AI for Good: The Quiet Revolution Improving Life on Earth
Beyond the headlines of disruption and risk, AI is helping feed the world sustainably, protect wildlife, restore ecosystems, and strengthen communities—revealing a future where technology amplifies humanity’s capacity to care for the planet.
OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.
Google Launches TensorFlow 2.21 And LiteRT: Faster GPU Performance, New NPU Acceleration, And Seamless PyTorch Edge Deployment Upgrades
Google has officially released TensorFlow 2.21. The most significant update in this release is the graduation of LiteRT from its preview stage to a fully production-ready stack. Moving forward, LiteRT serves as the universal on-device inference framework, officially replacing TensorFlow Lite (TFLite...
Microsoft Releases Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B: A Compact Multimodal Model for Math, Science, and GUI Understanding
Microsoft has released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15 billion parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model designed for image and text tasks that require both perception and selective reasoning. It is a compact model built to balance reasoning quality, compute efficiency, and training-data req...
Google AI Releases Android Bench: An Evaluation Framework and Leaderboard for LLMs in Android Development
Google has officially released Android Bench, a new leaderboard and evaluation framework designed to measure how Large Language Models (LLMs) perform specifically on Android development tasks. The dataset, methodology, and test harness have been made open-source and are publicly available on GitHub....
Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned ...
Magentus Forms UK Advisory Board to Strengthen Clinical Diagnostics Strategy
Magentus, a leading name in clinical diagnostics, announces the formation of a UK Advisory Board to guide the next phase of its strategy and reaffirm its long-term commitment to the UK health system. The announcement marks a significant milestone in Magentus’ renewed leadership in the UK market. It ...
DataDome, Botify Partner on Agentic Commerce Control
New partnership helps businesses securely seize the agentic commerce opportunity DataDome, the leader in bot and agent trust management, and Botify, the leading all-in-one platform for AI search solutions, today announced they are partnering to help businesses prepare for, and succeed in, agentic co...
Arbital Health Sees Rapid Adoption of Actuarial AI
Payers and Providers Deploy Merlin AI to Drive Smarter Risk Contracting and Maximize Operational Impact Arbital Health, the leader in Actuarial AI-enabled infrastructure for healthcare, today announced the demonstrable success and rapid market adoption of Merlin AI, its Actuarial AI Assistant for va...
Alchemy Technology Group Acquires ECS to Expand on the West Coast
Alchemy Technology Group, an IT advisory, consulting, and reseller firm and a portfolio company of Avance Investment Management, has acquired Enterprise Computing Solutions, Inc. (ECS), a provider of edge computing, cloud, and security solutions for mid- and large-enterprise clients in Southern Cali...
Perspecta Advances Large-Scale Provider Data Management
630 million records and 4,800 clients transforming provider data at enterprise scale Perspecta, a leading provider of enterprise provider data management solutions, today announced a record year of client growth and platform expansion, further strengthening its position as a market leader in managin...
Strategic expansion strengthens multi-silicon platform strategy, broadens addressable market and accelerates growth across Industrial IoT and Edge AI Lantronix Inc. (Nasdaq: LTRX), a global leader in compute and connectivity IoT solutions powering Edge AI applications, today announced a significant ...
LabVantage Launches CORTEX for AI-Driven Lab Operations
— Next-Generation Platform Extends LIMS with Agentic AI and Cloud-Native Automation to Improve Efficiency, Reduce Errors and Gain Deeper Insight from Data — — Learn More from LabVantage Leadership at Pittcon 2026 — LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a global provider of laboratory informatics solutions and...
RethinkBH Launches Session Note AI for ABA Clinicians
New AI-powered documentation solution minimizes administrative burdens, giving clinicians more time to focus on client care Rethink Behavioral Health (RethinkBH), the leading provider of EHR solutions designed for ABA therapy, today announced the launch of Session Note AI, a new artificial intellig...
HRS Acquires Rimidi to Expand Remote Care Programs
Strategic acquisition strengthens HRS’s virtual care platform with advanced EHR and workflow integrations, continuous glucose monitoring, and ambulatory expertise Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), the nation’s leading remote patient monitoring and enterprise remote patient care platform, announced i...
ThinkAndor® Recognized by Black Book Research, KLAS, and Frost & Sullivan Andor Health, the leader in multimodal AI-powered virtual care, announced that its AI infrastructure platform, ThinkAndor®, has been honored by multiple top industry and customer recognitions. These recognitions, provided anon...
Rightworks, the only intelligent cloud service provider of solutions purpose-built for accounting firms and professionals, today announced the appointments of Anjan Bagchee as Chief Information Security Officer and Gayle Nixon as Chief Marketing Officer. These appointments underscore the company’s c...
Cequence Security to Co-Chair TM Forum AI Blueprint Effort
Company to Help Lead Industry Collaboration to Define Standards & Guardrails for Secure, Interoperable Agentic AI Across the Global Telecommunications Sector Cequence Security, a pioneer in application security, today announced its appointment as co-chair of TM Forum’s AI-Native Blueprints, specific...
Agents and human workers join forces in hybrid cybersecurity teams Uptycs, the cloud-native cyber threat hunter, today announced a strategic partnership with SAP to deploy verifiable AI analysts that augment enterprise security teams. These “virtual employees” augment SOC teams, enabling analysts to...
Nextworld Named to Constellation ShortList for Third Year
Recognition reinforces Nextworld’s position as a leading platform for enterprise modernization and intelligent automation Nextworld today announced it has been named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Enterprise Application Platforms from non-ERP vendors in Q1 2026. This marks the third consecutive...
Automation Anywhere, EvolutIA Launch Enterprise AI Agents
Automation Anywhere, the leading provider of Agentic Process Automation (APA) and agentic solutions, today announced a partnership with EvolutIA, an AI-driven intelligent automation consultancy. EvolutIA has chosen Automation Anywhere’s APA platform to build AI systems for their clients that can exe...
Liquid AI Releases LocalCowork Powered By LFM2-24B-A2B to Execute Privacy-First Agent Workflows Locally Via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Liquid AI has released LFM2-24B-A2B, a model optimized for local, low-latency tool dispatch, alongside LocalCowork, an open-source desktop agent application available in their Liquid4All GitHub Cookbook. The release provides a deployable architecture for running enterprise workflows entirely on-devi...
Google AI Releases a CLI Tool (gws) for Workspace APIs: Providing a Unified Interface for Humans and AI Agents
Integrating Google Workspace APIs—such as Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Sheets—into applications and data pipelines typically requires writing boilerplate code to handle REST endpoints, pagination, and OAuth 2.0 flows. Google AI team just released a CLI Tool (gws) for Google Workspace. The open-source...