Top AI news of the week #27: 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 

• NVIDIA partnered with RIKEN, Japan’s national research institute, to integrate NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 systems with two new supercomputers in Japan — one built for AI for science and the other for quantum computing
• Pony AI, a developer of autonomous driving technology, partnered with electric heavy truck brand SANY Truck and automobile manufacturer Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor to develop Pony’s fourth-generation autonomous trucks
• Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic partnered, with Anthropic scaling its Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities
• ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai partnered with NVIDIA to harness the power of artificial intelligence for genomic discovery through the application of large language model technology
• SAP SE partnered with France’s AI sector, which includes new and expanded partnerships with Bleu, Capgemini and Mistral AI, combining SAP enterprise application expertise with France’s AI ecosystem to create cloud solutions that protect data and intellectual property while advancing Europe’s digital transformation
• Business Insider joined Microsoft’s new Publisher Content Marketplace pilot program, which will compensate publishers when its journalism is used in its AI-generated results
• Nokia, in collaboration with the Trump administration, announced plans to expand its U.S. R&D and manufacturing capabilities, investing $4 billion to accelerate innovation in AI-ready mobile, fixed access, IP, optical, and data center networking technologies
• ASGN Incorporated, a provider of IT services and solutions to commercial and government sectors, partnered with Salesforce, integrating Salesforce’s Agentforce into its digital engineering practice

Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations

• Abridge, an AI platform transforms medical conversations into clinically useful and billable documentation at the point of care, partnered with UI Health, the academic health enterprise at the University of Illinois Chicago, to deploy its platform across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care
• TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling in-home, clinical-grade physical exams, partnered with virtual care provider Teladoc Health, so Teladoc Health care teams will be able to conduct remote physical exams using TytoCare’s AI-powered Lung Sounds Suite, throat, ear, heart, skin, and temperature assessments
• HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence solutions, partnered with xAI, an AI company known for its rapid advancement in AI systems, to design, build, and operate a new generation of low-cost, hyperscale GPU data centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as the deployment of xAI’s Grok models across the country
• Definity, a digital consulting firm that offers solutions in branding, SEO optimization and web to enhance business growth, was selected as a strategic partner in Vercel’s exclusive Partner Program, bringing together Vercel’s developer platform and infrastructure with Definity’s enterprise mission-critical applications, AI, and cloud‐native engineering, and modern digital experience solutions
• InfraPartners, a provider of prefabricated AI data center solutions, and JLL, a real estate and investment management company, partnered to fast-track how AI data centers are developed and operated
• The Human Machine Collaboration Institute and Rapt.AI, developer of AI-powered GPU management, orchestration, and workload-aware optimization software, announced the deployment of NVIDIA GB10 systems powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip to anchor the AI and Robotics Ecosystem, a municipal AI innovation environment designed to make advanced computing accessible, affordable, and inclusive
• Foxconn and Intrinsic partnered on a joint venture to make the intelligent factory of the future a reality by shifting from product-specific automation solutions requiring significant re-engineering across product generations, to more general-purpose intelligent robotics – as well as automating previously manual processes, with the eventual goal of full factory orchestration and automation
• Verne, a provider of low-carbon high-performance data centres across the Nordics, partnered with Nscale, a hyperscaler engineered for AI, to deploy approximately 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs across Verne’s Icelandic campus throughout 2026
• Virginia Commonwealth University and AI Ready RVA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating AI literacy and community engagement, partnered to collaborate on advancing artificial intelligence education, research and innovation throughout the Greater Richmond region
• Nokia and NestAI, a physical AI lab that builds next-generation AI technologies, partnered to advance AI-powered defense solutions
• Super Processor,a full-service payment processor, partnered with Vortex AI, an artificial intelligence company specializing in building automation technologies for other businesses, under which Vortex AI will exclusively license select artificial intelligence technologies to Super Processor
• Amazon Web Services and HUMAIN partnered to provide, deploy and manage up to 150,000 AI accelerators in a data center facility known as an “AI Zone” in Riyadh, while AWS will become HUMAIN’s preferred AI partner globally, and the two companies will collaborate to bring AI compute and services from Saudi Arabia to customers worldwide
• Domino Data Lab, provider of an Enterprise AI platform, and UBS, a Swedish wealth manager and bank, expanded their partnership to support UBS’s continued leadership in enterprise artificial intelligence and its model development
• Warner Music Group and Stability AI, an artificial intelligence company focused on developing open-source generative AI models, partnered to advance the use of responsible AI in music creation
• Realty AI, a provider of conversational artificial intelligence solutions for the real estate industry, partnered with Scale Selling Corporation, a digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, public relations, and authority building, to bridge the gap between website traffic generation and lead qualification for real estate professionals
• Royal Philips extended its partnership with Cortechs.ai, a provider of quantitative neuroimaging solutions, to integrate Cortechs.ai’s AI-enabled neuroimaging analytics directly into Philips’ MR systems
• UnityPoint Health partnered with Mayo Clinic Platform, a strategic initiative of Mayo Clinic that enables data-driven innovation and healthcare transformation for clinicians across the globe, with UnityPoint Health being the first healthcare organization to join a new program called Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, giving clinicians and care teams access to Mayo Clinic clinical resources like research and clinical best practices to enhance patient experience and improve outcomes
• Jorie AI, an end-to-end AI automated revenue cycle management technology company, partnered with Sauk Prairie Healthcare, a provider of orthopedic, gynecologic, and general surgery services, with Jorie AI will implementing automation across Sauk Prairie’s revenue cycle operations
• Perficient, a global consultancy transforming companies through AI-first solutions, partnered with Swantide, an AI-powered Salesforce automation and implementation platform
• Exiger, a supply chain AI company, partnered with Palantir to deliver an integrated capability that supports risk, multi-tier supply chains, and readiness for the U.S. Army

AI Startup Acquisitions

• Adobe acquired Semrush, a brand visibility platform, to deliver a solution that gives marketers a holistic understanding of how their brands appear across owned channels, large language models, traditional search and the wider web
• Workday acquired Pipedream, an integration platform for AI agents with more than 3,000 pre-built connectors to the most widely used business applications
• Palo Alto Networks acquired Chronosphere, an observability platform built to scale for the AI era
• UJET, a provider of AI-powered contact center innovation, acquired Spiral, a conversational analytics and AI company specializing in deep customer feedback and interaction intelligence
• SAFE, a provider of Autonomous Cyber Risk Quantification and Management, acquired Balbix, a provider of Continuous Threat Exposure Management, unveiling a new Agentic-AI-powered cyber risk platform
• Motorola Solutions acquired Blue Eye, a provider of AI-powered enterprise remote video monitoring services
• LearnUpon, which helps businesses deliver online learning to employees, customers, and members, acquired Courseau, an AI-assisted course authoring platform
• Mobile-health Network Solutions acquired two AI-optimized data centers in Malaysia
• GE HealthCare acquired Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider for the healthcare industry, to create a cloud-first and AI-enabled imaging offering spanning diverse care settings
• Salesforce acquired Informatica, a provider of enterprise AI-powered cloud data management
• Vertiseit, a retail tech company, operates digital in-store platform in Europe, acquired Muse, a provider of AI-powered solutions for digital in-store and in-store audio, and its generative AI platform StokedAI’
• Ad.com Interactive Media, a provider of performance marketing and digital media, acquired Brandweaver.ai, an AI platform that enhances reader experience by curating contextually relevant content and advertising
• DealHub.io, a provider of agentic enterprise-grade CPQ, acquired Subskribe, a subscription management, consumption metering and billing platform built for the AI economy
• Icertis, a provider of AI-powered contract intelligence, acquired Dioptra, an AI Layer for teams working with contracts

AI Outtakes

• Microsoft published a warning about the AI agents it will soon add to Windows 11. In the post, Microsoft explains that agents will have their own accounts on your Windows 11 PC. They’ll also have “limited access to your user profile directory” and, if needed, will be granted read and write access to certain folders, including Documents, Downloads, and Desktop. While Microsoft claims that all AI decisions must be approved by a human and all actions will be logged and reported, the company acknowledges that its AI agents introduce “novel security risks.” 

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