Business of AI

Audfly Introduced FocusAura™ Voice Solution at CES 2026 for AI Avatars and Interactive Kiosks

Audfly, a global leader in directed audio technology, unveiled Audfly FocusAura™, a revolutionary comprehensive solution designed to solve the critical challenge of voice interaction in public spaces. By fusing directional sound emission with advanced directional sound pick-up, FocusAura™ creates a precise, noise-free "Personal Audio Zone," enabling seamless communicatio

Neolemon Unveiled AI Cartoon Generator Designed for Character Continuity Across Multiple Scenes

As AI-generated images become increasingly common in publishing, education, and content creation, storytellers face a persistent challenge that most AI tools still fail to solve: maintaining consistent characters across multiple scenes.While popular AI image generators can produce impressive individual images, characters often drift between generations - changing facial features, proportions, or s

Homesage.ai Introduced AI-Driven Property Analytics to Support Hard Money Lending

Homesage.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered property analytics, announced new line of products helping hard money lenders to significantly increase their deal volume by leveraging the platform's comprehensive suite of AI-powered property intelligence tools. The platform enables lenders to process more loan applications with greater accuracy while reducing time-consuming manual analysi

AvidTrak Unveiled Avidia AI Agent to Analyze Call and Marketing Data in Real Time

AvidTrak announced the launch of Avidia, an agentic AI data analyst designed to answer business and marketing performance questions directly from a company’s call tracking and connected data sources.Avidia is built to reduce the manual work traditionally performed by data analysts, such as pulling reports, applying filters, and building dashboards. Instead of navigating reporting i

NAVER D2SF Backed Sorcerics, an Ambient AI Startup Building Autonomous Home AI Technology6

NAVER D2SF, corporate venturing(CV) arm of NAVER, announced a new investment in Sorcerics, an Ambient AI startup developing autonomous AI home solutions. Sorcerics has built an AI-powered home system that understands users' situations, intentions, and contextual signals to proactively deliver services, and is preparing for a global product launch in North America in the first quarter of 2026. Gui

GridFree AI Announced First Grid-Independent Data Center Site, Appointing Newmark as Exclusive Advisor

GridFree AI, the company advancing the data center industry with grid-independent infrastructure, announced a strategic partnership with Newmark, which will serve as the exclusive advisor and marketer for South Dallas One, GridFree's inaugural Power Foundry™ site located in Hill County, Texas — just one hour south of DFW Airport. South Dallas One is the first

Gold Estate Realty Inc. Introduced AI-Powered Brokerage Model to Serve Ontario Market

Gold Estate Realty Inc., led by Broker of Record and Founder Shami Bawa, is revolutionizing real estate across Ontario with the launch of its AI-powered brokerage, featuring its proprietary platform, Vynra.“Your competition isn’t AI. It’s the agent who learned to work with it,” says Bawa. The brokerage empowers agents to harness AI for smarter lead generation, mar

ECOPEACE Expanded AI-Powered Water-Cleanup Operations in Singapore and Dubai

ECOPEACE, a water-technology company based in South Korea, announced the global expansion of its autonomous water-cleanup and water-quality management systems, beginning with pilot projects in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The company, which operates one of Korea's most extensive portfolios of algae-removal deployments, is preparing its technologies for broader international adoption. I

China’s AI Coffee Robot Anno Drew Attention at APEC, Showcasing Next-Generation Smart Beverages

The global landscape of service automation is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. Within this dynamic evolution, the food and beverage industry stands as a burgeoning frontier for innovation, where efficiency, consistency, and personalized customer experiences are paramount. Against this backdrop, a notable event unfolded in Shenzhe

The Great AI Landgrab: How 2025 Redefined Tech M&A From Power Grids to Platforms

The year 2025 saw an unprecedented flurry of mergers and acquisitions across the AI and technology sectors, as companies raced to acquire strategic capabilities, talent, and infrastructure. Major tech firms and startups alike moved aggressively to expand their AI-related portfolios, blurring lines between traditional categories. For example, renewables and infrastructure became part of AI strategy

Calsoft Deploys Multi-Agent AI Assistant to Streamline Medical Supply Chain E-Commerce Support

Calsoft, an engineering services company specializing in digital and AI-driven systems, has deployed a multi-agent AI assistant for a leading medical supply chain organization to support supply chain-linked e-commerce customer operations. The system enables sales and customer service teams to access live order status, tracking details, product information, and standard operating procedures (SOPs t

Crittora Introduced Cryptographic Foundations for Secure Agentic AI Workflows

Crittora announced its cryptographic security platform for agentic AI systems, enabling organizations to deploy autonomous agents that can safely receive instructions, exchange data, and invoke tools without relying on implicit trust. As AI agents evolve beyond passive assistants into systems that take actions, call APIs, and collaborate with other agents, security models built for humans and tra

TNL Mediagene Advanced AI Content Monetization With TollBit Marketplace Integration

TNL Mediagene (Nasdaq: TNMG) (the "Company"), a Tokyo-based next-generation digital media and data group in Asia, announced that it has begun generating revenue through its integration with TollBit's AI licensing marketplace, marking an early validation of AI content licensing as a viable commercial model for premium digital media. TollBit is the leading platform helping publis

SoftwareOne Advanced Cost Optimization With a New GenAI Multi-Agent System

SoftwareOne announced it has launched a new GenAI multi-agent cost optimization system that helps customers and partners measure and optimize the cost, accuracy, and performance of their AI agents. Building on a foundation of deep expertise in both AI and software asset management, SoftwareOne is uniquely positioned to help organizations realize value from their AI investments. "With a decade of

Clarkston Consulting Expanded Enterprise AI Strategy With CLAIRE Launch

Clarkston Consulting has announced the next phase of its internal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transformation Initiative, highlighted by the launch of CLAIRE—Clarkston's AI Recommendation Engine, the firm's new enterprise AI platform designed to enhance how stewards work, collaborate, and deliver value to clients. This investment builds on Clarkston's long history of developing practical, re

Upbeat Technology Unveiled Novel MEMS Tech to Power AI Vibration Sensing and Bone‑Conduction

Upbeat Technology, a pioneer in ultra-low-power compute, voice, and edge AI sensing solutions, announced its new family of UPM01 and UPM02 high-bandwidth MEMS vibration sensors. Featuring a flat frequency response from 5 Hz to 12 kHz and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of up to 68 dB, the new sensors are designed for next-generation acoustics, voice interfaces, and intelligent sensing.

Advantech Leverages MIPI‑C Standard to Boost Edge AI Robotics and Vision

Advantech (TWSE: 2395), a global leader in intelligent IoT systems and embedded platforms, announced the launch of MIPI-C (MIPI over Type-C), a new open specification that brings standardization to AI robotics and machine vision. Advantech MIPI-C solves long-standing challenges of traditional MIPI CSI cameras, including cable design limitations, interference, short transmission distance, and compl

Penguin Ai Partnered with FTI to Transform Revenue Cycle Performance

Penguin Ai, a health care artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced a collaboration with FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), a global business advisory firm, to help healthcare providers strengthen revenue cycle performance and reduce administrative burden. By integrating Penguin Ai's platform into FTI Consulting's revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation work, the collaboration will

EverMemOS Demonstrated Superior AI Memory Efficiency, Surpassing Full‑Context LLMs in Open Evaluation

AI infrastructure company EverMind released results from its unified, production-grade evaluation framework designed to assess real-world memory performance. Under this standardized protocol, the company's flagship engine, EverMemOS, delivered best-in-class outcomes across the LoCoMo and LongMemEval benchmarks, cementing its position as a leading memory engine fo

Rapidus Introduced AI-Powered Design Tools to Transform Chip Manufacturing

SEMICON Japan, Booth E5345 - Rapidus Corporation announced a new suite of AI design tools to support its Rapidus AI-Assisted Design Solution (Raads), a key initiative to helping to realize its Rapid and Unified Manufacturing Service (RUMS) concept. The technology approach will also be rebranded to Rapidus AI-Agentic Design Solution with multiple tools being released starting in 2026 and will

Insightly Introduced Conversational AI to Modernize Mid-Market CRM Efficiency

Insightly, the easy-to-use, modern and affordable CRM, announced the launch of Copilot, a generative AI–powered assistant developed to make working in a CRM simpler, faster and more intuitive. Built to streamline everyday workflows, the Insightly CRM Copilot puts natural language prompts and powerful automation at the center of sales and marketing operations, turning the CRM into a smart, co

Squirro Strengthened Enterprise AI Deployments with Latest Platform Enhancements

Squirro, a global leader in enterprise-grade Generative AI and knowledge graph technology, announced the general availability of its latest Long-Term Support (LTS) platform update. Squirro Release 3.14.4 introduces a number of powerful new capabilities designed to close the gap between structured enterprise knowledge and ad-hoc user workflows. Most notably, the update includes dire