AppDirect is adding Soul Machines’ AI avatar technology to its Devs.ai platform following its acquisition of the company, giving businesses a way to deploy interactive digital avatars across customer support, employee services, training and commerce. The move comes as enterprise AI shifts from text-based assistants toward multimodal interfaces and agentic workflows that can operate across…
AppDirect has acquired Soul Machines, bringing the AI avatar company’s multimodal digital-teammate technology into a B2B subscription commerce platform used by more than 16 million subscribers. The transaction gives AppDirect a way to combine conversational, video-based AI interfaces with its distribution and commerce infrastructure as enterprise AI moves from chatbots toward agents that can perform…
Teem Finance is integrating its AI-native procurement intelligence with Workday Strategic Sourcing and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, giving procurement teams a way to analyze existing suppliers, identify purchasing overlaps and research alternatives without manually consolidating supplier and contract data. Enterprise procurement is increasingly becoming a data problem. Organizations may have thousands of suppliers, contracts and…
Virtana has been named a winner of SiliconANGLE’s 2026 TechForward Awards in the AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure category, putting its agentic observability platform in a market increasingly focused on connecting AI workloads with the infrastructure they depend on. The company says its platform correlates more than 25,000 telemetry signals across applications, infrastructure, networks, storage, Kubernetes and…
Enterprise generative AI is entering a more complicated phase: instead of routing every task through one frontier model, organizations are increasingly mixing models, controlling inference costs and rebuilding their data pipelines. A new Hyperscience study, conducted with The Harris Poll, finds that 80% of surveyed organizations are moving away from a single-large-model strategy, while 52%…
Manifest Cyber has joined Athena, the Chainguard-led coalition focused on coordinated defense of open-source software, adding software supply chain visibility to a group that includes JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, Cisco, Cloudflare, Akamai and PwC. The move gives Athena another way to identify where vulnerable open-source components reside inside commercial and third-party software—an increasingly important problem as…
LONDON, U.K., September 28, 2026 – Forty-one percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) reported at least one social engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the previous 12 months, and 36% reported one during a video call, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company….
Neume has launched Remix, a pair of AI music editing tools designed to let users revise completed songs without regenerating the entire track. Replace targets individual sections such as mispronounced lyrics, while Reimagine lets users preserve a song’s melody and words while rebuilding its musical style. AI music generation has made it easier to create…
HighLevel has opened a new Dubai headquarters and AI Center of Excellence as the business software provider increases its investment in artificial intelligence, automation and agentic workflows. The facility brings engineering and product teams together to accelerate AI development across HighLevel’s marketing, CRM, sales and business-operations platform. HighLevel is putting a larger bet behind agentic…
