Author: Art Ryan

Meta is making a much more direct move into enterprise artificial intelligence. The company has launched Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business initiative designed to package Meta’s growing collection of AI models, agents, developer tools and infrastructure for companies that want to deploy AI inside their own operations. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the platform as the next major pillar of the company’s business. The initial technology lineup includes Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code, alongside other parts of Meta’s AI stack. This marks a notable shift for Meta. For years, the company has helped businesses reach…

AMD is making one of its biggest AI moves yet. The chipmaker has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company co-founded and led by AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. Announced on September 28, 2026, the deal is about more than adding another AI company to AMD’s portfolio. AMD is bringing frontier model research directly inside the company as it works out what the next generation of AI infrastructure will actually need. That increasingly means workloads beyond large language models. Robotics, simulation, 3D environments and physical AI all place different…

ALICE Technologies has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Construction category, recognising its use of artificial intelligence to tackle one of the industry’s stubborn problems: deciding how a complex project should actually be built. Construction schedules rarely stay neat for long. Labor availability changes. Equipment gets tied up. Procurement slips. A sequence that looked sensible six months earlier suddenly creates a bottleneck somewhere else. ALICE Technologies approaches that problem through AI-powered generative construction scheduling, allowing project teams to test large numbers of possible schedules rather than manually working through a handful of alternatives. The company says…

Airly has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Air Quality Monitoring category, recognising the clean-tech company’s work turning pollution measurements into information that cities, businesses and public institutions can actually use. Air pollution is an unusually local problem. A monitoring station several kilometres away can describe conditions across a wider area, but it may miss what is happening beside a congested junction, school, construction site or industrial facility. Airly has built its technology around filling those gaps. Its system combines compact air-quality sensors with a data platform, API and public-facing tools. Instead of simply collecting pollution…

Aclima has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Air Quality Monitoring category, recognising its work in turning street-level environmental measurements into detailed maps of how pollution changes from one block to another. That sounds straightforward until you look at the problem. Traditional regulatory monitoring stations provide essential air-quality information, but there simply aren’t monitors on every street. Pollution can shift sharply over surprisingly short distances because of highways, industrial facilities, freight traffic and other local sources. Aclima takes the measurement equipment onto the road. The California Public Benefit Corporation combines mobile sensing, data infrastructure and analytics…

IFS is bringing its Industrial AI technology to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026, with a focus on moving artificial intelligence beyond demos and into real industrial operations. The enterprise software company will exhibit at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi on October 6–7, 2026. At this event, it plans to demonstrate AI tools designed for asset-heavy industries including energy, utilities, transportation, aviation, manufacturing, defence, logistics and data centres. Rather than positioning AI as a standalone assistant, IFS is pushing a broader idea. It promotes artificial intelligence embedded directly into the systems that manage assets, maintenance, field work and operational decisions. Industrial…

ASUS is bringing its latest generation of AI-enabled business computers to AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026. The company is putting on-device artificial intelligence, enterprise security and workplace productivity at the centre of its presence at the UAE technology event. The company will exhibit at ADNEC Centre in Abu Dhabi on October 6–7. There, visitors will be able to see products from its ExpertBook, ExpertCentre and All-in-One PC ranges. ASUS is framing the showcase around its “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities” theme. Beneath the slogan, though, is a more practical argument. AI processing is increasingly shifting onto workplace hardware rather than depending…

NVIDIA is pushing AI agent security deeper into the computing stack. The company has launched the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software and reference system designed to control autonomous AI agents while they operate. More than 100 organisations are working with NVIDIA on technologies around the platform, spanning AI developers, cybersecurity companies, cloud providers, enterprise software vendors and infrastructure specialists. The timing matters. AI agents are no longer confined to answering questions inside chat windows. Increasingly, they can access files, call APIs, use software tools, interact with databases and carry out multi-step tasks with limited human intervention. That…

The countdown has reached seven days. On October 6, 2026, AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 will open at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, turning the UAE capital into a meeting point for AI companies, researchers, investors, policymakers and government leaders from around the world. The event runs through October 7, and its scale has grown since the first details were announced. Organisers now expect more than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model makers, unicorns and startups, alongside more than 180 speakers and participants from 60 countries. That makes the final week before AI Everything Abu Dhabi more than a countdown to another…

Trintech is expanding its use of agentic AI inside corporate finance with three new AI agents designed to handle data preparation, accruals and financial exceptions. The additions move the company further toward what it calls governed autonomous finance. In this model, AI can perform defined financial tasks while still operating inside established controls, approval processes and audit requirements. The company unveiled the Data Access Agent, Accruals Intelligence Agent and Exception Management Agent at Trintech Connect 2026 in Chicago. Rather than treating AI as another layer of financial analysis, Trintech is building agents that can take action inside close workflows. However,…

Australian wholesale and retail group Metcash is expanding its partnership with Coveo. The expansion brings generative AI-powered conversational search into the digital systems used by its network of independent retailers. The latest rollout puts Coveo’s AI technology inside AskROSS, Metcash’s B2B customer communications platform. Instead of digging through pages of information or trying different keyword combinations, retailers will be able to ask questions in everyday language. They will then receive answers based on relevant business content. Publicis Sapient is also involved in the project. It is continuing its work with Metcash on the digital infrastructure and services behind the retailer…

Abu Dhabi has launched the first phase of a new Judicial AI Platform. This puts artificial intelligence directly into court and prosecution workflows while keeping final legal decisions in human hands. The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) developed the platform in cooperation with the Department of Government Enablement (DGE). The system is designed to bring AI-assisted analysis into judicial work, including case assessment, legal research and judgment preparation. This happens without transferring decision-making authority away from judges and prosecutors. The first release introduces a Judicial Assistant capable of working with selected cases handled by the Public Prosecution and criminal courts.…

Abdullah Asiri, founder and CEO of Lucidya, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Leadership category, recognising his role in building an Arabic-first artificial intelligence company around a problem global software platforms have historically struggled with: understanding how customers across the Arab world actually communicate. It is a different kind of AI leadership story. Lucidya did not begin with the generative AI boom. The Saudi company was founded in 2016, years before ChatGPT turned artificial intelligence into a boardroom obsession. Asiri and his team instead focused on natural language technology capable of understanding Arabic customer…

Audrey Tang has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Leadership category, recognising a career that has put an unusual question at the centre of technology policy: what happens if artificial intelligence is used to strengthen collective decision-making rather than simply automate it? Tang is a programmer, civic technologist and former Digital Minister of Taiwan, serving in the role from 2016 to 2024. Much of Tang’s work has focused on digital democracy, open government, public participation and, increasingly, ways of bringing citizens directly into conversations about how AI should behave. That makes this a different kind…

CipherTrace, a Mastercard company, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Blockchain category, recognising its work in cryptocurrency intelligence, blockchain analytics and digital asset risk monitoring. The nomination lands at an interesting point for blockchain. Digital assets are moving closer to mainstream payments and financial services, but the underlying transactions can cross wallets, exchanges and jurisdictions at a speed that makes traditional financial monitoring difficult. CipherTrace tackles that problem by analysing blockchain activity and connecting transactions with intelligence about cryptocurrency entities. Its technology is designed for banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions, governments and investigators that need…

Chainalysis has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Blockchain category, recognising its work in blockchain intelligence, cryptocurrency investigations, risk analysis and increasingly AI-powered fraud prevention. The company sits in an unusual corner of the AI market. Chainalysis does not build foundation models or consumer chatbots. Its technology is designed to make blockchain activity understandable: tracing cryptocurrency transactions, connecting addresses with real-world entities, identifying suspicious behaviour and helping investigators, financial institutions and crypto businesses decide what deserves attention. That problem is becoming harder. Crypto transactions can move across blockchains, bridges, exchanges and wallets at speed, while scammers…

Climate Corporation has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agricultural Tech category, recognising its work in digital agriculture and the use of data science to help farmers make decisions at field and even individual-acre level. At the centre of that work is Climate FieldView, Bayer’s digital farming platform. FieldView brings planting, spraying, harvest and other agronomic data into one system, giving farmers tools to examine crop performance, monitor fields and build prescriptions for seed, fertility and crop protection. This is AI operating far away from the usual chatbot conversation. The problem is physical and messy: soil…

Blue River Technology has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agricultural Tech category, recognising its work in applying artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics to precision agriculture. The John Deere subsidiary is best known for See & Spray, a technology that identifies individual plants while agricultural machinery moves through a field and determines where herbicide should — and should not — be applied. It sounds straightforward. In practice, the machine has milliseconds to distinguish a crop from a weed while dealing with dust, changing light, plant variation and equipment moving at agricultural working speeds. That is…

Maxar Technologies, whose former Maxar Intelligence business now operates as Vantor, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Aerospace category, recognising work that combines Earth observation, artificial intelligence, 3D mapping and autonomous systems. The company has moved well beyond the familiar model of taking satellite images and delivering them to customers. Vantor now builds software that can fuse information collected from satellites, drones and ground sensors, then use AI-powered analysis to turn that stream of pixels into something immediately useful. That shift matters. Aerospace produces enormous amounts of imagery and sensor data. Collecting it is only…

Blue Origin has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Aerospace category, recognising the space company as autonomous systems, onboard computing and reusable launch technology become increasingly important to modern spaceflight. The nomination puts the spotlight on a slightly different side of artificial intelligence. Blue Origin is not building a consumer AI assistant or a foundation model. Its technology has to work inside rockets and spacecraft, often in environments where there is little room for delay, constant human control or easy recovery when something goes wrong. The World AI Awards recognises organisations, individuals, products and technologies contributing…