Why real customer behaviour matters more than ever in the age of AI Product managers and engineers can spend months shaping a feature before anyone outside the business touches it. When customers get hold of it, they might use it exactly as expected or find a completely different path. They might ignore the main feature…
Anthropic on August 7, 2026 released an update to the biology safeguards on Claude Fable 5 that the company says cut biology-related “fallbacks” by about 85% in testing across its product surfaces — the automatic handoffs that route a user’s query to a less capable model when the system judges a request touches safeguarded biology…
For the last two years, the enterprise AI conversation has been dominated by one question: how much more productive can we make the developer? The metrics have been familiar: lines of code generated, hours saved, user stories completed faster and pull requests merged sooner. These are useful indicators, but they tell only part of the…
OpenAI’s advertising build-out has crossed into Latin America. The company’s Ads Manager availability page, updated on August 6, 2026, now lists Brazil as available to advertisers, with Mexico marked “coming soon” — completing a market set that already spans the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. The expansion lands…
Ilan Gluck, Head of Go-to-Market, North America at Digital Matter, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, supply chain technology, data analytics, and enterprise strategy. Before joining Digital Matter, he spent more than five years with Cox 2M and GearTrack, serving as General Manager…
AI travel agents have improved rapidly over the past two years. KAYAK launched AI Mode in 2025 and expanded it with Ask AI in 2026. Booking.com has continued to expand the AI trip-planning tools it first introduced in 2023, while adding new products for specific parts of the journey, including AI-powered car rental search and…
SK hynix’s board has approved a combined 54 trillion won (roughly $39 billion) for two new fabrication plants, the company announced on August 7, 2026: 35.2 trillion won for “Y2,” the second fab at its Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, and 19.1 trillion won for “M17,” a new NAND fab in Cheongju. The two projects expand production…
Anthropic has opened a public beta of self-hosted environments for Claude Code, moving the coding agent’s cloud sessions off Anthropic’s infrastructure and onto servers inside the customer’s own network, the company announced on August 6, 2026. The option is available to organizations on Claude Team and Enterprise plans and is switched off by default. A…
Microsoft is pushing its newly generally available Fireworks AI integration at the startup segment, publishing a deployment blueprint on August 4, 2026 that pairs a reference architecture for running open models on Microsoft Foundry with a billing perk: members of the Microsoft for Startups program can apply their Azure credits to Fireworks model deployments, and…
AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup whose chips are custom-built around individual AI models, the company announced on August 6, 2026. The deal folds specialized inference silicon into an accelerator lineup AMD has spent the past year expanding, and it gives the chipmaker an engineering team that has spent…