Boats Group is adding AI to the increasingly competitive business of selling boats online. The company has expanded Listing Optimizer, an AI-powered feature inside BoatWizard that evaluates inventory listings and recommends changes designed to improve search visibility and buyer engagement ahead of the fall boat-show season. For boat dealers and brokers, the sales process increasingly…
Vertice has launched Ana, an AI negotiation agent designed to handle software purchasing and renewal negotiations at enterprise scale. The agent combines procurement benchmarks, vendor-specific tactics and outcome forecasting to negotiate with software providers, either autonomously or alongside human procurement teams. Enterprise software procurement has a familiar problem: companies may have sophisticated procurement teams for…
BackBox has launched Kilter AI, an AI-powered intelligence layer for its network cyber resilience platform, Kilter. Rather than giving an autonomous AI system unrestricted control over network infrastructure, the company is positioning Kilter AI as a decision-support layer that helps NetSecOps teams assess vulnerabilities, build remediation workflows and automate repetitive tasks while keeping humans responsible…
Surfshark is expanding its privacy and cybersecurity portfolio with the acquisition of a majority stake in Optery, a U.S.-based personal data removal company. The deal brings Optery’s data-broker scanning and removal technology into Surfshark’s growing privacy ecosystem while leaving Optery, Incogni and Ironwall operating as independent businesses. Surfshark is betting that protecting people online increasingly…
Frigade is adding a new layer to enterprise AI agents: direct knowledge of how a software product actually works. The company has launched the Assist API, a framework-agnostic tool that lets existing AI agents answer product questions and guide users through live software interfaces without requiring companies to deploy a separate assistant. Frigade’s new Assist…
As enterprise AI systems move from answering questions to taking actions, a new problem is becoming harder to ignore: knowing when not to answer. Appier’s AI Research team has published two studies examining whether large language models can recognize missing information and choose the most appropriate language for reasoning—two capabilities that could become important building…
GEEKOM is positioning its A5 2027 Edition as a compact desktop for professionals and small businesses that need more than basic office computing. Built around AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 7730U, the Mini PC combines expandable memory and storage, four-display support and a cooling system designed for extended operation, while also supporting cloud-based AI assistants and…
Automotive safety development is moving further into the virtual world as automakers seek faster ways to evaluate crash performance before building physical prototypes. Autoliv is expanding that shift with its Human Body Model (HBM) Safety Suite, a virtual safety platform that gives engineers a more detailed digital view of how occupants may respond during crashes….
Manufacturers are moving AI closer to the production line as they look to automate quality inspection, catch defects earlier and make factories more responsive. USI has launched a next-generation AI Smart Camera that combines edge computing, high-resolution imaging and AI vision software in a single platform designed to move industrial computer vision from proof of…
