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Xanadu and Oak Ridge Enable Quantum Programming on Frontier Supercomputer

Xanadu and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have integrated the PennyLane quantum software library with the Frontier supercomputer, allowing researchers to simulate large quantum programs using the Lightning simulator and MPI for distributed computation.

May 03, 2026

Rogo Raises $160 Million Series D to Expand AI Platform for Finance

Rogo has secured $160 million in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, and others. The company plans to expand globally and scale its AI agent platform, Felix, used by over 250 financial institutions.

May 03, 2026

Academy Bars AI Actors and Scripts from Oscar Eligibility

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has updated its rules for the 99th Academy Awards, declaring that only human performances and human-authored screenplays will be eligible for Oscars. The organization also reserves the right to request details on AI use in film production.

May 03, 2026

Limit Adds API Access to Cowbell and Counterpart for Management Liability

Limit has introduced API-enabled access to Cowbell and Counterpart, allowing brokers to compare and bind management liability coverage across both markets within a single workflow.

May 02, 2026

Redwood Software to Showcase Agent Orchestration Platform at SAP Sapphire 2026

Redwood Software announced it will present its agent orchestration capabilities for SAP customers at SAP Sapphire 2026, demonstrating how its RunMyJobs platform enables autonomous operations and improves productivity across hybrid cloud environments.

May 02, 2026

FanDuel Leads 5W’s AI Visibility Index for U.S. Sportsbooks

FanDuel ranks first in 5W's inaugural U.S. Sports Betting and Gaming AI Visibility Index 2026, followed by DraftKings and Caesars Sportsbook. The report measures how generative AI systems surface sportsbook brands to bettors, showing major differences from market share rankings.

May 02, 2026

Lightedge Acquires Tier III Data Center in Kansas City

Lightedge has acquired a 3 megawatt Tier III certified data center in Kansas City, Missouri, expanding its infrastructure capacity in the region. The turnkey facility was fully pre-leased at acquisition and adds to the company’s growing U.S. data center portfolio.

May 02, 2026

Australian Regulator Warns Financial Firms on AI Risk Management Gaps

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has urged banks, insurers, and superannuation trustees to improve governance and risk management of artificial intelligence systems after finding that industry practices are not keeping pace with rapid adoption.

May 02, 2026

iCapital Integrates Anthropic’s Claude to Enhance Investment Platform

iCapital announced it is working with Anthropic to integrate Claude models into its platform, aiming to improve client experience across alternative investments, structured products, and annuities.

May 02, 2026

aiEDU Opens 2026 Community Catalyst Program for Rural and Indigenous Education

The AI Education Project has launched the third cycle of its Community Catalyst Program, offering grants to support AI literacy and educator training in rural and Indigenous communities across the United States.

May 02, 2026

Armadin Partners with CrowdStrike to Counter AI Hyperattacks

Armadin has announced a partnership with CrowdStrike to integrate its AI attacker platform with the Falcon platform, offering continuous offensive testing and defense hardening against AI hyperattacks.

May 02, 2026

IBM Releases Granite 4.1 Model Family for Enterprise AI

IBM has introduced the Granite 4.1 collection, its largest release of AI models to date, covering language, vision, speech, embedding, and guardian models designed for enterprise use. The models deliver improved performance in instruction following, transcription accuracy, and harm detection, and are available under the Apache 2.0 license.

May 01, 2026

Amazon Reports $15 Billion AI Revenue Run Rate as AWS Expands AI Offerings

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that AWS has reached a $15 billion AI revenue run rate, driven by new AI products including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 on Bedrock and the preview of Bedrock Managed Agents. AWS also saw significant growth across its AI and chip businesses in the first quarter of 2026.

May 01, 2026

Illuminant Surgical Raises $8.4 Million to Launch Skylight Clinical Guidance Platform

Illuminant Surgical has raised $8.4 million in seed funding led by Wing 2 Wing Ventures to accelerate the launch of its Skylight platform, a projection-based system that displays internal anatomy directly on the patient's body without the need for headsets or monitors.

May 01, 2026

iCIMS and Aptitude Research Report Finds Candidates Outpacing Employers in AI Adoption

A new report from iCIMS and Aptitude Research shows that while most job candidates now use AI tools during their job search, many organizations are still struggling to scale AI effectively across their hiring processes.

May 01, 2026

BackBox Wins 2026 Enterprise AI Product of the Year Award

BackBox has received the 2026 Enterprise AI Product of the Year award from TMCnet for its Network Cyber Resilience Platform, recognized for advancing AI automation in enterprise network management.

May 01, 2026

Hensel Phelps Modernizes Operations with SAP Cloud ERP and Syntax AI Tools

Hensel Phelps has partnered with Syntax to implement SAP Cloud ERP Private, using the Syntax AI CodeGenie Suite to automate parts of the system migration and development process.

May 01, 2026

Verana Health Releases Largest Real World Prostate Cancer Dataset

Verana Health has introduced the world's largest curated real world dataset for prostate cancer, compiled from over 430,000 patients and drawn from the American Urological Association Quality Registry.

May 01, 2026

Arcjet Introduces Guards for Security Inside AI Agent Workflows

Arcjet has launched Guards, a capability that embeds security enforcement directly into AI agent workflows, queues, and long-running application code, extending its runtime protection model beyond traditional HTTP boundaries.

May 01, 2026

Gen Digital Introduces VPN and Security Tools for AI Agents

Gen Digital has launched VPN for Agents and expanded Norton AI Agent Protection within Norton 360 to secure autonomous AI operations and communications.

May 01, 2026

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