Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.
Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,2…

Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest
Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest

Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures co-led the round. The Salt Lake City company says it will spend the money on sales, marketing and distrib…

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there
Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week, a day apart and at opposite ends of the market. Radisson Hotel Group launched an app on Tuesday, built with Accenture, covering more than 1,000 hotels in over 100 countries. G6 Hospitality launched a plugi…

A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%
A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25%…

Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.
Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.

Cover Genius has acquired Friendsurance, the Berlin company that invented peer-to-peer insurance. The deal took effect immediately, and neither side disclosed a price. Friendsurance built its name on a simple idea. Small groups of policyholders pool to…

Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’
Coforge says AI is expanding its margins. Its rivals call it ‘AI deflation’

Coforge reported first quarter revenue of $592.2m on Monday. That is a rise of 33% in dollar terms over the year, and 21.1% on the previous quarter. In rupees the annual increase reads 49%. Profit after tax reached $55.6m. Those numbers land in an indu…

Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue
Amkor will spend up to $3bn this year, close to 40% of its revenue

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. …

A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking
A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice A…

Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.
Apple’s new smart home hardware has been finished for months. Siri was the hold-up.

Apple is preparing a push into the smart home with a new Apple TV 4K, an updated HomePod mini, and a hub device built around its rebuilt Siri, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Tuesday. The hardware for the first two has reportedly been finished for …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently declared on the Relentless podcast that artificial intelligence has entered the technological singularity.