Big Pharma’s AI race extends across drug discovery, development, and clinical trials—but AstraZeneca has distinguished itself by deploying AI clinical trials technology at an unprecedented public health scale.  While competitors optimise internal R&D pipelines, AstraZeneca’s AI is already embedded in national healthcare systems, screening hundreds of thousands of patients and demonstrating what happens when AI

Artificial intelligence has been part of the insurance sector for years – the Finance function in many businesses is often the first to automate. But what’s remarkable in the instance of AI is how directly the technology is woven into day-to-day operational work. Not sitting in the background as a niche modelling capability, AI is

By December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large US banks and into everyday operations. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs financial-services conference in New York on 9 December, bank executives described AI—particularly generative AI—as an operational upgrade already lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. The same discussion also

Human Resources is an area in many organisations where AI can have significant operational impact. The technology is now being embedded into day-to-day operations, in activities like answering employees’ questions and supporting training. The clearest impact appears where organisations can measure the tech’s outcomes, typically in time saved and the numbers of queries successfully resolved.

New research describes how simulations can generate fresh tasks, rules, and grading on the fly, enabling rich, adaptive RL environments for today’s agents Patronus AI today announced “Generative Simulators,” adaptive simulation environments that can continually create new tasks and scenarios, update the rules of the world in a simulation environment, and evaluate an agent’s actions as

Milestone Marks Significant Step in Bespin Global’s AI Growth Strategy Bespin Global, a leader in cloud and AI solutions, is excited to share that it has earned the AWS AI Services Competency. This achievement highlights Bespin Global’s dedication to delivering practical AI innovation for customers using AWS. The AWS AI Services Competency is awarded to partners who

Collaboration to help providers improve performance in critical RCM functions Penguin Ai, a health care artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced today a collaboration with FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN), a global business advisory firm, to help healthcare providers strengthen revenue cycle performance and reduce administrative burden. By integrating Penguin Ai’s platform into FTI Consulting’s revenue cycle

Next-generation ultra-low-power Edge AI SoC for always-on intelligence EMASS, a Nanoveu subsidiary with next-generation semiconductor technology, today announced that its next-generation ECS-DoT SoC built on a 16nm process node has entered the final phases of development, headed toward graphic data system (GDS) sign-off, tape-out and fabrication at TSMC. This new device builds on EMASS’s existing 22nm

Kotlin 2.3.0 is now generally available, with the language update offering capabilities such as an unused return value checker and support for Java 25. The release has a variety of experimental-stage features including the value checker, Swift interoperability, and a new syntax for explicit backing fields. JetBrains released the language update on December 16. Installation instructions

As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to look at how Microsoft’s Azure hyperscale cloud is planning to address the second half of the decade. As has become traditional, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave his usual look at that future in his presentations at Ignite, this time split into two separate talks on