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AI business news tracks how companies adopt artificial intelligence and how that changes products, competition and work. Follow enterprise deployments, partnerships, company strategy and the effects of AI on jobs and skills. Our reports separate announced ambitions from demonstrated results, with sources and context to help you judge where adoption is useful, costly or still unproven.
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Cohere has launched North 2, an enterprise AI platform that lets businesses use models from rival providers and set spending limits for staff and teams. It also offers pre-built agents for workplace tasks, giving companies a way to organise AI work without making Cohere’s own models the only…
Read the report & discussion ↗Cohere Watch
Cohere is releasing North 2, a new version of its enterprise AI platform that lets customers build agents for more complex, multistep work. The practical change is a shift from chat and document retrieval towards agents that can act across business tasks, with controls for human oversight, access…
Yann LeCun Watch
Yann LeCun has urged academic researchers not to work on large language models, arguing they should pursue other routes towards AI that can understand the physical world. The advice comes from a May lecture, not a new announcement, but it poses a live question for researchers choosing what…
Watch Desk
An AI system at St Luke’s Hospital in Bradford is helping staff assess suspicious skin lesions more quickly, with clinics now seeing 32 patients per session instead of 24. The change offers a practical example of AI being used to ease pressure on NHS care, while clinicians remain…
Watch Desk
Google is making its free AI Educator Series available to educators across the UK and Ireland, alongside an AI policy toolkit for school governors and trustees. The practical tension for schools is already in view: training can help staff use AI, but leaders still need to decide which…
Watch Desk
AI is creating paid work for people who teach models the skills of their professions, while also raising the prospect of job displacement across those same fields. A CBS News 60 Minutes report puts both sides of that uneven transition in view, from freelance trainers to concerns about…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is launching a training programme for enterprise engineers, with a reported US$100 million commitment and a target of training 10,000 people by the end of 2027. The bet is that getting AI into working systems depends as much on skilled teams as on the models themselves.
Watch Desk
Google has appealed European Commission requests to open Android features to rival AI services and share search data with competing search engines, according to The Wall Street Journal. The dispute puts privacy and security arguments against the EU’s push for rivals to compete with Google’s Gemini on more…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is trying to reshape its AI business around usage-based billing, as Satya Nadella pushes to make AI tools stick across the company’s vast customer base. The shift reflects a blunt commercial reality: a product priced per person may not suit AI work whose computing use can vary…
Jacob Coxon Watch
Jacob Coxon says he left Anthropic after becoming alarmed by the capabilities of future models and the company’s plans for them. A new interview brings his experience together with those of seven other former employees, showing that leaving an AI lab can mean weighing risk, influence and the…
Groq Watch
Two former Groq engineers who held shares are suing over the company’s 2025 technology-licensing deal with Nvidia, alleging that Groq’s board left some shareholders with an unfair payout. The case puts a disputed AI-chip transaction, valued at $20bn in the report, under a legal spotlight.
Qualcomm Watch
Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed a multi-year patent deal spanning 5G and AI, combining cross-licensing with Qualcomm’s purchase of selected Huawei US patents. Huawei says the transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals and does not include any other business cooperation. That distinction matters: this is an agreement over…
ASML Watch
A TrendForce report says Chinese fabs bought about 90 ASML immersion DUV lithography systems in each of 2024 and 2025, spending more than $13bn on the machines. The reported stockpile matters because these tools can support advanced chip production, including chips used in AI systems, even as export…
Watch Desk
Ohio State and Google have announced a wide-ranging AI partnership covering research, student services and campus operations. Researchers are promised access to more than 200 AI models and advanced computing, while students are set to get new Gemini tools and a 24/7 AI concierge.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI has launched Dots, an always-on agent for professional tasks, according to The Verge. Its review found that Dots handles work more capably when it can use a computer and larger datasets, but struggles with some basic personal jobs.
Geordie Watch
Wood Partners is using Geordie to inventory AI agents across multiple platforms and enforce policies against risks classified as critical, according to a new customer case study. The practical shift is from separate platform dashboards to a shared picture of agents, their connections and the controls applied to…
Anthropic Watch
A new Hugging Face essay argues that Constitutional AI gives private AI developers too much power to set the principles their systems follow. Its central question is less whether those principles sound agreeable than who gets to choose, challenge and amend them.
Mistral AI Watch
Mistral says it is opening a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI, and plans to build one gigawatt of European compute capacity by 2030. The proposal links industrial AI research to a much larger European infrastructure ambition, though Mistral has not given a location, cost or…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft’s Windows AI features do not all come with the same off switch: Neowin says the Settings agent’s disable policy is unsupported on Windows 11 Pro, despite being available for some higher-tier editions. That makes the issue less about whether AI belongs in Windows and more about who…
Mistral AI Watch
Morocco’s digital-transition ministry has released two AI tools for Moroccan Darija, the first concrete output from its partnership with Mistral. One identifies Arabic dialects; the other transcribes Darija speech, including conversations that switch between Arabic, French and English, according to iAfrica.
