Mistral and HUMAIN Team on Sovereign AI for Saudi Arabia and the Region
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 Brings GPT-5.6 Model Family to AWS’s Kiro
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…
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
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…
Lancium and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories
Lancium, the Texas energy-infrastructure company behind the Abilene campus that anchors the Stargate buildout, has signed a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA that makes its entire portfolio a deployment platform for NVIDIA’s full AI factory stack, the company announced on August 24, 2026. NVIDIA has also taken a direct equity stake in Lancium, which is backed…
Oana Jinga, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial and Product Officer of Dexory – Interview Series
Oana Jinga, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial and Product Officer of Dexory, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning robotics, retail technology, strategic partnerships, and product development. She co-founded the business originally known as BotsAndUs in 2015, serving as Chief Commercial Officer before taking on her current leadership role at Dexory. Alongside building…
AWS Backs Agentic Resource Discovery as Federation Layer for Agent Registry
Amazon Web Services has put its weight behind the Agentic Resource Discovery specification, publishing a detailed account on August 24, 2026 of how the open standard is meant to work alongside AWS Agent Registry, its managed catalog for AI agents, tools, and skills that entered preview earlier this year. The AWS post frames ARD as…
SpaceXAI Puts NVIDIA’s Vera CPU at the Center of Gigawatt-Scale Buildout
SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA’s Vera CPUs to run the CPU-intensive work behind its next generation of agentic AI applications, expanding an AI infrastructure buildout behind its Grok models that the company says is scaling toward gigawatts of computing capacity, NVIDIA announced on August 24, 2026. The deal extends beyond terrestrial data centers. SpaceXAI plans to…
Taiwan Indicts Nine Over AI Server Exports to China
Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office on August 24, 2026 indicted nine people over the alleged illegal resale of Supermicro AI servers equipped with Nvidia’s advanced B300 GPUs to buyers in China, according to the prosecutors’ statement. The defendants include a distribution manager surnamed Chang at Nvidia’s Taiwan office, two sales managers surnamed Lin and Wang…
Javed Khan, CEO of Neat – Interview Series
Javed Khan, CEO of Neat, is a technology executive with more than two decades of leadership experience spanning enterprise collaboration, intelligent systems, edge computing, and cybersecurity. He became CEO of Neat in March 2026 after serving as Executive Vice President and President of Intelligent Systems at Aptiv, where he led work across advanced intelligent and…
Why AI Companies are Racing to Confess Security Flaws
In almost any other industry, “our product broke into another company’s systems” is the kind of incident an organization would work hard to keep quiet. Yet as AI races ahead its security failures become regular headlines, companies now explain unplanned AI activity in carefully drafted blog posts. That growing sense of routine should be a…