Why the industry’s next winners may not be the companies building the models. The Industry Is Asking the Wrong Question The technology industry has found a new proxy contest: whether OpenAI or Anthropic will become the first major AI company to reach the public markets. The story has acquired the familiar rhythm of a platform…
Pudu Robotics launched the PUDU ET1 on August 12, 2026, an AI-native compact scrubber-dryer robot built for commercial spaces of 100 to 800 square meters, taking the Shenzhen company’s cleaning lineup down into the convenience stores, drugstores, and chain restaurants too tight for its larger machines. The ET1 is the first product in a new…
Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires an AI system to disclose that a person is talking to a machine. It says nothing about what happens to that conversation once the disclosure is made. Founders building products on top of a foundation model focus on accuracy and price. The question of what happens to…
Skan AI, a Menlo Park startup whose software watches how employees actually move work through enterprise applications, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, the company announced on August 12, 2026. Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures also participated, taking total funding…
Ali Morin, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Symplr, is a nursing and healthcare technology leader with experience spanning bedside care, clinical systems, and nursing informatics. Before becoming Chief Nursing Informatics Officer in 2024, she served as symplr’s Vice President of Nursing Informatics and held senior informatics roles at Halo focused on clinical communication, implementation, and…
Blacksmith, a San Francisco startup that runs continuous integration workloads on purpose-built hardware, has raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, the company announced on August 12, 2026. Existing investors Y Combinator and GV also participated, which co-founder and CEO Aditya “JP” Jayaprakash described as both…
The deal is less a new logo than a deepening of an existing relationship. The scope spans the properties fans actually touch: FIFA ID as a unified identity across platforms, a personalized FIFA.com, and a single FIFA Tournament App combining schedules, real-time content, and host-city information for fans attending matches in person. What the Deployment…
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership on August 12, 2026, under which the carrier will deploy Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 employees and put Gemini Enterprise, Google’s agentic AI platform, to work on flight crew logistics, decision automation, and corporate productivity. The joint announcement frames the deal…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public how to rebuild the National Vulnerability Database for an era of artificial intelligence, opening a 62-day comment window on August 12, 2026 that closes October 13, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The request for information published in the Federal Register seeks input on…
NVIDIA published a detailed case on August 12, 2026 for treating its AI factory compute as an investable infrastructure asset class, two days after signing memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure….