S&P Global Wires Capital IQ Data Directly Into Microsoft 365 Copilot
S&P Global and Microsoft said Aug. 12, 2026 that S&P's AI-ready data and Kensho retrieval technology will surface inside Copilot…
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Cross-beat data-industry correspondent. Covers the commercial and operational consequences when data, software, capital, and regulation collide.
Graas’s $17M Raise, Trustana Buy: What’s Confirmed, What’s Just Claimed
Singapore's Graas closed a $17 million Series B led by Temasek-backed LemmaTree on August 12, 2026, and acquired product-data startup…
Scale AI Hires Ex-Google Cloud Exec Francis deSouza as CEO, Effective Aug. 10
Scale AI's board named Francis deSouza, former COO of Google Cloud's security products division and ex-CEO of Illumina, as chief…
Flock Makes Case-Number Entry Mandatory After 46 Reported Abuse Cases
Flock Safety said August 13, 2026 it will require officers to log a criminal case number and submit to mandatory…
OpenAI Copyright Fight Nears Trial After Anthropic’s $1.5B Fair-Use Settlement
An anonymous op-ed on natlawreview.com (Aug. 13, 2026) warns that narrowing fair use for AI training would raise costs and…
Flock Cuts License-Plate Data Retention From 30 Days to 7, EFF Calls It Cosmetic
Flock Safety said Aug. 13, 2026 it will default ALPR data retention to seven days, require audit and case-code tools…
Ex-Spotify Trio’s Malachyte Raises $10M for Real-Time Shopping AI
Malachyte, founded by former Spotify recommendation engineers, raised a $10 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient…
EFF Asks Court to Toss LDS Church’s Trademark Suit Over ‘Mormon Stories’
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sued the Mormon Stories podcast over trademark rights to the word "Mormon";…
Appen’s H1 Reveal: China Hits $175M Run Rate, Cash Question Looms Aug 27
Appen confirmed August 11, 2026 it will report half-year results on August 27, with Q2 numbers already showing China revenue…
Anthropic Watermarks Claude Text to Meet EU’s Aug. 2 AI Act Rule
Anthropic confirmed on August 11, 2026 that Claude will embed machine-readable watermarks in generated text and C2PA-tagged files, complying with…