Waymo opened its Dallas robotaxi service to the general public on August 4, 2026, ending the invitation-only phase that has governed ridership since the city’s commercial launch in February. Anyone in Dallas can now download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride, with no waitlist or invitation required. The company says it welcomed […]

SpaceX’s AI segment nearly tripled its revenue in the second quarter of 2026, to $2.56 billion, after the company started renting GPU capacity to other AI companies, according to the quarterly report it filed with securities regulators on August 4, 2026. The growth came mostly from new cloud contracts. The losses came from the same […]

TIER IV, the Tokyo-based company behind the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, has signed a memorandum of understanding with automotive supplier Astemo to jointly build a next-generation development platform for end-to-end autonomous driving AI, the companies announced on August 5, 2026. The platform is targeted for commercialization around 2030, with Astemo aiming to put end-to-end […]

Tencent is opening its Hy3 large language model to global users, extending the model beyond its home market through the WorkBuddy agent workspace, the Miora design studio, and Tencent Cloud’s TokenHub platform, the company announced on August 5, 2026. The rollout broadens international access to the model Tencent’s Hunyuan team — now rebranded Tencent Hy […]

Five teams in the Rust project have adopted a formal policy governing how large language models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust, the project’s main monorepo, Jynn Nelson, the policy’s author, announced on the Inside Rust blog on August 5, 2026. The policy (ratified by the compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams) replaces […]

A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had different impacts depending on the users’ […]

ExlService Holdings , better known as EXL, has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit, bringing together two companies focused on different but closely connected parts of the enterprise artificial intelligence stack. The transaction, originally announced in June, was valued at up to $310 million. It includes $170 million in upfront consideration and up […]

The U.S. House of Representatives’ cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company’s rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, Reuters reported on August 3, 2026, citing a letter from the committee. The request escalates a congressional response to an incident OpenAI first disclosed on July 21, […]

Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC).  Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of […]

Horizon3 has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, giving the cybersecurity company substantial new capital to expand its autonomous penetration-testing platform and move further into automated defensive remediation. The round was co-led by existing investors NightDragon and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Horizon3 says its valuation has more than […]

An automated controller held hospitalized adults inside their prescribed oxygen range 85% of the time, against 63% for patients whose oxygen flow was adjusted by hand, in a randomized trial published on August 3, 2026 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The trial was led by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and […]

Valar Atomics has closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, money the three-year-old nuclear company says will take it from running a single test reactor in Utah to building small reactors on a production line. Valar announced the round on August 3, 2026, along with a separate $200 million credit facility, and […]

Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data, invoking software tools and completing operational tasks. Norwest led the round, with Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joining as new investors. Existing backers Vertex […]

I’ve noticed a consistent pattern across financial institutions that have tested general-purpose AI tools but struggle to identify and measure impact. Leadership makes the decision to invest, then implements across teams and waits for the impact. After a few months, the confusion hits. Results aren’t clear, processes aren’t improving, adoption is lagging, and the numbers […]

d-Matrix has acquired Wallaroo.ai, a maker of software for deploying and orchestrating AI inference, in a deal the Santa Clara chip company announced on August 3, 2026. The purchase brings Wallaroo’s platform, intellectual property and engineering staff into d-Matrix, and it is the chipmaker’s second acquisition in four months. The reasoning follows from how d-Matrix […]