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Elevat Powers Launch of IDEX Fire and Safety’s Captium IQ AI Technician

Elevat has announced that its AI and IoT platform powers Captium IQ, a new AI Technician developed by HURST Jaws of Life, part of IDEX Fire and Safety. The system provides guided diagnostics and real-time service insights for rescue equipment.

May 05, 2026

KfW Reports 6% Rise in German Startup Financing in Q1 2026, Led by AI Companies

Germany's KfW reports a six percent annual increase in startup financing in the first quarter of 2026, with AI firms receiving more than half of total investments and strong participation from US investors.

May 05, 2026

Michael J. Fox Foundation Renames Landmark Parkinson's Study to Focus on Precision Medicine

The Michael J. Fox Foundation has renamed its Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative to the Parkinson's Precision Medicine Initiative, marking a shift toward biology-based research and early detection.

May 05, 2026

Cognizant Named Global AI Services Partner for Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

Cognizant has been named the Global AI Services Partner for the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team. The partnership aims to advance AI applications across the team's operations and fan engagement systems.

May 05, 2026

Netomi Raises $110 Million in Series C Funding Led by Accenture Ventures

AI customer service startup Netomi has secured $110 million in a Series C round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, NAVER Ventures, and others. The company plans to expand customer deployments and research while deepening partnerships with Accenture and Adobe.

May 05, 2026

Anthropic in Talks to Source AI Chips from UK Startup Fractile

Anthropic is in early discussions with UK-based chip startup Fractile to purchase its upcoming AI inference chips, according to The Information. The move would expand Anthropic's chip supply beyond Nvidia, Google, and Amazon as it seeks to manage soaring compute costs.

May 05, 2026

FINN Partners and HITLAB to Host Global Health Summit Focused on AI and Sustainability

FINN Partners, HITLAB, The Galien Foundation, and 1BusinessWorld will host the second annual People & Planet United Summit in New York City as part of Health Innovation Week. The event will explore how artificial intelligence and climate factors shape global health and care delivery.

May 05, 2026

MOTORMIA Unveils Massive AI Knowledgebase for Automotive Aftermarket

MOTORMIA has announced the creation of what it calls the largest digital knowledgebase for cars and aftermarket parts, built using AI to map over 5 million parts across more than 4,000 brands and 75,000 vehicle configurations.

May 05, 2026

CollectivIQ Expands Platform to Address AI Hallucination and Bias

CollectivIQ has announced major upgrades to its AI consensus platform, adding multimodal image generation, integrated payment capture, and expanded retrieval capabilities to enhance accuracy, collaboration, and governance.

May 05, 2026

iRobot Founder Colin Angle Launches Familiar Machines & Magic for Consumer Physical AI

Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot, has launched a new company called Familiar Machines & Magic to develop emotionally intelligent robots called Familiars designed for natural human interaction.

May 05, 2026

NetSentries Releases AI Assisted Security Testing in NST Assure Platform

NetSentries has announced the general availability of AI assisted security testing within its NST Assure platform, enabling faster exposure validation under human oversight.

May 05, 2026

Appleton Partners Selects Mili for Advisor Workflows

Appleton Partners has chosen Mili as its AI platform to automate private client workflows, integrating with Salesforce to streamline meeting preparation, documentation, and follow-ups.

May 05, 2026

BC Platforms and AWS Sign Collaboration to Advance Healthcare Data Analytics

BC Platforms has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services to accelerate healthcare and life sciences innovation through enhanced data analytics and AI capabilities within its BC Mosaic platform.

May 05, 2026

Nscale to Supply 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for Microsoft in Portugal

Nscale will deliver over 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs to Microsoft at the Start Campus site in Portugal beginning in late 2027, expanding their existing AI infrastructure collaboration.

May 05, 2026

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna to Open Think 2026 with Focus on AI and Quantum Computing

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna will open the company's Think 2026 conference in Boston, presenting new enterprise AI announcements and discussing the convergence of AI, hybrid cloud, and quantum computing.

May 05, 2026

IBM Expands Enterprise AI Portfolio with New Orchestration and Sovereign Platforms

At its Think 2026 conference, IBM introduced new products including watsonx Orchestrate, IBM Concert, and IBM Sovereign Core to advance enterprise AI management and hybrid cloud operations.

May 05, 2026

5WPR Report Finds AI Citations No Longer Align with Top Google Rankings

5WPR's latest GEO Practice Guide shows that the overlap between top Google results and sources cited by AI systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity has fallen from 70% to under 20%, signaling a major shift in online visibility metrics.

May 05, 2026

5WPR and HL Real Estate Group Identify Florida’s Top AI-Committed Private Schools

A joint study by 5WPR and HL Real Estate Group names Pine Crest School, Ransom Everglades, and Oxbridge Academy as Florida’s only private schools with formal institutional commitment to AI education.

May 05, 2026

KYC SiteScan Adds Five AI Features for Merchant KYC Automation

KYC SiteScan has introduced five new AI features to enhance merchant Know Your Customer automation, including tools for adverse media detection, data validation, sentiment analysis, MCC suggestions, and website discovery.

May 05, 2026

Zyphra Launches Cloud AI Platform on AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs

Zyphra has introduced Zyphra Cloud, a full-stack AI platform powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and supported by TensorWave, offering a serverless inference service for open-weight models and long-horizon workloads.

May 05, 2026

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