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Here Technologies: Software für Navigation, ADAS und autonomes Fahren
Der Gedodatenanbieter Here Technologies zeigt auf der CES 2026 KI-gestützte Software für Live-Karten, autonomes Fahren und Fahrassistenzsysteme.

A look at Alibaba's Accio, an AI sourcing tool that helps small online sellers connect with manufacturers, including in China; it exceeded 10M MAUs in March (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/06/1135118/ai-onli…

AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make
Entrepreneurs based in the US are using tools like Alibaba’s Accio to compress weeks of product research and supplier hunting into a single chat.

Ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Google issued a call for action to secure the quantum computing era
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/the-quantum-era-is-coming-are-we-ready-to-secure-…

The quantum era is coming. Are we ready to secure it?
Google shares an update on its work and suggestions for how policymakers can help everyone be more secure in the Quantum Era.

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/mobile-fortify-face-scan-dhs-kristi-noem-database-technology/

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

Laut NORD/LB-Studie investieren 71 Prozent der mittelständischen Unternehmen gezielt in die #Energiewende und neue Technologien.
Im Schnitt fließen 36 Prozent des Budgets in Projekte wie #Photovoltaik, #Speicher

NORD/LB-Studie: Mittelstand investiert verstärkt in Energiewende und neue Technologien
Trotz eines herausfordernden wirtschaftlichen Umfelds investieren mittelständische Unternehmen intensiv in die Energiewende. Im Durchschnitt fließen 36 Prozent ihres Budgets in Transformationsprojekte. Dazu zählen der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien, etwa durch die Installation eigener Photovoltaikanlagen oder den Bau von Blockheizkraftwerken. Auch nachhaltige Gebäudetechnik, wie effiziente Lüftungssysteme oder digitale Lösungen zur Steuerung des Energieverbrauchs, gewinnt an Bedeutung. Das …

NewsGuard sues the FTC, alleging censorship after the FTC barred Omnicom from working with NewsGuard as a condition of the ad agency's Interpublic acquisition (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/news-g…

A company that rates news sites says the Trump administration is strangling it
NewsGuard sues Trump’s FTC alleging censorship after Chairman Andrew Ferguson barred a major ad agency from using its ratings

The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/technology/ai-code-overload.html

The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.

KI-Wettrüsten: Techriesen investieren dieses Jahr 650 Milliarden US-Dollar
KI-Investitionen erreichen astronomische Höhen. Mehr als eine halbe Billion US-Dollar wollen große US-Techkonzerne dieses Jahr in die Technologie stecken.

A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/ai-data-centers-land-c…

Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.06B est., GMV up 36% to $13.8B, and forecasts Q3 revenue slightly above est.; AFRM drops 6% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/affir…

Affirm Earnings, Revenue, Merchant Volume Top Estimates
Affirm stock dipped amid fiscal Q2 earnings and revenue that topped estimates while guidance came in slightly above views.