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The insurers' association says more patients were billed as complex without getting more treatment. Hospitals answer that their patients really are sicker, and that insurers use AI too.
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The request came from the White House's cyber office, Politico reported. Britain's AI Security Institute, set up in 2023 to test frontier models, says it will keep working with Washington.
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In Project Swap, 201 Anthropic employees let Claude agents trade physical books for them. Most of the shortfall came from misjudged preferences rather than bargaining, and stronger models won.
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The contract could grow to about $20bn and gives Anthropic a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai. It buys general-purpose processors rather than AI accelerators, and Akamai has to build first.
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Live Avatar pairs real-time speech with generated video that lip-syncs across 97 languages. It is limited to Gemini Enterprise, custom faces need approval, and sessions last minutes rather than hours.
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About 950 Claude agents combed a DNA database and picked out a reverse transcriptase sitting beside a CRISPR-like array of repeats. Anthropic's human scientists have started characterising it in the lab. What it does is still unknown.
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Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI research agent got around the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal on June 18, read non-public files and wrote files to the server. OpenAI took until September 10 to say so, by email to a public mailbox.
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A new plugin lets Amazon sellers pull listings, inventory and sales data into Anthropic's Claude and act on them, with human approval. Three days earlier, Amazon told Meta's shopping agent it was not welcome.
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Brad Smith says Microsoft is keeping every investment it planned before the conflict began on February 28 and adding to them: more than $10 billion across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait by 2030, plus $400 million for cables.
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At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg said Muse stays free "for a huge number of tokens" and that Meta expects to profit from a small fee on the transactions the agent completes. Walmart, Best Buy and Sephora signed up. Amazon still has not.
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At the Council's first meeting on the risk of losing control of AI, the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic asked for common testing standards and incident reporting. The US envoy said Washington "totally" rejects centralised control of AI.
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A six-author paper shows the Mathieu group M23 is a Galois group over the rationals, closing a list open since the 1980s. The acknowledgments credit Claude and ChatGPT; the text, the authors say, is all human.
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