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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 argues that companies are treating AI too much like ordinary software, when the bigger challenge is redesigning work around systems that can collaborate, act and change how decisions are made. Its practical message is clear: define what AI may do, what people must still decide, and who…
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LG is expanding its AI infrastructure partnership with Microsoft while Nvidia approves its cooling and battery systems for AI data centres. The important shift is that the AI build-out is reaching the less glamorous machinery that keeps powerful servers running: cooling, electricity and factory data.
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The Horowitz Andreessen Academy is launching in San Francisco as a $42 million alternative to traditional university, promising hands-on AI building, interpersonal skills and project work instead of conventional majors. Its central wager is that the AI economy needs people who can make useful things, not simply collect…
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AI agents used for debugging can produce convincing nonsense, and a new proposal suggests making them cross-examine one another before engineers trust the result. The idea is simple but useful: one agent gathers evidence, while a separate adversary tries to disprove its conclusions.
vLLM Watch
vLLM has released version 0.30.0, a major update to the open-source engine used to serve large AI models. The release adds new model support, GPU memory and caching improvements, watermarking controls, speculative decoding and a long list of serving optimisations. The important point is not one shiny benchmark,…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is partnering with medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence to offer AI-powered clinical decision support to healthcare providers in dozens of low- and middle-income countries. The important point is practical access: the initiative is intended for places where doctors may lack specialist expertise, medical literature and continuing education, rather…
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Unreal Labs has launched Unreal Agent, a coding-agent harness that manages tool calls asynchronously. The practical promise is straightforward: developers can steer an agent while tools are still running, rather than watching the workflow pause after every command like a computer with stage fright.
Meta AI Watch
Meta is testing a Muse feature in which people in call centres make some phone calls on users’ behalf, according to 404 Media. The revelation matters because users may assume they are handing a sensitive errand to an AI system, when a person could instead be reading the…
AWS AI Watch
Trane Technologies says it has cut a building-maintenance diagnostic workflow from about 20 minutes to 20 seconds using an AI agent built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The practical point is not another chatbot with a cheerful name. Technicians can ask questions in natural language and draw on live…
ASML Watch
ASML is preparing larger photomasks, a second Eindhoven campus and higher EUV production as chipmakers plan increasingly large AI processors. The important point is that the next constraint on AI computing may sit in the machinery that prints chips, not only in the chips or models themselves.
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ClickHouse has appointed former Snowflake and ServiceNow CFO Mike Scarpelli as an independent director and audit committee chair, giving the AI-focused database company a heavyweight finance and governance hand as it scales beyond $350 million in run-rate revenue.
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Andreessen Horowitz is launching a selective academy in San Francisco for people who have finished school or are early in university, offering hands-on technology courses and co-op routes into major companies. The bigger point is its proposed alternative to traditional higher education: learn by building, then put that…
TSMC Watch
TSMC is trying to expand across about 20 fabs, but a shortage of qualified construction and equipment-installation workers could slow how quickly new AI-chip capacity comes online. The constraint is not capital or ambition. It is finding enough people who can turn precision buildings, utilities and machinery into…
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The United States is chasing AI leadership mainly through faster models and lighter regulation, while China is pairing serious technical competition with rules aimed at deployment and content transparency. Rest of World argues that the lasting advantage may belong to the country whose AI people trust enough to…
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TrendForce projects that US data centres could face a gap of more than 170GW between demand and grid-deliverable power by 2030, with serious bottlenecks emerging from around 2028. The useful point is less another giant number than the constraint it exposes: AI expansion may be limited by electricity…
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UK insurer 1st Central is using cloud computing and AI to process around 600,000 motor-insurance quotes every day, with the company saying one internal assistant saves about 6,500 hours of work annually. The more interesting shift is not another office chatbot, but AI moving into pricing, claims and…
