FC Barcelona is pushing deeper into the world of digital transformation, and it’s doing so with the help of artificial intelligence. Today, Barça Vision—the Club’s digital innovation arm—announced a strategic partnership with Qloo, an AI company specializing in cultural and consumer preference prediction.
In the world of enterprise tech, building first and budgeting later is still surprisingly common. FinOpsly, a startup focused on controlling cloud, data, and AI costs, wants to end that with Costix, a new AI-powered estimation tool designed to bring cost visibility to the very start of any infrastructure initiative.
In the global race to build the first true “AI Scientist,” one that can independently generate original scientific hypotheses, it’s easy to assume the frontrunners are the usual suspects—Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic—armed with vast compute power and billion-dollar budgets. But a Korean startup, Pluto Labs, is proving that brute force isn’t the only path to AI supremacy.
Enterprises in the U.S. are evolving their cloud strategies well beyond basic infrastructure, increasingly embracing Google Cloud—and its expansive partner ecosystem—as a springboard for AI-driven innovation, data modernization, and multicloud agility. That’s the big takeaway from the newly released 2025 ISG Provider Lens® Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem report by tech advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG).
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today launched the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework, a new approach to deploying agentic AI to augment human teams. The enterprise-grade Framework orchestrates and dispatches a portfolio of specialised, self-directed, self-learning AI agents that dynamically respond to shifting conditions and keep humans in the loop for oversight.
Magentic, an emerging AI Agent Platform focused on uncovering savings in global manufacturing supply chains, has announced a $5.5 million seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The round also includes backing from The Westly Group, First Momentum Ventures, and prominent angels from SAP, Airbus, McKinsey & Company, Hugging Face, and Ironclad.
KEENON Robotics has once again claimed the top spot in the global commercial service robot market, according to the latest IDC reports released on July 18, 2024. The company has secured #1 ranking in both global delivery robot and food delivery robot segments, maintaining a commanding lead in one of the fastest-growing sectors of automation.
Gcore, a global provider of edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions, has been named a Leader in the latest GigaOm Radar for AI Infrastructure, standing out among 14 global vendors—and as the only European company to earn a top-tier spot.
iRobot is going all-in on smart, seamless cleaning with the debut of its flagship Roomba® Max 705 Combo Robot + AutoWash™ Dock—a feature-packed 2-in-1 device designed to vacuum, mop, and quite literally think for itself.
