Proctoring tech just got a serious AI upgrade. Talview, the San Mateo–based talent assessment and proctoring company, has been awarded its first U.S. patent—No. US 12,361,115 B1—for Alvy, an agentic AI platform built to both protect the integrity of remote assessments and actually help candidates through them.
Dubai’s growing reputation as a global AI hotspot just got another boost. Demand AI Group Inc., known for its AI-powered demand generation platform, has opened a new regional headquarters in the city, marking the company’s seventh global office and its first in the Middle East.
Manual industrial inspections may soon feel as dated as clipboards and carbon paper. PROtect, LLC has teamed up with German AI specialist sentin GmbH to bring automated, AI-powered Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) to North America—making PROtect the first inspection provider in the region to offer it as a service.
When it comes to billable hours, professional services firms know every minute counts—literally. Laurel, the AI-powered “time intelligence” platform, has landed a strategic investment from Workday Ventures, a move that plugs it into Workday’s Innovation Partner network and positions it squarely in the crosshairs of enterprise productivity disruption.
In the wake of OpenAI’s GPT-OSS reveal, privacy tech firm Captain Compliance is making its own big move—rolling out an on-premises AI suite designed to marry the power of large language models with the strictest data privacy rules.
CobbleStone Software, a recognized leader in contract lifecycle management (CLM) per the SPARK Matrix™ Report, has unveiled its VISDOM AI Helper for Microsoft Word—bringing advanced contract intelligence directly into the world’s most widely used document editor.
The next frontier in AI performance may come with a staggering energy bill. A joint report from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Epoch AI projects that training a cutting-edge AI model could require more than 4 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2030—enough to keep millions of U.S. homes running.
Kubit, the customer journey analytics platform known for its warehouse-native architecture, has introduced Ask Kubit, a conversational AI interface that turns plain-English questions into on-demand analytics.
Real-time translation apps are getting a human touch. Vocalbeats.AI, the AI innovation arm of Vocalbeats, has rolled out a major update to Owll Translator, adding voice cloning that lets users communicate across more than 100 languages without losing their unique vocal identity.
