AI & Tech Newsletter

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.

Gig Guide: AI trailblazer Simon Lucey heads to StartupLand

Australian Institute for Machine Learning director Professor Simon Lucey has stepped down after six years at the 200 member research institute to lead a new AI venture. Professor Lucy became director in 2020, two years after the AIML launched as a joint initiative of the…

STAT+: An AI tool aims to catch harder-to-detect heart attacks in EKGs

A flurry of artificial intelligence algorithms have promised to help identify heart conditions early. By analyzing an electrocardiogram, a common 10-second test of the heart’s activity, AI has been cleared to screen for common arrhythmias and structural heart conditions, and…

Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons

The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.

What CMS’s Medicare App Library Means for Patient Access, Transparency, and Trust

Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, MBA, FACHDM, CHPC, Chief Strategy Officer of DirectTrust CMS’s launch of the Medicare App Library marks an important step forward for consumer-directed healthcare. For years, interoperability efforts across the industry focused primarily on enabling…

AI showcase puts technology in front of policymakers

Parliamentarians do not need to know how to build a large language model. But they need to understand enough to ask the right questions – and recognise when they are not getting a complete answer. This is the premise behind the AI Parliamentary Showcase, which will bring…

datasette-publish-fly 1.4

Release: datasette-publish-fly 1.4 Sets force_https=true in fly.toml. #31 Fix for Volume could not be found bug. #32 Compatible with app-scoped deploy tokens. #34 Tags: datasette, fly

Opinion: No clinician should carry AI’s blind spots alone

The fix is governance, and it starts with who is in the room The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has named a real and urgent problem. The encouraging part is that we already know what solving it requires. Luli Adeyemo, Executive Director of TechDiversity Foundation.…

Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering

Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This paradigm suffers from the “one-to-many” nature of video description, where…

SimpleDesign: A Joint Model for Protein Sequence and Structure Codesign

Proteins are fundamental to biological processes, with their function determined by the complex interplay between the amino acid sequence and the three-dimensional structure. Developing generative models capable of understanding this intrinsically multi-modal relationship is…

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation

Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce DiscoSign, a computational approach for discourse-aware text to sign language gloss translation…

3 Strategies to Improve Health Insurance, Per Georgetown Report

A Georgetown report outlines three strategies to improve health insurance by lowering costs, simplifying coverage and protecting patients from corporate abuses.

ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients"

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At INVEST Digital Health, Health Wildcatters Will Highlight Latest Cohort of Startups

Health Wildcatters, a Dallas accelerator and INVEST Digital Health partner, has announced the healthcare startups in its latest cohort. Join us at INVEST DIgital Health on October 29 and meet them in person!

Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

Imprivata CEO: AI Agents Need the Same Scrutiny as an Unvetted Contract Nurse

Imprivata CEO Fran Rosch said AI agents should be treated similarly to the way hospitals treat a new contract nurse — vetted, monitored and then cut off as soon as the job is done.

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from…

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.