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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

WISEcode Launched Beta Testing for an AI Platform Built Around Food and Beverage Needs

WISEcode™, the pioneer of FoodTechAI™, opened the beta of WISEcode Intelligence™, its first AI product built for food and beverage companies. Brands in the beta can see their own products, and their competitors', the way WISEcode scores food: ingredient by ingredient, across the attributes behind health, quality and value. A view of the market that did not exist Food companies

MyVest Advanced AI-Enabled Wealth Management by Linking SPS Intelligence to Existing Applications

MyVest, a leading provider of enterprise wealth management technology, announced MyVest AI Connect, which brings the full depth of its Strategic Portfolio System (SPS), including portfolio management, personalization, performance and account data, directly into the AI applications firms already use, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. With MyVest AI Connect, firms can continue to foc

ShipStation Advanced Shipping Automation With New AI-Driven Workflow Capabilities

ShipStation, the leading AI-powered shipping and logistics platform for small and mid-sized shippers, announced the next evolution of its platform, introducing an expanded suite of generative and predictive artificial intelligence (AI) features. The latest updates further enable ShipStation to equip shippers with enterprise-level logistics intelligence that simplifies warehouse operations, protect

Travelers Brought AI-Driven Quoting to Workers’ Compensation Insurance

The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRV) announced the launch of Travis Upload & Go℠, an AI-powered quoting tool that streamlines the workers compensation submission process for independent insurance agents serving small businesses. How Travis Upload & Go WorksTravis Upload & Go removes manual data entry from the workers compensation quoting process, allowing agents to spend le

Taktile Advanced AI-Powered Learning for Risk and Decision Teams in Banking and Insurance

Taktile, the leader in AI transformation for financial institutions, announced the launch of Taktile Insights. The new AI-powered solution enables banks and insurers to analyze decision performance faster than ever before, and quickly identify opportunities for improvement through natural-language prompts. While many banks and insurers have automated large parts of decision processes like loan ap

Florence Strengthened Its Clinical Research AI Platform With Farr and Expanded Study Workflows

Florence introduced Farr, an AI agent for study teams, and expanded the AI workflows it already runs for study startup and monitoring. Each one puts humans over software: the AI drafts, checks, and recommends, and research teams decide. "Sites and sponsors share one journey, but today they connect it by hand: emails, spreadsheets, re-keyed questionnaires, and documents fixed after the fact," said

From Machines to Mission-Critical Workflows: Percepto Introduced Axion for Physical AI

Percepto launched Axion, a hardware-agnostic Physical AI platform designed to give mission-critical operators a continuously updated understanding of their infrastructure and the knowledge to act before problems escalate. The launch marks a major expansion of Percepto's business, making its Physical AI platform available to companies using their existing or new drone fleets, third-party sensors, o

Advyzon Put AI-Powered Cash Flow Planning at the Core of Its Wealth Management Experience

Advyzon, a global AI-powered, unified wealth management technology and data platform for advisory firms, announced the launch of Advyzon Financial Planning, a comprehensive cash-flow planning and projection solution built natively into the Advyzon platform. Led by Kevin Hughes, President of Financial Planning at Advyzon, whose nearly two decades of experience have helped shape financial planning

Pythia Labs Brought AI-Driven Antibody Design to Challenging Therapeutic Targets

Pythia Labs, a biotechnology company building frontier AI models for therapeutic discovery, announced its launch alongside a preprint in bioRxiv introducing Pythia-1, the all-atom generative model at the core of its antibody design platform. Pythia’s technology is built to create antibodies against targets that have challenged conventional discovery, including multi-pass membrane proteins s

Listen Labs Advanced AI-Powered Customer Research With Its Listen Twins Models

Listen Labs, the AI platform for customer understanding, launched Listen Twins, one-to-one AI models of real people in a company’s target audience. Each Twin is built from an in-depth interview and can predict what that person will do and why. Companies can ask their own panel of 100+ Twins a question and see how their audience would respond in seconds. Every Listen Twin is based on one rea

Cognizant and EBRD Put Outcome-Driven AI Services at the Heart of Digital Transformation

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) announced it has been selected by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as a strategic partner to support its Tech Blueprint, the Bank's technology transformation programme, which focuses on driving efficiency, effectiveness and innovation through digitally enabled processes powered by AI, data, and intelligent automation. Under the five-year framewo

Datamaran Advanced AI-Driven Compliance With Its New Regulatory Assessment Capability

Datamaran announced the general availability of Applicability Assessment, a new feature of its Regulatory Monitoring platform. For organizations operating across multiple countries, knowing which regulations apply is still largely a manual process of checking hundreds of rules against thresholds one entity at a time, repeating that exercise whenever something changes. The process doesn't scale, a

Check Point Made AI-Era Firewall Protection More Accessible With Firewall-as-a-Subscription

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader in cyber security solutions, announced the new Firewall-as-a-Subscription program that gives organizations of every size access to Check Point's most advanced AI security and network threat prevention. Through one predictable subscription, organizations get Check Point Force Firewalls with the AI Network Firewa

Double Introduced Autoclose, an AI Platform Built to Run the Month-End Close

Double, the leading AI close platform, launched Autoclose by Double, which lets accounting teams hand the work of the month-end close to AI agents. Attivo Partners, an AI-forward accounting and finance firm supporting over 500 venture-backed companies on Double, has signed on to roll out Autoclose across its practice, working alongside Double as an early adopter and building partner. With Autoclo

Cadence Reimagined Chip and System Design With Its Maestro Portfolio of Specialized AI Models

Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced the Maestro™ AI Model Portfolio, which powers Cadence® AI Super Agents across semiconductor and system design workflows. By integrating these models with reinforcement learning (RL) loops and its proven electronic design automation (EDA) and system design automation (SDA) tools, Cadence delivers a deeply integrated agentic engineering platform designed to

Dubai Chambers Expanded Business Innovation With the Launch of an Agentic AI Marketplace

Dubai Chambers has launched Chamber AI Hub, the world's first Agentic AI marketplace developed by a chamber of commerce, enabling businesses in Dubai to access ready-to-use AI agents that independently perform a range of administrative and operational tasks. The marketplace currently offers 22 specialised AI agents across seven business functions including Compliance, Procurement, Operations, Fin

Forge Plant Cognition Brought AI-Powered Industrial Intelligence to Dangote Through Honeywell

Honeywell Technologies (NASDAQ: HON) has announced the launch of Forge Plant Cognition, an industrial AI platform built with NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing capabilities, and Dell Technologies’ AI infrastructure. The platform is designed to help refining, petrochemical and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) operators generate greater value from their existing assets and transform plant operatio

AEON Introduced Agentic Checkout V2 to Enable AI-Driven Bookings on Travala

AEON, the settlement layer built for the AI economy, has launched Agentic Checkout V2, expanding its agentic commerce infrastructure beyond e-commerce purchases to travel bookings. The updated version enables AI agents to search and book hotel stays through Travala, allowing users to delegate an entire travel purchase to an AI agent while managing the funds used for the transaction through an