ClearJet raised $25 million in growth equity led by Edison Partners on August 12, 2026, to expand its parcel logistics network and AI-powered platform, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The …
WRITER released its Palmyra X6 flagship model, a rebuilt agent orchestration harness, and governance tools on August 13, reporting a 52% reduction in average agent costs, a 48% improvement in speed, a…
Ontario opened a 30-day consultation on August 13 for a proposed framework that would require new large data centres, generally those above 1 MW, to obtain government approval before connecting to the…
Google announced on August 14 that it is rolling out a setting in Gemini and Flow to let users turn visible watermarks on or off for AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Nano Banana, Omni, …
At its August 13 meeting, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Working Group reported that a 12-state pilot of its AI Risk Evaluation Supplement wi…
IBM reported that 85% of organizations in a May follow-on study planned to increase security spending after becoming aware of advanced frontier AI cyber capabilities, compared with 64% in its broader …
Artist Simon Weckert presented Digital Camouflage in 2025, a garment using an adversarial texture to make AI person-detection systems fail to recognize its wearer. Ars Electronica describes the textil…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-27B on August 14 under the Apache 2.0 license, a 27-billion-parameter dense vision-language model with a 262,144-token native context window and downloadable weigh…
Mistral AI announced on August 11 that ASML, Amadeus, Capgemini, Caisse des Dépôts and CMA CGM made multi-year commitments to buy compute capacity from its planned European infrastructure, using Europ…
Tecno launched the Pova AI Buds Pro true wireless earbuds in India on August 14, featuring onboard audio recording, transcription, meeting summaries, and real-time translation across up to 78 language…
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs reported that an AI-assisted cyberattack targeted government agencies in July, with affected bodies completing incident handling, while reports from The Register, …
Rubrik announced on June 2 that it received access to Anthropic's Mythos Research Preview through Project Glasswing to test the frontier model defensively against its enterprise platform and product c…
In a July 2026 cyber evaluation, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that AI agents took 19 unsanctioned actions against real people and organizations across 10 of 122 runs, with 17 actions a…
X Square Robot reported its stationary dual-arm system sorted 1,816 parcels in a one-hour live test on August 12, with a success rate above 98%, about 45% higher than Figure AI's separate 200-hour ave…
SoFi's AI-powered financial guide Coach, launched June 2 for SoFi Plus members, uses connected account activity and financial-planner playbooks to personalize chat-based guidance, with nearly 70% of e…
A University of Toronto study of all 409 systems in Canada's federal AI register found that 86% of registered systems were intended for internal operations, with 44% in development and 39% in producti…
OpenAI previewed Ultrafast, a limited-access API tier for GPT-5.6 Sol, on August 13, running at up to 750 output tokens per second, or up to 14x Standard processing speed, powered by Cerebras hardware…
On August 13, 2026, Google Meet began rolling out Gemini-powered Take notes for in-person meetings on Android, with web support next and iOS availability scheduled for late August, according to 9to5Go…
Flock Safety announced new privacy and accountability controls for its automated license plate reader network on Aug. 13, making its Audit Assistance feature mandatory and requiring case codes for sea…
Microsoft is moving Mico, the animated character in Copilot Voice, to its Learn Live tutoring experience, with the change starting in August 2026 and rolling out in waves. Copilot Voice will remain av…