Unity is giving developers an early path to build applications for Meta’s upcoming VR Glasses, bringing support to its game engine months before the hardware reaches retail. Available through Unity 6.6 and Meta’s latest XR development tools, the integration is designed to let studios adapt existing Quest applications or develop new experiences around eye and…
As AI developers exhaust increasingly large portions of the internet as a source of training material, a new data frontier is emerging: people performing real tasks in physical workplaces. Realset AI and Flatkey have raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand a data-capture network built around real workers, expert demonstrators and operational environments…
Autonomous-driving development often requires teams to assemble vehicles, sensors, computing hardware, software and simulation infrastructure before they can even begin testing an AI system. TIER IV is attempting to lower that barrier with an open reference design for autonomous racing karts, giving developers a common hardware and software foundation built around its Autoware autonomous-driving platform….
Large language models can reason about information, but many business decisions depend on understanding the physical world. Amap Platform is addressing that gap with Qianyu, a spatial-intelligence platform that packages mapping and location capabilities into agentic tools that developers and enterprises can operate through natural-language instructions. Unveiled at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Qianyu…
Yeastar has launched NovoOne, an AI-native, multi-tenant communications platform designed for managed service providers, IT service providers, telecom resellers and carriers. The platform combines carrier-grade infrastructure with embedded AI capabilities, Kubernetes-based scaling and tenant-level controls aimed at helping communications providers support large customer bases from a single deployment. Yeastar is targeting the infrastructure layer behind…
Artificial intelligence is becoming an infrastructure issue for the energy sector as utilities contend with renewable generation, distributed power resources and rapidly growing electricity demand from data centers. At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei presented a strategy for applying AI and digital infrastructure across the power system, with particular attention to the low-voltage networks that connect…
DvSum and Aurora Networks are bringing an agentic AI layer to broadband network operations with ServAssure NXT AI, a joint offering designed to connect network assurance, subscriber impact analysis and automated operational decisions. The companies will showcase the technology at SCTE TechExpo26 in Atlanta, positioning data sovereignty and closed-loop automation as key design considerations for…
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to expand its agentic data factory, which develops specialized datasets, environments and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI systems. The Series E round, led by Insight Partners and S32, comes as AI developers increasingly require expert-built data and testing environments rather than conventional annotation at…
Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) has introduced Chip-to-Grid Reference Designs for AI factories built around NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and future NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms. The architecture connects utility power, on-site generation, battery storage, electrical distribution, liquid cooling and facility controls into a standardized infrastructure blueprint designed to help hyperscale, neocloud and colocation operators…
