Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells com…
Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera f…
There is a revealing moment in the maybe-apocalyptic 2023 film Leave the World Behind when Ethan Hawke’s character, George, finds himself driving around in unfamiliar territory after getting in his ca…
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI platform and open-source AI model repository, for $12.9bn, according to a report in US tech title The Information, which cited a person with knowledge of …
Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control and a spoken daily brief. Its DMA settlement requires it to let rival assis…
Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps how many hospital invoices may be audited each quarter …
OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agent…
An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuse…
Vanguard has agreed to acquire Altruist, an AI-driven custody and software platform for independent financial advisers that it first invested in during 2020, on undisclosed terms. Britain and the EU are addressing the same shortage of advice through ru…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight preview of the architecture it intends to use for Qwen4, carrying 125B parameters but activating only 6B for each token. Its licence may not qualify for the EU AI Act’s open-source exe…