The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free
A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders to substantiate the claim through weight-level analysis. The […]
Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver
Presented by SAP Enterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics and based on a survey of 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, found that AI now supports nearly one-third of all tasks in the […]
NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake: Identity alone won’t secure enterprise AI agents
Presented by NTT DATA AIVista VentureBeat’s June research found that 69% of enterprises are still running AI agents that share credentials, a practice associated with higher rates of security incidents and near-incidents. But at VB Transform 2026, Mukesh Karki, CTO of NTT DATA AIVista, and Mayank Upadhyay, chief security and trust officer at Snowflake, argued […]
At Waymo, an AI project isn’t ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well
Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google. Its models do not merely generate text or automate back-office tasks: They help vehicles navigate unpredictable streets, respond to human drivers and make split-second decisions in the physical world. But the methods Waymo uses […]
Enterprise AI agents can’t talk to each other, can’t be trusted with permissions, and can’t be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here’s a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown […]
GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests
Software engineers at General Motors’ (GM’s) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM’s VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the other 85%—including analyzing vehicle data, triaging problems, running experiments […]
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn’t the models — it’s everything built around them
Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney says the AI models her company runs aren’t what gives Target its edge — everything built around them is. “There’s a lot in it. That to us is the moat,” Mc Feeney said at VB Transform 2026. “The models are great, and they’re important. They’re just not sufficient to be […]
Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck
Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happens to quality data when a human being has to touch the production line. The San Francisco-based manufacturer announced today the Hybrid BRC (Bright Robotic Cell), an expansion of its Bright Factory platform that lets human […]
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Visa aimed Anthropic’s Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million merchant locations. The model stitched minor weaknesses deep in the stack into working exploit […]
Instacart’s CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt
Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should be absorbed by AI agents so that humans can […]