Home service contractors have spent years stitching together field-service software, communications tools and membership systems. Podium is betting that AI agents can eliminate some of that complexity, formally launching an AI Operating System for Home Services that puts autonomous agents across scheduling, customer communications, memberships and back-office operations. Podium Launches AI Operating System to Put…
Healthcare payers are sitting on increasingly large volumes of operational data, but turning that information into useful intelligence remains a challenge. Imagenet is looking to close that gap through the acquisition of Analytica Consulting, adding data engineering, analytics, artificial intelligence and governance capabilities to its healthcare technology and automation business. Healthcare technology companies are increasingly…
Enterprise AI is entering a less glamorous but more consequential phase: turning the documents, contracts and fragmented records inside large organizations into data that software can actually use. Singapore-based fileAI is betting on that infrastructure layer, securing strategic investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund and Singtel Innov8 as it expands in Japan and launches a…
AI coding tools are moving beyond autocomplete and one-off code generation. Huawei Cloud is now pushing further into agentic software engineering with the commercial launch of CodeArts Agent across Asia Pacific, positioning the platform as an AI development environment capable of coordinating multiple agents across requirements, coding, testing and code review. Huawei Cloud Brings CodeArts…
1. EZO has been around for 15 years. What kind of companies have you been working with, and has it changed since the company was founded? When we founded EZO in 2011, customers wanted to know where their equipment was. As they scaled, the question became bigger: Is it available, secure, maintained, compliant, and worth…
Viva Biotech is increasing its investment in AI-driven drug discovery as pharmaceutical research moves toward workflows that combine computational design with laboratory validation. The Hong Kong-listed biotech services group reported RMB1.01 billion in first-half 2026 revenue, up 21% year over year, while expanding its AI-enabled discovery platform and advancing commercial CDMO projects. Viva Biotech Pushes…
AI is moving deeper into biological research, with protein-design models increasingly being used to create molecules that can perform specific functions rather than simply analyze existing biological data. Monod Bio and SignalChem Biotech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sino Biological, are taking that trend into commercial life-science services through a new non-exclusive licensing agreement covering…
The race to build more powerful AI chips is increasingly becoming a race to improve the semiconductor manufacturing processes behind them. Lam Research has broken ground on a new 120,000-square-foot R&D laboratory in Tualatin, Oregon, as part of a planned investment of more than $3 billion in its global laboratory network over five years. The…
SK Telecom is carving its AI infrastructure business out of SK Broadband and bringing in KRW 3.08 trillion (about $2.2 billion) from KKR and the IMM Investment-Stonebridge consortium to accelerate the buildout. The new company, SK Horizon, will operate and expand AI data centers and submarine-cable infrastructure, initially targeting 318 MW of capacity. The restructuring…
