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Thirteen weeks, two tracks, and monthly faculty masterclasses. The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin is offering a Post Graduate course built around AI agents and generative AI for real business use. The UT Austin AI Agents program is online and designed for working professionals who want hands-on practice, not […]
On July 8, 2026, TechCrunch highlighted a surge of AI companies touting accelerating revenue milestones, including Mercor and Anthropic. The piece details different ways founders label income—from run rate to “committed ARR”—and how those choices shape the story investors hear. It’s a timely reminder: AI startup revenue headlines can be real momentum or just creative […]
Up to nine weeks of guided prep, at no cost. Google for Developers is promoting a cohort-based path aimed at speeding teams toward Google Cloud credentials. The program, called GEAR Get Certified, pairs instructor-led training with technical mentorship for employees at Google Cloud customer companies, according to the official program page from Google for Developers […]
Nicholas Bloom of Stanford and Josh Lerner of Harvard co-direct the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship initiative. On its program page, the NBER says the group studies “firm-level and economy-wide forces that determine productivity,” with emphasis on innovation, patenting, entrepreneurship, and the formation of new firms. The same page now highlights […]
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, better known as the AI Act, sets risk-based rules for how artificial intelligence can be built and used in Europe. Around that statute, the European Commission is standing up a full support stack for developers and adopters — from public compute to a planned AI Skills Academy — to turn policy into […]
Illinois now has what Bloomberg Law calls the nation’s strongest frontier AI model statute, signed by the governor and aimed squarely at high-capability systems. The headline isn’t just about one state flexing. It’s about which rulebook powerful model makers will follow across the country. What the Illinois frontier AI law signals According to Bloomberg Law’s […]
On June 29, 2026, McKool Smith published its latest AI Litigation Tracker, a running review of generative AI copyright suits in media and entertainment prepared by principal Avery Williams (McKool Smith). Read together with entries from April through June, the tracker shows courts edging away from quick exits and toward fact-heavy fights that will shape […]
Sixty-two languages carry an entry for Generative AI on Wikipedia. The English page sets the tone with a mix of definitions, history, and a headline example: an AI-made image, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, that won a fine art prize in 2022 at the Colorado State Fair, as the article highlights (Wikipedia). That public-facing snapshot matters, because […]
On April 13, 2026, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI published a 12-point summary of its latest AI Index. The post, written by Shana Lynch, frames a field hitting new capabilities while raising hard questions about energy, transparency, and the distribution of gains (Stanford HAI). What Stanford’s AI Index 2026 actually says According to the Stanford […]
