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AVer and Lightware Launch Global Collaboration to Enhance AI-Powered Video Experiences

Taipei, Taiwan – May 14: AVer Information Inc. , an award-winning provider of AI audio-video solutions, today announced a worldwide collaboration with Lightware Visual Engineering. This joint effort brings together AVer’s AI-powered camera technology and Lightware’s premier signal management solutions to address the growing demand for high-quality video in modern hybrid environments.

By featuring AVer’s Pro AV and USB video conferencing lines alongside the Lightware Taurus UCX, Taurus TPX, Taurus TPN, and USB20 Extender Family, the two companies are providing a comprehensive visual and connectivity portfolio for global enterprise and education markets.

Focusing on the User Experience

This collaboration is centered on providing users with a streamlined approach to “Bring Your Own Meeting” (BYOM) setups. By utilizing AVer’s AI-driven imaging designed— for intelligent tracking and framing — together with Lightware’s signal delivery platforms, organizations can create professional grade meeting spaces that are easy to navigate and operate.

“At AVer, we are constantly looking for ways to enhance how people connect through our AI audio-video solutions,” said David Kuo, President of AVer Information Inc. “Collaborating with Lightware allows us to showcase our professional cameras within a world-class connectivity environment. We are excited to define a new benchmark for the Pro AV community, illustrating how our combined portfolios advance modern collaboration.”

“Lightware is excited to join forces with AVer to highlight the power of high-quality imaging combined with world-class signal management,” said Gergely Vida CEO at Lightware. “The combination of the Taurus product family and AVer’s camera solutions creates the ideal foundation for a professional meeting space.”

See the Solutions in Action

The highlight of this collaboration is the ability for partners and customers to see these solutions working side-by-side in real-world scenarios. AVer and Lightware are inviting the industry to explore these setups at dedicated training and experience hubs.

• Düsseldorf: The Lightware Düsseldorf Training Center is now featuring AVer’s AI tracking cameras as part of its live demonstration environment.
• Dubai & London: Additional showcases are coming soon to the Lightware Dubai and London Experience Centres, providing regional hubs for professionals to see these solutions paired together in person.

A Shared Vision for the Future

As leaders in their respective fields, AVer and Lightware are dedicated to enhancing the professional AV and video conferencing landscape. By aligning AVer’s AI-driven visual technology with Lightware’s world-class signal management, this collaboration offers a forward-thinking approach to modern, flexible workspaces. Together, the two companies are focused on making professional grade collaboration more accessible and effective for users worldwide.

Spendflo Launches Flo AI: An Autonomous Procurement Workforce for Mid-Market Companies

Flo AI runs the full intake-to-pay lifecycle autonomously, giving lean procurement teams the capacity to operate as a much larger function without the headcount to match.

San Francisco, CA – May 14: Spendflo has launched Flo AI, an autonomous procurement workforce designed for mid-market companies. Flo AI runs the complete procurement lifecycle: intake, approvals, vendor management, contract review, and accounts payable, as a single connected system. It does not assist procurement teams. It acts on their behalf.

Most companies at this stage run procurement with a small team, often one to five people, managing a volume of requests, renewals, and vendor relationships that a larger operation would handle with a dedicated department. Flo AI was built for exactly this: giving lean procurement functions the capacity to operate at a speed and scale that was previously out of reach.

Three agents. One connected system.

Flo is made up of three purpose-built agents, each covering a distinct phase of the procurement lifecycle.

• Flo Procure handles every purchase request from first submission to approved purchase order. It routes requests, checks budget and policy, collects vendor documentation, and drives approval workflows to completion. Requests no longer wait on a procurement manager to coordinate them through the process.
• Flo Contracts reads, redlines, and tracks vendor agreements. It surfaces non-standard clauses, extracts key commercial terms, and flags upcoming renewals before they slip through. Every contract processed through Spendflo informs how Flo Contracts handles the next one.
• Flo AP (Accounts Payable) matches incoming invoices against purchase orders and contracts, routes exceptions for human review, and processes payment. Because Flo AP shares context with Flo Procure and Flo Contracts, it verifies invoices against what was actually agreed at sourcing, not just what the vendor submitted.

The three agents work as one system. Context carries forward at every stage. What Flo Procure learns about a vendor informs how Flo Contracts reads their agreement. What Flo Contracts extracts from the agreement informs how Flo AP handles the invoice. This continuity is what separates Flo from the point solutions most procurement teams are stitching together today.

The problem Flo AI was built to solve

Mid-market companies face a specific procurement challenge. They have outgrown informal processes but have not yet built the procurement infrastructure that larger organisations rely on. The gap is filled by small teams doing high volumes of manual work: chasing approvals, reconciling invoices, managing renewals, and fielding requests from across the business.

The tools available to them have not kept up. Most procurement software was designed either for large enterprise deployments with dedicated implementation teams, or for early-stage companies with simpler needs. Point solutions for intake, contracts, and accounts payable exist in abundance. What has been missing is a system that connects them, one that carries the context of a purchase request all the way through to the payment that closes it.

Flo was built on that full context from the ground up. Since founding, Spendflo has processed more than $3.2 billion in total spend across invoices, purchase orders, and contracts on its platform. That data informs how Flo categorises spend, identifies exceptions, and understands what efficient procurement looks like across different industries and company sizes.

Siddharth Sridharan, CEO, Spendflo commented: “The companies we work with are not looking for more software to manage. They are looking for a procurement function that runs. Flo handles intake, approvals, contracts, and accounts payable. What remains for the procurement team is the work that actually requires their judgment: vendor strategy, commercial negotiation, and the decisions that move the business forward. We are starting to see a new kind of procurement professional emerge at these companies. Someone who thinks in systems, sets the strategy, and lets the agents execute. That is the direction this is heading.”

The rise of the procurement engineer

With this launch, Spendflo is introducing a new role it believes will define the next generation of procurement operations: the procurement engineer.

The procurement engineer is not a coordinator. They do not spend their days chasing approvals, tracking down documents, or manually reconciling invoices. They configure and orchestrate an AI agent workforce to run procurement operations end to end. They design the workflows Flo executes. They own the vendor strategy Flo acts on. They set the policies Flo enforces. Their time goes to the work that requires human judgment: negotiations, vendor relationships, commercial strategy, and the systems thinking that makes procurement a lever for the business rather than a cost centre behind it.

This is a structural shift in what procurement functions look like. Most procurement teams today are built around coordination and process management. People spend the majority of their time moving information between systems and stakeholders. As AI agents take over that operational layer, the procurement function reorganises around a smaller, more senior profile: one person with strong commercial instincts and deep systems thinking, running an agent workforce that executes on their behalf.

The analogy is the GTM engineer, a role that emerged when revenue teams realised that configuring and orchestrating go-to-market tooling required a distinct skill set closer to systems design than sales execution. Procurement is undergoing the same shift. The procurement engineer is the person who makes Flo smarter and more precisely tuned to their organisation over time. They are not replaced by AI. They are the ones who run it.

For mid-market companies, lean procurement is not a constraint. It is the operating model. One procurement engineer orchestrating an agent workforce will run procurement with more speed, more intelligence, and more commercial impact than a headcount-heavy team running manual processes.

Availability

Flo is available now. It is designed for mid-market companies between $50 million and $1 billion in revenue, and connects to existing ERP, finance, and contract infrastructure without requiring organisations to replace current systems.

Magna Systems adds telco solutions From Coverage to Experience alongside Building the Future Broadcast Stack at BroadcastAsia 2026

20-22 May at Singapore Expo on stand 5D1-1

SINGAPORE, 14 May 2026 – Magna Systems is adding the latest telco solutions From Coverage to Experience in 4G, 5G and NTN Performance alongside its Building the Future Broadcast Stack demos at BroadcastAsia 2026 from 20-22 May at Singapore Expo on stand 5D1-1.

Magna’s telco offering at the show includes demonstrations of LIG Accuver solutions for comprehensive wireless testing, measurement and optimisation for 4G, 5G, emerging 6G networks as well as NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks).

They will also be demonstrating JSDenki’s premier electromagnetical compatibility (EMC) test and measurement solutions and WaveControl’s professional instruments for measuring and monitoring electromagnetic fields (EMF).

Alongside these will be demos from iBWave and their solutions for designing, planning and surveying in-building wireless networks, including Wi-Fi, 5G, LTE and 5G and Pegatron the company that specialises in the development of 5G private network products and energy-saving solutions.

The telco solutions on Magna’s BroadcastAsia stand will further complement cutting-edge and best-of-breed solutions and demonstrations from their broadcast technology partners including:

• Actus showcasing its latest Compliance Logger, featuring enhanced content recording, monitoring, and regulatory compliance capabilities

• Arkona demonstrating its Easy IP Router together with the Manifold Production Multiviewer on the AT300, highlighting flexible and scalable IP-based signal routing and monitoring for modern broadcast operations

• Caton Technology demonstrating Caton Media XStream, its intelligent IP transport platform, showcasing AI-driven smart routing, resilient delivery architecture and real-time network visibility for high-quality live video delivery across regions

• Chyron showcasing its end-to-end production graphics solutions, highlighting the Prime Platform, seamless newsroom integration and advanced VR/AR and cloud-based live production workflows

• Dalet presenting the newest release of the Dalet Flex System, demonstrating flexible, cloud-native media workflows for content production, management and distribution

• Enensys introducing IPGuardX and StreamProbe, focusing on robust signal protection, advanced monitoring and enhanced reliability for contribution and distribution networks

• Kaltura showcasing its Streaming Platform alongside its new Conversational Avatars, highlighting interactive and immersive video experiences

• NetOnLive presenting LiveOS, a software-defined, IP-based production system that virtualises the TV control room and OB truck by converting dedicated hardware into software modules running on IT servers over a SMPTE ST 2110 network, enabling local, remote and decentralised live production

• Providius presenting NVRT, demonstrating how it provides critical network visibility for organisations that depend on secure, high-value IP network performance

• RTS unveiling its latest intercom solutions including NoMAD and RVOC, designed to support scalable, IP-based communications for broadcast and live production teams

• Synamedia showcasing a set of end‑to‑end video distribution and streaming capabilities, all demonstrated via their demo portal with the focus on flexibility, resilience and cloud‑native delivery models

• TAG Video Systems showcasing the latest version of its Multiviewer, including QC Station, Operations Panel and Lens designed for comprehensive monitoring in IP-based broadcast infrastructures

• Techex demonstrating TxDarwin and TxEdge, illustrating how software-defined technologies can modernise and increase the flexibility of Master Control Room (MCR) operations

• TSL presenting its latest Hummingbird broadcast control system, alongside audio monitoring solutions and control panels designed to improve efficiency and enable centralised control

Magna Systems will also have a full team of product specialists from across the globe at BroadcastAsia 2026 to help visitors to their stand explore opportunities arising from integrating the very latest broadcast and telco technologies.

Epson to showcase latest projector innovations at ENTECH 2026 Australian Roadshows

SYDNEY, May 14 – Epson will be among the key exhibitors at this year’s ENTECH 2026 Australian Roadshows, presenting its latest high-brightness and creative display solutions for the professional AV industry across five major cities from 19 May to 2 June 2026.

 PQ2220B 4K 20,000‑lumen projector

Now in its 33rd year, ENTECH is recognised as one of the world’s most respected touring trade events for the professional audio-visual community.

The one-day format in each city attracts consultants, system integrators, AV designers, engineers, operators and venue decision-makers looking for hands-on experience with the newest technologies in projection, lighting, audio and integrated visual communications.

Epson will present a range of projection solutions designed for demanding installation, live event and commercial AV environments, demonstrating the performance and versatility of its 3LCD laser technology.

 EB‑PQ2220B 4K 20,000‑lumen projector

The lineup will include the EB‑PQ2220B 4K 20,000‑lumen projector with an LX02S lens and 120” screen. Setting a new benchmark for image precision and brightness, the EB‑PQ2220B will be a key attraction for rental and staging specialists and integration professionals who demand uncompromising image quality.

With 4K Crystal Motion technology, a powerful 20,000‑lumen laser light source and interchangeable lenses, it delivers exceptional clarity and colour accuracy over large surfaces.

On display with the LX02S ultra-short throw lens, the projector will demonstrate how high-impact projection can be achieved within limited installation distances making it ideal for event spaces, immersive attractions and corporate venues.

EB‑L690SE short‑throw projector

Also on the Epson stand will be two compact yet powerful 6,000-lumen EB‑L690SE projectors set up in a vertically stacked formation for a total light output of 12,000 lumens. The brightness and positioning versatility of this model makes it ideal for meeting spaces, retail environments, education and museum displays where space is at a premium.

LightScene EV‑110

The model’s short‑throw capability enables large, vivid presentations from short distances without shadowing, showcasing Epson’s continued focus on installation flexibility and cost-effective performance.

Adding an artistic twist to the Epson stand at ENTECH will be the LightScene EV‑110 which can show how light‑based storytelling transforms physical spaces.

Blending digital content with real-world environments, the EV‑110 combines sleek design and discreet form, making it ideal for retail environments, hospitality, gallery installations and architectural spaces seeking to elevate ambience and engagement.

LightScene EV‑110

Senior product manager – VI at Epson Australia Paige van Saarloos said, “ENTECH is where the professional AV community meets technology in action. It’s the perfect environment for showcasing how our projectors help professionals bring creative and operational visions to life, from large‑scale projection mapping to high‑impact retail installations and dependable venue integration.”

 Visitors to Epson’s stand will be able to interact with the latest generation of 3LCD laser projection, explore lens flexibility and control options and discuss real‑world applications with Epson’s technical specialists across every event.

ENTECH 2026 Roadshow dates and locations
Sydney

Tuesday 19 May 2026

11am – 6pm

Hordern Pavilion

Brisbane

Thursday 21 May 2026

11am – 6pm

Brisbane Showgrounds

Melbourne

Tuesday 26 May 2026

11am – 6pm

Melbourne Showgrounds

Adelaide

Thursday 28 May 2026

11am – 6pm

Adelaide Showground

Perth

Tuesday 2 June 2026

11am – 6pm

HPC Stadium

Registration for the 2026 Australian and New Zealand ENTECH Roadshows is free and open now.

Motorola Launches razr Fold with DXOMARK Gold 1 Foldable Camera in India

Mumbai, May 13 : Motorola, a global leader in mobile technology and innovation and India’s leading AI smartphone brand, today launched the motorola razr fold, its first foldable smartphone redefining productivity and play, enabling users to seamlessly work, create, and multitask.

The device features the World’s Best Foldable camera system recognised with the DXOMARK Gold Label for imaging excellence, featuring the world’s only Triple 50MP Pro-Grade Foldable Camera System led by the advanced Sony LYTIA™ 828 and Sony LYTIA™ 600 camera with moto ai, delivering flagship-grade clarity, cinematic dynamic range, ultra-realistic colours, sharper shadows, reduced grain, blur-free shots, Pantone™ Validated True Colours and SkinTone™ accuracy, along with 8K Dolby Vision Recording with moto ai Video Enhancement Engine featuring the industry-first dual tone mapping engine and 4K Dolby Vision® Recording up to 60fps from all lenses. Backed by a massive 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery with 80W TurboPower™ charging and 50W wireless charging, the motorola razr fold also features a stunning 165Hz LTPO external display and immersive 2K main display. Powered by the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 5, it further enhances imaging with advanced on-device AI processing. With a sophisticated diamond piqué-inspired finish and satin-luxe inspired finish in Pantone™ curated colours, along with IP48 + IP49 durability, the motorola razr fold delivers a truly premium and seamless smartphone experience.

The motorola razr fold sets a new benchmark in imaging with a DXOMARK Gold Label for imaging excellence, anchored by its advanced 50MP Sony LYTIA™ 828 camera powered by moto ai and 8K Dolby Vision® recording. The sensor delivers stunning photography with exceptional clarity, superior signal-to-noise performance, advanced AI noise reduction for deeper blacks and cinematic contrast, and outstanding shots with brighter highlights and deeper shadows. The advanced 3.5° OIS stabilization enables ultra-steady photography and videography, while moto ai enhances textures, dynamic range, and motion detection in real time, ensuring crisp, blur-free captures even in fast-moving scenes. With Pantone™ Validated Colours and Pantone™ SkinTone™ Validation, the camera reproduces authentic, true-to-life colours exactly as creators intended.

Complementing the main sensor is a 50MP Sony LYTIA™ 600 Periscope Camera with 3x Optical Zoom & 100x Super Zoom Pro and a 50MP Ultra-Wide + Macro Vision camera with up to 122° field of view for expansive landscapes and intricate close-ups. For selfies, the device sports a 20MP outside selfie camera and 32MP inside selfie camera with Quad Pixel Technology.

The device supports Ultra-Sharp 8K Dolby Vision® Recording with moto ai Video Enhancement Engine and 4K Dolby Vision Recording up to 60fps from all lenses enabling seamless lens switching for cinematic storytelling from every angle. FHD slow motion captures the moment at up to 240fps. moto ai smart features include a Photo Enhancement Engine, Video Enhancement Engine with the industry’s first dual tone mapping, Adaptive Stabilization, Super Zoom Pro (up to 100x), and Dynamic Bokeh. Additional camera features include Frame Match, Instagram HDR, Active Photos, Video Horizon Lock, Audio Zoom, Adaptive Stabilization, Hyperlapse, Long Exposure Mode, Air Gesture control, FIFA World Cup™ Watermark, and full integration with Google Photos AI tools  including Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, Magic Editor, and more.

The motorola razr fold houses a massive 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, engineered to deliver over 43 hours of battery life on a single charge without compromising performance. Designed for uninterrupted streaming, gaming, 8K recording, video calls, and social media usage, the advanced silicon-carbon technology ensures long-lasting endurance in a sleek profile. Complementing this is 80W TurboPower™ charging. It also supports 50W TurboPower™ wireless charging and 5W reverse charging for earbuds, smartwatches, and other compatible accessories.

Further, the smartphone features a massive 8.1” 2K Extreme AMOLED Main Display delivering tablet-like multitasking, cinematic viewing, creator-grade editing, and flagship gaming immersion, along with a 6.6” Extreme AMOLED External Display that delivers a complete smartphone experience even when folded for messaging, navigation, productivity, entertainment, and camera usage without unfolding. The 165Hz LTPO refresh rate on the external display enables ultra-fluid scrolling, smoother animations, responsive gaming, and immersive interactions. With Pantone™ Validated Display and Pantone™ SkinTone™ Validation, the screen reproduces true-to-life colours and accurate skin tones exactly as creators intended. The display achieves exceptional outdoor visibility with 6,200 nits peak brightness on the main display for ultra-vibrant HDR playback even under direct sunlight. HDR10+, 100% DCI-P3 wide colour gamut, and 10-bit colour depth combine to deliver over a billion shades with ultra-accurate colour reproduction and deeper visual realism. Designed with Corning® Gorilla® Glass Ceramic 3 outside and Ultra Thin Glass inside, users can feel confident about the strength of the display.

Powering the motorola razr fold is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, delivering superfast performance without unnecessary battery drain. With up to 16GB LPDDR5X RAM and up to 512GB UFS 4.1 storage, the razr fold ensures seamless multitasking, responsive gaming, and smooth everyday performance. RAM Boost turns storage into virtual RAM, automatically adapting to keep multiple apps running without a hitch.

Additionally, the device features an ultra-thin 4.6mm unfolded profile with a lightweight 240g foldable design. It showcases PANTONE curated premium finishes with Satin-Luxe and Diamond Piqué textures, including a Satin-Luxe inspired finish in PANTONE™ Lily White delivering a soft-touch silky texture with elegant premium aesthetics, and a diamond piqué textured finish in PANTONE™ Blackened Blue inspired by luxury fabric craftsmanship for a uniquely tactile and sophisticated in-hand experience. Advanced hinge engineering with an aircraft-grade steel hinge and titanium reinforcement improves structural stability, smoother folding action, and long-term durability, while the precision-engineered teardrop-shaped hinge reduces stress on the screen and creates a fluid, effortless folding experience with minimized gaps for a clean, seamless look. As the world’s first smartphone featuring Corning® Gorilla® Glass Ceramic 3, it delivers enhanced durability, scratch resistance, and premium protection against everyday wear.

Speaking on the launch, Mr. T.M. Narasimhan, Managing Director, Motorola India, said,

“With the motorola razr fold, we are ushering in a new era for foldables, designed to unlock greater productivity and creativity. It is a device that combines stunning design, pro-grade intelligence, and exceptional craftsmanship to make every interaction truly remarkable. Paired with the moto buds 2 plus, where the brilliance of Sound By Bose meets the acoustic expertise, we are delivering an ecosystem that is as stylish as it is powerful and making it the segment best audio experience.

At Motorola, we have always believed that great technology should feel personal, and this launch is the fullest expression of that belief. We are proud to bring this experience to India, reaffirming our commitment to our consumers and our position as the country’s leading AI smartphone brand.”

Running on Hello UI based on Android™ 16, the motorola razr fold comes with a promise of 7 years of Android OS and 7 years of security updates. The OS provides deep customisation, from custom colours, fonts, and icon shapes to unique wallpapers for home and lock screens. Features include Auto Blur screenshots, Gestures, Quick Capture, Fast Flashlight, Three Finger Screenshot, and Quick Launch, while AI-powered system optimization intelligently improves responsiveness, app launch speeds, and background efficiency over time.

The motorola razr fold also comes with moto ai 2.0, delivering next-level intelligence with contextual suggestions, AI-powered productivity, and creative experiences. AI Image Studio enables Text to Image, Sketch to Image, AI Avatars, Text to Sticker, and AI Playlist Studio creation tools, while features like Catch Me Up 2.0, Pay Attention, Next Move Suggestions, Global Search, Show This On That, and Auto Screenshot Blur enhance everyday productivity. Remember This, Recall, and Save to Memory act as an intelligent memory vault, while Google Gemini integration enables writing, learning, planning, AI image generation, and seamless actions across Google apps.

The motorola razr fold meets advanced durability standards with IP48 and IP49 rated water and dust protection for improved reliability in daily usage conditions. Smart Water Touch technology enables uninterrupted screen responsiveness even around water or moisture. The immersive Gold Standard Cinematic Sound experience is delivered through Sound by Bose, Dual Stereo Speakers, Dolby Atmos® Spatial Audio, and Hi-Res Audio, creating multidimensional sound with enhanced depth, positioning, and immersion.

Celebrating the world’s biggest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup 26™ Collection features a FIFA special edition of motorola razr fold which comes with exclusive FIFA experiences, FIFA World Cup 26™ Watermark, curated wallpapers, official ringtones, and FIFA Heroes gaming access.

Bundled with the motorola razr fold, the moto buds 2 plus add a perfect blend of style and premium audio to the complete experience. The moto buds 2 plus, titled as the Segment’s Best Audio experience powered by Sound by Bose technology, are crafted like fine jewellery and designed to make a bold style statement. Powerful 11mm dynamic drivers deliver deep bass, while balanced armatures by Knowles add exceptional clarity and detail. Support for LHDC and LDAC codecs ensures rich, high-quality, low-latency wireless audio.

With Dynamic ANC making it the Segment’s Best Adaptive ANC tuned in collaboration with Bose engineers, the moto buds 2 plus intelligently block distractions, while Transparency Mode lets ambient sound in when needed. A six-microphone system with Environmental Noise Cancellation and CrystalTalk AI keeps calls crystal clear, even in noisy surroundings. Offering up to 9 hours of playback on a single charge and 40 hours with the case, they also support fast charging, It is a segment’s only earbuds with Bluetooth® 6.0 and features Dual Connection, Gaming Mode, Wear Detection, Fit Test, IP54 water resistance, and instant access to moto ai features on compatible Motorola devices.

Scality launches Autonomous Data Infrastructure: A new operating model for enterprise AI, cyber resilience, and sovereign control

Building on the proven foundations of RING and ARTESCA, Scality ADI introduces autonomous operations, cross-media flexibility, and extreme AI-scale performance for organizations operating at multi-petabyte to exabyte scale

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 — Scality, a global leader in data infrastructure software for the AI era, today announced Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a sustainable data infrastructure platform designed for organizations that must simultaneously power diverse AI workloads, defend against escalating cyber threats, and maintain sovereign control over their data.

Scality ADI combines Scality’s proven distributed object storage foundation with Guardian, an AI-powered autonomous operations engine that dramatically reduces administrative burden while keeping humans in the loop for every decision. The platform spans multiple storage media classes within a single namespace, with policy-driven lifecycle management that lets organizations align the right performance and economics to each workload.

RING and ARTESCA, Scality’s trusted solutions for large-scale distributed storage and immutable backup storage, continue as core products in the portfolio.

AI has broken the old storage model

The demands on enterprise data infrastructure have fundamentally changed. AI is no longer a single workload. It spans training, inference, multimodal agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), video search and summarization (VSS), and KV cache for distributed inference. Each has radically different requirements for throughput, latency, and data governance. At the same time, cyber threats have grown more sophisticated, regulators demand provable resilience, and power constraints have become hard design limits in modern data centers.

Traditional storage architectures, designed for predictable growth and isolated tiers, force painful tradeoffs between performance, resilience, cost, and control. Organizations do not need another storage product with yet increased complexity. They need sustainable data infrastructure built for the decades ahead.

Building on the success of Scality ARTESCA and Scality RING

Scality ADI builds on more than 15 years of innovation. Scality RING, deployed by the world’s most demanding organizations for large-scale distributed storage, has proven its resilience and scalability at multi-petabyte to exabyte scale for over a decade. ARTESCA, Scality’s backup-first object storage solution with CORE5 end-to-end cyber resilience and a $100,000 cyber guarantee, has become a trusted foundation for immutable data protection. Both products continue and remain central to Scality’s portfolio.

Scality ADI represents the next chapter: a product purpose-built for the new realities that AI, sovereign data requirements, and sustainability constraints impose on enterprise infrastructure.

A platform built for what comes next

Scality ADI introduces capabilities that go beyond what any single storage product can deliver. Scality Guardian, its autonomous operations engine, uses AI-powered agents to handle expansion, healing, rebalancing, upgrades, and lifecycle workflows, dramatically reducing the administrative burden on infrastructure teams.

Every operation follows a human-in-the-loop principle: Scality Guardian surfaces insights and recommends actions, but humans approve and control every decision. Beyond built-in Guardian intelligence, MCP-enabled extensibility allows organizations to integrate their own AI tools and automation workflows directly into ADI operations, so the platform can be driven by a customer’s own AI stack, not just Scality’s.

Its software-defined, disaggregated architecture spans NVMe SSD (TLC/QLC), HDD, tape and cloud storage within a single namespace, while policy-driven lifecycle management, defined and approved by operators, aligns the right media, performance, and economics to each workload:

• It can deliver the extreme performance requirements of GPUs at multi-TB/s and ultra-low latency thanks to our new RDMA-accelerated KV cache connector.
• QLC, HDD and future NL-flash deliver balanced performance at an attractive cost of ownership.
• Long-term archives achieve near-zero power consumption on tape or cloud ice cold storage.

CORE5 cyber resilience ensures data remains immutable, recoverable, and auditable at every level. Real-time power telemetry gives infrastructure teams visibility into consumption at system, node, and workload levels, connecting performance decisions to actual data center constraints.

Open-code and outcome-based customer experience

Scality ADI is delivered as open-code software with the source code available for inspection and governed contributions to support both longevity and transparency in mission-critical environments. It is also backed by outcome-based SLAs spanning availability, performance, protection posture, power consumption, and operational efficiency. It is designed for large enterprises, government organizations, and sovereign environments where trust, longevity, and inspectability are as important as technical performance.

“The AI era hasn’t just changed how enterprises use data, it has exposed how badly the old storage model was broken. Scality ADI isn’t just a faster object store. It’s a new operating model that autonomously aligns the right performance, protection, and economics to every workload, at every stage of the data lifecycle. That’s what it takes to keep GPUs productive, satisfy regulators and insurers, and maintain sovereign control, all at the same time, and at exabyte scale. We are not replacing what works. We are building what comes next.”

— Jérôme Lecat, CEO, Scality

“We have relied on Scality RING as a core storage platform of our private cloud since 2021, and it has consistently delivered the scale, resilience, and performance our operations require. Scality ADI and its Guardian autonomous operations represent exactly the evolution we need — AI-enabled infrastructure management that will allow our teams to operate more efficiently while maintaining the security and control standards our business demands.”

— Manuel Paviotti, Manager Backup & Storage, Groupama G2S

“Our research underscores that building the right data infrastructure is critical in evolving enterprise AI from PoC to operational scale that meets the realities and responsibilities of complex, modern organisations. Yet, the conversation around autonomous infrastructure has too often defaulted to marketing language without addressing the governance question enterprises care about. Scality ADI takes a more credible approach, with operational intelligence through policy-governed execution, where agents surface recommendations and actions occur within auditable bounds, on an architecture ideally suited to the regulated, sovereign, and mission-critical environments where trust in the platform is as important as its technical performance.”

— Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst, Omdia

Availability

Scality ADI is available now through Scality’s global network of channel partners and strategic alliance partners.

Vapi raises $50M Series B as it reaches 1 billion calls, powering the next generation of enterprise voice AI

San Francisco, CA – May 13: voice AI startup Vapi announced a $50 million funding round to make all calls extraordinary.  When a customer calls a business, they aren’t looking for another channel. They’re looking for an outcome. But most phone experiences still run on rigid phone trees, scripts, and deterministic systems that can’t listen, adapt, or resolve issues the way a human can. Voice is where intent is highest and expectations are clearest. Vapi, the leading platform for deploying configurable voice agents at scale, was built to make that channel extraordinary. 

Following a 10x in enterprise ARR growth, the Series B round was led by Peak XV with participation by M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and earlier investors, bringing total funding to $72 million.

Nearly $3 trillion in global sales are projected to be at risk in 2026 due to bad customer experiences. And despite years of investment in chatbots, automation, and self-service portals, customer satisfaction scores haven’t increased. Since 2022, they’ve actually dropped by 2%, and haven’t meaningfully moved since 2017. The problem isn’t that businesses aren’t trying. It’s that the systems behind most customer interactions were never designed to listen, adapt, or meet people where they are. Vapi believes the fastest way to earn trust and resolve issues has always been a real conversation. Voice AI can finally make those conversations happen at scale.

Enterprise customers include Amazon Ring, Kavak, ServiceTitan, New York Life, and Intuit. Amazon Ring uses Vapi to handle inbound customer inquiries about smart home security devices.

“When [Amazon] Ring customers call in, they expect fast, high-quality support,” said Jason Mitura, Vice President of Software Development at Amazon Ring. “After evaluating dozens of vendors, Vapi stood out. We went from zero to production in two weeks, and 100% of our inbound volume now runs through the Vapi. Most importantly, we’ve maintained our high bar of support for our customers and CSAT scores have improved. Vapi gives our teams the ability to tune the agent experience without depending on engineering. A lot of AI tools promise great outcomes – Vapi has delivered on them.” 

Vapi is an enterprise voice AI platform for building, deploying, and managing voice agents that deliver the outcomes businesses want at the scale their customers need. The platform is designed to take teams from working prototype to production-scale deployment in days instead of months. Vapi’s platform is optimized for low latency, with the flexibility to swap models and providers, and an API that removes the need to understand telephony internals. Vapi’s mission is to make it easy for any business to build the kind of human interface that lets customers get the help they need.

The platform powers voice AI for businesses that need to handle calls at scale – supporting everything from inbound customer service and outbound collections to candidate screening, sales coaching through simulated dialogue, and autonomous IVR navigation. Customers use Vapi to replace or augment contact centers, automate high-volume qualification workflows, and navigate complex third-party payer systems without human involvement. The company has found its strongest traction in financial services, healthcare, insurance, automotive, and workforce management.

“Vapi has built a differentiated self-serve product for developers and enterprises in the massive voiceAI revolution,” said Arnav Sahu, Partner at Peak XV. “In 10 years, it’s likely most calls will not have a human behind the phone. With its bottom-up, PLG approach, we believe Vapi is the next Zapier and n8n for voiceAI workflows. At Peak XV, we are investors in several developer and bottom-up companies like Supabase, PostHog, Better Auth and ClickHouse and believe Vapi has the potential to be the defining platform for voice AI. We are excited to partner with them.”

Co-founders Jordan Dearsley and Nikhil Gupta met at the University of Waterloo and spent years building products together, including a Y Combinator-backed calendar app that reached profitability. Vapi started almost by accident. In mid-2023, Dearsley built a voice-based AI therapist for his daily walks, chaining models together and optimizing for latency until he had a working phone-based system. The therapy product didn’t take off, but the infrastructure did. Vapi launched publicly on Product Hunt in March 2024.

Most businesses have spent decades of time and effort, only to make their customer experience worse,” said Jordan Dearsley, CEO and co-founder of Vapi. “The real unlock is building agents for your customers that feel human. Vapi gives teams the platform to deploy voice agents that actually solve problems for customers — millions of them, every day.

Today, the company reports more than 1 million developers, over 2.7 million unique agents created, and over 1 billion calls made. 

Vapi sees the next phase of voice AI being defined by governance and predictability. As agents take on higher-stakes workflows, enterprise operators need tighter uptime guarantees, predictable latency under load, and call-level monitoring that treats every conversation as a production workload. That is where the company is focused: deeper reliability, stronger guardrails that keep agents within defined boundaries, and clear escalation paths when a situation calls for a human. The goal is to make it easy for any business to deploy voice agents that deliver measurable outcomes at scale, so that getting help feels as natural as having a real conversation.

Outpost24 Launches AI-Powered Authentication to Remove Configuration Barriers in DAST

By replacing complex authentication setup with plain-language instructions, Outpost24 Scale helps Application Security and DevSecOps teams make authenticated DAST easier to configure, maintain, and scale.

Stockholm, Sweden, May 12- Outpost24, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions serving over 3,000 customers across more than 65 countries, today launched AI-powered authentication for Scale, its dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution. The new capability replaces fragile manual authentication configuration with plain-language instructions, helping Application Security and DevSecOps teams configure authenticated DAST scans faster, reduce maintenance effort, and expand authenticated coverage across large application portfolios.

Authenticated scanning is essential for finding vulnerabilities behind login pages, but it has traditionally been difficult to scale. Many DAST tools rely on scripts or browser recordings that can break when login flows change, creating maintenance work for specialist users and leaving coverage gaps across modern web applications.

Scale’s AI-powered authentication addresses this bottleneck by accepting plain-language instructions that an AI agent executes. This reduces reliance on scripts that can slow setup and create ongoing maintenance risk, allowing authentication configurations to be created and maintained across multiple applications and environments without scripting skills.

Outpost24 Scale provides automated vulnerability detection across external, internal, and commercial off-the-shelf applications, continuous monitoring against organizational security standards, and structured compliance reporting. Detection is developed with input from Outpost24’s certified penetration testing team, delivering low false positives and actionable results.

The launch is part of Outpost24’s broader AI strategy: applying AI where it reduces manual effort, simplifies security operations, and helps teams act faster. Additional AI-driven capabilities are planned across the Outpost24 platform throughout 2026.

AVer’s FONE700 Ceiling Speakerphone Certified for Microsoft Teams

Taipei, Taiwan – May 12: AVer Information Inc., an award-winning provider of AI audio-video solutions, announced that the FONE700 Ceiling Speakerphone has been Certified for Microsoft Teams. The certification recognizes the FONE700 as a qualified USB audio peripheral for Teams Rooms on Windows, helping to ensure a seamless user experience for professional meeting environments through a simplified installation.

The FONE700 Ceiling Speakerphone delivers robust full-duplex audio performance through its combination of advanced noise suppression, double-talk detection and de-reverberation technology. With a design that minimizes background noise, supports simultaneous speech and reduces echo, the FONE700 provides clear and balanced sound across diverse meeting spaces.

Featuring three directional and eighteen omnidirectional microphones, the FONE700 captures voices accurately from all corners of a room. The FONE700 connects through a single USB cable for simplified installation and a clutter-free setup, supporting up to four speakerphones with a maximum range of 130 feet to accommodate varying room sizes. Its versatile connectivity integrates easily into existing conferencing systems, serving as an audio hub for AVer’s broader portfolio of video and audio solutions.

“Certified for Microsoft Teams reinforces our commitment to interoperability and reliability across conferencing ecosystems,” said Mike Garcen, Senior Director of Product and Marketing. “The FONE700 combines technical precision with streamlined integration to support productive and efficient collaboration.”

“We’re committed to delivering high quality audio to meeting spaces that feels natural and inclusive for everyone, whether they’re joining in the room or remotely,” said Albert Kooiman, General Manager, Teams Partner Engineering and Customer Enablement at Microsoft. “The Certification for Microsoft Teams helps ensure solutions meet the high standards our customers expect.”

AVer’s FONE700, now Certified for Microsoft Teams, has received a new firmware update that delivers noticeably crisper voice reproduction, significantly reduced reverberation, and cleaner, more natural audio — even in acoustically challenging spaces. The result is studio-grade intelligibility and seamless full-duplex performance that meet the strict requirements of Teams deployments, firmly positioning the FONE700 as an IT-approved ceiling solution for modern enterprise meeting rooms.

AVer ensures that its solutions deliver consistent performance and compatibility across enterprise and education applications. The FONE700 is backed by AVer’s three-year warranty with First Year Advanced Replacement, which offers a 72-hour replacement service during the first year of ownership.

AAEON Adds Two New Embedded AI Systems to its BOXER-865xAI-PLUS Series Featuring NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX with Super Mode

The BOXER-8651AI-PLUS, BOXER-8652AI-PLUS, and BOXER-8653AI-PLUS offer distinct features to bring AI functionality to versatile vertical market segments.

Taipei, Taiwan – May 12: AAEON (Stock Code: 6579), a leading provider of edge AI platforms, today announced the release of the BOXER-8651AI-PLUS and BOXER-8652AI-PLUS, two embedded AI systems powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX module with Super Mode support. The two systems follow the release of the BOXER-8653AI-PLUS back in February 2026, and complete AAEON’s BOXER-865xAI-PLUS series. 

Designed to provide users across market segments with the enhanced software stack, greater power consumption flexibility and performance optimization offered by Super Mode with NVIDIA JetPack 6.2 SDK, BOXER-865xAI-PLUS series PCs offer up to 157 TOPS of AI performance. The primary differences between the three systems are their form factors and the functions they offer, which in turn influence the types of deployment scenarios AAEON has positioned them for.

The smallest of the three at 125mm x 90mm x 56mm, the BOXER-8651AI-PLUS is geared towards applications that require high-performance AI inference in space-constrained setups, such as AIoT nodes within the smart building management and retail sectors. As such, the system’s I/O is relatively streamlined, with four USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and Gigabit Ethernet joining a DB-9 port for CANBus/ RS-232 and a 10-pin physical DIO header. Despite its compact size, the system maintains a -25°C to 55°C operating temperature range alongside a 12V to 24V power input tolerance.

Also relatively compact at 190mm x 136mm x 75mm, the BOXER-8652AI-PLUS is positioned as a platform for industrial AI applications such as AMR. To host the cameras and sensors required for such solutions, the BOXER-8652AI-PLUS provides two DB-9 ports for CANBus and RS-232/422/485, four USB, and dual RJ-45 LAN. Moreover, the BOXER-8652AI-PLUS includes a box header for out-of-band management support, making it suitable for scaling industrial AMR fleets across factories.

The most advanced of the three, the BOXER-8653AI-PLUS includes four independent PoE LAN ports. As such, AAEON has indicated it is primarily positioned for smart city installations like roadside units and public safety systems. Lending further credence to this is the BOXER-8653AI-PLUS’s out-of-band management and TPM 2.0 support, which AAEON states have been included to enable secure remote device rebooting, diagnostics, and monitoring on the system when it is deployed as part of broader smart infrastructure setups.

The full BOXER-865xAI-PLUS series is now in mass production, with detailed specifications available on the product’s respective pages on the AAEON website. Meanwhile, pricing and ordering information can be obtained via the AAEON eShop or via the contact form on the AAEON website.