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Commentary: Rising costs, chronic disease and AI — the fight to save US health care
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (713+ words) In most industries, leaders can respond quickly when market conditions change. Within months, companies can shrink or expand their workforces, adopt innovative technologies, and reconfigure operations. Health care lacks such flexibility. It takes a decade to train new physicians. Hospitals…...
Parmy Olson: The AI panic ignores something important — evidence
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (504+ words) The post ripped through the Internet and has been seen more than 80 million times on X. In the words of the young and very online, people are shook. Shumer's post has struck a nerve in the middle of huge selloffs of…...
What to know about Defense Protection Act and the Pentagon’s Anthropic ultimatum
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (676+ words) By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer Defense officials in the Trump administration also warned they could designate Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, as a supply chain risk " or invoke a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act…...
Hegseth and Anthropic CEO set to meet as debate intensifies over the military’s use of AI
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (894+ words) By DAVID KLEPPER, MATT O'BRIEN and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, declined to comment on the meeting but CEO Dario Amodei has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the dangers of…...
Minnesota police department to use AI to generate reports
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (588+ words) CLOQUET, Minn. " The Cloquet Police Department will begin using AI software to draft police reports using body camera footage and audio. While city officials are hopeful the software will streamline officers" workloads, digital advocacy groups have raised concerns over the…...
24-hour ‘hackathon’ at St. Thomas asks creators to use AI to fight hunger
1+ week, 3+ day ago (789+ words) As a computer science student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Zin Khant likens the advent of artificial intelligence to the discovery of electricity " a modern Rosetta Stone that will allow future generations to unlock new inventions…...
Mary Ellen Klas: AI has turned Bernie and DeSantis into unlikely allies
1+ week, 6+ day ago (13+ words) Mary Ellen Klas: AI has turned Bernie and DeSantis into unlikely allies'Pioneer Press...
People — and robots — are getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year in China
2+ week, 1+ day ago (380+ words) By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Friday was dress rehearsal day for four cute humanoid robots, each about 95 centimeters (3 feet) tall at a mall in western Beijing. Curious onlookers stopped to watch. Each robot got a colorful lion costume and within minutes the…...
As electricity costs rise, everyone wants data centers to pick up their tab. But how?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1093+ words) But that might be where the agreement ends. The price of powering data centers has become deeply intertwined with concerns over the cost of living, a dominant issue in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and…...
Anthropic, OpenAI rivalry spills into new Super Bowl ads as both fight to win over AI users
3+ week, 2+ day ago (828+ words) By MATT O'BRIEN, AP Technology Writer The two artificial intelligence startups behind rival chatbots ChatGPT and Claude are bracing for an existential showdown this year as both need to prove they can grow a business that will make more money…...