Monday, 12 October 2026
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’
Affinitiv, a leading provider of intelligence-driven software and lifecycle marketing solutions for automotive retail, announced CapSure by Affinitiv, a new integration with Meta AI glasses designed to make service video inspections faster, easier, and more customer-friendly. As one of the first software companies selected by Meta for this integration, Affinitiv is pairing CapSure with its Multi-
Venti Technologies, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) logistics for industrial yards and logistics hubs, announced it has been selected by a top North American intermodal railroad to bring AI-powered AV solutions to terminals across the U.S. in a bold strategy to reduce costs and improve safety. This will mark the first full-production use of autonomous container trucks in a large U.S. intermoda
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, announced major updates to its Airbyte Agents platform, expanding how AI agents access and act on enterprise data. The update includes Airbyte’s availability in the OpenAI App Marketplace, the launch of the Airbyte Agent CLI, and new write capabilities for Salesforce and Hubspot that give agents the ability not just to retrieve
DoiT, the company behind Cloud Intelligence™, introduced Attribute™, a technology that attributes AI spend across tokens, model requests and GPU usage with zero instrumentation. Now generally available, Attribute™ requires no SDK, no tagging policy and no code changes. A lightweight eBPF sensor installs in about 15 minutes and starts producing per-customer, per-feature and per-ag
Nucleus Biologics, the leading provider of custom cell culture solutions and manufacturing technologies for advanced therapies, announced the launch of CRAIC™ Formulation Finder, a large language model (LLM) assistant that helps scientists identify, develop, and optimize cell culture media and buffer formulations for their novel cell ecosystem. Rather than searching literature, comparing ex
Aureka, an AI TechBio company building infrastructure for AI-driven biologics discovery, announced the release of Open Drug Discovery Engine (OpenDDE), an open-source, all-atom biomolecular foundation model designed to serve as the structural reasoning core of next-generation drug discovery systems. OpenDDE uses biomolecular co-folding as the entry point to model interactions acr
IFS, the global leader in Industrial AI, announced an agreement with Chelsea Football Club, to make Chelsea a trailblazer in the use of AI within their operations, setting a new benchmark and innovative approach for a Premier League football club. This agreement follows on from February's announcement of the multi-year global partnership between IFS and Chelsea Football Club. Under the agreement,
Performacentric announced the closed beta of the Performacentric Decision Intelligence Engine (PDIE- pronounced "Petey"), an AI-driven platform that analyzes business data across a company's entire software stack and converts it into clear, actionable recommendations. Small and mid-market companies can apply now for limited beta access at https://performacentric.com/pdie-beta.html. "Small bu
Zanderio has announced the launch of an AI booking assistant for wellness clinics, med spas, aesthetic practices, and other appointment-based service businesses. The assistant is designed to help clinics respond to website enquiries, answer service-related questions, and capture booking requests outside normal front desk hours.Many wellness and aesthetic businesses rely on their websites as a
