TIER IV, the Tokyo-based company behind the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, has signed a memorandum of understanding with automotive supplier Astemo to jointly build a next-generation development platform for end-to-end autonomous driving AI, the companies announced on August 5, 2026. The platform is targeted for commercialization around 2030, with Astemo aiming to put end-to-end…
SpaceX’s AI segment nearly tripled its revenue in the second quarter of 2026, to $2.56 billion, after the company started renting GPU capacity to other AI companies, according to the quarterly report it filed with securities regulators on August 4, 2026. The growth came mostly from new cloud contracts. The losses came from the same…
Waymo opened its Dallas robotaxi service to the general public on August 4, 2026, ending the invitation-only phase that has governed ridership since the city’s commercial launch in February. Anyone in Dallas can now download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride, with no waitlist or invitation required. The company says it welcomed…
AWS made Web Search generally available on Amazon Bedrock on August 4, 2026, giving foundation models on its AI platform a built-in way to ground answers in current web knowledge without a third-party search provider. The server-side tool is enabled through a single parameter in an existing OpenAI-compatible API call, and responses come back with…
Mistral AI released Shieldstral on August 4, 2026, a 3B-parameter open-weights safety classifier that judges text and images against moderation policies written in plain language at inference time, rather than a fixed set of harm categories baked in during training. The model is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, covers 12 languages,…
Buzz Solutions has raised $20 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round as utilities look for faster ways to inspect, maintain, and strengthen increasingly complex energy infrastructure. S3 Ventures led the round, with significant follow-on investment from GoPoint Ventures. Existing investors HearstLab and Blackhorn Ventures also participated. Buzz Solutions said the capital will support…
Sathya AG is a technology evangelist, published author of “Enterprise-Grade Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies”, and Senior Principal Architect at Google (Retail Strategic Industries), with over 19 years of experience in enterprise architecture and AI. A global thought leader recognized with the Top AI Influencer Award and Google’s President’s Award, he is the author of Enterprise-Grade…
Lithium-ion batteries are the leading choice in today’s electric vehicle and battery energy storage system industries, but they contain a number of critical minerals — including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite — that are considered essential for economic and national security reasons, and therefore vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. As renewable energy, electrified infrastructure, and…
Phylo, Inc. announced on August 4, 2026 that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo’s agentic AI platform for biomedical research, across Chugai’s drug discovery workflows, covering four areas: single-cell analysis, human genetics, disease biology, and target evaluation. The Tokyo-based drugmaker, a Roche Group member listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market,…
The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched a $100 million program to build state and regional AI infrastructure hubs across the country, with NVIDIA , AMD, Intel , and Dell Technologies among the private-sector partners lined up to support it. The NSF State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, announced August 4, 2026, will…