360Learning, the world’s leading collaborative learning platform, is expanding its AI capabilities with the launch of AI Companion, a personalized assistant designed to enhance every user’s learning journey. Initially featuring a Search mode, the AI Companion helps learners discover answers, proprietary knowledge, and tailored recommendations, with additional modes coming soon for coaching, data insights, and platform usage.
Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) has acquired Inspire11, a Chicago-based business transformation and technology delivery firm, in a move designed to tackle a pressing industry problem: translating AI investments into measurable business results.
OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX) today released new global research revealing a striking divide between enterprises that are new to AI and those with mature AI programs when it comes to return on AI investment (ROAI). The survey, conducted by Foundry, shows that while nearly 70% of mature AI adopters are satisfied with their results, only 42% of newer adopters report the same.
ServicePower, a leader in AI-powered field service management (FSM), has been named a Major Player in the 2025 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Field Service Management Applications report (doc #US52967825). The recognition highlights ServicePower’s innovative approach to blending AI, workforce management, and compliance into a single, end-to-end platform.
DataSnipper, the intelligent automation platform for audit and finance teams, has unveiled its AI Agents—Disclosure Agents and Excel Agents—designed to tackle two of the profession’s most time-consuming and error-prone tasks. By embedding AI directly into familiar workflows, the platform promises faster, more accurate, and transparent audit and reporting processes.
Phaidra, the startup designing AI agents for AI factories, has raised over $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Helena, Index Ventures, NVIDIA, Sony Innovation Fund, and others. The funding will accelerate the company’s mission to make AI data centers dramatically more energy-efficient.
A new global survey by Protiviti highlights that more than 68% of multinational organizations plan to integrate autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents into core operations by 2026. Nearly one in four respondents (23%) indicated they are within six months of deploying semi-autonomous AI agents, capable of operating under human supervision with defined guardrails.
Avalara, Inc. is redefining tax and compliance automation with the launch of Agentic Tax and Compliance™, a new class of AI agents designed to observe, advise, and execute entire compliance workflows autonomously. Launching October 2025, the platform promises speed, scale, and accuracy across the full compliance lifecycle.
Plutus, founded by former ServiceNow executives Chirag Jindal (CEO), Kara Anderson (COO), and Abhishek Bajpai (CTO), is bringing industry-specific AI agents to the insurance sector. With pre-configured, AI-native solutions for claims, underwriting, and servicing, Plutus aims to modernize workflows across P&C, L&A, and broker ecosystems.
