Waymo riders in the company’s custom-built Ojai robotaxis now have a second AI system in the vehicle with them, and this one is there to talk. Google announced on August 19, 2026 that Gemini is live inside the Ojai as an in-car voice assistant, available at the press of an on-screen icon while the Waymo…
Prevalent AI has raised $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP), marking the first primary outside investment in the London-based company’s nine-year history. The funding comes as enterprises face a growing problem alongside the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence: AI systems may be becoming more capable, but their decisions are only as…
Meta launched a standalone Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving its chatbot a dedicated desktop home for the first time and turning it toward the businesses and creators who run their marketing on Facebook and Instagram. The assistant can now share part of a user’s screen and connect to Instagram and…
Meta launched a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI on August 19, 2026, giving the assistant a native desktop home for the first time and pairing it with a set of business connections aimed at the creators and small companies that run their marketing on Facebook and Instagram. The app adds two desktop-only capabilities —…
Gautam Korlam, Principal Engineer at Sonar, is a veteran software engineer and technology leader whose career has focused on developer infrastructure, code quality, automation, and AI-assisted software development. Before joining Sonar, he co-founded Gitar and served as CTO, building an AI-native platform designed to automate code review, diagnose continuous integration (CI) failures, identify root causes,…
Rob Collie is the founder and CEO of P3 Adaptive, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data and AI that serves hundreds of mid-market and Fortune 1000 clients. A former Microsoft engineering leader on the Excel, Bing, and Power BI teams, Rob led the Power BI wave after leaving Microsoft and has authored three previous business-technology…
Veeda AI, the Toronto-headquartered startup founded by computer vision researcher Sanja Fidler weeks after her departure from Nvidia, has raised more than US$90 million in seed financing, The Logic reported on August 19, 2026, citing people familiar with the matter and corporate filings. The round, backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, ranks among the…
xAI’s flagship model has a second major cloud home. Grok 4.6 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, the company announced on August 19, 2026, one week after the model’s initial release. On Bedrock the model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a 500,000-token context window…
Natural, the San Francisco startup building payments infrastructure for AI agents, has secured a credit facility of up to $100 million from Upper90 Capital Management, the company announced on August 19, 2026. The facility gives Natural additional capacity to fund the payments and credit products it sells to companies deploying agents, and it lands one…
Harness, the San Francisco software-delivery platform company, launched a suite of AI security agents on August 19, 2026 — AI SAST, agentic triage and remediation, a dedicated Zero-Day Agent, and virtual patching — built to compress the gap between finding a vulnerability and shipping a fix from weeks to hours. The pitch rests on an…