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…
Bedrock Data is extending its Agent DLP runtime data-loss prevention technology to NVIDIA OpenShell, adding data-aware policy decisions to the sandbox environment used by autonomous AI agents. The integration is designed to address a gap in conventional agent permissions: an agent can be authorized to perform an operation while still handling data that should not…
T-Mobile is expanding AI deeper into its network operations with nationwide deployment of AutoPilot and Dynamic CX, two capabilities designed to let its 5G infrastructure respond automatically to changing conditions. Built on the company’s Self-Organizing Network (SON), AutoPilot uses intent-based AI to determine network adjustments, while Dynamic CX forecasts demand and optimizes capacity. The move…
UL Solutions has introduced a certification program for medium-voltage solid-state power units, targeting an emerging part of the electrical infrastructure needed to support high-density AI data centers. The program is designed to give manufacturers a defined safety-evaluation path for equipment that can convert medium-voltage AC from the grid directly to lower-voltage DC, including architectures built…
