2026-08-03
Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets
Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked.In a fireside chat with VentureBeat's Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026, Asana's chief product officer, Arnab Bose, unpacked how his team tackled this probl [...]
2026-08-03
The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.
People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to change that. Mariana […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-03
A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.
Everyone has been asking what the trillion-dollar AI buildout is actually for. A senior Google DeepMind executive has now given an unusually blunt answer. The spending, he says, is a bet on machines that improve themselves. Jasjeet Sekhon, DeepMind’s chief strategy officer, made the case at a summit at UC Berkeley. Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, […]<br /> This story continues at The [...]
2026-08-03
EXL Completes iMerit Acquisition to Expand Its End-to-End Enterprise AI Capabilities
ExlService Holdings , better known as EXL, has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit, bringing together two companies focused on different but closely connected parts of the enterprise artificial intelligence stack. The transaction, originally announced in June, was valued at up to $310 million. It includes $170 million in upfront consideration and up to $140 million in incentives [...]
2026-08-03
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company's published benchmar [...]
