Andreessen Horowitz said on August 31, 2026 that its Growth practice has closed additional capital, bringing the firm’s fifth Growth fund to a total of $8.5 billion. The firm disclosed the expansion in a post co-authored by David George, the general partner who leads its Growth investing team, and Raghu Raghuram, a managing partner and…
Fireworks AI on August 31, 2026 announced the general availability of its Training API and Fireworks Lab, opening its managed training and rollout infrastructure to ML teams that want to run custom training loops on open models. The Training API connects a customer’s own Python training loop to Fireworks-managed distributed compute, covering both the trainer…
Phil Marshall, Founder and CEO of Spoken, is a physician, inventor, technology entrepreneur, and science fiction writer whose career has spanned healthcare, digital media, artificial intelligence, and product innovation. Before launching Spoken in 2024, Marshall co-founded Conversa Health, a personalized patient engagement and conversational AI company that was acquired by Amwell in 2021 and became…
HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities, and KORA Systems Inc. announced a strategic engineering and co-development partnership on August 31, 2026, at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to build HUMAIN OS, an enterprise-grade, AI-native Linux operating system, according to a company press release. The companies said they are demonstrating an early version of…
The Department of War launched OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on its GenAI.mil platform on August 31, 2026, adding a custom version of the chatbot accredited for Controlled Unclassified Information at Impact Level 5 and built to support more than 3 million Department personnel. The Department said the launch marks the adoption phase of an enterprise partnership…
The California Legislature gave final approval on August 30, 2026, to SB 813, legislation authored by Senator Jerry McNerney that would direct the Government Operations Agency to designate independent verification organizations — outside auditors qualified to assess the safety risks of AI systems and models. The bill now goes to Governor Gavin Newsom. The Assembly…
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,…