New investment from BDC’s investment arm, BDC Capital, Lobby Capital, Flying Fish, and J-Ventures will accelerate Apera AI’s growth across international automotive, Tier 1 supplier, and industrial manufacturing sectors. Apera AI, the leader in 4D Vision for industrial robotic automation, today announced the closing of an over-subscribed Series A financing round. The round includes a

Expanding Impact of LifeSphere® NavaX Across the Industry, 27 Go-Lives, and New Global Pharma Adoptions ArisGlobal, an AI-first technology company and creator of LifeSphere®, today announced significant momentum in the first half of 2025, driven by continued product innovation via LifeSphere® NavaX, strong new customer acquisition, and rapid global deployments. Operationalizing AI with LifeSphere® NavaXArisGlobal now

I wasn’t even planning to review RepublicLabs.ai when I stumbled across it. It was one of those late-night scroll sessions—half curiosity, half procrastination. I clicked the link expecting yet another AI video tool with the usual suspects: pixelated avatars, robotic voiceovers, and a UI that looks like it was made during a coffee break. But

Microsoft has just flipped the switch on something that might change how we browse the web forever – the newly launched Copilot Mode in its Edge browser. Announced on Monday, the feature integrates a conversational AI assistant directly into the browsing experience, aiming to make everything from comparing prices to drafting emails a whole lot

In a bold move that signals growing investor confidence in India’s D2C infrastructure ecosystem, Bengaluru-based Shopflo has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, as reported by Times of India. The round also saw participation from existing investors like Elevation Capital and Tiger Global, alongside new backers including

GitHub Spark, an AI-powered tool for building full-stack intelligent apps, with front-end, back-end, and AI features included, using only natural language, has moved to a public preview stage. The public preview, currently open only to Copilot Pro+ users, was announced July 23. Plans call for extending the preview to additional customers soon. With GitHub Spark,

The use of artificial intelligence to manage cloud operations has significantly changed how businesses design and oversee their IT systems. The consensus is that using AI for automation provides greater scalability, reliability, and consistency, as well as reduced manual mistakes and resolves common issues faster. However, a closer look reveals that greater dependence on AI

What is the Model Context Protocol? MCP defined The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source framework that aims to provide a standard way for AI systems, like LLMs, to interact with other tools, computing services, and sources of data. Helping generative AI tools and AI agents interact with the world outside themselves on

Several years ago, I wrote a multicloud readiness checklist and discussed the advantages of hybrid multicloud. Today, the vast majority of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises diversify with multiple hyperscalers, operate private clouds, deploy to edge infrastructure, and manage data across a sprawl of SaaS, low-code, and other platform services. The question today is not

In the most recent episode of First Person I spoke with Linus Hakansson, Chief Product Officer at Gravitee. In a wide-ranging conversation Linus discussed how he became a Chief Product Officer by way of developing mobile apps, architecting cloud solutions, and a spell of consultancy. Throughout his career Linus told me he has succeeded by