That’s the takeaway from Wrike’s new global study, The Age of Connected Intelligence, which surveyed 1,000 knowledge workers worldwide. The findings reveal a paradox: AI adoption is soaring, yet the tools meant to improve productivity often operate in isolation, creating new inefficiencies instead of solving old ones.
For years, CAD and AI have lived in different worlds. Engineers designed; data scientists modeled. And while machine learning revolutionized sectors from retail to biotech, CAD data—the lifeblood of design and manufacturing—remained stubbornly inaccessible.
Billtrust, a leading provider of accounts receivable (AR) automation and payment software, has unveiled Collections Agentic Procedures, a new AI-driven capability that replaces traditional, rules-based collection workflows with adaptive, learning-based outreach strategies.
The Government of Honduras, through its national telecom provider Hondutel, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AI company MeetKai to develop and deploy advanced AI platforms hosted entirely within Honduras. The initiative marks a major leap forward in the country’s digital transformation strategy, prioritizing data sovereignty, Spanish-language AI, and technological self-sufficiency.
The Saudi AI & Edge Computing Hackathon 2025, hosted by Prince Sultan University in partnership with MemryX, brought together the country’s brightest student minds to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and edge computing.
The global IT and consulting firm (NSE: HEXT) announced the acquisition of CyberSolve, a specialist in identity and access management (IAM) solutions. The move strengthens Hexaware’s cybersecurity and AI operations portfolio while helping enterprises modernize identity systems across increasingly hybrid tech environments.
Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), the real-time engagement (RTE) platform known for powering live video and conversational AI, has partnered with Akool, a fast-rising player in AI-driven video and avatar tech, to bring streaming avatars into Agora’s ecosystem. The result? Developers can now drop lifelike, expressive avatars into chat, video, and voice applications with just a few lines of code.
Ping Identity, a long-time heavyweight in enterprise identity and access management (IAM), has announced “Identity for AI,” a new solution aimed squarely at securing and enabling the coming wave of agentic AI—autonomous systems capable of acting, transacting, and collaborating across digital ecosystems.
When it comes to edge AI computing, ARBOR Technology Corp. isn’t just keeping pace—it’s setting the standard. The Taiwan-based industrial IoT and edge AI specialist has earned the Taiwan Excellence Award 2026 for three of its flagship innovations: the FPC-5211 series, IEC-3714, and IEC-G510.
