Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Monday that can help medical professionals reduce their documentation workload. Dubbed Dragon Copilot, the new AI assistant can record conversations, write clinical notes, draft referral letters and even create post-visit summaries. The Redmond-based tech giant’s latest tool for clinicians is based on AI tools from Nuance, […]
Financial Times: Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s demand for a backdoor to access users’ encrypted data, even of non-UK users — iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data Source link
Frank McCourt announced on Monday that Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok’s US operations as a strategic adviser specializing in social media. Ohanian was an internet pioneer who founded Reddit with his roommate from the University of Virginia. He sold it to Conde Nast
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Amy Stillman / Bloomberg: Jalisco’s governor says Foxconn’s $900M Guadalajara plant, the largest Nvidia GB200 server assembly site, will be built in a year despite Trump’s tariff threat — – The Taiwanese company is investing nearly $1 billion — Lemus welcomes Chinese investment in spite of Trump’s tariffs Source link
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-4.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday. The successor to the GPT-4o model arrives with improvements in natural conversations, reasoning, and coding. Calling it “our largest and best model for chat yet,” the AI firm highlighted that the company scaled up both pre-training and post-training with this model. The
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Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal: The US’ plan to cut federal contracts imperils Booz Allen Hamilton, which gets most of its revenue from providing IT and AI services across the government — Memo calls for review of $65 billion in contracts that go to Booz Allen Hamilton and other big firms that do government
A Canadian regulator said on Wednesday it will impose a fee on Google to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large internet platforms to pay for news content on their websites. The imposition of the levy on the Mountain View, California-based search engine giant comes at a time of increased tension between
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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Honor pledges $10B in AI investments over the next five years and demos a proof of concept AI agent, powered by Gemini 2, that can book restaurant reservations — BARCELONA — Honor on Sunday pledged $10 billion in artificial intelligence investments over the next five years and announced … Source link
Apple has announced several improvements aimed at streamlining the process of setting up Child Accounts while revamping the parental control features offered by the company. The company is also working to minimise the amount of data collected by developers while verifying the ages of app users. Apple says it will introduce additional age categories for
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Zurich-based Unique, which offers AI agents for financial firms, raised a $30M Series A co-led by CommerzVentures and DN Capital to support its US expansion — A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement. Source link