AI Automation

Ecer.com is expanding its use of artificial intelligence across international B2B trade operations, targeting customer acquisition, advertising optimization, inquiry management and multilingual communication for Chinese manufacturers selling overseas. The platform combines operational automation, AI-assisted promotion and multilingual customer service to help suppliers manage repetitive marketing tasks and respond to international buyers across time zones. One…

EDGE Sound Research has raised an additional $2 million in funding led by Stormbreaker Ventures, bringing its total funding to $9 million. The company is developing multimodal perception infrastructure that combines sound with video, tracking, timing and location data to help AI systems interpret real-world environments in real time. The new capital will support deployments…

Taimei Technology and physician-led contract research organization GreenLight Clinical (GLC) are expanding their strategic partnership to support clinical trial delivery across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Announced at AusBiotech 2026, the agreement extends a collaboration that began with electronic data capture and later added randomization and safety management, bringing more of the clinical trial lifecycle onto…

Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are joining technology and life-science organizations in a $1.8 billion effort to build the data infrastructure needed for predictive AI models of biology. The expanded Virtual Biology Initiative will combine biological datasets, advanced measurement technologies and high-performance computing to help researchers develop AI…