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TaxRock launches consumer platform, putting IRS intelligence directly in taxpayers’ hands

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6 days ago

September 2, 2026

New platform gives individuals real-time visibility into their IRS picture, the intelligence to understand it and the ability to act on it

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TaxRock, an AI-native IRS intelligence company, today announced the launch of its consumer platform, extending its IRS intelligence infrastructure directly to individuals and business owners managing their own IRS accounts.

For decades, the challenge for taxpayers has not simply been access to information. It has been turning fragmented and highly technical IRS information into an understanding of what is happening, why it matters and what to do next. Taxpayers have largely faced two choices: navigate that complexity on their own or turn to professional help that can cost thousands of dollars.

The launch comes at a pivotal moment for taxpayers. As the IRS increasingly uses AI and advanced technology to strengthen enforcement and collections, taxpayers are facing a more sophisticated system with less human support available to help them navigate it.

TaxRock was built around the belief that this gap can increasingly be closed by intelligent software. The platform gives individuals a continuously updated view of their IRS picture, monitors for meaningful changes, translates complex account activity into plain language and helps them take action directly through the platform.

“Taxpayers should not need to understand the complexities of the IRS just to understand their own tax position,” said Ron Jost, founder and CEO of TaxRock. “Our vision from the beginning has been to put that power back in their hands. That means giving people access to their information, but more importantly, giving them the intelligence to understand it and the ability to act on it.”

At the center of the consumer experience is Rocky, TaxRock’s AI intelligence agent. Once authorized, Rocky builds and maintains a complete view of the taxpayer’s IRS picture across the personal and business accounts they choose to monitor. Rocky monitors that picture continuously, turning changes in IRS activity into clear, actionable intelligence.

The launch also marks an expansion of TaxRock’s use of agentic AI, moving beyond systems that surface and interpret IRS information toward agents capable of helping complete straightforward actions. The first example is an IRS installment agreement. Rocky can guide eligible taxpayers through the process and help take the appropriate action directly within TaxRock.

“The opportunity for AI in tax is not simply answering tax questions,” Jost said. “The more consequential opportunity is building systems that understand a taxpayer’s actual IRS position, stay aware as that position changes and can safely move from explaining what should happen to helping make it happen.”

TaxRock is also designed to recognize when professional judgment is required. When a matter requires specialized expertise or representation, Rocky can flag the need and connect the taxpayer with a tax professional in one click, carrying their IRS picture forward so they do not have to start over.

TaxRock plans to expand Rocky’s agentic capabilities over time, supporting additional IRS actions while preserving a seamless path to professional expertise when it is needed.

The consumer launch extends TaxRock’s broader IRS intelligence platform, which already supports organizations managing IRS exposure at scale across tax and accounting, payroll, factoring, lending and other industries. While the use cases vary, the underlying need is the same: turning complex, changing IRS information into intelligence that can be understood and acted upon, whether for one taxpayer or thousands.

TaxRock’s broader vision goes beyond its own platform. Through a growing ecosystem of integrations, the company is building toward a future where IRS intelligence can be securely embedded into the systems, workflows and AI agents people and businesses already use.

“We don’t believe IRS intelligence should live in one application,” Jost said. “Our vision is to make it available wherever people and businesses need it, whether that is directly through TaxRock or embedded into the systems they already use. Consumer is an important extension of that vision, but the larger opportunity is building an intelligence layer that can make IRS information understandable and actionable across every market we serve.”

TaxRock’s consumer platform is now available at taxrock.com.

About TaxRock

TaxRock is an AI-native IRS intelligence company transforming how individuals and organizations understand and interact with the IRS. The platform provides continuous access to IRS data, intelligent interpretation and agent-driven capabilities that help users understand risk and take appropriate action. TaxRock serves individual taxpayers and organizations across tax and accounting, payroll, factoring, lending and other industries. TaxRock is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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USI Launches AI Smart Camera Solution to Accelerate Smart Manufacturing

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1 hour ago

September 7, 2026

NANTOU, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — USI today announced its next-generation AI Smart Camera solution, a comprehensive edge AI and vision platform that empowers manufacturers to accelerate digital transformation through AI-driven quality inspection, process automation, logistics optimization, and smart factory initiatives.

Moving beyond conventional camera hardware, USI’s AI Smart Camera integrates a high-performance, low-power edge computing platform, high-resolution imaging technology, and proprietary AI vision software to deliver real-time image analysis and actionable insights at the edge. Designed for modern manufacturing environments, the solution enables automated inspection, early defect detection, and faster, more consistent quality decisions. By reducing inspection costs, improving production efficiency, and enhancing product quality, it helps manufacturers accelerate their transition toward smarter and more autonomous production operations.

For manufacturers, the journey to AI-powered vision extends beyond object detection and defect identification. Success depends on turning AI from a proof-of-concept project into a production-ready solution that delivers consistent performance, scales efficiently, and seamlessly adapts to evolving manufacturing requirements.

USI addresses this challenge with an integrated AI Smart Camera platform that supports the complete AI development lifecycle—from data collection and dataset generation to model training and deployment. Its no-code/low-code AI model training platform further simplifies development, enabling customers to develop and deploy vision applications with greater efficiency and less dependence on specialized AI expertise.

Key features of USI AI Smart Camera include:

Real-Time Edge AI Processing: Performs image analysis and AI inference at the edge, enabling fast visual decisions and timely responses without relying solely on centralized computing.High-Quality Imaging for Industrial Inspection: Combines a high-resolution, low-lux-capable camera module with powerful Edge AI computing to support demanding inspection and machine vision applications.Faster AI Deployment: Integrates hardware, embedded software, and AI vision development tools into a production-ready platform, helping customers shorten development cycles and accelerate the transition from proof of concept to production.Flexible AI Vision Applications: Supports object detection, defect identification, OCR, key-part positioning and tracking, assembly verification, product classification, and operation behavior detection and analysis.Seamless Integration with Industrial Environments: Ruggedized design with industrial-grade interfaces, including Ethernet, Power over Ethernet (PoE), HDMI, and MicroSD, ensuring seamless compatibility with existing equipment, machine vision systems, and automation platforms.

By automating visual inspection and defect identification, the AI Smart Camera can reduce reliance on manual QA operations while improving inspection consistency. Its real-time visual intelligence can also provide actionable data to help manufacturers quickly identify process deviations, reduce defect rates, and lower production costs. The platform can further serve as an intelligent visual decision layer for automated production, providing real-time visual guidance and feedback to robotic systems. This enables manufacturers to move beyond inspection automation toward more responsive and autonomous production processes.

“Demand for AI-powered vision applications is growing rapidly across the manufacturing sector. Today’s manufacturers are seeking more than just camera hardware. They need complete, end-to-end solutions that can be deployed quickly and deliver measurable business value,” said Justin Chang, Director of the Vertical Mobility Solution Center at USI. “By combining advanced Edge AI capabilities with our integrated vision platform, we enable customers to accelerate the adoption of smart manufacturing, quality inspection, and industrial automation applications. Our solution helps bring AI from proof of concept to production faster and more efficiently.”

As a global ODM partner, USI combines expertise in product design, manufacturing, and Edge AI integration to deliver complete solutions tailored to customer requirements. The AI Smart Camera is already deployed within USI’s own manufacturing operations, providing a production-proven reference platform for industrial AI vision applications.

Building on this experience, USI can customize AI vision solutions around customers’ specific production environments and business requirements, helping shorten development time, reduce implementation risks, and accelerate their smart manufacturing journey.

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Media’s future tense in AI-driven world

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1 hour ago

September 7, 2026

BEIJING, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This is an op-ed from China Daily.

Philip K. Dick’s 1969 novel Ubik imagined a door that demands payment before opening — a fantasy then, but eerily prescient in today’s AI-driven world. While Elon Musk predicts AI will bring global abundance, for traditional media that abundance has already arrived — with devastating consequences.

The question is no longer whether AI changes media, but what role professional journalism can play when information is plentiful, yet truth, context and reality grow scarce.

Dick’s own life — overlooked, depressed and penniless — belied his extraordinary foresight. In The Man in the High Castle, he imagined alternate realities. Today, personalized algorithms, misinformation and AI-generated content make such alternate realities all too real.

Yet Dick’s vision also offers hope through an unexpected link with the ancient Chinese I Ching (Book of Changes). Both suggest reality is not fixed, but a pattern of ever-shifting possibilities. The I Ching asks not “What will happen?” but “What situation am I in, and how should I respond to its changing pattern?” That, arguably, is precisely the role media must adopt in the AI age: providing orientation, credibility and meaning when information itself has lost its scarcity and economic value.

Not all sci-fi is dystopian. Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics embodied faith that humans could impose rules on technology — yet today’s AI race is far more complex. Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek imagined a moneyless, post-scarcity civilization; AI may be bringing that closer, just as Google’s free search and maps once upended the world.

So where does this leave traditional media? In a Dickian dystopia, media could become a modern-day I Ching — helping people navigate uncertainty, distinguish illusion from reality, and make informed choices when no single truth prevails. In a Roddenberry-esque future, media could guide humanity on how to live wisely with AI-driven abundance.

The practical challenge remains: financing itself in the first scenario and inspiring itself in the second. As Dick warned in The Man in the High Castle, humanity’s “destiny lies in the hands of a few men.” We can only hope some of them are traditional media editors.

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New agentic AI platform sounds death knell for manual presentation tools

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3 hours ago

September 7, 2026

Sembly AI launches Sembly 3.0 in biggest evolution since 2019

SYDNEY, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Sembly AI launches Sembly 3.0, an agentic AI platform that transforms an organisation’s documents, meetings, and CRM content into finished, fully branded presentations, proposals, case studies and reports in minutes in over 45 languages.

The launch marks the company’s biggest evolution since it was founded in 2019, repositioning Sembly as an “AI execution layer” for businesses. It turns everyday business knowledge into the finished materials companies use to sell, deliver and communicate.

Users simply need to specify their goal (eg, “Sell my services”) and the client’s website, then watch Sembly get to work: pulling information from business materials, deriving appropriate branding, researching the customer, and producing a bespoke on-brand pitch deck.

“Prompts make people think about how to talk to AI. But dialogue lets them focus on what they want to accomplish,” said Gil Makleff, CEO and co-founder of Sembly AI. “That makes creating business documents faster and more efficient, turning time saved into real business impact.”

“Manually creating presentations is a thing of the past,” said Artem Koren, Chief Product & Technology Officer and co-founder of Sembly AI. “Business materials are the substrate of decision-making: they are how companies communicate, persuade and decide. Sembly 3.0 changes how they are made entirely.”

“Your customers want to hear how you serve them in their specific world and their specific situation, and Sembly makes that possible for every customer,” Koren added. “With Sembly 3.0, your results are as good as how clearly you can state your goal. That’s all you’re limited by.”

Early users of Sembly 3.0 report saving two to three weeks of work on reports and presentations that traditionally pass through multiple hands before they are delivery-ready.

Heorhii Tulchyi, Chief Technology Officer at market research company, Bell & Holmes, is one of those early users of Sembly 3.0.

He said: “Sembly has fundamentally changed how I prepare presentations and client communications. It has saved my team and me weeks of work and dramatically accelerated how we turn ideas and information into polished deliverables. I haven’t seen anything else on the market quite like it.”

Sembly 3.0 is available from today at www.sembly.ai.

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