The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, enters into force. The AI Act is designed to ensure that AI developed and used in the EU is trustworthy, with safeguards to protect people's fundamental rights. The regulation aims to establish a harmonised internal market for AI in the EU, encouraging the uptake of this technology and creating a supportive environment for innovation and investment.

The European Commission has announced the launch of new Horizon Europe calls, with a substantial funding pool of over €112 million. These calls are aimed primarily at pioneering projects in the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies.

This includes substantial funding of €50 million fund to advance large AI models by integrating new data modalities and expanding their capabilities.

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH) is honoured to join an elite group of hospitals around the world who have successfully validated against the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) international EMRAM Stage 7 standards.

EMRAM - the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model - assesses a health facility's adoption and maturity of its digital capabilities.

The Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google deepen their strategic research partnership. With additional financial support from the U.S. IT company, the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)", which was only launched in November 2022 at the MPI in Saarbrücken, is establishing a new research area "Vision and Language Models (VLMs)", led by Professor Bernt Schiele.

JMIR Publications has announced a new section titled, "AI Language Models in Health Care" in JMIR Medical Informatics. This leading peer-reviewed journal is indexed in PubMed and has a unique focus on clinical informatics and the digitization of care processes. This section will have a broad focus and encompass topics about the successful implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) language models in diverse health care settings.

The American College of Radiology® (ACR®), working in close collaboration with four other radiology societies from around the world, have issued a joint statement on the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in radiology. This groundbreaking joint statement is openly available in ACR's Journal of the American College of Radiology, published by Elsevier.

Aston University is to explore the use of AI to improve sharing health data internationally.

Dr Sergei Sokolovski of the University's Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies has been awarded €317,500 to work on a European-wide project.

Called BETTER (Better real-world health data distributed analytics research platform) the spans16 academic, medical and industrial partners.