Sunday, 11 October 2026
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
Constructor, the product discovery platform for the agentic era, announced Agentic Checkout, which integrates Stripe, to enable shoppers (humans and agents) to both find and buy products within a single agent conversation and interface. Now, with Agentic Checkout, shoppers on retail sites and apps can discover products, ask questions, get personalized recommendations, and refine their choices&mda
aytm (Ask Your Target Market), an AI-assisted insights platform, has launched the Bridge, an AI-native insights operating system that connects a business question to an answer teams can confidently act on. The Bridge debuted in Denver Oct. 4, ahead of TMRE and Content Marketing World 2026. Most people who need consumer insights, in marketing, product, or the C-suite, don't have a research backgro
IgniteUps.ai introduced NEXUS, an automotive AI performance manager built to orchestrate a dealership's connected AI workforce and execute real work across its systems. With its own computer environment and dealership system connectors, NEXUS helps managers identify opportunities, assign tasks to AI agents, execute communications, create videos and images, and turn CRM and DMS data into action. N
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
Liberty Home Guard, one of the nation's highest-rated home warranty providers, announced the launch of Ari and Aria, two advanced AI voice agents now serving the company's customers and network of service technicians. Built to sound, listen, and think like the company's most experienced representatives, Ari and Aria answer instantly, at any hour, and carry every call through to a real resolution&m
NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a leading consumer intelligence company, announced new AI and automation capabilities for NIQ Spaceman®, its retail space planning and merchandising platform trusted by more than 600 retailers across 65+ countries. The enhancements help retailers create store-specific planograms up to 50 times faster, identify execution and compliance gaps, and scale merchandising decisi
ALDER announced the launch of ALDER AI, marking the beginning of its next chapter focused on monitored video surveillance and AI threat detection. The launch follows more than 15 years of building and scaling businesses in the security industry and the strategic sale of hundreds of thousands of legacy alarm accounts over the past couple years. Today, ALDER and its affiliated brands remain in stro
Tavus, the human computing company, announced Griffin, the first Human Interaction Model, creating a new class of AI built to understand and participate in human interaction. Griffin is a full-duplex, video-to-video model that holds face-to-face conversations in real time. It sees, hears, interprets, speaks, moves, reacts, and responds continuously, allowing what it notices to change what it says
Milliman, Inc., a leading global actuarial and consulting firm, released Milliman Contract Clarity for Healthcare, a platform that uses generative AI and healthcare cost analytics to translate dense healthcare contracts into structured, measurable insight. Healthcare organizations routinely rely on complex pharmacy and medical contracts to determine pricing, payment terms, performance guarantees,
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
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, architecture, consulting, and digital solutions, launched LiveTwin™, the flagship solution of digitalMBI, the firm's digital innovation platform. Unveiled during the company's inaugural Tech Summit, LiveTwin creates a living digital representation of facilities, campuses, infrastructure, and operations by connecting assets, systems
RocketReach, the leading sales and lead intelligence platform trusted by more than 30 million users and 95% of the S&P 500, announced their data partnership with Gong, the leading revenue AI company, to bring verified contact data into Gong Enrich. Gong Enrich empowers users with the ability to connect third-party data providers into the Gong platform. "GTM teams are the true winners of this
EvaSpeaks announced the launch of its omnichannel AI agent platform, built to convert customer intent into qualified opportunities and business action. Customer interest loses value when a conversation ends with a message instead of a next step. EvaSpeaks helps businesses act while that interest is still fresh. During phone and website conversations, EvaSpeaks agents use company-
Real Chemistry, a leader in AI-driven insights and marketing and communications exclusively for the healthcare and life sciences sectors, announced the launch of MaestroHCP, the first enterprise-level omnichannel orchestration platform designed to help pharmaceutical marketers plan, activate and measure HCP engagement with more speed, precision and control. The platform brings together audience in
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
Tavus, the human computing company, announced Griffin, the first Human Interaction Model, creating a new class of AI built to understand and participate in human interaction. Griffin is a full-duplex, video-to-video model that holds face-to-face conversations in real time. It sees, hears, interprets, speaks, moves, reacts, and responds continuously, allowing what it notices to change what it says
Neurable, the leader in AI for noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced Neurable One, its next-generation brain wearable built into premium headphones, designed to make real-time brain insights a continuous, effortless part of everyday life. Neurable One combines audio and active noise cancellation with continuous brain tracking, helping users understand when they’re
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
MediaRadar announced Insights Studio, a new intelligence platform designed for a future where both people and AI agents consume, connect and analyze intelligence. Insights Studio brings MediaRadar's proprietary intelligence together through a shared identity layer and interoperable architecture, creating a connected foundation built to evolve as technology, customer workflows and AI advance. "We
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
