Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere has acquired yet another German-rooted company in Montréal and Berlin-based Reliant AI. The acquisition is meant to help push Cohere’s flagship AI product into a new vertical: healthcare. Cohere announced the acquisition of the biopharmaceutical data processing startup on Tuesday morning. It marks Cohere’s second acquisition deal in a month, following…
The U.S. Treasury has now frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced sanctions targeting multiple digital wallets allegedly connected to Tehran. Most people will view this story narrowly through the lens of sanctions on Iran or Middle East politics. The larger issue is far more important….
Here’s the thing about sheet pan dinners: the best ones have a moment when I look at the pan and think: This is so much better than I expected. The whole point of this kind of meal is that the end result should feel like more than the sum of its parts—and that’s certainly the…
The difference between AI that works and AI that doesn’t sometimes comes down to a single second of latency. Éric Pinet’s team learned this while testing a voice AI prototype for medical clinics across Québec. The system is designed to free up nurses for clinical care by answering and triaging patient calls. When responses came…
When every university student can have an AI chatbot whip up an essay draft for them, how can professors ensure students are still learning critical thinking? The new capabilities are pushing educators to explore different means of assessment—with and without AI—cracking the classroom door open for edtech companies to step in and suggest new ways…
Finalization of the much-heralded Pandemic Agreement, the flagship of the World Health Organization’s pandemic agenda, has just been postponed again after another failure to resolve disagreements. Despite heavy pressure from the WHO and European Union in yet another meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, a large bloc of African states are refusing to sign on to what they consider…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most people assume music makes workouts feel better because it’s distracting or energizing. Both are true. But a new study found something more specific: music doesn’t raise your physical ceiling. It just delays when your brain calls it. The study: same effort, two conditions Twenty-nine recreationally active adults did…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM New babies go through eight to ten diapers a day, and diapers run about $100 a month. For families already stretched, that bill arrives before they’ve slept. Some parents leave diapers on too long or reuse disposables, which leads to rashes and infections. This particular problem often starts the…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. If you have watched TV over the last ten to twenty years, you have seen a ‘Kars 4 Kids’ commercial. The ads are absolutely inescapable, they show up everywhere. In recent days, a court in California banned the ads from the airwaves, ruling that they are misleading. Apparently, the money is…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Seattle’s new socialist Mayor Katie Wilson made headlines a few weeks ago as she laughed off the idea of millionaires fleeing the city over new and higher taxes. Now some people in the city, including other Democrats, are starting to realize just who they put into this position of power. One…
