m+ businesses as “solos”.
OpenAI is closing its video generation product Sora. Thus ends OpenAI’s high-profile push into AI video and a proposed $1 billion partnership with The Walt Disney Company that never resulted in payments. The move reflects a broader shift by OpenAI toward enterprise software and coding, areas seen as more commercially viable and less resource-intensive. Sora
Earlier in 2026 shares of some of the world’s largest business software companies – including HubSpot, Intuit, Autodesk, Salesforce, Drobox, Adobe and Docusign – plummeted in value. Some companies partially recovered, but most did not. Why the disruption? A number of AI tools have been rolling out that allow non-developers to do the work that
The all-new LEGO SMART Play technology is a weird proposition, and its initial announcement at the start of January left people like me with more questions than answers. One thing was clear: it was the most cutting-edge, tech-focused range it’s ever developed, and this naturally led to a quick backlash. Maybe it was due to





