Rokid is opening up its AI glasses platform to a broader developer audience with the global launch of AIUI Studio, a browser-based development environment for building and publishing spatial AI applications for Rokid’s smart eyewear. Announced at IFA Berlin 2026, the platform combines AI-assisted coding, reusable skills and hardware simulation, reflecting a broader shift in…
Boats Group is adding AI to the increasingly competitive business of selling boats online. The company has expanded Listing Optimizer, an AI-powered feature inside BoatWizard that evaluates inventory listings and recommends changes designed to improve search visibility and buyer engagement ahead of the fall boat-show season. For boat dealers and brokers, the sales process increasingly…
Vertice has launched Ana, an AI negotiation agent designed to handle software purchasing and renewal negotiations at enterprise scale. The agent combines procurement benchmarks, vendor-specific tactics and outcome forecasting to negotiate with software providers, either autonomously or alongside human procurement teams. Enterprise software procurement has a familiar problem: companies may have sophisticated procurement teams for…
BackBox has launched Kilter AI, an AI-powered intelligence layer for its network cyber resilience platform, Kilter. Rather than giving an autonomous AI system unrestricted control over network infrastructure, the company is positioning Kilter AI as a decision-support layer that helps NetSecOps teams assess vulnerabilities, build remediation workflows and automate repetitive tasks while keeping humans responsible…
Surfshark is expanding its privacy and cybersecurity portfolio with the acquisition of a majority stake in Optery, a U.S.-based personal data removal company. The deal brings Optery’s data-broker scanning and removal technology into Surfshark’s growing privacy ecosystem while leaving Optery, Incogni and Ironwall operating as independent businesses. Surfshark is betting that protecting people online increasingly…
