Manufacturers Are All-In on AI—but Automation Is Hitting a Wall, Redwood Finds

Manufacturers Are All-In on AI—but Automation Is Hitting a Wall, Redwood Finds

That’s the central tension revealed in Redwood Software’s “Manufacturing AI and Automation Outlook 2026,” a new global study based on a survey of 300 manufacturing professionals conducted by independent research firm Leger Opinion. The findings point to a widening automation gap: while AI ambitions are sky-high and investments in OT, ET, and IT automation are well underway, most manufacturers remain stuck in the middle of the maturity curve.

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Asia’s AI Spending Boom Is Leaving Connectivity Behind, New Report Warns

Asia’s AI Spending Boom Is Leaving Connectivity Behind, New Report Warns

The inaugural Global Business Connectivity Outlook Report 2025–26 paints a picture of confidence colliding with contradiction. More than 70% of surveyed business leaders plan to expand beyond their local region next year, yet the very infrastructure that makes regional and global operations viable—reliable, secure connectivity—is being deprioritized in favor of AI-heavy investments.

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Swimlane Joins Wiz Integration Network to Automate Cloud Vulnerability Response with AI

Swimlane Joins Wiz Integration Network to Automate Cloud Vulnerability Response with AI

Swimlane, a leader in agentic AI automation for security operations, has announced a partnership with cloud security platform Wiz by joining the Wiz Integration Network (WIN). The collaboration combines Swimlane’s Turbine AI automation platform with Wiz’s real-time cloud risk intelligence, creating an enterprise-grade solution for faster, smarter vulnerability response.

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NVIDIA Tops Samsung as AI Chip Revenue Soars

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 21% in 2025

STAMFORD, Conn., January 13, 2026 — Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $793 billion in 2025, an increase of 21% year-over-year (YoY), according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. “AI semiconductors — including processors, high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and networking components continued to drive unprecedented growth in the semiconductor market, accounting for…

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Optable Launches Agentic Ad Planning Tool

Optable Launches Planner Agent: AI-Powered Solution Transforms Publisher Ad Planning from Weeks to Hours

MONTREAL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Optable, a leader in identity resolution and audience activation for publishers, today announced the general availability of Optable Planner Agent, an AI-powered agentic solution that automates the most time-consuming steps in publisher ad planning. Built on open standards including the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Ad Context Protocol (AdCP), Planner Agent represents the first…

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GoML and EMB Global Partner to Bring Generative AI into Enterprise Production

GoML and EMB Global Partner to Bring Generative AI into Enterprise Production

GoML, a specialist in production-grade Generative AI engineering, and EMB Global, an AI-native orchestrator of enterprise transformation, announced a strategic partnership aimed at operationalizing Generative AI for large organizations across India and South Asia. The collaboration focuses on moving AI from experimental pilots to business-critical production systems.

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Netlify Expands AI-Native Platform with Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerendering

Netlify Expands AI-Native Platform with Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerendering

AI is speeding up how quickly developers can write new applications, but deployment and production workflows haven’t kept pace—until now. Netlify is closing that gap with the general availability of Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerender extensions, bringing clarity and control to applications after deployment and reducing operational overhead. Together, these features extend Netlify’s AI-native platform beyond code creation into full production management.

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AI Adoption Sparks Surge in Cloud Security Risks, Palo Alto Networks Warns

AI Adoption Sparks Surge in Cloud Security Risks, Palo Alto Networks Warns

The rapid enterprise adoption of AI is creating a perfect storm for cloud security. Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), a global cybersecurity leader, released its “State of Cloud Security Report 2025”, revealing how AI workloads and generative coding practices are exponentially expanding the cloud attack surface.

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AZIO AI Pegged at $480M in Independent Valuation as Compute Infrastructure Arms Race Intensifies

AZIO AI Pegged at $480M in Independent Valuation as Compute Infrastructure Arms Race Intensifies

AZIO AI Corporation wants to be taken seriously—and a newly completed independent valuation suggests the market is starting to agree. The fast-scaling AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure company says its platform now carries an enterprise valuation of roughly $480 million, placing it firmly in what it calls the “institutional-scale” tier of AI infrastructure providers.

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