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AppDirect has acquired Soul Machines, bringing the AI avatar company’s multimodal digital-teammate technology into a B2B subscription commerce platform used by more than 16 million subscribers. The transaction gives AppDirect a way to combine conversational, video-based AI interfaces with its distribution and commerce infrastructure as enterprise AI moves from chatbots toward agents that can perform…

Teem Finance is integrating its AI-native procurement intelligence with Workday Strategic Sourcing and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, giving procurement teams a way to analyze existing suppliers, identify purchasing overlaps and research alternatives without manually consolidating supplier and contract data. Enterprise procurement is increasingly becoming a data problem. Organizations may have thousands of suppliers, contracts and…

Virtana has been named a winner of SiliconANGLE’s 2026 TechForward Awards in the AI-Driven Cloud Infrastructure category, putting its agentic observability platform in a market increasingly focused on connecting AI workloads with the infrastructure they depend on. The company says its platform correlates more than 25,000 telemetry signals across applications, infrastructure, networks, storage, Kubernetes and…

Enterprise generative AI is entering a more complicated phase: instead of routing every task through one frontier model, organizations are increasingly mixing models, controlling inference costs and rebuilding their data pipelines. A new Hyperscience study, conducted with The Harris Poll, finds that 80% of surveyed organizations are moving away from a single-large-model strategy, while 52%…