Carrick Capital Partners said on August 31, 2026 that it has closed a single-asset continuation vehicle for identity security company Saviynt with approximately $600 million in capital commitments, including a new $255 million investment that the firm described as the largest in its history. According to the announcement from the San Francisco and Newport Beach-based…
Instagram on August 31, 2026 renamed its AI creator label to “AI-generated profile” and said it will limit the reach of profiles that feature an AI-generated person but do not carry the label, in an announcement on its creators blog. Under the updated policy, accounts whose profile features an AI-generated person rather than a human…
AI inference is the production-time process in which a trained model receives new inputs and computes predictions, generated tokens, actions, or representations. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
OpenGov announced on August 31, 2026, that Kansas City, Missouri, used its Enterprise Asset Management platform to overhaul road maintenance, nearly tripling annual resurfacing output and cutting a projected maintenance backlog by more than half after the city confronted a deferred maintenance bill it projected at up to $4 billion within a decade. The company,…
Technology decisions are spreading across the enterprise, but responsibility for risk and resilience still lands with IT Something subtle has changed in the CIO role. Technology is no longer delivered to the business; it’s adopted and modified across the business, among multiple divisions, every day. It is not uncommon for teams to deploy AI tools,…
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,…