Deep-tech defense firm Shield AI has officially planted its flag in Taiwan, opening a new office in the iconic Taipei 101 tower during the 2025 Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE). The move signals a commitment to closer collaboration with Taiwan’s government, defense sector, and aerospace industry on autonomy and drone technologies.
Microsoft, Nscale Global Holdings, and Aker ASA have inked a five-year, $6.2 billion agreement to develop Europe’s next-generation hyperscale AI infrastructure in Narvik, Northern Norway. The contract marks a major milestone in European-owned AI compute capacity, with staged deployments starting in 2026.
At its annual Webflow Conf 2025, Webflow positioned itself not just as a website builder, but as an AI-native website experience platform. The company’s headline announcement: Webflow AI, a suite of agentic solutions that promises to take brands from prompt to production—apps, content, and SEO included—without ever leaving its visual builder.
Pollo AI has unveiled its latest innovation: the Product Avatar video generator, designed to help brands, marketers, and creators produce professional-grade product videos in minutes. Building on the success of its previous AI avatar video tools, the platform converts static images into lifelike, engaging videos without any filming, pre-training, or pre-recorded footage.
Continuous Integration (CI) is supposed to streamline development—but for many teams, it’s become a bottleneck. Blacksmith, a startup out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch, is tackling that problem head-on. The company announced a $10 million Series A, led by Google Ventures, to bring faster, more cost-effective, and highly observable CI to engineering teams, starting with GitHub Actions.
The FUTR Corporation (TSXV:FTRC; OTCQB:FTRCF) has officially launched the Closed Beta of its flagship AI Agent App, a move designed to give consumers control over their personal information while rewarding them for participating in the platform.
At Xperience 2025, Genesys announced the next evolution of its Genesys Cloud™ platform, unveiling advanced agentic AI agents designed to orchestrate customer and employee experiences across enterprises. Enhancements to Genesys Cloud Copilots and Virtual Agents introduce greater autonomy, contextual awareness, and built-in support for Agent2Agent Collaboration (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling organizations to scale responsible AI orchestration while maintaining enterprise governance.
SuperX and Zhonhen Partner to Deliver Energy-Efficient AI Compute Power
National Grid and Emerald AI have announced a strategic partnership aimed at showing how AI-powered data centres can actively support the UK electricity grid. The collaboration will showcase Emerald Conductor, an AI system that mediates between data centres and the transmission network, dynamically adjusting energy consumption to match grid capacity. The live demonstration is scheduled for late 2025.
