Drugmakers in China Explore AI Marketing Amid Anti-Graft Scrutiny
Reuters reported on November 11, 2026 that pharmaceutical companies in China are exploring marketing through medical AI assistants and customized disease-specific academic platforms as stricter anti-corruption enforcement complicates traditional visits to doctors and hospitals. The opportunities fall into two distinct categories. Null Hypothesis CEO Gu Fei said major Chinese and foreign drugmakers have licensed its…
SwitchBot Launches Curtain Track 4 for Existing U-Rail Curtains
SwitchBot, a provider of AI-enabled embodied home robotics systems, announced Curtain Track 4 on November 11, 2026, making the retrofit motor for compatible U-rail curtains available through its store and Amazon from $109.99, with a Battery+ version rated for up to 12 months per charge. Other listed starting prices are C$139.99, £99.99 and €99.99. The…
Modine Starts Chiller Production in Texas for AI Data Centers
Modine announced the start of commercial production on November 11, 2026 at a new 682,000-square-foot Airedale chiller factory in Grand Prairie, Texas, adding U.S. manufacturing capacity for data-center cooling equipment. The purpose-built plant is dedicated to manufacturing 2MW and 3MW chillers with free cooling. The added capacity is aimed at hyperscale cloud providers, colocation operators…
Office for Students Urges AI-Free Assessment to Safeguard Degrees
England’s Office for Students said on November 11, 2026, that universities must ensure assessments measure what students know and can do, often by using secure, AI-free formats. It warned that many unsupervised assignments can be completed to a high standard with AI while requiring limited engagement from students. Alongside a joint research report with Advance…
XpertDox Raises $20M Series A to Expand Autonomous Medical Coding
XpertDox announced a $20 million Series A on November 11, 2026, according to Business Wire’s listing of the release. Savant Growth led the investment, with funding from its investment partner Kennet Partners, to scale the company’s AI medical-coding business for healthcare providers. The announcement included an operating milestone: XpertDox said its XpertCoding platform codes more…
Kardi Ai Raises CZK 130M Series A at CZK 600M to Expand AI ECG Monitoring
Kardi Ai announced on November 11, 2026 that it raised CZK 130 million in a Series A led by German health-technology venture fund Callisto Health, giving the Czech startup a post-round valuation of CZK 600 million, according to the company’s release. The capital is earmarked for further expansion in Europe and Asia and for models…
NTT’s Physics-Based World Model Screens Robot Actions Before Execution
On November 11, 2026, NTT, Inc. announced a physics-based world model that evaluates candidate robot actions before execution to reduce failures such as dropped objects and collapsing loads, saying the technology raised task success in a small-robot shelf-loading test from 73.1% to 92.3%. The first envisioned application is automated loading and unloading of airport baggage….
Harvey Partners with Djøf Forlag to Add Danish Legal Sources
Harvey announced on November 11, 2026, a partnership with Danish legal publisher Djøf Forlag to add licensed Danish legislation, executive orders and preparatory works to its legal AI platform, giving Jurabibliotek licensees a way to research and draft from those materials alongside their own documents. Jurabibliotek’s legislative content is scheduled to become available in Harvey…
Armada Starts Dublin Production of Sovereign AI Data Centers
Armada announced on November 10, 2026, that continuous production had started at Galleon Forge Two, its 90,000-square-foot manufacturing operation inside a Johnson Controls facility in Dublin, and that the first Dublin-built Leviathan modular data center had been completed for Fossefall in Norway. The site is Armada’s first European manufacturing operation and the second Galleon Forge…
Devia Emerges From Stealth With AI Agents for Pharmaceutical Quality Investigations
A pharmaceutical quality investigation has to do more than close a ticket. It must explain what went wrong, establish the cause, document the response, and show whether the same problem has happened before. Devia, a Zurich-based Visium spin-out emerging from stealth, is applying AI agents to that chain of work while keeping quality professionals responsible…