Eolian said on July 29, 2026 that construction has started on Flint Grid, a 200-megawatt battery storage plant in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio, built to hold 5.3 hours of output, or roughly 1.06 gigawatt-hours of electricity. The site sits inside the New Albany data center and industrial corridor east of Columbus and ties into…
ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the Orlando-based Zero Trust security company said on July 29, 2026. Existing backers D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures also took part. The company says the capital will fund continued development of…
The debate around AI in elder care often starts with the wrong fear: that technology will replace human caregivers. Emotionally, it is a powerful argument, but it rests on a false premise. It assumes there is a trained, available, fairly paid person ready to support every older adult who needs help, and that AI is…
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase. After several years of pilots, proofs of concept and experimentation, organizations are shifting their focus from what AI can do to how it can become a reliable part of everyday business operations. That shift reflects a broader evolution in how business leaders evaluate AI. Early conversations centered on…
UK subscribers who watched their Microsoft 365 bill climb after Copilot turned up in Word and Outlook are now the subject of a formal consumer-law investigation. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority opened a case against Microsoft on July 27, 2026, made public two days later, over whether Personal and Family customers were given clear enough…
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion financing round that values the Beijing lab at $35 billion, well above the $1 billion to $2 billion it originally set out to raise, Bloomberg reported on July 29, 2026, citing people familiar with the private deal. The company is already approaching investors about a follow-on round at…
One in four malicious data breaches involved attackers using AI, according to the 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report IBM published on July 29, 2026. Those breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million above the $4.99 million global average IBM reports across its full sample, and the share of malicious breaches…
Generative AI has expanded beyond coding assistants and content creation tools, finding its way into legal research and case preparation. While the technology has helped legal professionals quickly generate documents and explore potential legal strategies within minutes, AI adoption has fueled the rise of vibe lawyering where individuals use AI to complete legal tasks with…
Recursive, the AI research company led by Richard Socher, has signed a multi-year, $410 million agreement with Amazon Web Services to run its automated AI research system, putting the bulk of its funding into a single cloud contract. The company came out of stealth in May 2026 with $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation,…
Restaurant operators continue to see industry sales growth, but growth alone will not solve the industry’s margin problem. The National Restaurant Association forecasted that restaurant and foodservice sales could reach $1.55 trillion in 2026, but more recent data showed a tougher reality: 49% of restaurant operators reported lower customer traffic in April, and the industry…