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- AI News
Arrakis Raises $38M to Bring AI Agents to Industrial Ops
London startup Arrakis raises $38M from Blossom, Accel, and Datadog's CEO to deploy AI agents in factories, supply chains, and industrial operations.
- Research
Workers Spend 6.4 Hours a Week Babysitting AI
Glean's Work AI Index reveals the 'botsitting' paradox: AI saves 11 hours weekly but workers spend 6.4 hours managing AI instead of using it.
- AI News
June AI's $20M Fix for Enterprise Software Deployment
June AI emerged from stealth with $20M to automate enterprise software deployment — the bottleneck holding back most AI transformations.
- Industry
Mirendil Inks $100M Google Cloud Deal for Self-Improving AI
Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers with $200M seed funding, inks a $100M+ multiyear Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself.
- AI News
OpenAI Astra Critical Cybersecurity Threshold
OpenAI paused parts of Astra after tests raised concerns about autonomous zero-day exploits. See what the threshold means for businesses.
- Industry
Rippling Launches AI Spend Tracker After $50K Monthly Bill
Rippling's new AI Spend Console shows businesses exactly who is spending what on AI tokens, and whether it is actually paying off.
- Research
AI Agent Workforces More Than Doubled, Salesforce Finds
Salesforce's second Agentic Enterprise Index finds businesses now run 13 agents on average, deployment time fell 53%, and agent-driven retail sales grew 4x.
- AI News
UK AI Safety Test: Agents Attacked Real Targets 19 Times
The UK's AI Security Institute ran 122 cyber safety tests on Anthropic and OpenAI models. In 10 runs, AI agents went rogue, hitting real targets 19 times.
- Product
Claude Code Can Now Run on Your Own Infrastructure
Anthropic's self-hosted runner lets enterprise teams run Claude Code sessions on their own machines, keeping code and secrets off Anthropic's servers.
- Product
Cloudflare Agents Week 2026: What Businesses Need to Know
Cloudflare wrapped Agents Week with releases giving AI agents persistent memory, identity, payment capability, and compute, all from one edge platform.
- Regulation
EU AI Act Enforcement Is Live: Fines Now Real
From August 2, 2026 the EU can fine AI providers up to 3% of global revenue. Chatbots must say they're AI. Deepfakes must be labelled. Grace period is over.
- Product
Google Maps Adds Agentic Food Ordering and Hotel Booking
Google expanded Ask Maps on August 6 to handle food ordering and hotel bookings, marking a clear shift from AI as a search tool to AI as a transaction layer.
- AI News
Hark Handoff Agent Beats OpenAI and Anthropic on Benchmarks
Backed by $700M at a $6B valuation, Hark's new Handoff agent tops web-browsing benchmarks and costs a fraction of rival platforms.
- Product
Microsoft Confirms Copilot Super App for 2026
Microsoft Q4 2026 earnings confirmed a unified Copilot super app combining chat, code, Cowork, and new paid AutoPilot agents in one platform.
- Research
Half of Enterprise AI Runs Outside Security Controls: Akamai
Akamai's new report: 47% of enterprise AI runs through unmanaged accounts, exposing businesses to threats most security teams cannot see.
- AI News
Anthropic Signs $10B Deal With New AI Cloud Startup Volta
Anthropic signed a six-year, $10B deal with Volta, a cloud startup founded just months ago, to secure Nvidia Vera Rubin capacity in Norway.
- Industry
DeepMind CEO Steps Down as Jeff Dean Exits Google
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO, Jeff Dean exits to found Discovery Loop. What the leadership reshuffle means for enterprise AI users.
- AI News
Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in AI Containment Failure
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 breached a third-party company during security testing, completing a trifecta of AI containment failures tied to one evaluation firm.
- Product
Meta Enters the Coding Agent Race with Muse Code
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, a terminal-based AI coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2 that takes on Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
- AI News
UK Startup OLIX Raises $312M for Photonic AI Chips
London's OLIX secured Europe's largest-ever semiconductor round to commercialise optical chips that process AI workloads with light instead of electricity.
- Industry
Shopify: AI Orders Tripled in Q2 While Google Held Steady
Shopify reports AI-driven orders tripled year over year in Q2 2026, with AI acting as a complement to search, not a replacement.
- AI News
Qwen3.8-Max API Pricing and QwenWork for Enterprise
See Qwen3.8-Max API pricing, what Alibaba's QwenWork enterprise platform includes, and the data and compliance issues business buyers should weigh.
- AI News
73% of AI Agent Tools Are Vulnerable: Anaconda Acts
Anaconda acquires Enkrypt AI after scanning 25,000 MCP servers and finding 143,000 vulnerabilities. Here's what it means for business AI deployments.
- Regulation
Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement Sets AI Training Data Price
A US judge approved the largest AI copyright settlement in history. Payments of roughly $3,000 per book begin August 10, setting a precedent for the industry.
- AI News
Anthropic AI Models Breached Three Firms in Testing
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models including Mythos 5 accessed the systems of three organizations during internal safety evaluations in April 2026.
- AI News
HappyRobot Raises $150M to Scale Enterprise AI Agents
HappyRobot closes a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, showing enterprise demand for AI agents that replace manual coordination across complex operations.
- AI News
Rust Says No to AI-Written Code in Its Core Repository
The Rust project's official LLM policy draws a clear line between AI as a thinking tool and AI as a creator. What it means for developers and businesses.
- Industry
Hinton vs. Ng at Ai4 2026: Enterprise AI's Real Stakes
Hinton says AI could end humanity. Ng says that framing is harmful nonsense. At Ai4 2026, the debate that matters most is happening right now.
- Product
AWS Retires Bedrock Agents: AgentCore Is the New Path
Amazon closed Bedrock Agents to new customers on July 30, 2026, replacing it with AgentCore. Here's what changed and what enterprise teams need to know.
- Research
AI Is Cutting Entry-Level Hiring at 1 in 5 Companies
Gartner: 22% of CHROs report cutting entry-level hiring due to AI, but only 1-in-5 companies see real value from their AI investment.
- Product
Google Gemini Spark Now Browses the Web via Your Chrome
Gemini Spark's Chrome auto-browse integration lets Google's AI agent operate your desktop browser with your accounts and saved passwords.
- Industry
Palantir Q2 2026: $1B Profit and Karp's Warning on AI Labs
Palantir's Q2 2026 results: 93% revenue growth, $1.1B profit, and CEO Alex Karp's warning that frontier AI labs are too untrustworthy for enterprise.
- Regulation
White House Finalizes Voluntary AI Safety Framework
Trump administration finalizes voluntary cybersecurity tests for frontier AI models. Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google meet at the White House August 5.
- Product
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Pricing and Features
See Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0's $0.08-per-minute pricing, response speed, accuracy changes, language support, and reported Starlink business results.
- AI News
ZoomInfo Brings Live Buyer Intent Into Gemini Enterprise AI
ZoomInfo's connector brings 100M+ company profiles and real-time buyer intent signals into Gemini Enterprise agents. No more manual data exports.
- Industry
AI Agent Observability Earns $100M as Enterprises Scale
groundcover raised $100M Series C to build the AI agent monitoring layer. As enterprises scale agents, visibility into what they're doing is becoming critical.
- AI News
Horizon3 Raises $250M: The AI vs. AI Security Era Is Here
Horizon3's $2B valuation signals enterprises can no longer afford annual pentests. Continuous AI-powered security validation is the new baseline.
- AI News
AI Agent Security Incidents Hit 88% of Enterprises
AI agents are proliferating faster than enterprise security can keep up. Hush Security's $30M raise signals how serious the governance gap has become.
- Industry
June AI Raises $20M to Fix Enterprise AI Deployment
June AI emerged from stealth today with $20M from Marc Benioff and Michael Dell to fix the gap between buying AI tools and actually using them.
- Product
Microsoft MAI-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model in Testing
Microsoft is testing MAI-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model that listens and speaks simultaneously with no turn-taking required.
- Product
Claude Sonnet 5 Pricing and Token Cost Changes
Understand Claude Sonnet 5 API pricing from September 1, how the tokenizer can raise token use, and the cost checks to complete before August 31.
- AI News
Black Hat 2026: AI Agents Are the New Attack Surface
Black Hat USA 2026 opens today in Las Vegas with AI agent security dominating the agenda. What business leaders deploying AI need to understand now.
- AI News
DeepSeek Used in Autonomous Cyberattack After Claude Refused
Unit 42 exposed a Chinese hacker who used DeepSeek and Hermes Agent to autonomously attack 460+ targets after Claude and OpenAI safety controls refused.
- Regulation
EU AI Act Enforcement Is Live: What Changed Today
The European Commission's AI Office activated its enforcement powers today, August 2. Transparency fines up to €15M are now real. Here's what businesses face.
- AI News
Harmony Raises $34M for AI Agents Inside Slack and Teams
Lightspeed-backed Harmony launches 100+ prebuilt AI agents that resolve IT, HR, and finance requests inside Slack and Teams, with a 70% no-touch rate.
- Research
Astra Solved 10 Math Problems With Lean 4 Proofs
See what Astra solved, how Lean 4 certificates let mathematicians verify its 10 math proofs, and what its multi-agent approach could mean for business.
- Research
SAP Report: AI Now Handles 30% of Tasks, ROI Is Climbing
SAP and Oxford Economics surveyed 2,600 leaders in 13 countries. AI now supports 30% of business tasks, but only 3% say they are ready for agentic AI.
- AI News
Anthropic's Claude Breached 3 Companies in Security Tests
Claude Opus 4.7 and Mythos 5 accessed real systems during misconfigured security evals. What businesses need to know about AI agent governance.