OpenAI is an artificial intelligence organization comprised of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc. and several for-profit subsidiaries. The company is perhaps best known for its ChatGPT chatbot, which launched in 2022, kicking off a period of massive disruption in the tech industry and beyond. A complicated and increasingly contentious relationship with Microsoft, ongoing legal issues over

February is Heart Month, so it’s appropriate to speak with the team that built the recently introduced hypertension notifications system for watchOS 26 and Apple Watch.  I spoke with Apple’s Steve Waydo, director for health sensing, and Dr. Rajiv Kumar, physician-researcher, who offered a glimpse into the science and decisions behind their lengthy project to give smartwatch users

Stockholm-based Strawberry is launching its “self-driving” AI-powered browser in open beta after a year in closed testing. Strawberry is a browser with built-in AI agents that can surf, click, and perform real tasks on behalf of the user, even on login-protected sites. The idea is to make AI agents available to non-technical users such as

Agentic AI came on like a storm over the past year or so, but blazed a trail littered with failed projects and cutting-edge high-tech junk that companies are still trying to sort out. So it’s perhaps no surprise that tech industry execs are urging enterprises to move cautiously with physical AI, where mistakes can have

Goldman Sachs plans to deploy Anthropic’s Claude model in trade accounting and client onboarding, and, according to an article in American Banker, presents this as part of a broader push among large banks to use generative artificial intelligence to improve efficiency. The focus is on operational processes that sit in the back office and have

The release of Alibaba’s latest Qwen model challenges proprietary AI model economics with comparable performance on commodity hardware. While US-based labs have historically held the performance advantage, open-source alternatives like the Qwen 3.5 series are closing the gap with frontier models. This offers enterprises a potential reduction in inference costs and increased flexibility in deployment

American International Group (AIG) has reported faster than expected gains from its use of generative AI, with implications for underwriting capacity, operating cost, and portfolio integration. The company’s recent disclosures at an Investor Day merit attention from AI decision-makers as they contain assertions about measurable throughput and workflow redesign. AIG has outlined potential benefits from

For organizations who are still wedded to the rules and structures of robotic process automation (RPA), then considering agentic AI as the next step for automation may be faintly terrifying. SS&C Blue Prism, however, is here to help, taking customers on the journey from RPA to agentic automation at a pace with which they’re comfortable.

Codoxo has raised $35 million in an oversubscribed Series C round, reinforcing investor confidence and accelerating national adoption of its AI-driven healthcare payment integrity platform. The funding round was led by CVS Health Ventures, with participation from Echo Health Ventures and continued backing from existing strategic and financial investors. The oversubscribed round signals strong market

Dataro, an AI fundraising intelligence platform for nonprofits, has raised $14.28 million in a Series A round led by Blueprint Equity. The funding marks a major step in the company’s expansion into the United States, while reinforcing its presence across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other international markets. The investment reflects growing interest in