From the archive
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.
Lead story
OpenAI used DevDay in San Francisco to announce Dots, an always-on AI assistant, alongside a faster Codex tier and a new $500 monthly plan. The announcements point to a broader push: AI that works in the background, collaborates across shared spaces and charges a premium when speed matters.
Read the report & discussion ↗Mistral AI Watch
Mistral has unveiled ML4, an open-weight model the French company says can match leading closed systems on several business tasks. If that holds up, the attraction is not just another model score: organisations could adapt and run it on their own infrastructure.
SAP Watch
SAP says it has agreed to acquire AI work-intelligence company TechWolf and announced new SuccessFactors features, including AI assistants for HR teams. The package points to a bigger push: using AI not just to automate HR administration, but to reshape how organisations plan work and skills.
SAP Watch
AI has changed the jobs of 88% of employees in SAP’s research, yet half of those changes happened without meaningful guidance from managers or their organisations. The findings put a practical question to employers: are they redesigning work around AI, or simply asking people to do more with…
Watch Desk
Rivercell has launched with a $25 million seed round to build an AI model of how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes. The Paris-based company’s plan pairs its own biological data engine with an automated wet lab, tackling a data problem that could shape whether a…
Watch Desk
AI rules that live in a handbook can be ignored by people and agents alike. Pipefy chief executive Alessio Alionço argues that governance must be built into AI systems themselves, with clear limits on what agents may do and a record of every consequential action.
AMD Watch
AMD plans to open an AI research centre in South Korea by the end of this year and hire several hundred researchers. The centre would make Korea a base for global AI research and bring AMD chips together with locally developed AI processors.
Watch Desk
Alex Murray has been confirmed as director of PoliceAI, the national centre tasked with helping police forces in England and Wales find, trial and oversee AI tools. The centre has £75m in Home Office funding over three years, and its developing public register will be one way to…
Meta AI Watch
AI-enabled smart glasses can help blind and partially sighted people read letters and labels, but growing privacy concerns are prompting venues to restrict them. The debate is no longer simply whether these devices should be used in public: it is how to protect privacy without excluding people who…
Microsoft AI Watch
Durham University and Microsoft have launched an AI Skills Centre of Excellence in North East England, beginning with training and support for students, graduates and university staff. The longer-term plan is to open opportunities to local businesses, public services and community partners, making this a regional skills initiative…
Watch Desk
Atlassian has announced a protocol designed to move AI use beyond isolated chat windows and into shared workspaces, where people and agents can collaborate. The central question is whether agents can take part in team workflows while working within clear permissions and governance, rather than acting as clever…
Watch Desk
Researchers at a Federal Reserve Bank of New York conference presented findings that AI chatbots can make people more confident in their answers without making those answers more accurate. One experiment found participants followed the chatbot’s response 80% of the time, whether its reasoning was sound or not.
Watch Desk
AI safety cooperation between China and the US should go beyond reporting incidents after they happen, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke argues. She makes the case for direct information-sharing between companies and researchers, as both countries push ahead with increasingly autonomous AI systems.
Powerful Medical Watch
Sant’Andrea University Hospital in Rome has embedded Powerful Medical’s AI ECG analysis into its emergency heart-attack pathway, automatically notifying cardiology when a recording is flagged as high risk. Powerful Medical says clinicians opened those reports in a median of under 17 seconds after the alert: the notable development…
Watch Desk
Monash University has joined Project Tapestry, a global AI collaboration focused on building models while members retain control of their data and computing infrastructure. The project says its Monash-BharatGen team has already trained a shared model across Australian and Indian sovereign computing systems, keeping training data within each…
Watch Desk
Multiply Labs has raised $75 million to expand robotic systems that automate manual steps in biologics manufacturing. The company says its robots can work with existing pharmaceutical equipment, potentially helping manufacturers increase output without rebuilding their facilities.
Anthropic Watch
The Pentagon has reportedly given Anthropic until Friday to accept its terms for military use of the company’s AI, or face possible government action. The dispute puts a sharp question on the table: how much control should an AI supplier retain over how its models are used by…
Watch Desk
IBM’s chief talent officer says managers should help employees keep developing skills as AI takes on more workplace tasks. Her advice is practical: preserve early-career learning, tailor training to changing skills, and give people chances to keep practising.
Watch Desk
AI-related chip demand may be a longer-lasting inflation pressure than the Federal Reserve usually expects, San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly told Axios. She says some businesses are already considering forward contracts for memory chips and redesigning products to use fewer chips, signs that the squeeze could reach…
