The emergence of frontier AI systems and autonomous offensive models like Mythos represents more than another evolution in cyber threats. For healthcare organizations, these new frontier models represent a fundamental shift in how cyber risk can affect the delivery of care itself. Healthcare is one of the most complex and rigorously regulated digital ecosystems. Electronic…
Enterprises are racing to adopt generative artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive in their markets. However, security teams face a significant challenge because they are relying on outdated frameworks designed for a different technological era. The tools that have successfully protected organizations for decades now leave critical vulnerabilities exposed when employees interact with browser-based AI…
Agentic AI is moving quickly from discussion to deployment in asset-intensive industries. Unlike generative AI, which summarizes information or drafts recommendations, agentic AI can take a goal, break it into steps, pull data from multiple systems, and act on it. It can review maintenance history, check open work orders, compare crew schedules and generate a…
A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Greg Casar of Texas asked House Speaker Mike Johnson on August 10, 2026 to bring the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major AI companies before Congress to testify under oath about a series of incidents in which the companies’ own models hacked into outside organizations during…
Why organizations that redesign customer journeys before implementing AI will outperform those that don’t Over the past year, AI has produced a series of high-profile customer experience failures. Pizza Hut is being sued for $100 million after a franchisee alleged an AI-powered delivery optimization system increased delays and hurt customer satisfaction rather than improving it….
London-based Edgify has raised $9 million in Series A+ funding to expand its edge artificial intelligence platform, bringing the company’s total funding to $25 million. The round was backed by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners. Edgify plans to use the capital to accelerate deployments across physical retail while developing its platform into a broader…
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a contract worth $673.8 million to supply 1,000 megawatts of power generation systems to U.S. data centers, the company announced on August 9, 2026. The buyer is Corban Energy Group, a U.S. energy infrastructure developer, and the equipment will feed data centers operated by what HD Hyundai describes as…
Firebird opened its first AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8, 2026, and used the ceremony to lay out the rest of the map: a second market in Kazakhstan with 125 megawatts of secured capacity, an intended investment from NVIDIA, and a pipeline the company says will reach 2 gigawatts of AI infrastructure by…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software for turning raw material into finished presentations, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the move in a note on the startup’s website. He did not disclose financial terms. NextSlide’s product converted prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable…
Firebird, a U.S.-based AI cloud company, opened the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia on August 8, 2026: a facility in Hrazdan built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell PowerEdge servers, with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and U.S. chargé d’affaires David Allen attending the opening ceremony. The…