AI
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Atira raises $15m to automate industrial bidding
Atira has raised $15m to automate complex manufacturing sales engineering workflows.
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Quasar launch tests Europe’s sovereign AI claims
Multiverse Computing has launched Quasar amid questions over European model provenance.
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Optical switching draws $125m AI infrastructure bet
Spanish photonics company iPronics has raised $125m for AI networking infrastructure.
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Autonomous breast screening clears European hurdle
Vara has secured European approval for autonomous breast screening AI software.
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Mainframe AI stops short of autonomy
BMC’s latest mainframe survey finds enterprises moving AI into operational use while remaining cautious about autonomous action, exposing a governance problem as agents reach systems carrying critical business data and transactions.
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AWS puts limits around agentic customer service
AWS has launched its agentic customer-experience designer in London and Frankfurt, combining generative conversations with fixed workflows where approvals, routing, eligibility, and compliance cannot be left to probabilistic reasoning.
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The human side of industrial IoT: giving operators better choices
Industrial AI is shifting operators from reconciliation towards informed decisions. Harpreet Gulati, SVP – Head of PI System Business at AVEVA, argues that contextualised industrial data can turn fragmented systems into more usable operational guidance.
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AI inference becomes an infrastructure decision
Equinix is building a distributed inference service with Nvidia and Together AI, betting that model location will become a cost, performance, and governance decision as enterprise AI moves deeper into production.
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AI rollouts expose UK observability gap
A Virtana survey of 238 UK enterprise technology decision-makers finds organisations pushing AI further into production while engineers report weaker visibility into failures, costs, and infrastructure performance than senior executives believe they possess.
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Aize buys Samp to close AI’s data gap
Norway’s Aize has acquired French industrial AI company Samp, combining engineering-system data with AI-generated representations of physical assets as operators confront the gap between corporate records and what actually exists on site.
