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MyHeritage Brought AI-Driven Research Assistance to Genealogy With GAIA

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history, announced the launch of GAIA, its Genealogy AI Agent. GAIA is a groundbreaking interactive AI research system that carefully maps out and conducts complex genealogical research guided by the user. Unlike conventional search tools or AI chatbots that simply return one-off answers or suggest where to look, GAIA actively carries out multiple

AI Digital Introduced Ellie to Connect Media Strategy With AI-Driven Campaign Insights

AI Digital, the AI-native media consultancy, has launched Ellie, an AI superagent built into its Elevate marketing intelligence platform. Most AI tools are assistants or copilots, but Ellie selects and sequences specialist agents around the user’s goal, including agents for planning, campaign analytics, competitive analysis, audience search, and audience personas. Ellie gives marketers one c

Together AI Introduced Together Compiler to Advance Open-Source Model Optimization

Together AI, the AI-native cloud, announced Together Compiler, which uses teams of AI agents to rewrite the GPU code behind the models it serves. New open source models now get faster overnight instead of in weeks, with no additional work from customers. Together Compiler is the first step towards recursive self-improving inference and serves trillions of tokens per day. Today's AI workloads are

Impart Brought 60-Minute AI Virtual Patching to Security Teams With Runtime Defense Harness

Impart Security, an AI runtime protection platform, launched the Runtime Defense Harness, a controlled environment where AI agents write and test virtual patches for new vulnerabilities without putting AI in the traffic path. The launch comes as exploits increasingly outpace fixes. In the harness, agents build each virtual patch against the customer’s own traffic, an engineer approves it, a

Confluent Launched Streamhouse Architecture to Power Context-Aware AI Applications

Confluent, an IBM company, announced new capabilities for building a Streamhouse, a new type of data architecture that keeps business context current for AI agents, applications and analytics as they make decisions and take action. With Lightning Tables now generally available on AWS, Confluent completes its five-pillar Data Streaming Platform, bringing capabilities to Stream, Connect, Process, Go

Stream Engine Advanced AI Deepfake Detection for Air Force Research Laboratory, Reaching Test Readiness in Weeks

Stream Engine, a provider of decision intelligence for national security, announced that it has developed and delivered a containerized, semantic-based deepfake detection analytic to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). According to AFRL's CRADA annual report (Case No. AFRL-2026-4061), the analytic has

Overstory Introduced AI Platform to Deliver Real-Time Intelligence on Grid Risk

Overstory, the leading technology for managing nature-driven grid risk, launched a grid risk management platform that gives utilities a system of action for detecting risk, prioritizing work, and building a defensible record proving to regulators how much risk each dollar removed. Overstory introduced the industry's first AI models to help predict where outages and utility-caused wildfi

Nordic Introduced nRF71 Series With 20-Fold Standby Power Reduction for Edge AI

Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in low-power wireless solutions, announced the nRF71 Series of ultra-low-power Systems-On-Chip (SoCs), bringing together ultra-low-power Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE), Thread®, and edge AI onto a single chip. Built on the ultra-low-power design, software, and tools that have made Nordic a trusted leader in Bluetooth LE, the nRF71 Series deliv

Bringg Launched Performance AI to Turn Operational Intelligence Into Real-Time Decisions

Bringg, the last-mile performance leader, introduced Bringg Performance AI, a suite of AI products that moves last-mile intelligence from the dispatch screen to the decision-making point, giving retailers and logistics providers the diagnosis and foresight to act today, next week, and next quarter. Execution tools tell a last-mile operation what to do right now: route, dispatch, track. The higher

Compass Group Brought AI-Forward Technology to Managed Facilities Services With AirisOne

Compass Group announced the launch of AirisOne, a new Managed Services Hub that delivers a broad portfolio of facilities services, technology, talent, operational expertise and procurement capabilities through one connected experience. Powered by an AI-forward technology platform, AirisOne gives facilities managers and clients a simpler way to run operations, access specialized services, and take

Sequel Introduced AI Agents That Combine Website and Webinar Data to Drive Pipeline Growth

Sequel, which turns webinars and video into a go-to-market engine, announced the general availability of Sequel Agents, AI agents for webinar and video marketing powered by first-party audience context. Sequel Agents help marketing teams plan programs, create content, understand their audience and act on engagement, so the value of each webinar extends well past the live broadcast. Webinars remai

Hippocratic AI Introduced a New Approach to Clinical AI With Polaris 6 Ultra

Hippocratic AI announced Polaris 6 Ultra, a new generation of its healthcare language model that delivers six upgrades to how an AI care agent listens, thinks, and speaks. Polaris 6 Ultra is the first healthcare model with what the company calls bedside intuition: the ability to read a patient's emotional state, think mid-speech and decide what to say next in the same breath, without a pause the p

XTEINK Introduced AI InkApp Store, Bringing AI-Powered Creation to E-Readers

XTEINK, a pioneer in ultra-portable magnetic e-paper devices, launched its AI InkApp Store to international markets. The platform connects AI-assisted creation, an open API, on-device runtime and app distribution, turning plain-language prompts into shareable apps. Through InkApp AI Studio, users describe a feature in words and AI generates the code. They can preview and refine it in a brows

Abacum Took Business Planning Beyond Departmental Silos With Its New AI Agent, Abra

Abacum, the AI-native business planning platform, launched Abra, an orchestrating AI agent that brings the full power of Abacum into one experience. Built for teams across the business, Abra turns questions into actionable work without requiring users to know which AI agent to call or how to coordinate them. Behind Abra is a team of purpose-built agents that take on the work teams run every day,

The Biological Computing Co. Brought Neuron-Derived Computing to Public AI Video Generation

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), an applied biological computing company that uses living neurons to improve AI models, launched TBC mischief 1, an AI video model that generates video 5x faster than its base model. Available on fal and OpenRouter, mischief 1 is the lowest-priced image-to-video model on both marketplaces, enabling video creators and developers to experiment with more ideas,

ACES Introduced Curriculum Studio to Bring AI-Powered Curriculum Development to Connecticut Schools

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) has released the ACES Curriculum Studio, a web application that helps Connecticut K-12 educators design standards-based curriculum in a fraction of the usual time. Every unit is built through three frameworks at once: Connecticut's K-12 Universal Curriculum Design Principles, Understanding by Design (UbD), and CAST's Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Natural Introduced Direct, Enabling AI Agents to Initiate ACH, Wire and Real-Time Payments

Natural, the company building the foundational financial stack for AI agents, announced the general availability of Direct. With Direct, AI agents can choose the payment rail for each payment they send: ACH, wire, or realtime payments over RTP and FedNow. Mailed paper checks, international wires, and more are coming soon. With Direct, a business's agents can pay vendors, contractors, and oth

Lean AI Marked C.H. Robinson’s Next Step Toward More Intelligent Global Shipping

As the global leader in Lean AI, C.H. Robinson has launched new AI agents that perform work in ocean shipping, air freight and customs brokerage. They represent an expansion of the company’s Lean AI capabilities into freight forwarding, for the benefit of more customers, and into work so complex that a single shipping task can require over a dozen AI agents working in tandem. Continuing to

Sharjah Introduced Uruk, Reimagining Sustainable Urban Living for the Post-AI Era

In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and Her Highness Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of American University of Sharjah and Chairperson of Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park, a pioneering model for a new generation of cities designed for the post-AI era called “Uruk.” The pr

Ant Group Expanded LingGuang’s Capabilities With a Move Toward Proactive AI Assistance

Ant Group announced the launch of LingGuang 2.0, an upgrade that transforms its multimodal AI assistant into a proactive personal agent capable of identifying user needs and managing tasks over time. Moving beyond passive, single-turn interactions, LingGuang 2.0 shifts AI assistance from responding to commands toward continuously identifying needs, following up on tasks, and coordinating everyday

From Identity Verification to AI: Persona Introduced Its Next-Generation Identity Initiative

Persona, the leading global identity platform, announced Persona AI, a suite of AI products that brings agentic capabilities to identity operations. The launch builds on Persona’s vision for the future of identity: helping organizations scale how trust is established online while retaining oversight over how consequential decisions are made. The suite includes Persona Assistant, Persona Age

Bedrock Data Advanced Enterprise Data Protection With AI-Assisted Remediation

Bedrock Data, the platform provider for data security and AI governance, announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in the Jira or ServiceNow workflow the enterprise already runs and supplies the context needed to fix it. When the ow