Semarchy Closes 2025 with Global Growth and Momentum
Semarchy reported a year of global expansion, highlighted by the launch of the Semarchy Data Platform (SDP) and the first native MDM application on Snowflake Marketplace. The company deepened strategic ties with Snowflake and Microsoft while adding marquee customers such as DP World, Element Fleet and Sweco. It also broadened its leadership team across sales, operations and product. These moves position Semarchy for accelerated growth and AI‑ready data initiatives in 2026.
Karavel Raises £1.25m Pre-Seed to Modernise AI-Driven Compliance
Karavel announced a £1.25 million pre‑seed round led by Fuel Ventures to accelerate its AI‑driven compliance platform across the UK and Europe. The solution bundles marketing ad reviews, real‑time horizon scanning, regulatory gap analysis and actionable guidance in one interface. By...
Ellipsis Health Expands Access to Sage via Salesforce AppExchange
Ellipsis Health has launched its AI care manager Sage on the Salesforce AppExchange, enabling Agentforce Health customers to embed autonomous, empathetic voice assessments into existing workflows. Sage, a HIPAA‑compliant conversational AI, can conduct post‑discharge, risk and complex care assessments around...
RiseLink Convenes the Physical AI Ecosystem at CES 2026
RiseLink Technologies staged an invitation‑only "Physical AI" mixer at CES 2026, gathering AI model creators, hardware firms, and product innovators to align the full AI stack from silicon to shipped devices. The event showcased the company’s connective platform that bridges...
Densify Announced Its Rebranding to Kubex
Densify has rebranded to Kubex, turning its product name into the company identity to reflect a strategic focus on AI‑first, end‑to‑end resource optimization. The Kubex platform now unifies optimization for Kubernetes nodes, pods, containers, GPU and AI workloads across cloud...
Unframe Launches Unframe Unlimited to Accelerate Enterprise ROI on AI
Unframe announced Unframe Unlimited, a partner program that equips channel partners to sell, deploy, and scale enterprise‑ready AI solutions on its managed delivery platform. The initiative provides sales enablement, marketing support, outcome‑based pricing and co‑selling opportunities, enabling partners to deliver...
Evernote Releases V11, Marking a New Chapter in AI-Powered Productivity
Evernote unveiled version 11, its first major update in five years, introducing three AI‑driven features: AI Assistant, Semantic Search, and AI Meeting Notes. The AI Assistant, built with OpenAI, offers a conversational chat interface for notes, tasks, and calendar actions....
Signaloid Successfully Achieves SOC 2 Type II Attestation
Signaloid announced that it has earned a SOC 2 Type II attestation, concluding a three‑month audit of its cloud infrastructure, data‑processing pipelines, and operational controls. The audit, performed by compliance specialist A‑LIGN, covered the period from July 1 to September 30, 2025,...
Dockerhub for Skill.md
The Official SKILLS.md Hub launches on Dockerhub as a centralized registry for SKILLS.md files that extend AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. Users can search and install skills via the simple "sr" CLI, accessing tools ranging from Slack automation...
How To Build Production-Ready AI Agents With RAG and FastAPI
The New Stack tutorial outlines a production‑ready stack for building agentic AI using Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and FastAPI. It combines a LangChain‑style reasoning loop, FAISS vector search, schema‑based guardrails, and token‑metered cost controls. The guide adds async execution, retries, semantic...
Simplifying Your Business Response to Worst-Case Scenarios
Businesses face increasingly frequent, complex disruptions—from supply‑chain shocks to prolonged government shutdowns—that strain traditional planning methods. The article argues that manual spreadsheet‑based scenario analysis is too slow and reactive for worst‑case events. It proposes mathematical optimization, framing problems with objective...
Applications Now Open for Next Round of FCA’s AI Live Testing
The FCA has opened applications for the second round of its AI Live Testing programme, a regulatory sandbox that pairs firms with the FCA and tech partner Advai to develop, assess and deploy AI in UK financial markets. Applications close...
Inovalon Launches Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener to Accelerate Trial Recruitment
Inovalon introduced a Clinical Trial Eligibility Screener, an API that evaluates patient eligibility in real time using longitudinal primary source data. The service applies natural language processing to parse free‑text inclusion and exclusion criteria, delivering pass, fail or inconclusive results...
Sensera Systems Launches New Functionality for SiteCloud Insights
Sensera Systems announced new functionality for its SiteCloud Insights platform, adding site‑hygiene monitoring, dumpster fill alerts, and two Procore integrations for daily logs and fall‑hazard reporting. The enhancements deliver real‑time, AI‑driven insights every two hours and enable automatic export of...
Software Stocks See Worst Start to Year Since 2022 as AI Disruption Fears Mount
Anthropic unveiled Claude Cowork, an AI‑powered office assistant, sparking fresh fears about software disruption. The announcement triggered a sharp sell‑off in software equities, with Intuit down 16%, Adobe and Salesforce each losing over 11%, marking the worst weekly decline for the...
Boardwalktech Launches Verity, the Intelligent Controls Platform
Boardwalktech Software Corp. unveiled Verity, an AI‑driven Intelligent Controls Platform aimed at banks, insurers and other highly regulated enterprises. The solution uses generative and agentic AI to automate the design, execution, testing and continuous monitoring of operational, financial and compliance...
Automate 2026 Brings Popular Humanoid Robot Forum and NVIDIA-Sponsored Humanoid Robot Pavilion to Show
Automate 2026, North America’s largest robotics trade show, will host the third annual Humanoid Robot Forum alongside a new NVIDIA‑sponsored Humanoid Robot Pavilion. The paid forum, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, will deliver deep‑dive sessions on humanoid development, deployment...
J&J Bets on Isomorphic for AI-Powered Drug Hunt
Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Biotech unit has entered a cross‑modality, multi‑target research collaboration with Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet‑backed AI drug‑discovery start‑up. The partnership combines Isomorphic’s planet‑scale computing and AI‑driven design engine with J&J’s experimental and development capabilities, covering both small‑molecule...
CX Industry Leaders Atento and Omilia Establish Strategic Partnership to Lead the Next Wave of Conversational AI Innovation
Atento and Omilia have formed a strategic alliance to embed Omilia’s agentic conversational AI into Atento’s customer experience platform. The partnership enhances Atento’s AI Agent pillar with autonomous virtual agents that can reason, act, and learn across voice and digital...
Galbot S1 Breaks Industry Load Limits with 50KG Heavy-Duty Capacity
Galbot unveiled the S1, a heavy‑duty embodied‑AI robot that lifts a continuous dual‑arm payload of 50 kg, shattering the industry’s long‑standing limit. The S1 is already operating on CATL’s core battery‑production lines, proving its viability in real‑world manufacturing. It runs up...
CMES Robotics Expands AI-Driven Warehouse Automation Footprint with New Logistics Projects
CMES Robotics announced new multi‑year AI‑vision automation projects with a premium North American food ingredient manufacturer, extending its warehouse automation footprint. The deployments focus on robotic bag palletizing that can handle frequent changes in product size, packaging and orientation. CMES...
SALESmanago Ramps Up AI and Messaging Tech to Redefine eCommerce Marketing in 2026
SALESmanago is rolling out a native WhatsApp integration and AI‑driven Recommendation Frames to give eCommerce marketers real‑time, hyper‑personalised customer experiences. The platform now supports multimedia messaging, automated journeys, and dynamic CTAs that target abandoned carts, restock alerts, and on‑site product...
Best Writing Tools for Business in 2026
The article reviews the leading AI‑driven writing tools for businesses in 2026, highlighting features, platform integrations, and pricing. Grammarly, ProWritingAid, Ginger, LanguageTool, Hemingway Editor, and Otter each offer free tiers and paid plans ranging from $9.90 to $120 per user....
Design Smarter, Source Faster: How AI Is Closing Fashion’s Most Expensive Data Gap
Product development cycles in fashion now span 10‑18 months, with production adding another 4‑6 weeks, and data gaps between design, sourcing and factories cause costly delays. Ultra‑fast retailers like Shein have accelerated style turnover, exposing weaknesses in handoffs where specifications...
Cyngn Receives Notice of Allowance for 24th U.S. Patent for Its AI-Powered Autonomous Vehicle Technologies
Cyngn announced a notice of allowance for its 24th U.S. patent covering a system and method of adaptive, real‑time vehicle system identification for autonomous driving. The patent is slated for issuance next month, bringing the company’s total U.S. patent count...
Tacnode Emerges From Stealth with a Data Infra Platform Tuned to AI Agents
Tacnode Inc. has emerged from stealth with a data‑infrastructure platform called Context Lake, designed to give autonomous AI agents a shared, up‑to‑date view of enterprise context. The system ingests live data, applies Semantic Operators, and supports millions of low‑latency retrievals...
HackerOne Launches Good Faith AI Research Safe Harbor to Protect Responsible AI Testing
HackerOne introduced the Good Faith AI Research Safe Harbor, a framework that grants legal protection to researchers testing AI systems in good faith. Building on its 2022 Gold Standard Safe Harbor for traditional software, the new program clarifies authorization, limits...
AI Framework Flaws Put Enterprise Clouds at Risk of Takeover
Two critical flaws were discovered in the open‑source AI framework Chainlit, allowing arbitrary file reads (CVE‑2026‑22218) and server‑side request forgery (CVE‑2026‑22219). The vulnerabilities can expose environment variables, API keys and cloud credentials, and enable attackers to forge authentication tokens for...
Servicenow And Openai Collaborate To Deepen And Accelerate Enterprise Ai Outcomes
ServiceNow and OpenAI have signed a multi‑year deal to embed OpenAI’s frontier models, including GPT‑5.2, into ServiceNow’s AI platform. The collaboration gives enterprise customers direct access to speech‑to‑speech agents, multimodal capabilities, and custom AI solutions without bespoke development. ServiceNow will...
Ecopia AI and Nearmap Launch Off-the-Shelf Advanced Transportation Feature Data Across North America
Ecopia AI and Nearmap have released an off‑the‑shelf Advanced Transportation Features dataset covering 100 North American cities. The product extracts more than 60 vector layers—sidewalks, bike lanes, turn lanes, road markings, and crosswalks—from Nearmap’s high‑recency aerial imagery using Ecopia’s AI...
New EMA Research Reveals AI Adoption Gap in Network Operations
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) released a new study on AI-driven network operations, surveying 458 IT professionals. While 59% of firms are already using AI features from vendors and 52% are training their own models, only 35% consider their AI NetOps...
Indian Vibe-Coding Startup Emergent Triples Valuation to $300M with $70M Fundraise
Emergent, an Indian AI "vibe‑coding" startup, closed a $70 million Series B round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Khosla Ventures, lifting its post‑money valuation to $300 million. The company now reports $50 million in annual recurring revenue and over 5 million users in more...
BMC Advances Business-Driven Automation and Mainframe Transformation with AI-Powered Innovations
BMC unveiled a suite of AI‑driven enhancements across its Control‑M and BMC AMI platforms, aimed at simplifying workflow creation, real‑time event handling, and mainframe support. The AI Workflow Creator lets business users build workflows using natural language, while expanded integrations...
New AI-Powered Wearable Helps Stroke Patients Communicate by Mouthing Words
Researchers at the University of Cambridge and Beihang University unveiled Revoice, an AI‑powered wearable choker that translates silently mouthed words into speech for stroke survivors with dysarthria. The non‑invasive device senses throat vibrations and carotid pulse, then uses two AI...
Tangoe and Kubex Partner to Deliver Advanced Cloud and Kubernetes Optimization Through Tangoe One Cloud
Tangoe announced a partnership with Kubex, embedding Kubex’s automated resource‑optimization engine into Tangoe One Cloud. The combined FinOps‑certified platform now delivers continuous, AI‑driven right‑sizing for Kubernetes, IaaS and GPU workloads across AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle clouds. By surfacing over‑provisioned...
Former FTX EU Trading Specialists Unveil Perpetuals.com, an AI-Powered Derivatives Platform
Former FTX EU co‑founders Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke have launched Perpetuals.com, an AI‑powered derivatives exchange that will begin trading on Nasdaq this week. The platform leverages a proprietary AI model trained on more than 10 million retail cryptocurrency trading histories...
Teladoc’s Mental Health Arm BetterHelp Has Quietly Expanded the Use of AI
BetterHelp, Teladoc's flagship mental‑health platform, has quietly broadened its use of artificial intelligence across multiple service layers. The AI tools now support client intake, symptom triage, and therapist recommendation workflows, aiming to streamline care delivery. BetterHelp claims the expansion will...
Reps Launches to Help Teams Train for AI-Powered Execution
Reps, an AI startup, launched a platform to make execution readiness measurable for enterprise teams. The tool records practice activities—screen captures, draft proposals, voice notes—and uses AI to analyze them, providing real‑time insight into how strategies are being prepared. Since...
Anthropic Quietly Fixed Flaws in Its Git MCP Server that Allowed for Remote Code Execution
Anthropic has patched three critical flaws in its Git MCP server that could be chained with the Filesystem MCP server to achieve remote code execution via prompt injection. The vulnerabilities – CVE‑2025‑68145 (path‑validation bypass), CVE‑2025‑68143 (unrestricted git_init), and CVE‑2025‑68144 (git_diff...
As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
Microsoft’s January 13 security update for Windows 11 23H2 introduced a bug that stopped shutdown and hibernation on Enterprise and IoT editions, trapping devices in endless restart loops. The fault originated in the System Guard Secure Launch security feature and created...
AITech Interview with David Norris, Chief Marketing Officer at Boost.AI
David Norris, Chief Marketing Officer at Boost.ai, explains how his two‑decade marketing background shapes the company’s storytelling and trust‑first strategy for conversational AI. He stresses that in regulated sectors—banking, insurance, telecom—AI agents become the literal voice of the brand, making...
Perplexity AI Interview Explains How AI Search Works via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Perplexity AI’s interview with Jesse Dwyer reveals that AI‑driven search is becoming highly personalized, delivering different answers to identical queries based on user context. The core technical shift is from whole‑document indexing to sub‑document processing, where millions of granular snippets...
Google AI Mode Fan-Out Prompts To Narrow Your Query
Google is extending its AI Mode shopping experience with a "query fan‑out" feature that asks users clarifying questions to narrow product results. The system runs multiple simultaneous searches based on the user’s input, then surfaces the most relevant items in a...
Google Search Team Does Not Endorse LLMs.txt Files
Google’s Search team clarified it does not endorse the LLMs.txt files appearing on some Google properties. The files were introduced through a recent CMS update and added to developer documentation, but the Search team later removed them while other product...
An Impressive Spotify Audiobook Upgrade Could Be on the Way, and as a Non-Reader, I’m Dying to Give It a...
Spotify is piloting a new feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page of a physical book with their phone camera and jump to the corresponding point in the audiobook. The tool relies on optical character recognition to...
ABBYY Launches Vantage 3.0 Directly Integrating with Generative AI and Offering Advanced Compliance and Privacy Capabilities
ABBYY introduced Vantage 3.0, a Document AI platform that directly integrates large language models (LLMs) and runs on a modernized tech stack. The release adds a real‑time analytics dashboard, built‑in compliance and redaction tools, and pre‑engineered Azure OpenAI prompts for...
AI Supercharges Attacks in Cybercrime's New 'Fifth Wave'
Group‑IB warns that cybercrime has entered a fifth wave powered by weaponized AI, accelerating attacks with generative tools. Dark‑web marketplaces now sell synthetic identity kits and deep‑fake‑as‑a‑service for as little as $5, while AI‑enhanced phishing kits automate victim targeting and...
The Forward-Deployed Engineer: Why Talent, Not Technology, Is the True Bottleneck for Enterprise AI
Enterprises are hitting an integration wall as AI models, while impressive in sandbox demos, remain non‑deterministic and risky for production. The bottleneck is not the technology but the scarcity of forward‑deployed engineers (FDEs) who can translate AI capabilities into reliable...
Synechron Releases Suite of AI Agents
Synechron unveiled Synechron Agentic, a portfolio of production‑ready AI agents designed for complex, regulated workflows in banking, financial services, wealth management, payments and insurance. The agents promise accelerated operations, transparent outcomes and built‑in compliance, while integrating seamlessly with enterprise platforms...
Google AI Mode Shows Product Inventory & Pricing In Light Font Color
Google AI Mode now displays product inventory and pricing in a much lighter font color, setting it apart from the standard Google Search interface. The change was first identified by Brodie Clark, who posted screenshots on X and SERP Alerts....