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Startups
Healthcare AI Startup Assort Health Raises $120M Series C at $1.2 Billion Valuation
🧭 Decision Radar Relevance for Algeria High ▾ Algeria’s healthcare system carries heavy administrative burden (scheduling, CNAS coordination, patient intake)...
Cybersecurity & Risk
AI Agent Swarm Compromises 440+ PaperCut Systems Across 395 Organizations in 48 Countries
A likely Russian-speaking actor used hundreds of AI agents to breach 440+ PaperCut instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries — one of the clearest cases yet of AI-orchestrated mass exploitation.
AI & Automation
Salesforce Launches Trusted Enterprise AI Harness to Standardize Agent Governance
Salesforce announced a Trusted Enterprise AI Harness unifying context, agency, action, governance, security, and models — standardizing the plumbing around agentic AI.
AI & Automation
IBM Bets Its Consulting Arm on OpenAI: What the GPT-5.6 Deal Signals for Enterprise AI
IBM is embedding OpenAI's GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work into its consulting delivery platform and retraining tens of thousands of consultants. Here's why.
Skills & Careers
31% of Enterprises Now Run AI Agents in Production: The Oversight Gap Widens
31% of enterprises now run AI agents in production (47% in banking), but 88% have had agent security incidents — creating demand for oversight roles.
AI & Automation
Liquid AI’s LFM2.5-2.6B: A 2.6-Billion-Parameter Agent That Runs on Your Phone
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-2.6B, released Aug 4, 2026, is a 2.6B-parameter model for on-device agents rivaling models four times its size.
AI & Automation
The Agent Scaling Gap: 62% of Firms Experiment, Under 10% Actually Scale
McKinsey's 2026 State of AI survey shows 88% of firms use AI and 62% are trying agents, but under 10% scale them in any function. Inside the scaling gap.
AI & Automation
The Agentic AI Foundation Bet: Why A2A and MCP Now Share One Neutral Home
Google's A2A protocol joined the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation on Aug 17, 2026, alongside MCP under neutral governance.
AI & Automation
June AI’s $20M Pre-Seed: Betting AI Can Fix the AI-Deployment Bottleneck
June AI emerged from stealth with a $20M pre-seed led by Marc Benioff's TIME Ventures to automate the messy enterprise integration work that blocks AI adoption.
AI & Automation
Gemini 3.7 Flash: Google’s Cheapest Coding Model Jumps 16 Points in Three Weeks
⚡ Key Takeaways Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026 — three weeks after its predecessor — with...
AI & Automation
The Agentic Browser Shakeout: OpenAI Retires Atlas as Comet Goes Free
OpenAI killed its Atlas browser on Aug 9, 2026, as Perplexity's Comet went free worldwide. Inside the agentic-browser repricing and shakeout.
