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AppliedAI’s Opus makes compliant and reliable agentic automation available to every company
Abu Dhabi-based AppliedAI, which prides itself on being “the world’s most boring AI company,” today announced the global availability of its compliant agentic business process management tool Opus, enabling enterprises in the most heavily regulated industries to embrace AI automation. Founded in 2021, AppliedAI specializes in automating mission-critical business workloads for highly regulated enterprises in ...
NetApp’s new AI Data Engine extends its intelligent storage infrastructure to AI workloads
Data storage pioneer NetApp Inc. is building on its vision of an “intelligent data infrastructure” platform that’s fit for the artificial intelligence era with the launch of its new AI Data Engine. Announced at the company’s annual user conference NetApp Insight 2025, it’s a comprehensive service that aims to make AI data pipelines simpler, easier ...
California introduces new child safety law aimed at AI chatbots
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a new bill that regulates artificial intelligence chatbots in an effort to protect children from harm, despite facing opposition from some technology industry and child protection groups. Senate Bill 243 mandates that chatbot operators such as OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. implement safeguards to try ...
Microsoft rolls out its first AI model for image creation
Microsoft Corp. today announced its third internally produced artificial intelligence model as it strives to reduce its reliance on industry powerhouse OpenAI. The new model is called MAI-Image-1, and as the name suggests, it’s the company’s first text-to-image generator. It was designed and developed inhouse by the Microsoft AI team, and is the first from ...
Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt ‘AI factories’ based on its Vera Rubin architecture
Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it’s collaborating with more than 70 partners on the design of more efficient “gigawatt AI factories” to support the next generation of artificial intelligence models. The gigawatt AI factories envisioned by Nvidia will utilize Vera Rubin ...
Flex unveils highly integrated data center reference designs to speed up AI infrastructure deployments
The original design manufacturing giant Flex Ltd. says it wants to help data center operators scale their operations more efficiently with what is effectively a new blueprint for gigawatt data centers that can support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. The company said it’s bundling its power, cooling and computing systems into a series of ...
Samsung researchers create tiny AI model that shames the biggest LLMs in reasoning puzzles
Researchers from Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. have created a tiny artificial intelligence model that punches far above its weight on certain kinds of “reasoning” tasks, challenging the industry’s longheld logic that “bigger means better.” Released this week, the Tiny Recursive Model or TRM has just 7 million parameters, far fewer than most other AI models. ...
Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as an adviser
Former U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is moving into the technology world, joining Microsoft Corp. and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC as a senior adviser. Sunak (pictured), who quit his role as leader of the U.K.’s opposition Conservative Party after suffering defeat in that country’s general election in July 2024, is still a member ...
Adobe takes aim at business buyers with dedicated B2B AI agents
Adobe Inc. is building on the launch of its first set of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of agentic offerings aimed squarely at marketers in the business-to-business industry. The new agents come almost one month to the day after the company debuted its first set of AI agents in the Adobe Experience Platform, ...
Pavus AI raises $5.2M in funding to build a digital brain for procurement teams
A startup called Pavus AI said today it has raised $5.2 million in funding to help organizations get better access to their procurement data, so they can leverage it to optimize spending and reduce their cost base. The funding comes via seed and preseed rounds led by Sentinel Global, which was the only investor named. ...