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…
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…
