Arden University and Google Cloud are partnering to bring agentic AI into higher education, giving more than 30,000 students and staff access to Gemini Enterprise. The UK university plans to use the platform for personalized learning, academic assistance and workplace preparation, while embedding practical AI literacy and responsible-use guidance across its curriculum. Arden is also…
OrbitronAI and Aramco Digital are partnering to develop and commercialize agentic AI systems designed to recover value from complex industrial processes. Signed at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, the strategic commercial agreement will focus initially on capital productivity, supply chain performance and operational execution across asset-intensive industries. The partnership combines OrbitronAI’s industrial AI technology with Aramco…
Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are joining technology and life-science organizations in a $1.8 billion effort to build the data infrastructure needed for predictive AI models of biology. The expanded Virtual Biology Initiative will combine biological datasets, advanced measurement technologies and high-performance computing to help researchers develop AI…
Semos Cloud is expanding its enterprise HR AI offering through SAP’s ecosystem, adding five AI agent listings to the partner catalog in SAP Discovery Center. The move gives SAP customers a dedicated way to explore agents covering recognition and rewards, employee development, employee listening, people and culture insights, and rewards, benefits and pay equity. The…
AI adoption may be accelerating in Australian workplaces, but employee trust is struggling to keep pace. New research commissioned by Appian found that 60% of Australian workers have personally identified an error made by an AI tool at work, while only 14% fully trust AI-generated outputs used by their organizations. The findings point to a…
Enterprise AI adoption is becoming increasingly fragmented as employees use multiple assistants for research, coding, productivity and automation. Rencore, a Germany-based provider of Microsoft 365 and AI governance software, is responding with a multi-AI governance capability that brings Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, AI agents and Claude Enterprise into a single management layer. The…
The CIO role is expanding from technology infrastructure into workforce design, AI governance and business operating models as artificial intelligence becomes embedded across enterprises. New global research from Thoughtworks, based on a survey of 3,200 CIOs across 10 countries, finds that 89% of CIOs now see themselves as more responsible for redesigning workforce workflows and…
As data centers compete for increasingly constrained power capacity, energy management is becoming an AI infrastructure problem of its own. Hanwha says EnergyFluo™, an agentic AI energy management system developed by its TransGrid Energy business, has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 Next Big Things in Tech in the Applied AI category. The platform is…
Nuix is adding a governance layer to generative AI deployments in legal, risk and investigative environments, where unreliable answers, uncontrolled model costs and weak audit trails can create significant operational and evidentiary risks. The company has announced the Nuix Neo Generative AI Framework, an orchestration layer designed to connect customer-selected large language models (LLMs) with…
