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Blaize Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI, NASDAQ: BZAIW) (“Blaize”), a leader in programmable, energy-efficient edge AI computing, today announced that its hybrid AI platform will be deployed in collaboration with Starshine Computing Power Technology Limited (“Starshine”), a provider of AI infrastructure solutions in Asia, with the initial phase beginning in fiscal Q3 2025 and continuing through 2026. Real-time, localized AI is no longer optional – it’s foundational. As countries across APAC invest in AI infrastructure to strengthen their economies, manage urban growth, and address climate resilience, scalable hybrid systems are emerging as the new standard. The collaboration between Blaize and Starshine will work to…

AWS has unveiled Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building, managing, and deploying enterprise-grade AI agents, alongside an AI Agents Marketplace offering over 800 agentic solutions. The twin announcements, made at the AWS Summit in New York, mark a major push by Amazon into the emerging AI agent economy, designed to help businesses automate workflows and boost productivity. 🔧 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: An End-to-End Agent Platform The new AgentCore platform allows developers and enterprises to build autonomous AI agents with plug-and-play components for orchestration, memory, identity, browsing, API access, code execution, and monitoring. The system supports open standards like…

AWS has expanded Amazon SageMaker AI by enabling developers to customize Amazon Nova foundation models, allowing seamless integration with external tools and APIs to build more intelligent, domain-focused applications. 🔧 Key Updates in SageMaker AI 🚀 Why This Matters ✅ Who Benefits Bottom line: AWS’s new support for tool-customized Amazon Nova models in SageMaker AI empowers developers to create smarter, domain-tailored AI applications—combining the generative strengths of LLMs with targeted tool execution and improved outcome accuracy. Would you like a social media teaser, infographic-friendly snapshot, or talking points based on these updates?

Fujitsu Limited today announced that a Fujitsu Uvance customer supply chain using AI agents was selected by the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) AI Governance Alliance as one of 18 global advanced AI solutions that are transforming business. An independent, cross-industry global group of AI leaders participated in selecting the solutions for the MINDS Programme from hundreds of applications. Applications were anonymized, and the final selection was based on cases that were implemented in actual settings and that have already achieved concrete results. The MINDS Programme (Meaningful, Intelligent, Novel, Deployable Solutions) was launched by WEF to spotlight AI applications already delivering…

Palangka Raya (ANTARA) – The Palangka Raya City Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in Central Kalimantan Province is adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology to help detect patients’ health conditions. “We are currently introducing the latest innovation, which will soon be implemented: an AI-based device called Airdoc,” Director of the Palangka Raya City Hospital, Abram Sidi Winasis, stated in Palangka Raya on Wednesday. He explained that this AI technology will enable the hospital team to detect various diseases simply by analyzing a patient’s eyes. “We plan to start using this device around October,” he added.​​​​​​​ Winasis emphasized that by promoting innovation, the…

Lloyds Banking Group reportedly has rolled out a new generative AI-powered knowledge hub to reduce the time it takes employees to find information and respond to customer queries. The system, known as Athena, is the U.K. bank’s first major deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to Finextra. Designed to serve as a centralized knowledge base, Athena can sift through 13,000 internal articles to provide quick answers to frontline employees in branches, call centers and other customer-facing roles. The bank said this has cut the average time to find information from 59 seconds to 20 seconds, a 66% reduction. For telephone…

Google is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities in Search by rolling out a new, free feature that lets it call local businesses on the user’s behalf to do things like check pricing and make reservations. The agentic AI tool, which is being rolled out in 45 U.S. states, is designed to help users accomplish tasks faster by eliminating the need for them to make routine phone calls themselves. “To help you get even more done, we’re now bringing a new, agentic capability directly into Search: AI-powered calling to local businesses,” Robby Stein, vice president of product, Google Search, wrote in a Wednesday (July 16) company blog post. “From pet grooming to dry cleaning needs, Search can…

As demand for power from AI data centers surges, energy giants ExxonMobil and Chevron are forging ahead with groundbreaking “behind-the-meter” natural gas projects featuring carbon capture — while Microsoft explores similar energy strategies for its AI infrastructure. 🔥 Exxon Plans 1.5 GW Gas Plants with Carbon Capture ExxonMobil plans to build up to 1.5 GW of natural gas–fired power plants directly powering AI data centers, bypassing traditional utility grids. This allows them to avoid lengthy transmission approvals and deliver electricity faster. The facilities would capture over 90% of CO₂ emissions and sequester them underground — with operations targeted by 2027–2028 Particle News+3Heatmap…

An elderly woman in Argentina is remembering her late husband in a new way, after her grandson shared a video of him made with artificial intelligence. The viral TikTok video shows the 100-year-old woman overwhelmed by emotions as her grandson shared the AI-generated video with her. The augmented clip is a close up of the man, who passed away more than 30 years ago, smiling and blinking. Martin Garchtrom, who goes by the username @marto.com.ar on TikTok, told Storyful that his grandmother Sati always talks about her late spouse, Jose. “She is in love like the first day,” he said. “On a small table in her…

QpiAI, an Indian startup that claims to integrate AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led by the Indian government as the company aims to expand its presence and develop utility-scale quantum computers for markets around the world. The Indian government’s $750 million National Quantum Mission has co-led QpiAI’s all-equity Series A round, alongside Avataar Ventures, at a post-money valuation of $162 million. The funding reflects India’s broader push to establish itself as a quantum computing power. Launched in 2023, the National Quantum Mission is an Indian government initiative that views quantum…

Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month after Meta hired Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege told staff that Scale AI had too quickly scaled its core data-labeling business — in which the startup supplied AI labs with labeled, structured data to train AI models. Droege said in the memo that Scale AI would staff up around its enterprise and government sales units. Like other…

Dive Brief: Dive Insight: CX leaders aiming to improve their data skills can benefit by taking a strategic approach that focuses on maximizing the potential of investments in the identified key areas. The first step to getting the most out of data is to prioritize what the company actually wants out of customer information, according to Thomas Randall, research director at Info-Tech Research Group. Leaders should narrow their focus, rather than try to solve for everything at once. “Align around specific business problems (such as reducing support costs) and structure data efforts around those goals,” Randall said in an email.…

Google is rolling out an agentic AI-powered business-calling feature to all users in the United States, the company announced on Wednesday. The tech giant is also enhancing Google Search’s AI Mode by bringing its Gemini 2.5 Pro model to the search experience and introducing deep research capabilities. The new business-calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf to collect information about availability and pricing. The idea behind the feature is to help you access information without having to actually pick up the phone and talk to someone. Google began testing the feature back in January with users who opted…

American companies rolled out a series of big-ticket AI and energy investment pledges on Tuesday, part of a push by President Donald Trump to maintain the country’s edge in the booming technology sector. Here are some of the biggest announcements timed around the Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University, which is expected to include $90 billion in investments in and around Pennsylvania. Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab has struck a $3 billion deal with Brookfield Asset Management for electricity generated from two hydropower facilities in Pennsylvania. Google will also invest $25 billion in data centers across Pennsylvania and neighboring states over the next…

Today, the Open Flash Platform (OFP) initiative was launched with inaugural members Hammerspace, the Linux community, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ScaleFlux, SK Hynix, and Xsight Systems. OCP intends to address requirements from the next wave of data storage for AI. “The convergence of data creation associated with emerging AI applications coupled with limitations around power availability, hot data centers, and data center space constraints means we need to take a blank-slate approach to building AI data infrastructure,” OFP said in its announcement. A decade ago, NVMe unleashed flash as the performance tier by disintermediating legacy storage busses and controllers. Now, OFP unlocks…

President Donald Trumpjoined executives from some of the largest U.S. tech and energy companies for a summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday as the administration prepares more measures to power the U.S. expansion of artificial intelligence. Top economic rivals, the U.S. and China, are locked in a technological arms race over who can dominate AI as the technology takes on increasing importance everywhere from corporate boardrooms to the battlefield. The Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University brought tech executives and officials from top energy and tech firms, including Meta (META.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), opens…

BNY has seen nearly all its employees adopt the bank’s artificial intelligence platform, Eliza, and the bank expects the technology to help them serve clients and grow the company. The bank saw 36% of employees adopt the Eliza AI platform during the first year it was available, fiscal year 2024, and it saw 96% adoption in the first half of this year, according to a presentation released Tuesday (July 15) in conjunction with BNY’s quarterly earnings call. “It’s early days, but we are beginning to see the benefit of some of these agents and digital employees, and we expect that to accelerate in the quarters…

Agencies in at least 28 states and the District of Columbia have issued guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools. More than half of the states have created school policies to define artificial intelligence, develop best practices for using AI systems and more, according to a report from AI for Education, an advocacy group that provides AI literacy training for educators. Despite efforts by the Trump administration to loosen federal and state AI rules in hopes of boosting innovation, teachers and students need a lot of state-level guidance for navigating the fast-moving technology, said Amanda Bickerstaff, the CEO and co-founder of…

Key takeaways Today, Amazon joined President Donald J. Trump and leaders across government and industry to discuss how we’re helping the United States meet the energy challenges essential to leading the world in artificial intelligence (AI). The Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, hosted by U.S. Senator Dave McCormick, brought together energy and AI leaders, along with policymakers, investors, and representatives of key trades to highlight the collaborative work powering AI innovation and advancing America’s technological leadership. “There may not be a bigger national security imperative than winning this technology race,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. “There is a real flywheel effect…

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. The deal, which includes participation from Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, and Jane Street, values the startup at $12 billion, the spokesperson said. Several outlets reported in June that Thinking Machines Lab was close to closing this $2 billion funding round at a $10 billion valuation, but, apparently, that valuation has shot up in the last month. The deal marks one of the largest seed rounds — or…