TwelveLabs is making its Marengo video embedding model available inside Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases, giving enterprises a managed way to search video, audio and images using natural-language queries. The integration could remove one of the biggest barriers to enterprise video AI: building and maintaining the ingestion, embedding and vector-search infrastructure needed to make unstructured…
Private equity firms may be racing to adopt artificial intelligence, but limited partners are signaling that AI alone is not enough to make a fund manager stand out. A new Gen II survey finds LPs place greater value on technology infrastructure and measurable outcomes—including faster reporting, transparency, actionable insights and customizable reporting—than on AI adoption…
U.S. convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops are entering 2026 with a surprisingly durable outlook—but increasingly see technology and artificial intelligence as tools for controlling costs rather than chasing transformation. A new Toast survey of 340 retail operators found that 90% are experimenting with AI, while 75% plan to increase technology spending over the…
Centric Software is previewing Centric AI, a new platform designed to bring generative and agentic AI into retail product lifecycle decisions, at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Europe in Paris. The platform connects product data, workflows and AI agents across planning, design, sourcing, pricing and commercialization as retailers move AI from experimentation toward operational use….
Positron AI has raised $875 million in a Series C financing at a $5 billion post-money valuation, giving the AI inference chipmaker capital to develop its next-generation Asimov processor, ramp its Titan systems and expand production. The funding arrives as AI infrastructure shifts toward the increasingly expensive task of running models at scale. The economics…
