Apple has introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, putting on-device artificial intelligence, sustained computing performance and computational photography at the center of its latest premium smartphones. The new models combine the A20 Pro chip and dual 16-core Neural Engine with Apple Intelligence and the beta version of Siri AI, while adding…
Agilisium has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition for agentic AI in life sciences, highlighting a growing push to move generative AI beyond pilots and into regulated pharmaceutical and biotechnology workflows. The company’s approach combines domain-specific AI agents, enterprise data, workflow orchestration and governance across the life sciences value chain. The…
UK-based askelie has signed an exclusive U.S. strategic partnership with Pine Services Group to bring AI-powered financial and compliance automation to Pine’s 18 operating companies. The deal expands askelie’s footprint across ERP workflows including accounts payable, purchasing, contract management, spend analysis and document processing, as enterprises increasingly look beyond AI copilots toward governed automation. The…
UpDoc has been selected as a lead performer in ARPA-H’s ADVOCATE program, receiving an award of up to $9.2 million to develop agentic AI for cardiovascular care. The company will work with Microsoft, OpenAI and NVIDIA on a system intended to manage aspects of heart-failure care under clinical safeguards and pursue a pathway toward FDA…
Alibaba.com is positioning Accio as a lower-cost alternative for businesses deploying AI agents across e-commerce operations. The company says its commerce-focused agent completed 107 benchmark tasks at an estimated cost of $3.69, compared with $9.27 for OpenAI’s Codex and $9.51 for Anthropic’s Claude Code, while delivering comparable task completion quality. Alibaba.com unveiled the results alongside…
