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Arcade.dev — creator of the only production-grade MCP runtime — today introduced URL Elicitation, a major advancement for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) and one that finally solves its most limiting gap: secure user authorization. For the first time, MCP servers can interact directly with any web-based service, enabling secure authentication with enterprise SaaS tools,…

Smart chessboards have grown up—again. Chessnut, one of the fastest-rising names in connected chess hardware, has officially launched its flagship Chessnut Evo in Europe. And unlike many “smart” boards that feel like gadgets first and tools second, the Evo is designed to look at home in an actual living room while packing enough compute power…

The 2025 London Design Awards just handed 8×8 a Gold win for 8×8 Engage, the company’s mobile-first, AI-powered workspace for customer-facing teams. For a competition that prizes clean, intuitive, and user-first digital product design, Engage’s victory is a signal that CX software is finally catching up to how modern teams actually operate—fast, cross-functional, and anywhere…

Europe’s push for sovereign artificial intelligence just got a major boost. Dassault Systèmes and Mistral AI—two of France’s most visible tech powerhouses—have expanded their partnership to deliver integrated, fully sovereign GenAI services across heavily regulated verticals and the public sector. At the center of the announcement: Mistral AI’s Le Chat Enterprise assistant and its AI…

Korea just landed a heavyweight partnership in the global AI infrastructure race. DigitalBridge, the US-based digital-infrastructure investor managing a hefty $108 billion worldwide, has signed an MOU with telecom giant KT to explore building next-generation, AI-powered data centers across the country. It’s the firm’s first major collaboration with a Korean telco—and it comes at a…

Enterprise resource planning may be mission-critical, but let’s be honest: most ERP interfaces still feel like relics from the dial-up era. Every platform has its own menus, quirks, jargon, and configuration rituals—none of which are intuitive, all of which slow teams down. Appficiency, one of the top NetSuite consulting players, says it’s done waiting for…

Robots may move with superhuman precision, but they still struggle with the very human skill of understanding the world around them. At OktoberTech Silicon Valley 2025, Infineon Technologies AG and HTEC unveiled one of the clearest attempts yet to close that gap: a jointly engineered 360° Awareness Humanoid Robotic Head that blends radar, depth sensing,…

The veterinary world just got its first major AI disruptor—and the economics are staggering. PetVivo Holdings, Inc., alongside its subsidiaries PetVivo Animal Health and PetVivo AI, today unveiled PetVivo.ai, a new artificial intelligence platform engineered to upend how veterinary clinics attract and convert new clients. In an industry where practices routinely pay $80 to $400…

Sports advertising is entering a new phase—one where ads don’t just follow the game; they react to it. Genius Sports, the data and technology company behind some of the world’s most advanced sports analytics, has signed a global partnership with Publicis Sports to supercharge FANHub, Genius Sports’ AI-driven sports advertising platform. The goal: to match…