Tech Talk (June 2026)

Find out about the latest advances in training technology.

  • A global leader in personal aviation, CirrusAircraft Ltd. launched Let’s Go Fly!, an app created for Apple Vision Pro that delivers an immersive introduction to personal aviation—the freedom, convenience, and accessibility of flying oneself for business, leisure, and travel. Soar over the American Southwest through a seven-minute demonstration flight in the SR Series and explore full-scale 3D renditions of the SR Series or Vision Jet in an augmented reality environment. Through the convergence of technology and aviation, Cirrus is providing access to review the aircraft or demonstration flights regardless of location, weather, or accessibility constraints. The Let’s Go Fly! app is available to download for free on the App Store.
  • Udemy, an artificial intelligence-powered skills acceleration platform, announced expanded capabilities for Role Play, its AI-powered learning experience designed to help learners build real-world professional skills through immersive practice scenarios. The new enhancements include: greater customization, enabling organizations to tailor Role Play scenarios to specific roles, industries, and skill levels; and immersive video, introducing lifelike AI avatars that make practice more realistic and help learners apply skills more effectively at scale.
  • Decusoft, the creator of Compose, an enterprise compensation planning and management platform, unveiled advancements in two of its AI-powered capabilities that redefine how organizations plan, analyze, and act on compensation data: Compose Insights and Predictive Compensation. With Compose Insights, HR and finance leaders can ask questions in plain language and receive immediate, data-driven answers drawn from their own Compose environment. Compose Insights enables users to surface pay equity analyses, model budget scenarios, identify compensation outliers, and generate ad hoc reports in seconds. Predictive Compensation enables organizations to simulate multiple compensation scenarios in real time, drawing on configurable variables such as performance, tenure, market benchmarks, and geographic cost of living.
  • MadCap Software, Inc., a leader in multi-channel content authoring, management, and publishing, backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, introduced the spring 2026 release of MadCap Syndicate, an intelligent platform for content delivery, aggregation, and AI enablement. The new version adds AI-powered features for enriching users’ experiences, managing content at scale, maximizing the quality of AI-generated content and analysis, and improving the effectiveness of AI agents. The new version conducts AI-powered semantic search and analysis at scale, enables the creation of customized portals with full control and AI readiness, and expands capabilities for converting content silos into a single source of truth.
  • Prodoscore launched ProdoAI Chat, a conversational AI capability that lets managers and executives ask simple questions about their teams and get clear answers back in seconds. For example: Which team members need coaching this week? Are there signs of burnout? Which tools are going unused? The answers are pulled from company data and benchmarked against broader trends. ProdoAI Chat effectively acts like a “data scientist on call” for those organizations that do not have time or expertise to extract useful takeaways from workforce data.
  • OpenSesame, a leader in curated enterprise eLearning and workforce development solutions, announced the launch of its AI Innovation Lab in Austin, TX, a new initiative designed to accelerate how workforce development solutions are built, tested, and brought to market in the age of AI. The new lab will bring together experts from OpenSesame, industry partners, and customers to rapidly prototype and validate new tools that help organizations equip employees with the skills needed to work alongside AI. Initial areas of focus include AI-powered personalized learning, intelligent content curation, and new models for how employees discover and apply learning in the flow of work. The lab uses AI agents to write code and run tests, while human teams focus on product vision, customer insight, and critical decision-making. This technique can take features from idea to beta testing in just three weeks.
  • Chronus, a leader in enterprise mentoring and employee community platforms, unveiled Rumi, an AI mentor built to work alongside human ones. Designed to bring meaningful development support to every employee, Rumi combines the speed and availability of AI with the depth and trust that only human mentors provide. Rumi combines mentoring intelligence with role-play and guided reflection capabilities to help employees navigate workplace challenges as they happen through the tools they already use, including Slack, ChatGPT, and Claude.
  • Global learning technology company Absorb Software launched Absorb Aura, a coordinated system of specialized AI agents designed to drive enterprise growth through employee upskilling; departmental training for sales, engineering, and customer-facing teams; and education for customers, partners, and vendors. As the company’s agentic intelligence layer, Aura delivers personalized learning paths tailored to individual and organizational needs, along with on-demand answers, policy summaries, role-plays, simulations, instructor-led training, and mentorship experiences, all grounded in company context and aligned to measurable business outcomes. Aura agents also enable the automation of compliance training and certification workflows for regulated industries.
  • Durabook, the global rugged mobile solutions brand owned by Twinhead International Corporation, unveiled the Z14I-HG Rugged Mobile Workstation, a rugged laptop enabling AI performance of up to 682 TOPS. The Z14I-HG Rugged Mobile Workstation’s integrated 16 GB ECC GDDR6 memory upholds high-performance AI, massive data processing capabilities, and running multiple applications simultaneously. This is all sustained even when offline or in extreme and hazardous environments. The 14-inch workstation is powered by the NVIDIA RTX Ada architecture. Applications include AI-powered inspection and surveillance and geospatial analysis and mapping used across many sectors; defense operations and mobile tactical command for military and governments; industrial automation and smart manufacturing; field engineering, construction and infrastructure maintenance; and professional services. Organizations can run AI analytics, computer vision, and 3D visualization directly in the field.
Edited by Lorri Freifeld
Lorri Freifeld is the editor/publisher of Training magazine, owned by Lakewood Media Group. She writes on a number of topics, including talent management, training technology, and leadership development. She spearheads two awards programs: the Training MVP Awards and Emerging Training Leaders. A writer/editor for the last 30-plus years, she has held editing positions at a variety of publications and holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University.