AI-powered skin analysis is moving from retail experiments to everyday beauty consultations. Haut.AI and Brazilian beauty group Grupo Boticário are expanding their three-year partnership from a 24-store pilot to approximately 4,000 O Boticário locations across Brazil, putting computer vision and personalized skincare recommendations directly into the hands of beauty advisors. The companies say the pilot…
As AI workloads move from cloud data centers into smartphones, PCs and vehicles, the storage interface connecting processors to flash memory is becoming an increasingly important part of system performance. Prodigy Technovations has introduced the PGY-UFS5-EX-PA, a protocol exerciser and analyzer designed to test UFS 5.0, the next-generation flash storage interface built around higher bandwidth…
Transit agencies have accumulated software for nearly every part of the operation—fixed-route scheduling, paratransit, fleet management, workforce planning and safety—but those systems often do not share the same operational picture. Transit Technologies is betting that artificial intelligence can make those fragmented systems work more like a single platform with the launch of TransitTechOS, an AI-first…
The next phase of defense AI may be less about putting autonomy into individual drones and vehicles and more about coordinating decisions across an entire force. Smack Technologies has raised $61 million in Series B funding to expand its AI platforms from command-level planning to communications- and compute-constrained environments at the tactical edge. Smack Technologies…
For emergency responders and critical-infrastructure crews, losing connectivity is more than an inconvenience. A communications gap inside a tunnel, industrial facility or remote worksite can disrupt coordination when teams have little room for error. Cybertel Bridge is addressing that problem with a Hybrid Communication technology that combines broadband Mission Critical Services (MCX) with Digital Mobile…
For enterprises, deploying an AI model is increasingly the easy part. Keeping hundreds or thousands of inference requests fast, reliable, compliant and economically viable is proving harder. ScitiX is targeting that operational gap with a production inference platform built on its own NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, positioning AI inference infrastructure as a core layer of the…
Most AI coding agents are optimized for a useful approximation: generate the code, run it, test it and fix what breaks. Lanyon AI is pursuing a much stricter standard. The newly emerged research lab has raised $10.6 million in initial funding led by Dimension, with participation from Industrious Ventures, to build AI systems for physics,…
AI can now propose thousands of potential materials in the time conventional research methods might take to evaluate a fraction of them. The harder problem is what comes next: making those materials, testing whether they behave as predicted, and turning promising candidates into manufacturable devices. ATLANT 3D is targeting that gap with NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a…
AI video generation is moving beyond short experimental clips and into the production workflows of large companies. Higgsfield, an AI video and image creation platform, says it has raised $400 million in Series B funding at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than quadrupling its valuation from its previous financing. The round comes as enterprises increasingly…
