SEMIFIVE has signed a KRW 70.3 billion ($52 million) contract with a U.S.-based AI fabless company to develop a next-generation AI inference accelerator, marking the Korean semiconductor company’s first North American “Spec Hand-off” engagement. The project comes as hyperscalers and cloud providers increasingly turn to custom silicon to optimize AI inference performance, power consumption and…
Leopard Imaging will use VISION 2026 in Stuttgart to demonstrate a broad set of camera and AI perception systems aimed at robotics, industrial automation, autonomous machines and edge AI. The portfolio spans long-range 3D sensing, stereo RGB-IR cameras, multispectral imaging, thermal perception and high-resolution industrial vision, with several systems built around NVIDIA platforms and high-speed…
MegazoneCloud is partnering with U.S.-based Portal26 to bring enterprise generative AI governance and security capabilities to South Korea, targeting a growing problem for businesses: knowing which AI tools employees use, what data they send to them, and how much those systems cost. Under the reseller agreement, MegazoneCloud will provide Portal26’s AI Adoption Management Platform alongside…
Finance and procurement teams are buying more AI software while struggling to determine whether they are paying fair prices, according to SpendHound’s AI Spend Report: 2026 Edition. The report, based on a survey of 172 finance and procurement leaders and proprietary spend data from more than 1,300 companies, finds that 57% of respondents are not…
AppDirect is adding Soul Machines’ AI avatar technology to its Devs.ai platform following its acquisition of the company, giving businesses a way to deploy interactive digital avatars across customer support, employee services, training and commerce. The move comes as enterprise AI shifts from text-based assistants toward multimodal interfaces and agentic workflows that can operate across…
