Innovation

Consumer payments were transformed in a decade while business payments were not. Apex B2B founder Bharat Sharma on why, and what modernisation should connect.

Dubai startup aradus says it has automated more than 90 per cent of customer orders. Co-founder Karam El Assaad on what that measures and what stays human.

Eltropy's Saahil Kamath and Constant AI's Catherine York Powers on an app store for credit union AI, who carries liability, and the losses nobody automates.

Sidetrade's SAFE framework runs autonomous Order-to-Cash agents on owned compute, private data centres, and proprietary models, bypassing hyperscaler token costs.

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.

The integration connects Hexagon's Esprit Edge CAM tool to Datanomix G-Code Cloud, automating revision control and program delivery to CNC machines.

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.

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 Dubai-based fastener manufacturer migrated to Epicor Kinetic in the cloud, reducing quote turnaround from ten days to two.

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.

The Cambridge-based flexible-semiconductor maker has appointed Dr Paul James, a 25-year industry veteran, to lead manufacturing and operations at its North East

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

NetApp says its ONTAP storage platform is tested and certified to support VCF 9.1, enabling hybrid-cloud workloads and AI deployment for joint customers.

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