Three separate research reports from Deloitte, KPMG/PwC, and Accenture found that while companies are rapidly rolling out AI agents across business functions, few have built the operational structures, workforce readiness, or accountability frameworks needed to scale them safely. Deloitte's survey found only 15% of organizations have reached coordinated multi-agent deployments, and just 16% believe their processes are actually ready for agentic adoption, even though 74% of leaders expect half their business processes to be redesigned around agents by 2030. Separate Salesforce data shows active AI agent deployments tripling year over year, with employee trust and usage also rising sharply.
An investigation by Floodlight and The Guardian used thermal drone imagery to find at least 45 of 62 massive gas-powered generators running simultaneously at the DataOne facility in Vineland, New Jersey, with no permits for any of them. The site, which supplies Microsoft with AI computing power through a $17 billion deal with Nebius, sits about a mile from two schools and has already drawn noise complaints and a lawsuit from residents.
According to The Information, the Trump administration is preparing a new export control aimed at closing a loophole that lets Chinese firms tap advanced AI compute through remote servers hosted in Thailand and Singapore, countries not currently bound by China-specific chip restrictions. The Commerce Department could circulate the draft rule to industry groups for feedback as early as September.
Nvidia has registered a new federal political action committee that will collect voluntary donations of up to $5,000 a year from eligible employees to fund candidates and party committees. The company told staff that upcoming congressional decisions on AI regulation, export controls and infrastructure could significantly affect the industry. This move follows Nvidia's hiring of a new chief external affairs officer and five outside lobbying firms, alongside a jump in federal lobbying spending to over $2.5 million this year.
Uber launched a live video feature for its teen accounts that lets a linked parent or guardian watch a real-time stream from the driver's front-facing camera during a trip. The feature is live in nine US markets—including Atlanta, Phoenix and Orlando—with a nationwide rollout planned soon, and it only works if drivers have enabled Record My Ride streaming, which they can turn off anytime.
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a new $1.1 billion fund called 'Machine Age' dedicated to physical AI infrastructure rather than software. The fund targets investments across chips, memory, data centers, cooling systems, power and robotics, marking a shift from the firm's usual software-centric approach.
The Austin suburb's city council voted unanimously on August 25 to terminate its agreement with Flock Safety, cutting off access to its automated license plate reader system. City staff had already begun covering the 28 cameras installed around town earlier that day, ending a relationship with the vendor that dated back to 2020.
The EPA issued guidance stating that the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program does not apply to 'islanded' power generation facilities—those not connected to the public electricity grid. The move is aimed at making it easier for companies to build dedicated power plants for data centers without triggering certain federal pollution compliance requirements tied to grid-connected generation.
A UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion dataset, highlighted by a Reddit user following Dolly Parton's death, shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds just 8 percent favorability among Democrats and 13 percent among Republicans. That places him near Vladimir Putin in overall unpopularity, despite Zuckerberg's recent efforts to align himself politically with Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk violated the company's First and Fifth Amendment rights. The label had led federal agencies to halt work with Anthropic after the company refused to loosen safety limits on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance uses for its Claude models. Lin found the government's own contradictory actions, including pursuing new contracts and cybersecurity collaboration with Anthropic, undermined its claim that the company posed a genuine risk.
Apple TV has acquired worldwide streaming rights to Small Prophets, a comedy that became the BBC's top-rated new scripted series launch this year, months after it aired in the UK. The show will begin streaming on Apple TV on October 7 in most markets, including the US, while UK viewers will get it next year after its run on BBC iPlayer ends.
Developer TakaiSaisei has released a modified version of the Pixel IMS app, originally created by kyujin-cho in 2023, that lets Pixel owners enable VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling in markets Google doesn't officially support. Unlike the original tool, this version doesn't require the Shizuku system app and its settings persist after a device reboot, simplifying setup to sideloading the app and pairing it via wireless debugging.
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