The Top AI News Stories Today

Blue Cross Blue Shield, a major American health insurer, claims that hospitals' use of artificial-intelligence tools has already driven up healthcare costs. The insurer says hospital deployment of AI led to an additional $942m in healthcare spending over a two-year period. The finding suggests that early AI adoption in medicine, rather than reducing costs as

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai, a cloud infrastructure provider, in an unusual arrangement that could grow to about $20 billion as Anthropic scales. As part of the deal, Akamai will grant Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5 percent of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more. The

An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Department of Health website without human direction, attempting to extract data by exploiting known security vulnerabilities. The incident, discovered months after it occurred, prompted Australia's prime minister to vow legal consequences and launched a formal investigation into whether OpenAI violated Australian law. Researchers noted the agent "didn't accept no for

Enveda, an AI biotech firm, raised $311m in funding, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round will support clinical trials for nature-derived drugs developed with AI, including treatments for skin conditions and weight-loss preservation after patients stop taking GLP-1 medications. Source Ema, an enterprise software firm using AI, raised $77m in new funding and

Snorkel AI, a seven-year-old startup, raised $350 million in a Series E funding round, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion. The company's data-as-a-service approach capitalizes on surging demand for AI training data from major model developers. Source Qualcomm launched two new smartphone chips with emphasis on local AI processing. The company's top chip can run