Rapta Raises $8M for AI Manufacturing Platform

Rapta Raises $8M to Expand AI Manufacturing Intelligence Platform

Rapta has raised $8 million in a funding round co-led by Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners to expand its AI-powered manufacturing intelligence platform across defense, aerospace and other high-precision production environments. The company combines computer vision, process intelligence and production-data integration to give manufacturers real-time quality verification, traceability and visibility across complex manufacturing operations….

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Apex Intelligence Raises $50M for Self-Evolving AI

Apex Intelligence Raises Nearly $50M to Build Self-Evolving AI Researchers

Apex Intelligence has raised nearly US$50 million across angel and angel-plus funding rounds as it develops foundation models designed to improve themselves through recursive self-improvement (RSI). Founded in June 2026, the company is targeting scientific research rather than conventional AI assistance, with a system intended to generate hypotheses, conduct experiments, validate results and iteratively improve…

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Arcfra Neutree 1.2 Expands AI Model Inference

Arcfra Neutree 1.2 Expands Enterprise AI Inference Beyond LLMs

Arcfra has released Neutree 1.2, an update to its enterprise AI platform that broadens model support beyond large language models and adds new tools for GPU planning, model governance and API operations. The release introduces the company’s Flex Engine for non-LLM models including MinerU and PaddleOCR, while giving enterprises a unified way to deploy and…

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Avnet and HKU Open AI Hardware Lab

Avnet and HKU Open EMUS Lab to Accelerate AI Hardware

Avnet and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have opened a new research and commercialization facility focused on the hardware side of the AI boom. The Emerging Microelectronics and Ubiquitous Systems Lab (EMUS Lab) will bring researchers, startups and industry partners together around edge AI, physical AI, robotics, high-performance computing and emerging microelectronics, with an…

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Chunghwa Telecom's AI Customer Service Platform

Chunghwa Telecom Expands AI-Powered Customer Service Stack

Chunghwa Telecom is gaining recognition for an AI-powered customer service platform that combines speech recognition, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and voice analytics. The Taiwanese telecom provider received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Customer Value Leadership Recognition in the AI-powered customer services industry, highlighting how its technology is being applied to contact-center operations across enterprise and…

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DTEN Brings On-Device AI to Teams Rooms

DTEN Brings On-Device AI to Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms

DTEN is expanding the role of AI in hybrid meeting rooms with the 55-inch D7X AI Board, a Microsoft Teams Rooms-certified device that processes room intelligence on-device. The all-in-one system combines cameras, microphones, speakers, computing and a 4K touch display to improve participant framing, voice capture and the quality of meeting signals available to Microsoft…

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Advantech Expands WEDA for Edge AI Deployment

Advantech Expands WEDA Ecosystem to Simplify Edge AI Deployment

Advantech is expanding its WEDA-powered Edge AI ecosystem to address one of the industry’s persistent challenges: moving AI workloads from development environments into production at the edge. The company’s WISE-Edge Developer Architecture, WEDA-Ready Edge Computing and Advantech Container Catalog are designed to connect hardware, software containers, deployment tools and lifecycle management into a more standardized…

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HCLTech Pulse Targets Enterprise AI Scaling

HCLTech Launches Pulse to Scale Enterprise AI Transformation

HCLTech is creating a dedicated business unit for a segment of enterprises that increasingly wants to move from AI experimentation to broader deployment. Called HCLTech Pulse, the new unit will target companies with annual revenue of $500 million to $5 billion, combining AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity, engineering and modernization services under a single transformation model….

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OpenText and Cohere Target Agentic AI

OpenText and Cohere Bring Trusted Data to Enterprise Agentic AI

OpenText and Cohere are combining enterprise information management with agentic AI in a partnership aimed at governments and highly regulated industries. The planned solution will connect OpenText’s data and context layer with Cohere’s North agentic AI platform and enterprise models, giving organizations more options over how AI agents access data, execute workflows, and where those…

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