As someone who regularly reviews AI software, I spend a lot of time testing tools and documenting how they work. That often means capturing the process with screenshots, and writing out each step so someone else can follow along. That’s why I was interested in trying Guideless. Instead of manually documenting a workflow after completing…
IBM released two compact English speech recognition models on August 25, 2026, claiming transcription throughput no open model has posted before: more than 3.5 hours of speech processed in a single second. The pair, Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC and a noncommercial counterpart, each carry just 470 million parameters, and the company reports aggregate throughput above…
NVIDIA on August 25, 2026 announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, a successor to its entry-level robotics computer that doubles inference performance over the Jetson Orin Nano Super while holding the same compact form factor — and cuts power draw by 40% when matched to its predecessor’s performance. The module packs 78 trillion operations per…
Gatik, the autonomous trucking startup, has raised $200 million in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, and Intact Private Capital, the company announced August 25, 2026. The round was announced from the company’s Santa Clara, California headquarters. No valuation was attached…
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, 2026, a purpose-built version of its Gemini Enterprise platform configured for law firms and corporate legal departments, with Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams & Connolly named as launch firms. The product is available in preview, according to the company’s announcement, and ships with legal-specific…
Apple debuted two new chips on August 25, 2026 that bracket the desktop AI compute market: M6, its first processor built on a 2-nanometer process, arriving in a new Mac mini, and M5 Ultra, its first quad-die design and what the company calls its most powerful chip ever, arriving in a new Mac Studio. The…
Bain & Company and Anthropic announced a global partnership on August 25, 2026, placing Bain in the Claude Partner Network at Global Premier, the program’s top tier. Under the agreement, Bain will work with Anthropic on client engagements spanning AI strategy, technology modernization, and AI-enabled operations, with the announcement positioning the work around moving enterprise…
Multiverse Computing published a technique on August 25, 2026 that inverts one of the most reliable tradeoffs in model deployment: a large language model compressed to half its parameters and quantized to 4 bits that scores higher than the full-precision checkpoint it was built from. The method, called Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH), is detailed in a…
Following a recent slew of regulations, pharma companies are increasingly struggling to roll out their products, falling at the commercialisation hurdle. US and EU policies have created a perfect storm for the industry, raising costs and reducing successful launches of new drugs. While many firms are turning to AI for research support, I predict that…
AI Is Transforming Software Development A few weeks ago, I asked a generative AI tool to build an online version of a Japanese card game my father used to own. About ten minutes later, a working web application was ready. The result was both impressive and eye-opening. A few prompts generated functional code, built the…