SYDNEY, August 26, 2026: Australian consumers want embedded protection built into the platforms they already trust, and 3 in 4 (75%) are willing to even switch travel booking platforms if it’s automatically included with their purchase. However, when it comes to relying on AI or third-party marketplace apps for protection, Australians remain hesitant. These are some…
Home service contractors have spent years stitching together field-service software, communications tools and membership systems. Podium is betting that AI agents can eliminate some of that complexity, formally launching an AI Operating System for Home Services that puts autonomous agents across scheduling, customer communications, memberships and back-office operations. Podium Launches AI Operating System to Put…
Quantum computing has a hardware problem that cannot be solved by better algorithms alone: the machines need to keep themselves running. QuEra Computing has demonstrated a potential answer, using Anthropic’s Claude AI agent to develop and validate software that automatically recovers a critical laser-control subsystem on its quantum computers. Quantum computers are becoming more accessible…
Healthcare payers are sitting on increasingly large volumes of operational data, but turning that information into useful intelligence remains a challenge. Imagenet is looking to close that gap through the acquisition of Analytica Consulting, adding data engineering, analytics, artificial intelligence and governance capabilities to its healthcare technology and automation business. Healthcare technology companies are increasingly…
Press release distribution is entering an unfamiliar phase as generative AI systems increasingly influence how people discover companies, products and news. Send2Press, a U.S. newswire operated by NEOTROPE, is expanding an AI Seeding service designed to improve how client announcements surface in conversational search and answer engines, while giving customers tools to run their own…
As AI agents take on more of the work involved in building software, the industry’s quality challenge is changing with them. TestMu AI used its 2026 Testµ Conference to bring developers, testers and engineering leaders together around a central question: how can organizations make increasingly autonomous software development reliable enough for production? TestMu AI Conference…
Enterprise AI is entering a less glamorous but more consequential phase: turning the documents, contracts and fragmented records inside large organizations into data that software can actually use. Singapore-based fileAI is betting on that infrastructure layer, securing strategic investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund and Singtel Innov8 as it expands in Japan and launches a…
AI coding tools are moving beyond autocomplete and one-off code generation. Huawei Cloud is now pushing further into agentic software engineering with the commercial launch of CodeArts Agent across Asia Pacific, positioning the platform as an AI development environment capable of coordinating multiple agents across requirements, coding, testing and code review. Huawei Cloud Brings CodeArts…
BALI, 28 August 2026 — The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, cloud computing, automation, and smart manufacturing is reshaping infrastructure requirements across industrial estates. Investors today require more than land, power, water, and logistics access; they also need reliable and secure digital connectivity that can scale alongside their business needs. In response to this shift, PT…
