Eolian Breaks Ground on 1 GWh Battery Near Ohio Data Centers

Eolian said on July 29, 2026 that construction has started on Flint Grid, a 200-megawatt battery storage plant in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio, built to hold 5.3 hours of output, or roughly 1 [...]

GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API.<br /> The article GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can' [...]

ThreatLocker Raises $190M to Extend Zero Trust to AI Agents

ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the Orlando-based Zero Trust security company said on Jul [...]

Eliyan Raises $145M Series C to Move Into Optical Interconnects

Eliyan Corporation says it has closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, with the round led by Seligman Ventures and joined by two new strategic investors drawn from optical networking [...]

Epic’s AI Deterioration Alerts Tied to Lower Hospital Mortality

Wiring a widely deployed hospital prediction model to automatic pages for critical-care teams was associated with an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death, according to a study [...]

AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, peop [...]

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act [...]

Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead

Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pa [...]

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher’s new AI lab has just made an unusual bet with its money. Recursive has committed about $410m to a single, multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services. That is roughly two-thir [...]