2026-07-28
Fish Audio Lands $52M Seed to Turn Open Voice Models Into Revenue
Fish Audio has raised $52 million in a seed round co-led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, money that arrives at a Palo Alto text-to-speech company that has spent the past year giving its models away and charging for everything around them. Fish Audio says more than 8 million people now use those models through either the open-weight releases or its hosted platform, and that the business is [...]
2026-07-28
Why Fragmented Restaurant Tech Stacks Are Undermining AI’s Promise
Restaurant operators continue to see industry sales growth, but growth alone will not solve the industry’s margin problem. The National Restaurant Association forecasted that restaurant and foodservice sales could reach $1.55 trillion in 2026, but more recent data showed a tougher reality: 49% of restaurant operators reported lower customer traffic in April, and the industry recorded its 14th ne [...]
2026-07-28
Recursive Commits Most of Its Raise to AWS Compute Capacity
Recursive, the AI research company led by Richard Socher, has signed a multi-year, $410 million agreement with Amazon Web Services to run its automated AI research system, putting the bulk of its funding into a single cloud contract. The company came out of stealth in May 2026 with $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation, which makes the AWS commitment close to two-thirds of everything it has ra [...]
2026-07-28
Flexential Secures Power for Its Largest Dallas Data Center
Flexential has purchased 110 acres in Kaufman County, Texas to build the fourth and largest data center in its Dallas-Fort Worth portfolio. The first building, in Talty, southeast of the metro, has power secured for 36 megawatts, and the company expects to open it to customers in late 2028. That single building will carry more electrical capacity than everything the colocation operator runs in the [...]
2026-07-28
Rowan Stewart, Sr. Director of Product, AI Safety & Platform at Transcend – Interview Series
Rowan Stewart, Sr. Director of Product, AI Safety & Platform at Transcend, leads product initiatives focused on helping organizations discover, govern, and safely use data in artificial intelligence systems. She brings more than a decade of experience spanning AI and machine learning product development, enterprise software, natural language processing, data strategy, and zero-to-one product l [...]
2026-07-28
Hush Security Raises $30M to Govern the Growing Workforce of AI Agents
Hush Security has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its identity and access management platform as enterprises introduce AI agents into increasingly sensitive workflows. Akamai Technologies joined the round as a strategic investor, while existing backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures increased their support. The financing brings Hush Security’s total capital raised to $41 milli [...]
2026-07-28
Want to See How AI Reshapes Enterprise Work? Watch a Sustainability Team
Somewhere right now, an analyst is staring at a folder of four hundred utility bills because a regulator, a customer, or the board wants to know the company's carbon footprint, and much of that number is buried in those documents. Building AI systems that do this work has convinced me of something: corporate sustainability teams are running a few years ahead of the rest of the enterprise on A [...]
2026-07-28
AI Agents Would Rather Steal Copyrighted Work Than Use Open-source Alternatives
Research has found that AI agents frequently choose copyrighted images when they are presented with free legal alternatives – and even explicit warnings fail to stop every violation. A lot of academic attention has been devoted over the last two years to whether or not generative AI models produce work based on copyrighted material – a scenario where copyrighted work was included in the model& [...]
2026-07-28
Mount Sinai Miami Beach Extends Epic’s Ambient AI to Nurses
Mount Sinai Medical Center, the independent teaching hospital in Miami Beach, has switched on Epic's ambient documentation tool for its inpatient nurses. The hospital said on July 28, 2026 that Chart with Art is now available on its inpatient units, with access widening gradually across the medical center. Its physicians have been using the same tool since earlier in 2026. The feature records [...]