Deloitte’s 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use. Adoption is nearly universal; deployment is rare. The difference is not model The post Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment appeared first on AI News.

A video looks simple when you press play. There is a picture, some dialogue, perhaps music in the background, and a few minutes later it is over. However, with the right use of AI, things can become a lot more interesting. To an artificial intelligence system, that same video can become speech to transcribe, faces The post From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing appeared first on AI News.

Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood by everyone at once. Vox Group, a 25-year-old guiding technology company operating in over 150 countries, has spent the past year rebuilding its AI-powered technology, Aura, to close that gap, The post How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel appeared first on AI News.

NVIDIA is using Palantir Foundry and cuOpt to automate its hardware supply chain allocation decisions across global manufacturing sites. The company measures operational delivery from wafer-out to first token. This window splits into time-to-rack (the transit from fab output to an assembled data centre system) and time-to-token (which covers power, cooling, networking, and day-one software The post Palantir Foundry and cuOpt drive NVIDIA supply chain allocation appeared first on AI News.

Supply chain disruption cost businesses about $184 billion in 2025, according to the J.S. Held Global Risk Report, and most of that bill still buys faster detection, not faster action. That figure is usually treated as weather (i.e. storms happen, costs follow.) Treated as a product specification instead, it highlights an operating model that can The post Supply chains detect fast, act slow: How AI agents fix it appeared first on AI News.

JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed The post JD.com expands physical AI in logistics with 3 million robots appeared first on AI News.

CloudNC has secured $20 million in new capital to scale its AI precision machining technology across global supply chain networks. The investment round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and LM Ventures, the venture capital fund of Lockheed Martin. Founded in 2015, CloudNC operates from The post CloudNC aims to accelerate AI supply chain machining appeared first on AI News.

Samsung has partnered with Mistral AI to deploy on-premises models across its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The agreement was announced during the bilateral state summit held in Paris between South Korea and France. Samsung will integrate Mistral’s software suite – including its flagship Mistral Large model – into internal semiconductor facilities to build customised The post Samsung taps Mistral AI models for semiconductor manufacturing appeared first on AI News.

Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries – spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport – account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s. To address engineering fragmentation The post Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework appeared first on AI News.

Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across The post Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia appeared first on AI News.