Supply chains may be the backbone of modern commerce, but much of the actual logistics work is still stuck in the Stone Age of spreadsheets, phone calls, and email chains. Enter BackOps AI, a startup that just raised $6 million in seed funding to drag supply chain ops into the automation era—without requiring a complete tech overhaul.
Move over sticky notes—AI is now just as common as team collaboration when it comes to analyzing research. A new global study by user research platform Lyssna reveals that 54.7% of research professionals are using AI-assisted tools to help synthesize findings—virtually tying with traditional collaboration (55.0%) as the top method of turning feedback into insights.
India’s largest school lunch program just got a major digital upgrade. In a groundbreaking collaboration, Automation Anywhere and The Akshaya Patra Foundation are using AI-powered automation to overhaul how one of India’s most vital social impact organizations delivers its mission—feeding millions of children daily through the government-backed PM POSHAN program.
Infinitus Systems, the voice AI platform behind more than 100 million minutes of healthcare conversations, just leveled up its partnership with Salesforce. The expanded collaboration integrates Infinitus’s purpose-built AI voice agents directly into Salesforce Health Cloud and Life Sciences Cloud via MuleSoft and Agentforce—giving healthcare organizations a smarter way to handle one of their biggest pain points: administrative phone work.
RepRisk, a longtime leader in ESG and reputational risk data, is ramping up its AI game—and fast. The Zurich-based data-as-a-service (DaaS) firm just announced it’s hiring 30 full-time staffers to spearhead a new wave of innovation in agentic AI delivery and data integration. The move underscores RepRisk’s aggressive push to modernize how enterprises interact with high-precision risk intelligence—moving from static APIs to dynamic, goal-driven data products powered by large language model (LLM) agents.
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls, according to Gartner, Inc.
Tricentis, a global leader in AI-enabled software quality engineering, today unveiled a bold new chapter in its agentic AI strategy with two industry-first innovations that aim to redefine the future of software testing for the enterprise. The company is launching remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for enterprise testing and Tricentis Agentic Test Automation, as well as the beta launch of new AI workflow capabilities.
For any competitive business today, generative AI is a board-level priority for the year ahead – and it’s easy to see why. When implemented strategically and thoughtfully, generative AI enables many benefits: higher velocity of innovation, cost reductions, elevated workforce productivity, and enhanced customer experiences – to name a few. These are key advantages that will keep a business competitive and resilient in today’s economic landscape.
As SAP cyberattacks spike, Mage Data rolls out a high-stakes defense. The data security leader today announced the general availability of its Unified Data Protection Fabric for SAP, a multi-layered platform built to shield one of the world’s most targeted enterprise systems from increasingly sophisticated threats.
