Google Cloud and Verizon are expanding their AI partnership with a strategy that goes well beyond customer-service chatbots. The companies say Verizon will deploy Google Cloud’s data infrastructure, Gemini Enterprise and AI agents across customer experience, network operations, marketing, security and employee productivity—an approach that reflects the industry’s shift from isolated generative AI pilots toward…
AI is moving deeper into recruitment, from candidate sourcing and screening to workflow automation and decision support. Against that backdrop, Singapore-based X0PA AI has appointed Sri Harsha Allamraju as president, consolidating product, engineering and commercial operations under a single executive as the company expands its AI-powered talent acquisition business across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and…
Norway’s offshore energy industry is entering another phase of digital optimization, with operators under pressure to improve safety and operational visibility without adding complexity to already sophisticated infrastructure. At ONS 2026 in Stavanger, ALTAVE is presenting an AI-powered computer vision platform designed to turn existing industrial camera networks into a continuous source of safety and…
As enterprises move more workloads into the cloud while simultaneously experimenting with generative AI, machine learning and data-intensive applications, infrastructure decisions are becoming increasingly strategic. Btrack India is positioning its cloud and IT infrastructure portfolio around that shift, combining GPU computing, Cloud VPS, backup, cybersecurity and managed IT services for businesses seeking scalable infrastructure without…
Consumer research has long depended on asking people what they remember doing. Humanify is betting that AI can make that model less dependent on memory. The Indian consumer-research company has launched LiveTrack, a platform designed to analyze real-time behavioral data from smartphones as consumers shop on quick-commerce services and watch content on OTT platforms. Humanify…
AI companions are beginning to move beyond chat windows and into physical spaces where interaction, expression and personal experience matter. Chinese technology company Leim Technology says its non-verbal emotional AI companion, bibo, will partner with the 2026 Suzhou Open, a WTA125 tournament, as the event’s “player emotional ambassador.” The collaboration offers an early look at…
Autonomous navigation systems have a visibility problem: radar, AIS and electronic charts provide critical information, but each has blind spots. SEA.AI and maritime navigation specialist Anschütz are attempting to close part of that gap by integrating AI-powered optical and thermal object detection into the Autonomics Navigation Suite, adding a machine-vision layer designed to identify small…
Industrial AI is moving from detecting objects to interpreting complex visual environments in real time. Advantech is targeting that shift with a new portfolio of edge AI platforms built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075 processor, including a SMARC module, robotic controllers and an edge AI system designed for multi-camera computer vision, robotics and industrial automation. Advantech…
Humanoid robots have spent years learning to walk, grasp objects and perform choreographed demonstrations. Galbot is now testing a harder proposition: whether an embodied AI system can understand and compete in a dynamic sport. During the opening ceremony of the Second World Humanoid Robot Games, Galbot humanoid robots played human athletes in what the company…
