2026-08-21
Mike King, Senior Director, Product & Strategy, IQVIA- Interview Series
Mike King, Senior Director, Product & Strategy, IQVIA, is an experienced healthcare and life sciences executive with more than two decades of experience spanning product strategy, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, operations, and business transformation. Before joining IQVIA in 2022, King held senior leadership positions at Dentsply Sirona and GE Healthcare, where he oversaw regulatory af [...]
2026-08-21
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs
When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottleneck for enterprises building long-horizon, multi-LLM workflows.To solve this challenge, researchers at Nvidia have introduced a cross-model KV [...]
2026-08-21
Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks
Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-21
World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines
It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, following a new integration available through robotic.sh. The integration brings proof of human directly into peaqOS, allowing […]<br /> This [...]
2026-08-21
Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing
Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-21
Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores
They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]