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In a recent funding round, Abridge, an artificial intelligence startup dedicated to automating medical records, successfully raised $300 million in Series E financing, increasing its valuation to $5.3 billion. The round was led by the renowned investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures also participating. Notably, this funding followed the company's $250 million funding round in February, when its valuation was $2.75 billion. Abridge has been in operation for seven years.

The global AI market is experiencing explosive growth. According to the latest research report, the global artificial intelligence (AI) market size is expected to soar from $273.6 billion in 2023 to $5.26 trillion by 2035, with a compound annual growth rate of 30.84%. This forecast highlights the significant impact of AI technology on the global economy over the next decade.

Recently, at the TongAI Conference, Ali妈妈 officially released the URM Generic Recall Large Model. This new technological achievement combines deep learning and big data analysis capabilities to enhance the intelligent ad placement effect in e-commerce. The URM large model can not only accurately interpret consumer behavior and preferences but also effectively increase the return on investment (ROI) of ads, marking Ali妈妈's first technical landing in the field of generative recommendation and injecting new impetus into the intelligent transformation of the advertising industry. The release of the URM large model signifies...

ByteDance's Volcano Engine has officially launched the DouBao · Voice Podcast Model. Built on a streaming model, it can achieve second-level conversion from text creation to two-way conversational podcasts, offering users an entirely new experience of "low cost, high efficiency, and strong interaction." This release not only resolves many challenges in traditional AI podcast creation but also greatly simplifies the production process, making trending content instantly transform into vivid podcasts.

According to a 2025 early release study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), while the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advertising is rising, only 30% of advertising professionals have fully integrated AI into their media advertising lifecycle. The study reveals that while agencies and brands primarily leverage AI for audience identification and targeting, publishers are more inclined to utilize AI for ad inventory forecasting and demand analysis. The survey highlights two major challenges facing the advertising industry in AI adoption...

Xie Shaofeng, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), stated that over 400 national-level specialized and innovative small and giant enterprises have been cultivated in the artificial intelligence field. The next step is to guide patient capital to increase support, accelerate the cultivation of a group of industry-leading enterprises and specialized and innovative SMEs. This includes building an open-source AI community, leveraging the role of the AI Standardization Technical Committee, and accelerating the development of key and urgently needed standards.

ByteDance has officially released UI-TARS-1.5 on the Hugging Face platform, an open-source multimodal agent built upon a powerful vision-language model. This release marks another significant breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of AI automated interaction, providing developers and users with a highly efficient and intelligent cross-platform GUI (Graphical User Interface) automation solution. UI-TARS-1.5: A New Benchmark for Multimodal Agents. UI-TARS-1.5 is the latest in ByteDance's UI-TARS series...

A group of prominent authors, including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse, and Val McDermid, have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to hold Meta accountable for using copyrighted books in its AI training. The letter requests that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy, summon Meta representatives to discuss the matter.

On March 31, Qianxun Intelligence (Spirit AI), a leading company in the embodied AI field, announced the completion of a Pre-A round of funding totaling 528 million RMB. This round was led by Prosperity7 Ventures (P7), an affiliate of Aramco Ventures, with participation from several renowned investors including China Merchants Venture Capital, GF Securities, Jingya Capital, Orient Capital, and Huacontrol Investment.