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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced the selection of five healthcare technologies for its ‘AI Airlock’ scheme. AI Airlock aims to refine the process of regulating AI-driven medical devices and help fast-track their safe introduction to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and patients in need. The technologies chosen for this […]

Google Cloud has launched two generative AI models on its Vertex AI platform, Veo and Imagen 3, amid reports of surging revenue growth among enterprises leveraging the technology. According to Google Cloud’s data, 86% of enterprise companies currently using generative AI in production environments have witnessed increased revenue, with an estimated average growth of 6%. 

Alibaba Cloud is overhauling its AI partner ecosystem, unveiling the “Partner Rainforest Plan” during its annual Partner Summit 2024. The Chinese tech giant’s cloud division has outlined several new initiatives, including an AI partner accelerator programme, enhanced incentives, and a refreshed global strategy for service partners, as it seeks to strengthen its position in the

AgentFun.AI, a platform to create and trade AI agents, went live on November 27 on Cronos zkEVM. It became the first decentralised app dedicated to AI agents in the Cronos ecosystem. Users can create, build, and trade tokenised AI agents on AgentFun.AI. They set growth milestones for the agents, which have individual personalities. Agents accumulate

Salesforce has unveiled the findings of its UK AI Readiness Index, signalling the nation is in a position to spearhead the next wave of AI innovation, also known as agentic AI. The report places the UK ahead of its G7 counterparts in terms of AI adoption but also underscores areas ripe for improvement, such as

Alibaba has announced Marco-o1, a large language model (LLM) designed to tackle both conventional and open-ended problem-solving tasks. Marco-o1, from Alibaba’s MarcoPolo team, represents another step forward in the ability of AI to handle complex reasoning challenges—particularly in maths, physics, coding, and areas where clear standards may be absent. Building upon OpenAI’s reasoning advancements with

OpenAI and other leading AI companies are developing new training techniques to overcome limitations of current methods. Addressing unexpected delays and complications in the development of larger, more powerful language models, these fresh techniques focus on human-like behaviour to teach algorithms to ‘think. Reportedly led by a dozen AI researchers, scientists, and investors, the new

A survey by CloudNine PR shows that 83% of UK adults are aware of generative AI tools, and 45% of those familiar with them want companies to be transparent about the environmental costs associated with the technologies. With data centres burning vast amounts of energy, the growing demand for GenAI has sparked a debate about

Ai2 is releasing OLMo 2, a family of open-source language models that advances the democratisation of AI and narrows the gap between open and proprietary solutions. The new models, available in 7B and 13B parameter versions, are trained on up to 5 trillion tokens and demonstrate performance levels that match or exceed comparable fully open

Blockchain AI research lab YeagerAI has announced the launch of the Intelligent Oracle, an AI-powered oracle that aims to provide decentralised applications (DApps) with online data on-chain. The Oracle can change how data is collected, offering new possibilities and use cases for blockchain DApps. It is built on the GenLayer blockchain, also a brainchild of