SUNON is taking a chip-to-rack approach to liquid cooling as AI workloads push data center power density higher. At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, the thermal-management company will showcase cooling technologies spanning chip, server and rack levels, positioning integrated thermal infrastructure as an increasingly important part of AI data center design. AI infrastructure is running…
SEMIFIVE has signed a KRW 70.3 billion ($52 million) contract with a U.S.-based AI fabless company to develop a next-generation AI inference accelerator, marking the Korean semiconductor company’s first North American “Spec Hand-off” engagement. The project comes as hyperscalers and cloud providers increasingly turn to custom silicon to optimize AI inference performance, power consumption and…
MegazoneCloud is partnering with U.S.-based Portal26 to bring enterprise generative AI governance and security capabilities to South Korea, targeting a growing problem for businesses: knowing which AI tools employees use, what data they send to them, and how much those systems cost. Under the reseller agreement, MegazoneCloud will provide Portal26’s AI Adoption Management Platform alongside…
Finance and procurement teams are buying more AI software while struggling to determine whether they are paying fair prices, according to SpendHound’s AI Spend Report: 2026 Edition. The report, based on a survey of 172 finance and procurement leaders and proprietary spend data from more than 1,300 companies, finds that 57% of respondents are not…
AppDirect is adding Soul Machines’ AI avatar technology to its Devs.ai platform following its acquisition of the company, giving businesses a way to deploy interactive digital avatars across customer support, employee services, training and commerce. The move comes as enterprise AI shifts from text-based assistants toward multimodal interfaces and agentic workflows that can operate across…
AppDirect has acquired Soul Machines, bringing the AI avatar company’s multimodal digital-teammate technology into a B2B subscription commerce platform used by more than 16 million subscribers. The transaction gives AppDirect a way to combine conversational, video-based AI interfaces with its distribution and commerce infrastructure as enterprise AI moves from chatbots toward agents that can perform…
Teem Finance is integrating its AI-native procurement intelligence with Workday Strategic Sourcing and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, giving procurement teams a way to analyze existing suppliers, identify purchasing overlaps and research alternatives without manually consolidating supplier and contract data. Enterprise procurement is increasingly becoming a data problem. Organizations may have thousands of suppliers, contracts and…
Virtana has been named a winner of SiliconANGLE’s 2026 TechForward Awards in the AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure category, putting its agentic observability platform in a market increasingly focused on connecting AI workloads with the infrastructure they depend on. The company says its platform correlates more than 25,000 telemetry signals across applications, infrastructure, networks, storage, Kubernetes and…
Enterprise generative AI is entering a more complicated phase: instead of routing every task through one frontier model, organizations are increasingly mixing models, controlling inference costs and rebuilding their data pipelines. A new Hyperscience study, conducted with The Harris Poll, finds that 80% of surveyed organizations are moving away from a single-large-model strategy, while 52%…
