Symbolic.ai has partnered with News Corp to deploy its AI publishing platform in newsrooms, starting with Dow Jones Newswires, where early testing showed up to 90% productivity gains for complex research tasks.
BioticsAI, a 2023 TechCrunch Disrupt winner, has received FDA clearance for its AI software that detects fetal abnormalities in ultrasound imaging. The startup plans to expand its presence across healthcare systems in the U.S.
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Go to all markets at $8/month and announced plans to test advertisements for free and Go tier users in the coming weeks, with commitments that ads won't influence responses, user data won't be sold, and paid Pro/Business/Enterprise tiers will remain ad-free.
Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-compliant tools for healthcare tasks, expanded life sciences capabilities, plus personal health data integrations for individual users through Apple Health, Android Health Connect, and other platforms.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a privacy-focused space within ChatGPT where users can have health-related conversations with the chatbot. The service aims to support users as they care for their health rather than replace healthcare professionals.
The CES 2026 Trends to Watch session showcased three megatrends—Intelligent Transformation, Longevity, and Engineering Tomorrow—expected to shape a future defined by interconnected, adaptive systems rather than discrete products.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun launched AMI Labs with former Nabla CEO Alex LeBrun to develop world model AI systems. AMI Labs reportedly looks to raise €500 million at a €3 billion valuation to build alternatives to LLMs that understand real-world environments through video and sensor data.
Cursor announced it has acquired Graphite, a code review platform, for an undisclosed amount reportedly exceeding Graphite's $290M valuation. Graphite will continue to operate independently as both teams work on connecting their products and developing the best AI code reviewer in the market.
Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-source multimodal model family with state-of-the-art video understanding capabilities including object tracking and temporal reasoning, trained on significantly less data than comparable models while outperforming proprietary systems like Gemini 3 on key benchmarks.
The Allen Institute for AI released OLMo 3.1 less than a month after OLMo 3's November launch, featuring two new 32B checkpoints with substantially improved reasoning and instruction-following capabilities achieved through extended reinforcement learning training.
Databricks raised $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation while reporting a $4.8 billion revenue run-rate and over 55% year-over-year growth. Databricks' reported revenue run-rate was fueled by its AI products and data warehousing businesses, each exceeding $1 billion in revenue run-rate.
Kling VIDEO 2.6 generates video with integrated voiceovers, sound effects, and ambient audio in a single pass, eliminating the need to create silent footage for later dubbing. VIDEO 2.6 generates videos up to 10 seconds long and supports Chinese and English voices.