Shipping has long been one of ecommerce’s most operationally repetitive functions: checking orders, correcting addresses, comparing rates, choosing packaging, buying labels and tracking deliveries. Ship.com is betting that the next step is not simply automating those tasks, but handing more of the workflow to AI agents. The company has launched SHIP AI, an AI-powered shipping…
The consumer journey is beginning to change at the point where brands have traditionally fought hardest for attention: the moment shoppers decide what to consider. New research from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) suggests that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a trusted intermediary between consumers and brands, with 31% of surveyed consumers already using AI during…
Autonomous-driving development is increasingly becoming a data and computing problem as much as a software problem. At Automotive World 2026, TIER IV plans to demonstrate an integrated software-defined vehicle (SDV) development workflow that connects automated driving-data labeling, end-to-end AI model development and in-vehicle computing. The demonstration will combine the company’s Co-MLOps platform, a reference end-to-end…
Microsoft and Saudi AI company HUMAIN are taking a step toward making Arabic-language artificial intelligence a more integrated part of enterprise software. The companies announced a long-term strategic collaboration that plans to bring HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic large language models to Microsoft’s AI ecosystem, including Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot, while pairing HUMAIN specialists with…
Legal AI is increasingly moving beyond document summarization and generic chatbots toward systems designed around specific legal jurisdictions. Ask.Legal is expanding into Australia and Singapore, extending its jurisdiction-specific legal analysis platform across four common-law markets: Hong Kong, England and Wales, Singapore, and Australia. The move targets a segment often underserved by enterprise legal-AI platforms: smaller…
Stability AI is betting that the next phase of generative AI will be less about general-purpose chatbots and more about specialized production tools built around professional creative workflows. The company announced a $76 million Series B funding round, bringing the capital raised under CEO Prem Akkaraju since June 2024 to $232 million, as it looks…
The gap between an AI prototype and a production-ready industrial machine can be wider than the prototype itself. SECO is targeting that transition with early access to its SOM-SMARC-Dragonwing-IQ8, a compact system-on-module based on Qualcomm Technologies’ Dragonwing IQ8 Series and designed to carry applications developed with Arduino into industrial Edge AI deployments. Prototyping an AI-enabled…
AI is becoming another place where brands compete for attention, but marketing teams are still figuring out how to influence what customers see. A new survey of 200 U.S. marketing and communications professionals by Sword and the Script Media finds that nearly half consider AI visibility significant, while the industry remains divided over which functions,…
Managed service providers have traditionally been responsible for keeping business technology running. GiaSpace is betting that the next phase of the market will require them to manage something more: AI agents that perform business work. The Florida-based MSP has formally adopted what it calls an “MSP 3.0” model, expanding beyond managed IT and cybersecurity into…
