As enterprises move from AI pilots toward autonomous agents that can reason over and act on business data, the infrastructure underneath those systems is becoming as important as the models themselves. Saudi Arabian AI company HUMAIN has partnered with MinIO to develop an AI-native data and memory foundation, starting with HUMAIN Fabric and extending across…
Enterprise AI projects are increasingly running into the same obstacle: the models are advancing faster than the data infrastructure underneath them. Deloitte is addressing that bottleneck by acquiring substantially all of the assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, a data and AI engineering firm with a major Databricks practice. The deal expands Deloitte’s ability to build…
AI agents are increasingly moving from customer support into specialized infrastructure, where they can analyze operational data and make recommendations. SpeedyIndex, an indexing service for Google and Yandex, has begun integrating AI agents into its platform, starting with an AI Consultant for customer requests and planning a second phase that will use historical indexing data…
AI avatars are moving beyond generic digital assistants as companies look for ways to connect conversational AI with their own intellectual property. Tokyo-based imaging and visual-production company Crescent Inc. is using XRSPACE’s Perxona platform to turn two proprietary VTuber characters into interactive website guides, giving visitors a conversational way to explore the company’s products and…
Artificial intelligence systems are getting better at seeing and interpreting the physical world, but sound remains a difficult problem when multiple sources overlap. Mitsubishi Electric says its new Task-Aware Unified Source Separation technology could give physical AI systems a more reliable way to isolate speech, machinery noise and other sounds in factories and public spaces….
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric (FF) is attempting to broaden its identity from an electric-vehicle company into a wider embodied-AI business, with its latest move taking the form of a commercial robotics launch in the Middle East. The company says it has delivered its first six robots in the region while expanding distribution, manufacturing and robot-sharing…
Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into Taiwan’s industrial economy, from ultra-thin laptop cameras to water-treatment infrastructure. At the 2026 Meet Greater South event on August 28, Taiwan’s Department of Industrial Technology showcased 31 technologies designed to move AI beyond semiconductor manufacturing and into sectors including construction, environmental monitoring, food production and advanced manufacturing. Taiwan’s AI…
As solar and other variable renewable sources take a larger share of electricity generation, energy storage is being asked to do more than shift electricity from one part of the day to another. At Intersolar South America 2026 in São Paulo, DoGo Power used a technology roundtable to make the case for AI-enabled, grid-forming storage…
Enterprise search is taking on a new role as AI applications move beyond chatbots and toward systems that retrieve information, reason over it and take action. Tencent Cloud and Elastic are expanding their strategic collaboration around that shift, launching Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch Service (ES) Enterprise Edition to give enterprises a search and retrieval layer for…
