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AiPPT.com, a full-fledged AI PPT maker, has expanded its AI-powered presentation platform with the release of Nano Banana mode, a new feature focused on rapid, lightweight slide generation. The new mode is designed for users who need quick, concise presentations without the complexity of longer-form decks, targeting common use cases such as internal meetings, classroom assignments and short briefings. Nano Banana mode emphasizes speed and simplicity, generating structured slides with minimal input while maintaining visual consistency.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/20/20260 comments
Delinea, a pioneer in centralized authorization security solutions, and StrongDM, a universal access management company, plan to merge in a bid to tackle a fast-growing identity security challenge: managing access for AI agents and other non-human identities in increasingly automated enterprise environments. The deal will combine Delinea’s privileged access management strengths with StrongDM’s just-in-time, policy-driven access model across infrastructure, databases and applications.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/15/20260 comments
Hexagon Robotics, a leader in measurement technologies, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft aimed at advancing the development of humanoid robots by combining robotics expertise with cloud and AI capabilities. The partnership brings together Hexagon’s strengths in sensor fusion, spatial intelligence and robotics with Microsoft’s cloud-computing strengths in Fabric, Azure and AI services. The company's effort will focus on improving perception, decision-making and autonomy, with the goal of enabling humanoid robots to operate more safely and effectively in complex, real-world environments. With this collaboration, AEON, the a Hexagon industrial humanoid has already shown operational intelligence and real-time defect detection, marking a step towards deploying humanoids as a scalable solution to labor shortages.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/15/20260 comments
Akeneo, a leader in product experience, launches a suite of high-velocity capabilities engineered to improve speed and adaptability in digital commerce, particularly as retailers and brands manage growing product assortments and channels. Akeneo's latest innovation aims to use AI agents to help teams maintain accurate, enriched product data while dynamically supporting discovery, personalization and engagement across digital touchpoints. High-impact new features include the Akeneo Digital Showroom, Stripe Agentic Commerce Suite partnership, a native MCP server and customized components that enable teams to extend PIM with purpose-built interfaces. Akeneo’s platform is designed to serve as a foundation for these AI-driven interactions by ensuring product information is consistent, contextual and ready for automated use.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Cordial, a leader in messaging for enterprise marketing teams, has announced two new AI Agents with capabilities designed to bring artificial intelligence into the work marketers do every day, rather than limiting it to background workflows and automation. The updates focus on helping teams interpret customer signals, generate content and adjust engagement strategies in real time as data changes across channels. Agents include the Email Production Agent that aims to execute heavy email marketing tasks such as personalization, logic, orchestration and measurement. The Data Intelligence Agent monitors campaigns and audience reaction in real-time, offering marketers the opportunity to identify trends and amend campaigns as they launch. Cordial's approach is intended to reduce lag between insight and action, particularly as customer behavior becomes more fragmented and harder to predict.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Relativity, a legal data intelligence company, has introduced aiR for Case Strategy, a generative AI capability designed to help legal teams analyze matters earlier and develop case strategy more efficiently. The offering applies large language models to case materials to surface key facts, timelines, themes and potential arguments, with the goal of supporting faster insight during investigations and litigation preparation. The tool is built on its existing aiR platform and integrates directly with data already managed in RelativityOne.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Studient, a leader in AI-powered learning tools, has launched a new era of intervention solutions designed to personalize instruction and improve student motivation across K–12 and higher education settings. The platform uses adaptive algorithms to tailor content, pacing and practice based on individual performance, giving educators more visibility into student progress while helping learners focus on areas where they need the most support. Solutions include Motivention, an AI educational model that assists teachers with finding personalized teaching methods. The AI Engine further helps educators and students to accelerate their growth and performance levels.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Narvar, a platform for beyond-buy intelligent personalization, has introduced NAVI, an AI assistant designed to automate post-purchase customer experiences for retailers. The assistant is designed to manage common customer inquiries, such as order tracking, delivery delays, returns and exchanges, by acting autonomously across Narvar’s post-purchase workflows. NAVI is expected to be released at the NRF 2026 Retail Show and aims to apply intelligence and context at scale to achieve operational autonomy. Navi's goal is to reduce contact center volume while giving consumers faster, more consistent answers after checkout.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/12/20260 comments
Samsung used its CES 2026 First Look event to outline a broader vision for “AI Living,” emphasizing how artificial intelligence can act as a personalized companion across the home. The company highlighted updates across TVs, appliances, mobile devices and smart home services that rely on on-device and hybrid AI to adapt to user behavior while limiting unnecessary cloud dependency. Samsung's goal is to build a unified, personal experience across mobile, visual displays, home appliances and services. Other announcements include an expansion into the healthcare sector with dementia detection research and personalized health coaching. Updates also included Vision AI for next-level viewing, an advanced Odyssey gaming monitor and updates to home appliances such as Family Hub, Bespoke AI Laundry Combo and the Bespoke AI Jet Bot Stream Ultra, among others.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/05/20260 comments
TransAI, an AI hardware designer, plans to debut TransAI Note at CES 2026, positioning it as the first dedicated on-device AI hardware designed specifically for meeting transcription and note-taking. Unlike cloud-dependent assistants, the device performs speech recognition and summarization locally, reducing reliance on external servers and minimizing data exposure. TransAI's approach is aimed at professionals and organizations that handle sensitive conversations and want AI assistance without sending audio or text data off-device. At its core is NoteBrain, which is the proprietary on-device AI model trained for meeting notes specifically. It then generates structured meeting notes with summaries, key points and actionable items all on one device.
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Posted by Pure AI Editors on 01/05/20260 comments