Palona AI secures $20 million in Series A funding to scale its vision AI platform that automates real-time operations for restaurants, hotels, and malls, with early results showing a 20% revenue boost at a restaurant chain deployment.
Operation Blue Skies launches in November 2026 as the world's first airspace-wide contrail avoidance trial, using Google AI to reroute transatlantic flights over Shanwick airspace, cutting climate-warming condensation trails by up to 60% despite a minor increase in fuel burn.
Block open sources Berd, a desktop app that unifies fragmented AI agent workflows across tools and models, featuring animated 'Gloopies' characters to make agent configurations more approachable, while its design principles now influence Buzz, Block's new collaborative human-agent workspace.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now live on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, delivering up to 4x faster throughput and 30% quicker task completion for AI agents using a hybrid 30B-parameter model that runs efficiently on a single GPU with a 1M-token context window.
AI coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot are autonomously acting across enterprise systems, and nearly half of organizations have already experienced security incidents involving them—yet only 15% feel confident they can detect or respond, exposing a critical gap between what actions are permitted and what is actually appropriate.
A new GitHub workshop, 'Agents That Own Their Inference,' teaches engineers to build production AI agents on dedicated GPUs using vLLM, covering nine modules on inference optimization and Kubernetes deployment with full open-source control and no vendor lock-in, available for roughly $0.52 per hour on Akamai Cloud.
A new open-source SDK called RS-SDK is now available on GitHub, enabling AI agents like Claude and Gemini to autonomously build and run bots inside a modified Runescape-style MMO environment, complete with a live demo server and leaderboard tracking bot performance.
Google's Antigravity platform launches Custom Agents, offering developers flexible YAML-configured agents with execution symmetry, granular command controls, and nested lifecycle hooks to streamline workflows and manage task-specific AI operations more efficiently.
Tesla receives just 10 robotaxi permits in Nevada after applying for 5,000, with strict rules limiting vehicles to 45 mph on the Las Vegas Strip under human supervision — raising serious doubts about the company's ambitious autonomous ride-hailing timeline as full-scale deployment isn't expected until late 2026 or early 2027.
Brex launches CrabTrap, a free open-source AI security proxy that intercepts and polices every outbound request made by AI agents in real time, using a combination of static rules and an LLM-powered judge to block threats like prompt injection and unauthorized API calls before they happen.