UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges (arstechnica.com)
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news.
US firms, including Apple and Disney, are reportedly suspending ads on the Elon Musk-owned site.
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OpenAI said it 'no longer had confidence' in his ability to lead the artificial intelligence firm.
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Apple’s support for the widely used messaging standard will make it easier for Android phones to share messages with iPhones—while ditching the old and flawed SMS standard.
Clyde will disappear by December 1st and it’s not clear why.
Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, which competes directly with X (formerly Twitter), has crossed 2 million users
After already delaying a plan to have an in-house chip ready by next year, Apple is now likely to miss a goal to ship the component by the spring of 2025, according to people familiar with the situation.
A year ago, scientists generated net energy with a fusion reactor. This is what’s happened since then.
Dream Track allows musicians to license out their voices with AI, just days after YouTube cracked down on AI on its platform.
Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual.
Spotify , on Thursday, expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models (LLMs) to help identify a user's listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks in order to suggest tailor-made recommendations.
Hopefully without a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” this time.
Maia is for AI, while the Arm-based Cobalt is for general-purpose computing. The hardware will be available next to AMD, Nvidia and Intel chips on Azure.
Time for eBay jockeys to ready their watchlists for second-hand clunkers
Nepal has decided to ban TikTok because the popular short video app was disrupting social structures in the South Asian nation, government officials say.
Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
The policy is meant to help prevent users from being confused by synthetic content
As this magazine had been classified as abandoned after being inactive for months, my application to take over its ownership was approved....
GraphCast, the search giant's fresh new AI, is about to make it rain on meteorologists.
Threads still requires an Instagram account to sign up, though.
Malicious actors have been abusing Ethereum's 'Create2' function to bypass wallet security alerts and poison cryptocurrency addresses, which led to stealing $60,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency from 99,000 people in six months.
Microsoft and Alphabet's Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier for people to move between competing services – such as social media platforms and internet browsers, the companies said.