Nscale has closed approximately $3 billion in aggregate commitments across two senior secured delayed draw term loan facilities backing a pair of U.S. AI infrastructure projects, the London-based company announced on August 31, 2026. One facility supports its Ward County, Texas campus and the other its Madison, North Carolina site, and Nscale said both facilities […]

Baidu, Inc. said its voluntary conversion from secondary to dual-primary listing on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited became effective on September 1, 2026, making the Beijing-based AI company dual-primary listed in Hong Kong and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The company announced the effectiveness in an issuer release […]

Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design?  For Kumar, meaningful innovation doesn’t result from engineers or designers working in isolation. Instead, she believes the best innovations emerge when the people […]

OpenAI said on August 31, 2026, that it supports California Senate Bill 1119, legislation that would impose safety obligations on operators of companion chatbots used by children, and the company urged Governor Gavin Newsom to sign the measure into law. Ann O’Leary, OpenAI’s vice president of global policy, announced the position in a company post, […]

Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies Co., Ltd. listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026, pricing its global offering at HK$101.70 per H share for net proceeds of approximately HK$2.20 billion. The listing gives the embodied-intelligence robot-component maker a market capitalization of HK$12,713.6 million. According to the company’s allotment results […]

Agentic AI systems do more than generate an answer: they pursue goals through a loop of planning, tool use, observation, and adaptation. Here is how that loop works, where agents add value, and what keeps them under control.

It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers perform complex mathematical operations and statistical simulations without learning how to code. These programming languages were rigid and slow. If scientists built something that really worked, […]

DiDi Autonomous Driving began fully driverless passenger service trials with its next-generation Robotaxi, the R2, on August 31, 2026, making the vehicle bookable through the DiDi App in selected demonstration areas of Beijing and Guangzhou, the company announced. The R2 is jointly developed by DiDi Autonomous Driving and GAC Aion. DiDi described the vehicle as […]

The UK government launched the first procurement competitions under its £100 million Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme on August 31, 2026, opening four challenges that invite British AI startups to build systems for the NHS, defence, computing efficiency, and AI agent security. Chancellor John Healey MP announced the launch at the G20 Finance Ministers and […]

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, writing as chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on August 31, 2026 that frontier artificial intelligence models could materially alter the speed, scale and economics of cyber risk and destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system. The warning came in […]

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic and two of its co-founders on August 28, 2026, alleging that tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions were copied to train the company’s Claude AI models. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names Chief Executive Officer Dario […]

Anthropic said its Claude for Teachers product is now available to schools and districts as a free Enterprise offering, extending a program it launched for individual educators in July. Qualifying organizations that sign up by June 30, 2027 receive a full year of free access. The announcement, dated August 28, 2026, lets school and district […]

Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for a new vehicle called the Machine Age Fund, the firm announced on August 28, 2026, dedicating the capital to the physical infrastructure that artificial intelligence runs on. The fund was announced in a post on the firm’s website authored by general partners Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, […]

Blue Owl Capital announced on August 28, 2026 that funds it manages are leading a $2.4 billion compute equipment financing for IREN Limited, the vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, to fund purchases of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for IREN’s Mackenzie data center campus in British Columbia, Canada. The financing comprises a $1.2 billion senior secured […]