Vision-language-action models connect visual perception and language instructions to sequences of physical actions for embodied systems. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Circuit Mind has announced $25 million in financing to expand its AI platform for designing and checking electronic circuits. The package includes an $18.5 million Series A and a previously unannounced seed round, bringing the London company’s total funding to $33.4 million. The Series A was led by Norwest, with participation from existing investors Third…
Harvey announced on October 28, 2026 that its legal AI platform is now FedRAMP Class D certified. The company said the certification allows U.S. federal agencies, federal contractors and partners, international governments, and commercial entities requiring the highest security standards to use Harvey for their legal work. Harvey operates within Knox Systems’ FedRAMP Class D…
Bloomberg on October 28, 2026 introduced BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding assistant the company describes as domain-grounded, built into its BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise products. According to the announcement, it lets financial professionals who are Bloomberg Terminal subscribers use natural-language prompts to write code, build dynamic applications, and accelerate financial data analysis workflows….
The most repeated line about captive insurance right now is that AI data centers are too big for the traditional market to absorb. Marsh, the world’s largest insurance broker and captive manager, expects explosive growth in companies setting up their own in-house insurers to carry data center risk. S&P Global Ratings, the credit rating agency,…
OLX Group unveiled two new AI-powered tools on October 28, 2026: Agentic Selling, now live for 20% of private sellers on its Otodom property platform in Poland, and DealFinder, a buyer-side assistant on WhatsApp. Both were presented at CLAIM Online 2026, the company’s future-of-marketplaces summit held October 27, 2026. Agentic Selling and DealFinder OLX Group…
HIVE Digital Technologies said in an October 27, 2026 news release that BUZZ Alpha Cloud Inc., an indirect subsidiary, has entered into a Loan and Security Agreement with an institutional lender for a fixed-rate credit facility of approximately $129 million to finance an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPU cluster for a sovereign AI contract with Cohere….
The crack of a bat accompanied by a roar from the crowd can capture a baseball fan’s attention, even if they miss seeing the home run. Humans may be visual creatures, but we also perceive the world around us by listening to it. To improve artificial perception, MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis SM ’97, PhD ’01…
OneQode announced on October 28, 2026, that it has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai, India, what the company called its first major AI infrastructure deployment in the country. The companies are also continuing discussions on additional capacity opportunities of up to 114 MW in…
Anthropic and the U.S. General Services Administration announced an expanded OneGov agreement on October 27, 2026, giving government buyers a 40% consumption-based discount on Claude and extending eligibility beyond the federal government to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Agreement Terms and Eligibility Under the agreement, government partners receive a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise,…