AI & ML

A Mastercard-Trip.com-Network International tie-up brings autonomous AI booking to travel, with a commercial rollout set for early 2027.

FI Works targets community banks' chronic data-fragmentation problem with natural language analytics built on a unified semantic model.

FloQast launches audit-native AI agents and hires COSO's chair as it embeds AI governance into accounting workflows.

Quantum Metric's Voice of Customer platform ties survey data to session behaviour, aiming to close the action gap facing digital enterprises.

A new open-source index scores AI agents on real-world judgment, threatening to expose the performance gap in enterprise agentic deployments.

A 45,000-person Visa study finds APAC consumers will accept 24-hour transfer delays to beat AI-enabled deepfake scams.

The EU's EIT merges AI and robotics into one pan-European founder pipeline, targeting over €80m in leveraged investment by 2028.

As agent payment protocols solve identity and consent, a critical verification gap at the moment of payment threatens the auditability of autonomous commerce.

A deepened design partnership brings AI-driven preconstruction intelligence to one of America's largest contractors, with cross-sector implications for built-environment

Two enterprise AI firms are partnering to bring governed agentic AI to healthcare SaaS, with a $50bn federal programme in their sights.

The Eindhoven chip startup's Series A targets the power and cost constraints throttling foundation model deployment at scale.

The Italian RegTech firm's agentic compliance platform is cutting regulated-workflow hours by up to 60%, serving Intesa Sanpaolo and Generali.

Germany's second-largest retail bank is rolling out AI-assisted email triage, testing how far human-in-the-loop automation can scale in consumer

An AI-native MGA backed by Fastweb+Vodafone targets Italy, where half of households carry no home insurance.

Aramco's VC arm co-leads a $13m Series B as BRKZ deploys AI pricing across Saudi Arabia's fragmented building materials market.

Policymakers, investors and hyperscalers aligned on seven priorities to unlock coordinated digital infrastructure across Africa.

Quick Custom Intelligence cuts industry data lag from six weeks to one day, giving casino operators a faster loop for floor optimisation.

A sensor-fusion platform integrates counter-UAS and base defence data into one dashboard, with five more US military installations in the pipeline.

DCG subsidiary Yuma crosses $200m in staked assets on the Bittensor network, backing AI subnets now landing real enterprise clients.

Partech leads a Series A for a Cairo-Abu Dhabi fintech building sovereign AI credit infrastructure across MEA and Latin America.