Loft Orbital and UAE-based Marlan Space are committing $1 billion to build a 50-satellite artificial intelligence infrastructure platform designed to analyze Earth-observation data directly in orbit. The Altair-Next Gen program will combine radar and optical sensors with onboard computing and AI models from Mistral, allowing satellites to identify events and send alerts within seconds rather…
Crux AI has launched with plans to build dedicated AI infrastructure at industrial scale, backed by a $5 billion equity commitment from funds managed by Blackstone. The U.S.-based company says it will integrate power, data centers, networking, accelerated computing, software and operations into a single platform, with an initial 500 MW of Google TPU capacity…
Trialbee is adding AI-powered patient screening to its Honey Platform as clinical-trial sponsors look to automate more of the recruitment process without removing human oversight. The new capability, which the company plans to unveil at DPHARM 2026 in Boston, uses a conversational AI interface to conduct protocol-specific screening while allowing patients to switch to a…
Swiss AI company Neural Concept is establishing a direct commercial presence in India, opening teams in Bengaluru and Pune as manufacturers increasingly use AI to compress product-development and simulation cycles. The expansion puts its Engineering Intelligence platform closer to India’s automotive and industrial R&D ecosystem, where AI is moving from isolated engineering experiments toward design…
Apple is turning its entry-level AirPods into a more capable AI interface with AirPods 5, adding active noise cancellation, computational audio, Siri AI and Live Translation to an open-ear design starting at $129. The launch comes as the hearables market increasingly moves beyond audio playback toward AI assistants, real-time translation and context-aware interactions. Apple has…
