AIR Security launches with $50M to build a firewall for AI agents
Artificial intelligence agent security startup AIR Security Inc. formally launched Monday with $50 million in funding to build what it calls an inline firewall for AI agents.
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Ai-CHA expands Lankan footprint with new Negombo outlet
Indonesian soft-serve ice cream and bubble tea brand Ai-CHA has expanded its presence in Sri Lanka with the opening of its latest franchise outlet on Main Street, in Negombo, adding to the brand’s…
How AI Agents Secretly Fail in Production (And Why Benchmarks Don't Save You)
Originally published on tamiz.pro . We have collectively lost our minds over benchmarks. AgenticBench scores 90%? Great. Multi-Agent Hallucination Leaderboard rank #1? Impressive.
Google Brings Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook With Google Play Books
Google has expanded Gemini Notebook with Expert Intelligence , an initiative that lets users ground notebook interactions in trusted content, beginning with eligible ebooks they own through Google…
- Google adds 'Expert Intelligence' to Gemini Notebook.
- Users can incorporate trusted content from owned Google Play Books.
- Initial catalog includes over 100,000 books from major publishers.
7 of My 8 Claude Code Agents Had Zero Calls in 30 Days: Finding Dead Agents Automatically
I had eight custom agents defined in Claude Code. When I finally counted, seven of them hadn't been called once in the last 30 days.
- Seven out of eight Claude Code agents had zero calls in 30 days
- Agents were defined through .md files in ~/.claude/agents/
- Unused agents incur token costs and cognitive overhead
Brain cognition gaps reveal associations with dopamine and factors related to brain health through artificial intelligence prediction of functional connectome
A key question in human neuroscience is to understand how individual differences in brain function relate to cognitive differences.
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day . Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks".
Incore Bank’s AI Hits 99% Accuracy on KYC Checks
Know-your-customer (KYC) checks are expensive partly because a bank isn’t simply verifying an identity. Compliance teams have to collect information from documents, reconcile it across systems…
The efficient frontier of LLM inference
- Efficient frontier balances cost and capabilities in LLM inference.
- Frontier models provide highest intelligence at given cost or size.
- Inference engineering optimizes latency, throughput, and efficiency.
The AI edge that helps defenders is helping attackers just as much
Enterprise security is reorganizing around AI detection and response, as autonomous agents move from pilot projects into production systems that can act, chain tasks together and improvise.
Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked
More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable
If the September Effect Hits Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks This Year, History Says This Is the Best Place to Hide
September is historically the weakest month in the stock market.
Anthropic reveals its view of how AI agents should interact with the physical world
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common method for controlling laboratory equipment, robots, and other programmable physical machines.
Introducing CareExpertAI, an Evidence-Based AI Co-Pilot Built Specifically for Family and Professional Caregivers
General AI tools often fall short when it comes to the critical, high stakes demands of caregiving. That is why we created CareExpertAI, built on the same evidence-based approach that has earned tools…
CrowdStrike builds security frontier models with Nvidia and opens an AI lab
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched SafeMind, a family of artificial intelligence models and agent harnesses created with Nvidia Corp. and built for security work rather than general use.
Bringing tech and people together for Singapore’s AI future
Businesses, workers and the government share responsibility to ensure everyone benefits from AI
For true AI transformation, go beyond deployment and using tools
Roundtable panellists say implementation must be accompanied by job redesign, training and complementary skills
Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI
Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange…
US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meeting
American AI companies want less regulation around the world for their rapidly growing businesses
Better Tech ETF for Artificial Intelligence: Vanguard's VGT with Broad Exposure or State Street XLK's Concentrated Mega-Cap Strategy
Key PointsThe Vanguard Information Technology ETF provides broader diversification with 310 holdings, whereas the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF focuses on 73 stocks.
AI Agent Security Startup AIR Raises $50 Million to Guard Enterprise Supply Chains
Artificial intelligence (AI) security startup AIR publicly debuted Tuesday (Sept. 1) with $50 million in seed financing to help businesses monitor and secure the software supply chain developing around autonomous AI agents, according to a report by TechCrunch.
In Brazil's faction-ridden landscape, Pax wants to be the ChatGPT of the police
Everyone feels it firsthand – but it's hard to gauge the problem of violence in Brazil. The country doesn't even have a standardized national statistic that shows how many crimes are solved. In homicides, where there is more reliable data, the picture is worrying: less than four in ten cases lead to a public prosecutor's indictment.
Need help caring for grandma? Undergrads create the Ahma app to help caregivers
Four NUS undergrads developed an AI-powered app for caregivers that listens and points them to resources.
- NUS undergraduates develop AI-powered app Ahma for caregivers.
- App uses voice interaction for older adults uncomfortable with texting.
- Feedback from caregivers refines app features and language support.
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes
The open-source agent framework that started the "autonomous AI" hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accident, and it's coming for the enterprise now.
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
Korea looks to AI, drones, robots to make firefighting safer
Korea is moving toward a future firefighting system in which drones and robots enter hazardous zones first, artificial intelligence (AI) helps commanders make decisions and more advanced protective…
FEEDING THE BOTS: ‘Extraction without compensation’ — the AI dilemma facing SA’s digital media
A new study of 263 South African news websites has found that fewer than a third explicitly block access to AI crawlers collecting content with which to train and power AI systems – even if they might…
Anthropic Revises Enterprise Data Retention Policy After Customer Pushback
Anthropic is changing a data retention policy for business customers following concerns from enterprise users about how their information would be stored and reviewed.
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too.
OpenAI data center chief leaves the company as exec exodus continues
OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before he left.
Congress advances new bill to give US edge in open-source AI race with China
The US Congress on Tuesday advanced a new bill that seeks to establish American global leadership in open-source artificial intelligence, an area where China currently dominates, by promoting adoption…
Pliny the Liberator Leaks Claude Fable 5 System Prompt on GitHub
The claim that AI jailbreak researcher Pliny the Liberator leaked the system prompt for Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is factually accurate.
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans
Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit
Jason Isbell, David Lowery, & More Sue Suno For Violating Rights Of Publicity
Everyone hates Suno, except Mary J. Blige for some reason. Jason Isbell, David Lowery, and more musicians are now suing the AI music platform.
Bright Security Expands its AI SDLC security Platform & Launches an AI PT Module
Bright Security Expands AI SDLC Security Platform, Launches AI PT: AI-Powered Penetration Testing That Cuts Weeks Down to Hours
AI-informed AdaptiveFlow redefines large-scale cloud computing for drug discovery
Researchers today announced AdaptiveFlow, an AI-informed platform that can virtually screen billions of drug-like molecules with a 1,000-fold reduction in computational costs over existing methods.
Medical AI could move from treatment to prevention
Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive—with two new domains: Critique and Creative. The result lays out where medical AI's greatest opportunities lie and how it could shift health care…
Applied AI fluency, enterprise trust seen key to digital economy
As Qatar advances its national digital ecosystem through substantial infrastructure commitments, financial sector leaders point to applied operational fluency and mid-career upskilling as critical…
Claude Fable 5.1 watermark: It has a blind spot developers can’t ignore
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 on Tuesday with a statistical signature embedded in its generated text, but developers shouldn’t expect The post Claude Fable 5.1 watermark: It has a blind spot…
Runway’s New AI Model Creates Digital Worlds Without Code
The company calls Solaris an interface world model.
Saudi Arabia announces $2.5bn tech investment push as $1.2bn AI data centre expansion leads LEAP 2026
Saudi Arabia announces around $2.5bn of tech investments at LEAP 2026, including major data centre, cloud, AI and R&D projects across the Kingdom
I think Sonos just fully solved home audio, mostly by doing exactly what we want — even with AI
Sonos unveiled a new platform and "Fabric" to weave together Sonos hardware (old and new) and software in a way that not only works, but could finally make home audio the experience of our dreams.
OpenAI Will ‘Soon’ Launch Its Competitor To Anthropic’s Mythos
The model’s most advanced cybersecurity features will be limited in the release, only being accessible to a group of testers.
Dysons $499 squirting AI camera toothbrush proves smart tech has officially gone too far
On Sept. 1, Dyson released the Dyson CameraJet™ electric toothbrush, an AI-powered oral cleaner that costs $499.99.
The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Chinese State Media Accuses Anthropic of AI Double Standards
Chinese state media accused Anthropic of AI double standards as planned US-China talks could shape model access, monitoring, and enterprise deployment.
ENDVR Energy Expands Vegetation Management Services, Powered by Satellites and AI, Through Partnership with Spotlite
MILTON, Ontario, Sept. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ENDVR Energy has partnered with Spotlite to help Canadian electric utilities, commercial organizations, and government agencies, reduce…
What Happens Inside an LLM When You Type “Hello”?
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of how LLMs turn text into tokens, embeddings, attention patterns, probabilities, and generated responses.
OpenAI to limit release of its Astra model due to hacking concerns
The company is being extra cautious following the Hugging Face incident, while also pitching its cybersecurity capabilities to potential customers.
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
ChatGPT outage reminds users what life was like before AI
There was a time not too long ago where last-minute essays were written overnight by adrenaline-filled students, work emails were carefully crafted using corporate lingo passed down by generations…
Nourish embeds generative AI assistant into patient app for 24/7 support
The Health Assistant, which has been in beta and is now rolling out widely, gives patients personalized guidance between visits, including meal planning, lab insights and appointment prep support.
U of W Collegiate rolls out mandatory AI literacy module for students
All Grade 9 and 10 students at the school will have to take a two-hour AI literacy module in their social studies class, with the goal of building their critical thinking skills.
Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1, More Than Doubling Its Predecessor on Key Benchmark
Fable 5.1 and its restricted sibling Mythos 5.1 arrive three months after export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 offline for 18 days
List of Republicans Publicly Breaking With Trump on AI Data Centers
Several Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump's pro-data-center stance amid growing public backlash.