The next stage of AI-powered commerce may not stop at product recommendations. AI agents are increasingly being designed to search, compare and eventually transact on a consumer’s behalf, putting banks and payment networks under pressure to make autonomous purchasing both useful and trustworthy. DBS Bank (Hong Kong) is responding on two fronts: continuing its work…
Accounting firms are increasingly becoming technology buyers, investors and product testers as artificial intelligence reshapes how tax, audit, advisory and professional services work gets delivered. Aprio, the 20th-largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., is formalizing that strategy with Aprio Ventures, a corporate investment program focused on AI, automation and enterprise software. The…
AI is lowering the barrier between having a digital idea and actually building it. Tencent Cloud’s 2026 “AI CAN DO IT” Game Development Hackathon is putting that shift to the test, with 10 finalist teams from Hong Kong and Macau presenting AI-powered games, cultural experiences and social-impact projects at a regional Demo Day. The competition…
Enterprise AI is moving into an awkward middle ground: companies are using foundation models and AI agents at growing rates, but many still struggle to turn pilots into repeatable, governed production systems. Globant is betting that the next shift will involve changing not just how AI is built, but how enterprises buy it. The company…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies is doubling down on Ethereum as an institutional digital-asset strategy, reporting $11.4 billion in combined cryptocurrency, cash, marketable securities and private-company investments as of August 16, 2026. The company now holds 5.82 million ETH, equivalent to about 4.8% of Ethereum’s reported circulating supply, while continuing weekly purchases, staking and share buybacks. Bitmine’s…
Yiren Digital is moving beyond isolated AI deployments with a shared enterprise architecture designed to reuse models, agents and workflows across its financial-services businesses. The company says the approach is helping it turn AI developed for credit, insurance and other functions into a repeatable operating capability spanning risk, customer operations, marketing and compliance. The next…
Enterprise AI adoption is increasingly shifting from experimentation to infrastructure. Fractal Analytics has signed a $17 million-plus, multi-year agreement with a U.S. healthcare enterprise to modernize its data and AI foundation on the Databricks platform, while consolidating 24/7 managed data operations under a single strategic partner. The next phase of enterprise AI may depend less…
GEEKOM is pushing compact computing into territory traditionally associated with AI servers, deploying DeepSeek V4 Flash across four GEEKOM A9 Mega Mini PCs connected through USB4. The configuration uses AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processors, local memory and distributed inference software to demonstrate how organizations could run advanced AI workloads closer to their data without…
Cybersecurity teams have spent years applying Zero Trust principles to identities, networks and applications. Glasswall is extending that model to one of the oldest and most persistent attack surfaces: the file itself. The company has launched Glasswall Genesis, a Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) platform designed to treat every incoming or outgoing file as untrusted,…
