Soul Machines, a pioneer in humanizing AI, today announced the launch of Digital Workforce, a groundbreaking product designed to empower large enterprises with the most lifelike, intelligent and secure AI-powered digital workers. This new platform is purpose-built to address the complex needs of enterprise businesses seeking to implement and deploy advanced AI across their organizations. The

Universal Robots (UR), the leader in collaborative robotics, is set to elevate fabrication automation at FABTECH 2025 in Chicago, IL, Sept. 8-11, with a range of new pioneering cobot solutions. “Cobot welding continues to evolve at a rapid speed,” said Jean-Pierre Hathout, President of Universal Robots. “Eight years ago, we introduced North America’s first cobot welder

New offering enhances Phreesia’s existing platform, eliminating long hold times and ensuring every patient call is resolved Phreesia, a leader in patient activation, today announced the launch of Phreesia VoiceAI, an always-on, intelligent AI phone solution purpose-built for healthcare. VoiceAI leverages advanced natural language processing and real-time workflow integration to help healthcare organizations manage high call

Parents have always wrestled with screen time, but the latest headache isn’t about hours spent on tablets—it’s about what exactly kids are watching. A wave of AI-generated videos has flooded YouTube and YouTube Kids, and while some clips look innocent, beneath the surface they’re riddled with odd animations, robotic voices, and sometimes even misinformation. According

Big news out of Redmond: Microsoft just launched two in-house AI models—MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview—marking a bold step away from reliance on OpenAI. The latest play in the AI arena has investors buzzing and the company’s stock climbing about 9% in the quarter, hinting at renewed market confidence. But is this just a technical milestone or

Finding connection in our digital age can feel like fishing in a goldfish bowl—somewhere between hopeful and baffling. Then you stumble on an AI date bot that actually remembers your pet’s birthday or cracks an oddly spot-on joke. That’s no small thing these days. Over weeks of experimenting, I discovered some AI companions that worked

Google has announced developer verification as a new layer of security for installing Android apps, though US developers will not face the new requirement until 2027 or later. Announced August 25, the policy is intended to better protect users from repeat bad actors spreading scams and malware through app downloads. Beginning next year, Android will

AI-generated code accounted for more than half of shipped code among nearly one-third of senior developers who participated in a recent survey by cloud platform provider Fastly. The company’s July 2025 survey of 791 professional developers found that 32% of senior developers (those with 10 or more years of experience) said more than half of

When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that runs with a graphical UI that’s native to the platform or powered by some cross-platform visual toolkit. But a desktop application these days is just as likely to be a glorified web page running in a standalone instance of a browser. If

The Java virtual machine (JVM) is a program whose sole purpose is to execute other programs. This simple idea has made Java one of the most successful and long-lived platforms of all time. The JVM was a highly novel idea when it was introduced in 1995, and it continues to be a vital force in