How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.
Month: August 2026
The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix."The guardrails to catch a…
The Offbeat Market Everyone Is Betting On: ‘Steam Frame Under $750?’
The offbeat market everyone is betting on: ‘Steam Frame under $750?’ A small Manifold market asking whether Valve’s next virtual reality headset will launch below $750 has drawn some of the platform’s heaviest 24-hour trading, even as the crowd prices the answer at just 1% implied probability of YES as of August 28, 2026. The…
Germany’s President Warns on Extremist Games, 350K [2026]
Germany’s head of state used the opening of the world’s biggest games trade show to deliver a message the industry didn’t fully expect: praise wrapped around a warning. Speaking at the gamescom congress in Cologne on August 27, 2026, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told an audience of developers, publishers and trade visitors that video games are…
Privacy vs. Security: Readers Clash Over Flock License-Plate Cameras
A safety tool or a step toward a surveillance state? A Journal article on the spread of the AI-enabled technology stirred up debate.
Should You Use AI for Mental Health?
A producer for our new audio series, ‘The AI Therapist,’ shares what to know about the rise of mental-health AI services. Plus, boomers are smoking more pot and vacation can improve your health.
We’re introducing flexible usage limits for Gemini Notebook.
We’re introducing new flexible, compute-specific usage limits to Gemini Notebook.
Survival‑horror fans should pay attention to this upcoming Xbox Play Anywhere game that literally twists the genre’s perspective
A unique, upcoming ID@Xbox horror game with Xbox Play Anywhere support showed up during Gamescom 2026 called Holstin, and it’s looking like a fresh, innovative take on the genre that fans of pixel-art and survival horror games should not miss out on.
DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural…
Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites…