Medallion Raises $43M to Streamline Healthcare Credentialing with AI Platform
Medallion, a healthcare technology company, has secured $43 million in new funding for its AI-powered platform, CredAlliance. The platform is designed to streamline the complex healthcare credentialing process for both insurers and clinicians. It manages the entire provider lifecycle—including credentialing, enrollment, onboarding, and compliance—aiming to significantly reduce administrative waste and combat clinician burnout. CredAlliance acts as a unified system for provider data management, enabling customers to efficiently verify credentials and maintain up-to-date network information. This latest investment, led by Acrew Capital, elevates Medallion’s total funding to $130 million and will fuel the expansion of the platform’s capabilities.
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Beijing Hosts Inaugural ‘Robot Olympics’ Showcasing Humanoid Advancements
The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games, dubbed the ‘robot Olympics’, recently concluded in Beijing. The event drew over 500 androids from 280 robotics teams across 16 countries. These humanoid robots competed in diverse events ranging from traditional sports like hurdles and kung fu to practical challenges such as cleaning and sorting medicine. Held at the National Speed Skating Oval, a 2022 Winter Olympics venue, this landmark competition was dedicated exclusively to robots with a human-like form factor. The event underscores the Chinese government’s strong support for the robotics industry as it vies for global leadership in the field. The next World Humanoid Robot Games are scheduled for August 2026 in Beijing.
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GSA Launches USAi.gov to Accelerate Generative AI Adoption in Federal Government
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has launched USAi, a secure generative AI evaluation suite for federal agencies. Accessible at USAi.gov, the platform provides a trusted, no-cost environment for government employees to experiment with and adopt various AI tools, including chat-based AI, code generation, and document summarization. This initiative directly implements the White House’s “America’s AI Action Plan,” aiming to modernize government services and bolster security through accelerated AI adoption. At launch, USAi will provide access to leading large language models (LLMs) from top developers like Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI, allowing agencies to compare capabilities in a secure sandbox. The platform serves as a shared service to prevent resource duplication and includes performance dashboards to guide agency adoption strategies.
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Touting Major Leap Towards Artificial General Intelligence
OpenAI has officially introduced GPT-5, its most advanced flagship AI model, heralding it as a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence. The new model showcases state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains, including coding, mathematics, creative writing, and visual understanding. GPT-5 is engineered as a unified, multimodal system capable of both rapid, conversational responses and deep, expert-level analysis by reasoning through complex, multi-step problems. It is being rolled out to all users, with Plus and Pro subscribers gaining higher usage limits and access to a version with enhanced reasoning capabilities. OpenAI emphasizes that it has made substantial progress in reducing hallucinations and improving instruction-following. The release of GPT-5 is widely seen as a major milestone on the path toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
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Xiaomi Open-Sources MiDashengLM-7B AI Voice Model for Offline Smart Home and Auto
Xiaomi has launched MiDashengLM-7B, a new open-source AI voice model designed to power its automotive and smart home ecosystems. Built on Xiaomi’s proprietary voice technology and incorporating Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model, MiDashengLM-7B is engineered to understand not just spoken commands but also the broader auditory context, including ambient sounds and tonal nuances. A standout feature is its on-device processing capability, allowing it to function entirely offline without cloud connectivity, ensuring privacy and low latency. The model is already deployed in Xiaomi’s smart TVs and in-vehicle systems in China. By releasing the model under the Apache 2.0 license, Xiaomi aims to foster a developer community around its platform.
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Yahoo Japan Mandates Generative AI for 11,000 Employees to Double Productivity
Yahoo Japan has implemented a mandatory policy requiring its entire 11,000-person workforce to use generative AI tools. The company’s strategic goal is to double its productivity by 2028 by deeply integrating AI into daily operations. The new policy mandates the use of AI for tasks such as document creation, research, code generation, and communications. To support this, Yahoo Japan has developed an internal AI tool, SeekAI, for tasks like expense claims and data searches. The company estimates that AI can significantly reduce the 30% of employee time currently spent on routine tasks. This move signals a broader corporate trend of shifting from merely encouraging AI adoption to making it a core component of business strategy.
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AWS Launches Single-GPU EC2 P5 Instances and Advanced Go Driver for PostgreSQL & MySQL
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of new Amazon EC2 P5 instances, which feature a single NVIDIA H100 GPU. These instances are engineered to offer a cost-effective solution for demanding machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. In parallel, AWS has made its Advanced Go Driver generally available for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible and MySQL-Compatible databases. The driver significantly improves database resilience with faster switchover and failover times and enhances security through Federated Authentication and native integration with AWS Secrets Manager and IAM. AWS also expanded its support for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes.
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Palo Alto Networks Launches Quantum-Resistant Cybersecurity Solutions
Palo Alto Networks has launched a new suite of security solutions designed to counter the threats posed by the quantum computing era. As quantum computers advance, they threaten to break current cybersecurity encryption standards. The new offerings from Palo Alto Networks provide organizations with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect critical data and systems from emerging quantum threats. This strategic move underscores the growing urgency for developing and deploying quantum-resistant security protocols to ensure long-term data integrity and confidentiality.
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CNCF to Standardize AI/ML on Kubernetes with New Certification Program
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is launching a certification program for Kubernetes distributions to ensure consistent performance for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads. This initiative will define a standard set of capabilities, APIs, and configurations that a Kubernetes cluster must support to run AI/ML tasks efficiently. By establishing a conformance guide, similar to the one for Kubernetes itself, the CNCF aims to commoditize AI/ML platforms, ensuring that models and MLOps pipelines are portable across any certified Kubernetes distribution. The foundation is actively seeking community input to define requirements for large-scale training, fine-tuning, and edge inferencing, with the goal of enabling seamless portability of AI models across different cloud-native environments.
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