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On August 20, 2026, Google’s A2A protocol moved under the Agentic AI Foundation, which operates with Linux Foundation governance. The shift puts A2A alongside Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) in a neutral forum that, per AI Agent Store’s reporting, now counts more than 250 members including AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Cloudflare. In practice, that […]
IHG Hotels & Resorts is rolling out an AI conversational search across its digital channels, a move the company says will transform how guests find and book stays. The announcement, posted on the company’s newsroom, frames IHG AI search as a single interface for natural‑language queries across its website and app (IHG Newsroom). What IHG’s […]
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Library has assembled a practical guide to AI data sources that matter to clinicians and researchers: a curated list spanning cancer imaging, genomics, cardiac data, and more. The MSK Library’s page brings disparate resources into one place, then reminds users to appraise quality before building models. That last part is where many […]
The FutureTEX initiative just got a Philadelphia anchor. Drexel University will host a regional node as part of the 10-year, up to $480 million program to modernize domestic textile manufacturing, led by North Carolina State University, according to The Defense Post on August 19, 2026. First-year funding totals $36 million. The effort aims to move […]
Newport Gold (OTC: NWPG) named 25-year tech and marketing veteran Frank Genovese chief technology officer to take its NFI Empire digital automotive marketplace across the launch line, according to StockTitan. The announcement lays out a clear engineering checklist: finalize platform-wide UI/UX, wire up external APIs, roll out AI-assisted inspection and verification, and tighten customer acquisition […]
Serbian-founded media startup Astute has raised $1.2 million to automate B2B creator partnerships with a pair of AI agents, a move that signals where distribution is heading as ad channels crowd. Vestbee reports the oversubscribed pre-seed includes Flyer One Ventures, Silicon Gardens, Marathon Fund, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, alongside strategic angels. The company says its […]
On August 17, 2026, the University of Alabama said a UA-led team will build an artificial intelligence system to sift vast physics datasets after winning Phase 1 support under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. The UA AI physics tool was highlighted by the school as one of 278 projects selected from more than […]
As of August 2026, Y Combinator’s directory lists 881 artificial intelligence companies. Inside that sprawl, the newest entries point to a sharper bet: Y Combinator 2026 AI startups are small, applied, and often on-device. The pattern shows up in fresh S2026 profiles and in how they differ from YC’s older AI alumni. What Y Combinator […]
On August 15, 2026, The Guardian reported that secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland suspect AI firms are behind “strange” bulk orders, following revelations that Anthropic had spent millions on books for data acquisition. The surge points to a new, opaque market: AI training data books sourced from the resale trade rather than from […]
