Autonomous-driving development often requires teams to assemble vehicles, sensors, computing hardware, software and simulation infrastructure before they can even begin testing an AI system. TIER IV is attempting to lower that barrier with an open reference design for autonomous racing karts, giving developers a common hardware and software foundation built around its Autoware autonomous-driving platform….
Large language models can reason about information, but many business decisions depend on understanding the physical world. Amap Platform is addressing that gap with Qianyu, a spatial-intelligence platform that packages mapping and location capabilities into agentic tools that developers and enterprises can operate through natural-language instructions. Unveiled at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Qianyu…
Yeastar has launched NovoOne, an AI-native, multi-tenant communications platform designed for managed service providers, IT service providers, telecom resellers and carriers. The platform combines carrier-grade infrastructure with embedded AI capabilities, Kubernetes-based scaling and tenant-level controls aimed at helping communications providers support large customer bases from a single deployment. Yeastar is targeting the infrastructure layer behind…
Artificial intelligence is becoming an infrastructure issue for the energy sector as utilities contend with renewable generation, distributed power resources and rapidly growing electricity demand from data centers. At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei presented a strategy for applying AI and digital infrastructure across the power system, with particular attention to the low-voltage networks that connect…
DvSum and Aurora Networks are bringing an agentic AI layer to broadband network operations with ServAssure NXT AI, a joint offering designed to connect network assurance, subscriber impact analysis and automated operational decisions. The companies will showcase the technology at SCTE TechExpo26 in Atlanta, positioning data sovereignty and closed-loop automation as key design considerations for…
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to expand its agentic data factory, which develops specialized datasets, environments and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI systems. The Series E round, led by Insight Partners and S32, comes as AI developers increasingly require expert-built data and testing environments rather than conventional annotation at…
Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) has introduced Chip-to-Grid Reference Designs for AI factories built around NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and future NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms. The architecture connects utility power, on-site generation, battery storage, electrical distribution, liquid cooling and facility controls into a standardized infrastructure blueprint designed to help hyperscale, neocloud and colocation operators…
Indian healthtech startup Medoc Health is expanding an AI-powered hospital automation platform designed for healthcare providers in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. The company says its technology has been adopted by 98 hospitals across five states, combining hospital management, clinical AI, diagnostics, insurance automation, patient records and paper-to-digital workflows within a unified technology stack. Hospital technology…
Xisiid Intelligence has raised RMB 25 million in seed funding to develop a brain-inspired AI architecture designed to help agents execute complex, long-horizon tasks and retain reusable experience. The company is combining a proprietary foundation system, structured memory and agentic execution in an effort to move enterprise AI beyond content generation toward persistent workflow automation….
