IFS, a leader in industrial cloud and enterprise software, announced its acquisition of TheLoops, a startup specializing in autonomous AI agent technology. The move plants IFS firmly ahead of the pack in the industrial AI arms race, as it becomes the first major vendor to embed agentic AI into mission-critical operations at scale.
Tacta Systems, a robotics innovator building machines with human-like tactile skills and spatial awareness, has announced a $75 million funding round to scale its development of next-generation robotic systems. The round includes an $11 million seed and a $64 million Series A, signaling strong confidence in the company’s vision of Dextrous Intelligence—a breakthrough that combines hardware, software, and AI to enable real-time physical world interaction.
Omnisend just made it a whole lot easier to run effective ecommerce campaigns—with the launch of its new AI-powered marketing suite that automates audience targeting, email content creation, and product personalization.
Trend Micro, the veteran cybersecurity firm with over 20 years in cloud defense, just landed a top spot in IDC’s 2025 MarketScape for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). And while those reports can be a bit of alphabet soup, this one matters—because CNAPPs are rapidly becoming the linchpin of modern enterprise security.
If you’ve ever watched your hard drive fill up with duplicate photos, documents, or forgotten downloads and thought, “There has to be a better way,” Cisdem has been quietly working on the answer. With over a decade of experience in file deduplication, the company just rolled out Cisdem Duplicate Finder for Windows 4.0, and it’s not your average system cleanup tool.
In a major step toward modernizing how we design complex hardware systems, JuliaHub has unveiled Dyad—a new platform that combines scientific machine learning (SciML), generative AI, and physical modeling to create a next-gen toolkit for engineering. From aerospace to energy, Dyad promises to shake up a field still tethered to tools that often feel like relics from another era.
At MWC Shanghai 2025, Huawei played host to the Mobile AI Summit, bringing together operators, AI pioneers, and academics to map out the next phase of mobile AI—one where 5G-Advanced (5G-A) doesn’t just connect devices, but underpins intelligent, monetizable experiences. The consensus? Faster uplink speeds, tighter network-service integration, and collaborative AI ecosystems are key to realizing mobile AI’s full potential.
iQIYI, one of China’s top online video platforms, used its platform at the 30th Shanghai TV Festival to make one thing clear: it’s not just playing catch-up with the global entertainment industry—it wants to lead the charge. At a series of high-profile forums during the event, iQIYI executives pulled back the curtain on the company’s latest moves in content strategy, AI-powered production, and international growth.
For the seventh consecutive year, Automation Anywhere has landed in the Leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation (RPA)—but this year, the win comes with a twist: the company isn’t just doing automation; it’s evolving it.
