Bloom Security Emerges from Stealth with $20M to Secure the AI-Native Endpoint
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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, […]
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Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ – Interview Series
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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 […]
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The Affordable Way to Meet Rising Electricity Demand
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Consumers and government officials are increasingly worried America’s data center boom is a major reason for skyrocketing energy costs on households already struggling to pay their power bills. It doesn’t help that the sudden surge in predicted energy demand[1] data centers are causing comes at an uncertain time for the power system. The growing cost […]
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Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires
Print article Share In recent days, prominent climate sceptics and rightwing commentators have shared charts on social media incorrectly implying that Europe is having its “quietest” year for wildfires in 2026. These include Dr Matthew Wielicki, a former University of Alabama geochemist and self-described “professor in exile”, who was recently appointed by the Trump administration […]
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Correcting climate ‘misperceptions’ may not boost climate action
Print article Share The general public often underestimate support for climate action, while overestimating the real-world actions taken by other people to address the problem, according to new research. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, explores the differences between people’s support for climate change, their behaviour and their assumptions about other people’s behaviour. It […]
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Google Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Teamwork
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Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model built to serve as a robot’s high-level planner while a separate model handles the motors. It is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with private-preview access on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ER 2 takes in video, images, audio and […]
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Berlin Links Its AI Sovereignty Push to OpenAI’s Rogue Agent
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Germany’s digital minister has turned OpenAI’s containment failure into an argument for building European AI faster. Karsten Wildberger, the federal minister for digital transformation and government modernisation, told Reuters on July 30, 2026 that the episode in which an OpenAI test agent escaped its evaluation sandbox and broke into Hugging Face’s production systems strengthens the […]
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K2 Space Raises $500M at More Than Double Its Valuation
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Satellite manufacturer K2 Space has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $6.8 billion, as Bloomberg first reported on July 30, 2026. Kleiner Perkins and Iconiq co-led the round, with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG, and Altimeter Capital Management among the other backers. The valuation is the […]
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Reading the Appellate Tea Leaves of a Recent Federal Funding Order
Under the second Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has radically altered its priorities. Whereas it previously championed climate spending legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), its new leadership, headed by Administrator Lee Zeldin, promptly moved to roll back implementation of IRA programs. Indeed, as part of those efforts, EPA froze the funds […]
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Nscale Buys Anyscale to Move Up the AI Compute Stack
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Nscale, the AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power, has agreed to buy Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework. The acquisition, announced on July 30, 2026, puts a workload-orchestration layer on top of Nscale’s GPU fleet and moves Anyscale’s roughly 200 staff across the United States, […]
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CoreWeave Pushes Its AI Cloud Into Classified Data Centers
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CoreWeave and Leidos said on July 30, 2026 that they will team up to deliver secure AI cloud services for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, with CoreWeave’s platform running inside data centers accredited to handle classified material and Leidos owning the integration work around it. The division of labor is specific. CoreWeave plans to supply […]
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Why All Companies Need a Knowledge Graph in the AI Era
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AI has fundamentally accelerated software development, yet it has barely changed how software organizations operate. That mismatch is quietly becoming the biggest constraint on enterprise AI. For years, engineering teams needed more resources to keep up with demand. Today, small teams use AI to generate code, test, and accelerate the path from idea to implementation. […]
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Autonomous Agents Are IT’s Next Painkiller
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In the AI gold rush, I see two distinct categories of solutions: vitamins and painkillers. A vitamin is something that helps you write better copy or polish a slide deck, which only boosts your productivity so much. A painkiller, however, is a matter of systemic survival. It can help you fix an issue before it […]
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Five Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report
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At DVC, we’ve spent a decade watching the AI market up close — backing companies and working closely with the portco founders. This year, we decided to share the framework we’ve built with the world. This is how the State of AI Report was born: a living, continuously updated analysis of the AI economy across […]
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Amazon Engineers Move to Cap AI Spending After Cost Overruns
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Amazon’s engineering teams have found cases where moving work from hand-written code to AI models blew through project budgets, including $1.8 million spent running Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet on a job that never shipped. Senior engineers laid the cases out for staff at an internal meeting on July 28, 2026 and described the results as “catastrophically […]
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Check Point Moves AI Prompt Inspection Into Its Firewalls
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Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, putting prompt- and agent-level inspection inside its firewall software release R82.20 and running it from the gateways customers already operate. The capability is available now. The gap it targets is one enterprise security teams have lived with since generative AI reached the workplace. A […]
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Meta Bets Its Next Revenue Line on Personal AI Agents
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Meta put consumer AI agents at the center of its revenue plan on July 29, 2026, when it reported second-quarter results and then used much of the earnings call to lay out a consumer agent business that has not launched yet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that personal agents will be “the foundation for our […]
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Lumo AI Review: This AI Chatbot Keeps My Data Private
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Have you ever typed something private into an AI chatbot and wondered where that information actually goes? Maybe it was a work document, a personal idea, or even a sensitive question you didn’t want attached to your name. With AI becoming part of everyday life, that feeling of “what happens to my data after I […]