Applications
Where AI is actually being used: products, industries, and the work it changes.
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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.
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Perplexity’s local agent runs on AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs
Running inference locally lets agents skip metered cloud credits, but AMD names no models, no figures and no supported systems.
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Databricks adds central control for coding agents
Admins get one place to set which coding agents, models and tools developers use, and what they may spend. All the savings…
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Brussels publishes two reports on AI in Europe’s classrooms
Generative AI is becoming mainstream in EU schools, but the Commission’s own evidence says the effect on long-term skills is still unclear.
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NVIDIA ships Isaac ROS 5.0 with agent-readable robotics workflows
A free, open-source robotics release built so that coding agents, not just humans, can drive the toolchain.
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ChatGPT Ads reaches seven more Asian markets
ChatGPT Ads lands in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan, taking the product past 60 countries.
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OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber programme to Ukraine
Ukraine’s government gets access to OpenAI’s gated Daybreak security programme, with no stated duration, cost or oversight terms.
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Claude agents flag an enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic says ~950 Claude agents spent 21 hours finding a CRISPR-like repeat array in a phage. What the system does is still…
