Microsoft and Saudi AI company HUMAIN are taking a step toward making Arabic-language artificial intelligence a more integrated part of enterprise software. The companies announced a long-term strategic collaboration that plans to bring HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic large language models to Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, including Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot, while pairing HUMAIN specialists with…
Legal AI is increasingly moving beyond document summarization and generic chatbots toward systems designed around specific legal jurisdictions. Ask.Legal is expanding into Australia and Singapore, extending its jurisdiction-specific legal analysis platform across four common-law markets: Hong Kong, England and Wales, Singapore, and Australia. The move targets a segment often underserved by enterprise legal-AI platforms: smaller…
Stability AI is betting that the next phase of generative AI will be less about general-purpose chatbots and more about specialized production tools built around professional creative workflows. The company announced a $76 million Series B funding round, bringing the capital raised under CEO Prem Akkaraju since June 2024 to $232 million, as it looks…
The gap between an AI prototype and a production-ready industrial machine can be wider than the prototype itself. SECO is targeting that transition with early access to its SOM-SMARC-Dragonwing-IQ8, a compact system-on-module based on Qualcomm Technologies’ Dragonwing IQ8 Series and designed to carry applications developed with Arduino into industrial Edge AI deployments. Prototyping an AI-enabled…
AI is becoming another place where brands compete for attention, but marketing teams are still figuring out how to influence what customers see. A new survey of 200 U.S. marketing and communications professionals by Sword and the Script Media finds that nearly half consider AI visibility significant, while the industry remains divided over which functions,…
