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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2-Efficient model accelerates company’s move away from OpenAI
Microsoft Corp.’s push for artificial intelligence independence is gaining traction with today’s release of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lean and mean version of its flagship image generation model that debuted earlier this month. The new version is meant to deliver high-quality visuals faster, and at a fraction of the cost of its predecessor, the company said. The ...
Anthropic’s Claude Code gets automated ‘routines’ and a desktop makeover
Anthropic PBC is making it easier to automate tasks using Claude Code without relying on autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new service called “routines.” The routines allow Claude Code users to run automations on the company’s own cloud-based infrastructure. “A routine is a saved Claude Code configuration: a prompt, one or ...
Meta doubles down on partnership with Broadcom on custom AI processors
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new deal with Broadcom Inc., extending a partnership that already sees the two companies work together on the design of the social media giant’s in-house artificial intelligence accelerators. The company said in an announcement that it is committing to an initial deployment of 1 gigawatt’s worth of its Meta Training ...
AI satellite constellation startup Orbital gets funded by a16z to verify space-based data center concept
Orbital Inc., a startup that’s aiming to bring the artificial intelligence industry into low-Earth orbit ahead of Elon Musk, said today it has closed on a funding round of an undisclosed amount led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun. The money will help to finance its first test mission, “Orbital-1,” aimed at demonstrating a proof-of-concept of ...
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 ...