Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Trane Technologies (NYSE:TT), a global climate innovator, and intelligent power management company Eaton (NYSE:ETN) announced a strategic collaboration integrating advanced thermal management and electrical system architectures to help accelerate AI-factory deployment, enhance efficiency and lower costs. Trane Technologies and Eaton are introducing a first-of-its kind reference design that replac
As government acquisition grows increasingly complex while experienced contracting and proposal talent remains constrained, organizations are turning to AI to accelerate the processes that connect demand with delivery. Rohirrim is addressing this challenge with GrowthEngine, an agentic AI platform designed to automate opportunity discovery, qualification, proposal development, and compliance acros
ChurnZero, the AI platform and partner for customer growth, announced Retrospective, a new AI agent that automatically analyzes accounts when they are marked as churned. Retrospective reads the account's full history to draft a churn analysis for the customer success manager (CSM) to review. The agent classifies churn cause using the company's existing churn-reason set and assigns a confidenc
Kineto, an AI company spun out of JetBrains (the maker of IntelliJ IDEA and Kotlin), has launched Kinetik For Teams, an AI agent that runs influencer and content marketing from inside Slack and WhatsApp. Kinetik joins the team's chat, learns the company once, and removes the barriers that have historically prevented in-house teams from running successful influencer marketing programs, includi
As insurance professionals face growing administrative demands, AI is emerging as a practical way to reduce repetitive work while improving the speed and quality of benefits management. Vertafore is applying this approach to one of the most time-consuming stages of the benefits workflow: creating and maintaining benefit plans. In an exclusive conversation with AI Reporter America, August Butterbro
As competitive markets evolve faster than traditional research cycles can keep pace, businesses increasingly need timely intelligence that goes beyond simply monitoring competitors. AI is changing the economics of competitive research by making market signals easier to gather, analyze, and translate into actionable decisions. In an exclusive conversation with AI Reporter America, Catherine Beck, C
AlertMedia, the world’s leading provider of risk intelligence and incident response solutions, introduced AI Plan Builder, a new generative AI capability that helps organizations build, refine, and maintain incident response plans in minutes, eliminating one of the biggest barriers to organizational preparedness. Embedded directly within AlertMedia's Incident Response solutio
Tavant, a leading platform-powered AI transformation specialist, announced the integration of its TOUCHLESS® AI Mortgage Automation platform with the Empower® loan origination solution (LOS) from Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter), an innovative leader in mortgage technology. The integration brings Tavant’s advanced, AI-driven, automation capabilities into the Emp
Stensul, the Governed Creation™ Platform for enterprise marketing, announced Dynamic Content Assembly, a new suite of capabilities that helps large marketing organizations turn personalization strategies into governed, production-ready email campaigns without multiplying production work or risk. The suite brings audience logic from activation platforms such as Adobe and Salesforce into the c
Kumkuat AI launched with the first synthetic audience platform purpose-built for communicators at the world's largest, most sophisticated enterprises. The platform lets corporate communications, investor relations and public affairs teams evaluate how key audiences — from institutional investors, to investigative reporters, to partisan policymakers — will respond to their actions and m
Rival Shark opened public access to its AI-powered competitive intelligence platform, built for companies that need continuous competitive awareness without standing up a dedicated research team to produce it. The platform produces a structured intelligence report in under 10 minutes, covering tracked competitors, industry conditions, and local market position. Every finding carries a recommended
ScaleFlux, a leader in advanced Memory controller and storage optimization technology, announced an AI-optimized SSD platform designed to support the SSD requirements of NVIDIA CMX and other KV-cache-intensive AI inference infrastructure. The platform combines Context-Insight SSD for workload analysis and optimization, 7 to more than 10 effective drive writes per day (DWPD) for KV cache workloads,
IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world's leading hospitality companies, announced the beta launch of AI-powered conversational search on IHG.com and the IHG One Rewards mobile app, marking a new chapter in the evolution of the travel discovery experience. The new conversational search functionality brings intuitive, customized trip planning directly into IHG's digital channels, making i
Vertafore®, the leader in modern insurance technology, introduced the Vertafore Velocity™ AI Benefit Plan Agent, built into the BenefitPoint®module of AgencyOne ®. The AI-powered agent automates one of the most manual workflows in benefits administration, reducing benefit plan setup time to just a few minutes while delivering 90% accuracy. Creating and
S4 Capital's Monks Technology Services, in partnership with Watts Law Firm LLP, announced the launch of an AI-powered case qualification platform — the latest and most visible step in the firm's deliberate, firm-wide move toward AI-enabled legal practice. Purpose-built for AI-enabled intake and workflow management, the platform transforms one of the most complex, document-heavy process
As churches seek to engage congregations across an expanding range of digital channels, pastors and ministry teams are under growing pressure to communicate more effectively without increasing administrative burdens. AI is emerging as a valuable tool to streamline ministry workflows while preserving the spiritual leadership and theological responsibility that remain central to every messag
National nonprofit Opportunity@Work announced the launch of the AI Readiness Lab (AIRLab), a new initiative developed in partnership with the Brookings Institution, bringing together six leading regions to understand and act on how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping local economies and workforces. The inaugural AIRLab cohort is coming together to understand and adapt to
Biointron Biological USA Inc. ("Biointron"), a leading contract research organization for antibody discovery, expression, and optimization, has launched RushData. RushData is an integrated service platform designed to support the growing demands of AI- and machine learning-driven antibody discovery for global pharma and biotech organizations. As computational antibody design continues to acc
As artificial intelligence reshapes the future of urban development, city leaders are looking for practical strategies to move beyond isolated AI initiatives toward comprehensive, responsible transformation. To help address this need, ThoughtLab has developed Building an AI-First City, an evidence-based playbook that combines global benchmarking, AI maturity assessments, and real-world case studie
Tridiagonal.ai Pvt. Ltd. (T.AI), the dedicated AI arm of Tridiagonal Group, announced its role in the third Joint Development Agreement (JDA) involving PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. and IBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. to advance PETRONAS Carigali’s flagship TriCipta AI across the Upstream value chain. TriCipta AI is PETRONAS Carigali’s partnership model that combines deep domain technical expert
Excalipoint Therapeutics and DP Technology announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop a proprietary AI agentic platform tailored for T-cell engager (TCE) and multi-specific antibody discovery. The alliance integrates Excalipoint’s deep expertise in TCE engineering with DP Technology’s leading AI Agent technology to address industry bottlenecks in TCE development and streamline d
AI assistants are changing how work gets done, but they’re only as useful as the business context they can access. Betterworks announced the beta launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling organizations to securely connect Betterworks performance data with AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and other MCP-compatible tools. “We’
