Agoda has started beta testing an AI Assistant that turns conversational travel planning into bookable itineraries, combining generative AI with live accommodation, flight and activity inventory inside its mobile app. Travel planning is increasingly becoming a test case for whether generative AI can move beyond answering questions and actually complete useful tasks. Agoda is now…
TrueFoundry has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Global Enterprise AI Control Plane Transformational Innovation Leadership Recognition, highlighting the company’s approach to managing enterprise AI models, agents and tools through a centralized operational layer for governance, security, observability and cost control. As enterprises move from isolated generative AI experiments toward fleets of AI agents and production…
Analog Devices plans to acquire Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion in cash, adding AI-native microcontrollers and fusion processors to its sensing and signal-processing portfolio as the chipmaker targets a growing market for low-power AI inference in physical devices. Analog Devices is making a major move into edge AI hardware with an agreement to acquire semiconductor…
Elsevier and LG AI Research are using chemistry-specific AI vision technology to extract molecular structures and reaction information from images embedded in patents and scientific literature, making previously difficult-to-search chemistry more accessible through Elsevier’s Reaxys discovery platform. A large portion of the chemistry researchers need to find does not exist as searchable text. Molecular structures,…
MGI Tech has launched its VisiOmics multiplex immunofluorescence platform commercially in Europe, adding automated tissue staining, imaging and AI-based analysis to its pathology portfolio. The system is aimed at research applications spanning spatial proteomics, tumor biology and digital pathology. MGI Tech is expanding its presence in European digital pathology with the commercial launch of VisiOmics…
