Author: Art Ryan

Armadin has raised $255.5 million in Series B funding, pushing the AI cybersecurity company’s valuation above $2.5 billion just months after its public launch. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-led the funding round. Bain Capital Ventures and Redpoint joined as new investors, while existing backers including 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, GV, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures returned. The financing brings Armadin’s total funding to roughly $445 million. That is a substantial amount for such a young company, but investors appear to see a much bigger shift underway. Cybersecurity is moving from tools that simply identify problems toward AI systems that can…

Apollo Global Management is preparing to back a major artificial intelligence infrastructure development in Japan, putting private capital behind the country’s push to expand domestic computing capacity. The project, valued at more than $15 billion, is planned for Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. Infrastructure developer RHAELM Holdings, Jera and Dell Technologies are involved, while Apollo is expected to participate as a strategic investment and financing partner. The development reaches beyond a conventional data center project. It brings together computing hardware, energy, construction and long-term financing at a time when electricity and access to large-scale compute are becoming critical pieces of the…

Chyron has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Broadcasting Enhancement category, recognising its work in applying artificial intelligence to live television production, broadcast graphics, sports analysis and increasingly automated production workflows. For a company whose history stretches back to the development of the modern character generator in 1966, the current shift is notable. Chyron is no longer dealing only with the graphics viewers see on screen. AI is beginning to work underneath the broadcast, helping operators identify important moments, track athletes, build replays and manage visual elements while a programme is still live. The World AI…

AWS Elemental has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Broadcasting Enhancement category, recognising its work in video processing, cloud broadcasting and the growing use of artificial intelligence inside live media workflows. Broadcasting has changed quickly. A television feed is no longer enough. The same event might need to appear on a connected TV, a streaming platform, a smartphone and several social networks — sometimes in completely different formats. AWS Elemental has spent years building infrastructure for that problem. Its technology handles live encoding, video transport, transcoding, packaging and personalised distribution for broadcasters and streaming providers. In…

CHYN.AI has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI Agents & Workflow Automation category, placing the company within one of artificial intelligence’s fastest-developing areas: systems designed not simply to generate answers, but to help carry work through a sequence of actions. The nomination comes at a point when businesses are looking beyond the first wave of standalone AI assistants. The harder question now is what happens after an AI system produces an answer. Can it participate in a workflow? Can it help move a task forward? Can people remain in control while repetitive steps become easier…

ADESH LLC, also known as Adesh Jamaica, has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Agentic Process Orchestration category, recognising its work in connecting AI agents, business applications and automated workflows for companies operating in Jamaica and across the Caribbean. The nomination lands in a category that goes beyond the familiar chatbot. Agentic process orchestration is about getting AI-driven systems to handle connected stages of a business process — moving information between tools, triggering actions and handing work from one system or agent to another rather than simply producing a response to a prompt. That is where…

Fluence has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Battery Management category, recognising the energy technology company’s work across battery management systems, AI-powered predictive maintenance and software designed to keep large-scale energy storage assets operating efficiently. Grid-scale batteries create an unusual data problem. A large battery energy storage system can contain vast numbers of individual cells, each producing operating information that may reveal changes in temperature, state of charge or component behaviour. Finding the handful of signals that actually require attention is difficult. Fluence is tackling that problem at several layers. Its battery management system works alongside…

AutoGrid has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Battery Management category, recognising its work using artificial intelligence and energy software to coordinate batteries and other distributed energy resources across increasingly complex electricity networks. Battery management at grid scale is a different problem from monitoring a single battery. Thousands of home batteries, electric vehicles, solar installations and commercial energy assets can sit across the same electricity network. Their available capacity changes constantly. Utilities need to understand when those resources can absorb electricity, reduce demand or send power back to the grid. That is the problem AutoGrid was…

AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 is now just three days away, with the AI industry preparing to converge on ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi on October 6 and 7. The inaugural event is positioning itself as a major meeting point for AI companies, investors, government leaders, researchers and technology executives. More than 400 AI infrastructure builders, model makers, unicorns and startups, along with 200-plus investors and 180-plus speakers, are expected to take part, with participants coming from more than 60 countries. The timing is interesting. AI has moved well beyond the early generative AI rush. Companies are now trying to turn…

Tencent is reportedly making a major move to secure the computing power required for its growing artificial intelligence ambitions. This comes amid reports of a Tencent Oracle AI chip deal designed to strengthen its tech infrastructure. The Chinese technology company has signed a reported five-year agreement with Oracle worth about $7 billion, giving it access to around 100,000 advanced AI chips located in Oracle data centres across Southeast Asia, according to the Financial Times. If confirmed, the arrangement would represent Tencent’s largest overseas chip-leasing deal with a US cloud provider. The reported agreement comes as Tencent expands its AI models…

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to help finance the AI company’s infrastructure spending, adding another layer to a relationship that already covers chip supply, equipment leasing and computing capacity. The financing was disclosed in Anthropic’s IPO prospectus and reported by Reuters on October 1. The arrangement puts Broadcom in an unusual position around one of the fastest-growing AI companies. It is not simply supplying the hardware. It is also helping finance the infrastructure Anthropic needs to run its AI models. Anthropic expects Broadcom to become its largest compute customer in 2027, underscoring the scale of…

Edmodo has been nominated for the World AI Awards in the Classroom Management category, recognising a name that has played a long-running role in digital learning, teacher-student communication and technology-assisted classroom organisation. Edmodo originally emerged as a private digital environment where teachers could bring everyday classroom tasks into one place. Assignments, quizzes, educational resources, announcements and class discussions could all move online without turning the classroom into an open social network. That basic problem sounds less dramatic than many AI use cases. It is not. Teachers spend substantial time organising materials, tracking student work, communicating with classes and trying to…

Government agencies are moving deeper into artificial intelligence, but Microsoft says successful deployment will depend on much more than selecting a capable AI model. The company is calling for stronger controls around data, identities, permissions, AI agents and the infrastructure connecting them. Microsoft’s recommendations come as public-sector organisations explore AI for everything from administrative work and information retrieval to cybersecurity and more autonomous digital agents. The company argues that governments need to build security controls into these systems from the start rather than trying to add them after deployment. Microsoft Says Government AI Adoption Must Start With Data Controls Data…

ClassDojo has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Classroom Management category, recognising a platform that has spent years building digital tools around one stubbornly human challenge: keeping teachers, students and families connected while a classroom is actually running. Classroom management rarely comes down to one piece of software. Attendance matters. Behaviour matters. Parents need updates. Teachers need to know what is happening across a class without spending the evening buried in administrative work. That is the territory ClassDojo knows well. The company says its global community includes more than 50 million teachers and families, while its…

Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency is turning to artificial intelligence, data analytics and intelligence-led investigations as it looks for new ways to identify corruption risks before they develop into major cases. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is putting greater emphasis on analysing information, tracing financial activity and identifying relationships between people and organisations. The approach moves some investigative work away from simply responding to complaints and towards finding potential risks through intelligence. For an agency dealing with increasingly complex financial and corporate cases, that shift could make data analysis a much bigger part of everyday investigative work. MACC Is Moving Towards Intelligence-Led…

ClimateAi has been nominated for the World AI Awards in the AI in Sustainable Tourism category, recognising its use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to help organisations understand weather disruption and longer-term climate risk. For tourism, that problem is becoming increasingly practical. Hotels, resorts, destinations, attractions and travel infrastructure depend heavily on local conditions. Extreme heat, flooding, storms, water stress and changing seasonal patterns can affect everything from visitor demand to asset planning. ClimateAi approaches that uncertainty through ClimateLens, its enterprise climate-resilience platform. Instead of simply reporting historical climate data, the technology combines AI, machine learning and multiple data…

Wayaj has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the AI in Sustainable Tourism category, recognising a travel technology company focused on giving hotels and travellers practical tools to measure environmental impact and make more sustainability-conscious decisions. The nomination lands in an unusually complicated corner of travel technology. Sustainability claims are everywhere. Measuring them consistently is harder. Wayaj has built its business around that gap, developing sustainability ratings, carbon-footprint calculation tools and a travel platform designed to make environmental information more visible during trip planning. The World AI Awards recognises organisations, individuals, products and technologies contributing to the…

BlackSky has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Autonomous Orbital Systems category, recognising its work at the intersection of satellite autonomy, artificial intelligence and real-time Earth intelligence. This is an unusually practical corner of space AI. BlackSky is not simply putting cameras into orbit and sending imagery back to Earth. Its Gen-3 satellites and BlackSky Spectra platform form an automated system built to task spacecraft, collect high-resolution imagery, analyse what appears in those images and move useful intelligence to customers quickly. That matters when the subject being watched is moving. Ships leave ports. Aircraft relocate. Vehicles…

Airbus Defence and Space has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Autonomous Orbital Systems category, recognising its work across satellite autonomy, orbital navigation, Earth observation and increasingly intelligent space systems. Spacecraft have always needed automation. The difference now is how much more they may be expected to handle themselves. Satellites operate far from immediate human intervention, generate growing volumes of data and increasingly share crowded orbital environments with thousands of other objects. For Airbus Defence and Space, that challenge stretches from helping spacecraft understand their surroundings to processing information faster and developing systems capable of operating…

DataRobot has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Anomaly Detection category, recognising its work in using machine learning to identify unusual patterns buried inside large and often messy datasets. It is a problem that sounds straightforward until the data arrives. Fraudulent transactions, equipment faults, cybersecurity incidents and other abnormal events are usually rare. The overwhelming majority of records describe normal behaviour. Worse, organisations may not have enough correctly labelled examples of previous incidents to train a conventional predictive model. That is precisely where DataRobot’s anomaly detection technology is designed to operate. The World AI Awards recognises…