UK-based askelie has signed an exclusive U.S. strategic partnership with Pine Services Group to bring AI-powered financial and compliance automation to Pine’s 18 operating companies. The deal expands askelie’s footprint across ERP workflows including accounts payable, purchasing, contract management, spend analysis and document processing, as enterprises increasingly look beyond AI copilots toward governed automation. The…
UpDoc has been selected as a lead performer in ARPA-H’s ADVOCATE program, receiving an award of up to $9.2 million to develop agentic AI for cardiovascular care. The company will work with Microsoft, OpenAI and NVIDIA on a system intended to manage aspects of heart-failure care under clinical safeguards and pursue a pathway toward FDA…
Alibaba.com is positioning Accio as a lower-cost alternative for businesses deploying AI agents across e-commerce operations. The company says its commerce-focused agent completed 107 benchmark tasks at an estimated cost of $3.69, compared with $9.27 for OpenAI’s Codex and $9.51 for Anthropic’s Claude Code, while delivering comparable task completion quality. Alibaba.com unveiled the results alongside…
Nutrient has made its Data Extraction API generally available, targeting one of the less glamorous but increasingly important problems in enterprise AI: turning messy documents into structured, traceable data that software agents can actually use. The API processes PDFs, scans, images and Office files, returning spatial JSON or Markdown and extracting schema-defined fields with page…
Aitech is upgrading its rugged computing portfolio for defense platforms that increasingly need to process AI workloads at the tactical edge. The company has introduced the C530 and SOSA-aligned U-C5300, two 3U VPX GPGPU boards built around NVIDIA RTX Ada architecture. The accelerators target real-time AI inference, video analytics, image processing and sensor fusion while…
DFI is targeting the growing demand for on-device intelligence in industrial robots and automated logistics with a new Mini-ITX platform designed to combine AI acceleration, compact hardware and long-term deployment flexibility. The ARH171/ARH173 supports 16 Intel Core Ultra processor configurations across Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake generations, giving system integrators a common hardware platform for…
Qualcomm and Amazon are expanding their semiconductor partnership into large-scale AI data centers, with a multi-generation collaboration focused on custom silicon for AI inference and optical connectivity reaching speeds of up to 1.6 terabits per second. The agreement gives Qualcomm a larger role in the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market while strengthening Amazon Web Services’…
Triple Whale is repositioning itself from an ecommerce analytics platform into what it describes as an AI operating system for commerce, unveiling a new brand identity alongside a broader push into agentic automation. The company says its Moby AI operator can move beyond analyzing business performance to recommending and executing actions across advertising, creative, websites…
Alif Semiconductor is targeting one of the biggest barriers to embedded AI adoption: the cost and complexity of getting started. The semiconductor company has introduced two low-cost evaluation boards, the SK-B1 and SK-E1C StartKits, designed to help developers test on-device AI and machine learning workloads on its Balletto and Ensemble microcontrollers. The boards bring dedicated…
