Sunrun Launches Distributed AI Compute Pilot Leveraging Home Energy Infrastructure

Sunrun, the largest U.S. provider of home battery storage and solar energy, today unveiled a pilot program transforming its 1.1 million customer sites into a distributed AI inference network—offering enterprises low-latency, edge-based compute capacity powered by existing home energy systems.

July 8, 2026 · 1 min

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood to Star in Feature Film Amid Ongoing Backlash

Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated actress created by Particle6’s Xicoia, is set to headline her first feature film, “Misaligned,” even as Hollywood continues to push back against synthetic performers.

July 7, 2026 · 2 min

Cognizant and Snowflake Accelerate Enterprise AI with Cortex‑Powered Intelligent Agents

Cognizant and Snowflake have expanded their collaboration to deploy AI‑powered intelligent agents via the Snowflake CoCo platform, enabling enterprises to operationalize AI across data engineering, analytics, and decision workflows at production scale.

July 6, 2026 · 2 min

FactSet and Google Cloud Forge Agentic AI Partnership to Elevate Financial Intelligence

FactSet has entered a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to embed Gemini-powered agentic AI into its financial intelligence platform, enabling workflow-specific, auditable, and regulated AI experiences across investment and deal-making lifecycles.

July 2, 2026 · 1 min

Anaplan Unveils “Agentic Enterprise” to Automate Finance and Beyond

On June 30, 2026, Anaplan launched its Agentic Enterprise framework—an AI-driven decision infrastructure that deploys domain-specific agents across finance, supply chain, HR, and sales, enabling real-time, auditable operations grounded in enterprise data and logic.

June 30, 2026 · 1 min

REI Pulls AI‑Generated Bike Ad After Meta’s Tool Adds Two Sets of Handlebars

REI faced backlash when a Meta AI personalization tool altered a vendor‑supplied bike image—adding two sets of handlebars and other distortions. The co‑op blamed Meta for auto‑enrolling them in the feature, unenrolled, and apologized.

June 27, 2026 · 2 min

Microsoft Unveils Project Solara: A Chip‑to‑Cloud Platform for Agent‑First Enterprise Devices

At Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft introduced Project Solara—a chip‑to‑cloud architecture combining a lightweight Android‑based edge OS with Azure‑hosted AI agents, reference hardware designs, and just‑in‑time UI to enable agent‑first enterprise devices.

June 5, 2026 · 2 min

Clearwater Analytics Unveils AI‑Enabled Investment Tools to Boost Transparency and Control

Clearwater Analytics has launched three new AI‑powered products—Clearwater Compass, Total Portfolio Oversight, and Fund Analytics—designed to enhance institutional investors’ operational speed, transparency, and auditability across operations, risk, and private markets workflows.

June 4, 2026 · 1 min

NVIDIA Unveils Alpamayo 2 Super: A 32B‑Parameter Open Reasoning Model for Level 4 Robotaxis

NVIDIA today introduced Alpamayo 2 Super, a 32‑billion‑parameter vision‑language‑action model designed for safe, scalable Level 4 robotaxi development, alongside new simulation and agentic tooling to accelerate autonomous vehicle deployment.

June 1, 2026 · 1 min

Starburst Unveils Enterprise Intelligence Platform to Run AI Directly on Governed Data

Starburst has launched its Enterprise Intelligence Platform, featuring AIDA—an AI assistant that operates directly within enterprise workflows by querying governed, distributed data in place, eliminating the need for data movement and accelerating AI deployment.

May 31, 2026 · 2 min