Author: Art Ryan

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot program at 30 colleges and universities in the U.S., MathGPT.ai is preparing to nearly double its availability this fall, with hundreds of instructors planning to incorporate the tool. Schools implementing MathGPT.ai in their classrooms include Penn State University, Tufts University, and Liberty University, among others. The most…

As August turns into September, the global tech scene comes alive with a mix of festivals, summits, expos, and academic conferences. From the cultural energy of India’s Liberate 2025 Fest, to the corporate spectacle of IFA Berlin, and specialized gatherings in Riyadh, Santa Clara, and Washington, this week reflects the diverse ecosystems shaping the future of AI and technology. 🇮🇳 Liberate 2025 Fest – Thiruvananthapuram, India 📅 Dates: Runs until September 3, 2025📍 Location: Jawahar Balabhavan, Kerala, India🔗 Website: www.liberate2025.com Liberate 2025 is a 10-day technology and knowledge festival that blends innovation with social responsibility. With international speakers, competitions, workshops,…

EliseAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on automating healthcare and housing systems, has raised $250 million in a Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital. The investment will accelerate product development and hiring across engineering, sales and marketing, and operations, with growth planned in EliseAI’s hubs in New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago. The funding arrives amid a resurgence in AI-powered digital health investment. In the first half of 2025, U.S. digital health startups secured $6.4 billion in venture capital, with AI-enabled companies commanding a majority (62%) of that total for the first time, according to Rock Health.…

Few companies in history have experienced a revenue trajectory as dramatic as Nvidia’s over the past two years. The latest numbers from its second quarter 2026 earnings, shared Wednesday (Aug. 27), underscore not just the resilience of its business model but also the volatility of operating at the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI), data infrastructure, and global trade policy. “We’re an AI infrastructure company and we’re committed to making AI more useful and driving greater performance by watt. … We need to squeeze as much performance per unit of energy used as possible,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia on Wednesday’s investor…

Artificial intelligence startups Anthropic and OpenAI said Wednesday (Aug. 27) that they evaluated each other’s public models, using their own safety and misalignment tests. Sharing this news and the results in separate blog posts, the companies said they looked for problems like sycophancy, whistleblowing, self-preservation, supporting human misuse and capabilities that could undermine AI safety evaluations and oversight. OpenAI wrote in its post that this collaboration was a “first-of-its-kind joint evaluation” and that it demonstrates how labs can work together on issues like these. Anthropic wrote in its post that the joint evaluation exercise was meant to help mature the field of alignment evaluations and “establish production-ready best…

Anthropic is warning of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybercrime. “Agentic AI has been weaponized,” the company wrote Wednesday (Aug. 27) in an announcement accompanying its Threat Intelligence report. “AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to carry them out.” The report details examples of Anthropic’s Claude AI model being used for illicit means, including a recent case in which a “sophisticated cybercriminal” employed Claude Code to commit “large-scale” theft and extortion of personal data. This scammer targeted at least 17 organizations including healthcare, emergency services, and government and religious institutions, and threatened…

Malaysia aims to be among the world’s top 20 artificial intelligence (AI) economies by 2030 through the National AI Roadmap 2021-2025, with contributions exceeding RM60 billion to gross domestic product (GDP), said Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Chang Lih Kang. In a statement on Thursday, he said AI is no longer just a technology, but a national necessity for Malaysia’s economic future. To support this goal, the Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation (MRANTI), under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, launched MRANTI AI Connect 2025 today, a national AI innovation forum and initiative under the National…

A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative. But rather than giving up on the technology altogether, the most advanced organizations are experimenting with agentic AI systems that can learn and be supervised. That’s where Maisa AI comes in. The year-old startup has built its entire approach around the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes. With a new, $25 million seed round led by European VC firm Creandum, it has now launched Maisa Studio, a model-agnostic self-serve platform that helps users deploy digital workers that can be…

Aurelian began life as a company that automated hair salon appointment bookings. Now, its mission is to use artificial intelligence to handle non-emergency calls for 911 centers. Aurelian raised $14 million in a Series A funding round to help more emergency communications centers (ECCs) in the United States, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 27) press release. Aurelian CEO and co-founder Max Keenan said in the release that understaffing and increased responsibilities “have made ECCs overextended and overworked.” “At Aurelian, our sole purpose is to help them best serve their communities,” Keenan said in the release. “911 call-takers are trained to handle emergencies, not parking…

Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding grounds for seemingly genuine uses of the technology. Flexport, Uber Freight, and dozens of startups are developing different applications and winning blue-chip customers. But while AI helps Fortune 500s pad their bottom line (and justify the next layoff to Wall Street), the right use of the tech is proving useful to smaller businesses. Netstock, an inventory management software company founded in 2009, is working on just that. It recently rolled out a generative AI-powered tool called the “Opportunity Engine” that slots into its existing…

The world is at a turning point. As climate change accelerates and the demand for renewable energy grows, there has never been a greater need for collaboration, innovation, and decisive action. CARE – Climate Action & Renewable Energy 2025 is stepping up to answer that call. This pioneering global platform will debut across Dubai, Riyadh, and Delhi, uniting world leaders, industry pioneers, and change-makers to shape the future of sustainability, clean energy, and climate tech. A Landmark Global Event CARE 2025 is not just a conference—it’s a movement. Set against three dynamic backdrops, the event spans across regions at the…

Imagine an HR manager looking for the PTO record of an employee. Instead of logging onto the HR dashboard and pulling up the worker’s profile, the manager asks an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to get and email the data. If this is the future of work, would enterprises still need to use the software as a service (SaaS) HR provider? This is the question surrounding the SaaS industry in the age of AI. SaaS has defined enterprise software for nearly two decades. It was an upgrade to buying boxed software and running it on in-house computers. Instead, many companies pay…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has updated its open-source video-generating artificial intelligence (AI) model. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Aug. 26) by Bloomberg News, which describes this move as part of the company’s rapid pace of AI upgrades to keep up with its American and Chinese competition. The update transforms portrait photos into “film-quality avatars” that can be prompted to speak, sing and perform, Alibaba said. Bloomberg also pointed out that Alibaba has invested heavily in AI following the rise of DeepSeek this year. “We read their research papers, and we said, ‘Holy cow … We are falling behind,’” Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai during a June fireside chat at the Viva…

Nauta raised $7 million in seed funding to accelerate the global expansion of its artificial intelligence-powered logistics orchestration platform. The company’s “single source of truth and control center” currently serves importers and provides them with agentic capabilities that automate routine workflows and enable greater control over operations, Nauta said in a Tuesday (Aug. 26) press release. Nauta has started with importers but plans to expand its offering to stakeholders across the value chain, according to the release. The company launched its platform in the first quarter and now serves importers in seven countries, the release said. Those importers have seen reductions of…

Restaurant-focused voice AI platform Vox AI has raised $8.7 million in seed funding. The new financing, announced Wednesday (Aug. 27), will allow the company to speed its expansion of its business, which centers around conversational voice artificial intelligence (AI) tools for quick-service restaurant (QSR) drive-thru and operation automations. “Vox AI is pushing voice technology far beyond generic natural language processing. We’re not just improving voice technology. We’re building a new industry standard for how guests interact with fast-food chains and QSR brands they love and how restaurant staff run them,” Vox AI Co-founder and CEO Maurice Kroon said in a news release. “Our goal is to…

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can call upon Copilot and ask for movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps, and other general questions. On TV, Copilot takes on a “friendly, animated presence” that resembles the opalescent Copilot Appearance Microsoft showed off last month, though in a color that makes it look more like a personified chickpea. The beige blob will float and bounce around your screen, while its mouth moves in line with its responses. Copilot will automatically appear on supported Samsung TVs, where you’ll find it within the…

Google is rolling out a raft of powerful new generative AI features for Vids designed to take the pain out of video creation. Between wrestling with complicated software, finding someone willing to be on camera, and then spending hours editing out all the “ums” and “ahs,” video production often feels more trouble than it’s worth. Google is aiming to change that narrative with Vids. So far, it seems to be finding its audience. Google announced that Vids has already rocketed past one million monthly active users, a clear sign that teams are crying out for simpler ways to bring their…

Silicon Valley is preparing for the 2026 midterms not just with code and capital but with campaign cash. A new political network called Leading the Future has emerged with more than $100 million pledged to back candidates and oppose those seen as hostile to artificial intelligence. First reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, the group is supported by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and other prominent AI investors and executives. The move signals that AI policy has shifted from hearings and white papers into the electoral arena. Supporters say the money will help secure…

AI is transforming the banking industry, but the expected benefits and savings come at great human cost with the impact on finance jobs. The report, a collaboration between digital bank Zopa and Juniper Research, forecasts that generative AI will deliver £1.8 billion in cost savings by 2030, driven by an equivalent level of investment. However, this 100 percent investment return comes at a large human cost—placing an estimated 27,000 finance industry jobs at risk. The findings suggest that AI technologies are moving beyond experimental pilots and becoming deeply embedded in the core processes of banking, from customer service to the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic has reportedly settled a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of U.S. authors. The settlement was disclosed in a Tuesday (Aug. 26) court filing by Anthropic and in a statement by the authors’ attorney, Reuters reported Tuesday. Neither source described the terms of the settlement, according to the report. The authors’ attorney, Justin Nelson, told Reuters, per the report: “This historic settlement will benefit all class members. We look forward to announcing details of the settlement in the coming weeks.” The judge in the case gave the parties a Sept. 5 deadline to file requests for preliminary approval of the settlement, according…