AI firms roll out new agents and partnerships, including fileAI’s Japan expansion

Week’s AI news saw a wave of product launches and collaborations. Companies such as Hippocratic AI introduced a safety‑focused LLM residency, GrubMarket released a sales AI agent for food‑distribution, Bolt and Stellantis with Pony.ai began an autonomous‑vehicle test in Luxembourg, Broadcom partnered with Apollo and Blackstone on an AI compute platform, Coinbase launched “Coinbase for Agents” that lets AI agents trade, Mastercard unveiled Agent Pay for Machines, Apple debuted a new Siri AI with visual‑intelligence features, KKR with partners created Helix Digital Infrastructure, Anthropic announced the Claude Corps fellowship, Nokia added an agentic AI layer to its network services, Talkspace released a mental‑health AI “Tee”, Core AI presented HomeGPT, DePuy Synthes made VELYS Hip Navigation with AI assistance commercially available in the US, Lendscape opened an AI model‑context server, and Monday started a corporate venture fund.

In a separate move, AI‑native platform fileAI announced a strategic partnership with JRE Ventures, the venture arm of Japan’s JR East Group, to bring its governed AI agents to Japanese infrastructure. The deal includes a strategic investment and will pilot AI‑driven digitisation of legacy contracts, creating searchable knowledge assets for the rail operator and other enterprises.