Monday, 24 August 2026
Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, and startup accelerator Techstars, announced a strategic partnership centred on a commercially-driven "Acceleration-to-Enterprise" model to integrate high-growth AI and FinTech innovations directly into the bank's regional ecosystem encompassing multiple markets. Combining Techstars' g
the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, has launched BlueVerse™ RightLogic, a cybersecurity assessment and risk assurance framework designed to help enterprises identify, assess and remediate cyber exposure as they accelerate AI adoption. AI is now capable of autonomously identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, while exposure across infrastructure,
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
SK bioscience announced that it will lead the Research Optimization & Trial Outcome Recommender (ROTOR) project, an AI-powered evidence synthesis and clinical development decision-support platform initiative funded by the Gates Foundation, establishing a global collaboration framework. The project is expected to involve technical collaboration with global health nonprofit PATH, and global te
XstraStar highlighted G-Power, short for Generative Power, as part of its GEO methodology for evaluating how brands perform across generative AI platforms. According to XstraStar's 2026 GEO methodology white paper, G-Power is a 0-100 composite score designed to quantify a brand's overall influence in generative AI responses. Measuring Brand Presence Beyond Mentions In AI search environments, bei
The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the emirate, and the MIT – Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research have announced a strategic collaboration to advance AI-enabled oncology research, translational science and bioconvergence innovation. Leveraging Abu Dhabi's intelligent life science ecosystem, the partnership will connect world
SK bioscience announced that it will lead the Research Optimization & Trial Outcome Recommender (ROTOR) project, an AI-powered evidence synthesis and clinical development decision-support platform initiative funded by the Gates Foundation, establishing a global collaboration framework. The project is expected to involve technical collaboration with global health nonprofit PATH, and global tech
CaratIQ, the AI operating system built for jewellery stores, announced an exclusive partnership with Nationwide, one of Australasia’s leading jewellery buying groups, representing more than 400 jewellery stores. Under the agreement, CaratIQ will become the exclusive provider for cloud-based point-of-sale, clienteling CRM and AI-powered retail technology for the Nationwide member group.
Sourcegraph, the code intelligence platform that helps enterprise engineering teams understand, oversee, and evolve their codebases, announced public beta availability of Agentic Batch Changes. Agentic Batch Changes is an AI agent that builds on Sourcegraph's Batch Changes execution engine and code search. By bringing AI-powered planning and orchestration to large scale code changes, it enabl
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced Cognizant Neuro® AI Trust, a new platform designed to provide enterprises with continuous governance and real-time assurance across all AI systems. As AI environments grow more autonomous and complex, Neuro AI Trust empowers enterprises to monitor, manage and help control AI behavior and performance in real time, aiming to enable orga
Intersignal, an independent artificial intelligence lab and systems research initiative, announced the release of Braid v0.2, the second iteration of its local-first AI state synchronization protocol. Released one day after the public introduction of Braid v0.1, Braid v0.2 focuses on strengthening the protocol foundation through authenticated identities, improved packet validation, replay protect
Veratad Technologies, LLC, a global provider of age and identity verification solutions, t announced the Veratad VX℠ Agent Toolkit, a new way for AI agents and the applications that power them to verify a real human in real time before they act. As customers increasingly shop, sign up, and transact through AI agents and chatbots, businesses face a question they cannot afford to skip: is there a
DentScribe, the AI platform for dental documentation and production intelligence, announced two new capabilities built for modern dental practices, DSOs, and multi-location groups: DentScribe Patient Profiles and DentScribe Treatment Coordinator Intelligence, including Treatment Coordinator Notes, also known as Financial Notes. Together, the new capabilities help dental o
Sprocket Security, a continuous penetration testing platform, has launched Apex, its first AI penetration testing agent, to accelerate vulnerability discovery in web applications. Apex performs autonomous, context-aware, unauthenticated web application testing, surfacing exploitable vulnerabilities at machine speed. Apex is wired into the attack surface management platform Sprocket has been b
Spellbook, the leading AI infrastructure for contracts used by 4,500+ legal teams across 80+ countries, launched Autonomous Contract Management (ACM), introducing the first AI system that powers contracts end to end. Spellbook ACM handles every step of the contract lifecycle, from the moment a deal hits your inbox to the day it renews years later. Nothing gets handed off between systems or slips a
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, but behind every AI model, chatbot and image generator lies an often overlooked reality: electricity. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is triggering a surge in global electricity demand as technology companies race to build larger data centres capable of processing enormous amounts of information. While AI
NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, released Can Data Centers Keep Pace with AI? A Global Data Center Outlook, a report examining whether the infrastructure required to support the next wave of artificial intelligence can scale fast enough to meet demand. Developed in partnership with NTT Global Data Centers and economic consultancy ThoughtLab, the repor
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace design services, announced that its subsidiary, GuideTech, has secured a new $2.3 million contract with a defense prime contractor to deploy its BRAIN flight
VerSprite, a global leader in risk-based threat modeling and the firm behind the PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis) methodology, announced the general availability of Fork (www.forktm.com), a continuous application threat modeling platform, alongside Knife, an AI-led, human-on-the-loop adversarial testing platform for web applications and web API endpoints. To
Waton Financial Limited announced the release of MoTA Alpha, a major upgrade to its flagship AI-powered investment platform. First unveiled in closed beta in May 2026, MoTA (Manager of Trading Agents) now introduces the Agent Talents Market, a creator ecosystem for third-party AI trading agents, alongside a redesigned multi-agent collaboration workflow and a fully overhauled user experience. The A
Podcasts, online courses, customer interviews, webinars, lectures, and short-form videos hold some of the most valuable spoken information on the web — yet turning hours of recorded speech into searchable, editable text still means costly per-minute subscriptions or slow manual transcription. SoundWise.ai announced the public launch of its free forever AI transcription tool, a browser-b
Newegg (Newegg Commerce, Inc., NASDAQ: NEGG), a global leader in computer and technology products, launched a full conversational AI shopping experience available at newegg.com/ai, letting shoppers move from idea to cart in one place. Through this new AI mode, customers can describe what they're looking for in plain language and refine through conversation – asking the assistant to swa
