World Humanoid Robot Games show runners held the second edition in Beijing and displayed humanoid robots sprinting, performing skills, and doing practical tasks, with videos showing both crashes and robots breaking or catching fire. The event ran from August 22–26. Organizers used these results to highlight humanoid robots’ commercial potential while also showing they struggle with stopping quickly and keeping up with human working speeds.
McKinsey reports that enterprise AI has not translated into earnings for most organizations even as deployments and agent adoption keep rising. Only 6% of the 1,719 surveyed respondents met McKinsey’s “high performer” bar of attributing at least 5% of EBIT to AI with a significant impact, while 37% reported at least some EBIT impact and that share was flat versus 2025. As a result, companies continue investing and scaling agents despite constrained AI operating costs (20%), with gains showing up more in individual productivity (80%) than in organization-wide ROI.
Banco BS2 said it is scaling enterprise AI by first building infrastructure, governance, and operational discipline rather than deploying AI agents directly. Its CIO Danilo Zimmermann stressed that latency is mandatory and non-negotiable. This shifts the bank’s AI rollout to start with business and customer needs to shape infrastructure investments and automation for operational efficiency.
MIRAVA raised $5M in angel funding as it prepares to move toward small-batch production of intelligent, partly autonomous boating technology and plan European market introductions. The company says it will showcase its technology and first production model at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September 2026. The focus shifts from human-only operation toward boats that can assist with tasks like autonomous docking and station keeping, plus an intelligent wearable interface, and modular vessel configurations for different activities.
Amazon released Amazon Quick Desktop and a guided Weekly Business Reporting Assistant workflow that uses governed content from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to generate cited weekly reporting artifacts and Slack-ready summaries. It targets weekly preparation time, cutting it from hours to minutes. Reporting is now repeatable with controlled read access to an approved folder, a searchable knowledge base for citations, and human review before posting.
Radiology is adding AI alongside physicians instead of replacing them, with AI matching or exceeding human performance in image interpretation for some tasks. By early 2026, about three-quarters of the 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices cleared by the US FDA were for radiology. Radiologists’ roles shift toward using AI to speed reporting, flag urgent cases, and detect abnormalities that may be missed, while the number of practitioners continues to grow.
BOOKR Kids closed a 6.1 million euro Series A to fund its digital reading and language-learning platform for schools and families. The round was led by TCEE Fund IV, advised by 3TS Capital Partners. BOOKR will use the capital to expand internationally, launch and scale new teacher tools, and develop an AI-driven language placement system supported by a 662,000 euro EU grant.
FGV Capital, the rebranded Fiat Ventures fintech investor, closed an oversubscribed $35 million Fund II after previously targeting $25 million. The new fund takes its assets under management to more than $60 million and unites Fiat Ventures and its Fiat Growth consultancy under the FGV Capital name. It shifts the firm to apply its operating-first approach at institutional scale by co-leading more rounds and offering capital plus growth, strategy, and recruiting support.
Ex-Lunar founders Ken Villum Klausen, Peter Andreasen, and Joachim Strøjer Hansen raised €8.2 million to launch Repodo, an AI-first audit firm targeting competition with Europe’s Big Four. The round is larger than the typical European pre-seed range of €500,000 to €3 million reported for 2026, and Repodo is aiming at a $74.32 billion audit market. Repodo plans to automate parts of audit work in Denmark while keeping licensed auditors responsible for judgement and final approval, and it will use the funding to build its platform and expand across Europe.
Ollobot says its AI companion robot OlloNi SS1 is built to provide continuous, emotionally attentive presence in homes rather than the short, voice-command interactions of earlier companion robots. The article cites a 5-meter voice capture range and adds features like fall detection, autonomous home mobility, and over-the-air updates. This shifts the category toward on-device, connected systems that personalize over time and aim to prevent loneliness through ongoing companionship.
A robot carnival in Shanghai let families watch and interact with humanoid and other specialty robots displayed by more than 100 robotics firms and R&D groups. Nearly 90% of over 13,000 two-armed, two-legged robots delivered globally last year were made in China. The public event increases exposure to humanoid robots, supporting the effort to bring AI into everyday life despite ongoing concerns about safety, price, and battery life.
eComID raised a $17 million seed round led by Systemiq Capital to build a cross-brand shopping passport for AI agents that shop using a customer’s context. The company says it reaches 20 million shoppers each month across 60+ brands. This adds modular, consent-based pre-purchase data sharing across participating retailers and is intended to support lower returns and higher conversion rates while funding international expansion.
Taiwan’s Taiwan Innotech Expo (TIE) is scheduled for September 17–19 at Taipei World Trade Center as a government-backed venue for moving AI, chip, quantum, and sovereign communications research into commercial use. Last year drew 50,000+ visitors from 65 countries with 422 exhibitors and about 1,100 technologies, and this year organizers target roughly 440 exhibitors from 19 countries and about 1,100 technologies. The show’s content is organized around three AI-forward pavilions and includes proof-of-concept and licensing tracks plus invention awards, conferences, and matchmaking sessions.
Neno, a Dutch AI-native financial services startup, raised €6.6M in seed funding to develop its platform and expand accounting and tax services into more European markets. The company says its AI-native workspace can complete reconciliation and VAT preparation up to five times faster and cut customers’ monthly admin time by 8 hours on average. It will launch Neno Labs for Ambient AI R&D, add team capacity, and target more European market entry in 2027.
Volve raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its construction tendering and preconstruction intelligence platform across Europe. The round totaled $3 million (NOK 30 million). It plans to deepen its product with a graph-based knowledge structure and accelerate rollout beyond the Nordics into the UK and Continental Europe.
Neno, an Amsterdam fintech founded by Nick Knuppe, raised €6.6 million to build an AI-led accounting service that includes human review of an automatically reconciled ledger for small businesses. The funding totals €6.6 million in seed, leading to the launch of Neno Labs and expansion of its accounting and go-to-market teams. Neno says it will cut customers’ monthly admin by about 8 hours and reduce annual accounting fees by 20%, while entering further European markets in 2027.
Andrew Ng relaunches DeepLearning.ai with a focus on AI engineering skills, outlining categories such as building and deploying AI apps, software fundamentals, coding agents, and shaping product builds. The relaunch is based on an analysis of over 10,000 job postings plus dozens of structured interviews. This reframes AI engineering training around practical skill sets and evaluation/error loops rather than only model usage or prompt techniques.
Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund led by Leopold Aschenbrenner, is being probed by federal regulators after a downturn in AI stocks hurt its portfolio. The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed banks connected to the fund in late July. The probe will require the banks to preserve and provide trading- and funding-related records, as the company says it will cooperate.
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