AI & ML

Alianza has bought Belgian meeting-bot startup Skribby to extend its newly launched Crux platform into Teams, Meet and Zoom environments.

Atsign and Intel have published benchmarks showing up to 88x faster encrypted agent-to-agent communications using Intel hardware acceleration, targeting smart transport.

Automox says its new Mitigation Worklet Pipeline cuts the time from vulnerability disclosure to endpoint mitigation from days to hours.

Cloudera and Mistral have announced a strategic partnership to deliver private, on-premises AI across regulated enterprise data estates worldwide.

PDF Solutions has launched Exensio Aurora, a redesigned analytics architecture targeting petabyte-scale semiconductor manufacturing data and agentic AI deployment.

The Santa Clara startup has closed a $100m Series A to deploy general-purpose autonomous robots across logistics and manufacturing at scale.

Nokia's Cognitive Operations platform unifies mission-critical comms, edge computing and operational AI for mining, public safety and defence customers.

RUM Group is acquiring 8.25 million additional Northern Data shares from Tether, triggering German squeeze-out proceedings to reach full ownership.

The NASDAQ-listed drone autonomy company is buying a Ukrainian UGV maker with $86m in 2026 contracts, in a cash-and-stock deal worth up

TestMu AI has extended its Kane CLI agent to iOS Simulators and Android Emulators, letting teams write mobile tests in plain English.

Scout uses Daloopa's verified data covering 6,000-plus public companies to build and update financial models inside Excel via plain-language prompts.

The Stanford-founded construction AI startup has raised $12m, bringing total funding to $18m, to expand its vision-based drawing review platform.

The Oakland recycler is adding EverestLabs AI scanners and expanding Pellenc optical sorting across its two Bay Area material recovery facilities.

Esker's new agentic layer extends its Source-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash platform with autonomous execution, conversational finance and governed connectivity.

NVIDIA is partnering with eight Australian data centre and cloud providers to expand AI compute capacity up to 2 gigawatts under its DSX platform.

Tresic selected Speechmatics to power the speech-to-text layer of its Intelligence Cloud after a direct evaluation against Google and Deepgram.

Versos AI has added an agentic curation layer to its video licensing platform, letting AI teams assemble training datasets using plain-language prompts.

XTEND confirmed $60m in cash received, satisfying its merger closing condition with JFB Construction ahead of a 4 September NYSE listing under "XTND".

The Physical AI and robotics company, backed by Protego Ventures, debuted on the NYSE with 12,500 systems deployed across 30 countries.

The Dubai-based executive search firm warns MENA boards that delegating AI to IT teams risks ceding competitive ground to faster-moving rivals.