Friday, 14 August 2026
Thanx, the guest engagement and loyalty platform for growing restaurant brands, announced RecoveryAI, an AI agent that automatically recovers guests who have a bad first-party digital ordering experience, in the moment it happens. Priced entirely on outcomes, RecoveryAI is the first time restaurants can turn guest recovery from a service cost into a revenue channel that scales with every order. R
IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world's leading hospitality companies, announced the beta launch of AI-powered conversational search on IHG.com and the IHG One Rewards mobile app, marking a new chapter in the evolution of the travel discovery experience. The new conversational search functionality brings intuitive, customized trip planning directly into IHG's digital channels, making i
Celeris, an artificial intelligence research lab focused on advancing frontier intelligence through building ultra-fast LLMs, announced Celeris-1, the lab's flagship language model. Built from the ground up on a novel diffusion architecture, Celeris-1 breaks away from the decade-long standard of autoregressive token generation, establishing a new foundation for interactive, low
National nonprofit Opportunity@Work announced the launch of the AI Readiness Lab (AIRLab), a new initiative developed in partnership with the Brookings Institution, bringing together six leading regions to understand and act on how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping local economies and workforces. The inaugural AIRLab cohort is coming together to understand and adapt to
Biointron Biological USA Inc. ("Biointron"), a leading contract research organization for antibody discovery, expression, and optimization, has launched RushData. RushData is an integrated service platform designed to support the growing demands of AI- and machine learning-driven antibody discovery for global pharma and biotech organizations. As computational antibody design continues to acc
NIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a leader in consumer intelligence, announced the expansion of AI-powered Smart Insights across its gfknewron® platform. By bringing together markets and categories into a single view, gfknewron enables businesses to transform complex market, consumer and supply chain data into clear, actionable intelligence quickly. The latest enhancements help users identify trends
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has selected Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) to design and build the Innovative Growth in Next Generation AI Technology Ecosystem (IGNITE), a new AI and high-performance computing (HPC) platformi. Funded by the State of Texas, IGNITE will support large scale, AI-driven research across engineering, national security, scientific disco
As hospitals worldwide face rising incidents of workplace violence, healthcare leaders are seeking security solutions that safeguard people without disrupting care. Athena Security has emerged as one of the pioneers in AI-driven weapons detection, combining artificial intelligence, computer vision and advanced sensors to identify genuine threats while reducing unnecessary screening delays. In thi
Soracom, Inc. (TSE: 147A), a cloud-native IoT platform providing connectivity, cloud integration, an AI services for the Internet of Things, announced Soracom Agent, an AI agent that works alongside teams across the full IoT project lifecycle, from requirements definition and design through development and operations. This new product expands Soracom’s position as an MVNO first mover in AI.
Cornelis, a leading provider of high-performance networking solutions, introduced a new reference architecture that pairs its CN6000 SuperNIC with AMD 6th Gen EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ MI400 series GPUs. Designed for disaggregated AI inference, large-scale training, and HPC simulation, the architecture provides infrastructure operators with a blueprint for build
ACL Digital, part of the ALTEN Group, a trusted AI-led Digital & Systems Engineering Partner driving innovation by designing and building intelligent systems across the full technology stack — from chip to cloud, announced a strategic partnership with Swantide, an AI–powered platform redefining how organizations take ownership of their Salesforce ecosystems. The alliance is enginee
CuspAI announced the launch of the AI Materials Foundry, bringing together a global network of data, labs, compute and scientific expertise for the design of new materials, orchestrated by a single agentic platform. Over 45 organizations join as founding members, including NVIDIA, who will provide the compute infrastructure, and Meta’s Fundamental AI Research Team, who develop the Universal
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced that Broadcom has upgraded its membership to Platinum, reinforcing the company's mission to advance cloud native technologies that help organizations build resilient infrastructure for the AI era. As enterprises increasingly move AI and data-intensive wor
Strivve, the company behind the patented Top of Wallet® card-on-file platform, announced it is extending its technology to agentic commerce — the fast-emerging world where AI assistants shop and pay on a consumer's behalf. The move gives any credit or debit card issuer, from the largest banks to the smallest credit unions, a way to become the default card an AI agent reaches for at
Reputation Resolutions, a leading online reputation management firm, announced the launch of its new website and an expanded lineup of services designed for the changing search landscape. The launch marks a new chapter for the firm, pairing the results-based reputation services clients have long relied on with expanded capabilities for a world where artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) (Grid Dynamics), a premier AI transformation partner for the Fortune 1000, announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Doosan Robotics, a global leader in collaborative robot solutions, delivering cutting-edge AI robotics to 45 countries worldwide. Grid Dynamics offers Doosan cobot users a GAIN Platform for Physical AI, whi
Athena Security, a physical security and threat detection company specializing in AI-powered weapons detection systems, announced they are working with MLK Community Healthcare, a non-profit healthcare system in South L.A., to improve security measures at their hospital. MLK Community Healthcare is utilizing Athena’s Apollo 500 Weapons Detection System, an Al-driven walk-through concealed we
Excalipoint Therapeutics and DP Technology announced a strategic collaboration to co-develop a proprietary AI agentic platform tailored for T-cell engager (TCE) and multi-specific antibody discovery. The alliance integrates Excalipoint’s deep expertise in TCE engineering with DP Technology’s leading AI Agent technology to address industry bottlenecks in TCE development and streamline d
Network Solutions, the world's first domain registrar millions of small businesses trust to name, build, protect and grow online, has launched AI All-Access Pack, a new subscription that gives small businesses one affordable way to access four of the same leading AI models used by many of the world's largest companies: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok, through a single dashboard. AI is quickly be
Mindtrip, an AI-powered platform that empowers people to travel differently, announced the launch of Mindtrip Stays, a standalone experience that helps travelers find the best place to stay through a conversational interface tailored to their needs. The launch comes just weeks after Mindtrip introduced Mindtrip Flights and builds on the company's vision for end-to-end, agentic travel p
Andela, the AI-native data and services platform with the world's largest private marketplace for technical talent, has been named by TIME and Statista as one of America's Top WorkTech Companies for 2026. The recognition comes as the company expands its ranks and builds new infrastructure to assess, benchmark, develop, and deploy talent at scale. Andela's recognition by T
Nebius (Nasdaq: NBIS), the AI cloud company, announced a new business model that lets infrastructure partners deploy Nebius’s full-stack AI cloud platform in their own AI data centers. The model brings additional capacity to Nebius customers, and expands the availability of value-added AI compute globally at a time when demand continues to outstrip supply. Under the model, partners finance
