Friday, 21 August 2026
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) announced the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to protect critical infrastructure from AI-driven exploits. Through the program, leaders across operational technology (OT), healthcare, commercial software and open-source communities coordinate with Palo Alto Networks to deploy proactive "virtual patches," neutralizing vulner
Corero Network Security (AIM: CNS) (OTCQX: DDOSF), the distributed denial of service ("DDoS") protection specialists and champion of adaptive, real-time service availability, announced AI-Augmented Cloud-Assist for SmartWall ONE™, extending its automated DDoS protection with cloud-delivered AI analysis, threat intelligence, and policy optimization. As cybercrim
EVERSANA, a leading provider of global commercialization services to the life sciences industry announced expanded capabilities of their AI-powered commercialization platform. Originally launched to transform marketing agency operations, the platform continues to evolve with new capabilities supporting medical affairs, market research, field sales team engagement and other commercial fu
Thomson Reuters (Nasdaq/TSX: TRI), a global content and technology company, announced the general availability of the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, a fully agentic AI experience designed to help legal professionals move from research and issue analysis to trusted work product within a single workflow. Purpose-built for legal work and grounded in the trusted authority of Westlaw and Practica
Zephyr announced the general availability of The AI Platform (TAP), a desktop app where entire teams collaborate with AI specialists in shared channels. The milestone marks a shift the company has been building toward since the platform entered early access in March: AI moving out of one-off chatbot windows and into the place where work actually happens. "Everyone else is shipping a smarter
Nuclearn, a leading AI solutions company built for the nuclear industry, and GSE Solutions, a provider of high-fidelity nuclear plant simulation software and operator training simulators used at commercial nuclear power plants worldwide, announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Nuclearn's AI capabilities with GSE's simulator technology. The collaboration spans two parallel efforts. GSE wi
Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is bringing new AI-powered capabilities and connected learning experiences to classrooms for the 2026–2027 school year. The company's biggest back-to-school release yet strengthens the connection between assessment, curriculum, instruction, and practice—helping teachers turn data into action while keeping educators fi
bitdrift, the mobile observability platform spun out of Lyft and installed over a billion times across hundreds of millions of devices around the globe, announced bitdrift AI: a real-time, full-fidelity observability system that lets AI agents query mobile user behavior and act on it autonomously. Purpose-built for mobile, bitdrift AI delivers unsampled data on the edge that enables agents to
Azilen Technologies is expanding its Industrial AI and IoT Engineering offering by bringing together sensorization, Industrial IoT, edge computing, and AI engineering to turn factory-floor signals into real-time operational intelligence. At IMTS 2026, the company will demonstrate how machine data can move from real-time visibility to predictive insights and smart
Statecraft, a government-AI company founded by veterans of federal contracting and applied AI, launched Workforce, an agentic workforce platform designed to run the administrative machinery of the federal government. Workforce is designed for the back-office work that keeps agencies running, including acquisition support, finance, grants, case management, and reporting. Statecraft estimates that
Muse Platforms announced the launch of the new AskHercules.app, an AI visibility platform designed to help B2B small and midsize businesses, founders, thought leaders and content creators understand how artificial intelligence platforms perceive and recommend them. Customers increasingly ask AI assistants direct questions about which businesses, experts and solutions they should trust.
BlueFaucet Inc. announced the launch of BlueFaucet, an autonomous AI Agent CRM built for solopreneurs and micro-businesses with fewer than five employees across local services, home services, personal care, and food and beverage. The United States has roughly 29.8 million nonemployer firms — more than 82% of all small businesses. These businesses depend on repeat customers, yet limited
ODNA® Talent announced the public launch of its role-specific talent intelligence and assessment platform. The platform connects job requirements, advanced AI support, more than 200 validated scales, candidate identity and assessment integrity tools, and practical reporting in one system. "Most assessments start in the wrong place. They start with the test. We start with the job," said John P
As healthcare becomes increasingly digital, patients are taking a more active role in managing their health while health systems look for ways to make access to care more connected and responsive. AI is emerging as an important part of that shift, particularly when it is integrated directly into existing patient and clinical workflows rather than operating as a standalone tool. In an exclusive con
Enlil, Inc., the AI-powered development traceability platform built for medical device and life sciences organizations, introduced the four-layer governed AI architecture at the core of its platform, built to help medical device companies produce evidence that holds up when AI is applied on both sides of a submission. The FDA launched Elsa, a generative AI tool supporting agency staff across
Cerbo, a leading electronic health record (EHR) platform for independent practices,announced the launch of AI Scribe, a clinical documentation tool built directly into the Cerbo EHR. Cerbo AI Scribe listens to the patient encounter, interprets the clinical conversation, and generates a structured note inside the chart, ready for the practitioner to review, edit, and sign. AI Scribe gives time bac
Aprio, the 20th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., announced the launch of Aprio Ventures, a strategic investment program created to identify and accelerate technologies to strengthen Aprio's services and enhance the client experience. Through Aprio Ventures, Aprio will invest in emerging technology companies, work alongside founders, and evaluate innovative solut
ForceEquals, the operational layer that puts business teams in control of AI agent portfolios, announced general availability of ForceEquals Agent Momentum, comprised of Agent Control and Agent Operations. ForceEquals doesn't just give companies visibility or governance over agents. It controls the moment human judgment is required, gets the decision to the right person, makes
EventsAir, a global leader in event management technology, announced that Planner Assistant, part of its Air Intelligence suite, is now live and available to all event planners on the platform. Planner Assistant transforms how planners deliver events, combining native, in-product intelligence with a deep contextual foundation built on more than 35 years of event industry expertise.
Rhapsody, a global leader in infrastructure for agent-ready interoperability, announced the availability of its Rhapsody Payer Interoperability Suite in the Connection Hub on Epic Showroom. Purpose-built for organizations using Tapestry UM/CM, Claims, and the Epic Payer Platform, the Suite combines pre-configured payer interoperability workflows with Rhapsody Axon, the company's AI-
Stratus, the digital fabrication platform trusted by contractors across piping & plumbing, sheet metal, and electrical trades, announced Stratus Labs, its new AI and innovation arm, alongside the release of its first set of experiments to customers: agentic spooling capabilities and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server connection. The announcement was made at Innovate 2026, an annual MEP eve
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
