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 […]

Anthropic published research on August 28, 2026 reporting that AI agents built on its Claude models autonomously developed training methods that mitigated ten common alignment failures in target models, in every case improving the targeted benchmarks without degrading general capabilities. The company described the results as early evidence that automated alignment post-training could become practical […]

Generative AI is making competent content easier to produce. It can assemble a clear explanation, smooth an awkward draft, propose a structure, and imitate almost any familiar style. The floor rises, but the field also fills with work that is difficult to distinguish. Publishers then face a harder problem: giving readers a reason to choose […]

Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi, is a technology executive with more than three decades of experience in software engineering, quality assurance, and enterprise data management. He co-founded Datadobi in 2009 after spending eight years at EMC as Senior Manager of Quality Assurance, preceded by leadership roles at Mediagenix and Wave Research. Throughout his […]

For decades, the United States benefited from one of the most powerful competitive advantages in science: many of the world’s best researchers wanted to work there. That advantage is not disappearing overnight. The U.S. still has unmatched concentrations of research universities, federal laboratories, private capital and technology companies. But the flow of talent is becoming […]

A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.  Many methods for designing novel proteins, including examples that could bind to a disease-causing molecule in our cells, involve a two-step process: The structure comes […]

Every morning, I open my inbox and feel behind before I’ve even had my coffee. Between emails and messages I keep meaning to answer, my inbox can easily feel like a second job I never applied for. Before long, unread emails can pile up into the thousands. I’ve tried lots of tools that promise to […]

Anthropic on Thursday, August 27, 2026, opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude Team subscription seats for scientists, announcing an expansion of its researcher-focused programs that also widens its AI for Science credit program beyond the biological sciences. Under the new Claude Team plan for scientists, standard seats are free and premium seats with five times […]

Google is rolling out a productivity upgrade to Gemini Live that moves its voice assistant beyond conversation into executing multi-step tasks across a user’s Google apps, the company announced on August 26, 2026. The update, detailed in a post on The Keyword, adds four capabilities: Spark integration for agentic background tasks, a spoken Daily Brief, […]

Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs, is a repeat entrepreneur and technology executive with a background spanning financial infrastructure, investing, and digital platforms. Before founding ARCOS Labs, he spent eight years as Founder and CEO of Percent, where he built a technology platform designed to modernize private credit markets, and now serves as […]

Greenberg Traurig has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic AI for legal professionals, giving lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to a system that plans, researches, and drafts through the stages of a legal matter, the firm announced on August 26, 2026. The rollout caps a four-year collaboration in which […]