Author: Art Ryan

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…

Anodot has been nominated for the 2026 World AI Awards in the Anomaly Detection category, recognising the company’s work in using machine learning to identify unusual behaviour across large volumes of business and operational data. It is an AI problem that rarely gets the attention of chatbots or image generators, but the consequences are very real. A sudden fall in payment approvals, an unexpected spike in cloud spending, a broken product feature or deteriorating network performance can quietly cost a business money long before someone notices a dashboard moving in the wrong direction. Anodot is built around catching those changes…

AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026 is now just four days away. The event is set to bring the global artificial intelligence industry together in Abu Dhabi on October 6 and 7. The event will take place at ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi, bringing together AI companies, startups, investors, government representatives, researchers and technology executives. The programme covers everything from AI infrastructure and enterprise systems to robotics and autonomous technology. It also includes government applications. This year’s gathering arrives at a different point in the AI cycle. Companies are moving beyond early experiments with generative AI. Meanwhile, governments are looking at how…

The UAE is moving into its next federal budget cycle with artificial intelligence, financial data and long-term economic planning playing a bigger role. These areas are increasingly important in how government resources are managed. The UAE General Budget Committee held its 15th meeting at Qasr Al Watan to review preparations for the 2027 federal budget and the 2027–2029 medium-term budget plan. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attended the meeting. Senior government and financial officials were also present. The meeting provides an early look at the priorities being built into the…

Robots are getting better at physical work. The more interesting question is how much work they can actually handle right now. A new study from Anthropic puts a striking number on that question. The company estimates that robots can already perform 74% of physical work tasks in the US economy at some level. But that figure needs context. Most of those tasks take place in controlled or purpose-built environments, while only a tiny share can currently be performed in genuinely unstructured settings. The research looks at around 900 occupations and roughly 19,000 individual tasks to examine where robots already have…

California is expanding its rules around artificial intelligence in the workplace, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing legislation aimed at limiting how employers can use automated systems to make decisions about workers. The new measures address several areas of workplace AI, including automated termination and disciplinary decisions, employee surveillance and biometric technology designed to assess emotional states. The laws form part of California’s broader effort to establish state-level rules for artificial intelligence as adoption spreads across businesses. The timing also puts California’s approach alongside a very different direction coming from the federal government, where President Donald Trump has emphasized accelerating AI…

Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model designed for long-running tasks. These include software engineering, cybersecurity, research and other complex knowledge work. Announced on September 30, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon is initially being offered to a limited group of cybersecurity defenders through Google DeepMind’s Fairwind Program. Meanwhile, Google says wider access will begin with paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The model stands out for its ability to generate up to 1 million output tokens, a major increase from the previous 64,000-token limit. In particular, that larger output capacity is designed for tasks that…