The 140th Canton Fair, opening October 15, is set to showcase a growing generation of AI-powered robots designed for homes, healthcare, food service, cleaning and emergency response. The emerging competition is moving beyond whether a robot contains AI toward how effectively it can perceive environments, make decisions and perform useful tasks with limited human intervention….
BizTrip AI is bringing its agentic corporate travel platform directly into ChatGPT and Claude, allowing business travelers to search, compare and book trips without leaving their AI assistant. The integration uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its interactive app capabilities, highlighting a broader shift toward AI agents becoming interfaces for specialized enterprise software. Corporate…
DvSum and Aurora Networks are bringing an agentic AI layer to broadband network operations with ServAssure NXT AI, a joint offering designed to connect network assurance, subscriber impact analysis and automated operational decisions. The companies will showcase the technology at SCTE TechExpo26 in Atlanta, positioning data sovereignty and closed-loop automation as key design considerations for…
Snorkel AI has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to expand its agentic data factory, which develops specialized datasets, environments and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI systems. The Series E round, led by Insight Partners and S32, comes as AI developers increasingly require expert-built data and testing environments rather than conventional annotation at…
Property operations platform HappyCo has received a significant investment from Lone View Capital as it plans to accelerate product development, artificial intelligence and customer initiatives. The company’s technology strategy centers on JoyAI, an AI orchestration layer designed to automate and optimize property-management workflows across maintenance, asset management and sourcing. The investment comes as vertical software…
