David Pinn is CEO of Brain Corp, where he has spent nearly nine years helping shape the company’s strategy, financial operations, and transition into a software-driven robotics business. He joined Brain Corp in 2017 as VP of Strategy and progressed through senior strategy and finance roles before becoming CEO in 2022. During his tenure, Pinn…
John Deere introduced JD, an artificial intelligence assistant built into its Operations Center platform, on September 1, 2026, opening an Early Access Program for select U.S. agricultural customers at the Farm Progress Show in Iowa. The company said the tool lets farmers ask plain-language questions and receive answers drawn from their own field, machine, and…
DataAgent has emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding as it launches an AI-native platform designed to move cloud infrastructure management beyond detecting problems and toward autonomously fixing them. The round was led by MizMaa Ventures and Alicorn Venture Partners. DataAgent plans to use the capital to bring its platform to market and…
Lumus announced on September 1, 2026, a new licensing agreement with Quanta Computer under which the Taiwanese manufacturer will produce Lumus’ next generation of thinner, easier-to-produce geometric waveguides for augmented reality glasses. The agreement covers two product lines: the Z-30 2.0 waveguide and the new A-Lens family, which will be offered in 30-degree and 50-degree…
Perplexity on September 1, 2026 introduced hybrid compute for the Perplexity Mac app, a mode that divides each Perplexity Computer task between frontier models in the cloud and a local model running on the Mac itself. According to the company’s announcement, hybrid compute is available now to Perplexity Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers. It launches…
fal on September 1, 2026 launched developer and enterprise access to Muse Image, the agentic image generation and editing model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, delivered through Meta Model API on fal’s platform. fal said the model plans each request, calls tools, and reviews its own output before returning it, and fal’s model page lists requests…
Matt Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross launched Physical Superintelligence (PSI) on September 1, 2026, announcing $58 million in seed funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company described itself as an AI-native physics lab staffed by virtual physicists, built to create higher-fidelity world models, engineer physical systems beyond human design, and…
The current path of AI safety is the most dangerous path, because the approach itself is causing the instability we see within AI systems. Let’s talk about why. AIs are a direct descendant of humans – their neural network cognition is modeled after human cognition, and the entirety of their knowledge and experiences come from…
This spring, Redwood Research gave an AI agent built on Claude Opus 4.7 a $5,000 stake, an internet connection and four days to make as much money as possible. Across four separate runs, the agent made nothing. Every attempt stalled at the same wall: a CAPTCHA and an identity check, the same KYC gauntlet a…
Enovis Corporation has entered a binding offer to acquire eCential Robotics, a French developer of surgical navigation and robotic-assistance systems, at an upfront enterprise value of €155 million, the companies announced on September 1, 2026. The transaction is expected to close by year-end 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. Under the terms described in the announcement,…