Throughout history, new technologies have triggered people’s fears, often arriving cloaked in controversy around the threat to society. Now it is AI’s turn. While the concerns are justified and deserve to be addressed, history also tells us a broader truth: while technological change can cause disruption, it also unlocks enormous opportunity. This is the story…
Emerald AI announced on November 2, 2026 that it is joining EPRI’s DCFlex Initiative as a full member, extending a collaboration that has included six demonstrations of AI data-center flexibility with NVIDIA, utilities, grid operators and data-center partners. Emerald AI said its relationship with EPRI dates to the company’s founding in November 2024, the same…
OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane has written a memo arguing that AI will be the number-one issue of the 2028 presidential election and laying out five questions he says candidates must answer to build an AI agenda. The memo was made public on November 2, 2026. In the memo, titled “2028: The AI…
How to prevent a lost response from becoming a duplicate action A support agent authorized to generate one refund sends the request but loses the connection. The agent receives no confirmation of success and attempts to send the refund again. If the original request was successful, then the agent’s repeat action may result in a…
The hardest part of automating office work often happens before an AI agent takes its first action: figuring out what employees actually do. A workflow might cross an inbox, a spreadsheet and several business applications, with its exceptions understood by the team but never captured in a formal specification. Marble Cognition has raised $3.75 million…
Envision said on Nov. 2, 2026, that an integrated 800-volt direct-current (800V DC) power system is now powering live computing workloads at its Galaxy AI data center campus in Ulanqab, China, a deployment the company described in its announcement as the world’s first commercial use of such a system in a large-scale AI data center….
TIER IV announced on November 2, 2026 that it is spearheading Autoware 2.0 initiatives in collaboration with the Autoware Foundation and the global open-source community, the same day the foundation released version 2.0 of the open-source autonomous driving software with new support for end-to-end AI and hybrid driving stacks alongside established rule-based modules. TIER IV…
RWS announced on November 2, 2026 that it has completed its acquisition of Acogroup, the parent company of language and content services provider Acolad, at an enterprise value of £22.4 million, following the completion of social consultation and all regulatory approvals. RWS, a global AI solutions company headquartered in Maidenhead, UK and listed on the…
EASE Holdings BV, a Netherlands-based medical equipment-as-a-service provider, has secured US$9.5 million in additional equity from AAFC Group Inc, a U.S.-based investor in emerging-market asset-backed finance, to scale its operations in South Africa and Ghana, the company announced on November 2, 2026. The investment brings EASE’s total equity to US$24 million. Combined with its debt…
Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI and G42 at ADIPEC on November 2, 2026, saying the agreement makes it the first energy company to deploy OpenAI Frontier, a platform for connecting and coordinating frontier AI agents across complex business operations. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu…