Runware on August 4, 2026 launched its Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data center that packs up to 1,200 GPUs into a 20-foot shipping container, as the AI inference provider moves from reselling cloud capacity to owning purpose-built hardware it says undercuts traditional data centers on cost. The London-headquartered company announced the launch in a…
McKinsey published a piece on August 4 about building an HR function around agents, and buried in the setup is the most useful sentence anyone has written about enterprise AI this quarter. Describing what happens when teams build agents without a plan, the authors write that “every ungoverned agent hardens a fragment of the old…
Part one designed the loop. Part two laid down what the loop stands on — the map and the rails. What remains is the part that stops most companies before they start: actually building it. The good news is that the build is smaller than the ambition suggests. You do not need an enterprise program,…
Intelligence without speed creates the illusion of progress Most enterprises today consider themselves analytically mature. They have invested in modern data platforms, built advanced models, and scaled analytics teams. Now, many are layering in generative AI. From the outside, this looks like transformation. Inside the organization, decision-making often feels no faster than it did years…
Cillian Kieran, Founder and CEO of Ethyca, is a serial entrepreneur and privacy engineer with more than two decades of experience building data-intensive technology businesses. Before founding Ethyca in 2019, he led digital agency CKSK for a decade and subsequently founded BrandCommerce, drawing on his background in software engineering, user experience and large-scale enterprise data…
A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had different impacts depending on the users’…
ExlService Holdings , better known as EXL, has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit, bringing together two companies focused on different but closely connected parts of the enterprise artificial intelligence stack. The transaction, originally announced in June, was valued at up to $310 million. It includes $170 million in upfront consideration and up…
The U.S. House of Representatives’ cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company’s rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, Reuters reported on August 3, 2026, citing a letter from the committee. The request escalates a congressional response to an incident OpenAI first disclosed on July 21,…
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of…
Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data, invoking software tools and completing operational tasks. Norwest led the round, with Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joining as new investors. Existing backers Vertex…