The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
What to know about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, reshaping business operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation across sectors globally and in Australasia. From the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity threats and the adoption of AI in cloud infrastructure to the integration of generative AI in customer service, marketing, and financial sectors, this dynamic field demands close attention.
Experts emphasise the critical role of robust data management and infrastructure in successfully leveraging AI technologies, while organisations face challenges including skill gaps, ethical considerations, and regulatory developments. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must balance innovation with security, sustainability, and human-centric strategies to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Readers exploring this tag will gain insights into the latest AI trends, practical applications, organisational strategies, technological advancements, and the collaborative efforts shaping the future of AI. Understanding these developments is essential for anyone interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on business, technology, and society.
American Artificial Intelligence News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
SEI adds Zocks AI assistant to adviser services ecosystem
Advisers could see less admin and quicker follow-up as SEI widens its AI toolkit with software that turns client meetings into records and tasks.
Wordly rises in Inc. 5000 as AI translation demand grows
Growing demand for live AI translation has pushed the software group up 1,186 places on the Inc. 5000 after 668% revenue growth.
Myriad360 lands 15th Inc 5000 spot after 95.8% growth
The ranking underscores sustained expansion for the New York-based systems integrator as clients shift spending towards cloud, security and managed services.
Farsight deepens PitchBook data tie-up for deal teams
Deal teams can now pull PitchBook's private market data into Farsight without switching systems, cutting manual work in valuations and memos.
LXMQ picks Privaclave AI to secure credit-card platform
Sensitive credit-card data will be protected in LXMQ's platform as the fintech tests Privaclave AI before a wider consumer launch.
Mercury launches Spend with employee & agent cards
Smaller finance teams can now enforce budgets and receipts in one place as Mercury adds employee and AI agent cards for business customers.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Artificial Intelligence
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
CrowdStrike named leader in IDC MarketScape MDR study
Data centre power market set to hit USD $70.94bn by 2034
Google named Forrester AI Platforms leader on strategy
Blue Yonder unveils AI tools & sustainability findings
Featured News
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Autonomous IT boom fuelling LogicMonitor's APAC growth
APAC customers are fuelling LogicMonitor's AI growth, with Australia among the earliest adopters of its Edwin AI platform.
CrowdStrike report: AI is rewriting rules of cybersecurity
Organisations now have just 48 hours to patch most flaws, as AI helps attackers weaponise vulnerabilities far faster than before.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Cohesity mitigating shadow AI by empowering staffers
Approved AI tools are cutting shadow use by staff, but Cohesity warns the bigger risk is corrupted enterprise knowledge and weak governance.
AI arms race forcing businesses to rethink cybersecurity
Security teams are racing to shrink exposure windows as AI makes newly disclosed vulnerabilities exploitable almost immediately.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
TrustedTech report warns of 'AI Skills Underclass' gap
Nearly half of U.S. workers lack AI training, widening a skills gap that leaves the most exposed employees to fend for themselves.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Check Point: Be the best, or get out the way
Rising AI-driven attacks are compel security buyers to cut vendor sprawl, though Check Point warns over-consolidation can still raise risk.
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Check Point: Hackers are already in. Act accordingly
Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in hours or minutes, leaving many organisations compromised before defenders spot the breach.
Future of enterprise software is agentic apps, says Oracle
Oracle is targeting a common blocker to AI adoption by adding governance, human checks and audit trails to its agentic app builder.
Agentic rollout creates new identity security challenge
Poor governance is leaving many AI agents stuck out of production, while those that run can expose firms to legal and security risks.
Human jobs are safe - but AI influence on healthcare growing
AI is helping hospitals cut scan times, clear backlogs and spot disease earlier, while doctors still keep final say over treatment.
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OnBoard says board AI policy key, but lags behind in adoption
Most boards are using AI, but formal guidelines are still missing as adoption races ahead of governance, OnBoard's survey found.
John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Exclusive: Dreamdata CEO on why B2B buying funnel isn't linear
Buyers are spending most of the journey before sales speak, forcing marketers to rethink funnels and how they prove return on investment.
Agentic AI creates enterprise challenge beyond LLM boom
Enterprises face rising costs and governance gaps as thousands of AI agents begin operating alongside staff across multiple systems.
Visa strengthens AI defences amid new era of cyber threats
Visa is pouring billions into AI defences as regulators demand safer, auditable systems to counter faster cyber threats and fraud.
The new workforce: AI agents to work in concert with humans
AI agents are set to reshape hiring and team structures, pushing firms towards global talent pools and outcome-based work.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
Data storage gets profitable as Exaba targets US expansion
Exaba's local cloud storage pitch could give US managed services providers higher margins as it challenges AWS and Azure in a crowded market.
Storage to strategy: Everpure pivots to data intelligence
Enterprises wrestling with AI readiness and data sovereignty may gain clearer governance as Everpure adds a new intelligence layer.
How the 'human hour' mentality influences the future of tech
AI pilots are faltering where firms still judge success by hours saved, leaving customer value and workforce design unresolved.
'Strong partnership': Canva, OpenAI team up for hackathon
Hundreds of admin hours are draining staff time from lifesaving, research and STEM work at Australian nonprofits.
Humanoid robots, 0-day defence among Info-Tech trends for '27
Agentic AI, zero-day surge, sovereign cloud, and humanoid robots will define IT strategy in 2027, Info-Tech Research Group warns.
Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
Quantum computers aren't here yet. But the data threat is
Hackers are already stockpiling encrypted data for Q-Day, when quantum machines could break RSA and ECC in minutes.
New Zealand 'ingenuity' driving Lightspeed's global success
Auckland's engineers are shaping Lightspeed's products worldwide, as the company expands AI tools and keeps key leadership in New Zealand.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
Check Point Technologies: On vigilance, Mythos and beyond
AI-driven vulnerability scanning is forcing firms to rethink complacency as Check Point says existing defences still help against Mythos.
Exclusive: Reco COO on securing the AI inside your SaaS stack
Reco COO Zoe Hillenmeyer says enterprises typically underestimate their AI agent exposure by a factor of ten and that gap is widening.
Riverbed says go from ticket queues to zero disruption
AI-driven support tools could cut employee downtime, as Riverbed argues that fewer tickets may still hide unresolved problems.
Dell Technologies makes all the hardware cool again
Renewed AI spending is boosting demand for Dell's secure, certified infrastructure as companies chase faster deployment and lower cloud costs.
Dell numbers the days for hyperconverged infrastructure
Rising hypervisor costs and AI demand are pushing customers towards disaggregated systems, as Dell says HCI is becoming too expensive and inflexible.
Exclusive: Rover's Phil Katz on trust signals in pet care
Rover says data, trust systems and AI tools are reshaping pet care marketplaces as owners seek more personalised services.
Reviews
Expert Columns
AI can produce the work, it can't produce the lawyer
When AI memory, simulation and provenance collide
Supercharged security: Cyber risk in the age of frontier AI
What Role Does Data Quality Play in Data Governance?
Why Southeast Asia is becoming a global fintech growth hub
SonicWall joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing to find flaws
Bolt-on AI is the new lipstick on a pig; the pig is still running your enterprise
The post-quantum mandate isn't about algorithms, it's about operational trust
Fintech’s next edge is teams with wider perspectives
AI in action: From conversations to real business outcomes
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Artificial Intelligence News
US accounting firms with integrated systems feel AI ready
Disconnected systems are leaving many accountancy firms short of time, even as a survey finds integrated platforms sharply boost AI readiness.
Peer Software teams with IMC for Central America push
The deal should widen access to file management tools for businesses across Central America through IMC's reseller network.
DeepVest launches MonitorLab for adviser market alerts
Financial advisers could miss market moves without a system like MonitorLab, which tracks portfolios and signals in real time.
Malachyte uses Google Cloud to tackle eCommerce cold start
Retailers using Malachyte's Google Cloud system are seeing sales double as it personalises search and recommendations within 100 milliseconds.
NVIDIA teams with investors on AI infrastructure finance
The tie-up could unlock more than USD $500 billion to fund scarce AI compute capacity for cloud providers, labs and enterprises.
Payouts.com & Replit expand partnership to speed builds
The move could cut Payouts.com's product development cycle from months to days while keeping audit trails and PCI controls in place.
Valantor launches FraudX for insurance fraud probes
Insurers are under pressure to spot fraud faster as claims files swell and investigations become harder to defend in court.
nCino launches Mortgage MCP for lenders' AI agents
Mortgage lenders could cut routine admin time as nCino's new tool lets AI agents act within existing permissions and audit logs.
Eltropy sets out AI playbook for community lenders
Community banks and credit unions are being urged to use AI across the customer journey to speed replies, cut calls and satisfy regulators.
MVB Bank taps Bretton AI for compliance operations
The agreement will let MVB Bank scale anti-money laundering and know-your-customer checks without adding staff as fintech compliance workloads rise.
PwC & Zyter team up on healthcare workflow overhaul
Healthcare payers and providers could cut costs and manual work as the alliance targets AI-driven workflows for high-volume clinical tasks.
Pinecone launches Nexus knowledge engine for AI agents
It promises lower token costs, faster responses and tighter control of sensitive data as firms push agents into production.
Astraeus launches AI-native wealth platform for firms
Wealth firms could gain a governed way to use AI without replacing legacy systems, as the New York-based start-up raises more than USD $10 million.
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LaunchDarkly tops USD $200 million ARR as AI demand grows
Demand from large enterprises for AI control tools has helped LaunchDarkly pass USD $200 million in annual recurring revenue, up more than 25% year on year.
SoFi adds private market funds for retail investors
Retail investors gain access to private equity, venture capital and credit as minimums start at just USD $500 on SoFi's app.
Older consumers most loyal to working AI customer service
Consumers aged 60 and over are most likely to stick with AI support if it solves problems, highlighting performance as the key loyalty driver.
Logile sets Scottsdale conference on connected stores
Retailers attending Logile Connect 2026 will hear how linking labour, inventory and fresh operations could improve availability and margins.
Maximum raises USD $30 million seed round for banks
Banks could gain faster product updates and lower operating costs as Maximum emerges from stealth with a USD $30 million seed round.
IBM, Red Hat offer Lightwell free to US institutions
Eligible US universities and non-profits can now use Lightwell to patch open source flaws without overhauling systems or sharing data.
Power Digital launches AI marketing system for agencies
Agency clients should see clearer links between spend and revenue as Power Digital ties strategy, media and creative work into one AI system.
Job Moves
Zingtree appoints Venkat Iyer as Chief Technology Officer
Ondaro promotes three to vice president in ServiceNow shift
Jazz appoints six senior leaders as DLP push scales
Corsha appoints new chief operating & product officers
Zayo appoints Verizon's Sampath as Chief Executive
QuSecure appoints ex-Navy admiral to advisory board
Verizon programme helps Florida optician grow revenue
Agiloft appoints Kristin Knox Esche as General Counsel
BriefCatch names AI chief to tackle fake legal citations
