Financial advisor succession is becoming a data and workflow problem as much as a relationship-management challenge. AmeriFlex Group is attempting to address it with Scout, an AI-enabled program that analyzes hundreds of advisory firms and creates detailed profiles in the time previously required to evaluate a single practice. The advisor-owned hybrid RIA is initially testing…
Robo.ai entered the second half of 2026 with a dramatically different balance sheet and business mix. The Nasdaq-listed UAE technology company reported $55.1 million in first-half revenue, up from $0.6 million a year earlier, while acquisitions and the disposal of its legacy ICONIQ business reshaped the company around artificial intelligence, data processing and newly acquired…
AI avatar technology is moving into a more demanding phase. The novelty of making a digital person speak is fading as creators and businesses increasingly judge these systems on lip-sync accuracy, natural movement, visual consistency and how reliably they can produce content at scale. Wizstar AI Avatar entered that conversation on August 21, ranking No….
At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Galaxea AI used a series of deliberately difficult robotics demonstrations to make a broader argument about embodied artificial intelligence: the industry’s next challenge is no longer proving that robots can move, but proving they can keep working when the real world refuses to cooperate. Galaxea AI Shows…
AI assistants are becoming a new interface for researching products, analyzing information and making decisions. Longbridge Group is betting that investing will follow the same path. The AI-native financial technology company has launched Longbridge as a plugin on ChatGPT and a connector on Claude, allowing authorized users to bring portfolio context, watchlists and investment goals…
