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 […]

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 […]