AI in Business
AI Startup BluePill Raises $6M to Replace Traditional Market Research With “AI Consumers”
Market research isn’t dead, but BluePill is hoping to put it on life support. The Seattle-based startup—built by former Amazon exec Ankit Dhawan—has raised $6 million in seed funding to accelerate its plan to replace slow, expensive consumer studies with what it calls AI consumers, digital-twin models that behave like real people and react to new products, ads, packaging, and brand ideas in minutes.
Kyndryl launches new agentic AI services to support agentic-driven workforce strategy development and customer experience
SYDNEY, November 14, 2025 — Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today unveiled new advisory and implementation services to guide organisations in change management to scale agentic AI for business outcomes. Harnessing the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework, the new services redefine how work is done, speed adoption and bring employees and customers along the AI journey while creating engaging interaction between people and AI agents.
Liquid AI Partners with Shopify to Power Sub-20ms Search and Recommendations
Liquid AI has announced a deep partnership with Shopify to deploy its flagship Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) across latency-sensitive workflows, including e-commerce search and recommendation systems. The move follows Shopify’s participation in Liquid AI’s $250 million Series A in December 2024 and formalizes ongoing co-development.
Insight Enterprises Launches Insight AI to Turn AI Strategy Into Measurable ROI
Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) has unveiled Insight AI, a comprehensive suite of services designed to help enterprises overcome barriers to AI value realization. The platform combines consulting expertise, proprietary tools, and delivery frameworks to guide clients from ideation to ROI, ensuring AI initiatives move beyond experimentation to tangible business impact.
EmpowerLocal and Search.com Team Up to Bring GenAI Search to 1,000 Local Publishers
Facing a rapidly shifting digital media landscape, EmpowerLocal, the first nationwide network of independent local news, sports, and lifestyle media, has announced an expanded partnership with Search.com, the new generative AI platform from Public Good.
AI Enters the Rehab Room: Raintree’s New Report Reveals How Physical Therapy is Going Digital
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for rehab therapy—it’s already there, clipboard in hand.
Raintree, a top provider of AI-powered software for rehabilitation and physical therapy organizations, has released a new whitepaper with Censuswide Research titled “AI in Rehab & Physical Therapy—Inside the Minds of Rehab Therapy Leaders: AI’s Inevitable Disruption.”
Orca AI Launches ‘Co-Captain’: The Waze of the Seas for Smarter, Safer Shipping
When you think “crowdsourced navigation,” you probably picture rush-hour traffic on city highways, not container ships slicing through the Indian Ocean. But that’s about to change. Orca AI, the autonomous maritime navigation startup, has unveiled Co-Captain—a new platform feature being dubbed the world’s first “Waze of the Seas.”
AI Startup ‘Simple’ Targets Corporate Greenwashing With Real-Time CO₂ Tracking
For decades, companies have been cooking their climate books—mostly unintentionally. Their CO₂ numbers often rest on industry averages, spreadsheets, and accounting methods that confuse cheapness for sustainability. But a Swedish-Austrian startup called Simple thinks it’s time to retire that outdated math.
ProvenBase Rewrites the Rules of Recruiting With “Deep Search” AI Platform
In an industry saturated with “AI-powered” recruiting tools that mostly repackage LinkedIn data, ProvenBase is making a bold claim: it’s cracked the code on true talent discovery.