Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will bring the Canadian and German AI companies together under the Cohere name, creating a transatlantic provider focused on sovereign AI for governments and regulated industries. The transaction still requires regulatory approval, with the combined company planned to operate from dual headquarters in…
CCI Insurance, a Higginbotham Partner, has rebranded its proprietary CompCorrect platform as RiskCorrect, expanding its focus from workers’ compensation claims management to broader commercial risk management. The platform combines claims, incident, safety and corrective-action data with AI-supported analysis and is now being offered as a standalone solution to companies outside CCI’s existing client base. CCI…
Relativity is renaming its cloud legal-data platform RelativityOne to Relativity aiR, making the company’s previously separate agentic AI capabilities the platform’s central identity. The move reflects a broader shift in legal technology from AI as an add-on toward AI embedded directly into systems that manage sensitive evidence, investigations and regulatory workflows. Relativity puts AI at…
STAMFORD, Conn., September 16, 2026 — Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimized IaaS, AI-optimized servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices) to support anticipated future workloads remains…
Sydney, Australia — September 16, 2026 — Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced a new Accountable designation for AI crawling. In conjunction with this, Cloudflare launched Disallow AI Training, a setting that lets any website refuse AI training while staying fully in search results. Eleven weeks ago Cloudflare said website…
Elsevier is expanding its LeapSpace research AI workspace with a broader foundation of licensed, peer-reviewed scientific content, while adding independent oversight for how its algorithms discover, rank and present research. The company says LeapSpace now combines Scopus records with full-text content from major publishers and societies, positioning the platform as a research-focused alternative to general-purpose…
Cornelis is expanding beyond scale-out networking with Active Compute Fabric, an open architecture that puts programmable compute directly into the network fabric connecting AI accelerators. The company also raised $205 million to fund the move, positioning its technology as an alternative to increasingly integrated AI infrastructure stacks dominated by NVIDIA and other major silicon and…
Flam has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors as the AI startup bets that interactive content could become the next major format for digital experiences. The company is targeting enterprise applications spanning marketing, product visualization, training, entertainment and customer engagement, combining generative AI models with real-time video, 3D content and…
NSFOCUS has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition for its work in China’s AI security market, as enterprises increasingly move large language models, AI applications and autonomous agents from experimentation into production. The recognition focuses on the company’s Qingfengwei AI Security Product Matrix, which combines AI assessment, application protection, content safety, data-loss…
