The Deal Combines Structured Procurement Data with Agentic Infrastructure to Help Enterprises Move from AI Insights to Execution ATLANTA, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SpendHQ, the global leader in enterprise spend intelligence and procurement performance management, today announced the acquisition of Sligo AI (Sligo Software, Inc.), the pioneer in Agentic Enterprise Procurement (AEP) infrastructure. The acquisition positions SpendHQ to deliver configurable agentic AI capabilities in enterprise procurement, enabling systems that can execute work across entire procurement workflows, not just generate insights. Procurement teams are under pressure to deliver cost savings, supply chain resilience, ESG compliance, and risk reduction simultaneously, with leaner teams and less time.…
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LegalZoom AI agent certified through ANS, giving it global credibility and identity TEMPE, Ariz., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LegalZoom.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: LZ), America’s #1 online legal services company, and GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), global leader in domains and tech for small businesses, have entered into a partnership to protect the rapidly expanding agentic open web for small and medium-sized businesses. AI agents now act as more than simple fact-finding companions. They communicate with one another and complete tasks independently—and occasionally go rogue. As enterprises roll out AI agents across different platforms, users lack a consistent way to verify where an agent came from, who published it, and most importantly,…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KushoAI, an AI-native API testing platform used by 30,000+ engineers across 6,000+ enterprises and high-growth technology companies, today released APIEval-20, an open benchmark for evaluating whether AI agents can generate tests that catch real bugs in APIs given only a request schema and sample payload: no source code, no documentation, no additional context. Analysis of 1.4 million AI-driven test executions across 2,616 organizations shows that authentication failures account for 34% of API outages and 41% of APIs experience undocumented schema changes within 30 days, yet no standard existed for measuring whether AI agents could detect…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a global leader in AI-powered spend management, and its alliance partner PwC India, today announced that GR Infraprojects Ltd., a premier engineering, procurement, and construction company in India, has successfully gone live with Ivalua’s platform. This milestone marks a significant step in GR Infraprojects’ procurement digital transformation journey, helping streamline procurement, strengthen compliance, and support future growth. GR Infraprojects focuses primarily on road and highway infrastructure development. With over 10,000 employees, the company has built a strong track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects across the country. To support its continued growth, GR Infraprojects…
New Foundation will steward the open x402 protocol for seamless payments over HTTP NEW YORK, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MCP Dev Summit North America – April 2, 2026 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it is launching the x402 Foundation with the contribution of the x402 protocol from Coinbase. The new Foundation will serve as the neutral home for x402, a universal standard for payments that embeds payments directly into web interactions, enabling AI agents, APIs, and apps to transact value as seamlessly as they exchange data. The x402 protocol, created by Coinbase, is moving to…
LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wirex, a leading stablecoin payment infrastructure provider serving over 7 million users globally, and Ultra Stellar, the company behind Stellar’s largest wallet LOBSTR and leading decentralized exchange StellarX, today announced the launch of a native Stellar payment infrastructure, built directly on Soroban, Stellar’s smart contract platform. This first-of-its-kind initiative establishes a fully integrated, blockchain-native payment layer that enables wallets, fintech platforms, and developers across the Stellar ecosystem to offer stablecoin bank accounts, global card issuance, payouts, and yield — all settled directly on Stellar. By combining Wirex’s global payment connectivity, licensing coverage, and integration with Visa and banking rails, with Ultra Stellar’s deep…
New Valor Cloud Delivers Predictable Infrastructure Costs and a Seamless Path to Modern, Open Architecture ST. GEORGE, Utah, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ValorC3 Data Centers, a modern colocation, cloud and connectivity provider, today announces the launch of its new enterprise-grade private cloud platform, Valor Cloud. The fully managed platform provides a high-performance, open-architecture alternative for enterprises facing rising virtualization licensing costs and unpredictable public cloud spend, delivering predictable long-term infrastructure economics. Valor Cloud is built for enterprise environments on Platform9’s managed OpenStack technology. It restores operational control while simplifying infrastructure management. It also eliminates the operational complexity associated with DIY cloud environments.…
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MindsDB today launches MindsDB Anton, an autonomous, open-source BI agent that turns urgent questions into immediate, defensible answers — while keeping security, oversight and corporate governance front and center. The problem: speed that outpaces evidence Organizations face relentless pressure to act quickly. The problem is not people; it’s analysis and action velocity. Decision-makers need reliable answers in hours, while the standard BI workflow still operates on days or weeks. Questions queue, insights go stale, and risk increases when leaders must make decisions without traceable evidence. MindsDB built Anton to close that gap — not by replacing…
The first cloud infrastructure built from the ground up for complete data privacy; early access now open with public launch targeted for late Q2 2026 DAYTON, Ohio, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Niobium, a leader in hardware acceleration for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), today introduced The Fog™, a private cloud infrastructure platform that enables organizations to run applications and AI workloads on data that remains encrypted at all times, even during computation. Like fog, nothing inside can be seen from the outside. Decryption keys remain exclusively with the data owner, and Niobium has no access to customer data at any stage of computation.…
Revolutionary technology achieves order-of-magnitude performance gains on standard CPUs, challenging fundamental assumptions about AI infrastructure requirements DANA POINT, Calif., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EvoChip.ai, a computer architecture innovator redefining AI efficiency, today announced results from a controlled benchmark study demonstrating that its AltiCoreAI technology delivers 13 to 41 times faster inference performance than highly optimized neural network implementations running on standard CPU hardware. The benchmark, conducted jointly with SidePath, a premier IT solutions provider, tested AltiCoreAI against multiple TensorFlow-based implementations across seven diverse public datasets on both workstation and server-class hardware. AltiCoreAI consistently outperformed the fastest neural network configuration in every…