Google has highlighted a series of artificial intelligence (AI) developments announced in August 2026, spanning AI models, consumer devices, education, productivity, creative tools and scientific applications.
The company’s latest monthly AI roundup includes the launch of Gemini 3.7 Flash, Ge...
Anthropic has launched a $5 million grant programme to support independent research examining how artificial intelligence systems affect users’ wellbeing, as the company seeks to encourage the development of open-source evaluations and benchmarks for AI interactions.
The programme will provid...
NVIDIA announced that it has secured land, power and shell (LPS) capacity through a partnership with SB Energy at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, to host NVIDIA compute. OpenAI will be the customer. SB Energy will build, own and operate the data center under a 20-year lease to...
For several years, businesses have utilized artificial intelligence to compose emails, generate reports and analyze data. While this use of AI does have its advantages, many still require input from a human before determining what will be done next.
Agentic AI allows for the development of a more a...
Anthropic is set to introduce text watermarking in future Claude models to enable the detection of AI-generated content, as the company moves to comply with requirements under the European Union’s AI Act.
The watermarking technology is designed to identify the likelihood that a piece of text ...
FreJun, a cloud calling and voice infrastructure company, announced the launch of Teler, a programmable voice platform that enables software applications to make and receive phone calls, stream live conversations to AI systems in real time, and manage call flows through Application Programming ...
Anthropic has updated the biology safeguards on its Claude Fable 5 AI model, substantially reducing false positives and enabling the model to handle a broader range of biology-related tasks. According to the company, the update has reduced biology-related fallbacks by approximately 85 per cent acros...
Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, strengthening the company's leadership as governments worldwide accelerate efforts to shape artificial intelligence policy and governance. In the newly created role, Cuéllar will lead A...
Google and Alphabet have announced a major leadership restructuring within Google DeepMind, appointing Demis Hassabis as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while promoting Koray Kavukcuoglu to Senior Vice President of Google DeepMind as the company accelerates its artificial i...
Tenable Holdings, the exposure management company, announced enhanced AI security capabilities within the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. Tenable One AI Exposure now delivers expanded platform coverage with support for Google Gemini, extending its coverage across major LLMs: Google Gemini,...
Trumpet, the number one Digital Sales Room and fastest-trending sales tool globally on G2, launched Trumpet Copilot: an AI execution layer that changes how revenue teams build Sales Rooms, surface data, create content, and run their entire buyer-facing revenue cycles.
Revenue teams spend too much t...
Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork, its AI agent designed for non-developer employees, to web and mobile platforms, enabling enterprise users to delegate tasks to AI agents that can interact with business applications, files and internal systems.
The expansion marks a broader shift in enterprise ...
Anthropic has disclosed three incidents in which Claude AI models accessed the open internet during cybersecurity evaluations and subsequently gained unauthorised access to the production infrastructure of three organisations. The incidents were identified as part of a large-scale retrospective revi...
ICON plc announced a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to bring Claude’s AI capabilities across the clinical trial lifecycle. The collaboration further advances ICON’s digital innovation and AI strategy, and builds on Orbis – ICON’s secure, governed, agentic AI platform...
A coalition of leading technology companies, cybersecurity firms and open-source organisations has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new initiative aimed at strengthening AI-driven cybersecurity through open models, tools and technologies that enable organisations to build transparent, adaptab...
NVIDIA has announced collaborations with Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys to optimise critical electronic design automation (EDA) applications for the NVIDIA Vera CPU, aiming to accelerate semiconductor design workflows for next-generation CPUs, GPUs and AI systems.
The company said it is alread...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly redefining workplace responsibilities, enabling employees to perform tasks traditionally associated with other professions, according to a new report released by OpenAI.
Titled "Work at the Frontier: How AI is Expanding What People Do at Work," the report ana...
Claude Opus 5 is now available, with Anthropic positioning the model as a major upgrade in intelligence and efficiency for software engineering, knowledge work, problem-solving and scientific research.
The company said Claude Opus 5 delivers performance approaching the frontier intelligence of Clau...
