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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has significantly expanded the role of artificial intelligence in the requirements governing its Managed Service Provider (MSP) ecosystem. The newly published MSP Validation Checklist (VCL) 8.0 introduces 24 new controls covering areas such as agentic AI governance, Responsible AI, AI observability and operational automation, while updating another 27 existing controls to…
SAN FRANCISCO (September 16, 2026) — ControlUp, a company reinventing IT operations with its AI platform, today announced Pulse AI Insights, a new AI-powered capability that analyzes digital workplace telemetry to surface and prioritize operational issues, patterns, and opportunities most likely to affect employees and the business. IT teams have more visibility into application, device, and digital employee experience (DEX)…
STAMFORD, Conn., September 16, 2026 — Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimized IaaS, AI-optimized servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices) to support anticipated future workloads remains…
