H2O.ai is expanding its presence in Singapore with a forward-deployed AI lab focused on applying artificial intelligence to locally relevant problems, from financial crime and healthcare to robotics and climate-related prediction. CEO and founder Sri Ambati says the strategy is designed not only to deploy AI for customers, but to build local engineering expertise and…
CarLocal.io is expanding an AI answer engine and dealership visibility platform designed to help automotive retailers surface in conversational search. The move comes as vehicle shoppers increasingly use AI to research purchases, while many dealerships have yet to adapt their digital infrastructure for AI-powered discovery. CarLocal combines answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, structured dealership…
Avalara has launched Versori by Avalara, an agentic integration fabric designed to help developers connect enterprise systems with its tax and compliance services. The platform uses specialized AI agents to analyze APIs and schemas, generate integration logic, test connections and deploy governed connectors, giving enterprises another approach to integrating AI-driven compliance into ERP, billing, e-commerce…
Unity is giving developers an early path to build applications for Meta’s upcoming VR Glasses, bringing support to its game engine months before the hardware reaches retail. Available through Unity 6.6 and Meta’s latest XR development tools, the integration is designed to let studios adapt existing Quest applications or develop new experiences around eye and…
As AI developers exhaust increasingly large portions of the internet as a source of training material, a new data frontier is emerging: people performing real tasks in physical workplaces. Realset AI and Flatkey have raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand a data-capture network built around real workers, expert demonstrators and operational environments…
