Saturday, 07 November 2026
Taiwantrade, a leading B2B platform for sourcing from Taiwan, has launched ASTRA, a new AI-powered sourcing assistant that helps international buyers find the right Taiwanese suppliers through a simple, conversational experience. Instead of relying on exact keywords or manually comparing countless product listings, buyers can simply describe their sourcing needs—even in a long or complex bu
Fleetworthy, the only complete technology suite for fleet readiness, announced Fleetworthy RADAR™ (Real-time AI, Decisioning and Automated Resolution), a new embedded intelligence layer built directly into the Fleetworthy platform. Fleetworthy unveiled RADAR™ to customers this week at its fall roadshow in Nashville, Tennessee. RADAR™ is built into the Fleetworthy products custom
ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR), a world-leading clinical research organisation, announced the release of AI-directed video production capabilities within its FIRECREST site & patient communications platform. ICON’s FIRECREST AI-directed video engine enables sponsors to automate the creation of high-quality, high-impact clinical trial videos. Unlike generic and unrestricted generative AI video
Assail, Inc., a developer of sovereign AI-powered offensive security platforms, announced Cassandra™, a proactive AI agent integrated into its Ares™ platform, alongside expanded threat modeling capabilities that connect attack scenarios directly to autonomous security testing and remediation verification. Cassandra continuously monitors changes across an organization's attack surface,
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
PhoenixAI, the original creator of StarRocks and the agentic AI database company, launched Contextbase, the context infrastructure for AI agents. The company is unveiling it at NEXT QUERY 2026, its Data + AI Infrastructure Summit. Contextbase stores semantics, knowledge, memory, traces, and evaluations as context in one system, so agents understand, reason, and act better with every run. An agent
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
Partly, the Austin-based company building frontier AI for repair, launched PartlyRepair AI at SEMA 2026. PartlyRepair AI is the agentic AI assistant for collision repair shops, powered by Interpreter, Partly’s proprietary AI model that understands and reasons across vehicles, parts and repair procedures. It automates the research and admin across the entire job, from intake and damage captur
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
The Chemours Company ("Chemours") (NYSE: CC), launched Faizeon™ two-phase liquid cooling solutions, for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and high-density data centers. The portfolio includes dielectric fluids engineered for both two-phase direct-to-chip and two-phase immersion cooling, giving data center operators and technology partners highly efficient option
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. (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,
WHI Solutions, an eBay company, launched Nexus, the AI suite for its Nexpart parts ordering platform. The first Nexus capability, AI-assisted phone ordering, answers customer calls and takes orders directly through Nexpart, so customers don't wait on hold when the counter is busy or the store is closed. Nexus is already live and rolling out with major parts distributors, with dozens more implement
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
Crisp has launched a new platform for CPG brands, brokers, distributors and retailers to speed time to insights and time to action through a unified infrastructure that embeds AI across existing retail workflows to meet the unique needs of each organization. Built on top of the Crisp Retail Data Foundation, Crisp Halo seamlessly integrates agentic AI with sales and supply chain data enabling brand
Vitable Health, the benefits and care platform serving hourly workers and small businesses, has launched Care AI, an AI-powered care and benefits navigator built into the Vitable app that helps members book care, understand their benefits, and get answers at any hour. For many hourly workers, getting care means calling during business hours, decoding a benefits plan, and guessing what’s cov
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
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
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
As more older adults seek to maintain their independence while aging at home, families face the challenge of staying connected and recognizing changes in their loved ones’ well-being. Kindable is addressing this need with Loved, an AI-powered companionship and care coordination platform featuring Claire, a virtual care assistant that checks in with seniors through regular phone conversations
As small businesses seek faster and simpler insurance solutions, traditional quoting processes continue to create friction through lengthy applications, manual data entry, and complex workflows. Thimble and Bold Penguin are addressing these challenges through an AI-powered quoting integration that combines natural-language processing with agent-to-agent (A2A) technology and the Model Context Proto
As pet healthcare increasingly shifts toward early detection and preventive care, continuous health monitoring is emerging as a valuable tool for identifying potential concerns before visible symptoms appear. PetPace is advancing this approach with an AI-powered health-monitoring collar that tracks vital signs, activity, sleep, and other physiological indicators to identify meaningful deviations f
