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- 01 of 10HEALTH
India's cancer AI tool gets a global stage
AIIMS Delhi and C-DAC Pune built iOncology.ai, which pulls scans, lab results and treatment plans together to help doctors spot cancer earlier. It featured in a BRICS health journal this week, with backers hoping it can help other countries short of specialists. It is still in pilot testing before any wider rollout.
OUR TAKEA homegrown tool doing more for cancer care than most hospital printers manage on a good day.
Read more → - 02 of 10HEALTH
Nigerian startup turns WhatsApp into a waiting room
Lagos-based Lihaxa launched Ally, which lets patients describe symptoms over WhatsApp, get guidance, then be handed to a licensed doctor without repeating themselves. Serious cases go to on-call clinicians who can already see the full chat. It is built around Nigeria's doctor shortages and pricey private clinics.
OUR TAKEFinally, a queue you can join from bed rather than a plastic chair.
Read more → - 03 of 10CHIPS
Huawei unveils a dozen new chips to take on Nvidia
At its Shanghai event, Huawei launched more than ten new AI chips and pulled forward its next flagship Ascend part to early 2027, nine months ahead of plan. It says a new Atlas system can link thousands of processors into one giant computer. The timing lands days before trade and export talks in Washington.
OUR TAKENothing sharpens a product launch like a meeting with the people who cut off your supply.
Read more → - 04 of 10ROBOTS
Korea's new care robots handle bathing, feeding and bedsores
At a Seoul showcase, Korean developers presented care robots for elderly and disabled people, including one that crosses raised door thresholds and a capsule shower chair for bedridden patients. Others included an automated feeding unit and a wearable with artificial muscle fibres. Officials say the aim is easing a shortage of human carers.
OUR TAKESomewhere a robot is now gentler at bath time than most of us are with a phone screen.
Read more → - 05 of 10POLICY
Von der Leyen invites AI giants in for a chat about slowing down
In her State of the European Union speech, the Commission president said she will invite leading AI firms to discuss pacing the frontier, after several tech bosses publicly called for a slowdown. She stopped short of new binding rules, pointing to the existing EU AI Act. She also called for more safety testing work with the UK and Canada.
OUR TAKEBrussels has heard the fire alarm and would like to schedule a meeting about it.
Read more → - 06 of 10MONEY
Brazil passes a tax law to bring AI data centres home
Brazil's president signed a law suspending import and federal taxes for firms building data centres, provided they run on renewable power and serve at least a tenth of the home market. Roughly 60 percent of Brazilian data currently sits abroad. The government expects to forgo about 5.2 billion reais in revenue this year to start the sector off.
OUR TAKEBrazil is betting tax breaks bring the cloud closer to home, which is more than the weather manages.
Read more → - 07 of 10POLICY
Abu Dhabi runs its top government meeting through AI
Abu Dhabi's Executive Council used an AI platform for the first time to analyse proposals, draft summaries and offer live insights during a meeting on public programmes. Every output stays traceable back to the source document. Decisions included expanding a nursery programme to 12,000 places by 2029.
OUR TAKEAn AI sitting in on cabinet meetings, taking notes and never once checking its phone.
Read more → - 08 of 10MONEY
Ex-Infosys boss raises another $53 million five weeks later
Hang Ten Systems, founded four months ago by former Infosys chief Vishal Sikka, added $53 million to its seed round, taking total funding to $85 million. It helps very large companies build and rework their software using AI agents. Backers include a Temasek fund, Aramco Ventures and the chief executives of Intel and Micron.
OUR TAKEFour months old, $85 million raised. Most startups take that long to agree on a logo.
Read more → - 09 of 10MONEY
New Indian fund closes at $105 million to back AI founders early
Activate, set up by former Haptik chief Aakrit Vaish, closed its first fund at about $105 million, well above target and within a year of launching. It plans 25 to 30 investments, writing first cheques of $500,000 to $3 million, often before a company is even registered. Its backers include more than 50 founders and family offices.
OUR TAKEFunding companies before they legally exist is either great conviction or great optimism.
Read more → - 10 of 10RESEARCH
A model built to answer software, not people
TypeSafe AI came out of stealth with $40 million and a model called Jev that returns structured decisions rather than chatty text. The idea is that models tuned to please people make shaky building blocks inside software, where consistency matters more than charm. It was founded by a former OpenAI researcher who worked on ChatGPT.
OUR TAKEA model that gives a straight yes or no. Refreshing, and rarer than it should be.
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