Amplio estimates that U.S. manufacturers hold or waste roughly $350 billion annually in unused equipment, spare parts, and other maintenance and operating inventory. Much of it is recycled, scrapped, or ultimately sent to landfill. The secondary market for industrial assets exists, but it is slow, opaque, and difficult to access at scale. For decades, that

Three years ago, Artur Zhdan was applying to U.S. colleges and using AI to help with his essays. Then detection tools started spreading across campuses. Essays got flagged. His applications were rejected. No safety net, no obvious next move. Just a laptop and a problem he understood better than most. GPTinf launched in late 2022

Flourish Care has closed an oversubscribed $5.7 million seed round as it pushes to make insurance covered doula care more widely available across the U.S. The round was led by Zeal Capital Partners, with participation from Create Health Ventures, Collide Capital, Rogue Women’s Fund, Symphonic Capital, Slater Technology Fund, Catalytic Impact Foundation, Capita3, and others.

Industry leaders from Airship, Google Cloud, and top global brands will converge to share practical frameworks for turning Agentic AI strategy into measurable business value. Airship, the mobile-first customer experience platform that delivers measurable results through AI-powered cross-channel experiences, today announced its role as the lead sponsor for Elevate’26, the premier Customer Experience Summit. The

Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced that technology sales leader Rodrigo Paiva was named VP of U.S. Sales. With more than 25 years of global sales leadership experience in the U.S., Latin America and international B2B sales management, Paiva has held senior roles with Oracle, Microsoft, Gartner, H2O.ai and Qubo.

As financial institutions accelerate AI adoption across operations and risk management, many are finding that innovation is moving faster than governance, security controls, and regulatory clarity. To help close that gap, SBS CyberSecurity has launched the SBS AI Peer Group. This practitioner-led community is designed specifically for banks and other regulated institutions, helping them collaborate with peers

New CMEK capability gives regulated enterprises full control over encryption keys for AI-scale vector workloads Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database, today announced the general availability of Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) on Zilliz Cloud. The new capability allows enterprises to retain full ownership of their encryption keys, delivering true data sovereignty

Val Kilmer is returning to the screen. But not exactly. Not in some retro montage. Not in a long-gone flashback. No, I’m talking about the real deal. Well, sort of. This time, he’ll be brought to life via AI. I can’t blame you if you’re both amazed and a bit disturbed by this news. The

More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with copper, manganese, cobalt, and nickel. It was 2022, and that pilot run of a subsea harvester by a Canadian business,

The 1980s brought us so many terrific films, including director Russell Mulcahy’s sword-and-sorcery fantasy action film Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert as an immortal Scotsman who must battle others like him to the death until just one remains. The film spawned two direct sequels and two TV series (one live action, one animated), and a planned