2026-07-28
Act Security Emerges From Stealth With $60M to Reduce Cloud Access Risk
Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60 million in funding and a cloud security platform designed to reduce the access paths that allow attackers to move through enterprise infrastructure. Founded in 2025 by members of the team behind healthcare cybersecurity company Medigate, Act Security is entering the market with a $20 million seed round and a $40 million Series A. Team8 and Bessemer Ve [...]
2026-07-28
EPAM Joins OpenAI’s Partner Network at the Advanced Tier
EPAM Systems said on July 28, 2026 that it has joined the OpenAI Partner Network as an Advanced Partner, and that it will certify more than 5,000 of its consultants on OpenAI's models within the partnership's first year, carrying more than 10,000 credentials between them. The engineering and consulting firm is standing up a dedicated OpenAI practice to wire the models into the applicatio [...]
2026-07-28
Smarter Query Routing for AI SQL Assistants: How to Cut Costs Without Sacrificing Quality
Imagine your SQL assistant is a rocket, blasting through complex queries. Then one day you realize you're using rocket fuel to fetch a grocery list. It’s exciting, until the fuel bill arrives. Suddenly it becomes clear that simple errands don’t need a rocket. The same thing happens when every SQL request, from a basic lookup to a multi-schema analysis, is routed to the same powerhouse AI [...]
2026-07-28
BlackRock Takes Majority Stake in Meta’s El Paso AI Campus
Meta and BlackRock have formed a venture that will own the gigawatt-scale data center campus Meta is building in El Paso, Texas, with funds managed by BlackRock taking an 80% interest and Meta keeping the remaining 20%. The two companies announced the deal on July 28, 2026 and expect it to close within days. The structure moves the buildings and the long-lived power, cooling and connectivity infra [...]
2026-07-28
China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says
For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectively free. That second part may be about to change. Chinese developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.
Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a federal judge dismissed Google’s lawsuit against SerpApi. The firm scrapes Google search results and resells them as structured data. Google had […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-28
The man who coined ‘agentic AI’ is betting it won’t take your job
Andrew Ng helped give the AI industry its vocabulary, from “AI is the new electricity” to “agentic AI.” His new company bets against the phrase everyone else is using: that AI will take your job. Ng has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup, and Coursera is backing it with $100m, first reported by Axios. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
AI writes half our code now. It still fails security tests 44% of the time.
AI can now write compilable code almost every time it tries. It still ships a security hole in nearly half of it, and that has not changed in a year. That is the headline finding of Veracode’s 2026 GenAI Code Security Report, which tested more than 100 models across four snapshots. The average security pass […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
