The global technical talent marketplace today announced a major expansion of its Andela AI Academy, transforming what began as a GitHub Copilot training initiative into a full-scale, production-focused AI upskilling engine. The goal: train 15,000 technologists by 2026 and build what it calls the world’s largest just-in-time pipeline of enterprise-ready AI engineers.
By Pat Breen, Area Vice President, ANZ, Cloudflare: On Safer Internet Day, it’s worth recognising a simple reality: AI is reshaping the Internet in two directions at once. The same tools accelerating productivity and innovation are also industrialising cybercrime—making attacks faster to launch, cheaper to run, and harder to spot. We’ve seen the impact in Australia. In…
By Pat Breen, Area Vice President, ANZ, Cloudflare: On Safer Internet Day, it’s worth recognising a simple reality: AI is reshaping the Internet in two directions at once. The same tools accelerating productivity and innovation are also industrialising cybercrime—making attacks faster to launch, cheaper to run, and harder to spot. We’ve seen the impact in Australia. In…
Warehouse operations have spent decades flying half-blind. Digital systems insist inventory is in one place, while the physical world quietly disagrees—costing global logistics companies billions each year in missed shipments, wasted labor, and excess stock. Gather AI wants to eliminate that disconnect entirely, and investors are betting it can.
The company today announced a $2 million funding round led by Surface Ventures (New York), with participation from IA Seed Ventures (Berkeley) and Saka Ventures (New York). The capital will be used to expand R&D, strengthen BotGauge’s autonomous QA agents, and scale operations across the US and other key markets.
Today, the company announced AI Agent Connect, a major expansion of its AI-powered Product Experience platform that moves beyond static demo automation and into what Consensus calls connected, intelligence-first buying experiences. The launch positions Consensus squarely in the growing race to redefine how revenue teams interpret buyer intent—and act on it in real time.
STAMFORD, Conn., February 9, 2026 — Worldwide sovereign cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) spending is forecast to total $80 billion in 2026, a 35.6% increase from 2025, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. “As geopolitical tensions rise, organizations outside the U.S. and China are investing more in sovereign cloud IaaS…
Dyna.Ai, a global provider of AI solutions, announced an exclusive partnership with Saudi-based IT services firm ejada Systems to support the deployment of production-grade AI agents across Saudi Arabia’s call center ecosystem. The collaboration is aimed squarely at operational scale—moving AI from experimentation into live, high-volume service environments where reliability, governance, and measurable outcomes matter.
The lidar specialist announced it has closed its acquisition of StereoLabs, an AI vision and perception company best known for its widely used ZED stereo cameras. The deal, finalized on February 4, 2026, gives Ouster what it’s calling Physical AI’s first unified sensing and perception platform, combining digital lidar, stereo cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion, and perception software under one roof.
