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Anthropic's Labs team gets a shake-up as Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins experimental AI unit

Anthropic is growing its Labs team, which builds experimental Claude AI products. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, formerly Anthropic's Chief Product Officer, is moving to Labs to work with Ben Mann ...
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Despite OpenAI partnership, Microsoft is one of Anthropic's biggest customers

Microsoft is shaping up to be one of Anthropic's best customers. According to The Information, the software giant is on track to spend nearly $500 million a year on Anthropic's models. Microsoft is ...
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Deutsche Telekom puts Elevenlabs AI on the phone to handle customer calls

Deutsche Telekom is soon using AI voice agents from Elevenlabs in its customer service. Customers can talk to realistic-sounding AI voices around the clock through the app or by phone. The partnership ...
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Google's MedGemma 1.5 brings 3D CT and MRI analysis to open-source medical AI

Google has launched MedGemma 1.5, an open-source AI model capable of analyzing three-dimensional medical scans like CTs and MRIs by processing every layer of an image at the same time. The model ...
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UAE leads with 64% AI adoption rate, leaving the US and Europe far behind, Microsoft says

Around 16.3 percent of the world's population now uses generative AI tools, according to a report by the Microsoft AI Economy Institute. The divide between industrialized and developing nations is ...
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Salesforce releases new AI slackbot based on Anthropic's Claude

Salesforce has launched a new Slackbot built on Anthropic's Claude AI model. According to co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Parker Harris, the company is also testing alternatives. The AI ...
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OpenAI acquires Torch to build a "medical memory for AI"

The deal includes 60 million upfront and the rest in retention shares, The Information reports. Torch unifies scattered health records into what the founders call a "medical memory for AI", "a context ...
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OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

OpenAI has introduced "OpenAI for Healthcare," a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT and its API, with partners including Boston Children's Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and ...
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OpenAI's "Sweetpea" AI wearable allegedly takes aim at Apple's Airpods

A new leak reveals details about OpenAI's planned hardware, an audio device designed to compete with Apple's Airpods. X and Weibo leaker "Smart Pikachu" claims OpenAI is developing a device codenamed ...
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China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases

The Chinese government has tightened its stance on Nvidia's H200 chips. According to The Information, officials told some tech companies this week that H200 purchases will only be approved under ...
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Apple turns to Google's Gemini as Siri's technical debt becomes too much to handle

Apple will use Google's Gemini models for its AI features, including a revamped version of Siri. The multi-year partnership means Apple will rely on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for its ...
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Chinese AI industry admits US remains ahead for now

Leading figures in China's AI industry are tempering expectations: China won't overtake the US in the AI race anytime soon. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba's Qwen model series, puts the odds of a Chinese ...