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Microsoft says healthcare organisations are putting AI into everyday workflows, with examples ranging from drafting clinical notes to helping staff search research and business information. The useful detail is that these are specific deployments, not just another promise that healthcare will be transformed shortly after lunch.
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Flow Engineering has raised $50 million at a $750 million valuation to expand its AI platform for hardware development. The company says its agents are already being used in live hardware programmes, where they track engineering changes and check their effects across a project.
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A new AI lab focused on healthcare has launched with a $500 million commitment from investment firm Thoreau, Fierce Healthcare reports. Ortet plans to build a full-stack platform spanning computing infrastructure, research and health-focused models, aiming to connect information across a patient’s care.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a hands-on guide to building a claims assistant that searches documents, answers questions in plain language and cites the records behind its answers. The practical point is not that it has deployed this in an insurer, but that AWS lays out the retrieval and checking…
Cohere Watch
Cohere has introduced a retrieval metric that uses an AI judge to assess whether search results answer each query, rather than relying only on existing relevance labels. In the company’s blind study, human reviewers preferred the new metric’s choice in 77% of the tested contests, against 52% for…
MIT CSAIL Watch
An AI system developed by researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, NYU and Stanford has beaten top Stratego players, including the world’s strongest player, while using far fewer training examples than its predecessor. The result is a striking advance in hidden-information game-playing, with possible lessons for other strategic decisions…
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Metaview has raised a $60 million Series C to expand its AI-agent recruiting business, Axios reports. The round brings the company’s total funding to $110 million, a sizeable bet on automating work across hiring.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a working example of three AI agents collaborating on a music-production pipeline using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances. The practical difference from its serverless MicroVM option is substantial: Runtime Instances can host multiple agents together, provide GPU access and preserve a workflow across sessions lasting…
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MIT’s Transit Lab will develop an AI platform to bring transit control-room information together, with $2.1 million in support from Google.org. The three-year project is designed to help staff make decisions during disruptions, not make those decisions for them.
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French developer H has unveiled Holo 4, a family of AI models designed to let agents work through graphical interfaces as well as more familiar tools such as command lines and APIs. The models target Windows and Linux, bringing the agent closer to the buttons and menus people…
NVIDIA Watch
Lenovo has announced AI Express, a set of preconfigured systems built with NVIDIA for organisations deploying AI on their own infrastructure. The practical draw is a choice of three system sizes, with eligible configurations scheduled to ship from 15, 20 or 25 business days after order validation and…
