Applications
Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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Kyunghyun Cho launches Ortet, a health AI lab with a $500 million commitment
A new New York lab led by Kyunghyun Cho launches with a $500 million commitment from Thoreau and a plan for a…
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India’s national auditor adopts Bhashini to translate audit reports
India’s national auditor will use the government’s own Bhashini platform to translate audit documents into Indian languages, with no accuracy figures published…
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OpenAI adds a $500 ChatGPT Pro tier and trims what $200 buys
OpenAI’s new $500 Pro tier is the only plan with the Ultrafast serving mode, and existing $200 subscribers lose their current usage…
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Executive order puts an AI answer service at the front of US federal services
A 29 September executive order makes America.gov a single front door to federal services, with an AI question-answering layer the White House…
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Alibaba’s DAMO Academy publishes two CT-reading cancer models in Nature Medicine and Science
Two models that read routine CT scans for oesophageal cancer and 146 other conditions land in major journals, with strong sensitivity figures…
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OpenAI launches dots, always-on ChatGPT agents with their own computers
Each dot runs on GPT‑6 Astra with its own cloud computer, working in the background for Pro and Business Premium users.
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Mistral opens Munich hub for physics and industrial AI
Mistral’s new Munich hub will build AI for engineering simulation, working with BMW on crash simulations and with Siemens Energy.
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Cohere puts Compass retrieval in the cloud, in private beta
Compass becomes a managed service for a handful of beta partners, with no pricing and a benchmark win measured on Cohere’s own…
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Microsoft opens up a retrosynthesis model chemists preferred
Microsoft has published its retrosynthesis model in Nature and released the weights under MIT. Blind-test chemists preferred its route suggestions.
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Google’s Pixel Watch can now call an ambulance by itself in Europe
Breathing Emergency Detection escalates on its own, and Google publishes no accuracy figures and names no countries.