Robust adoption of China’s artificial intelligence models has yet to yield corresponding revenues, according to a report published Thursday (Sept. 17) by research firm Rhodium Group. All of China’s AI models put together generate roughly a tenth of the revenue reported by the two leading...
The people who build frontier artificial intelligence say it is getting away from them. The people who study it, deploy it and defend against it mostly agree. They just don’t think a slower frontier is the fix. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sept. 12 called...
For St. Luke’s Hospital, the case for agentic artificial intelligence started with a simple operational challenge: hundreds of thousands of patient interactions required thousands of hours of human labor every month. The solution put AI agents in the middle of those interactions, handling routine work...
AI startup Plaud is reportedly planning to file for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2028. CEO Nathan Xu told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Thursday (Sept. 17) that the company will be ready for a U.S. public listing once its yearly revenue surpasses $1 billion. Plaud, incorporated in 2022,...
The Food and Drug Administration is keeping a firm regulatory gate between a new radiology algorithm and its ability to generate revenue in the United States. An FDA final order that took effect Thursday (Sept. 17) requires several categories of artificial intelligence-enabled radiology software to continue receiving...
Mastercard and Alchemy, a provider of blockchain infrastructure for apps and artificial intelligence agents, partnered on an agentic payment option that Mastercard will roll out this week, Alchemy said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) post on social platform X. The checkout button is dying. AI...
Watch more: The Agentic Experience With Mastercard’s Chiro Aikat It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already becoming part of how consumers search and shop, giving agentic commerce a large base from which to develop. But there’s a challenge when it comes to convincing consumers...
OpenAI is testing business-sponsored artificial intelligence agents that will have conversations with people who click on an ad in ChatGPT, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 16) blog post. These Sponsored Agents are being tested with select advertisers in the United States, and their...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios reporters that the United States is willing to discuss artificial intelligence risks with China, the reporters said Wednesday (Sept. 16). “The U.S. is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks this weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott...