Vizrt has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Driven Business Cycle in the Media Industry, 2026 Vendor Assessment, as broadcasters and media companies shift from isolated AI features toward agentic systems that can coordinate production, distribution and business workflows. The recognition highlights Vizrt’s strategy around AI orchestration, composable production infrastructure and human-supervised…
TwelveLabs is making its Marengo video embedding model available inside Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases, giving enterprises a managed way to search video, audio and images using natural-language queries. The integration could remove one of the biggest barriers to enterprise video AI: building and maintaining the ingestion, embedding and vector-search infrastructure needed to make unstructured…
Private equity firms may be racing to adopt artificial intelligence, but limited partners are signaling that AI alone is not enough to make a fund manager stand out. A new Gen II survey finds LPs place greater value on technology infrastructure and measurable outcomes—including faster reporting, transparency, actionable insights and customizable reporting—than on AI adoption…
U.S. convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops are entering 2026 with a surprisingly durable outlook—but increasingly see technology and artificial intelligence as tools for controlling costs rather than chasing transformation. A new Toast survey of 340 retail operators found that 90% are experimenting with AI, while 75% plan to increase technology spending over the…
The conversation around agentic marketing has, until recently, focused almost entirely on capability: How quickly can AI agents activate audiences? How precisely can they optimize in real time? How much human intervention can they replace? These are valid questions. But as agentic AI moves from pilot to infrastructure (and as recent acquisitions in the data…
Fortanix has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in five 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle reports, highlighting confidential computing and Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) as enterprises rethink security for AI infrastructure. The recognition spans data security, digital sovereignty, privacy, compute and telco cloud services, underscoring a broader shift toward protecting sensitive data and AI…
Keysight Technologies is bringing an end-to-end testing strategy for next-generation AI data centers to ECOC 2026, as optical networks move toward 1.6T and eventually 3.2T links. At the September 21–23 event in Málaga, Spain, Keysight will demonstrate tools spanning photonic design, 220 GHz characterization, AI infrastructure validation, optical-link research and automated 1.6T production testing. The…
Adobe is turning Acrobat into a broader AI-powered document productivity platform, adding interactive reports, audio summaries, presentation generation, enterprise knowledge search and structured data extraction. The new capabilities, powered by the Adobe Productivity Agent, are designed to help users move from simply reading PDFs to extracting evidence, understanding large document collections and turning that information…
SolarEdge and Infineon are extending their partnership to develop solid-state circuit breakers for 800 VDC power distribution in AI and hyperscale data centers. The technology is aimed at one of the less visible challenges of high-density AI infrastructure: isolating electrical faults quickly enough to protect expensive compute hardware without undermining the efficiency gains of higher-voltage…
