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Air wins $200 million US Army command-and-control contractThe platform converts frontline operational data into demand signals covering supply stocks, unit capacity and force readiness. The award extends Air’s existing role in development and field testing for the Army ecosystem.→U.S. Army expands battlefield AI deployment with StriveworksStriveworks will provide software for deploying, monitoring and re-optimising models as battlefield conditions change. The work supports the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control programme.→Rig 1.12.4 extends deployment-pipeline APIsThe release adds an Issue model to the APIs and exposes already-running pipelines in effective settings. It also includes pipeline CLI corrections and documentation updates.→DropForge packages authenticated web and terminal front endsThe release publishes the project’s web, terminal and desktop distribution targets together with amd64 and arm64 container support. The project describes itself as an integrated deployment combining authenticated interfaces and operational tooling.→Frappe Press patches authentication disclosure and agent-job handlingThe release prevents login endpoints from revealing account status and moves login-mail delivery into a background job. It also records who cancelled an agent job.→Firebase CLI 15.32.0 introduces function kits and deployment fixesFirebase CLI 15.32.0 adds commands for installing, uninstalling and listing function kits, plus extension migration helpers and secret-reference overrides. It also increases IAM-policy retries, fixes an ERR_REQUIRE_ESM crash and improves parameter default handling.→Salute says customers now cover more than 20 GW of NVIDIA AI infrastructureSalute said it reached the figure in less than 12 months as a member of NVIDIA's partner network. Its offering focuses on operating high-density liquid-cooled facilities, including coolant management, leak detection, commissioning and specialised maintenance.→webAI secures a $30 million enterprise deployment commitmentThe partnership will deploy AI systems around proprietary data, workflows and operations on infrastructure controlled by customers. It signals continued movement from general-purpose model building toward specialised, privately operated enterprise systems.→Simbe says its retail shelf-robot fleet has passed 3,000 unitsThe company said its Tally robots and associated computer-vision, RFID and edge-AI systems serve more than 75 retail banners across nearly a dozen countries. Simbe described the fleet as the largest commercially committed shelf-intelligence deployment identified in its research, though the figures are company-reported.→Deno 2.9.7 tightens network, cache and lockfile safetyDeno 2.9.7 makes audit honour configured certificate stores, disambiguates HTTP authority paths and checks resolved IPs against the network deny list. It also validates lockfile tarball registry paths, fixes permission descriptors and removes argument, completion and sourcemap handling errors in deployment and sandbox commands.→Arcee AI chooses Fuzzball for portable orchestration of frontier model workloadsFuzzball provides an orchestration layer for Arcee’s compute-intensive training and inference workloads without replacing its internally developed model stack. The software is available across major clouds and on-premises clusters, while Arcee retains control of its models, data, training and deployment architecture.→Google Cloud and Accenture create a 1,000-engineer Gemini deployment unitThe Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group will combine certified professionals, Google Cloud engineering talent and industry expertise, with plans for a 1,000-person forward-deployed engineering workforce. The initiative is designed to build custom AI applications and accelerate enterprise adoption of Gemini Enterprise.→General Robotics says GRID can engineer a robot's full deployment lifecycleThe company says GRID can select the models and skills needed for a task, generate training simulations, deploy the resulting capability and monitor failures in real-world operation. It presents the system as a continuously improving platform that feeds robot performance and failures back into later deployments.→Nextcloud All-in-One 14.1.0 beta brings Nextcloud 35 installs and higher upload defaultsNextcloud All-in-One 14.1.0 beta includes Nextcloud 34.0.3 while allowing new instances to install Nextcloud 35 directly. It adds adjustable logging for Caddy instances, raises the default upload limit to 1 GB and documents mounting multiple host directories.→Three hikers rescued after relying on Gemini for Mount Shasta planningThree hikers were rescued from Mount Shasta after using Google Gemini during trip planning, according to reporting citing the Siskiyou County sheriff. The sheriff said the advice underestimated food and water needs, and the group became stranded after descending late; the account does not establish that Gemini was the sole cause.→Australian retailers invest in agentic shopping, but mass adoption remains distantABC reported that Wesfarmers, Bunnings, Woolworths and Coles are investing in AI agents that can help customers search, compare and navigate purchases. The systems remain assistive or in beta, and retailers still face high costs, integration limits and privacy concerns before autonomous shopping becomes routine.→Broadcom introduces VMware Private AI Cloud for private inference and agentsThe platform combines VMware Cloud Foundation with heterogeneous accelerator support, NVMe memory tiering, storage deduplication, token monitoring, multi-tenant model sharing and GPU observability. Broadcom also says customers can access more than 150 validated open and commercial models through integrated deployment and operations services.→Vercel adds dashboard deployment for eve agentsThe builder scaffolds an eve agent, pushes the code to a private Git repository, and creates a Vercel project. Developers can select models through AI Gateway and configure a Next.js web chat or Slack interface with built-in Linear, Notion, and custom MCP connections.→US defence marketplace makes an AI and API control plane contract-ready540 said its AI and API Control Plane connects enterprise data, applications and models through a governed API layer for defence and civilian agencies. Awardable status means the solution has met the marketplace's competition requirements and can be procured through that channel, although the announcement does not establish universal deployment.→Kubernetes 1.37 reaches release candidate statusThe Kubernetes project has published v1.37.0-rc.1 as a pre-release for final compatibility testing. The release schedule targets Kubernetes 1.37.0 for 26 August 2026.→Terraform 1.16.0-rc2 expands plan/apply data and lifecycle actionsThe release candidate adds provider-private data preservation across plan and apply, a store block in terraform_data for ephemeral and sensitive values, import blocks inside modules, and resource-action failure modes. It also adds JSON output for state show and workspace list, Mermaid output for graph, and destroy=false lifecycle support.→Cloudflare investigated network-performance issues in Phoenix and Los AngelesCloudflare opened the incident at 19:34:15 UTC, reporting network-performance problems in Phoenix and Los Angeles. The status page said the fix was being monitored at 20:34 UTC and resolution followed at 20:44 UTC, after the requested freshness window had closed.→OpenAI rolls ChatGPT Health out to US adultsHealth in ChatGPT can connect supported medical records and Apple Health data to provide answers grounded in a user’s personal context. OpenAI says connected health information and related conversations are not used to train its foundation models, and the product is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.→RobustifAI targets deployment failures beyond benchmark scoresThe workshop takes place at IJCAI-ECAI on 15 August and covers robustness across models, deployment and user interaction. Its agenda includes distribution shift, adversarial inputs, tool use, human interaction, monitoring and assurance.→