AVPN has selected 28 local organisations for the third phase of its AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, expanding AI skills training across 19 markets. Supported by Google.org and the Asian Development Bank, the programme is extending beyond existing workers to teachers, university faculty and students, while continuing to reach healthcare, agriculture, service-sector and small-business workforces. Alongside…
DeepL has introduced Aure, a new voice AI model designed to preserve the emotional expression, speaking style and vocal characteristics of individuals during real-time multilingual translation. The model powers DeepL Voice and represents an advancement in speech translation technology by adapting translated speech to changes in tone, pace, emphasis and emotion as conversations unfold. Rather…
Artmarket.com plans to roll out Artprice Visual Search, an AI-powered image search tool designed to help collectors and art professionals identify and explore artworks through visual similarities and historical market data. The company says a global beta will open to subscribers in early December 2026, with commercial access scheduled for January 2027 through higher-priced Premium…
Samepage.ai has launched Samepage Bets, an AI-powered operating system designed to connect product discovery, planning, software development and go-to-market execution on a shared workspace. The platform uses specialized agents to analyze customer feedback and market signals, develop product requirements, assist with prototyping and coding, and prepare launch materials. It is designed to work alongside tools…
MuseSpark AI has launched a unified artificial intelligence platform offering access to more than 400 AI models through a single API key, billing account and creative workspace. The platform brings together video-generation, image-generation and large language models, including Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, GPT Image 2.6 and MiniMax H3. The company says its routing and access…
Local businesses appear to be adopting generative AI for responding to online reviews faster than customers are adopting it to write them. A new study by AI software company Revfer, based on approximately 88,000 Google reviews from 400 businesses in Greater Boston and MetroWest, found a growing presence of writing patterns associated with AI in…
Ingenix says its Thalamus Reasoning model has ranked first among 29 models on LongevityBench, an independent benchmark focused on language models for cellular aging research. The company also plans to open-source a related model, Thalamus Decision, giving academic and commercial researchers access to technology designed to reason across biological data types. Ingenix has announced new…
Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and XtalPi have entered a drug discovery collaboration that combines artificial intelligence, robotics and pharmaceutical R&D expertise to develop novel small-molecule clinical candidates. The multi-program agreement will initially focus on oncology, with potential applications in dermatology and rare diseases, targeting areas that have historically proved difficult for conventional drug discovery approaches. The…
As enterprises give AI agents access to source-code repositories, APIs and infrastructure, controlling what those agents can do is becoming as important as isolating where they run. Edera has introduced Object Capability Bounded Authority, a security approach designed to let autonomous agents perform narrowly authorized actions without holding the underlying credentials. The technology separates permission…
