Dive Brief: DePuy Synthes, Johnson & Johnson’s orthopedics subsidiary, has acquired Expanding Innovations, a company that makes expandable spine implant technology. The companies did not disclose the terms of the acquisition, announced Thursday. The acquisition comes as J&J plans to spin out DePuy into a standalone company. DePuy has recently appointed leaders for the business,…
July 16, 2026 — The mission of Thinking Machines Lab is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. The company has developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration, and published novel research. Thinking Machines is advancing its mission by releasing a model trained from scratch…
Roboflow’s Workflows integration with Auto Label isn’t just for bounding boxes. In this article, we build a multi-model consensus pipeline that produces pixel-perfect segmentation masks using SAM 3 prompted directly with text, plus two frontier VLMs (Google Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT) whose detections are refined into masks by SAM 2. A rules-based consensus block only…
Kimi is launching K3, a multimodal model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a context window of one million tokens. In the company’s own benchmarks, it performs on par with leading proprietary models. According to Kimi, the new flagship model K3 has 2.8 trillion total parameters, processes images and video natively, and supports a context window…
Knowledge bases that ground agents and generative AI applications over your enterprise data are hard to build at scale. Teams typically stitch together connectors, parsers, vector stores, knowledge graphs, and retrieval logic, then operationalize all of it for production. Each piece brings its own challenges. You must decide which data sources to connect and how…
Turmoil at the American Diabetes Association has taken a fresh turn, with leaders blocking editors at its flagship journal from publishing an opinion piece and first-person accounts detailing a high-profile controversy at the group’s own annual meeting just last month. Nearly five weeks after five diabetes specialists were escorted out of a convention center in…
China’s new regulations governing AI-powered companion services took effect July 15, introducing some of the world’s toughest rules for chatbots built for emotional support and companionship. The Interim Measures for the Management of Artificial Intelligence Anthropomorphic Interactive Services, issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China alongside four other government agencies, apply to AI services that…
TL;DR: , the work itself needs to be clearly defined. That means knowing what the task is, giving AI the right business context, explaining what good work looks like, and deciding when AI can move ahead on its own and when it should ask for human judgment. This article walks through five reusable assets that…
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none of them use today; a majority intend to switch or add…
August 18, 2023 — Posted by Paul Ruiz, Developer Relations EngineerWe’re excited to announce that the TensorFlow Lite plugin for Flutter has been officially migrated to the TensorFlow GitHub account and released! Three years ago, Amish Garg, one of our talented Google Summer of Code contributors, wrote a widely used TensorFlow Lite plugin for Flutter….