AI video generation is moving beyond short experimental clips and into the production workflows of large companies. Higgsfield, an AI video and image creation platform, says it has raised $400 million in Series B funding at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than quadrupling its valuation from its previous financing. The round comes as enterprises increasingly…
China is trying to solve two AI problems at once: how to accelerate domestic adoption and how to build guardrails around increasingly capable systems. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), the country’s government used its growing AI ecosystem—from large language models and industrial automation to healthcare systems and intelligent devices—as the foundation for…
China is using the global AI race to make a broader argument about how the technology should be governed: advanced AI should not become the exclusive property of a handful of countries or companies. In a commentary published by People’s Daily around the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC), Beijing positioned open-source models, international cooperation and…
The race to make autonomous vehicles smarter is creating a new hardware problem: AI systems must deliver increasingly complex decisions in real time without consuming the power budget of a general-purpose data-center accelerator. TIER IV is addressing that challenge through a Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) research program, where it is developing a software-defined…
Synchrony is giving its artificial intelligence program a dedicated executive owner as financial institutions move from AI experimentation toward enterprise-wide deployment. The consumer financial services company has appointed Nimrod Barak as Chief AI Officer, effective June 30, 2026, putting him in charge of the company’s AI strategy, governance and implementation as it expands agentic AI…
Israel is moving to turn its reputation as a technology and cybersecurity hub into a broader national AI infrastructure strategy. The country’s National Artificial Intelligence Directorate has outlined a five-year plan built around domestic compute, AI applications for public-sector problems, advanced semiconductor manufacturing, quantum computing and international partnerships. The ambition is not simply to develop…
Configuration management databases have long been essential to enterprise IT operations, but keeping their records accurate as infrastructure changes has become a persistent challenge. Alcor is targeting that problem with CMDB Catalyst, a new product built natively on the ServiceNow Platform that uses 10 purpose-built AI agents to monitor CMDB health, automate maintenance tasks and…
The UK’s push to build more AI compute capacity is moving from policy announcements to physical infrastructure. Nebius and Vantage Data Centers have agreed to deploy high-density, NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure at Vantage’s CWL1 campus in Newport, Wales, marking the first announced commercial capacity commitment in the South Wales AI Growth Zone. For AI developers, the…
For Liverpool FC, artificial intelligence was not the headline attraction when the club met Wrexham AFC at Yankee Stadium on July 29. It was the technology working behind the scenes to decide which supporters would receive an experience most fans could only watch from the stands. Using SAS Viya and SAS Customer Intelligence 360, Liverpool…
