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The LWiAI Podcast #255 (August 26 2026) reviewed recent AI alerts, including Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash, Jalapeño’s record‑speed benchmark results, Qwen 3.8, and a case of an entirely AI‑guided drone t

A federal court has overturned the U.S. Defense Department’s ban on Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence models. Judge Rita Lin wrote in a late Thursday ruling that the Pentagon’s move was “illegal

Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Cloud Run instances, which let you do just that. Consider AI agents such as OpenClaw

Bloomberg: Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platf

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every ar

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

Artificial intelligence startup Deep Cogito Inc. today announced that it has raised 43 million in funding. TQ Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atrei

Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next is a multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model with 125 B parameters that employs Gated DeltaNet (compressing historic context) and Qwen Sparse Attention (exact retrieval over full contex

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. T

For the past two years, the generative artificial intelligence boom has largely been defined by a single market. Hyperscalers have dominated the market with massive capital spending. According to Cred

IBM has released Granite 4.2, an open‑source agentic AI model that adds native reasoning, tool use, coding instruction following and speech capabilities to enterprise agents. The suite of pre‑built mo

Skild AI: Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSON

Vultr’s VX1™ Cloud Compute offers affordable, high‑density CPU servers tailored to the new era of agentic AI, which now demands a roughly 1:1 (or higher) CPU‑to‑GPU ratio and extensive memory manageme

AgentX 1.0 is the first fully open‑source multi‑turn agentic coding inference benchmark (Apache 2.0), released August 2026 with a 1 million‑token context and over 1 million tokens of dataset built at

Grace Kay / The Information: At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly considering making another investment in the artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. A report by The Information today says the chipmaker is holding talks

Chipmaker Nvidia Corp. says its dedicated artificial intelligence inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has now entered full production as it strives to maintain its dominance in the world of AI compute. T

Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at 13B+, up from 4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest — The AI indu

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised 250 million in funding at a 2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was joined

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “disco

Qonto's help page describes live Operator and Analyst agents, user approval for actions and EU data hosting, but no measured customer outcome.

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 — Corporate expen

Big-data company Cloudera Inc. says it’s going to eliminate the headaches and hassles that have slowed enterprise’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence with today’s launch of its new Cloudera Any

Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. today said it has acquired technology assets from artificial intelligence security operations startup Radiant Security Inc. The purchase covers the intellectual prope

ThreatDown, the business security arm of Malwarebytes Inc., said in new research published today that Kriminal, one of the newest and most popular tools in the criminal artificial intelligence market,

For over a decade, the Apache Hive Metastore (HMS) has served as the de facto metadata authority for big data analytics. Whether it was deployed on Hadoop clusters, self-managed Compute Engine VMs bac

Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a 30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amo

Zep offers a knowledge graph for persistent user memory and shared organisational context through MCP, according to Zep.

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI too

Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big secu

A few weeks after closing a 300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 700 million in funding. Investment firm Jane Street led the deal. It

The rise of neoclouds — AI-first cloud providers — is transforming enterprise infrastructure. The unique requirements of AI models and agents have paved the way for new collaborations between hardware

Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders m

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp.

Structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search are now available for Claude models hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, turning a model endpoint into a production agent pla

Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence

Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised 45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the deve

Electric has partnered with Databricks to extend Databricks’ PostgreSQL capabilities from the lakehouse into edge environments. This collaboration allows a wide range of lightweight open‑source databa

River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised 1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today’s announcement that it

Graph neural networks are reshaping how enterprises hunt for fraud, moving detection beyond isolated transactions to reveal entire hidden networks of bad actors. As AI adoption accelerates, organizati

DXC Technology Co. today announced a partnership with security startup Primary that makes the information technology services company the exclusive managed services partner for Primary’s zero-trust pl

Aleph, one of Israel’s top funds, is backing a new artificial intelligence-native venture studio with 6 million in pre-seed funding so it can build and launch dozens of new software startups by the en

The quality of open-weight language models has dramatically improved in recent years. Sharing weights greatly facilitates model adoption by enabling their use across diverse hardware and software plat

I’ve talked to developers, IT leaders, and builders who all ask the same question: How do we actually get agents into production? The answer isn't theoretical — it's hands-on. Whether it’s designing a

**Title: Catching Rogue AI Behavior with Identity‑Aware Analytics** The blog outlines methods for detecting anomalous or malicious activity from AI agents by linking their actions to specific user or