Greenberg Traurig has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic AI for legal professionals, giving lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to a system that plans, researches, and drafts through the stages of a legal matter, the firm announced on August 26, 2026. The rollout caps a four-year collaboration in which…
Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs, is a repeat entrepreneur and technology executive with a background spanning financial infrastructure, investing, and digital platforms. Before founding ARCOS Labs, he spent eight years as Founder and CEO of Percent, where he built a technology platform designed to modernize private credit markets, and now serves as…
Google is rolling out a productivity upgrade to Gemini Live that moves its voice assistant beyond conversation into executing multi-step tasks across a user’s Google apps, the company announced on August 26, 2026. The update, detailed in a post on The Keyword, adds four capabilities: Spark integration for agentic background tasks, a spoken Daily Brief,…
Investors in the AI bubble beg white collar professionals to hand over their hardest problems and promise workers that they’ll get their afternoons back if they just give up a little more of their data. Complex analysis, judgment calls, and the workflows that took years to develop are absorbed by a model, supposedly freeing humans…
Sundar Subramanian, CEO of Zyter, is an experienced strategy and healthcare executive with a background spanning management consulting, digital transformation, and large-scale healthcare operations. Before becoming CEO in July 2025, he spent more than 16 years at PwC’s Strategy&, where he led the U.S. strategy consulting business as well as its Enterprise Strategy, Value and…
Waystar, the publicly traded healthcare payments company, on August 26, 2026 unveiled a set of agentic AI capabilities built on its AltitudeAI platform that autonomously execute work across the revenue cycle: resubmitting denied claims, answering natural-language questions about financial performance, drafting clinical documentation, and guiding patients through what they owe. The company framed the launch…
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With Hybrid Attention and 6B Active Parameters Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on August 26, 2026, an open-weight experimental model that previews the architecture intended to underpin Qwen4. The model carries 125B parameters but activates only 6B per token, a configuration the team frames as a step toward what it calls…
SandboxAQ has released Switch, software that pulls AI agents built on rival frameworks into the same Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord channels where employees already work, and made the code publicly available at no cost. The company announced the launch on August 26, 2026, positioning Switch as the coordination layer between the agents developers are…
Kargo, the San Francisco-based company behind an AI vision system for automated inventory capture, and Lineage, the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT, announced on August 26, 2026 that automated receiving operations are now running at Lineage’s Decatur, Alabama warehouse. The facility supports adjacent poultry plants operated by one of the nation’s largest poultry producers,…
Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-forward wealth technology and custody platform for independent financial advisors, the two companies announced on August 26, 2026. The definitive agreement brings one of the fastest-growing registered investment advisor custodians under the ownership of the world’s second-largest asset manager, with terms not disclosed. Altruist will operate as a…