Twelve U.S. health systems treating nearly 20 million patients a year have formed a consortium with Aidoc to rigorously test diagnostic imaging AI — a response to research showing only 3 of 1,357 FDA-cleared AI devices have been tested for actual patient benefit.
Connecticut's Public Act 26-64 now requires data brokers to register with the state for a $2,500 fee and adds new genetic-data and geolocation protections, part of an October 1 overhaul aimed at companies reselling consumer health information.
Freight brokerage technology company Hwy Haul has commercially released Miles, an agentic AI platform it says delivers 20% to 50% gross margin gains by running up to 30 simultaneous carrier negotiations and eliminating more than 25 manual touchpoints per load.
Macy's built its Ask Macy's AI shopping assistant on Google's Gemini Enterprise platform in about four weeks, and says shoppers who used it during testing generated 4.75 times more revenue per visit.
Anthropic has committed $100 million to train 10,000 'Frontier Deployed Engineers' by the end of 2027 through its new Claude Frontier Academy, aiming to solve the talent bottleneck slowing enterprise AI adoption at firms like Deloitte, McKinsey, and Morgan Stanley.
Hippo Holdings has rolled out an AI voice agent called Clara to handle first notice of loss for homeowners' claims, aiming for more than 70% of claims to be filed digitally with initial contact in under two hours.
Malaysia Airlines has deployed an AI agent called Mavis, built on Ada's agentic customer experience platform, to handle flight status checks, seat upgrades and check-ins around the clock in English and Malay.
The FDA cleared version 1.2 of Lunit's INSIGHT DBT breast tomosynthesis AI on March 26, 2026, adding automatic current-prior comparison across up to two years of mammograms and configurable sensitivity thresholds.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189 on May 14, 2026, repealing and replacing the state's original AI Act and narrowing its healthcare exemptions so that HIPAA-covered hospitals and insurers are now only shielded for non-employment uses of AI, while stripping mandatory risk assessments and discrimination duties from the law overall.
Walmart expanded its AI shopping assistant Sparky to Mexico on September 29, 2026, days after CEO John Furner pledged the tool would never be used to charge customers personalized prices, as Sparky users in the U.S. already spend 35% more than non-users amid rising FTC and legal scrutiny of AI-driven pricing.