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French fighter company Dassault invests $200M in autonomous drone startup Harmattan AI
A French startup called Harmattan AI that’s building autonomous drones for European military forces raised $200 million in a Series B funding today. The round was led by the fighter aircraft and business jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation SA, and brings the company’s total amount raised to $242 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion. Harmattan AI ...
Anthropic’s Cowork is a more accessible version of Claude Code
Anthropic PBC wants to make its generative artificial intelligence coding bot Claude Code more accessible with the launch of a new feature called Claude Cowork, available in preview starting today. The company said Cowork is a “simpler way for anyone – not just developers – to work with Claude.” To get started, all users have ...
Meta Platforms creates new organization to lead its AI infrastructure buildout
Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new infrastructure division called Meta Compute that will be tasked with overseeing its aggressive data center buildout for artificial intelligence. Reuters reported that Meta plans to deploy new infrastructure that will ultimately consume tens of gigawatts of power this decade and scale to encompass hundreds of gigawatts in the ...
Owkin unveils biology-focused AI agents for clinical research and drug discovery
Biopharmaceutical artificial intelligence startup Owkin Inc. said today it’s making a series of autonomous agents focused on drug discovery and research available to the broader healthcare industry, after cementing partnerships with industry leaders Nvidia Corp. and Anthropic PBC. The 10-year-old AI company is also releasing its complete agentic infrastructure platform to customers, including a highly ...
Everseen adds a conversational intelligence layer to its AI theft-prevention system
Retail-focused vision artificial intelligence startup Everseen Ltd. is switching its focus from action to insights with the launch of a prototype “conversational intelligence layer.” It’s called Everact, and it’s designed to work with the company’s existing Evercheck and Evershelf AI tools to enable retailers to increase their revenues through enhanced loss prevention. Store managers will ...
Anthropic pushes into healthcare to help patients understand their medical records
Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC debuted new healthcare and life sciences capabilities in its flagship chatbot Claude today, saying users can now share their medical records with the service to better understand their health. Claude now lets users share information from their official medical records and fitness apps such as Apple Inc.’s iOS Health, so ...
Google debuts Universal Commerce Protocol to streamline agentic shopping automation
Google LLC today unveiled a new open commerce standard that’s designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to automate the entire shopping journey, from product discovery to payment to post-sale support. The company debuted the new Universal Commerce Protocol or UCP at the National Retail Federation’s annual show. Developed in partnership with retailers such as Shopify Inc., ...
China is employing armies of human ‘cyber laborers’ to train humanoid robots
China is trying to address a key bottleneck in its national push for embodied artificial intelligence by employing human laborers to train humanoid robots. Local governments have reportedly established dozens of “robot training centers” as part of a concerted effort to generate much-needed movement data for autonomous humanoid machines. In an exclusive report, Rest of ...
Google’s Gmail is getting a Gemini-inspired overhaul with AI priorities, summaries and more
Google LLC is making some sweeping changes to Gmail, integrating Gemini-powered artificial intelligence capabilities throughout its flagship email service in an effort to transform it into a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.” The updates introduced today represent one of the company’s most aggressive pushes towards normalizing AI automation so far and will likely escalate its growing ...
Samsung forecasts record-breaking profit on booming AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is expecting to cash in big time on the artificial intelligence chip bonanza, forecasting a three-fold increase in its fourth-quarter operating profit thanks to surging demand for memory chips. Samsung’s preliminary fourth-quarter earnings forecast underscores the dramatic increase in memory chip prices as manufacturers scramble to keep up with intense demand. ...