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Aug 22, 2026Policy

Government action Policy

Army Wants AI Cyber Agents to Act at Machine Speed—With an Undo Button

Project Griffin is still a pilot, not a fielded autonomous defense system. Its procurement shows the Army wants faster network action while treating auditability, operator control, agent security and operating costs as core constraints.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Policy

Lawsuit Policy

Nine Tech Companies Face Chicago Suits Over AI Voice Training Data

The proposed class actions are not copyright cases. They turn on whether Illinois biometric-privacy rules can reach recordings allegedly gathered online and used to train AI systems.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Products

AgentFlo’s Sales Agents Put Rules and Data Above the Model

The AWS architecture draws a hard line between an agent’s conversational reasoning and the systems that authorize discounts, retrieve prices, and complete transactions. Its early performance figures come from a 90-day control-group comparison.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Partnership Business

Palo Alto and NTT DATA Build a $1B Security Alliance Without Exclusivity

The deal gives Palo Alto Networks a deeper route into NTT DATA’s enterprise services operation, while NTT DATA retains the freedom to sell competing security products. Its $1 billion measure combines orders and contracts across both companies, making execution—not exclusivity—the central test.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Enterprise adoption Products

Panasonic Says Its Aircraft AI Cut Diagnostic Investigations From Hours to Minutes

The system detects and routes critical fleet issues automatically, but Panasonic’s performance figures come from targeted use cases and internal testing—not an independent fleet-wide evaluation.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Business

Hollywood’s Downturn Is Turning Creative Know-How Into AI Training Data

The assignments provide paid work in a contracting production market, but turn experience in scheduling, development, and transcription into systems that may eventually perform pieces of that work.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Research Models

Mayo’s AI Searches Routine Ultrasound for HCM Obstruction

The research points to a screening aid for patients who may otherwise need specialized imaging, but its small external validation and need for prospective testing keep Doppler at the center of diagnosis.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Security risk Infrastructure

AI Agents Are Turning the Web Into an Infrastructure and Security Test

Autonomous systems are driving more model calls, more web activity and new shared-service risks—while the tools for proving who created online content remain incomplete.

4 min

Aug 22, 2026Tools

Open release Tools

TrueForge Puts the Agent Harness, Not the Model, at the Center of Cost Control

The open-source release turns the session layer around an AI model into a deployable product. Its reported savings are promising, but rest on a small enterprise benchmark and leave real-world transfer unproven.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Lawsuit Business

xAI Sues Photographer It Says Bypassed Grok’s Safety Guardrails

The company is pursuing contract remedies and an account restriction while families separately argue that Grok enabled the sexualization of their children’s images.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Tools

Benchmark Tools

LinkedIn Measures AI Code Review Against Merged Code

The company’s reported acceptance rate is a useful outcome measure, but the more transferable design is a controllable review pipeline: local rules, pre-posting filters and infrastructure built for monitoring.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

Udio and GRAI License AI Music Patents Built to Track the Song After the Prompt

The new licenses put moderation, identity tags, authorization and payment inside one proposed rights-management stack. Whether it becomes a common standard will depend on adoption beyond its first two customers.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Veeda AI Raises $90M to Make Robot Training Less Physical

The new company is betting that robots cannot learn fast enough, cheaply enough, or safely enough through physical trial and error—and that world models can move that work into simulation.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Teens Pitches Guidance Over Answers. Teachers See a Harder Classroom Test.

Study Mode is built to steer students through questions rather than hand over homework answers. Whether that design improves learning, curbs cheating, or simply moves the problem elsewhere remains unsettled.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

Microsoft and Qcells Want AI Data Centers to Bring Their Own Power

The proposed model would pair Microsoft’s expanding data-center footprint with newly built generation, flexible batteries and utility-facing capacity. The key test is whether exploration turns into projects that can genuinely match the load they add.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

The new agent can turn recurring ticket problems into proposed automations, but Serval must still show it can manage the customization, governance and trust demands of large enterprises.

3 min

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August 2026

Army Wants AI Cyber Agents to Act at Machine Speed—With an Undo Button

Nine Tech Companies Face Chicago Suits Over AI Voice Training Data

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

AgentFlo’s Sales Agents Put Rules and Data Above the Model

Palo Alto and NTT DATA Build a $1B Security Alliance Without Exclusivity

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

Panasonic Says Its Aircraft AI Cut Diagnostic Investigations From Hours to Minutes

Hollywood’s Downturn Is Turning Creative Know-How Into AI Training Data

Mayo’s AI Searches Routine Ultrasound for HCM Obstruction

AI Agents Are Turning the Web Into an Infrastructure and Security Test

TrueForge Puts the Agent Harness, Not the Model, at the Center of Cost Control

xAI Sues Photographer It Says Bypassed Grok’s Safety Guardrails

LinkedIn Measures AI Code Review Against Merged Code

Udio and GRAI License AI Music Patents Built to Track the Song After the Prompt

Veeda AI Raises $90M to Make Robot Training Less Physical

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Teens Pitches Guidance Over Answers. Teachers See a Harder Classroom Test.

Microsoft and Qcells Want AI Data Centers to Bring Their Own Power

Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement