NVIDIA and MediaTek on August 31, 2026, announced an expansion of their long-standing collaboration to build the next generations of AI computing platforms spanning AI infrastructure, local AI computing and automotive. As part of the announcement, NVIDIA said it has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek. Under the expanded agreement, MediaTek will…
At the midpoint of this year, nonprofit executives were hit with the realization that, whereas donations across the U.S. continue to rise, with affluent households giving an average of $33,219 as per the 2025 Bank of America Study of Philanthropy, the number of actual donors has sharply dropped. Two decades ago, nearly two-thirds of households…
Two years ago, most conversations about AI centered on whether the investment was worth the risk. That question has been settled. The harder one now is where the money should go, and how much of it. I see this play out constantly with mid-market leaders and private equity operators. Most of them have already run…
Andreea Pleşea, PhD, COO and Co-Founder of Druid AI, is a technology executive and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience spanning software engineering, enterprise technology, artificial intelligence, operations, and customer success. Since co-founding Druid AI, she has held several senior leadership roles across the organization, including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief…
Behind almost every headline-grabbing demo in the Physical AI industry sits the same truth: the machine is a prototype, and prototypes are not products. Building one working robot is an engineering feat. Building the thousandth one, at a cost someone will pay, without a team of specialists standing by to nurse it through a malfunction,…
The UK government launched the first procurement competitions under its £100 million Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme on August 31, 2026, opening four challenges that invite British AI startups to build systems for the NHS, defence, computing efficiency, and AI agent security. Chancellor John Healey MP announced the launch at the G20 Finance Ministers and…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, writing as chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), warned G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on August 31, 2026 that frontier artificial intelligence models could materially alter the speed, scale and economics of cyber risk and destabilize the highly interconnected global financial system. The warning came in…
DiDi Autonomous Driving began fully driverless passenger service trials with its next-generation Robotaxi, the R2, on August 31, 2026, making the vehicle bookable through the DiDi App in selected demonstration areas of Beijing and Guangzhou, the company announced. The R2 is jointly developed by DiDi Autonomous Driving and GAC Aion. DiDi described the vehicle as…
It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers perform complex mathematical operations and statistical simulations without learning how to code. These programming languages were rigid and slow. If scientists built something that really worked,…
Agentic AI systems do more than generate an answer: they pursue goals through a loop of planning, tool use, observation, and adaptation. Here is how that loop works, where agents add value, and what keeps them under control.