2026-08-21

How AWS Marketplace is using AI agents to meet the rising demand for AI agents

Increasingly, AI agents are handling the nitty-gritty admin and due diligence tasks, but agent-powered marketplaces won't replace live human sales reps or engineers anytime soon. [...]

2026-08-21

ChatGPT's new Mac plugin analyzed my iMessages - and I found it surprisingly useful

ChatGPT can now analyze text messages on your Mac to reveal how you interact with others. [...]

2026-08-21

Oura smart ring is being sued over claims its sleep-tracking accuracy is wildly exaggerated

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in California, alleges Oura's sleep-stage estimates are no better than a coin flip despite claims of 95% accuracy [...]

2026-08-21

Uber is hit with nearly $1 billion E.U. fine for automating driver account suspensions

The Dutch privacy regulator says Uber violated E.U. rules by using software alone to deactivate driver accounts, with no human review [...]

2026-08-21

A former JPMorgan Chase executive is joining Social Security as an unpaid tech advisor

Matt Zames, a former JPMorgan Chase COO, will help Commissioner Frank Bisignano modernize the agency's decades-old technology systems [...]

2026-08-21

NHTSA is widening its GM engine failure probe to cover nearly a million trucks and SUVs

The regulator has received nearly 500 complaints of engine failures in vehicles already serviced under an earlier GM recall [...]

2026-08-21

Citadel unwound more than 80% of the AI portfolio it rescued from Situational Awareness

Ken Griffin said Citadel executed more than 100 block trades worth over $4 billion to shed the positions [...]

2026-08-21

Jayant Swamy, Chief Enterprise Architect at Genpact – Interview Series

Jayant Swamy, Chief Enterprise Architect at Genpact, is a technology and data leader with more than two decades of experience spanning enterprise architecture, artificial intelligence, data engineering, cloud technologies, and large-scale digital transformation. Before joining Genpact in 2024, he served as CTO and Chief Architect at Xtrac8.Tech and as CTO and Co-Founder of an AI startup focused on [...]

2026-08-21

Anthropic Deploys Claude Mythos 5 in Security Tools, $35M Open-Source Fund

Anthropic said on August 21, 2026 that Claude Mythos 5, the cyber-capable model it has limited to vetted defenders since April 2026, is now running vulnerability scans in Claude Security for Enterprise customers. The same announcement lays out plans to bring Mythos 5 into security partners' products, commits $35 million in credits to a new fund for open-source defense, and previews an expansi [...]