The next stage of AI-powered commerce may not stop at product recommendations. AI agents are increasingly being designed to search, compare and eventually transact on a consumer’s behalf, putting banks and payment networks under pressure to make autonomous purchasing both useful and trustworthy. DBS Bank (Hong Kong) is responding on two fronts: continuing its work…
Accounting firms are increasingly becoming technology buyers, investors and product testers as artificial intelligence reshapes how tax, audit, advisory and professional services work gets delivered. Aprio, the 20th-largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., is formalizing that strategy with Aprio Ventures, a corporate investment program focused on AI, automation and enterprise software. The…
Enterprise AI is moving into an awkward middle ground: companies are using foundation models and AI agents at growing rates, but many still struggle to turn pilots into repeatable, governed production systems. Globant is betting that the next shift will involve changing not just how AI is built, but how enterprises buy it. The company…
Security operations are entering a period of architectural change as organizations struggle with fragmented tools, escalating data volumes and increasingly automated attacks. Stellar Cyber has been named a Sample Vendor in the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC) Systems category in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2026, highlighting a broader industry move toward unified platforms…
Retail cameras have traditionally been used to record incidents or trigger narrowly defined alerts. SAI is trying to turn that infrastructure into something more active. The company has received a U.S. patent for its Visual Language Model (VLM) technology, which combines computer vision and generative AI to interpret sequences of in-store video and translate them…
A brand can appear in an AI-generated search answer and still lose the recommendation. That is the finding from Somantra, a Sydney-based AI search monitoring company, which analyzed 4,445 ChatGPT responses and found that adding a single decision-oriented word—such as “cheapest,” “safest” or “most trusted”—could substantially change how a brand was described without removing it…
XCards Inc. has released its global go-to-market strategy for the Global AI City Travel Card 3.0, a proposed travel and identity platform that combines digital identity, AI agents, physical access credentials and crypto-fiat payments. The company is targeting business travelers, Web3 users and digital nomads, with an initial expansion strategy centered on Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo,…
Telecom operators are moving from AI experimentation toward a more difficult phase: rebuilding networks, operations and business models around autonomous systems. TM Forum’s Innovate Americas 2026, scheduled for October 6–7 in Dallas, will bring executives from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and TELUS together with technology leaders to examine how AI, network automation and programmable connectivity can…
AI can now propose thousands of potential materials in the time conventional research methods might take to evaluate a fraction of them. The harder problem is what comes next: making those materials, testing whether they behave as predicted, and turning promising candidates into manufacturable devices. ATLANT 3D is targeting that gap with NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a…
