AI avatars are moving beyond generic digital assistants as companies look for ways to connect conversational AI with their own intellectual property. Tokyo-based imaging and visual-production company Crescent Inc. is using XRSPACE’s Perxona platform to turn two proprietary VTuber characters into interactive website guides, giving visitors a conversational way to explore the company’s products and…
Artificial intelligence has quickly become a workplace expectation, but knowing that AI matters is not the same as knowing how to use it effectively. AI Advantage, the AI education platform co-founded by Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins, is positioning structured training as a way to help professionals move from experimenting with AI tools to incorporating…
As humanoid robots move from laboratory demonstrations toward real-world tasks, dexterous manipulation is emerging as a major bottleneck. Virdyn mHand Studio addresses a less visible part of that challenge: capturing human hand demonstrations, converting them into robot-compatible motion, validating them in simulation and recording the resulting data for robotics and embodied-AI development. The race to…
The gap between an AI prototype and a production-ready industrial machine can be wider than the prototype itself. SECO is targeting that transition with early access to its SOM-SMARC-Dragonwing-IQ8, a compact system-on-module based on Qualcomm Technologies’ Dragonwing IQ8 Series and designed to carry applications developed with Arduino into industrial Edge AI deployments. Prototyping an AI-enabled…
AI is becoming another place where brands compete for attention, but marketing teams are still figuring out how to influence what customers see. A new survey of 200 U.S. marketing and communications professionals by Sword and the Script Media finds that nearly half consider AI visibility significant, while the industry remains divided over which functions,…
Managed service providers have traditionally been responsible for keeping business technology running. GiaSpace is betting that the next phase of the market will require them to manage something more: AI agents that perform business work. The Florida-based MSP has formally adopted what it calls an “MSP 3.0” model, expanding beyond managed IT and cybersecurity into…
For enterprises investing in data modernization and AI, the harder question is often not whether they need a modern data platform, but where to start. KINETIQ is addressing that planning challenge with KINETIQ Blueprint: Microsoft Fabric Value Assessment, a 3–5-week professional-services engagement now available through Microsoft Marketplace to help organizations prioritize Fabric use cases, estimate…
For businesses that still rely heavily on phone calls, missed calls can quickly become missed customers. CCS (Custom Computer Specialists) is entering the AI voice-assistant market with Connected AI Receptionist, a voice-enabled virtual receptionist designed to answer incoming calls, understand caller intent, provide information, route conversations and schedule appointments without requiring an employee to pick…
Real-time data pipelines are becoming a critical part of enterprise AI, but they also make it harder for organizations to see where information comes from, how it changes and where it ultimately goes. Orion Governance is addressing that visibility gap by adding Apache Flink support to its Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG), extending automated metadata…
