India’s retail-focused NBFC sector is accelerating its AI adoption, and Capri Global Capital Ltd., better known as Capri Loans, is the latest financial institution betting on generative AI to modernize lending operations. The company has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to deploy enterprise-grade AI across key business functions, marking another sign that artificial intelligence…
Data and AI solutions provider ADA has acquired Algonomy, a specialist in AI-powered retail decisioning, in a move that significantly expands its ambitions to build an end-to-end agentic AI growth platform for enterprises. The acquisition combines ADA’s expertise in data, analytics, marketing, and AI transformation with Algonomy’s autonomous decisioning technology, enabling businesses to move beyond…
Valency’s AI‑agent platform has been selected as the technical backbone for the Department of Energy’s HERALD initiative, a joint effort with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to sift through decades of nuclear‑power research. The partnership gives the federal program a scalable way to let artificial‑intelligence agents read, reason across, and flag critical documents for human reviewers, accelerating the de‑classification…
As artificial intelligence models become more capable and autonomous, evaluating their technical performance alone is no longer sufficient. Sentient Index Labs & Technology (SILT) has launched the Sentience Evaluation Battery (S.E.B.), an independent behavioral risk assessment platform designed to measure how frontier AI models behave under pressure, focusing on factors such as deception, manipulation resistance,…
China Southern Power Grid (CSG) used the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai to showcase an ambitious vision for the future of energy infrastructure, unveiling AI-powered technologies designed to modernize power grids through the integration of electricity, carbon management, and computing. The state-owned utility demonstrated several new platforms and AI systems, including an autonomous…
AI‑Driven Agents. The Austin‑based security firm announced a new suite of autonomous agents that continuously scan, prioritize, and remediate risky OAuth grants and malicious browser extensions—two attack vectors that have surged alongside the explosion of shadow AI, SaaS sprawl, and non‑human identities. What the company unveiled Nudge Security’s latest release adds three “agentic” capabilities to…
Tencent Cloud is expanding its enterprise artificial intelligence portfolio in Indonesia with the launch of several AI agent solutions aimed at workplace productivity, creative automation, and enterprise AI orchestration. Announced during the company’s AI Executive Day in Jakarta, the move reflects growing demand among Indonesian organizations seeking to transition from AI experimentation to production-scale deployments…
Vertafore’s new AI‑driven agent promises to turn unstructured insurance submissions into structured, actionable data, cutting manual effort and accelerating decision‑making for managing general agents (MGAs). Vertafore, the long‑standing provider of insurance‑distribution technology, announced the Velocity AI Submission Processing Agent on July 8, 2026. Built on the company’s Velocity AI Platform, the agent reads emails, PDFs, spreadsheets and other unstructured documents, extracts key…
ModelCop launches a platform that discovers, governs, and quantifies risk for AI agents and non‑human identities, promising real‑time visibility and dollar‑based risk scores for enterprise security teams. A market‑ready answer to a fast‑growing attack surface On July 4, 2026, ModelCop introduced its commercial offering—a security platform built around the concept of “identity‑first” protection for AI agents…
