Buzz Solutions has raised $20 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round as utilities look for faster ways to inspect, maintain, and strengthen increasingly complex energy infrastructure. S3 Ventures led the round, with significant follow-on investment from GoPoint Ventures. Existing investors HearstLab and Blackhorn Ventures also participated. Buzz Solutions said the capital will support…
Sathya AG is a technology evangelist, published author of “Enterprise-Grade Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies”, and Senior Principal Architect at Google (Retail Strategic Industries), with over 19 years of experience in enterprise architecture and AI. A global thought leader recognized with the Top AI Influencer Award and Google’s President’s Award, he is the author of Enterprise-Grade…
Lithium-ion batteries are the leading choice in today’s electric vehicle and battery energy storage system industries, but they contain a number of critical minerals — including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite — that are considered essential for economic and national security reasons, and therefore vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. As renewable energy, electrified infrastructure, and…
Phylo, Inc. announced on August 4, 2026 that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo’s agentic AI platform for biomedical research, across Chugai’s drug discovery workflows, covering four areas: single-cell analysis, human genetics, disease biology, and target evaluation. The Tokyo-based drugmaker, a Roche Group member listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Prime Market,…
The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched a $100 million program to build state and regional AI infrastructure hubs across the country, with NVIDIA , AMD, Intel , and Dell Technologies among the private-sector partners lined up to support it. The NSF State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, announced August 4, 2026, will…
Convex, the application backend startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, the company announced on August 4, 2026. Etna Labs, Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Justin Kan joined the round, which follows the company’s $26 million Series A in 2022. The round lands on…
In women’s health, accuracy is necessary, but it is only the first layer of product safety. It’s important for the system to know when a prediction is strong enough to act on and is built to say so when it isn’t. Open most fertility or cycle-tracking apps, and you’ll see a clean result: ovulation on…
NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter reasoning model for autonomous driving, for commercial use, the company announced on August 4, 2026. The model’s weights are posted on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1, the Linux Foundation’s permissive license for AI model distributions, which covers fine-tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution. The release clears a licensing…
Obsidian Security raised $85 million in a Series D round at a $1.1 billion valuation, the Palo Alto-based company announced on August 4, 2026, crossing into unicorn territory as enterprises race to govern the AI agents they are deploying across their software stacks. Crescent Cove Advisors led the round, with participation from all of the…
The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report AI security incidents on fixed deadlines — confidentially at first, then publicly within 30 days. Contributors from Cisco, CrowdStrike , Hugging…