When AI Becomes the Interface, What Happens to SaaS?

For years, logging into martech software meant entering a dashboard. Whether someone needed to analyze sales, review customer data, monitor campaign performance or manage an account, the dashboard served as the starting point. Software companies invested heavily in making those environments easier to navigate because getting customers into the application was central to how the…

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Medtronic Invests $700M in Cornerstone Robotics for Sentire Rights

Medtronic announced on September 1, 2026 a strategic partnership with Cornerstone Robotics built around an approximately $700 million investment that includes rights to distribute Cornerstone’s Sentire surgical system in select markets outside the United States where the system is market approved. Under the arrangement, Medtronic said it will distribute Sentire alongside its Hugo robotic-assisted surgery…

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Renesas Joins Autoware Foundation to Bring Open-Source AI to ADAS Platforms

The Autoware Foundation said on September 1, 2026, that Renesas Electronics has joined the organization as a member of its highest membership tier, in a collaboration aimed at bringing the foundation’s open-source end-to-end AI software to Renesas R-Car system-on-chip platforms for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving. According to the announcement, the partnership is intended…

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Mech-Mind Robotics Lists on Hong Kong Exchange in Embodied AI IPO

Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies Co., Ltd. listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026, pricing its global offering at HK$101.70 per H share for net proceeds of approximately HK$2.20 billion. The listing gives the embodied-intelligence robot-component maker a market capitalization of HK$12,713.6 million. According to the company’s allotment results…

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Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design?  For Kumar, meaningful innovation doesn’t result from engineers or designers working in isolation. Instead, she believes the best innovations emerge when the people…

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