2025

Author, Eric Elsen, Forte Group. On January 7, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance titled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Software as a Medical Device”. The document outlines expectations for pre-market applications and lifecycle management of AI-enabled medical software. While the document may have flown under many readers’ radar,...

Despite its traditionally risk-averse nature, the insurance industry is being fundamentally reshaped by AI.AI has already become vital for the insurance industry, touching everything from complex risk calculations to the way insurers talk to their customers. However, while nearly eight out of ten companies are dipping their toes in the AI water, a similar number admit it hasn’t actually made them any...

IBM’s Power11 enterprise servers address a persistent challenge in enterprise computing: how to deploy AI workloads without compromising the rock-solid reliability that mission-critical applications demand. Announced on July 8, 2025, the Power11 reflects IBM’s bet that enterprises will prioritise integrated solutions over the current patchwork of specialised AI hardware and traditional servers that...

Instead of keeping their new MedGemma AI models locked behind expensive APIs, Google will hand these powerful tools to healthcare developers.The new arrivals are called MedGemma 27B Multimodal and MedSigLIP and they’re part of Google’s growing collection of open-source healthcare AI models. What makes these special isn’t just their technical prowess, but the fact that hospitals, researchers, and...

Tencent has introduced a new benchmark, ArtifactsBench, that aims to fix current problems with testing creative AI models.Ever asked an AI to build something like a simple webpage or a chart and received something that works but has a poor user experience? The buttons might be in the wrong place, the colours might clash, or the animations feel clunky. It’s a common problem, and it highlights a huge...

Apple is nursing a fresh wound this week after losing one of its most crucial AI leaders to Meta. Ruoming Pang, the executive who oversaw Apple Intelligence, has jumped ship to join Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs.Pang wasn’t just any Apple employee. He led a 100-strong army of engineers crafting the language models that make your iPhone summarise texts, generate those Genmoji, and prioritise your...

Tencent has released a model that could be quite literally game-changing for how developers create 3D assets.The new Hunyuan3D-PolyGen model is Tencent’s first attempt at delivering what they’re calling “art-grade” 3D generation, specifically built for the professionals who craft the digital worlds we play in.Creating high-quality 3D assets has always been a bottleneck for game developers, with...

The UK and Singapore are laying the groundwork for what might become a blueprint for international AI cooperation in finance.For their tenth annual Financial Dialogue, representatives from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and Singapore’s Monetary Authority met in London earlier this week alongside fintech companies from both nations showing off their latest AI solutions.Rather than vague promises...

Robinhood has begun offering tokenised shares in private companies, sparking backlash from OpenAI as one of the targeted firms.During an event in Cannes on Monday, Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev displayed what he described as “stock tokens” for OpenAI and SpaceX. The move forms part of Robinhood’s European expansion, which also includes offering more than 200 tokenised shares of...

Research by cybersecurity consultancy CyXcel has revealed 29% of UK businesses surveyed have only recently implemented their first AI risk strategy, with 31% not no AI governance policies set up. The is despite a third of businesses recognising AI as a potential cybersecurity threat. The blind spot in AI risk preparedness leaves businesses prey to data leaks and breaches, operational disruptions, and...