AI-powered skin analysis is moving from retail experiments to everyday beauty consultations. Haut.AI and Brazilian beauty group Grupo Boticário are expanding their three-year partnership from a 24-store pilot to approximately 4,000 O Boticário locations across Brazil, putting computer vision and personalized skincare recommendations directly into the hands of beauty advisors. The companies say the pilot…
Veterinary practices are facing a business problem that has little to do with treating animals: too much of their staff time is consumed by scheduling, follow-ups, patient retention and administrative work. Sikka.ai is targeting that bottleneck with Veterinary SDP, an AI-powered practice platform designed to automate business operations and help veterinary teams manage appointments, re-engagement,…
For the past two years, generative AI has largely competed on what it can create. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Kunlun Tech Chairman and CEO Fang Han argued that the next phase will be defined by what AI can understand and do in simulated and physical environments. Calling 2026 the “first year…
AI video generation is moving toward longer, more coherent productions, and AI Inspo is betting that creators want access to those capabilities without managing a growing collection of standalone tools. The platform announced Aug. 7 that Seedance 2.5 is available through its browser-based creative workspace, bringing ByteDance’s latest video model into a multi-model environment alongside…
Artificial intelligence is moving from an emerging capability to a baseline expectation for digital marketing teams, according to new observations from The Digital WOW. The agency says its recent client work is exposing a widening gap between organizations rapidly integrating AI into marketing and software workflows and businesses still operating on pre-AI processes. That shift…
The AI boom is creating an unusual challenge for electronics suppliers: demand for computing infrastructure is rising, but shortages and surging memory prices are squeezing customers elsewhere in the market. Wieson Technologies (TWSE: 6272) reported first-half 2026 revenue of NT$1.567 billion and is responding by shifting more research and development toward robotics, thermal management and…
AI coding tools are becoming standard equipment for software teams, but faster development can create a less visible problem: code that works today but becomes harder to secure, maintain and scale tomorrow. New research from Info-Tech Research Group argues that organizations adopting AI-generated code need stronger governance, testing and human review to prevent defects and…
Real estate brokerages have spent years assembling software around transactions, compliance, lead management and agent productivity. The next battleground is making those systems work together. Inside Real Estate, the company behind BoldTrail, is taking that approach with two additions to its AI roadmap: ComplianceAI, an automated transaction-compliance review capability developed with SetWave, and the planned…
Enterprise HR software is moving from systems that record workforce information to systems that can act on it. Oracle is the latest major vendor to make that shift explicit, introducing new Fusion Agentic Applications for HR and a collection of specialized AI agents designed to connect employee skills, learning, career development and workforce planning inside…
