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The Star
16-07-2025
- Business
- The Star
OpenAI rival Anthropic courts finance industry with new AI tools
Krieger said Anthropic has already picked up traction in the finance sector in part because its AI excels at coding, which is often used in financial analysis. — Reuters Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is launching a package of new software services aimed at streamlining work for financial analysts, joining a growing number of AI companies vying to win business from Wall Street professionals. The new offering, called Claude for Financial Services, is designed to help analysts conduct market research, handle due diligence and make investment decisions, Anthropic said on Tuesday. The product pairs Anthropic's core enterprise and coding AI tools with information from third-party financial data providers, including FactSet, PitchBook and Morningstar, for customers with subscriptions to those services. "This is the missing piece between an AI tool that's interesting and cool, and one that's deeply useful,' said Mike Krieger, chief product officer at Anthropic and co-founder of Instagram. "Right now, there's a real moment of: If we don't adopt these tools, we'll be left behind by people who are doing it.' OpenAI and Perplexity AI have also added features in recent months to attract customers in the financial services sector, with the goal of expanding the business uses of AI and boosting sales. While Anthropic is smaller than OpenAI, its revenue is growing at a fast clip. The startup's annualised revenue increased from US$3bil (RM12.7bil) to US$4bil (RM16.9bil) in the past month, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorised to speak publicly on private matters. Anthropic is looking to further its sales momentum with a new hire. The company has recruited Paul Smith, a former executive at ServiceNow Inc., to join as its first chief commercial officer later this year, the person said. Krieger said Anthropic has already picked up traction in the finance sector in part because its AI excels at coding, which is often used in financial analysis. The new tools are meant to expand on that by helping finance professionals with investment memos, portfolio analysis and financial modelling, among other tasks. Some of the AI company's existing customers in the sector include Bridgewater Associates, American International Group Inc. and Norges Bank Investment Management. Finance is a "good bellwether for the kinds of security requirements we'll need in other industries,' Krieger said, "because the data is so sensitive.' Anthropic said it will not use customer data that's input into its financial services tool to train its AI models. – Bloomberg
Mint
10-07-2025
- Health
- Mint
Study describes robot operating on gall bladder autonomously, milestone in use of AI in clinical setting
New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) Researchers have documented a fully autonomous surgery performed by a robot on gall bladders made of human tissue with 100 per cent accuracy, which they said marked a milestone in deploying these systems in a clinical setting. In a paper published in the journal 'Science Robotics', the team, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US, said the robot 'SRT-H' was trained on the videos of surgeons operating on dead pigs. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that systems such as ChatGPT function on, the 'Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy', or SRT-H, also responded to and learned from voice commands from the team while performing the operation -- like a novice surgeon working with a mentor, they added. "This advancement moves us from robots that can execute specific surgical tasks to robots that truly understand surgical procedures," author and medical roboticist Axel Krieger from Johns Hopkins University said. "This is a critical distinction that brings us significantly closer to clinically viable autonomous surgical systems that can work in the messy, unpredictable reality of actual patient care," Krieger said. The team had previously documented a laparoscopic surgery performed by a robot on a pig -- the first autonomous one on a live animal, they said. However, the robot had required a tissue that was specially marked for surgical intervention, worked in a highly controlled environment and followed a rigid, predetermined surgical plan. The SRT-H robot truly performs surgery, adapting to individual anatomical features in real-time, making decisions on the fly, and self-correcting when things don't go as expected, the researchers said. They wrote, "We propose a hierarchical framework for performing dexterous, long-horizon surgical steps. "Our method achieves a 100 per cent success rate across eight different ex vivo gallbladders, operating fully autonomously without human intervention." The work marks a "milestone towards clinical deployment of autonomous surgical systems," they wrote. They added that while the robot took longer to operate as compared to a human surgeon, results were comparable to an expert surgeon. Lead author Ji Woong Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, said, "This work represents a major leap from prior efforts because it tackles some of the fundamental barriers to deploying autonomous surgical robots in the real world." "Our work shows that AI models can be made reliable enough for surgical autonomy -- something that once felt far-off but is now demonstrably viable," Kim said.
Time of India
10-07-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Study describes robot operating on gall bladder autonomously, 'milestone' in use of AI
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills Researchers have documented a fully autonomous surgery performed by a robot on gall bladders made of human tissue with 100 per cent accuracy, which they said marked a milestone in deploying these systems in a clinical a paper published in the journal ' Science Robotics ', the team, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US, said the robot 'SRT-H' was trained on the videos of surgeons operating on dead by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that systems such as ChatGPT function on, the 'Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy', or SRT-H, also responded to and learned from voice commands from the team while performing the operation -- like a novice surgeon working with a mentor, they added."This advancement moves us from robots that can execute specific surgical tasks to robots that truly understand surgical procedures," author and medical roboticist Axel Krieger from Johns Hopkins University said."This is a critical distinction that brings us significantly closer to clinically viable autonomous surgical systems that can work in the messy, unpredictable reality of actual patient care," Krieger team had previously documented a laparoscopic surgery performed by a robot on a pig -- the first autonomous one on a live animal, they the robot had required a tissue that was specially marked for surgical intervention, worked in a highly controlled environment and followed a rigid, predetermined surgical SRT-H robot truly performs surgery, adapting to individual anatomical features in real-time, making decisions on the fly, and self-correcting when things don't go as expected, the researchers wrote, "We propose a hierarchical framework for performing dexterous, long-horizon surgical steps."Our method achieves a 100 per cent success rate across eight different ex vivo gallbladders, operating fully autonomously without human intervention."The work marks a "milestone towards clinical deployment of autonomous surgical systems," they added that while the robot took longer to operate as compared to a human surgeon, results were comparable to an expert author Ji Woong Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, said, "This work represents a major leap from prior efforts because it tackles some of the fundamental barriers to deploying autonomous surgical robots in the real world.""Our work shows that AI models can be made reliable enough for surgical autonomy -- something that once felt far-off but is now demonstrably viable," Kim said.
Rhyl Journal
10-07-2025
- Health
- Rhyl Journal
Robot performs realistic surgery ‘with 100% accuracy'
In a 'major leap' towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder. The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real-life medical emergencies. The robot was watched as it performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal on a life-like patient. It was able to respond to and learn from voice commands from the team, just like a novice surgeon working with a mentor. Overall, there were 17 tasks in the surgery, the robot had to identify certain ducts and arteries and grab them precisely, strategically place clips, and sever parts with scissors. It was also able to adapt even when dye was introduced which changed the appearance of the organs and tissue. Associate professor in mechanical engineering, Axel Krieger, said: 'This advancement moves us from robots that can execute specific surgical tasks to robots that truly understand surgical procedures. 'This is a critical distinction that brings us significantly closer to clinically viable autonomous surgical systems that can work in the messy, unpredictable reality of actual patient care.' The work received federal government funding and was published in the journal Science Robotics. Back in 2022, a robot performed the first autonomous robotic surgery on a pig. However, it required specially marked tissue, operated in a highly controlled environment, and followed a rigid, pre-determined surgical plan. Mr Krieger said that phase was like teaching a robot to drive along a carefully mapped route. But the new system, he said, was 'like teaching a robot to navigate any road, in any condition, responding intelligently to whatever it encounters.' He added: 'To me it really shows that it's possible to perform complex surgical procedures autonomously.' The new system, which uses the same machine learning architecture that powers ChatGPT, also adapts to a patient's anatomical features in real-time and works to correct itself. It can respond to spoken commands such as 'grab the gallbladder head' or 'move the left arm a bit to the left', and then learns from that feedback. Ji Woong Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins who is now at Stanford University, said: 'This work represents a major leap from prior efforts because it tackles some of the fundamental barriers to deploying autonomous surgical robots in the real world. 'Our work shows that AI models can be made reliable enough for surgical autonomy – something that once felt far-off but is now demonstrably viable.' Although the robot took longer to perform the work than a human surgeon, the results were comparable to an expert surgeon, researchers said. Next, the team will train and test the system on more types of surgeries. Reacting to the findings, Nuha Yassin, consultant colorectal surgeon and council member and lead for the future of surgery, robotics, and digital surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) said: 'It's always exciting to see new developments in surgical innovation, especially in areas like robotics and digital surgery. 'That said, the real test will be how safely and effectively the findings of this study can be translated into human trials. 'We need to make sure that progress doesn't come at the expense of patient safety. An additional focus is training our current and future generations as a whole, but also in technology and digital literacy. 'As interest in robotic and digital surgery continues to grow, we're committed to supporting that progress whilst focusing on safe implementation and training, through our guidance on robotic-assisted surgery and surgical innovation – while keeping equity of access and safety for our patients at the heart and centre.'
North Wales Chronicle
10-07-2025
- Health
- North Wales Chronicle
Robot performs realistic surgery ‘with 100% accuracy'
In a 'major leap' towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder. The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real-life medical emergencies. The robot was watched as it performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal on a life-like patient. It was able to respond to and learn from voice commands from the team, just like a novice surgeon working with a mentor. Overall, there were 17 tasks in the surgery, the robot had to identify certain ducts and arteries and grab them precisely, strategically place clips, and sever parts with scissors. It was also able to adapt even when dye was introduced which changed the appearance of the organs and tissue. Associate professor in mechanical engineering, Axel Krieger, said: 'This advancement moves us from robots that can execute specific surgical tasks to robots that truly understand surgical procedures. 'This is a critical distinction that brings us significantly closer to clinically viable autonomous surgical systems that can work in the messy, unpredictable reality of actual patient care.' The work received federal government funding and was published in the journal Science Robotics. Back in 2022, a robot performed the first autonomous robotic surgery on a pig. However, it required specially marked tissue, operated in a highly controlled environment, and followed a rigid, pre-determined surgical plan. Mr Krieger said that phase was like teaching a robot to drive along a carefully mapped route. But the new system, he said, was 'like teaching a robot to navigate any road, in any condition, responding intelligently to whatever it encounters.' He added: 'To me it really shows that it's possible to perform complex surgical procedures autonomously.' The new system, which uses the same machine learning architecture that powers ChatGPT, also adapts to a patient's anatomical features in real-time and works to correct itself. It can respond to spoken commands such as 'grab the gallbladder head' or 'move the left arm a bit to the left', and then learns from that feedback. Ji Woong Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins who is now at Stanford University, said: 'This work represents a major leap from prior efforts because it tackles some of the fundamental barriers to deploying autonomous surgical robots in the real world. 'Our work shows that AI models can be made reliable enough for surgical autonomy – something that once felt far-off but is now demonstrably viable.' Although the robot took longer to perform the work than a human surgeon, the results were comparable to an expert surgeon, researchers said. Next, the team will train and test the system on more types of surgeries. Reacting to the findings, Nuha Yassin, consultant colorectal surgeon and council member and lead for the future of surgery, robotics, and digital surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) said: 'It's always exciting to see new developments in surgical innovation, especially in areas like robotics and digital surgery. 'That said, the real test will be how safely and effectively the findings of this study can be translated into human trials. 'We need to make sure that progress doesn't come at the expense of patient safety. An additional focus is training our current and future generations as a whole, but also in technology and digital literacy. 'As interest in robotic and digital surgery continues to grow, we're committed to supporting that progress whilst focusing on safe implementation and training, through our guidance on robotic-assisted surgery and surgical innovation – while keeping equity of access and safety for our patients at the heart and centre.'
