Sumsub has launched the Sumsub Agentic AI Council, an APAC-focused forum intended to bring policymakers, academics, technology companies, industry groups and civil society together around the practical governance of AI agents. The initiative will focus on agent identity, delegated authority, security, transparency, accountability and oversight as autonomous AI systems move into commercial workflows. The shift…
The AI industry’s next challenge may be less about building compute capacity than generating enough economic value to support it. Bain & Company’s seventh annual Global Technology Report estimates that AI would need to generate about $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the infrastructure investment now underway, with existing consumer and enterprise…
MagPro has introduced AeroLev 1850, a 1.85 MW-class air-cooled magnetic-bearing chiller designed for AI data centers operating in hot, water-constrained environments. The platform combines oil-free magnetic-levitation compression, air cooling and intelligent controls, while supporting chilled-water temperatures of up to 45°C for emerging high-temperature liquid-cooling architectures. AI data centers are creating a cooling problem that is…
SUNON is taking a chip-to-rack approach to liquid cooling as AI workloads push data center power density higher. At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, the thermal-management company will showcase cooling technologies spanning chip, server and rack levels, positioning integrated thermal infrastructure as an increasingly important part of AI data center design. AI infrastructure is running…
Yokogawa Engineering Asia has joined the Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed Phase 2.0 (STDCT 2.0) Consortium at the National University of Singapore, bringing industrial automation, measurement and autonomous operations expertise to efforts focused on more efficient AI data centers. The collaboration comes as rising AI workloads increase pressure on power, cooling, reliability and operational resources,…
SEMIFIVE has signed a KRW 70.3 billion ($52 million) contract with a U.S.-based AI fabless company to develop a next-generation AI inference accelerator, marking the Korean semiconductor company’s first North American “Spec Hand-off” engagement. The project comes as hyperscalers and cloud providers increasingly turn to custom silicon to optimize AI inference performance, power consumption and…
Leopard Imaging will use VISION 2026 in Stuttgart to demonstrate a broad set of camera and AI perception systems aimed at robotics, industrial automation, autonomous machines and edge AI. The portfolio spans long-range 3D sensing, stereo RGB-IR cameras, multispectral imaging, thermal perception and high-resolution industrial vision, with several systems built around NVIDIA platforms and high-speed…
MegazoneCloud is partnering with U.S.-based Portal26 to bring enterprise generative AI governance and security capabilities to South Korea, targeting a growing problem for businesses: knowing which AI tools employees use, what data they send to them, and how much those systems cost. Under the reseller agreement, MegazoneCloud will provide Portal26’s AI Adoption Management Platform alongside…
Finance and procurement teams are buying more AI software while struggling to determine whether they are paying fair prices, according to SpendHound’s AI Spend Report: 2026 Edition. The report, based on a survey of 172 finance and procurement leaders and proprietary spend data from more than 1,300 companies, finds that 57% of respondents are not…
