Business of AI

DataSnipper and Armanino Launched Strategic Collaboration to Drive Agentic AI in Auditing

DataSnipper, the agentic automation platform for audit and finance teams, announced a strategic alliance with Armanino, a top 20 U.S. accounting and consulting firm with deep expertise in internal audit and risk advisory services, to accelerate the adoption of AI across internal audit and risk functions. As internal audit and risk teams expand coverage and face growing pressure to do more wi

Geminus AI, Bapco Energies, and SLB Partnered to Optimize Energy Infrastructure with Physics-Based AI

Geminus AI, the company bringing autonomy to the world's mission critical systems, announced a strategic partnership with Bapco Energies and SLB to deploy physics-native artificial intelligence for real-time, system-wide optimization of Bahrain's upstream production system. The collaboration supports Bahrain's national goals for energy efficiency, digital transformation, and su

Hadrius Revealed an AI-Native Compliance Framework to Replace Layered Tools

Hadrius announced its AI-native compliance infrastructure, introducing a fundamentally new approach to how compliance systems are designed and operated. As AI adoption accelerates across compliance, most platforms have bolted intelligence onto systems that were never built for it, applying AI after alerts are generated and limiting its ability to understand context or drive meaningful outcom

Novineer and AM Craft Formed Partnership to Apply AI Reverse Engineering in Aviation

Novineer, Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with AM Craft, one of the aviation sector's leading additive manufacturing suppliers, to bring AI-powered reverse engineering to airlines, MROs and OEMs. The two companies are co-exhibiting at Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, 14–16 April. The partnership addresses one of the most persistent challenges in a

Khoros Unveiled Aurora AI as a Next-Generation Enterprise Community Platform

Less than one year since being acquired by IgniteTech, Khoros announced Aurora AI, an AI-native reimagining of the Khoros Community platform. Aurora AI is not an upgrade. It is a new platform that uses AI to handle support, product feedback and keep customer communities active without manual moderation. Aurora AI is built to turn customer communities into the most valuable busi

Solar Power Accelerator Reintroduced Itself as RPX with Expanded AI Services

Solar Power Accelerator (SPA) announced that it has officially rebranded to Renewable Power Accelerator (RPX) following a strategic repositioning to accelerate the electrification of Europe's heavy duty transport sector through renewable energy solutions. Originally founded in early 2023, SPA focused on scaling commercial and industrial rooftop solar installations across Sweden, enabli

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices The Preferred & Stouffer Realty Advanced Agent Productivity with AI BOSS Introduction

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices The Preferred & Stouffer Realty announced the launch of AI BOSS, an artificial intelligence–enhanced evolution of BOSS (Business Operating Success System) leadership training program. The initiative is led by Kevin M. Leonard a nationally recognized authority on AI application and organizational change, alongside Ryan Rexroad, CTO, whose technical leadersh

UPERFECT Announced Soul N1, Targeting the Future of Portable AI Workspaces

UPERFECT unveiled Soul N1, an AI agent monitor that marks the company's entry into a new category of intelligent display devices. By integrating AI capabilities directly into a portable screen, Soul N1 enables users to generate content, summarize meetings, retrieve information in real time, and access multilingual assistance directly from the display, reflecting a broader industry shift

iGarden Introduced AI Dual-Camera Pool Cleaner to Replace Manual Maintenance

iGarden announced the availability of its new iGarden Pool Cleaner M1 AI Series, introducing what it describes as the world's first AI dual-camera vision pool robotic cleaner—a breakthrough designed to eliminate the need for manual pool maintenance and redefine how pools are owned and experienced. For years, robotic pool cleaners have focused on incremental upgrades—stronger suction,

Gen Alpha Drove Adoption of AI-Based Entertainment Recommendations

Gracenote, the content intelligence business unit of Nielsen, has examined how AI is changing the ways people find and watch entertainment content in a new report titled "TV Search and Discovery in the AI Era." As adoption of AI-powered entertainment experiences grows — especially among older Gen Alpha respondents (ages 13 and 14) — trust in chatbot-generated responses to content-relat

OneQode, Hitachi Vantara and Cylix Announced Alliance for Sovereign AI Factory

OneQode, in collaboration with Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), and Cylix Applied Intelligence, announced a Sovereign AI Factory initiative, a strategic alliance to deploy sovereign AI infrastructure across key global markets. Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore are among the first markets selected for

Onix Expanded Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud for Enterprise AI Innovation

Onix, a leading Data and AI services-as-software company, announced a major expanded strategic collaboration with Google Cloud. Leveraging its proprietary Wingspan agentic AI and Data modernization platform, Onix enables enterprises to realize business value up to 3x faster than traditional consulting approaches. As industries pivot from experimentation to full-scale production, the market is dem

Abound and NEAR AI Introduced Automated Finance Platform for NRIs

Abound, the financial super-app for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) backed by The Times of India Group, announced the launch of its AI Financial Autopilot. Built in partnership with NEAR AI, this new product uses an AI agent to handle cross-border money tasks on behalf of users, without them having to lift a finger. The launch marks a big shift: from apps that give advice, to systems that take action.

Vendavo Rolled Out ML-Powered Price Rules Generator to Strengthen AI Pricing Assistant

Vendavo, the market leader in commercial excellence solutions for B2B enterprises, announced advancements to its AI Pricing Assistant and AI Documentation Assistant. The embedded capabilities within the Vendavo platform enable pricing, sales, and finance teams to identify sources of margin erosion, understand its drivers, and act earlier, before margin loss compounds. The AI Assistants are design

Ori Industries Finalized Merger with Radiant to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Innovation

Data Sales Co. announced that portfolio client Ori Industries has merged with Radiant, a Brookfield portfolio company, to form a next-generation AI infrastructure platform purpose-built for large-scale artificial intelligence workloads. "Data Sales has provided approximately $100 million of non-dilutive lease financing for our GPU servers and networking infrastructure over the past two years," sa

iQIYI Released Nadou Pro to Accelerate AI-Powered Content Production

IQIYI, China's leading online entertainment platform, launched Nadou Pro — the country's first AI agent built specifically for professional film and TV production. Now in pre-commercial release, the agent marks iQIYI's latest move to integrate AI across the entertainment production pipeline. Nadou Pro combines leading foundation models with iQIYI's production expertise, supporting end-to-en

Bitly Introduced AI Enhancements to Improve Marketing Performance Analysis

Bitly Inc., a leading global platform for link and QR Code management, announced the launch of Bitly Assist and Weekly Insights, two new AI-powered features designed to help marketers move faster from data to action. Marketing teams now have access to more data than ever before, but quickly surfacing insights that are easy to act on remains a challenge. Making sense of that data still requires ma

Mattoboard Released AI Concept and Curation Engine for Interior Designers

Mattoboard, the platform digitizing interior design projects with virtual 3D material sampling, visual curation, and next-generation tools, announced the launch of Design Stream, its debut AI solution that transforms ideas into specifiable interior design concepts in seconds. While legacy AI tools pull designers out of their workflows, render imaginary materials and products, and struggle to accur

KushoAI Introduced APIEval-20 to Bring Transparency to AI Testing

KushoAI, an AI-native API testing released APIEval-20, an open benchmark for evaluating whether AI agents can generate tests that catch real bugs in APIs given only a request schema and sample payload: no source code, no documentation, no additional context. Analysis of 1.4 million AI-driven test executions across 2,616 organizations shows that authentication failures account for 34% of API outag

OpenProtein.AI Extended Collaboration With Boehringer Ingelheim to Advance Biologics Research

OpenProtein.AI, a leader in AI-powered protein engineering software, announced an expansion of its partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim to co-develop specialized antibody discovery and optimization workflows. The collaboration will integrate OpenProtein.AI's foundation models and cloud platform directly into Boehringer Ingelheim's therapeutic development processes, establishing an end-to-end AI-d

Barrett Financial Group and RapidScale Formed a Partnership to Modernize Mortgage Operations

RapidScale, a Cox Business company and leading provider of enterprise managed and professional services for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, announced how it delivered measurable growth outcomes in partnership with Barrett Financial Group, one of the largest mortgage brokerages by volume in the US, using AI to eliminate operational bottlenecks, reduce costs, and build a scalabl

gateretail and JK Tech Formed a Strategic Partnership to Scale AI Inflight Retail

gateretail and JK Tech have announced the next phase of their strategic partnership, expanding their collaboration to further advance AI-powered inflight retail intelligence through the evolution of the AI-Powered Inflight Retail Operations Planning Suite, powered by JK Tech's JIVA Agentic AI Orchestrator. Building on the foundation of their existing alliance, this will strengt