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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. ...
Chip designer Arm targets robotics with new Physical AI business
Chip design company Arm Holdings Plc has created a new Physical AI business unit that’s going to be focused on developing semiconductors for robotics and intelligent cars. The announcement was made today at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where robots have been a major theme, along with “physical AI” models aimed at improving how they ...
Chinese regulators probe Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus
Meta Platforms Inc.’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of the Chinese-founded but now Singapore-based artificial intelligence startup Manus hasn’t gone unnoticed, as the deal is reportedly being scrutinized by Beijing regulators over alleged export control law violations,. But it’s unclear whether they’d be able to prevent the acquisition from going ahead. The Financial Times reported that Chinese ...
Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without permission
Amazon.com Inc. has irked dozens of online retailers after using experimental artificial intelligence tools to scrape their websites and list their products on its sprawling online marketplace without their knowledge or consent. The tools in question include “Shop Direct,” which is a feature that allows Amazon customers to browse products from other brands’ websites on ...