Logistics Reply has introduced the LEA AI Agent Authority Model, a framework designed to help warehouses deploy AI agents according to the risks and responsibilities of individual tasks rather than giving systems unrestricted autonomy. The model accompanies LEA Reply Dynamic Intelligence and arrives as AI moves from decision support toward direct participation in warehouse execution….
MegazoneCloud is partnering with U.S.-based Portal26 to bring enterprise generative AI governance and security capabilities to South Korea, targeting a growing problem for businesses: knowing which AI tools employees use, what data they send to them, and how much those systems cost. Under the reseller agreement, MegazoneCloud will provide Portal26’s AI Adoption Management Platform alongside…
Finance and procurement teams are buying more AI software while struggling to determine whether they are paying fair prices, according to SpendHound’s AI Spend Report: 2026 Edition. The report, based on a survey of 172 finance and procurement leaders and proprietary spend data from more than 1,300 companies, finds that 57% of respondents are not…
AppDirect is adding Soul Machines’ AI avatar technology to its Devs.ai platform following its acquisition of the company, giving businesses a way to deploy interactive digital avatars across customer support, employee services, training and commerce. The move comes as enterprise AI shifts from text-based assistants toward multimodal interfaces and agentic workflows that can operate across…
AppDirect has acquired Soul Machines, bringing the AI avatar company’s multimodal digital-teammate technology into a B2B subscription commerce platform used by more than 16 million subscribers. The transaction gives AppDirect a way to combine conversational, video-based AI interfaces with its distribution and commerce infrastructure as enterprise AI moves from chatbots toward agents that can perform…
Teem Finance is integrating its AI-native procurement intelligence with Workday Strategic Sourcing and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, giving procurement teams a way to analyze existing suppliers, identify purchasing overlaps and research alternatives without manually consolidating supplier and contract data. Enterprise procurement is increasingly becoming a data problem. Organizations may have thousands of suppliers, contracts and…
Enterprise generative AI is entering a more complicated phase: instead of routing every task through one frontier model, organizations are increasingly mixing models, controlling inference costs and rebuilding their data pipelines. A new Hyperscience study, conducted with The Harris Poll, finds that 80% of surveyed organizations are moving away from a single-large-model strategy, while 52%…
Manifest Cyber has joined Athena, the Chainguard-led coalition focused on coordinated defense of open-source software, adding software supply chain visibility to a group that includes JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, Cisco, Cloudflare, Akamai and PwC. The move gives Athena another way to identify where vulnerable open-source components reside inside commercial and third-party software—an increasingly important problem as…
NTT DOCOMO has developed a new AI model designed to make accurate predictions when historical data is scarce, addressing one of the persistent challenges in machine learning: the cold-start problem. The Dual-view Adaptive Retrieval-augmented Tweedie model combines a probability distribution suited to uneven real-world data with information retrieved from similar cases, potentially allowing new services…
