Skanska has signed a contract with an existing client to build four new data centers in the southeast region of the USA, a deal worth USD 1.2 billion (about SEK 11.2 billion), the Swedish construction group announced on August 20, 2026, in a company release. The full value will be booked into Skanska’s US order…
SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company’s first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The deployment packages the trucks with an intelligent dispatching system and lifecycle operations and maintenance services. It is SANY’s first deployment of its autonomous mining solution…
Hyve Solutions, the server design and manufacturing arm of TD SYNNEX, announced on August 19, 2026 that it will build two advanced manufacturing campuses in Nevada (a 624,000-square-foot flagship site in Reno and a second facility in North Las Vegas) to expand U.S. production of the compute, storage, and networking systems that feed AI data…
Ramp, the corporate-spend platform that powers more than $200 billion in purchases annually, launched Router.com on August 19, 2026: a single API endpoint that sends each AI request to the lowest-cost model that meets the developer’s quality bar. Customers already using the service have cut their inference costs by 40% on average, according to the…
Waymo riders in the company’s custom-built Ojai robotaxis now have a second AI system in the vehicle with them, and this one is there to talk. Google announced on August 19, 2026 that Gemini is live inside the Ojai as an in-car voice assistant, available at the press of an on-screen icon while the Waymo…
Prevalent AI has raised $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP), marking the first primary outside investment in the London-based company’s nine-year history. The funding comes as enterprises face a growing problem alongside the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence: AI systems may be becoming more capable, but their decisions are only as…
Meta launched a standalone Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving its chatbot a dedicated desktop home for the first time and turning it toward the businesses and creators who run their marketing on Facebook and Instagram. The assistant can now share part of a user’s screen and connect to Instagram and…
Meta launched a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving the assistant a native desktop home for the first time and pairing it with a set of business connections aimed at the creators and small companies that run their marketing on Facebook and Instagram. The app adds two desktop-only capabilities —…
Gautam Korlam, Principal Engineer at Sonar, is a veteran software engineer and technology leader whose career has focused on developer infrastructure, code quality, automation, and AI-assisted software development. Before joining Sonar, he co-founded Gitar and served as CTO, building an AI-native platform designed to automate code review, diagnose continuous integration (CI) failures, identify root causes,…
Rob Collie is the founder and CEO of P3 Adaptive, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data and AI that serves hundreds of mid-market and Fortune 1000 clients. A former Microsoft engineering leader on the Excel, Bing, and Power BI teams, Rob led the Power BI wave after leaving Microsoft and has authored three previous business-technology…