Smart lighting has traditionally been about remote controls, schedules and preset scenes. Govee is pushing the category toward something more autonomous. At IFA 2026, the company is showcasing AI-powered lighting that can interpret text, voice and image inputs, respond to user context and coordinate increasingly complex lighting environments, including a new AI-powered ceiling light, COB…
Home energy systems are becoming increasingly difficult to manage as solar panels, batteries, EVs, heat pumps, dynamic electricity tariffs and household appliances operate as one interconnected system. At IFA 2026, Zendure is introducing Agentic HEMS, an AI-driven home energy management architecture designed to move beyond fixed schedules by forecasting conditions, deciding how energy should be…
As AI coding tools accelerate software development, investors face a new problem during technology acquisitions: understanding exactly what they are buying is becoming harder. Plan A Technologies has acquired a stealth AI assessment tool to strengthen its technical M&A due diligence practice, using automated analysis to examine large, fragmented technology environments and surface risks that…
AI coding agents are making software development dramatically faster, but infrastructure teams still have to review changes through tickets, approvals and manual workflows. empirik.ai is betting that this mismatch is becoming a reliability problem. The company has emerged from stealth with $21 million in funding and an AI agent designed to understand infrastructure-change intent, calculate…
EpiVax is upgrading its computational immunology platform with AI-enabled models designed to give drug developers a more precise view of how the human immune system may respond to biotherapeutic candidates. The latest release of ISPRI combines an updated JanusMatrix model, a new tolerance-adjusted immunogenicity score and an enhanced anti-drug antibody prediction model, pushing computational assessment…
