IBM has partnered with Deepgram to embed its speech‑to‑text and text‑to‑speech engines into the watsonx Orchestrate generative AI platform. The integration adds real‑time transcription, captioning and multi‑language voice support, letting enterprises build voice‑enabled agents and workflows. Deepgram becomes IBM’s first dedicated voice partner, extending capabilities to sectors such as healthcare, finance and customer service. The move reinforces IBM’s open AI ecosystem and its push into conversational AI.
Vodafone’s Network‑as‑a‑Sensor (NWaaS) program is now operating pan‑European, using thousands of microwave backhaul links to turn the carrier’s infrastructure into a distributed weather‑monitoring platform. The service can infer rain, fog, humidity and, with added mast‑mounted sensors, air‑quality data, delivering near‑real‑time...
Snowflake unveiled Cortex Code, an AI‑driven coding assistant embedded in its data platform, at the Build conference in London. The tool can generate, explain, and optimize SQL and Python code, handle data‑engineering and analytics tasks, and is context‑aware of schemas, governance...
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced the acquisition of Canopus AI, a French AI‑driven semiconductor metrology specialist. The terms were undisclosed, but the deal will integrate Canopus AI’s Metrospection platform into Siemens’ Calibre EDA suite to improve wafer and mask inspection...