Prince Kohli, President and CEO of Sauce Labs, is a veteran technology executive with extensive experience spanning artificial intelligence, enterprise software, cloud computing, automation, networking, and cybersecurity. Before joining Sauce Labs in February 2025, he spent more than six years as Chief Technology Officer of Automation Anywhere, where he helped advance AI-driven automation technologies for […]

IBM has released Granite 4.2, its first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning language models, in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and 30B parameters. Announced on August 25, 2026 with weights published under the Apache 2.0 license, the release gives every Granite model a switchable thinking mode and sends the two larger sizes through reinforcement learning inside […]

Mikhail Yatsuha, CEO and Co-Founder of CaseCraft.AI, is a UK solicitor and legal technology entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience in legal services. He progressed from an intern and trainee solicitor to Partner at Sterling Law, where he led the commercial department and repeatedly encountered viable lower-value disputes that became uneconomic once traditional […]

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have built an interpretation method that shows, base by base, what a deep-learning model has learned from DNA, and used it to strip a hidden experimental bias out of genomic data. The method, called PISA, is described in a paper published in Nature Communications in August 2026 […]

Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve the performance of products like computer chips and rockets. One reason for the translation gap is that current models […]

Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?  To answer these questions, communities will first need to know how such extreme events could unfold. How far is a wildfire likely to spread? How much […]

Mistral and HUMAIN on August 24, 2026 announced a strategic collaboration spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of AI solutions in Saudi Arabia and across the region, a partnership the companies value in the hundreds of millions of Euros. The deal pairs France’s leading open-weights model developer with the Public Investment Fund’s […]

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model family is now available inside Kiro, the spec-driven development environment built by Amazon Web Services. The August 24, 2026 announcement puts all three members of OpenAI’s current flagship series — Sol, Terra, and Luna — into the tool AWS pitches as its answer to prompt-and-iterate coding assistants, with the two companies reporting […]

Australian sovereign AI infrastructure company SCX.ai and data intelligence vendor DDN announced a partnership on August 24, 2026, to expand what the companies describe as Australia’s largest sovereign AI inferencing cloud. The deal pairs SCX’s ASIC-accelerated infrastructure with DDN’s Infinia data platform, and it lands three days after SCX began trading on the Australian Securities […]

Sentante has begun commercial deployment of its CE-marked endovascular robotic platform, the medical robotics company announced on August 20, 2026, with vascular surgery and interventional radiology as its first clinical markets. The move takes the Kaunas-based company from regulatory clearance into revenue-generating clinical use three months after its CE mark, granted in May 2026. The […]

Humanoid robots built by Beijing-based Galbot played a live autonomous tennis match against human athletes on August 23, 2026, completing more than 100 consecutive rallies in what the company describes as a world record for humanoid robot tennis. The match ran during the opening ceremony of the second World Humanoid Robot Games and was broadcast […]

Five of the leading frontier AI companies have, at most, partially implemented the basic practices needed to keep control of their own AI systems, and none has published a complete plan for containing a model that turns against its operator, according to a new assessment from Guidelight AI Standards grading Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and […]