🛩 AECOM Launches AI Innovation Centre in Singapore

👩‍💻 Greetings To All AI Learners. AECOM established the Sustainable Legacies Centre of Excellence in Singapore to elevate sustainable engineering capabilities among its local workforce. This initiative serves as a centralized hub for innovation, professional training, and thought leadership helping embed ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles into the firm's infrastructure and engineering projects.

✨ In today’s AI News we will cover:

🏢 AECOM Launches AI Innovation Centre in Singapore

💵 Cognition AI Achieves $10.2B Valuation

🎊 Bika.ai Unveiled as the “World’s First AI Organizer”

📱 Nokia & Supermicro Partner on AI-Driven Data Centers

🔮 4 Trending AI Tools

LATEST NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

✨ AECOM’S AI MASTERY

💫 AECOM Launches AI Innovation Centre in Singapore

🏙 AECOM launched its Sustainable Legacies Centre of Excellence in Singapore as a strategic hub for building internal capacity in sustainable engineering and ESG. It combines training (via an academy), hands-on project immersion, and industry thought leadership to train over 100 employees in the next three years supporting both Singapore’s Green Plan 2030 and AECOM’s global sustainability goals.

💫 Highlights

🏗️ Infrastructure Focus: AI-powered solutions for underground infrastructure planning and design.

📍 Singapore Hub: Strategically located to serve Asia-Pacific infrastructure projects.

🤖 Tech Integration: Combines AI, digital twins, and data analytics for urban development.

👩‍💻 Workforce Upskilling: Training engineers and designers in next-gen AI tools.

🧠 Innovation Engine: Acts as a collaborative space for R&D and knowledge sharing.

💫 Significance

🌱 Supports Sustainability: Advances eco-friendly infrastructure aligned with ESG goals.

🚀 Boosts Productivity: AI reduces time and error in planning complex projects.

🌐 Regional Impact: Strengthens Singapore’s position as an innovation leader in civil engineering.

🎯 Aligns with Green Plan 2030: Directly supports Singapore’s national climate and development targets.

🔄 Future-Ready: Prepares infrastructure firms for the AI-driven construction era.

✨ COGNITION BECOMES BILLIONAIRE

💫 Cognition AI Achieves $10.2B Valuation

💸 Cognition AI, the startup behind the AI coding assistant "Devin," has secured approximately $400 million in a funding round, resulting in a post‑money valuation of $10.2 billion a dramatic leap from its earlier $4 billion valuation earlier this year.

💫 Highlights

💰 $400M Raised: Latest funding round boosts valuation to $10.2 billion.

🧠 Devin AI Agent: Known for building the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer.

🏢 Windsurf Acquisition: Strengthened enterprise product offerings and recurring revenue.

🚀 Backed by Giants: Investors include Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Elad Gil.

👨‍💻 Team Expansion: Plans to grow engineering workforce to scale AI development.

💫 Significance

📈 Skyrocketing Valuation: More than doubled from earlier $4B valuation in just months.

🤖 Confidence in AI Agents: Shows strong investor belief in agent-based software future.

🛠️ Enterprise Disruption: Targeting full-cycle software development automation.

🌐 Competitive Edge: Positioning itself alongside OpenAI Codex, Replit, and GitHub Copilot.

🔄 Workflow Revolution: Signals a shift from AI-assisted to AI-executed coding tasks.

✨ BIKA-THE FIRST AI ORGANIZER

💫 Bika.ai Unveiled as the “World’s First AI Organizer”

💻 Bika.ai launches as a unified AI-powered workspace combining AI agents, automation, scalable databases, dashboards, and document tools into a chat‑style platform where users can build and manage a “one-person AI company.”

💫 Highlights

🤖 AI Organizer: Marketed as the world’s first AI-powered organizer.

💬 Chat-Based Interface: Interact with AI agents in a messenger-style workspace.

📊 Built-In Dashboards & Databases: Handle billions of rows ideal for scaling.

⚙️ No-Code Automation: Launch workflows (e.g., emails, reports) without coding.

🔐 Privacy-Friendly: Offers customization, export, and self-hosting options.

💫 Significance

🧠 "One-Person AI Company": Empowers solo founders and small teams to automate ops.

🔄 Workflow Centralization: Replaces multiple tools (e.g., Airtable, Zapier, Notion).

📈 Scalability by Design: Handles both startup and enterprise-grade data complexity.

🌍 Global Ambition: Launched in Hong Kong, aiming for international productivity market.

🚀 Next-Gen Workspace: Represents the shift from “tool stacks” to AI-native workspaces.

✨ NOKIA AND SUPERMICRO’S AI-PARTNERSHIP

💫 Nokia & Supermicro Partner on AI-Driven Data Centers

👯‍♂️ Nokia and Supermicro have teamed up to offer turnkey, AI-optimized data center networking solutions. They’re combining Supermicro’s high‑performance switching hardware with Nokia’s network automation platform (SR Linux + Event‑Driven Automation), enabling simplified deployment, improved efficiency, and full automation of AI‑centric data center networks.

💫 Highlights

🤝 Strategic Partnership: Nokia teams up with Supermicro to deliver AI-optimized data center solutions.

🖧 SR Linux + EDA: Leverages Nokia’s SR Linux OS and Event-Driven Automation platform.

🧠 AI-First Design: Built specifically for high-performance, AI-centric workloads.

🛠️ Turnkey Solutions: Combines software, hardware, and automation into ready-to-deploy packages.

📦 Supermicro Hardware: Uses Supermicro’s high-capacity, power-efficient data center switches.

💫 Significance

⚡ Faster AI Deployment: Reduces complexity and time-to-market for AI data centers.

🔁 Full Automation: Enables self-operating network environments through AI-driven orchestration.

📉 Lower OPEX: Automation and optimized hardware help reduce operating costs.

🌍 Scalable Infrastructure: Supports the growing global demand for AI model training and inference.

🏆 Edge in AI Arms Race: Strengthens both companies’ positions in the enterprise AI infrastructure space.

QUICK HITS

✨ 4 TRENDING AI TOOLS

🤖 Qoder

🕶 Function: AI-powered code generation and documentation.

🤖 Sprinto

🕶 Function: Automates security compliance for SaaS.

🤖 Asyntai

🕶 Function: AI agents for autonomous workflows.

🤖 AliveMoment

🕶 Function: AI-generated memory videos from photos.

✨ OTHER RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AI

🚀 Google Rolls Out AI Mode in 5 New Languages

👉🏻 Google’s AI Mode in search is expanding to include Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, powered by the Gemini 2.5 model boosting accessibility and regional language support globally.

🚀 India-Based Marloo Raises $4.6M for AI Financial Advice Tools

👉🏻 Marloo, a startup aiming to digitize financial advice workflows, raised $4.6 million. Its AI-based platform automatically generates advice documents from meetings or calls, potentially saving advisers up to a day per week.

🚀 Light-Based AI Chip Boosts Efficiency 100×

👉🏻 A new light-based chip has been developed that dramatically increases energy efficiency for AI tasks offering up to 100 times more power efficiency. This could reshape how AI hardware is designed and deployed.

🤓 That’s A Wrap For Today!

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