July 2025

The Pentagon has opened the military AI floodgates and handed out contracts worth up to $800 million to four of the biggest names: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI. Each company gets a shot at $200 million worth of work. Dr Doug Matty, Chief Digital and AI Officer, said: “The adoption of AI is […]

Nearly every online business now touches artificial intelligence at some point. Research from 2025 shows 78% of companies worldwide use AI for at least one business area. Smaller businesses report higher usage, with 89% saying they use AI each day. Over 280 million businesses worldwide now run at least one AI tool, and many use

Author, Eric Elsen, Forte Group. On January 7, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance titled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Software as a Medical Device”. The document outlines expectations for pre-market applications and lifecycle management of AI-enabled medical software. While the document may have flown under many readers’ radar,

Despite its traditionally risk-averse nature, the insurance industry is being fundamentally reshaped by AI. AI has already become vital for the insurance industry, touching everything from complex risk calculations to the way insurers talk to their customers. However, while nearly eight out of ten companies are dipping their toes in the AI water, a similar

IBM’s Power11 enterprise servers address a persistent challenge in enterprise computing: how to deploy AI workloads without compromising the rock-solid reliability that mission-critical applications demand. Announced on July 8, 2025, the Power11 reflects IBM’s bet that enterprises will prioritise integrated solutions over the current patchwork of specialised AI hardware and traditional servers that many organisations

Instead of keeping their new MedGemma AI models locked behind expensive APIs, Google will hand these powerful tools to healthcare developers. The new arrivals are called MedGemma 27B Multimodal and MedSigLIP and they’re part of Google’s growing collection of open-source healthcare AI models. What makes these special isn’t just their technical prowess, but the fact

Tencent has introduced a new benchmark, ArtifactsBench, that aims to fix current problems with testing creative AI models. Ever asked an AI to build something like a simple webpage or a chart and received something that works but has a poor user experience? The buttons might be in the wrong place, the colours might clash,

Apple is nursing a fresh wound this week after losing one of its most crucial AI leaders to Meta. Ruoming Pang, the executive who oversaw Apple Intelligence, has jumped ship to join Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs. Pang wasn’t just any Apple employee. He led a 100-strong army of engineers crafting the language models that make

Tencent has released a model that could be quite literally game-changing for how developers create 3D assets. The new Hunyuan3D-PolyGen model is Tencent’s first attempt at delivering what they’re calling “art-grade” 3D generation, specifically built for the professionals who craft the digital worlds we play in. Creating high-quality 3D assets has always been a bottleneck

The UK and Singapore are laying the groundwork for what might become a blueprint for international AI cooperation in finance. For their tenth annual Financial Dialogue, representatives from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and Singapore’s Monetary Authority met in London earlier this week alongside fintech companies from both nations showing off their latest AI solutions.