Xsolla Introduces Integrated Backend and Global Payment Solutions for Games, With Founding Partner AccelByte August 19, 2026 Game Developers Can Now Apply For Early Access To The Integrated Solution Ahead Of Launch
Mary Kay Accelerates Beauty Innovation and Digital Transformation August 19, 2026 Celebrating Milestone Initiatives Positioning Mary Kay For Consumers Today and Tomorrow
Xceedance Appoints Insurance and Technology Executive Adrian Spieler to Board of Directors August 19, 2026 Xceedance, a global provider of technology-driven business solutions for the insurance industry, today announced the appointment of Adrian Spieler to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Spieler brings more than 30 years of experience across reinsurance, insurance, and asset management to the Xceedance board. He has served as Chief Operating Officer at Convex Insurance, a [...]
Limbic Becomes First AI-Led Mental Healthcare Company Selected for FDA TEMPO August 19, 2026 Limbic’s Unpacked will be the first company to deliver clinician-supervised AI cognitive behavioral therapy to Medicare patients with depression and anxiety
I drove 3,000 miles and saw the America AI is leaving behind August 19, 2026 Lewis Liu drove for nine days to get to his new home in Silicon Valley. On the journey he saw the America that risks being left behind.
Ridgeview Partners Announces Recommended Acquisition of Pinewood Technologies Group plc August 19, 2026 Ridgeview Partners LLC (“Ridgeview”), a growth-oriented technology private equity firm, today announced that U.K. Piston Bidco Limited (“Bidco”), a newly-formed company indirectly owned by entities administered by Ridgeview, has reached an agreement with the board of directors of Pinewood Technologies Group plc (“Pinewood.AI” or the “Company”), the leading cloud-based, AI-first, full-service technology provider to automotive [...]
As it happened: Miners fuel FTSE 100 recovery; oil jumps as Trump claims Strait of Hormuz August 19, 2026 Welcome back to the City AM liveblog. The FTSE 100 is falling on Wednesday as oil prices continue their march upwards and investors digest a jump in inflation. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) put the consumer price index inflation reading at 2.9 per cent for the 12 months to July. The previous inflation reading [...]
Even Claude says AI watermarking is no ‘silver bullet’ August 18, 2026 Claude has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever provide a foolproof way to identify machine-written material, just days after its maker, Anthropic, began embedding invisible marks into the chatbot’s own output. Asked by City AM whether AI-generated content should be watermarked, Claude warned that simple marks can be “cropped, screenshotted, or edited out”, while [...]
KX Appoints James Hollands as Chief Revenue Officer, Strengthening Capital Markets Leadership Team August 18, 2026 KX, the data intelligence platform built for capital markets, today announced the appointment of James Hollands as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). His appointment builds upon a series of strategic executive additions that strengthen the company’s capital markets expertise as financial institutions accelerate investment in AI, real-time data, and next-generation market infrastructure. Hollands joins KX following [...]
Gradiant Expands US Operations with New Leadership, Office Openings, and Long-Term Services Contracts August 18, 2026 Every microchip, data center, and megawatt of AI capacity depends on water. Today, Gradiant, the water layer of the AI economy, announced a series of milestones reinforcing its ability to solve that constraint across the United States: a new US leadership hire, three new offices, a new innovation center, and long-term services contracts, including one [...]