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New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare's AI Experiment
EFF publishes more than 800 new pages of records from its lawsuit over WISeR, Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization pilot, including CMS corrective-action requests to vendors and 66 vendor applications, showing a rushed rollout and too little transparency about clinician oversight and the data behind AI denials of care.
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Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses
openDemocracy reports that internal Amazon documents made public in a Canadian court case describe Atlas, an in-house AI forecasting tool that draws on 'hundreds of data points' including social media and staff feedback to predict union activity at warehouses in the US, Canada and UK.
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The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear
Rest of World's Kinling Lo reports how AI data centers are soaking up memory chip supply, pushing phone makers to raise prices and drop their most affordable sub-$150 models, and what that means for people in lower-income markets who depend on cheap smartphones to get online.
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Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Lexi Pandell’s WIRED investigation of Pangram, the Brooklyn AI-detection startup whose accusations reshaped literary publishing—and the limits of trusting any detector as a career-making authority.
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
Federico Viticci reviews the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB RAM—why it is a dream machine for local AI agents, what workloads it unlocks, and where it still falls short.
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Ben Swerdlow benchmarks Codex, Claude, and Grok agents across 171 StarCraft: Brood War matches—leaderboards, APM, cost per game, and analysis showing none played beyond beginner while Codex Astra led.
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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300—a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power. Whether these figures translate into real-world gains once Jalapeño…
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
LibreOffice 26.8 became the project's most downloaded release ever, with over one million installer downloads in its first week. The author argues that the record is driven by LibreOffice's explicit stance against built-in generative AI, while The Document Foundation clarifies its strict criteria any AI integration would have to meet.
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