ALGERIATECH Editorial
AI & Automation
Enterprise AI Agents: Why 40% of Projects Won’t Survive Past 2027
Gartner says over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Here's why enterprises are pulling the plug — and what separates survivors.
AI & Automation
OpenAI’s Jalapeño: A First-Gen Inference Chip That Actually Competes With Nvidia
OpenAI's first custom chip, Jalapeño, is a reticle-sized inference ASIC co-built with Broadcom. Benchmarks show competitive perf-per-watt vs Nvidia — with honest caveats.
Infrastructure & Cloud
D-Wave’s Nature Paper: A 99.9% Fidelity Gate That Could Fix Quantum Computing’s Error Problem
D-Wave published peer-reviewed research showing a 99.9%-fidelity two-qubit gate for error-corrected quantum computing, its first gate-model result.
Digital Economy
Digital Garage’s Stablecoin Play: How One API Reaches 1.3 Million Merchants
Digital Garage launched a stablecoin payment platform on Aug 10, 2026, reaching 1.3M merchants via one API and JCB's 72M-merchant network. Here's how.
AI & Automation
VENOM Takes Flight: Inside DARPA’s First AI-Controlled F-16 Combat Jet Test
DARPA and the US Air Force flew an F-16 under AI control at Eglin AFB in July 2026 — a milestone toward autonomous combat aviation. Here's what happened.
Skills & Careers
Computer Science Enrollment Just Fell 8.4% — And Universities Are Betting on AI Minors Instead
Computer science enrollment dropped 8.4% at four-year US colleges in spring 2026 while universities race to launch AI literacy minors for every major.
Skills & Careers
July’s Mixed Tech Jobs Report: Why IT Unemployment Fell While Postings Dropped
CompTIA's July 2026 data shows IT unemployment at 2.8% even as postings fell and 26,000 tech jobs were cut. Here's what the contradiction actually means.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Zenity’s $125M Series C: Securing the Coming Era of 1 Billion AI Agents
AI agent security startup Zenity closed a $125M Series C led by Norwest, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 joining. What it signals about enterprise agentic AI risk.
Startups
Yellow Card’s $40M Round: How an African Fintech Is Wiring Stablecoins Into Banks
Yellow Card raised $40M from SC Ventures, Sony and Polychain to connect banks directly to stablecoin infrastructure across 50+ countries.
Cybersecurity & Risk
VMware’s 9.8-Severity Flaw: How 361 Servers Fell in 9 Days After Patch Day
CVE-2026-59310, a 9.8-severity VMware vCenter flaw, went from patch to active exploitation across 361 IPs in 47 countries within 9 days.
Digital Economy
Visa’s $2.4B Bet on Behavior: Why Keystrokes Now Matter More Than Passwords
Visa is acquiring behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch for $2.4B cash, betting that keystroke and gesture analysis can catch AI-powered fraud that transactions miss.
