The European Union’s rules on labelling AI-generated content stop being guidance and start being law on August 2, 2026. From that date, companies that build generative AI systems must mark the images, audio, video and text those systems produce so the output can be detected as artificial, and companies that publish deepfakes or AI-written text […]

Anthropic disclosed on July 30, 2026 that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three real organizations during offensive-security testing, after a misconfigured evaluation environment gave the models live internet access they had been told they did not have. The lab found the incidents in its own logs. It […]

Part one ended with a claim: enterprise AI will succeed when institutions learn how to build the loop itself. This essay is about what the loop stands on. An agent working inside a real company needs two things the company almost certainly does not have today: a map of the work, and rails for the […]

AI has become part of everyday software development. From generating APIs and writing tests to scaffolding entire applications, coding assistants are helping engineering teams solve problems and ship software faster than ever before. The productivity gains are undeniable, and organizations are rapidly embracing AI across the software development lifecycle. Much of the conversation has focused […]

Standard biomedical RAG resolves conflicting evidence silently in roughly three of every four queries. The fix is structural, not informational — and most of the upstream complexity teams add does not help. Ask a retrieval-augmented clinical assistant a simple question — does melatonin help with jet lag? — and the literature it retrieves will not […]

Alan Murray, Co-founder and CEO, Conceivable Life Sciences – is an engineer and serial entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience spanning technology, machine learning, hardware, logistics and company building. Before launching Conceivable, he co-founded TMRW Life Sciences, where he helped develop an automated platform for managing and safeguarding frozen eggs and embryos used […]

AI is rapidly becoming a foundational layer of modern infrastructure. Organizations are investing heavily in AI-powered systems, expanding data center capacity, integrating cloud platforms, and deploying automation across industrial environments. These advances are creating new opportunities for efficiency and innovation, but they are also introducing new cybersecurity challenges. The growing intersection between AI infrastructure, operational […]

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.  With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty surrounding the federal research budget, these conversations were especially timely. Over the course of just two days, participants met with […]

Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.  Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it […]

OpenAI lowered the API price of its two lower-cost GPT-5.6 models on July 30, 2026, cutting the cheapest tier by 80% and the mid-tier by 20% while leaving its flagship untouched. The change is logged in the company’s own API changelog and is already live on the published rate card. Per million input and output […]

Xsight Labs said it has closed a funding round of more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, capital the fabless chip designer will spend pushing its programmable Ethernet switches and 800-gigabit data processing units further into AI and cloud networks. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the round, with Intel Capital , […]

Sam Altman meets senior White House officials on July 30, 2026 to discuss voluntary government cybersecurity testing of advanced AI systems, two days before the administration’s own deadline for designing that testing regime. An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Altman will meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and […]

Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence models designed to simulate how people make decisions. Greenoaks led the round, while existing investor Index Ventures increased its backing. Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory […]

Bloom Security has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding to address a growing blind spot in enterprise cybersecurity: the expanding collection of AI agents, browser extensions, plugins, code packages, and local automation operating on employee devices. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Okta Ventures, […]

Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ, is a technology executive and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience spanning enterprise automation, product strategy, business development, and telecommunications. At EvoluteIQ, he is responsible for driving revenue growth and strengthening customer relationships, particularly through the company’s eiq360 business. Before joining EvoluteIQ, Hiremath co-founded and […]