Altais Cuts Prior Authorization Review Time by 45% and Reduces Manual Errors by 54% with Autonomize AI
Altais Health Solutions and Autonomize AI announced a clinician‑led partnership that leverages AI to automate prior‑authorization workflows. The deployment cut case‑review time by 45% and reduced manual errors by 54%, while half of routine requests now process automatically. Clinicians still make final coverage decisions, ensuring clinical governance. The results promise faster patient access and higher clinician productivity across Altais’s network of 10,000 providers.
G6 Hospitality Announces Partnership With Protect24.ai to Enhance Safety Intelligence
G6 Hospitality, the parent of Motel 6 and Studio 6, announced a strategic partnership with security‑intelligence firm Protect24.ai. The AI‑driven platform will be rolled out across more than 1,500 U.S. and Canadian locations to flag suspicious foot‑traffic, illegal escort operations, repeat high‑risk...
4 Ways Cities Can Shape Data Center Impact
Climate Mayors, together with Bloomberg Associates, released a report outlining how U.S. cities can shape the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers driven by AI growth. The guide highlights four leverage points—site selection, electricity costs, environmental impacts, and local economic...
Mastercam 2026.R2 Delivers GPU-Accelerated Simulation and AI-Powered Assistance
Mastercam unveiled its 2026.R2 update, the second release in a new semi‑annual cadence, delivering GPU‑accelerated simulation and an AI‑driven Copilot assistant. The GPU engine reduces verification times from roughly 90 minutes to just over 22 minutes while preserving accuracy. Copilot...
Basis Secures $100M Series B for AI Accounting Agents
Basis secured $100 million in a Series B round, valuing the AI accounting platform at $1.15 billion. The funding, led by Accel with participation from GV, Khosla Ventures and a roster of tech luminaries, will accelerate development of more sophisticated autonomous...
Collate Introduces Semantic Intelligence Graph to Make Enterprise Data Understandable to AI
Collate, a semantic intelligence firm, unveiled a new Semantic Intelligence Graph that converts enterprise metadata into a machine‑readable RDF‑based graph. The launch includes AI Studio, offering four pre‑built agents—Data Quality, Tier Management, Documentation, and SQL Query—to automate data tasks. An...
Navy Pushes AI From Experiments to Everyday Warfighting Functions
The U.S. Navy is moving artificial intelligence from experimental pilots into routine warfighting functions, aiming to embed trustworthy AI across all mission areas. Deputy Director Christopher Page emphasized the need for a common taxonomy and lexicon to ensure data quality...
Rightmove Launching AI Search App on ChatGPT
Rightmove has submitted an AI‑powered property search app to the ChatGPT app directory, allowing users to query listings via the @Rightmove command. The app, available to both free and paid ChatGPT users, returns property suggestions in a conversational carousel based...
StormHarvester: Using AI to Improve Wastewater Management
StormHarvester, a Belfast‑based startup, leverages machine learning and hyper‑local rainfall forecasting to give wastewater utilities real‑time insight into sewer levels, blockages and inflow. The company now works with 11 UK utilities, has deployed over 270,000 sensors worldwide and offers a...
AI Won't Make Your Game, but It Can Lighten the Load
AI won’t build an entire game, but it can dramatically speed up asset creation for indie studios, according to Ludo.ai CTO Jorge Gomes. The technology excels at generating concept sketches, sprite animations, and 3D props, turning tasks that once took...
Radio Workflow Expands Its Platform
Radio Workflow has upgraded its cloud‑native broadcast platform, unifying sales, production, traffic and management for small‑to‑mid‑market stations. The expansion introduces Broadcast Buddy, an AI‑driven assistant that handles meeting prep, email summarization, contract drafting and system navigation. New sales tools let...
Podcast: Rethinking Industrial Equipment Sales: Inside Corbel’s AI-Driven Approach
Corbel, a next‑generation CPQ platform, is using generative AI to overhaul industrial equipment sales. The system mines unstructured data—PDFs, videos, sales transcripts—to deliver instant technical answers and embeds financing options directly into the buying flow. By keeping human sales reps...
NAM’s AI Code of Conduct: What It Means for Behavioral Health
In May 2025 the National Academy of Medicine released an Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine, outlining ten principles to guide trustworthy, human‑centered AI across health care. The framework is especially relevant for behavioral health, where AI...
Kilo Launches KiloClaw, Allowing Anyone to Deploy Hosted OpenClaw Agents Into Production in 60 Seconds
Kilo has launched KiloClaw, a fully managed service that provisions a production‑ready OpenClaw agent in under 60 seconds, removing the need for SSH, Docker, or YAML setup. The platform runs on multi‑tenant VMs hosted by Fly.io, providing enterprise‑grade isolation, security...
Operto Unveils Coordinated AI Team Operto ONE
Operto has introduced Operto ONE, a coordinated AI platform that deploys three specialized teams—distribution, front‑of‑house, and back‑of‑house—across independent hotels. The system comprises seven agents that draw from a shared AI Hub, providing real‑time analysis, recommendations, and supervised actions. A built‑in...
Gartner Customer Service & Support Conference Denver 2026
Gartner’s Customer Service & Support Conference will convene in Denver from November 4‑6, 2026, gathering service leaders, technology providers, and analysts. The two‑day event emphasizes extracting ROI from AI investments, positioning service as a growth engine, and redefining success metrics...
Patients Are Using AI For Medical Advice. Here’s How To Do It Safely.
A Gallup poll shows 16 % of U.S. adults now rely on consumer AI chatbots for medical advice, highlighting a shift in patient behavior. These tools can simplify medical language and help patients prepare for visits, but they lack HIPAA compliance...
Is ChatGPT Changing The Way We Write?
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are influencing punctuation habits, notably reducing the use of the em‑dash in favor of simpler hyphens. The article examines whether this shift signals the em‑dash's decline and what it could mean for writing conventions. It...
Wall St Muted After Anthropic Announces New AI Tools
Anthropic announced ten new AI plug‑in tools aimed at investment‑banking, private‑equity, engineering and design workflows. The rollout follows recent AI releases that sparked a sell‑off in traditional software stocks. Wall Street’s major indexes barely moved on the news, with the...
How Disconnected Clouds Improve AI Data Governance
Microsoft has launched Azure Local, a fully disconnected private cloud that unifies Azure, Microsoft 365, and Foundry services for regulated enterprises. The offering supports offline governance, policy enforcement, and AI inferencing on on‑prem hardware, ensuring data never leaves customer‑controlled boundaries....
How AI Is Transforming Detection of Congenital Heart Defects
AI‑enabled ultrasound is emerging as a tool to improve prenatal detection of congenital heart defects (CHDs), which affect about 1 % of U.S. births and are frequently missed. FDA‑cleared AI platforms can analyze cardiac images in real time, flagging abnormal views...
Navigating the Shift in Professional Services with AI
AI agents from vendors like Anthropic are automating tasks traditionally performed by entry‑level consultants in finance, law and other professional services. Kantata’s chief product officer Sarah Edwards explains that the industry is moving from a head‑count‑driven pyramid to an upside‑down...
KODE Labs Unveils EnerG: Revolutionizing Utility Management for Smarter, Sustainable Real Estate Portfolios
KODE Labs has launched EnerG, an AI‑enabled platform that consolidates utility, sustainability, and performance data for enterprise real‑estate portfolios. The solution replaces fragmented spreadsheets, PDFs and portal pulls with automated ingestion, validation and anomaly detection. Built as an extension of...
FDA Picks Radiologist to Fill Key AI-Related Role
The FDA has appointed Dr. Jeffrey Abramson, a veteran radiologist with extensive AI and health‑policy experience, to a senior role within its Digital Health Center of Excellence. The move comes as the agency shifts toward a more hands‑off regulatory stance...
Here’s Who Will Win as Agentic Commerce Disrupts Traditional Online Shopping
Agentic commerce, powered by large‑language‑model agents, is reshaping e‑commerce by making AI the primary buyer. Adobe reports a 693.4 percent surge in AI‑driven traffic during the 2025 holiday season, indicating a lasting shift. Retailers must supply structured, trustworthy product data, real‑time...
Aspect Announces Aspect Intelligence™: Redefining How AI Powers Workforce Operations
Aspect introduced Aspect Intelligence™, an AI‑driven suite that embeds predictive, policy‑aware intelligence directly into workforce forecasting, scheduling and real‑time operations. The platform shifts enterprises from static, reactive planning to continuous, automated control, starting with automatic schedule updates that adjust for...
Medical AI Is Already In Hospitals. Who Is Watching Its Safety?
The FDA has opened public comment on a citizen petition that would shift oversight of adaptive radiology AI tools from repeated pre‑market reviews to continuous post‑market monitoring. As AI algorithms are updated to improve performance or expand indications, the traditional...
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Zebra Technologies’ AltiZ 3D sensors now power EBI Electric’s Inspector T lumber‑scanning system, delivering an eightfold increase in measurement precision. The AI‑enhanced solution identifies defects such as knots, cracks and rot, enabling manufacturers to boost usable wood yields by up to...
HPE Exposes Juniper Routers to Third-Party AI Agents
HPE announced that its newly acquired Juniper routers will be exposed to third‑party AI agents via a Model Context Protocol, enabling AI‑driven configuration and deployment. The company also introduced the PTX12000 series, scaling up to 518.4 Tbps, and the PTX10002 line...
Outreach February 2026 Product Release: AI That Understands and Acts
Outreach’s February 2026 release adds a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that streams real‑time insights to Anthropic’s Claude and other AI agents. New integrations with LeadIQ, ZoomInfo, and Kaia™ APIs bring enriched and conversational data directly into the platform. The...
Your AI Is Getting a Bank Account: MoonPay Just Gave Bots the Power to Spend Money
MoonPay introduced MoonPay Agents, a non‑custodial, permissionless financial layer that lets AI agents control funded crypto wallets. Users complete a one‑time KYC and link a payment method, after which the AI can autonomously trade, swap and move funds. The service...
New Relic Launches New AI Agent Platform and OpenTelemetry Tools
New Relic unveiled the Agentic Platform, a no‑code solution that lets enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents focused on observability outcomes. The platform supports the Model Context Protocol, enabling seamless connection to external data sources and integration with existing...
Oura Thinks Its New AI Can Do What ChatGPT Can’t for Women’s Health
Oura announced its first proprietary large language model, a clinician‑vetted AI built specifically for women’s health, embedded in the Oura Advisor feature. The model draws on users' sleep, activity, stress and menstrual cycle data to deliver personalized guidance, moving beyond...
New York Bill Would 'Shackle' Media Firms, 'Washington Post' Editorial Board Argues
New York lawmakers are advancing a bill that would compel media companies to disclose any artificial‑intelligence tools used in their operations, a move the Washington Post editorial board warns could stifle innovation. At the same time, veteran CBS correspondent David...
Retail’s AI Isn’t Failing Because It’s Too Slow. It’s Failing Because It’s Not Listening
Retailers have flooded their tech stacks with AI dashboards and predictive models, but the overload has amplified uncertainty rather than clarity. The core issue isn’t speed; it’s that most AI relies on synthetic personas, which 69% of consumers say erodes...
Oxford University Hospitals Shares Evaluation of Ambient Voice Pilots
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust completed a pilot of ambient voice technology (AVT) across inpatient and outpatient settings, testing four vendors – Accurx Scribe, Tortus, Heidi and Lyrebird. Almost 90% of clinicians reported reduced documentation time, with 88%...
AI Provides a More Precise Time of Death Post-Mortem
Researchers at Linköping University and Sweden's National Board of Forensic Medicine have created an AI model that estimates the post‑mortem interval with roughly one‑day precision, even up to 13 days after death. The system analyzes metabolite patterns in blood, leveraging...
A16z Speedrun Alum General Magic Secures $7.2 Million USD to Make Calling Your Insurance Company Less of a Slog
Toronto AI startup General Magic announced a $7.2 million financing round led by Radical Ventures with participation from a16z Speedrun and several angel investors. The company’s agentic AI texting platform automates insurance customer interactions across quoting, coverage queries, and claims, promising...
Slotegrator Introduces an AI-Powered Anti-Fraud Assistant
Slotegrator has launched an AI‑powered anti‑fraud assistant for iGaming operators, turning existing dashboard metrics into concise, structured insights. The tool does not create new data or make autonomous blocking decisions, instead offering analytical recommendations for human review. It targets new...
‘Garbage in, Garbage Out’ – Solar Industry Debates Reality of AI
The Solar Quality Summit in Barcelona highlighted AI’s ability to accelerate photovoltaic project planning, construction, and operations, but stressed that its value hinges on high‑quality data. Attendees warned that “garbage in, garbage out” can magnify mistakes, making validation and human...
AI Chip Startup MatX Raises $500 Million to Compete With Nvidia
AI chip startup MatX, founded by two former Google semiconductor engineers, announced a funding round exceeding $500 million to accelerate development of GPUs that challenge Nvidia’s market dominance. The round was led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, with participation from...
Canary Speech, JubileeTV Partner on AI Voice Biomarkers for At-Home Care
Canary Speech has partnered with JubileeTV to embed its AI‑driven vocal‑biomarker technology into consumer video calls, marking the first deployment outside clinical settings. The system analyzes 40 seconds of natural conversation, extracting thousands of acoustic features to generate nondiagnostic scores...
Saga and Etermax Bring Trivia Crack’s Willy to Life as an AI Character Agent | Exclusive
Saga, a hyperscaling AI platform, partnered with Etermax to launch an AI‑driven version of Willy, the mascot of the Trivia Crack franchise. The new agent can converse with users across social platforms, aiming to deepen community interaction and attract fresh...
Nimble Raises $47M to Give AI Agents Access to Real-Time Web Data
Nimble announced a $47 million Series B round led by Norwest to scale its AI‑driven web‑search platform. The service uses autonomous agents to query the internet in real time, validates results, and outputs them as structured tables that can be queried like...
AITech Interview with Gil Pekelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Atera
Atera’s IT Autopilot introduces agentic AI that autonomously resolves Tier 1 tickets, freeing technicians for higher‑value work. Unlike traditional script‑based automation, the platform operates with contextual understanding and strict guardrails, delivering faster resolutions and a better user experience. Early adopters reported...
ICE to Outsource Decisions About What Surveillance Tools to Buy Next
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will contract a private firm to decide which surveillance technologies to acquire, pilot, or defer. The request for information outlines a mandate that includes identifying enterprise‑wide gaps, scouting emerging tools, and drafting problem statements...
TASKING Integrates Modern AI Technology to Enable Robust Software Verification and Validation (V&V)
TASKING announced that its embedded software toolchain now incorporates agentic AI workflows, allowing OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to automate design, debug, and verification tasks with large language models. The new capabilities use the open‑source Model Context Protocol to let LLMs...
Rohde & Schwarz Advances AI-RAN Testing Using Digital Twins with NVIDIA
Rohde & Schwarz, together with NVIDIA, unveiled an AI‑driven testbed at MWC Barcelona 2026 that combines the NVIDIA Sionna Research Kit with a DGX Spark server for hardware‑in‑the‑loop, site‑specific channel emulation. The platform runs a software‑defined 5G NR stack via...
Coty Launches AI-Driven Fragrance Concept Store in Hong Kong
Coty has opened “My Scent Edit,” an AI‑enhanced fragrance concept store inside Langham Beauty in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district. The shop‑in‑shop showcases brands such as Calvin Klein, Gucci and Kylie Cosmetics, and offers AI‑driven digital consultations, an AI photo booth, and...
Nvidia Plans a Windows PC SoC, Setting up Direct Competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD
Nvidia is engineering a Windows‑compatible system‑on‑chip based on its GB10 platform, a partnership with MediaTek that blends 20 Arm cores and a Blackwell GPU delivering up to one petaFLOP of AI performance. Dell and Lenovo have already signaled intent to...