Spineart and eCential Robotics received FDA 510(k) clearance on August 26, 2026 for Spineart’s PERLA TL application to run on eCential’s Op.n navigation and robotic-assisted platform, extending a previously navigation-only pairing into robotic-assisted workflows. The clearance covers the PERLA TL Open and MIS pedicle screw systems in both open and minimally invasive spine procedures, the…
Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that hasn’t led to a huge leap in the number of new materials being used to improve the performance of products like computer chips and rockets. One reason for the translation gap is that current models…
Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have built an interpretation method that shows, base by base, what a deep-learning model has learned from DNA, and used it to strip a hidden experimental bias out of genomic data. The method, called PISA, is described in a paper published in Nature Communications in August 2026…
Mikhail Yatsuha, CEO and Co-Founder of CaseCraft.AI, is a UK solicitor and legal technology entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience in legal services. He progressed from an intern and trainee solicitor to Partner at Sterling Law, where he led the commercial department and repeatedly encountered viable lower-value disputes that became uneconomic once traditional…
Prince Kohli, President and CEO of Sauce Labs, is a veteran technology executive with extensive experience spanning artificial intelligence, enterprise software, cloud computing, automation, networking, and cybersecurity. Before joining Sauce Labs in February 2025, he spent more than six years as Chief Technology Officer of Automation Anywhere, where he helped advance AI-driven automation technologies for…
IBM has released Granite 4.2, its first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning language models, in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and 30B parameters. Announced on August 25, 2026 with weights published under the Apache 2.0 license, the release gives every Granite model a switchable thinking mode and sends the two larger sizes through reinforcement learning inside…
As someone who regularly reviews AI software, I spend a lot of time testing tools and documenting how they work. That often means capturing the process with screenshots, and writing out each step so someone else can follow along. That’s why I was interested in trying Guideless. Instead of manually documenting a workflow after completing…
IBM released two compact English speech recognition models on August 25, 2026, claiming transcription throughput no open model has posted before: more than 3.5 hours of speech processed in a single second. The pair, Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC and a noncommercial counterpart, each carry just 470 million parameters, and the company reports aggregate throughput above…
NVIDIA on August 25, 2026 announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a successor to its entry-level robotics computer that doubles inference performance over the Jetson Orin Nano Super while holding the same compact form factor — and cuts power draw by 40% when matched to its predecessor’s performance. The module packs 78 trillion operations per…
Gatik, the autonomous trucking startup, has raised $200 million in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, and Intact Private Capital, the company announced August 25, 2026. The round was announced from the company’s Santa Clara, California headquarters. No valuation was attached…