As artificial intelligence moves from experimental classroom tool to a subject students are expected to understand, educators face a more difficult question than whether learners should use AI: How should they learn to build, question and evaluate it? At TAMYZ FORUM 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan, DFRobot highlighted an education model built around open-source hardware, AI…
Fashion retailers have spent years trying to solve a deceptively difficult e-commerce problem: helping shoppers know whether a garment will actually fit before they buy it. MySize is now betting that the same data used to recommend a size can power a much broader layer of AI-driven fashion commerce. Its Naiz Fit platform has passed…
Convenience retailers are under pressure to modernize point-of-sale systems without creating another layer of disconnected software for already complex store operations. Weigel’s, a Tennessee-based convenience retailer with 90 stores, is taking an AI-native approach, partnering with Tote AI to deploy its cloud-based point-of-sale platform across the chain. The agreement highlights a broader shift in retail…
Generative AI has made it easier than ever to reproduce recognizable characters, creative assets and visual aesthetics. The harder problem is determining what happened behind the output—and what rights holders can do about it. ARCOS Labs, the company behind VN and Lightbar, is entering that gap with an AI-focused rights infrastructure platform designed to help…
Generative AI is accelerating how teams create code, 3D assets and other digital content, but a new global survey suggests the productivity boost is arriving alongside a less visible problem: organizations are struggling to understand what AI created, how it changed and whether the resulting work can be trusted. Perforce Software’s 2026 State of Real-Time…
The next stage of AI-powered commerce may not stop at product recommendations. AI agents are increasingly being designed to search, compare and eventually transact on a consumer’s behalf, putting banks and payment networks under pressure to make autonomous purchasing both useful and trustworthy. DBS Bank (Hong Kong) is responding on two fronts: continuing its work…
Accounting firms are increasingly becoming technology buyers, investors and product testers as artificial intelligence reshapes how tax, audit, advisory and professional services work gets delivered. Aprio, the 20th-largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., is formalizing that strategy with Aprio Ventures, a corporate investment program focused on AI, automation and enterprise software. The…
AI is lowering the barrier between having a digital idea and actually building it. Tencent Cloud’s 2026 “AI CAN DO IT” Game Development Hackathon is putting that shift to the test, with 10 finalist teams from Hong Kong and Macau presenting AI-powered games, cultural experiences and social-impact projects at a regional Demo Day. The competition…
Enterprise AI is moving into an awkward middle ground: companies are using foundation models and AI agents at growing rates, but many still struggle to turn pilots into repeatable, governed production systems. Globant is betting that the next shift will involve changing not just how AI is built, but how enterprises buy it. The company…
