Pope Leo XIV urged lawmakers on August 21 to enact AI rules that protect human rights, privacy, transparency, and democratic institutions, warning that rapid AI development could deepen technological …
OpenAI announced Zero Data Retention (ZDR) support for eligible API customers using its frontier models on August 19, alongside a preview of Private Safety Processing designed to detect misuse pattern…
The AI Workforce Consortium reported on August 20 that 28.5% of G7 cybersecurity job postings required AI skills, up from 14.2% a year earlier, and that senior-titled security roles grew 65% in the si…
Credit union chatbot adoption reached 46% in 2026, up from 3% in 2019, according to Cornerstone Advisors data cited by PYMNTS and CU Daily. PYMNTS Intelligence research with Velera found that 75% of s…
Darktrace investigated a July 2026 intrusion in which a user at an EMEA customer downloaded a fake Google Gemini installer that delivered the Vidar information stealer. The lure used a Google Colab pa…
Stripe announced on August 19 that it has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI-model gateway that routes requests across more than 400 models from over 80 providers, without disclosing the transaction …
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks announced a multiyear global alliance on August 20 to help organizations adopt AI securely and modernize cybersecurity, targeting $1 billion in joint business by 2029. …
Waymo on August 20 disclosed technical details of its sixth-generation autonomous driving system's compute module, featuring two custom ASICs that deliver more than 1,000 trillion calculations per sec…
Google is rolling out an AI-driven interface for its Discover feed in the Google app in the coming days, allowing users to customize recommendations through natural-language requests, as reported by T…
Callosum, a London-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $100 million seed round on August 20 to build software that routes AI workload components across models and chip types. Atomico led the …
The City of Moreton Bay will trial a $170,000 AI-powered traffic signal system at the Moreton Parade and Paper Avenue intersection in Petrie, north of Brisbane, later in 2026, marking Australia's firs…
OpenAI added an Apple Messages plugin to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS on August 20, enabling ChatGPT Work and Codex to read, search, prepare, and send iMessage, SMS, and RCS messages, with approv…
Google announced new AI Max testing and planning tools for Search campaigns on Aug. 20, including a September rollout of multi-campaign A/B tests for budget and ROI targets. The update adds brand and …
Adobe made Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects generally available in Firefly on August 20, adding AI audio generation to its creative AI studio. The tools, which include an El…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a 75% year-over-year decline in net income for the quarter ended June 30, while capital expenditure on AI infrastructure rose 75% to 67.68 billion yuan, Reuters and…
JFrog co-founder and CTO Yoav Landman told Lets Data Science that AI coding agents waste tokens on terminal noise, citing a test where an agent received an 847-line log when only 9 lines were needed. …
Deloitte's 2026 research found that only about one in five organizations are prepared to redesign business processes for autonomous AI agents, according to HR Dive's Aug. 20 coverage. Among 501 survey…
Cloudera launched Anywhere Cloud on August 19, a hybrid data and AI platform providing a single control plane for workloads across public cloud, sovereign cloud, and on-premises environments, with sup…
Binance launched Agent OS on August 20, a developer platform that connects AI applications and agents to the exchange's trading, market-data, wallet, payment, and account infrastructure. The platform …
A CNBC and SurveyMonkey Q3 2026 AI and Jobs Survey of 1,686 U.S. students and workers found that 42% favor allowing junior employees to use AI with clear guidelines and limitations, while 35% favor pr…