According to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, gigantic artificial intelligence rounds have pushed the value of U.S. venture capital deals about 44% above the previous annual record with a quarter to go, but the exits necessary to return that money to investors have not kept pace. Much of the $515.8 billion invested … Read more
More than half a dozen public and private sector organizations are collaborating to develop biological datasets for artificial intelligence models. The consortium, which announced the collaboration today, is committing $1.8 billion to the project. To study how a cell responds to a new therapy, scientists typically need to set up a physical test environment. This … Read more
Industry-specific AI provides business context for agents managing company operations. Building on industry processes can help companies address reliability issues by automating more tasks. Infor (US) LLC develops industry-specific AI agents for several key industries, including industrial manufacturing, aerospace and defense, automotive, and food and beverage. According to Suresh Jayaraman (pictured right), senior vice president … Read more
Authentication and digital agreements company OneSpan Inc. today unveiled new and planned features for its electronic signature service OneSpan Sign that go beyond the signing step. The update targets the parts of the agreement process that slow down banks and other financial institutions. Electronic signing itself has become an expected part of digital business, OneSpan … Read more
Atlassian Corp. today announced the Agentic Multiplayer Protocol, a platform update designed to transform the way people and artificial intelligence agents collaborate and get their work done using shared contexts and tasks in the same digital space. At the unveiling at Team ’26 Europe, Atlassian said it wants AI agents to function like employees, bringing … Read more
Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even as the industry struggles with declining productivity and a shortage of skilled machine operators. Physical AI is emerging as one answer, enabling machines to perceive and respond to their environment. Caterpillar Inc. has years of experience with autonomous mining equipment. … Read more
Open-weight models are constantly proliferating, and the AI coding around them is becoming increasingly important to getting them right. Developers and companies weigh costs and performance. The harness helps translate a model’s skills into useful work. Cline Bot Inc. believes that revealing this level will allow more people to build with AI. According to Cline … Read more
AI agent storage places new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Maintaining this context and making it available when needed puts pressure on storage capacity and data movement. These requirements go beyond the context of an individual interaction. According to Alon Horev, (pictured) co-founder and chief technology officer … Read more
SAP SE today announced a shift from the promised artificial intelligence autonomy of agents to defining a path for users to interact with agents to work outside of apps, not just within them. During SAP Connect 2026, the company said it is making the Autonomous Enterprise architecture, introduced at Sapphire in May, generally available this … Read more
Utah has become the first state in the U.S. to grant an artificial intelligence startup permission to automate the approval of prescription refills, with minimal oversight from human doctors. In a blog post today, Nolla Health said it has received approval from the state to launch a pilot project that will allow acne patients to … Read more