If 2023–2025 were the years drones became ubiquitous tools across industrial inspections, 2026 is shaping up to be the moment they start thinking ahead. At least, that’s the view from Sky-Futures, the long-running drone-inspection and risk intelligence firm whose new industry forecast frames next year as a decisive shift from data capture to data foresight.
Fibocom is taking a swing at democratizing local AI computing with its new AI Dongle, a compact plug-and-play accelerator designed to give everyday devices—from PCs to NAS boxes—a serious boost in on-device LLM inference. Think real-time Q&A assistants, text-to-image lookups, and meeting summarization without shipping your data off to the cloud.
The AI boom has turned GPUs into the most coveted silicon on the planet—yet a surprising portion of them are sitting idle. Not because they lack demand, but because the world’s newly built AI factories (from hyperscalers to colocation giants) can’t feed them enough power. Utilization rates of 30–50% have quietly become the norm. And in today’s AI economics, idle GPUs might as well be burning cash.
FutureDial—the quiet backbone behind hundreds of millions of refurbished and reconditioned mobile devices—just expanded its global footprint in a way that signals where the entire device processing industry is headed next. Fresh off winning the 2025 Mobile Disrupt Innovation Award, the company announced new Global Solution Centers in Europe and Asia, modeled after its long-running automation hubs in Dallas and Sunnyvale.
In the race to operationalize AI at the farthest edges of the industrial world, Armada and NOV are taking a decisive step forward. The two companies today announced a strategic collaboration that pairs Armada’s edge-native AI platform with NOV’s industrial infrastructure to deliver real-time, on-site intelligence for some of the most remote and punishing environments on the planet.
For years, industrial AI in Europe has been discussed mostly in terms of potential—something that could reshape energy, manufacturing, transportation, and national competitiveness. Denmark just turned that potential into national infrastructure.
At Supercomputing 2025 (SC25) in St. Louis, Western Digital (Nasdaq: WDC) is highlighting next-generation storage platforms designed to accelerate AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The company’s showcase emphasizes capacity, performance, and flexibility, aiming to break the bottlenecks that often slow model training, large-scale simulations, and research data processing.
Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a pioneering provider of AI computing solutions, today announced its Omni Processing Unit™ (OPU)—a groundbreaking composable compute architecture that unifies CPU, GPU, memory, and interconnect into a single, developer-friendly device. Designed to deliver unprecedented scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, the OPU establishes a new benchmark for AI infrastructure spanning edge to hyperscale environments.
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.
