E Tech Group will introduce its Laboratory Automation and Industrial Robotics (LAIR) workflow orchestration platform at the ISPE Boston Area Chapter Product Show on October 1, 2025, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. LAIR connects lab instruments, robotics, and enterprise systems into end-to-end, vendor-neutral workflows that increase throughput, strengthen data integrity, and ensure cGMP audit readiness. E Tech

Three new AI agent roles join PolyAI’s proven customer-facing agents, creating a dynamic automated workforce for the contact center PolyAI today announced the launch of three new agentic AI roles — QA Agents, Analyst Agents, and Builder Agents — expanding its platform beyond front-line automation to create an always-on, always-improving team for the contact center.

Apple is lighting up a fresh wave of Apple Intelligence features across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro — beginning today — headlined by Live Translation in Messages/FaceTime/Phone, new “visual intelligence” for whatever’s on your screen, and creative upgrades to Genmoji and Image Playground. The company’s newsroom post lays out the rollout and

The Wall Street Journal reports that companies are quietly beating AI impostors with delightfully low-tech moves: ask the caller to draw a smiley face and hold it to the camera, nudge them to pan the webcam, throw in a curveball question only a real colleague would know, or hang up and call back on a

When people talk about creativity, they usually think of writers hunched over laptops, artists with paint-stained fingers, or maybe some tortured musician scribbling lyrics at 3 a.m. But creativity isn’t reserved for “the chosen ones.” It’s a muscle, and like any muscle, it needs training. And here’s where roleplay AI chatbots sneak into the picture—not

GPTZero is better known for detecting AI-generated text, but yes, it also offers a plagiarism checker. Basic workflow: You paste text or upload a file. The system scans the text against online sources (web, articles, etc.) plus its own databases. It produces a similarity or overlap score—telling you what percentage of your text matches other

GPTZero offers a grammar tool that does more than simple spell checking. The description says it can: catch grammar mistakes, typos, missing punctuation, incorrect usage. provide feedback not just on small errors, but on clarity, structure, voice, tone. It flags when sentences are wordy or unclear, suggests improvements. show suggestions inline (i.e. you see exactly

Microsoft is adding two new features to its cloud-based Fabric to help agentic applications make more accurate decisions while navigating complex workflows and help developers integrate AI-driven insights directly into an enterprise’s data operations. The two new features — Graph and Maps — are being integrated into Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence workload. Fabric, released in May 2023, brings

MongoDB has launched a new AI-driven application modernization platform called AMP, designed to help enterprises transform legacy applications into modern, scalable services that support AI and automation. Legacy applications often accumulate technical debt, such as outdated code, architecture, and dependencies, which are costly to maintain and hinder integration of AI or agentic systems, according to

Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) release of standard Java, is now generally available. The release brings 18 features, five of which Oracle touts as assisting with AI development. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24, a six-month-support release that arrived March 18. As a Long-Term support release, JDK