Four years into generative AI, and almost no company has standardized its use of the technology. Most companies are still experimenting and figuring out what works for their business, convinced everyone else has this more figured out than they do. Meanwhile, the business isn’t waiting. PagerDuty’s 2026 Shadow AI Survey reveals that two-thirds (66%) of…
IBM and NASA on September 10, 2026 announced the open-source release of the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, a multimodal, multi-resolution foundation model for lunar remote sensing, alongside SomBench, the co-registered lunar dataset built to train it. In the announcement, dated from Yorktown Heights, New York, IBM described the system as one of the first publicly…
Ayar Labs announced on September 10, 2026, that it has secured an additional $150 million in funding, bringing the co-packaged optics (CPO) company’s total primary capital raised in 2026 to $650 million. The company said the new capital will support its continued transition to high-volume manufacturing, including investments in product development, validation, and scaling the…
CoreWeave announced on September 10, 2026 the launch of Physical AI Field Engineering, an offering that pairs customer teams with the cloud provider’s domain specialists to build, validate, and deploy AI across the full engineering lifecycle, from research and development through in-field operations. The announcement, datelined Livingston, New Jersey, said the service is built on…
AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix announced on September 10, 2026, a multi-year product-roadmap collaboration with NVIDIA that will integrate its next-generation Raptor inference XPUs into NVIDIA’s MGX rack-scale architecture through NVLink Fusion, with initial rack-integrated availability expected in the fourth quarter of 2027. d-Matrix said the agreement gives its XPUs entry into NVIDIA’s AI factory ecosystem….
Salesforce on September 10, 2026 introduced the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness, a composable architecture built around six trusted capabilities and a new AI Control Plane that the company says gives AI a shared understanding of the customer and the business while keeping its actions within enterprise controls. The announcement frames the harness as an answer…
Mistral AI announced a partnership with Cloudera on September 10, 2026, integrating its AI models with Cloudera’s hybrid data platform for enterprise customers. The agreement pairs inference deployment inside customer-controlled environments, including fully air-gapped installations, with custom model training on proprietary data that remains under customer ownership. Inference Deployment and Custom Model Training Under the…
Every few months, a new model arrives and shuffles the AI leaderboards. According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, frontier models gained roughly 30 percentage points in a single year on Humanity’s Last Exam, a benchmark built specifically to be hard for AI. Leaps that once took years now occur in a matter of months,…
The AI jobs panic isn’t backed by the numbers. The AI energy problem is real, and it’s now a question of whether Britain can build and deploy fast enough to compete. Since late 2023, the share of UK businesses using artificial intelligence has almost tripled from around 12% to 35%, according to data from the…
Palantir Technologies and Fujitsu on September 10, 2026, announced the renewal of their strategic partnership, with Fujitsu signing a new agreement with Palantir Technologies Japan KK for Palantir AIP and Palantir Foundry and agreeing to serve as a Global Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Partner. The companies described the renewal as a deeper investment in the…