Sathya AG, Senior Principal Architect at Google (Retail Strategic Industries), said in an interview that generative and agentic AI have shifted enterprise architecture from passive observation to auto…
Buzz Solutions, a Palo Alto-based company, raised $20 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by S3 Ventures to expand its AI-powered grid intelligence platform, PowerAI. The platform …
Phylo, Inc. announced on August 4, 2026 that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo's agentic AI platform for biomedical research, across Chugai's drug discovery workflows in si…
The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched a $100 million program to build state and regional AI infrastructure hubs, with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Dell Technologies among the private-sector par…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter reasoning model for autonomous driving, for commercial use on August 4, 2026, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license, clearing a lice…
Femtech AI products need better uncertainty design, not just better prediction, according to a product designer who developed the Calibrated Decision-to-Action Product Method, a six-layer architecture…
Convex, the application backend startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, Spark Capital,…
McKinsey & Company's August 4, 2026 report warns that successful AI agent pilots are inadvertently cementing outdated processes into code, creating a 'pilot trap' where working agents become load-bear…
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flew an AI agent through 27 live, sensor-guided fighter intercepts on the X-62 VISTA, the first flight-test series where onboard …
Runware launched its Sonic Inference Pod on August 4, 2026, a containerized data center packing up to 1,200 GPUs into a 20-foot shipping container, promising 30–80% lower inference prices. The London-…
The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report …
Obsidian Security raised $85 million in a Series D round at a $1.1 billion valuation, led by Crescent Cove Advisors, with participation from existing investors including Greylock Partners and Menlo Ve…
Unite.AI's latest Thought Leaders piece outlines a practical method for building a first AI workflow, emphasizing selecting a high-volume, error-prone process, describing it with input from workers, d…
Cillian Kieran, founder and CEO of Ethyca, said in an interview that data governance, not AI models, will be the defining bottleneck for enterprise AI adoption, citing his experience with GDPR and the…
Most enterprises have invested heavily in data platforms and generative AI, yet decision-making speed has not improved, according to a thought-leadership article on Unite.AI. The article argues that t…
EXL has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit in a deal valued at up to $310 million, including $170 million upfront and up to $140 million in incentives and earnouts. The acquisition…
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has requested a briefing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding a July 2026 incident in which an OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandboxed test env…
An automated oxygen controller kept hospitalized adults in their prescribed oxygen range 85% of the time versus 63% for manual care in a randomized trial published August 3, 2026, in JAMA Internal Med…
Horizon3, a cybersecurity company, raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, co-led by NightDragon and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), to expand its autonomous AI p…
A new report from Unite.AI argues that financial institutions fail to see ROI from general-purpose AI tools because they lack workflow-specific integration, and that purpose-built AI tools embedded in…