Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling robots to operate in the real world, with MolmoAct 2.  Last August, the company released its first iteration, MolmoAct, the company’s first action reasoning model, a new class of AI models that allows machines to reason about 3D environments ...

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations.  Penske announced the launch of Supply Chain Insight, a technology platform and mobile application that tracks warehousing and shipments in real-time. Amazon introduced Supply Chain Services, providing companies access to the company’s logistics network to move, store and deliver everything from raw materials to finished products.  Freight, distribution and fulfillment Amazon style Amazon announced its new ...

Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches.  Part of Claude Enterprise, the company’s subscription model aimed at large organizations, Security began as a research preview as Claude Code Security in February. Since its introduction, the company said hundreds of organizations have used it to discover and fix exploits in ...

Developer-centered artificial intelligence cloud provider Runpod Inc. today announced the launch of Flash, a software development kit and platform that removes the infrastructure overhead for deploying AI.  With Flash, developers can go directly from local Python code to cloud AI inference, no container setup, no image management, no infrastructure configuration – just freewheeling and auto-scaling.   “We built Flash because the feedback was consistent: Serverless ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today expanded its ProLiant edge-computing portfolio with new systems aimed at running artificial intelligence, analytics and automation in rugged, space-constrained and distributed environments. The rollout is anchored by the new ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis, the foundation for two new Gen12 servers, the EL220 and EL240, alongside enhancements to the ProLiant DL145 ...

Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. today announced it agreed to acquire Astreya Inc., a San Jose-based information technology managed services firm specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center operations. The deal is worth about $600 million, the company confirmed to Reuters, and is expected to strengthen Cognizant’s AI portfolio. Founded in ...

Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce Operations, an artificial intelligence system designed to extend specialized AI agents into the back office to automate manual work.  Workflow automation tools have existed for a long time — not because office workers are lazy, but because it’s more efficient to have a task handled by a machine. The problem is ...

Certifyde Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million to help businesses turn investment in artificial intelligence into broader adoption and fluency among rank and file.  According to a 2025 report from McKinsey & Co., although 88% of companies surveyed said that they had adopted AI across their organizations, only 7% indicated they had fully scaled it within their operations. Most companies indicated they were still in the early stages of ...

Aviatrix Inc. today announced the launch of a new platform designed to contain artificial intelligence agents and enforce security controls and communications across AI workloads without changing AI agents or code.  The company said the launch comes in response to an increasing number of supply chain attacks that do not always come from outside the ...

Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech, capable of acting as the “brains” of faster, smarter agentic AI applications.  Dubbed Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, and weighing in at about 30 billion parameters, the new state-of-the-art model uses mixture-of-experts architecture to deliver extremely low latency and provides high flexibility and control.  Nvidia combined vision and audio ...