North America tech news
Technology news from North America: official announcements from its governments, companies and institutions.
AWS details graph-based agentic AI for network fault analysis
Amazon scientists describe a digital-twin graph and cascaded algorithms that they say cut network root cause analysis from hours to minutes.
Amazon
LexisNexis ranks Valqari No. 3 among global drone startups
A patent-portfolio analysis by LexisNexis places the Chicago-area drone delivery infrastructure firm in the top three of ten privately held drone companies worldwide.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on database state, not text
Microsoft and Hugging Face released a benchmark that runs 507 enterprise agent workflows 20 times each and scores the records agents leave behind.
Hugging Face
UC Berkeley uses AI to build open database of US local laws
Berkeley researchers say they converted roughly 7 million pages of municipal and county ordinances into a free, machine-readable dataset covering all 50 states.
UC Berkeley
Sky Elements flies 71,207 drones in a week for Guinness records
The Texas company says it launched 71,207 drones over three nights, including an 11,000-drone show it calls the largest ever flown in America.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Anthropic commits $100M to train 10,000 Claude deployment engineers
The company says its Claude Frontier Academy will certify 10,000 "Frontier Deployed Engineers" by the end of 2027, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey and others.
Anthropic
Leidos adds AT&T COO Jeff McElfresh to its board of directors
The defense and digital services contractor said McElfresh will sit on its Technology and Information Security committee as its board grows to 11 members.
Company filings with the US SEC
Linux Foundation publishes guide for new open source contributors
A new LF Research report sets out how developers can pick a project, clear licensing hurdles and land a first contribution, and how to pitch the work to employers.
Linux Foundation
Nextdoor moves stock listing from NYSE to Nasdaq Capital Market
The neighborhood network says it will keep the ticker NXDR and begin trading on Nasdaq on October 14, 2026, citing technology and efficiency reasons.
Company filings with the US SEC
Sharon AI secures $356m GPU-backed debt facility for AI buildout
The Nasdaq-listed Australian cloud provider says the senior secured facility, priced at 9.95%, will fund compute infrastructure tied to customer contracts across the Asia-Pacific.
Company filings with the US SEC