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Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. However, a funding total doesn’t answer the key question any hospital executive wants to know about healthcare AI: does […]

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Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two organisations published an update on a joint initiative that began quietly and has now built out more than 15 partnerships with government bodies, biosecurity organisations, and research groups over the past 12 months. The

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Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US

Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors, and clinician review. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners. Existing

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AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that connects hospital pharmacy and compliance data across its product suite. Prism Assistant for ControlCheck has reached general availability and operates across 20 health systems, according to AWS vendor statements. Meanwhile, a multi-product agent for 340B Group Purchasing Organisation (GPO) compliance remains

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China’s AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after

An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the wider conversation about the perils of generative AI. What it refers to is essentially a conversational agent built to sustain an ongoing, personal relationship with a user, with the memory and steady persona that keep it consistent from one session to

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Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for AI agents that can act without direct human instruction. Speaking at the European Central Bank Forum on central banking

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Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the temporary suspension of Anthropic’s highest-capability systems. Government officials enacted

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HP accelerates enterprise workflows with OpenAI Frontier

HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires connecting access protocols, contextual

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Mitigating vendor lock-in with Sakana AI Fugu multi-agent models

Sakana AI launched Fugu to orchestrate multi-agent operations and mitigate single-vendor dependency risks in enterprise deployments. Enterprises face operational vulnerabilities when relying entirely on monolithic AI APIs. Japanese AI firm Sakana AI designed Fugu as a response to these concentration risks by creating an orchestration language model that calls upon a pool of varied models

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Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t.

Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Bloomberg, hands Microsoft a position no other American AI vendor holds:

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