Friday, 16 October 2026
Deloitte Tax LLP ("Deloitte") and Sirion announced a strategic US alliance to help organizations transform how they manage contract obligations and supplier relationships across the enterprise. The alliance combines Deloitte's Legal Business Services (LBS) transformation experience with Sirion's advanced, AI-powered Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform to streamline contracting processes,
Hesai Group, a Physical AI infrastructure company, launched Kosmo, a 3D world data engine built to solve one of the most critical bottlenecks in Physical AI: access to high-quality real-world data at scale. Kosmo combines Kosmo One, the world's first AI spatial camera(1), with the Kosmo World cloud platform to transform physical environments into high-fidelity 3D digital spaces for robot training,
eM Client, the European developer of the popular email and productivity application used by millions worldwide, announced the release of eM Client 11, its most significant update yet. The new version introduces advanced AI capabilities, and major productivity improvements, strengthening its position as an independent alternative to Microsoft Outlook. AI Without Vendor Lock-In eM Client 11 introd
Maxio, the billing and financial reporting platform for B2B SaaS and AI companies, announced Maxio AI with seven specialist agents that work from the contracts, invoices, payments, usage, and revenue data already in Maxio, find the work that needs doing, and prepare it for approval. Finance teams lose time to work that should be routine. Pre-close checks often live in a few people’s heads,
Fish Audio, one of the fastest-growing AI platforms building expressive text-to-speech, speech-to-text and voice cloning, launched Drama 3. This text-to-speech model lets developers, studios, and creators direct a voice performance instead of simply generating one. Users describe the desired tone, pacing, and character in plain language, then shape the performance with line-by-line precision until
PayJoy, a leading financial services provider for underserved consumers across emerging markets, announced the acquisition of select strategic assets of Finia AI, Inc., a fintech company that developed AI-powered underwriting and financial products for micro-businesses in Mexico. The transaction will enable PayJoy to apply Finia's technology and expertise to its global platform, strengthening its
Hisense, a leading brand in global consumer electronics and home appliances, is bringing its vision of "Innovating a Brighter Life" into the heart of the home with the new PureSmart Duo Series — a refrigerator series designed as the intelligent center of the kitchen and now being rolled out across global markets. Building on the AI Companion Suite introduced at IFA 2026, Hise
inride, the company behind Trade Agent AI, announced Trade Agent Acquire, an AI agent that responds to every trade-in and value-my-car inquiry on a dealership's website within seconds. Trade Agent Acquire texts the shopper their trade-in value, answers questions, and books the appointment for the dealer's sales floor, 24 hours a day. Dealers pay to drive shoppers to their websites, and trade-in t
Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable and platform firmware leader, announced a collaboration with Arm to enable secure control, management, and platform adaptability for AI infrastructure. Combining Arm® AGI CPU server platforms with Lattice FPGAs and AMI firmware creates a solution that provides advanced security, manageability, connectivity, and flexibility for ne
As enterprises worldwide pour billions into artificial intelligence, a stark reality has emerged: few AI investments deliver meaningful business results. Kotter announced the AI Value Accelerator, a rapid, unified engagement toolset designed to break leadership teams out of the cycle of siloed AI activity and drive tangible, bottom-line value. "The market is caught in a cycle of AI-related f
Kore.ai, the global leader in enterprise AI platform and agentic applications, announced general availability of Autoloop™, the optimization engine of the Kore.ai Agent Platform, Artemis edition. Enterprises set the goals. Autoloop builds the agents, measures them against those goals, and keeps optimizing them automatically, from first draft through production. The launch marks a shift in ho
Sapiens International Corporation N.V. ("Sapiens") launched Sapiens Brain, the proprietary AI foundation at the heart of SapiensAIP, the company's recently announced AI platform for the insurance industry. Sapiens Brain codifies decades of Sapiens' insurance domain expertise – including millions of lines of code, product documentation and design artefacts – into an insurance-nativ
Payroc, a global payment-processing acquirer and technology platform, announced the launch of Payroc for Developers, an AI-native platform created to help software companies, independent software vendors (ISVs), and development teams build, launch, and scale integrated payments with speed, agility, and ease. Payroc for Developers gives software teams the autonomy to move quickly, whether they cho
As broadband networks become increasingly complex, service providers are under pressure to manage vast amounts of network, device, service, and subscriber data while delivering faster and more personalized customer experiences. Yet fragmented systems often make it difficult to connect operational signals, understand their impact, and turn insights into timely action. Incognito is addressing this c
Slang AI announced a fundamental enhancement of its voice platform with the launch of the industry's first AI Superhost, purpose-built for full-service restaurants. The new release moves beyond traditional voice AI, which has historically been limited to scripted answers and basic reservation handling, and introduces a fully conversational, memory-aware, proactive hospitality agent that operates a
As manufacturers face growing product complexity and increasingly dynamic production requirements, the gap between engineering design and factory-floor execution remains a major challenge. While CAD, PLM, ERP, and MES systems have transformed individual stages of the manufacturing lifecycle, translating product designs into practical, production-ready processes still requires significant engineeri
As autonomous AI agents move beyond individual enterprises, enabling them to securely communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries is emerging as a critical challenge. Traditional approaches often push cross-company workflows back to email, portals, and manual data entry, while existing agent-to-agent protocols do not fully address the security and trust requirements of inter-organ
AKASA, a leader in generative AI for the healthcare revenue cycle, announced the launch of its autonomous AI platform for the mid-cycle, expanding from AI-powered prebill review into autonomy for both inpatient medical coding and clinical documentation integrity (CDI). The launch comes amid rapid expansion across AKASA's health system customer base, driven by their AI products. Inpatient volume p
Talus Bioscience, Inc. (“Talus Bio”), an AI-native therapeutics company, released Ptarmigan-1, the first structure-free model that can accurately predict small molecule binding sites across the entire human proteome, including proteins too disordered for traditional 3D modeling to resolve. Access to Ptarmigan-1 is now available through a public portal. While most AI drug discove
LILT launched AURORA, the industry's first Multilingual AI Leaderboard that measures frontier models on non-English agentic, multimodal, and socio-cultural tasks through scientifically rigorous evaluation. Enterprises are deploying agents worldwide, yet nearly every published measure of frontier progress relies on English-centric or translated benchmarks. With agents doing customer-facing work, p
K2 GRC announced an expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities with the launch of K2 Assist AI, K2 GRC Readiness Review, and the new K2 GRC AI Skill and MCP Server. K2 GRC's AI strategy is built around flexibility, security and control while helping organizations scale their GRC workforce and programs. K2 GRC President Thomas Lyden emphasized, "If we can't save you an FTE, I'll give yo
Coupler.io, a data integration platform and AI analytics, introduced Coupler AI, a set of AI capabilities that spans the entire data journey. Teams describe what they need in plain language, and Coupler AI connects apps, builds data flows, prepares data, and delivers analysis and reports. Coupler AI works with 400+ data sources across marketing, sales, finance, and operations. Most AI tools
