The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a Phase 1 investigation into the Alphabet-Anthropic partnership to determine if it constitutes a merger that could potentially reduce market competition, following a similar investigation into the Amazon-Anthropic partnership.
Avenue Biosciences has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to develop its machine learning platform that optimizes signal peptides for more efficient protein production, potentially making treatments like monoclonal antibodies and gene therapies more accessible.
Dunia Innovations GmbH, a startup founded in 2022, has raised $11.5 million to develop its Catalyst Acceleration Platform, which combines machine learning and automated robotics to discover new electrocatalysts for sustainable energy and chemical production.
Granola, a Mac-based AI note-taking app that enhances rather than replaces human note-taking, has secured $20 million in Series A funding to expand its product, which has gained traction among business leaders with its philosophy that human judgment shouldn't be outsourced to AI.
Researchers have developed AIRE, an AI system that can predict a patient's risk of heart disease complications and death with 78% accuracy by analyzing ECG scans. The NHS plans to trial AIRE starting in mid-2025 to evaluate its effectiveness in real clinical settings.
The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance recommending four AI-powered radiology tools for fracture diagnosis in urgent care settings, aiming to support healthcare professionals and improve diagnostic accuracy amid staff shortages.
The UK's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) has launched a £50 million Scaling Compute program funding twelve research projects, including Fractile's analog in-memory computing project, aimed at dramatically reducing AI hardware costs by developing alternative computing approaches.
Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+, a new AI accelerator board available in 13 TOPS ($70) and 26 TOPS ($110) variants, featuring integrated Hailo technology that enables complex neural network processing for Raspberry Pi computers.
Venture capital firm a16z has shared more about its "Oxygen" program, designed to help AI startups access affordable GPU computing resources. Oxygen aims to address the market imbalance where large tech companies were outbidding smaller players for critical computing resources.
Google has open-sourced SynthID Text, a watermarking tool that modifies language models' token probability distributions to create detectable patterns in AI-generated text, making it available through its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit and Hugging Face's Transformers library.
Anthropic announced several major updates this week, including the launch of Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku models, improvements in agentic capabilities, a new computer use API public beta, and a data analysis tool for Claude.ai that lets the assistant write and run code in a sandbox.
News Corp's Dow Jones and The New York Post are suing Perplexity AI for copyright infringement. The lawsuit condemns Perplexity for diverting essential internet traffic from news outlets while freeriding on protected content obtained illicitly from those same outlets.