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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

The article investigates Palantir's significant involvement in the British public sector, particularly its £330 million contract with the NHS for a federated data platform aimed at integrating healthcare data. Despite official claims of widespread adoption and success, internal data and whistleblower accounts suggest limited actual usage and raise concerns about the technology's effectiveness and the influence of lobbying. The findings prompt questions about the suitability of Palantir's role in

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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Miles Wang, an OpenAI researcher known for his work in AI-driven scientific discovery, is leaving OpenAI to start a new company focused on AI models for drug discovery. He is reportedly in talks to raise $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed potentially leading the funding round, although details remain unconfirmed. The startup aims to leverage AI to find new uses for existing drugs, potentially accelerating drug development timelines.

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Scaling medical content review at Flo Health with Amazon Bedrock – Part 2

Flo Health developed an AI-powered system using Amazon Bedrock to enhance their medical content review process, significantly reducing review time by 60% and tripling content output without increasing staff. The system includes specialized AI components for different review aspects and employs Retrieval Augmented Generation for content creation, addressing challenges in scaling medical expertise. This approach improves efficiency and scalability in maintaining high medical accuracy standards for

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ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS

ScienceSoft, an AWS partner, has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler for healthcare organizations using Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This AI solution aims to improve scheduling efficiency by reducing lengthy appointment booking times and addressing scalability issues while ensuring compliance with privacy and responsible AI standards. The technology targets the growing AI patient scheduling market, which is expected to expand significantly by 2030.

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Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

Recent developments in medical AI reveal challenges in its implementation: in New York, AI software replaced nurses responsible for utilization review, leading to layoffs and union disputes; meanwhile, in Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic employee alleges that an AI assistant was deployed without adequate safety checks, exhibiting high error rates and leading to her dismissal after raising concerns. These cases highlight tensions between the promise of AI to aid healthcare and the risks posed by h

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When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility

The article discusses how AI tools can serve as accessibility aids for neurodivergent professionals by compensating for challenges in executive function. The author, who has co-occurring autism and ADHD, describes building AI-powered systems to manage tasks like email triage and organization, which typically consume disproportionate cognitive resources. This approach helps mitigate the conflict between autistic and ADHD tendencies, improving productivity and reducing daily exhaustion.

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Building an agentic AI solution at Bluesight with Amazon Bedrock

Bluesight, a healthcare software company, developed an AI solution called Prism using Amazon Bedrock to streamline compliance and inventory management across multiple hospital systems. The AI agent integrates data from various sources to reduce manual audit work and provide actionable insights, with initial deployment in 20 health systems and plans for broader use. This approach addresses complex compliance challenges by automating data analysis and reporting across several healthcare products.

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Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

A former Mayo Clinic research director has filed a lawsuit alleging that the hospital's use of AI tools in patient care has been flawed and unsafe. The whistleblower claims the clinic ignored serious privacy and error rate issues with its AI systems, retaliated against her for raising concerns, and compromised regulatory compliance. The case highlights potential risks and ethical challenges in integrating AI into healthcare.

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The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’

At Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, 12 utilization review nurses were laid off and replaced by AI-powered software, sparking concern from the New York State Nurses Association and National Nurses United about the impact on patient care quality. These layoffs occurred despite recent union contracts that included protections against unregulated AI use, leading to claims of contract violations and calls for safeguards in healthcare AI deployment. The situation highlights ongoing tensions between a

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While Neuralink drills into skulls, China’s BrainCo is betting brain tech will be something you wear

BrainCo, a Chinese neurotechnology company, develops non-invasive brain-computer interface devices such as headbands and caps that read brain signals externally, contrasting with companies like Neuralink that use surgical implants. Their products range from FDA-approved bionic hands for amputees to consumer wearables aimed at stress relief and sleep aid, reflecting a strategy to first prove medical benefits before expanding to everyday use. While non-invasive devices dominate China's BCI market,

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Safe from AI: which jobs will help you thrive in the future?

The article explores how AI might impact various professions, highlighting that roles involving routine administrative tasks are more susceptible to automation, while jobs requiring complex decision-making and personalized skills, such as prescribing clinicians and plastic surgeons, are less likely to be replaced. It emphasizes the importance of adapting to AI by understanding its capabilities and limitations, particularly in fields like medicine and education, where AI can assist but not fully替

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Real-time dental image verification with Amazon SageMaker AI at Henry Schein One

Henry Schein One developed Image Verify, an AI-based system using Amazon SageMaker, to assess dental X-ray quality in real time at the point of capture. This solution addresses delays and inefficiencies in traditional manual image quality checks by providing rapid, accurate feedback across thousands of locations, improving claim approval rates and clinical workflows. The system handles large-scale, low-latency processing with cost efficiency and global deployment capabilities.

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Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time

Researchers at the University of California San Diego successfully used two teleoperated humanoid robots to perform gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs, marking the first instance of humanoid robots conducting surgery on living subjects. The robots, adapted from a general-purpose humanoid platform, were controlled by human surgeons and demonstrated precision and safety comparable to specialized surgical systems, but at a significantly lower cost and smaller size. This development suggests

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A startup just 3D-printed kidney and liver tissue in space, a first

Auxilium Biotechnologies has successfully 3D-printed kidney, liver, cartilage tissue, and nerve-repair implants aboard the International Space Station, marking the first time multiple tissue types were produced in orbit. While these are small tissue samples rather than transplant-ready organs, the microgravity environment allows for better cell distribution, benefiting research such as drug testing using organoids. The company aims to leverage this technology for future commercial space stations

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Alchemab lands £25m from British Business Bank in record life sciences bet

Cambridge-based biotech company Alchemab Therapeutics has secured a £25 million investment from the British Business Bank, marking the lender's largest support for a life sciences firm. The funding will enable Alchemab to expand its extensive antibody sequence database and advance its drug pipeline, including clinical development of therapies for difficult diseases such as ALS. This investment increases Alchemab's total Series A funding to £109 million and supports its AI-driven platform for aut

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Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

A contractor for Meta's new AI campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, discharged wastewater containing a rare and multidrug-resistant bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, into the city's reuse water system used for irrigation. The city suspended all data centre wastewater discharges and took measures to disinfect the system, while Meta and its general contractor are working to resolve the issue. The incident highlights challenges related to water use and safety in data centre operations.

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Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research

Pharmaceutical research faces significant challenges due to fragmented scientific data spread across various systems, leading to inefficiencies and lost knowledge in drug discovery. The article discusses how graph-powered AI solutions, such as BYOKG and GraphRAG, can integrate disparate data sources to enhance knowledge connectivity and support more effective early-stage drug discovery processes.

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My patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Dargouth

The article discusses how AI tools like ChatGPT are increasingly being used by therapy patients and even therapists themselves to navigate emotional challenges and relationship issues. While AI can offer helpful suggestions and support, the author highlights concerns about its potential risks, such as increased anxiety and isolation, and reflects on the blurred lines between AI assistance and traditional therapy. The piece explores the evolving role of AI in mental health care and the complex,,l

Business & Enterprise

ResMed sells its MatrixCare software business to Frazier for $490m

ResMed has sold its MatrixCare home-health and senior-care software business to private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners for $490 million in cash. The sale allows ResMed to focus on its core medical-device business, particularly in sleep and breathing health, while Frazier acquires a profitable software provider in the growing home and post-acute care market. ResMed plans to use the proceeds to return capital to shareholders and support its strategic focus on hardware and connected care.

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Utah let an AI renew prescriptions without a doctor, and its medical board wants it stopped

Utah has become the first U.S. state to allow an AI chatbot, Doctronic, to renew prescriptions without direct doctor involvement through a regulatory sandbox that waives licensing laws. The state's medical licensing board, which was not consulted before the program's launch, has called for its suspension due to safety concerns, but the state has declined to halt the pilot. This situation highlights a regulatory gap at both state and federal levels regarding AI use in medical prescribing.

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Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Leaking Deadly Bacteria Into Water Town Uses for Irrigation

In Cheyenne, Wyoming, local authorities have banned fill-and-flush wastewater discharge from all data centers connected to municipal water after a Meta-affiliated company, Goat Systems LLC, was found to have contaminated the water supply with a rare and dangerous bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii. This bacterium is multidrug-resistant and has been linked to several deaths, prompting immediate shutdown of the offending facility's wastewater discharge. The exact source of the bacteria within the 800

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Finland’s CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine in the US

CurifyLabs, a Finnish startup, has secured $14 million in Series A funding to expand its 3D-printed personalized medicine technology in the United States. Their system enables pharmacies to automate the compounding of tailored drug doses on-site, improving speed and accuracy compared to traditional manual methods. The funding will support US market growth, supply chain development, and further research.