Enterprise AI has a deployment problem that increasingly sits beyond model performance. A widely cited industry estimate suggests that about 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production, highlighting the difficult transition from a successful demonstration to a system that can operate inside legacy infrastructure, security controls and complex business processes. Think41 is betting…
Singaporean enterprises are moving into a more demanding phase of AI adoption: proving that deployments can deliver measurable returns while meeting security, compliance and infrastructure requirements. A new Dell Technologies study suggests the biggest obstacles are no longer enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, but data access, legacy systems, energy constraints and the lack of coordinated AI,…
ModelBest and the OpenBMB open-source community have released MiniCPM5-2B, a compact language model designed to bring reasoning, tool use and coding capabilities to PCs, smartphones, robotics and other resource-constrained devices. The 2.5-billion-parameter model is accompanied by training data, recipes and infrastructure, making the release as much about reproducible AI development as the model itself. ModelBest…
Rokid is opening up its AI glasses platform to a broader developer audience with the global launch of AIUI Studio, a browser-based development environment for building and publishing spatial AI applications for Rokid’s smart eyewear. Announced at IFA Berlin 2026, the platform combines AI-assisted coding, reusable skills and hardware simulation, reflecting a broader shift in…
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…
