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OpenAI partners with Novo Nordisk to accelerate drug discovery and delivery
Artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI Group PBC is lending its expertise to Novo Nordisk A/S in a new partnership announced today that aims to accelerate research in the pharmaceutical industry. The sweeping collaboration will see OpenAI’s intelligent agents embedded across the drug maker’s workflows in order to enhance everything from lab-based drug discovery to the complexities ...
Japanese tech giants launch joint venture targeting physical AI for robots and machines
Japanese technology giants SoftBank Group Corp., Sony Corp. and NEC Corp. are teaming up with Honda Motor Co., Ltd. on a new artificial intelligence joint venture that has a single goal: to build a trillion-parameter model for autonomous machines. The companies are reportedly making a big bet on what has become known as “physical AI,” ...
China has erased the US lead in AI, Stanford HAI’s 2026 AI index reveals
Stanford University researchers today released their highly anticipated 2026 AI Index Report, revealing a global landscape where artificial intelligence technology is being adopted at record-breaking pace, even as public trust in AI oversight and transparency hits new lows. The report by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, is now into ...
Meta says it will spend an additional $21B on CoreWeave’s AI infrastructure
Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s going to throw an additional $21 billion at the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave Inc. as it strives to keep pace with rival AI developers. The deal expands the social media giant’s partnership with CoreWeave. In September, it revealed it was going to spend $14.2 billion on the ...
Cisco buys Galileo to strengthen Splunk’s agentic monitoring capabilities
Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s acquiring the artificial intelligence-native observability startup Galileo Technologies Inc. in order to make “agentic workforces” more trustworthy and reliable. Galileo is a developer of tools for observing and evaluating AI models, enabling companies to monitor multiagent systems in real time and apply guardrails to ensure the accuracy of their ...
Anthropic and OpenAI target big businesses with enterprise-grade controls and lower pricing
Artificial intelligence leaders Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC are stepping up their efforts to compete for the enterprise, making their most advanced agentic tools more accessible to the largest organizations. In its update today, Anthropic revealed new “organization-wide controls” to help corporate teams deploy its autonomous Claude Cowork service. Meanwhile, OpenAI took a different ...
AWS previews a cloud-agnostic registry for managing agentic fleets at scale
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to make sure enterprises that embrace artificial intelligent agents and automation aren’t getting lost in the curse of “agentic sprawl.” The cloud computing giant is trying to prevent that from happening with the launch of AWS Agent Registry in preview today. It’s a new capability that acts like a ...
Haast raises $12M to help legal teams make haste with compliant AI-generated content
Compliance workflow automation startup Haast Pty Ltd. said today it has raised $12 million in an early-stage round of funding to help organizations accelerate the rollout of artificial intelligence-generated content. The Series A round was led by Peak XV and saw participation from DST, Airtree, Aura Ventures and Black Sheep Capital, bringing its total amount ...
Refiant raises $5M to refine AI models with ‘nature-inspired’ energy efficiency
Artificial intelligence model compression startup Refiant AI said today it has raised $5 million in seed funding from VoLo Earth Ventures to try to put an end to the “arms race” that has ignited a multibillion-dollar data center boom. Refiant’s goal is simple, yet extremely ambitious: it wants to convince the AI industry to stop ...
ServiceNow says it’s ‘AI-enabling’ its entire product suite to turbocharge enterprise automation
ServiceNow Inc. today announced a sweeping overhaul of its entire product lineup, saying that every single one of its services, platforms and products has been “AI-enabled” to enhance agentic automation in the enterprise. The company said it’s trying to push enterprises beyond the experimental stage of artificial intelligence add-ons. It wants to transition them toward ...