Mayo Clinic and Thermo Fisher Scientific launched Precure LLC to create a leading biomedical rsearch dataset to idenfify early biological signals of disease. The dataset will integrate proteomic, genomic and longitudinal clinical data.
The goal is to use the dataset to develop treatments for diseases well before they are diagnosed. Mayo Clinic will be the majority shareholder.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which represent the company's most advanced live dialogue models. The upgrades are designed to make it easier to collaborate and carry out advanced tasks with voice.
An EY survey found that 47% of enterprises have not applied its AI governance processes for urgent deployments even though 98% of them have policies in place. In addition, EYU found that agentic AI is creating new governance challenges with 26% of respondents saying they can't detect unauthorized agents operating internally.
The flap over the LLM pacing debate continues and frankly my eyes are glazing over every time I read the latest headline. For enterprises, this regulation debate misses the point. You could slow LLM frontier development for another year and enterprises can still leverage productivity gains. Here's the fallout so far:
Notebook entries so far pending something more intelligent to say. Intelligence seems to be in short supply so not really worth covering the minute-by-minute play by play.
So far:
If you wanted some bedtime reading be sure to create a PDF and read Microsoft's Code of Conduct for its Microsoft AI models. It covers scenarios, behavior and even writing tone.
Zendesk launched Specialized Agents, which are AI agents that combine the indsustrial knowhow of Industry Agents with the ability to adapt like one of Zendesk's Custom Agents.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented on the alignment debate started over the weekend. He said:
"We welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk.
The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia.
This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted a personal blog arguing that AI labs should better pace their releases when there are big leaps, use embedded evaluators that would have editorial freedom and access, coordinate to have common safety standards in democratic nations and put limits on unchecked AI progress. Amodei also said democratic governments should also attempt to coordinate with authoritarian governments if possible.
This missive, which apparently has the buy-in from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is the latest chapter of the big American AI freakout. That freakout has only ramped since Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, quit over safety concerns that AI labs are building systems they won't be able to control. In a Wall Street Journal story, Coxon posted a long thread on X about his decision.
A few thoughts:
Let’s cue up AC/DC’s Who Made Who.
Who sues who?
Who sues you?
Anthropic’s latest threat intelligence report highlights how the company disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations and surveillance. The company also detailed distillation efforts by Chinese companies including Moonshot and DeepSeek.
Dell CFO David Kennedy, speaking at a Citi technology conference, laid out how the company goes about procuring components. He said:
“I think the conversation in the market is around supply access. So if you go back to -- let's go back 6-months ago, was there a few savvy customers who foresaw some of this and did some advanced purchasing to kind of get ahead of that game? Yes, there was.
But what we're now seeing is, if I pick an enterprise customer, they come forward I know they're buying history. If all of a sudden, they're looking to buy 4-years worth of equipment from me, I'm not in a position to fulfill that. Our job is to try and make sure we diversify it to as many customers as we can and solve as many customer needs as we can. But what we're doing now is entering into conversations about what are your supply needs and your infrastructure needs going out into year 2, year 3 and year 4. And our commitment that for those who want to partner with us, we'll give them that supply access and provide some guarantees that we can position that for them as we look out. Guarantee supply does not guarantee price. That's a specific differentiation. But that's what the market is looking for. It's that supply access.”
Infleqtion said it will work with Cisco to connect, operate and scale quantum computing systems. The companies will look to converge sensing and compute and research quantum memory and optical transduction and network aware quantum software.
Bending Spoons said it will acquire Miro for $1.355 billion in cash. Miro's shareholders will invest $295 million in Bending Spoons stock. Miro has about $600 million in annual recurring revenue.
Bending Spoons' primary units include Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Tractive, Vimeo, and WeTransfer.
