AI & Machine Learning

SOUTHFIELD – – November 12, 2026 -- TELI.ai has expanded from a single outbound voice AI agent into a broader communication platform, the TELI AI Suite, after mortgage-industry customers shaped its development, according to the company.

Founders' outbound sales experience shaped the first product

Co-founders Anthony and Charlie Toma ran a sales company built on high-volume outbound prospecting before TELI existed. Their teams dialed lead lists and absorbed constant rejection, a process the founders found hard to scale and hard on employees.

HOUSTON – November 12, 2026 -- Fan conversations on Cincinnati Bengals gamedays ran nearly ten times a typical day, according to Alive5, the Houston-based chat provider that has added an AI assistant called Who Dey AI to Bengals.com and the Bengals Mobile App.

Bengals extend a 2013 Alive5 relationship with an AI chatbot

The launch expands a relationship that began in 2013, when the Bengals added Alive5 live chat to Bengals.com for ticket sales and service. The AI layer gives the club 24/7 customer support, captures and qualifies sales leads offline, and reduces staff busywork.

NEW YORK – – November 12, 2026 -- Only 15% of enterprises have fully tied AI investment to P&L outcomes, even though 79% already run AI agents in production, according to a Genpact survey of more than 2,000 executives. On average, just 49% of AI initiatives funded in the past 24 months have delivered the expected value.

Agents reach production faster than operating models change

Genpact (NYSE: G) published the findings in its report "Autonomy in Practice." The survey covered senior executives at companies with annual revenues from $1 billion to more than $50 billion, across 17 industries and 14 business functions. Genpact also conducted in-depth interviews with enterprise leaders.

Mountain View, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- NewsBreak has appointed Nicolas Zylberstein as its first Chief Business Officer, tasking him with commercial growth across the core NewsBreak platform and two new AI ventures, Nearby AI and NDot AI.

NewsBreak creates first-ever Chief Business Officer role to scale two AI businesses

The newly created position places Zylberstein over strategic growth for NewsBreak's flagship local news and life platform, which serves more than 40 million monthly active users across the U.S. He will also oversee commercialization of Nearby AI, an agentic local intent marketplace connecting consumers to local businesses, and NDot AI, a B2B media technology platform offering publishers audience growth, personalization, engagement and monetization tools.

Los Angeles – September 19, 2026 -- Fotor, an AI Vibe Marketing Platform serving more than 800 million users worldwide, has launched Fotor Agent, an AI production system that converts prompts and raw assets into fully editable, production-ready videos and 4K motion graphics.

Fotor Agent cuts motion graphics production costs to 1/200th of traditional After Effects workflows

According to Fotor's internal benchmarks, the new agent reduces motion design costs by two orders of magnitude while boosting generation and editing speed 50-fold. The system keeps text, brand colors, charts, and animation timing fully parametric on a live preview canvas, eliminating the costly full-project regenerations required by conventional AI video models that bake motion graphics into fixed pixel streams.

Stockholm and London – September 18, 2026 -- DanAds, a self-service advertising technology provider, and Nodals AI, an autonomous AI platform for publishers, have entered a strategic partnership that combines predictive-outcome modeling with self-service ad buying, letting publishers sell performance-based campaigns without sacrificing yield.

Nodals AI's models predict clicks, conversions and video completions from publisher data

Nodals AI trains on a publisher's own first-party data to forecast advertiser outcomes such as clicks, conversions or video completes. That capability lets publishers offer CPC- or CPA-style outcome campaigns directly inside their existing ad stacks, matching advertiser demand for performance-based buying.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- The Open Source Vision Foundation (OSVF) is building native OpenCV binaries for Windows on Snapdragon, working directly with Qualcomm Technologies to close a gap for computer vision developers targeting Snapdragon X Series-powered Windows devices.

OSVF targets native builds and automated testing infrastructure for Snapdragon

The project scope covers native OpenCV binaries built specifically for Windows on Snapdragon, automated build-and-test infrastructure designed to ensure quality at scale, targeted software optimizations for performance, and compatibility work to resolve existing dependency issues within the library.

Development will move from experimental native builds toward validated releases distributed through OpenCV's established open-source channels, with all improvements passing through the organization's existing review and testing processes.

Charleston, S.C. – September 18, 2026 -- Storiad, an operating system for author marketing, and Chicago-based Bitta AI have struck a partnership to convert published books into AI-powered interactive experiences called Living Books, giving authors a new pre-purchase engagement tool for prospective readers.

Living Books let readers test drive content before buying

The technology allows a prospective reader to ask an author's book questions, practice techniques described in it, or apply its methodology to a real situation, rather than relying on static marketing assets like excerpts, reviews or social posts. Fiction readers will eventually be able to interact with characters and explore an author's story world.