2026-07-29
Epic’s AI Deterioration Alerts Tied to Lower Hospital Mortality
Wiring a widely deployed hospital prediction model to automatic pages for critical-care teams was associated with an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death, according to a study of 23,132 high-risk patients published in NEJM AI on July 29, 2026. Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and RWJBarnabas Health tracked the rollout across 11 New Jersey hospitals, [...]
2026-07-29
Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them. The startup is a year old. It says more than 8 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.
For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people assume that software won’t just answer questions; it will also complete tasks for us. This raises a concern that has received far less attention: what […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]
2026-07-29
AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.
A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It was founded in 2025 by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty for […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky
NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the American build-out of computing capacity for artificial intelligence. The companies are joining the largest utility in the United States with one of the […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]
2026-07-29
Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead
Apple has a new answer to the complaint that its products cost too much. Do not buy them. Lease them. On Tuesday the company launched Apple Upgrade in the US, a leasing programme run by the buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna. It covers the iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad, and it starts at $17.99 a month […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
UK regulator probes whether Microsoft misled 365 customers over Copilot price rises
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions, asking whether the company misled personal and family customers when it raised prices and bundled in its Copilot AI assistant. The CMA announced the probe on 29 July, training its attention on the marketing of the plans rather than […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-07-29
Nvidia partner ChipAgents raises $60M for agentic chip design
ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software can be turned on the painstaking business of making chips. The raise adds to an already busy year. ChipAgents closed a $21 million Series A […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]