Generative AI has made it easier than ever to reproduce recognizable characters, creative assets and visual aesthetics. The harder problem is determining what happened behind the output—and what rights holders can do about it. ARCOS Labs, the company behind VN and Lightbar, is entering that gap with an AI-focused rights infrastructure platform designed to help…
Generative AI is accelerating how teams create code, 3D assets and other digital content, but a new global survey suggests the productivity boost is arriving alongside a less visible problem: organizations are struggling to understand what AI created, how it changed and whether the resulting work can be trusted. Perforce Software’s 2026 State of Real-Time…
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…
AI is lowering the barrier between having a digital idea and actually building it. Tencent Cloud’s 2026 “AI CAN DO IT” Game Development Hackathon is putting that shift to the test, with 10 finalist teams from Hong Kong and Macau presenting AI-powered games, cultural experiences and social-impact projects at a regional Demo Day. The competition…
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…
The customer seeks assistance from the AI agent to solve a problem with billing. AI agent is capable of explaining the issue, providing the customer with the account history, and giving advice on the way forward. However, it cannot access the payment system, update the account, issue a refund, inform finance, or close the ticket. The conversation may be intelligent, but the workflow is still manual. Businesses…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies is doubling down on Ethereum as an institutional digital-asset strategy, reporting $11.4 billion in combined cryptocurrency, cash, marketable securities and private-company investments as of August 16, 2026. The company now holds 5.82 million ETH, equivalent to about 4.8% of Ethereum’s reported circulating supply, while continuing weekly purchases, staking and share buybacks. Bitmine’s…
Yiren Digital is moving beyond isolated AI deployments with a shared enterprise architecture designed to reuse models, agents and workflows across its financial-services businesses. The company says the approach is helping it turn AI developed for credit, insurance and other functions into a repeatable operating capability spanning risk, customer operations, marketing and compliance. The next…
