Early beta users achieved a 37.8% Day 7 retention rate as Ambi’s ambient intelligence platform helps people turn everyday conversation context into memory, follow-through and focus—without constantly switching between apps. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ambi, an ambient intelligence company building the next generation of human-AI interaction, announces the successful completion of its first private beta, achieving a Day 7 retention rate of 37.8%. The milestone marks the company’s first public step toward what it calls ambient intelligence—AI designed to help people capture the context they choose, build memory, organize information and stay focused while reducing the constant need to switch…
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Deployments demonstrate measurable revenue impact and proprietary advances in Physical AI following $20 Million Series A LOS ALTOS, Calif., Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Palona AI unveiled its multimodal AI operating layer for physical businesses, proven first in restaurants. Palona works with operators including Din Tai Fung, Mountain Mike’s Pizza, Giordano’s, Rooted Hospitality and Cali BBQ to connect customer demand, live operations and intelligent action. Palona closed its Series A financing, bringing total funding to $20 million, including converted SAFEs. Investors include Ardenwood Ventures, CrimsonOx, UpHonest, Turbo, Llama Ventures, Neo, Fusion Fund, Defy and Maynard Webb, together with other institutional, strategic and individual investors.…
New TRM capabilities help organizations connect enterprise AI strategies with asset management to enhance human decision-making, streamline execution, and improve the performance, reliability, and lifecycle of critical assets. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TRM, a leading provider of enterprise asset management (EAM) consulting and technology solutions, today announced the launch of its AI for Asset Management Practice and OMNI AI Studio solution. Together, these capabilities help industrial organizations apply artificial intelligence where it delivers measurable operational value. While many organizations have begun investing in enterprise AI, few have successfully integrated it with the systems and workflows used to manage physical assets. TRM’s new practice…
NORCROSS, Ga., Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lightera today announced plans to significantly expand its global manufacturing capacity for optical fiber and optical fiber cable to support accelerating demand associated with artificial intelligence, hyperscale data centers, cloud services, and next-generation communications infrastructure. The expansion will include investments across Lightera operations in the United States and affiliated manufacturing capabilities in Brazil, Japan, and India, strengthening the company’s ability to meet growing global demand for high-performance optical fiber and rollable ribbon cable. Strong customer demand, including long-term purchase commitments, underpins the expansion. Additional production capacity is expected to come online progressively beginning in the second half…
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sprocket Security, a technology-powered continuous penetration testing platform, announces the availability of Link, an AI penetration testing agent built for authenticated web applications and APIs. Link is Sprocket’s second context-aware AI agent, following Apex, which was introduced earlier this summer to test the unauthenticated, external attack surface. Link’s authenticated testing answers the question: once someone has valid login credentials, what can they do that they shouldn’t? “Link is our authenticated, context-aware testing agent for web applications and APIs — it logs in and holds every credentialed role simultaneously, so where a single session can only suspect that one…
Industrial Defender and Fortress Information Security integrate asset truth with AI-driven vulnerability correlation ORLANDO, Fla. and FOXBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Two leaders in OT cybersecurity are collaborating on an innovative artificial intelligence-driven integration aimed at helping clients identify and remedy cyber threats faster. The new integration will deliver OT teams the answer to “what’s affected and what matters most?” in minutes, facilitating rapid threat identification and remediation. “Every OT security and compliance leader is hired to do one job: know instantly which assets are exposed when a new vulnerability surfaces, and get ahead of it before exposure becomes incident,” said George…
Braid v1.5.2 moves authenticated context between heterogeneous local models while preserving provenance, receiver authority, and native representation FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Intersignal, an independent artificial intelligence research lab and systems engineering initiative, today announced the successful physical testing of Braid v1.5.2, its local-first protocol for authenticated semantic state transfer between AI systems. The milestone proves that sovereign AI agents can share complex context across a local network without relying on centralized cloud APIs or homogenous model architectures. In recent two-node testing on separate Apple Silicon Macs, Braid successfully transferred signed semantic context from one local Ollama embedding model…
Voca CIC is among the first solutions certified under Microsoft’s new Teams Voice Agent Certification Program, now certified for Microsoft Teams Contact Center and the AI Voice Agents in front of it OR YEHUDA, Israel, August 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Highlights Details AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC), a leading vendor of advanced communications software, products and AI-powered solutions for the digital workplace and customer experience, today announced that its Voca Conversational Interaction Center (Voca CIC) has been certified for Microsoft Teams Unify integration model for Voice Agents, among the first solutions certified under the Microsoft Teams Voice Agent Certification Program. With this certification, Voca CIC’s AI Voice Agents for…
NEW YORK and NOIDA, India, Aug. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HCLTech (NSE: HCLTECH) (BSE: HCLTECH), a leading global technology company, in partnership with Mobile World Live, a global telecom industry destination, today unveiled findings from its Telecom Pulse Survey Report, highlighting an execution gap between telecom leaders’ AI ambitions and their readiness to deploy AI-native, autonomous and cloud native services at scale. Based on insights from nearly 200 senior executives across network operators, MVNOs, communication service providers (CSPs) and OEMs worldwide, the survey reveals that while 60% of telecom leaders see AI as a key driver of future revenue, only 25% believe their organizations are…
Independent assessment reinforces Nuvion’s security framework and supports the company’s growth with enterprise and regulated customers globally MIAMI, Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nuvion, the AI-powered global banking and cross-border payments platform built on fiat and stablecoins for businesses and platforms, today announced that it has received its first SOC 2® Type I report, marking an important milestone in the company’s security, governance and enterprise readiness. The SOC 2 Type I examination assessed the suitability of the design of Nuvion’s controls relevant to security, availability and confidentiality against the applicable AICPA Trust Services Criteria as of a specified date. The report provides customers and…