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The Understanding China 2025 conference in Guangzhou focused on the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, global governance, and the role of AI in industrial modernization. Around 200 international participants from 72 countries attended the event.
A new study sponsored by SAS finds that the convergence of AI and IoT is driving efficiency and cost savings in manufacturing and energy industries, with predictive maintenance leading current use cases.
The December 2025 UCLA Anderson Forecast projects a slowing U.S. economy through early 2026, with AI-related investment exceeding $400 billion and helping to sustain growth while tariffs and weak labor markets weigh on momentum.
The Consumer Technology Association announced that McKinsey & Company’s Bob Sternfels and General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja will appear with All-In Podcast co-host Jason Calacanis for a CES keynote exploring how AI is reshaping global strategy, investment, and innovation.
iniVation, part of SynSense Group, has introduced its new Axiro product family designed to enhance embedded AI and industrial automation with high-speed, high-dynamic-range vision systems.
Reflection AI and GMI Cloud have announced a collaboration to enhance the training and deployment of next-generation AI models using GMI’s high-performance GPU infrastructure across U.S.-based data centers.
Tata Communications has acquired a 51% stake in Commotion Inc. to accelerate AI integration across its Digital Fabric offerings, enhancing its customer interaction platforms, including Kaleyra, with advanced AI capabilities.
UK-based autonomous driving company Wayve has acquired German startup Quality Match to strengthen its AI data operations and support the commercial rollout of its self-driving technology.
Research from Pearson shows that many UK teachers feel unprepared to teach or use AI effectively, with nearly half calling for AI training to be included in teacher education programs.
Coveo has introduced a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)-as-a-Service offering for AWS agentic AI services, providing a managed retrieval layer through a hosted MCP Server to improve grounding and compliance of enterprise AI applications.
OpenAI has agreed to acquire Neptune, a Polish startup that builds tools for monitoring and debugging AI model training. The deal, to be completed in stock, will integrate Neptune’s experiment-tracking technology into OpenAI’s research infrastructure.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions received two honors at the 2025 Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence, recognized for its ThreatMetrix and IDVerse technologies in fraud detection and AI-driven identity verification.
Equifax has launched new AI-driven Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Solutions to help financial institutions streamline regulatory screening and monitoring processes. The platform uses an Intelligent Match Engine to improve match accuracy and reduce false positives across global watchlists and sanctions lists.
Sprinto has launched new AI capabilities, including the AI Playground for building custom compliance agents and Ask AI, an intelligent assistant for querying risk and compliance data.
Perkins Coie and Ashurst have announced plans to merge into a single global law firm named Ashurst Perkins Coie, combining their expertise across technology, energy, infrastructure, and financial services sectors.
MYai Robotics has launched Curation AI, a real-time verification engine that authenticates online content such as images, videos, and social posts to help users identify misinformation instantly.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an agentic AI system for internal use, allowing staff to automate complex tasks such as reviews, inspections, and meeting management. The system is hosted on a secure GovCloud environment and will operate under human oversight.
Amazon Web Services has introduced three new AI agents designed to automate software development, security, and DevOps tasks. The highlight, Kiro, can reportedly code independently for days using persistent context and spec-driven development.
Sketchy has awarded grants to twelve U.S. medical schools to integrate its AI-powered clinical reasoning platform, DDx, into medical education programs spanning pre-clerkship courses to continuing medical education.
Openstream.ai has received a U.S. patent for its method of processing multimodal conversations using contextual reasoning and attention mechanisms, enabling its Eva platform to interpret and respond to complex human interactions across voice, text, and visual cues.
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