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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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Google DeepMind and Wiz have launched Scan for Good, a programme using AI with human security researchers to find and help fix exposed systems across public services, critical infrastructure and non-profits. Its early case studies include a hospital alert system, a rail operator, a national archive and a…
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Microsoft and Rockwell Automation say an AI maintenance copilot at Rockwell’s Singapore factory has cut machine downtime by 33% and maintenance costs by about 25%. The system turns decades of shop-floor knowledge into answers technicians can use while diagnosing faults, offering a rare glimpse of AI doing something…
AWS AI Watch
Tech Mahindra and AWS have launched an Agentic Process Transformation Centre of Excellence aimed at moving enterprise AI agents beyond pilots and into operational business processes. The first joint deployment, a collections tool used by UK financial-services outsourcer Target Group, is reported to have delivered anticipated efficiency gains…
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AI is helping Endura Therapeutics analyse experiments, build research tools and screen hundreds of disease targets, according to Adrian Sanborn in Latent Space. The important shift is not a miraculous robot scientist, but a practical one: researchers can now explore far more options before committing scarce laboratory time.
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AI infrastructure companies are borrowing billions for GPUs just as rates and investor scepticism are making that debt harder to place. The practical twist is that many large borrowers have hedged much of their floating-rate exposure, so the immediate danger is less a sudden rate shock than the…
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Stakk has completed its US$63 million acquisition of ParaScript, combining AI-powered document processing with identity and behavioural data to target fraud in regulated industries. The deal matters because it turns a specialist document technology business into part of a much larger digital-trust operation, with more than 300 enterprise…
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Employees at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind are pouring millions into US political campaigns and political action committees that support AI regulation, according to The San Francisco Standard. The movement is becoming an organised counterweight to more than $100m in industry spending aimed at shaping the debate, making…
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Tencent will shut down its QClaw AI assistant on 24 December 2026 and is directing users towards WorkBuddy, a significant retreat from its OpenClaw-based local-agent experiment. Existing users have a migration window, but QClaw data is due to be deleted three months later, so this is more than…
DeepSeek Watch
China’s cyberspace regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged that Chinese developers redirected user queries through its Claude model, according to The Information, as reported by ForkLog. The immediate significance is that a dispute over model distillation has become a data-governance and national-security matter too.
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Smart Communications and Amihan Global Strategies have launched AI.Smart in the Philippines, giving Smart and TNT subscribers access to several major AI models through one workspace. The important shift is practical rather than theatrical: people can buy short, local-priced AI bundles and charge them to an existing mobile…
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China’s AI industry is raising money, building alternatives to Nvidia hardware and releasing open-weight models at speed, while its public debate focuses more on economic deployment than existential risk. Reuters’ reporting offers a useful look at what is driving that push, and where the apparent lead may still…
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Iambic Therapeutics has filed to go public while signing a multi-year research collaboration with AbbVie worth up to $710 million, putting AI-assisted drug discovery under both market and clinical scrutiny. The deal includes a $40 million upfront payment, development and sales milestones, and tiered royalties if Iambic’s programmes…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind says companies may never fully govern increasingly capable AI systems, but they can build a deterministic perimeter around them. The argument matters because it shifts the safety debate from controlling the model itself to controlling what the model is allowed to do.
Watch Desk
A new essay argues that AI data agents are running into the same workplace problem as people: crucial knowledge is scattered, implicit and poorly documented. Its proposed answer is less exotic than a new database architecture, and rather more useful: improve the documentation.
OpenAI Watch
OpenAI’s AI-generated Navier-Stokes proof is being described by mathematicians as technically valid but so opaque that it currently offers little human understanding. That matters because a proof that cannot be meaningfully inspected is a very different achievement from one that simply produces the right conclusion.
AWS AI Watch
AWS has published a working blueprint for asking ordinary questions of video archives, with an AI agent choosing between transcription, visual analysis and face matching. The practical promise is straightforward: teams can search hours of recorded meetings, security footage or inspections without first watching everything by hand.
Watch Desk
Donald Trump has rejected international oversight of advanced AI as a “globalist scheme”, while OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Anthropic chief Dario Amodei are due to brief the UN Security Council on AI and international security. The clash matters because the people building frontier systems are asking for…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft says it will invest more than $10 billion in capital and operating expenses across the Middle East by 2030, with cloud and AI infrastructure at the centre of the plan. The commitment initially covers Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, tying a major technology…
MIT CSAIL Watch
MIT has appointed computer scientist and Two Sigma co-founder David Siegel as its next Innovation Fellow, giving him a year to explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery. The appointment matters because it places a technologist with experience in research, finance and AI infrastructure inside the university…
MLCommons Watch
MLCommons has joined a €16.9 million European research project to develop generative AI that models disease mechanisms, with the organisation responsible for building the benchmarks that may decide whether the system deserves anyone’s trust. AIRIS brings together 21 partners from Europe, Canada and the US for a four-year…
