Influencer marketing has become a significant line item for brands, but the operational work behind a creator campaign can still look surprisingly manual. Kineto, an AI company spun out of JetBrains, is betting that software agents can change that. Its new Kinetik For Teams is designed to operate inside Slack and WhatsApp, handling creator discovery,…
Generative AI has made it dramatically cheaper to produce digital personas and content. The harder problem is turning that production advantage into a durable business. RM11, a creator monetization platform for human and AI creators, is addressing that gap with a framework built around six revenue streams, from subscriptions and pay-per-view content to brand partnerships,…
For beauty and wellness operators, the most valuable AI may not be the technology that answers a customer or writes a marketing campaign. It may be the system that spots a problem before the manager knows one exists. Zenoti is betting on that idea with Predictive Intelligence, a suite of AI agents designed to forecast…
Enterprise AI adoption is running into a familiar problem: the more people an organization puts on AI tools, the harder usage-based pricing can become to manage. Cloudforce, the company behind nebulaONE®, is taking a different approach as it expands its National Harbor, Maryland headquarters by 15,000 square feet and adds 250 jobs. The move comes…
Artificial intelligence is becoming less of an experiment in enterprise IT and more of a standard component of transformation programs. A 2026 study from Natuvion and NTT DATA Business Solutions, surveying more than 1,100 executives and IT specialists across 15 countries, found that 76% have already used AI in IT transformation projects. Yet the research…
China is trying to solve two AI problems at once: how to accelerate domestic adoption and how to build guardrails around increasingly capable systems. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), the country’s government used its growing AI ecosystem—from large language models and industrial automation to healthcare systems and intelligent devices—as the foundation for…
The next bottleneck for enterprise AI in life sciences may not be access to foundation models. It may be the people who can actually deploy them. Axtria plans to expand its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization to 1,000 engineers by December 2026, betting that pharmaceutical companies increasingly need specialists who understand both AI engineering and…
For the past two years, generative AI has largely competed on what it can create. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Kunlun Tech Chairman and CEO Fang Han argued that the next phase will be defined by what AI can understand and do in simulated and physical environments. Calling 2026 the “first year…
China is using the global AI race to make a broader argument about how the technology should be governed: advanced AI should not become the exclusive property of a handful of countries or companies. In a commentary published by People’s Daily around the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC), Beijing positioned open-source models, international cooperation and…
