Cassava and AXON Join Forces to Drive AI Innovation for African Firms
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks announced a strategic partnership to build Africa’s first end‑to‑end Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform, combining AXON’s AI‑ready, real‑time digital‑twin technology with Cassava’s 110,000 km high‑speed fibre backbone. The solution will deliver a multi‑tenant, AI‑managed network that can provision services in minutes rather than weeks, targeting telecom operators, LEO satellite providers and ISPs. Unveiled at the Counder Conference 2026 in Cape Town, the collaboration aims to accelerate digital transformation across the continent. By virtualising the fibre infrastructure, the platform promises autonomous optimisation, cost efficiencies and a foundation for Africa’s emerging AI economy.
AI Adoption Advances in Manufacturing Amid Economic Headwinds
Rootstock’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey shows AI has become mainstream, with 94% of manufacturers deploying some form of artificial intelligence. Predictive AI usage rose to 48%, and investments are shifting toward supply‑chain planning and process optimization. Despite economic...
Kipu Health Survey: AI Becomes Essential in Behavioral Health
A new Kipu Health survey shows AI moving from experiment to expectation in behavioral health. Adoption jumped 59% year‑over‑year, with 27% of organizations using AI in 2025 and many planning further rollout. Clinicians report that AI frees up to three...
Innovaccer and Snowflake to Drive Enterprise AI Adoption Across Healthcare
Innovaccer and Snowflake announced a deep integration of Innovaccer’s Gravity platform with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud and Cortex AI services. The partnership lets healthcare payers, providers, and life‑science firms run production‑ready AI workflows across clinical, revenue‑cycle, and patient‑engagement domains. Gravity...
MedeAnalytics Appoints David Figueredo as Chief Innovation Officer
MedeAnalytics announced the appointment of David Figueredo as Chief Innovation Officer, bringing over two decades of healthcare technology and AI expertise. Figueredo previously led innovation at Experian and held senior roles at WaveHDC and Change Healthcare, where he drove AI‑powered...
Boards Double Down on Scenario Planning, but 90% Lack AI Tools to Keep Pace
A new Diligent‑Corporate Board Member survey finds that 84% of public‑company directors have overhauled their scenario‑planning processes, yet only 10% employ AI tools to handle the resulting data complexity. While 66% report some AI use in the boardroom, merely 3%...
SelfAudit Launches Partner Program to Speed CMMC Readiness
SelfAudit AI introduced a Partner Program aimed at MSPs, MSSPs, and compliance professionals to accelerate Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) readiness. The initiative offers a standardized, AI‑driven workflow that streamlines gap analysis, remediation, and audit‑ready documentation. By integrating partners into...
Opportify Gains Early Adoption for Email Insights to Stop Sign-Up Fraud
Opportify has launched its Email Insights solution, a risk‑based intelligence platform designed to stop fraudulent sign‑ups at the point of entry. Unlike traditional validators that rely on simple syntax or MX checks, Email Insights scores each address on domain stability,...
AITech Interview with Jeronimo De Leon, Senior Product Manager of AI, Backblaze
Backblaze senior product manager Jeronimo De Leon argues that AI performance now hinges on open, high‑throughput cloud storage that can handle massive, fragmented datasets across the entire model lifecycle. He highlights cost, latency, and governance as the top storage challenges and...
DoControl Launches Adaptive AI Alerts to Continuously Pinpoint SaaS Risk
DoControl unveiled an AI‑powered, agentic alerting system that continuously learns a company’s SaaS usage to spot genuine risk. Unlike static rule‑based alerts, the new solution analyzes patterns, intent, and business context from HRIS and identity sources, dramatically cutting noise. It...
Healthier Capital Closes $220M Oversubscribed Fund 1
Healthier Capital announced the closing of its oversubscribed $220 million inaugural fund, attracting universities, endowments, family offices, and healthcare organizations. Led by former Amazon One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin, the fund targets early‑stage health‑tech innovators that blend AI, genomics, and...
John Snow Labs Introduces First FDA-Ready Patient Journey Platform
John Snow Labs unveiled its Patient Journey Intelligence (PJI) platform, the first secondary‑use data solution built to satisfy the FDA’s December 2025 guidance on real‑world evidence for medical devices. The platform fuses structured EHR fields with unstructured notes, imaging, labs...
Peer AI Appoints David Florez as Vice President of Sales
Peer AI announced the appointment of David Florez as Vice President of Sales to steer its go‑to‑market strategy and deepen customer relationships. Florez, who spent six years at Veeva Systems selling cloud solutions to pharma and biotech, will focus on...
Cymulate Joins the Wiz Integration Network (WIN)
Cymulate has joined the Wiz Integration Network, embedding its Continuous Threat Exposure Management platform into Wiz’s cloud‑security ecosystem. The partnership enables automated pre‑ and post‑exploitation simulations across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, delivering continuous validation of security controls. Joint customers...
Cisco Launches New Cisco 360 Partner Program
Cisco has launched the Cisco 360 Partner Program, a revamped partner ecosystem aimed at accelerating AI‑driven outcomes for customers. The program introduces new partner designations, a Partner Incentive (CPI) model, and tools such as the Partner Locator and AI Assistant...
Wonderful Announced the Launch of Agent Builder
Wonderful introduced Agent Builder, an autonomous AI system that creates, tests, and refines enterprise agents. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, it ingests policy documents, knowledge bases, and call recordings to iteratively meet production standards. The tool claims up to 50% faster...
Africa & Middle East Reinforce $1.5T AI Ambitions at Egypt Summit
Egypt will stage Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2026, the region’s first all‑AI expo, on 11‑12 February at the Egypt International Exhibition Center. Backed by GITEX, the Ministry of Communications and ITIDA, the event gathers more than 350 AI enterprises and...
Genomics Pioneer J. Craig Venter Launches Diploid Genomics, Inc.
Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter has launched Diploid Genomics, Inc., an AI‑driven advanced genomics analytics firm, with Healthier Capital acting as co‑founder and sole external investor in its seed round. The company will fuse cutting‑edge sequencing platforms from PacBio and...
StuffThatWorks Appoints Julie A. Ross as CEO and President
StuffThatWorks announced Julie A. Ross, former CEO of Advanced Clinical, as its new CEO and President. Ross will steer the company’s growth of its patient‑derived AI platform that leverages a self‑perpetuating engine of over 3 million patients and 1.3 billion structured data...
ExaGrid Announces All Flash/SSD Tiered Backup Storage Solution
ExaGrid has launched an all‑flash, SSD‑based tiered backup storage solution that ships with software version 8 and a unique front‑end Landing Zone paired with a non‑network‑facing repository tier. The new appliances—EX90‑SSD through EX540‑SSD—scale to over 17 PB in a single scale‑out...
The SRE Report 2026: Reliability Is Being Redefined
Catchpoint, now part of LogicMonitor, released the eighth‑edition SRE Report 2026, revealing that reliability is being redefined in the AI era. The study of 418 global SRE, DevOps and IT professionals shows speed, user experience and business impact have overtaken...
Percipience Achieves SOC 2 Type I Compliance
Percipience, an insurtech data and analytics provider, announced it has achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance, confirming that its security, availability, and confidentiality controls are properly designed. The audit, conducted by an independent firm, validated the company’s policies on access management, change...
CareCloud’s Wellsoft Ranked #1 EHR by Black Book 2026 for Emergency Medicine
CareCloud’s Wellsoft Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) was named the top‑rated emergency‑medicine EHR in Black Book’s 2026 specialty ranking. The award is based on nine months of surveys covering more than 33,000 physician practices and ambulatory facilities, emphasizing speed, throughput...
RXNT Leads 2026 Gartner Digital Markets Across Five Categories
RXNT, a Maryland‑based ambulatory health‑tech firm, has been named a 2026 Gartner Digital Markets Leader, earning Shortlist and FrontRunner honors in five categories: Medical Billing, Practice Management, EMR, Mental Health, and Physical Therapy. The awards reflect both breadth—covering 23 Gartner...
Cobalt Achieves CSA AI Trustworthy Pledge
Cobalt, a pioneer of Penetration Testing as a Service, has earned the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) AI Trustworthy Pledge by completing the STAR Level 1 CAIQ Self‑Assessment based on version 4.0.3. The certification aligns Cobalt’s practices with the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix,...
Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member
Airbyte announced its membership as a Silver participant in the Linux Foundation’s newly created Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The move underscores Airbyte’s focus on providing secure, scalable ELT/ETL connectors for autonomous AI agents that require continuous, governed data access. By...
Study: AI Confidence Surges While Readiness Lags on Data Integrity
Precisely’s 2026 State of Data Integrity and AI Readiness study, conducted with Drexel University, surveyed over 500 senior data leaders and found a stark disconnect between AI confidence and operational readiness. While 87% of respondents claim adequate infrastructure, 86% say...
ZeroPoint Technologies Appoints Brett Cline as Chief Executive Officer
ZeroPoint Technologies announced Brett Cline as its new chief executive officer. Cline brings over 20 years of leadership in semiconductor, IP, and EDA software, known for scaling deep‑technology revenue. The company’s hardware‑accelerated memory‑optimization suite promises lower power use, higher bandwidth,...
Balena Secures Growth Investment to Boost Edge AI and IoT Fleet Management
Balena announced a strategic growth investment from LoneTree Capital to accelerate its edge AI and security roadmap. The hardware‑agnostic platform already supports 178 device types, managing fleets in over 50 countries, with some customers operating more than 100,000 devices. The...
C5i Launches Enterprise-Grade Platform Agent5i to Scale Business Value
C5i unveiled Agent5i, an enterprise‑grade platform that lets organizations operationalize and scale autonomous AI agents across mission‑critical workflows. The platform combines planning, intelligence, governance, and systems integration into a single lifecycle environment, from design to continuous optimization. Agent5i ships with...
PLM + AI: Unlocking the Future of Smart Manufacturing
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is emerging as the backbone of AI‑driven smart manufacturing, providing a unified digital thread that captures both physical and software data. As product complexity rises, manufacturers need consistent, versioned information to enable real‑time AI analytics across...
Quantum Health Expands Solution Suite Built on a New Agentic AI Platform
Quantum Health unveiled an expanded suite of healthcare navigation solutions built on a new agentic AI platform. The technology goes beyond answering queries, proactively identifying clinical risk, initiating outreach, and coordinating care with human experts. Three tiered offerings—Quantum Signature, Quantum...
DigitalOcean Appoints Vinay Kumar as Chief Product and Technology Officer
DigitalOcean announced Vinay Kumar as its new Chief Product and Technology Officer, tasked with steering product strategy, cloud infrastructure, and security as the firm expands its AI inference cloud. Kumar, a founding member of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and former AWS...
Adversa AI Wins 2026 BIG Innovation Award for Agentic AI Security Platform
Adversa AI’s Agentic AI Security Platform has been named a winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards for Innovative Products – Software, as announced by the Business Intelligence Group. The platform tackles the emerging attack surface of autonomous AI agents,...
ADLINK Launches First COM Express Module with Intel Core Ultra 3
ADLINK unveiled the Express‑PTL COM‑HPC Mini, the first COM Express module built around Intel’s Core Ultra 3 processors. The board merges a 12‑core Intel Arc GPU, an NPU 5 delivering up to 50 TOPS, and a hybrid CPU layout for a combined 180 TOPS...
Xactly Appoints CTO and CPO to Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation
Xactly announced the promotion of long‑time executives Kandarp Desai to Chief Technology Officer and Christopher Li to Chief Product Officer. The moves come after recent CMO and CHRO hires, completing a strategic refresh of the senior leadership team. Both leaders...
Q/C Technologies Appoints AI Systems Leader Chelsea Voss to BOD
Q/C Technologies announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss, a senior technical staff member at OpenAI, to its Board of Directors. Voss brings extensive experience in machine‑learning infrastructure, model evaluation, and hardware reliability, complementing Q/C’s focus on quantum‑class photonic computing. The...
Ooredoo Group Announces Syntys Acquisition of Q Data Facilities in Qatar
Q Data QFZ LLC, a Qatar Free Zones operator of two Tier‑III carrier‑neutral data centres, has been acquired by Syntys from Doha Venture Capital. The transaction adds 5 MW of live capacity and 7.5 MW under development – a total of 12.5 MW...
Sophelio Announces New Identity and Strategic Focus
Sophelio announced it has completed its transition from Sapientai to a new corporate identity, signaling a shift from a research‑focused startup to a scalable AI data‑platform provider. The rebrand emphasizes a signal‑first, provenance‑driven approach for complex, multimodal scientific systems. Over...
PeakMetrics Launches MCP Server for Live Narrative Intelligence
PeakMetrics unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, a middleware that feeds live narrative intelligence into leading AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude. The service lets users pose plain‑language queries about emerging narratives, coordinated activity, and risk...
FGS Global Launches AI Advisory Practice and Acquires Memetica
FGS Global announced the launch of a dedicated AI Advisory practice within its new AI and Innovation group and the acquisition of Memetica, a specialist consultancy in AI‑driven threat detection. The practice draws on more than 200 strategists, engineers and...
Crittora Introduces APP, an Execution-Time Authorization Layer for AI Agents
Crittola launched the Agent Permission Protocol (APP), a runtime authorization layer that cryptographically binds a specific AI agent, its intended action, and the tools it may use. The protocol enforces least‑privilege, time‑bound permissions and fails closed if verification is missing....
Klient Launches Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange
Klient announced the launch of its Klient PSA – Project Agent on Salesforce AgentExchange, an AI‑driven tool designed for hybrid workforces in professional services and SaaS firms. The agent automates weekly sprint planning, time‑entry verification, resource allocation reviews, and rapid...
KNIME Appoints Trevor Kaufman as CEO as It Enters Next Growth Phase
KNIME announced that founder‑CEO Michael Berthold is stepping down and that Trevor Kaufman, a veteran SaaS executive, will take the helm. Kaufman previously grew Piano from a startup to a 570‑person, 14‑country operation serving major media and financial brands. He...
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...
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....