AI-powered skin analysis is moving from retail experiments to everyday beauty consultations. Haut.AI and Brazilian beauty group Grupo Boticário are expanding their three-year partnership from a 24-store pilot to approximately 4,000 O Boticário locations across Brazil, putting computer vision and personalized skincare recommendations directly into the hands of beauty advisors. The companies say the pilot…
As AI workloads move from cloud data centers into smartphones, PCs and vehicles, the storage interface connecting processors to flash memory is becoming an increasingly important part of system performance. Prodigy Technovations has introduced the PGY-UFS5-EX-PA, a protocol exerciser and analyzer designed to test UFS 5.0, the next-generation flash storage interface built around higher bandwidth…
The next phase of defense AI may be less about putting autonomy into individual drones and vehicles and more about coordinating decisions across an entire force. Smack Technologies has raised $61 million in Series B funding to expand its AI platforms from command-level planning to communications- and compute-constrained environments at the tactical edge. Smack Technologies…
As AI clusters push data center networks from 800G toward 1.6T and eventually 3.2T connectivity, semiconductor companies are competing to solve the bandwidth, power and signal-integrity problems underneath the AI boom. Semtech is preparing to put its data center strategy under the spotlight with an October teach-in for investors and industry participants, highlighting the technologies…
The enterprise AI market is moving into a more demanding phase: companies want AI agents that can work with proprietary data and business systems without surrendering control over where that information goes. Fobi AI is entering that market with FORTRESS, a sovereign enterprise AI platform designed for private deployment, retrieval-augmented generation, enterprise integrations and agentic…
