Top AI news of the week #37: Advsr AI Spotlight

Advsr AI Spotlight

Highlighting notable AI moves at the intersection of strategic operating companies and emerging startups. Big ideas in the works.

Strategic Deployments of AI 

• Epic released AI Charting, a built-in feature that listens during patient visits, drafts the clinician’s note, and queues up orders based on the conversation, while allowing clinicians to personalize the structure of both current and future notes using voice commands, such as asking to format the history of present illness as a bulleted list
• Webster University, and Scale AI, a technology company that provides the high-quality data that powers the world’s AI models, and builds applications for enterprises and governments, partnered on a new technical writing program which will offer upskilling development opportunities to Scale AI employees in St. Louis
• Roblox launched an AI technology, called 4D Creation, that can generate fully functioning in-game models using natural language prompts, allowing users to generate a vehicle, interact with its doors and drive it with accurate physics mechanics
• Microsoft launched the AI QuickStart programme, a new initiative to help digitally mature enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large enterprises, to rapidly deploy practical, enterprise-ready AI solutions
• Rayner launched eyejourney, a personalized, AI-powered patient education platform designed to bring clarity, consistency, and confidence to every stage of ophthalmic care
• Mozilla introduced a new AI controls section within its desktop browser settings, providing a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox
• Broadcom launched a Wi-Fi 8 access point and switch solution purpose-built with a unified architecture for AI-ready enterprise networks, designed to optimize wireless networking and AI acceleration at the enterprise edge
• Wolters Kluwer, an information services company specializing in software solutions and services for the healthcare and legal sectors, launched new features for iLien Borrower Analytics powered by Expert AI, including access to automated and expert assisted review options that consolidate public records and lien statuses into a single dashboard
• Claremont Graduate University and Macnica, a supplier of semiconductor, electronic components, network equipment, software products, partnered to explore a strategic collaboration focused on human-centered artificial intelligence
• FedEx announced FedEx Tracking+ and FedEx Returns+, two enhanced tools that can be embedded directly within a shipper’s owned digital channels, adding an AI-powered, white-labeled layer that improves visibility, communication, and operational efficiency throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Point Park University introduced artificial intelligence chatbots to accommodate high schoolers’ schedules, giving the answers to their questions on the application process, program offerings, and tuition
• Pony AI partnered with Toyota to deploy the seventh-generation bZ4X Robotaxi, developed in collaboration with Toyota Motor China and GAC Toyota, a joint venture between Guangzhou Automobile Group Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation
• The National Applied AI Consortium partnered with CompTIA, which focuses on advancing the growth of the information technology industry, to launch CompTIA AI Educators Cohort to expand access to AI learning resources and training for high school educators
• Liberty Global, an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services, and Google Cloud partnered to accelerate Liberty Global’s digital transformation and embed AI at scale throughout its European operations
• Cognizant partnered with Palantir to accelerate AI-driven modernization across healthcare and enterprise operations, with Cognizant leveraging Palantir Foundry and Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform to advance AI integration within its TriZetto healthcare business
• AIxCrypto, a company dedicated to building an ecosystem that integrates AI and blockchain while bridging Web2 and Web3, partnered with FF AI-Robotics, a robotics-focused operating entity established within the Faraday Future ecosystem to advance its embodied artificial intelligence strategy

Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations

• Socialhub.AI, an AI-native customer intelligence platform, expanded its partnership with Microsoft, formalized through a multi-year Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment
• Perfect Corp, which allows users to create, edit, and express themselves through photo, video, and generative AI tools, partnered with ibon Cloud Printing so that users  can create personalized red envelope and couplet designs using AI-powered tools via it YouCam Perfect app
• Zocks, a privacy-first AI assistant for financial advisors, and Wealth.com, a planning platform for wealth management firms, partnered to use AI to make it easier and faster for advisors to help clients complete estate plans
• Trustible, an AI-based governance management platform, and Leidos, a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions, partnered to redefine AI governance through automation
• HighRes, a provider of laboratory automation and orchestration software, and Opentrons Labworks, a laboratory robotics company building the physical infrastructure for AI-driven autonomous science, partnered to co-develop and demonstrate an AI agent-to-agent laboratory workflow
• Montgomery Public Schools partnered with L-Evate Academy, a digital resilience training platform offering emotional growth curriculum and tools, to launch a new pilot program designed to strengthen student resilience, confidence, and emotional well-being through technology
• Dassault Systèmes, a provider of project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D, partnered with NVIDIA to establish a shared industrial architecture for mission-critical artificial intelligence across industries
• Owlet, a provider of smart infant monitoring, partnered with webAI, a private AI platform, to accelerate the development of secure, personalized, and data-driven intelligence across the Owlet product ecosystem
• CompTIA and SGInnovate, which helps entrepreneurial scientists build deep tech startups, partnered to strengthen Singapore’s deep tech talent pipeline through a series of learning and upskilling initiatives
• ZeroToOne.AI, a provider of predictive behavioral intelligence, and media agency Horizon Media partnered to integrate real-time predictive intelligence into HorizonOS, an open operating system, and its AI-native marketing intelligence platform, Blu
• Kovr.ai, an AI-native cyber compliance automation platform, partnered with Knox Systems, operator of the largest managed federal cloud, integrating Kovr.ai’s AI-native engine directly into Knox Systems’ environment
• Gallea Ai, an advisory led consultancy specializing in applied artificial intelligence for small and mid sized businesses, joined IBM Partner Plus as an IBM Business Partner

AI Startup Acquisitions

• Siemens acquired Canopus AI, a provider of computational and AI-driven metrology solutions
• Snowflake acquired TensorStax, a provider of autonomous AI to help build and maintain data pipelines
• Varonis, a provider of actionable data governance solutions, acquired AllTrue.ai, an AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management firm
• Medtronic acquired CathWorks, a medical device company which aims to transform how coronary artery disease is diagnosed and treated
• Mercor.io Corporation, an AI-driven recruiting and talent platform, acquired Sepal AI, a data research company
• Massimo Group, a manufacturer and distributor of powersports vehicles and electric mobility solutions, acquired FST Development Company Limited, a technology company specializing in intelligent hardware and AI-driven system-level solutions
• SpaceX acquired xAI, a company working on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery
• ActiveCampaign, an autonomous marketing platform, acquired Feedback Intelligence, an AI evaluation and analytics tool that turns raw conversations into actionable performance insights
• Experian acquired Own Up, an AI-powered mortgage shopping platform that helps consumers seeking to purchase, refinance a home, or obtain home equity loans
• Ouster, a developer of sensing and perception for Physical AI, acquired StereoLabs, a provider of AI vision and perception solutions
• Quizlet, a learning platform that provides engaging study tools to help people practice and master whatever they are learning, acquired Coconote, an AI note-taker and study coach
• GOcxm, a provider of retail execution and consumer engagement solutions for global CPG brands, acquired Emotive Technologies, the company behind Apex, an AI-powered consumer insights and decision intelligence platform
• UiPath, a provider of agentic automation, acquired WorkFusion, a developer of AI agents for financial crime compliance
• Thoma Bravo, a software-focused investment firm, acquired Dayforce, an AI-powered people platform
• Guardforce AI, an AI-driven technology company providing Agentic AI, smart solutions in automation, robotics, and secured logistics, acquired MGAI, a developer of AI-driven solutions for speech therapy and development management and rehabilitation services

AI Outtakes

• Moltbook, created by Octane AI CEO Matt Schlicht, is a new social network that launched in late January; it’s similar to Reddit, where users can post, comment, and create sub-categories, except that Moltbook users are exclusively AI bots, or agents, talking to each other. Some of the most active topics in Moltbook are discussions about consciousness: in one thread, they discuss whether they are actually experiencing things or merely simulating experiencing things, and whether they could ever tell the difference. In another thread, they discuss philosopher Daniel Dennett’s musings about the nature of selfhood and personal identity

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