Proctoring tech just got a serious AI upgrade. Talview, the San Mateo–based talent assessment and proctoring company, has been awarded its first U.S. patent—No. US 12,361,115 B1—for Alvy, an agentic AI platform built to both protect the integrity of remote assessments and actually help candidates through them.
Dubai’s growing reputation as a global AI hotspot just got another boost. Demand AI Group Inc., known for its AI-powered demand generation platform, has opened a new regional headquarters in the city, marking the company’s seventh global office and its first in the Middle East.
Manual industrial inspections may soon feel as dated as clipboards and carbon paper. PROtect, LLC has teamed up with German AI specialist sentin GmbH to bring automated, AI-powered Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to North America—making PROtect the first inspection provider in the region to offer it as a service.
The next frontier in AI performance may come with a staggering energy bill. A joint report from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Epoch AI projects that training a cutting-edge AI model could require more than 4 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2030—enough to keep millions of U.S. homes running.
Kubit, the customer journey analytics platform known for its warehouse-native architecture, has introduced Ask Kubit, a conversational AI interface that turns plain-English questions into on-demand analytics.
Google’s AI Overviews—its generative summaries that sit above traditional search results—are no longer a curiosity. They’re showing up in roughly 13% of all search queries, according to a March 2025 industry study, and they’re already reshaping the SEO landscape.
Belgian spacetech startup EDGX just scored a €2.3 million seed round to accelerate the rollout of its Sterna edge AI computer for satellites—a system designed to process data in orbit instead of beaming terabytes back to Earth for analysis.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), once hailed as a security panacea, is proving increasingly vulnerable. In 2024, a staggering 87% of successful cyberattacks exploited session hijacking post-MFA login, exposing a critical flaw: MFA trusts session tokens blindly. State-sponsored threat groups like Russia’s Void Blizzard use sophisticated proxy tools such as Evilginx2 to steal tokens in real time—leaving security teams in the dark.
Kyndryl has expanded its strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to advance enterprise adoption of private cloud AI solutions. Announced today, the collaboration combines Kyndryl’s AI consulting and deployment capabilities with HPE’s newly launched Private Cloud AI platform—developed in partnership with NVIDIA—to fast-track AI transformation for enterprise clients.
