The Rise of Hyper‑Local AI: How Asia Is Building the Next Generation of Culturally‑Aware Robots and Intelligent Systems
Asia is redefining intelligent systems with hyper‑local AI that understands culture, language, and urban complexity. Learn how robotics, ML, data science, and automation are evolving across the region.
Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think
Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the robots swim by manipulating electric fields rather than using moving parts. They can detect tempera...
VAST Data Redesigns AI Inference Architecture for the Agentic Era with NVIDIA
VAST AI Operating System running natively on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs collapses legacy storage tiers to deliver shared, pod-scale KV cache with deterministic access for long-context, multi-turn and multi-agent inference VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new inference archi...
Mastering LLM Tool Calling: The Complete Framework for Connecting Models to the Real World
Most ChatGPT users don't know this, but when the model searches the web for current information or runs Python code to analyze data, it's using tool calling.
Clonell™ Launches the Ultimate Regenerative Medicine Platform
Clonell Therapeutics, Inc., a leading biotechnology company dedicated to curing intractable and incurable diseases, announced today the official launch of the world’s first ‘Patient-Specific Embryonic Stem Cell (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer-derived Embryonic Stem Cell, hereinafter SCNT-ESC)’ therap...
MulticoreWare Showcases Cloud-to-Car AI Workflow at CES 2026
MulticoreWare, Inc., a global technology company and software partner for Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced a new demonstration highlighting the seamless implementation of ADAS workloads using Qualcomm AI toolchains and QCR100 cloud-based instances. The demo highlights a complete ‘Cloud-to-Car’...
Clipto.AI Announces New Funding to Accelerate On‑Device AI Innovation
Clipto.AI, a global AI company building the next-generation On-Device Multimodal Content OS, today announced that it has raised a new funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to over $250 million. Since July 2025, Clipto.AI has closed a series of back-to-back funding rounds — Pre-A, Pre-A+, a...
Withings Redefines Preventive Health with Body Scan 2
After inventing the world’s first connected scale in 2009, Withings is redefining preventive health once again with Body Scan 2, the most advanced home longevity station ever built. A CES Innovation Award Honoree, and developed in collaboration with leading cardiometabolic research centers, Body Sca...
Validic Powers Scalable AI-Driven Remote Care at CES 2026
AI-powered infrastructure supports CMS ACCESS programs with EHR-integrated insights for health systems and chronic care organizations Validic, the connected health data platform, today announced its participation at CES 2026, where it will highlight how its AI-enabled platform transforms continuous ...
New marketplace delivers ready-to-deploy SDV applications spanning diagnostics, compliance, battery intelligence, cybersecurity, and AI-powered consumer experiences—powered by the Sibros Deep Connected Platform CES 2026– Sibros, a global leader in Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) management solutions,...
SENA Health Sees 300% YoY Growth as Healthcare Adopts Practical AI
As pressure on the US healthcare system intensifies, provider organizations face a growing gap between patient demand and operational capacity. Reimbursement continues to decline, while the cost and complexity of running a practice increases. Patients struggle to access timely care as providers cont...
Marktechpost Releases ‘AI2025Dev’: A Structured Intelligence Layer for AI Models, Benchmarks, and Ecosystem Signals
Marktechpost has released AI2025Dev, its 2025 analytics platform (available to AI Devs and Researchers without any signup or login) designed to convert the year’s AI activity into a queryable dataset spanning model releases, openness, training scale, benchmark performance, and ecosystem participants...
Keyfactor Appoints Michael Volanoski as President and Chief Revenue Officer
Veteran enterprise technology leader joins Keyfactor as the company builds on its strongest year and scales global execution Keyfactor, the industry leader in digital trust for modern enterprises, today announced the appointment of Michael Volanoski as President & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In thi...
Deepen AI Brings Safety-First AV Data Infrastructure to CES 2026
CES demos include targetless calibration and an exclusive preview of Deepen AI’s Vision-Language-Action framework Deepen AI, a leading full-stack data lifecycle platform for autonomous vehicles (AV) and robotics, today announced it will showcase new platform advancements at CES 2026 designed to help...
Nvidia wants to be the Android of generalist robotics
Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.
Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.
Quantum&Inspired Algorithms: The Quiet Revolution Already Reshaping Cloud Architecture
A deep dive into how quantum inspired algorithms are transforming cloud architecture today — improving optimization, scaling, routing, and AI performance long before true quantum hardware becomes mainstream.
Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com
Amazon is bringing Alexa+ to the web with a new Alexa.com site, expanding its AI assistant beyond devices and positioning it as a family-focused, agent-style chatbot.
The Global AI Race: Contrasting US and China's Divergent Paths in AI, IoT, and Robotics
Explore the contrasting philosophies driving the global AI race. An in-depth analysis of the US 'Innovation Ecosystem' vs. China’s 'Strategic National Project,' comparing their divergent paths in foundation models, IoT, industrial robotics, and AI ethics.
MCPs for Developers Who Think They Don’t Need MCPs
The following article originally appeared on Block’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Lately, I’ve seen more developers online starting to side eye MCP. There was a tweet by Darren Shepherd that summed it up well: Most devs were introduced to MCP through coding agents...
Atropos Health Appoints Kevin Smith to Chief Growth Officer
Atropos Health, the pioneer in translating real-world clinical data into personalized real-world evidence (RWE), today announced the appointment of Kevin Smith to Chief Growth Officer, effective immediately. Previously serving as a key leader within the company’s commercial organization, Smith will ...
UK startup combines client-side privacy technology with unified access to six AI providers, 20+ models, and patent-pending innovations XEROTECH LTD today launched CallGPT 6X, a productivity-focused AI platform that processes sensitive data within the user’s browser before any information reaches AI ...
UniX AI to Bring Delivered Full-Size Humanoid Robot Wanda 2.0 to CES 2026
A strategic move toward global markets and large-scale commercial deployment UniX AI, a global humanoid robot service provider specializing in R&D, mass production, and real-world deployment of of general-purpose humanoid robots, will showcase its brand-new Wanda 2.0 and Wanda 3.0 at CES (Booth No. ...