Author: Art Ryan

Cortechs.ai has integrated its AI portfolio into the deepcOS radiology platform. The integration marks the first outside Cortechs.ai’s ecosystem, according to the firm, and will enable broader access to the company’s NeuroQuant, NeuroQuant MS, NeuroQuant Brain Tumor, and OnQ Prostate software, including in Europe. Cortechs.ai’s AI software is designed to assess neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, brain trauma, tumors, and other brain abnormalities. NeuroQuant and NeuroQuant MS provide automated brain segmentation and volumetric analysis that aid in the early detection and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, according to the firm. NeuroQuant…

-Autonomize AI, a pioneer in AI-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that it raised $28 million in Series A funding, bringing total capital raised to $32 million to date. The round was led by Valtruis, The Cigna Group Ventures, Tau Ventures, and other strategic investors. Asset Management Ventures, ATX Venture Partners and Capital Factory are among the company’s existing investors who also participated. The funding will be used to fuel the company’s mission to rewire healthcare operations with its Agentic AI Orchestration platform, enabling healthcare knowledge workers to focus on delivering better patient care by reducing the administrative burden that drives cost, clinician burnout, and fragmented experiences. “The current…

Telus (T.TO), opens new tab said on Thursday it intends to acquire the shares in its listed digital services subsidiary it does not currently own, as the Canadian telecom firm seeks greater control of the unit’s artificial intelligence capabilities. The company has offered $3.40 per share to acquire the shares it does not own in Telus Digital (TIXT.TO), opens new tab, valuing the unit at $946.8 million, according to Reuters’ calculation. Telus currently holds about 57% of the digital unit’s outstanding shares directly and through its other units. This is a 15% premium to the last closing price of the subsidiary’s U.S.-listed stock.…

Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting cyclones — also called typhoons or hurricanes when they reach a certain strength — can generate 50 different scenarios for a storm’s possible track, size, and intensity up to 15 days in advance. The NHC is working with Google to evaluate the effectiveness of the model. The…

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced the release of its AI Refinery™ distiller agentic framework and accompanying software development kits (SDKs), offering developers an enterprise-grade platform to rapidly build, deploy, and scale advanced AI agents. The distiller framework encapsulates what is needed across the end-to-end agent lifecycle including agent memory management, multi-agent collaboration, agentic workflow management, model customization and evaluation, governance and observability, and cross-platform interoperability. “The distiller framework reflects significant frontline work across a vast number of developers and engagements to provide developers with access to the most advanced practices in industry agent design,” said Lan Guan, chief AI officer at…

Last year, Apple’s WWDC keynote highlighted the company’s ambitious strides in AI. This year, the company toned down its emphasis on Apple Intelligence and concentrated on updates to its operating systems, services, and software, introducing a new aesthetic it calls “Liquid Glass” along with a new naming convention. Nevertheless, Apple still attempted to appease the crowd with a few AI-related announcements, such as an image analysis tool, a workout coach, a live translation feature, and more. Visual Intelligence Visual Intelligence is Apple’s AI-powered image analysis technology that allows you to gather information about your surroundings. For example, it can identify a plant in…

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toymaker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up audiences in 2023 when it released the blockbuster “Barbie” movie. The company is currently working on films based on other toys like Hot Wheels, Polly Pocket, Barney,…

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing on Thursday said it has raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million (about $215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.” CompactifAI is a quantum computing-inspired compression technology that is capable of reducing the size of LLMs by up to 95% without impacting model performance, the company said. Specifically, Multiverse offers compressed versions of well-known, open source LLMs — primarily small models — such as Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Mistral Small 3.1. The company plans to release a version of DeepSeek R1 soon and said it is working on…

When Apple unveiled Image Playground last year, the company touted it as a quick and easy way to generate personalized, original images with the help of Apple Intelligence. Upon launch, the app was met with skepticism, as some users were disappointed by its limitations and low-quality results. For example, one Reddit user was surprised to find that Image Playground kept generating an image of a hand with six fingers when prompted to create an “up close image of a hand.” In another instance, a user was unable to receive images of simple descriptions, such as “old man” or “flower.” Some people even questioned what the point of the app was, noting that it…

-DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the simplest scalable cloud for digital native enterprises, today announced a collaboration with AMD that provides DigitalOcean customers with access to AMD Instinct™ GPUs as DigitalOcean GPU Droplets to power their AI workloads starting with the AMD MI300X GPUs. Later this year, DigitalOcean will offer AMD Instinct™ MI325X GPUs, further expanding access to powerful and affordable GPU models. AMD Instinct™ MI325X GPU accelerators set new AI performance standards, delivering incredible performance and efficiency for training and inference. AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs deliver leadership performance for accelerated high-performance computing (HPC) applications and the newly exploding demands of generative AI.…

AMD used its Advancing AI 2025 event to highlight new updates to its data centre GPU line, including the launch of the MI350 series and a preview of what’s coming next with the MI400 and Helios rack platform. The company said its core approach to AI in the data centre hasn’t changed. It still centres on improving price-to-performance, supporting open source and open hardware, and working closely with cloud and enterprise customers. That message was used to frame a series of updates focused on new silicon, updated software, and a growing customer base. “With the MI350 series, we’re delivering the largest generational performance leap…

Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab will build its first artificial intelligence cloud platform for industrial applications in Germany, CEO Jensen Huang said at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Wednesday. The technology, which will combine AI with robotics, will help carmakers such as BMW (BMWG.DE), opens new tab and Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE), opens new tab with processes from simulating product design to managing logistics. In a series of Europe-focused announcements, Huang outlined plans to expand technology centres in seven countries, open up Nvidia’s compute marketplace for European companies, help AI model makers in several languages to become more advanced and aid in drug discovery by the likes of Novo…

Meta on Wednesday announced it’s rolling out a new AI “world model” that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects. The tech giant, which owns popular social media apps Facebook and Instagram, said its new open-source AI model V-JEPA 2 can understand, predict and plan in the physical world. Known as a world model, these systems take inspiration from the logic of the physical world to build an internal simulation of reality, allowing AI to learn, plan, and make decisions in a more human-like manner. For example, in the case of Meta’s new model, V-JEPA 2 can…

Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of generative AI technology that could upend the entertainment industry. The copyright lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute “endless unauthorized copies” of their famed characters, such as Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise and the Minions from “Despicable Me.” “Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image…

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI), a leading provider of mission-ready Artificial Intelligence (AI), today announced a strategic partnership with Easy Lease PJSC (ADX: EASYLEASE), the UAE’s leading provider of integrated mobility solutions and a subsidiary of International Holding Company (ADX: IHC), and Vigilix Technology Investment L.L.C, a specialist in technology investments and advisory services. The partnership is set to accelerate the research, development, and deployment of innovative AI-enabled solutions that support digital transformation throughout the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader region. “This partnership is both a privilege and a milestone for BigBear.ai. It is a powerful endorsement of our technology…

In an era where artificial intelligence has transitioned from a disruptive force to an operational necessity, global enterprises face new challenges and opportunities. The adoption of AI is no longer limited to experimental use cases or niche areas—it is the backbone of business transformation. Our commitment to innovation drives every initiative we undertake. As a global leader in enterprise software solutions, we are uniquely positioned to deliver AI capabilities tailored to our customers’ needs. This dedication is at the heart of our enhanced AI strategy and why we are partnering with NVIDIA to embed NVIDIA NIM microservices, including a new microservice designed…

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded its AI Refinery™ platform for Europe with new sovereign and agentic capabilities to help European organizations maintain control over critical data and apply innovative AI solutions. “AI provides a unique opportunity for Europe to reinvent its economy, drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness, and support its future growth,” said Mauro Macchi, Accenture’s CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “The expansion of our AI Refinery platform enables European organizations to accelerate the deployment of AI agents, while addressing their sovereignty concerns. This is particularly crucial for the public sector and critical infrastructure industries, such as energy, telecommunications…

Takeaways Today, we’re launching a generative AI video editing feature across the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website and the Edits app to help you bring your creative ideas to life. You’ll now be able to easily edit your short-form videos using a variety of preset AI prompts that can transform your outfit, location, style and more. It’s available in the US and more than a dozen countries around the world Inspired by our Movie Gen models, this new feature is just the first step toward our goal of bringing you AI video generation and editing across our apps and products. Later…

Mark Zuckerberg is so frustrated with Meta’s standing in artificial intelligence that he’s willing to spend billions of dollars to convince Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to join his company, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. Meta is finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion into Scale AI, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the terms are confidential. Bloomberg reported earlier this week that an investment could top $10 billion, and a story from The Information on Tuesday said Meta would pay close to $15 billion. As a founder of one of the most prominent AI startups,…

Wikipedia has reportedly paused an experiment that used AI to summarize articles on its platform after editors pushed back. Wikipedia announced earlier this month it was going to run the experiment for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed and chose to opt in, according to 404 Media. AI-generated summaries appeared at the top of every Wikipedia article with a yellow “unverified” label. Users had to click to expand and read them. Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia’s credibility. Often, the problem with AI-generated summaries is that they contain mistakes, the result of AI…