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Artificial intelligence

Microsoft Introduces Foundry Agent Service for Running AI Agents on Azure

Microsoft offers Foundry Agent Service as a managed platform for building AI agents and running them at enterprise scale, with an isolated runtime environment and capabilities for identity, memory, monitoring, and governance. The service supports the frameworks and models developers choose, and enables agents to connect to enterprise knowledge and tools and be deployed to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

2026-08-15

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft Foundry Control Plane for Enterprise-Scale AI Agent Management

Through Foundry Control Plane, Microsoft provides an operational and governance layer for AI agents, combining tracing, evaluation, runtime controls, identity, security, and fleet management. The product supports agents built within Microsoft Foundry, as well as agents from other systems through the AI gateway and OpenTelemetry.

2026-08-15

Cloud Computing and Data Centers

Microsoft Introduces Azure Managed Redis with Scaling Options and Support for AI Applications

Microsoft has introduced Azure Managed Redis, a fully managed service featuring the latest Redis innovations, availability of up to 99.999%, and options for geographic scaling and cost optimization. The company recommends migrating to it before the Azure Cache for Redis tiers are retired, although the page itself contains a conflicting retirement date for the Enterprise tier that requires review.

2026-08-15

Electric Cars

WETOX Launches D2 Adapter to Turn Tesla and Mustang Mach-E Cars into Portable Power Sources

WETOX introduces the D2 adapter to enable a number of electric vehicles, including Tesla models and the Ford Mustang Mach-E, to power devices through V2L technology using the original charging port. The company says the product received the world’s first SGS certification report for the ISO 15118-20 standard covering next-generation V2X communications.

2026-08-15

Startups

Nuclear Fusion Startups Raised More Than $100 Million

Nuclear fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, but most of the funding has been concentrated in a limited number of companies. This report reviews the companies whose private funding has exceeded $100 million, along with their differing technologies and announced commercial timelines.

2026-08-15

Electric Cars

DAF to Integrate Einride Level 4 Autonomous Driving System into Its Electric Trucks

DAF, a PACCAR company, announced a partnership with Einride to integrate the Einride Driver Level 4 autonomous driving system into its X-class heavy-duty electric truck platforms. The move aims to accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of autonomous electric freight trucks, although the two companies did not specify a production or delivery timeline.

2026-08-15

Cybersecurity

Cloudflare Enables One-Click Protection for Workers Applications Through Access

Cloudflare has launched new tools to connect Access policies directly to Workers applications, enforcing authentication before any request reaches the application code, regardless of the domain or URL used. The company also enables an account-level policy to protect existing and future applications by default.

2026-08-14

Cybersecurity

Critical SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Targeted Three Days After Patching

Defused confirmed that attackers began targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud, despite the absence of a public proof of concept and SAP not officially announcing that it was being actively exploited. SAP urged its customers and partners to install the security update immediately.

2026-08-14

Cybersecurity

Shell Investigates Potential Security Incident After Clop Claims Theft of 89 Gigabytes of Data

Shell confirmed that it is investigating a potential security incident after the Clop group claimed to have stolen 89 gigabytes of its data, including engineering drawings and project plans. The claim is part of attacks that exploited a critical vulnerability in the PTC Windchill and FlexPLM platforms to access data belonging to several organizations.

2026-08-14

Artificial intelligence

CohereLabs Launches Open-Weight North Micro Vision Model for Native-Resolution Image Processing

CohereLabs has launched North-Micro-Vision-Instruct, an open-weight vision-language model with 2.4 billion parameters that supports processing images at their native resolution under an Apache 2.0 license. The model targets document and chart understanding, OCR, and custom fine-tuning applications, and also includes community support for MLX-VLM and an AutoModel recipe for deployment on NVIDIA graphics processing units.

2026-08-14

Programming and Software Development

Compose HTML: Exploring a Server-Side Web UI Rendering Path in Kotlin

A JetBrains Blog article explores the possibility of adding a JVM target to Compose HTML to enable server-side HTML page generation using type-safe Compose components while retaining Kotlin instead of traditional view templates. The source emphasizes that the idea remains exploratory and is not an official commitment or roadmap, while it could provide a shared foundation for frameworks such as Kobweb, Kilua, and Summon.

2026-08-14

Chips and Semiconductors

Key Developments in the Chip Industry: Expansions in Advanced Packaging and Shifts in Data Center Architecture

Semiconductor Engineering tracked major expansions in packaging and testing capacity, architectural shifts in artificial intelligence data centers, and developments in memory, quantum computing, hardware security, and autonomous vehicles over a single week. Key moves included ASE’s investment of approximately $3.1 billion, Lam Research’s $3 billion plan, and initiatives to standardize optical architectures and power sources for data centers.

2026-08-14

Artificial intelligence

What Is AI Context Engineering, and Why Might You Buy It Instead of Build It?

Doug Whitley and Ash Zade of Stack Overflow explain how AI context engineering helps constrain the information available to agents, improve the predictability of outputs, and handle memory, permissions, and conflicting information. The speakers believe that building this system internally is possible, but it requires addressing technical and philosophical issues related to trust, data quality, and determining what an agent should do when information is missing or conflicting.

2026-08-14

Startups

40 Companies Join the Unicorn List in July, the Highest Monthly Total in More Than Four Years

The Crunchbase Unicorn Board recorded the addition of 40 new private companies during July 2026, including three companies valued at more than $10 billion, while the United States accounted for 19 of the new additions. Financial services, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy and semiconductors were the sectors most represented.

2026-08-14

Technologies

Cloudflare Launches Capabilities to Detect MCP Traffic and Enforce Access Through Approved Portals

Cloudflare announced new capabilities in Cloudflare One to detect Model Context Protocol requests through Gateway, display the users and servers associated with them, and block direct connections that bypass approved MCP Portals. The updates also include support for pre-registered OAuth clients and Agents SDK compatibility with the new stateless MCP model.

2026-08-14

Technologies

Anthropic Explains How Watermarking Works in Claude Text

Anthropic plans to add an invisible watermark to text generated by Claude models, enabling an estimate of the likelihood that Claude participated in writing it without materially affecting quality or cost. The company says the move is intended to comply with the European Union’s AI Act, with the watermark to launch globally when available.

2026-08-14

Cybersecurity

Cloudflare Makes Certificate Transparency Monitoring Available to All Users and Reduces Duplicate Renewal Alerts

Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available after Cloudflare began filtering certificates it issues or manages on behalf of customers, so alerts focus on unexpected external certificates. The service is available on all plans at no additional cost, with improved email messages and the ability to enable it from the dashboard.

2026-08-13

Artificial intelligence

Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash to Improve Programming and Intelligent Agents

Google introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash as its strongest Flash-series model to date for programming and agent building, with improvements in web development and knowledge workflows, and an introductory price equal to half the original cost of Gemini 3.6 Flash. The model is available to developers and businesses, and has also begun being used in the Gemini Spark agent for eligible subscribers.

2026-08-13