Innovation

Avalara's new AI agent hub promises to reduce days of manual compliance work to minutes, with an audit-defensible record for every action taken.

The Nucleus Group subsidiary will provide custody and platform services to the newly launched discretionary investment manager under its Model B proposition.

Classiq, Israel Natural Gas Lines and IonQ have published research applying quantum optimisation to natural gas transmission planning, with hardware execution on a

Cambridge-based Ekai has closed a $1.7m pre-seed round led by Misneach to build a human-verified semantic layer for enterprise AI deployments.

The NASDAQ-listed robotics and AI services firm grew revenue to $18.3m but saw its net loss widen to $3.1m as SG&A

Qodo's 2026 survey of 800 US engineers finds review and validation of AI-generated code is the top barrier to faster software delivery.

Quadient has signed a €65m deal to sell its UK parcel-locker network to IDS Holdco as part of a broader exit from its Lockers

The French MBE equipment maker returned to net profit in H1 2026 and secured €6m to industrialise its ROSIE II oxide-on-silicon photonics platform.

TestMu AI's new Comparison view lets teams overlay up to five mobile test runs to pinpoint performance regressions by device, OS or build.

Kantata's Agent Studio lets professional services firms build governed AI agents in plain language, with Basware already using the platform.

Delphix Synthetic Data generates referentially intact test data on demand, keeping sensitive data within a customer's own environment.

Juniper Research forecasts 16% growth in enterprise application security spending by 2031, driven by AI-assisted coding risks.

Colt Technology Services will offer private connectivity to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud in Frankfurt and Madrid, supporting European digital sovereignty demand.

The Palantir, Goldman Sachs and One Peak alumni-founded startup will use the round to expand its AuditOS platform across Europe.

ASM's XP8 Vertos Flowable Carbon combines gap fill and planarisation in a single PECVD step, targeting logic and memory devices in high-volume manufacturing.

Eviden and AllWayTon have partnered to deliver a smartphone supporting GSM-R, FRMCS and public 5G, easing railways' migration to next-generation comms.

Locus Technologies has launched multimodal AI image interpretation for its refrigerant management software, reducing manual data entry for field technicians.

The Manchester-based AI storage vendor will host two sessions on open-source parallel file system pNFS Lattice at SDC 2026 on 28 September.

Progress Software has closed its $400m purchase of Domo's AI and data platform, adding 2,400 business customers and cloud data warehouse partnerships.

Sensolus smart trackers, deployed via partner Gemba Systems, are giving the RTX-owned aerospace manufacturer real-time visibility into shop-floor trolley movements.