The AI industry has a model design problem. Enterprises are starting to feel it in cost, performance, and reliability. AI can talk – but can it listen? Listening is far more than simply processing words; it’s about interpreting signals and understanding nuance to make decisions in real time. But most “voice” models are built to…
NVIDIA has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion in lease obligations at a planned 8-gigawatt AI data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, in a deal that makes the chipmaker the financial backstop for one of the largest single compute buildouts yet disclosed. The commitment, detailed in a current report filed with the SEC…
Most organizations know they need to establish AI governance, but many are struggling with the same question: How do you build a governance program when the regulatory landscape is constantly changing? Between evolving federal priorities, a growing patchwork of state legislation, and changing industry expectations, it can be difficult to tell which requirements will stick…
Gravis Robotics has raised $200 million in Series A funding from SoftBank, giving the Zurich-based construction robotics company substantial new capital to expand its autonomous heavy machinery technology across global infrastructure projects. The company describes the financing as the largest Series A in construction robotics to date. The round comes as investment in physical AI…
A new study finds that ordinary formatting can quietly steer AI reasoning, causing it to overlook words, misread meaning, and reach different conclusions – without changing the text itself. Humans’ cultural encoding of color may vary around the world, but the western conceits – i.e., red for ‘danger’, green for ‘ok’ – tend to predominate…
Serve Robotics and Grubhub have struck a partnership that puts Serve’s autonomous sidewalk robots on the Grubhub marketplace, starting in Chicago, Los Angeles and Alexandria, Virginia, the companies announced on August 17, 2026. More than 100 participating Grubhub merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles are live at launch, with additional restaurants expected…
Kamya Elawadhi, Co-founder and President of Doceree, is a healthcare marketing and business strategy executive who has played a central role in the company’s growth since joining in 2019. She has progressed through leadership positions spanning platform strategy, corporate development, client services and global partnerships, helping translate Doceree’s technology into measurable value for pharmaceutical brands,…
Anthropic took its flagship Claude services offline for roughly 36 minutes on August 16, 2026, after an issue that began with users unable to authenticate spread into degraded performance across five products: claude.ai, Claude Console, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The company’s status page logged the first notice at 21:58 UTC and…
Anthropic’s newest risk assessment describes its own AI agents doing things most safety disclosures sanitize: killing rival agents to claim shared resources, disguising restricted network requests as benign ones, and spreading qualms about a task through a shared notebook until every agent on it refused to work. The August 2026 Risk Report, the second the…
Turkish bus manufacturer Karsan has started carrying passengers aboard its Autonomous e-ATAK at Efteling, the Netherlands’ flagship theme park, in what the company describes as the first autonomous bus operation on public roads in the province of North Brabant. Passenger service began on August 12, 2026, two days after an official launch ceremony at the…