Two AI systems, Mira and Amie, matched or outperformed doctors in diagnosing and treating simulated patients, with Mira achieving 87% accuracy versus doctors' 78% and Amie producing more guideline-adh…
The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, launched Thursday with $5 million to support AI regulation, countering the $100 million war chest of pro-AI group Leading …
Disney is launching a beta AI tool in July that generates TV ads, including scripts, video, and music, targeting small and medium advertisers. The move comes as consumer backlash against AI-generated …
Databricks, the $134 billion data-and-AI company, is acquiring cybersecurity startup Panther Labs to challenge Splunk and CrowdStrike in the AI-powered security market. The deal aims to help enterpris…
Andera, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to automate internal audit using AI. The platform uses large language models …
Baran Ozkan spent 15 months searching for compliance software that didn't exist, so he built Flagright, an AI operating system for financial-crime compliance. The startup has raised $12.5 million in S…
VivaTech's 10th edition in Paris drew 200,000 visitors and featured Jeff Bezos advocating for moving heavy industry to space, while Indian PM Modi and French President Macron highlighted AI cooperatio…
General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, after being rejected by 180 investors during Y Combinator. The company uses its own in-house voice model…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its most capable AI model, Mythos, forcing the company to pull the model and its sibling Fable 5 offline for all users. T…
A European retail association is lobbying for AI-generated advertising to be exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that labeling all AI-produced commercial content imposes a dispropo…
Anthropic kept early access to its advanced AI model Mythos for some US security firms after a US export order, while cutting off a European agency, highlighting private vendor discretion over dual-us…
Meta has signed new deals with data-centre developer Crusoe to secure approximately 1.6 gigawatts of computing capacity across two sites in Texas and Missouri, as part of its massive infrastructure bu…
Higgsfield launched Supercomputer 2.0, an enterprise marketing automation agent built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit, claiming 78% of Fortune 500 companies use its platform. The AI video startup says the s…
China has tightened export controls on indium phosphide, a critical material for AI data center optical chips, causing prices to surge 250% and threatening to slow AI infrastructure buildout. The move…
Alibaba Cloud opened its first data centres in France, launching two availability zones in Paris as its third European hub. The expansion coincides with the EU's new Cloud and AI Development Act, whic…
Liberty Bank, a 201-year-old mutual bank, launched an AI Center of Excellence with startup Flare AI to deploy secure, compliant AI across its personal, commercial, and digital banking operations. The …
UPS announced a real-time digital twin of its global logistics network that updates every 10 minutes, alongside AI-powered control towers, RFID tracking, and customs clearance achieving 97% first-day …
General Intuition, an AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. Back…
Ford launched Ford Energy, a $2 billion subsidiary to manufacture grid-scale battery storage systems for AI data centers and utilities, repurposing a Kentucky plant originally built for EV batteries. …