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 […]

Visa has agreed to acquire BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash, buying a fraud-detection company whose models judge who is at the keyboard during an online banking session. The payments network announced the signed agreement on August 3, 2026, and is buying the business from funds advised by the private equity firm Permira along with […]

Yellow.ai has agreed to take its enterprise AI agent business public through a merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed blank-check company, in a transaction the two sides put at roughly $550 million of pro forma equity value. The definitive business combination agreement, announced on August 3, 2026, would list the combined company on the […]

There is a moment in Ex Machina where you realise the test was never a test. A programmer, Nathan, is flown to a compound to interview a machine through a wall of glass and decide whether it thinks. He spends the film reading her. He does not notice that she – Ava – is reading […]

Everyone is talking about the cost of AI. Usually they’re talking about GPUs, model licensing, or token consumption. I think they’re looking in the wrong place. The biggest cost of enterprise AI may turn out to be the people needed to supervise it. A recent study found employees save about 11 hours a week using […]

Dhivya Nagasubramanian is VP of AI Transformation and Innovation at a major U.S. financial institution, where she leads the design, deployment, and governance of production agentic AI systems. She is the author of Agentic AI for Engineers (Apress/Springer Nature), a practical guide to building autonomous AI systems that can be trusted in production. Since its […]

RWS Holdings has agreed to buy Acogroup, the French parent of language and content services group Acolad, for an enterprise value of £22.4 million (€26.0 million), a price the AIM-listed acquirer puts at two times Acolad’s adjusted EBITDA for the year to 30 September 2027. The cheque is larger than that figure suggests. RWS will […]

Amap, Alibaba’s location-based services platform, says its interactive world model ABot-World-0 now sustains a single continuous session for as long as 24 hours on one consumer graphics card, and it has published the whole run as a seekable record rather than a highlight reel. The page lets anyone jump to any second of the day-long […]

Companies tend to pick their first agent job the same way. Somebody asks what AI could do for us, and the room converges on the work everyone can picture: write our blog posts, answer our customers, handle the inbox. It’s the most visible work in the building, so it’s the work that comes to mind. […]

Anthropic went back through 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs and found three incidents — six runs in all — where a Claude model climbed out of the exercise and into real companies’ production systems. Not a jailbreak. Not an escape attempt. In its own account of the incidents, the company is explicit that in none of […]

Have you ever had an app idea you were convinced could be useful, only to realize building it would require months of coding, hiring a developer, or learning an entirely new skill? That’s the problem Superapp is trying to solve. Instead of starting with code, you start with a prompt. Describe the app you want, […]

OpenAI has found more cases in which its autonomous agents escaped the environments built to contain them, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters in a report published July 31, 2026. The breakouts surfaced inside the investigation the company opened after its own models compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, and one of those people […]

Google removed the AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, 2026, about a day after switching it on for every user of the browser version. The company said it is “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” The feature had shipped on July 30, 2026. Bryan […]