2026

Why it matters: Post-training quantization for edge AI: how INT8 and INT4 shrink models 4-16x, what accuracy costs, and how to deploy fast with GPTQ, AWQ, and GGUF.

Flagler Health has raised $50 million in Series B funding as the healthcare technology company looks to expand its artificial intelligence platform across the U.S. musculoskeletal care market. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from SignalFire, Alumni Ventures, Streamlined, 186 Ventures, Proof VC, Tribeca Ventures, and Offscript. The financing brings Flagler…

Moshe Sambol, VP of Customer Solutions at Lightrun – brings more than two decades of experience spanning software engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing technical leadership. Before joining Lightrun in 2022, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he held several leadership positions, including Cloud Customer Engineering Manager, helping organizations adopt and scale Google…

Earlier this year, Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents, businesses, and payment providers to communicate and transact through a shared framework. Then came Universal Cart, the company’s new intelligent shopping hub that brings products from across its ecosystem into a single, AI-powered destination. If you rewind…

A colleague who forgot every prior conversation the moment it ended would not last long in most jobs. Yet a lot of business AI works exactly that way. The session closes and the context disappears with it. A consumer firing off one-off questions may barely notice, but a company running a process that lasts longer…

Anthropic has confirmed it will embed imperceptible watermarks into text generated by Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026 and attach digitally signed provenance metadata to generated files, laying out the commitment in a new support page detailing its compliance plan for the EU AI Act’s transparency obligations, which became…

For years, discussions around artificial intelligence have centered on capability. Can AI write better content? Can it automate customer interactions? Can it improve productivity, detect fraud, analyze data, and support better decisions? Today, those questions are becoming less relevant. AI is already doing these things. The more important question is whether people trust it. According…

AI use and adoption can be like the Wild West if left ungoverned in an organization. The issue has become a growing concern as adoption continues to accelerate faster than most governance cycles. The challenge for IT and Compliance teams is that new tools can be deployed in days while policies and controls often take…

NVIDIA has signed memorandums of understanding with six of the largest pools of private capital in the world — Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR — to create independent compute financing platforms the company says will mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure over time, according to the company’s…

Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since they don’t understand physics as well as they do pixels or text. To build an AI system that can reliably…