For most of the last decade, running a powerful AI model meant sending your data to someone else’s infrastructure and hoping that infrastructure would perform. But that arrangement is breaking down as a trust dilemma grows between model owners, data owners and infrastructure providers. Organizations across finance, healthcare, government, and defense increasingly want to run…
Binance, the crypto exchange that reports more than 300 million registered users, on August 20, 2026 launched Agent OS, a developer platform that connects AI agents to its trading, payments, and wallet infrastructure, letting software built on tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor read markets, manage portfolios, and place trades on users’ behalf. Agent…
A supervised model does not learn the world; it learns the labels a team of annotators assigned to pixels. If those labels disagree with each other, blur a category boundary, or skip the hard frames, the model absorbs that confusion as fact. This is why quality-focused data labeling, not the raw count of labeled images,…
Lithuanian AI startup Guideless has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding as it looks to rethink one of the less glamorous but persistent problems inside software-driven organizations: documenting how work actually gets done. The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC and angel investors Thomas Plantenga, Group CEO of Vinted; Vytautas…
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…