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…
The Australia–India technology relationship is moving beyond trade and education into a more strategic phase focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. Deakin University researchers have secured multiple competitive grants under the Australia–India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP), funding collaborations with Indian institutions on post-quantum cryptography, digital public infrastructure, AI adoption and critical…
AI coding tools can now generate working applications in minutes, but turning those prototypes into software that regulated companies can actually deploy remains a harder problem. Knack is targeting that gap with a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that connects AI development tools to a managed relational backend with access controls, audit logging and…
Brazil is becoming a larger proving ground for enterprise AI, and global technology services firms are positioning themselves to capture demand as companies move beyond experimentation. Blend360, an AI services and data engineering provider, has established a Brazilian legal entity and local team, expanding its delivery footprint into Latin America’s largest economy. The company plans…
Shipping has long been one of ecommerce’s most operationally repetitive functions: checking orders, correcting addresses, comparing rates, choosing packaging, buying labels and tracking deliveries. Ship.com is betting that the next step is not simply automating those tasks, but handing more of the workflow to AI agents. The company has launched SHIP AI, an AI-powered shipping…
The gap between an AI prototype and a production-ready industrial machine can be wider than the prototype itself. SECO is targeting that transition with early access to its SOM-SMARC-Dragonwing-IQ8, a compact system-on-module based on Qualcomm Technologies’ Dragonwing IQ8 Series and designed to carry applications developed with Arduino into industrial Edge AI deployments. Prototyping an AI-enabled…
For businesses that still rely heavily on phone calls, missed calls can quickly become missed customers. CCS (Custom Computer Specialists) is entering the AI voice-assistant market with Connected AI Receptionist, a voice-enabled virtual receptionist designed to answer incoming calls, understand caller intent, provide information, route conversations and schedule appointments without requiring an employee to pick…
Real-time data pipelines are becoming a critical part of enterprise AI, but they also make it harder for organizations to see where information comes from, how it changes and where it ultimately goes. Orion Governance is addressing that visibility gap by adding Apache Flink support to its Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG), extending automated metadata…
