PBMs, pharma companies avoid drug price transparency
Bob Herman , 2025-12-22 18:20:00 Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all…
Goodbye to the year of the Big Lie; hello, reverse centaur
Kamran Abbasi , 2025-12-18 11:11:00 We live in a world of lies, damned lies, and AI hallucinations. A US publication calculated that Donald Trump told 30 573 lies during his…
Natural protein drug may slow neuron death linked to Alzheimer's disease
, 2025-12-20 18:50:00 Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz have discovered that while brain neuron changes, including cell loss, may begin in early life, a drug long-approved for other…
Cutting carbs, not fat, may better control appetite in women
, 2025-12-19 13:55:00 A short-term clinical trial suggests that cutting carbohydrates, not fat, may be better for curbing food cues and emotional eating in women living with lipedema. Study: Hedonic…
StretchSense raises $2.3M to drive global expansion of XR training gloves
Tamara Djurickovic , 2025-12-19 10:00:00 StretchSense, a wearable technology company that develops data capture gloves, has secured $2.3 million in funding led by PXN Ventures, with support from Scottish Enterprise.…
AI's 2025 carbon footprint may match New York City, report estimates
, 2025-12-18 19:10:00 By the end of the year, the carbon footprint of global AI systems for the whole of 2025 could equal that of New York City. At the…
Last-Minute Amazon Prime Deals for Holiday Shopping
Kezia Jungco , 2025-12-18 18:35:00 Five standout last-minute Amazon Prime deals for holiday shopping: Echo Show 8, Kindle Paperwhite, Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Belkin charger, and smart home essentials.…
Human language inspired AI—now, we can use that AI to learn about language
, 2025-12-18 20:37:00 Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to improve AI along the way. She defended her…
Google and Nvidia Back Lovable at $6.6B Valuation
The Tech Buzz , 2025-12-18 15:18:00 The Buzz■Google's CapitalG and Menlo Ventures led Lovable's $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation, with Nvidia's NVentures also participating■Lovable hit $200M in annual…
The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
Henry Kvinge , 2024-11-16 16:46:00 What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research…
Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan
Sarah Perez , 2025-12-18 15:02:00 Apple announced it will allow alternative app stores in Japan and will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its…
[Subscribers only] Dev Writers Retreat 2025: WRITING FOR HUMANS — 10 Fellowship spots left!
Shawn swyx Wang , 2025-11-28 03:21:00 4 days, focused writing, feedback, peer review, framework, writing community!I’m excited to open up 10 Dev Writers Retreat Fellowship slots to Latent Space subscribers…
LWiAI Podcast #228 – GPT 5.2, Scaling Agents, Weird Generalization
Last Week in AI , 2025-12-17 22:31:00 Our 228th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!Recorded on 12/12/2025Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free…
Transforming Customer Experience with AI Agents using LangGraph and LangSmith
LangChain , 2025-12-16 20:50:00 Fastweb + Vodafone, part of the Swisscom Group, is one of Europe's leading telecommunications providers serving millions of customers across Italy. Recognizing that traditional customer service…
The Real Cost of Inaction: How Silos Hurt Productivity for Data Scientists (Sponsored)
KDnuggets , 2025-12-17 16:36:00 The overarching goal is to maximize the return on analytical talent, shifting their focus entirely from data preparation to predictive model development, which is a necessary…
Uplift Model Evaluation with Ordinal Dominance Graphs
Brecht Verbeken, Marie-Anne Guerry, Wouter Verbeke, Sam Verboven , 2025-01-01 00:00:00 Uplift Model Evaluation with Ordinal Dominance Graphs Brecht Verbeken, Marie-Anne Guerry, Wouter Verbeke, Sam Verboven; 26(90):1−56, 2025. Abstract Uplift…
2025 Open Models Year in Review
Florian Brand , 2025-12-14 20:01:00 Welcome to the first Artifacts Recap, where we highlight the most notable and impactful open model releases of this year. And what a year it…
As Q-Day Nears, A New Approach Is Needed for HPC and AI Data Security
staff , 2025-12-15 19:36:00 By Lance Smith, CEO and Cofounder, Cy4Data Labs Security has always been a burden to HPC and AI deployments. Adding layers of encryption and decryption architecturally…
Visual Studio Code adds multi-agent orchestration
, 2025-12-12 23:13:00 Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces multi-agent orchestration, a new feature that allows developers to use GitHub Copilot and…
This Year’s Hottest Healthcare Company Isn’t Even a Healthcare Company
Katie Adams , 2025-12-14 16:27:00 When I stepped onto the show floor at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting this month in Chicago’s McCormick Place, I was immediately…
SPHeRE Network Annual Conference
Editorial Staff , 2025-12-12 10:58:00 Access to high-quality healthcare is a fundamental determinant of population health Date: February 19, 2026 Time: 09:00 – 17:00 Category: General events Location: RCSI Dublin,…
HealthTrackRx: Advancing Urgent Care Diagnostic Capabilities
MNB Guest , 2025-12-12 21:43:00 This year, urgent care centers nationwide are bracing for another intense respiratory season, with a notable rise in patient volumes expected. In 2022, there were…
Seguros con deducibles altos ponen en aprietos a pacientes con afecciones crónicas
Charlotte Huff , 2025-12-12 18:23:00 David Garza a veces siente que no tiene seguro médico, por lo caro que le cuesta tratar su diabetes tipo 2. Su prima mensual de…
More nurses are joining unions| STAT
Theresa Brown , 2025-12-12 09:30:00 There is plenty of bad news about health care these days — insurance companies refusing to pay for necessary care, astronomical drug prices, and hospital…
Strikes: BMA is urged to drop advice on not giving employers notice of walkouts as flu pressures mount
Gareth Iacobucci , 2025-12-10 16:20:00 Medical leaders have urged the BMA to suspend advice stating that doctors do not need to tell their employer if they plan to strike.Ahead of…
Nearly 200 children conceived from sperm donor with increased cancer risk
, 2025-12-10 15:40:00 A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive nearly 200 children worldwide, Denmark's public…
How delays and bankruptcy let a nursing home chain avoid paying settlements for injuries and deaths
, 2025-12-09 19:28:00 Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the…
Tai Chi: Alternative Treatment Option for Chronic Insomnia?
, 2025-12-09 08:44:00 Tai chi showed long-term benefits for long-term management of chronic insomnia that were on par with CBT, the first-line treatment for the disorder. Medscape Medical News Source…
AILOS Robotics gets €3.5M to scale gearbox manufacturing for Europe’s next-gen robots
Tamara Djurickovic , 2025-12-02 05:00:00 Brussels-based AILOS Robotics has raised €3.5 million in a seed round led by QBIC and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from Wallonie Entreprendre and finance&invest.brussels, reinforcing…
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity AI for copyright infringement
, 2025-12-05 14:51:00 On Dec. 4, the Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York federal court against Perplexity AI, alleging the California-based startup has been unlawfully profiting…
Daily Tech Insider Highlights the Escalating AI Arms Race Across Cloud, Code, and Consumer Tech
Justin Meyers , 2025-12-05 21:34:00 Dec. 1–5 recap: This week showed the global scramble to out‑build, out‑train, and out‑ship AI, from datacenter deals to AI-powered smart glasses. The post Daily…
Overparameterized neural networks: Feature learning precedes overfitting, research finds
, 2025-12-05 18:27:00 Modern neural networks, with billions of parameters, are so overparameterized that they can "overfit" even random, structureless data. Yet when trained on datasets with structure, they learn…
China’s ‘Nvidia’ Moore Threads explodes 400% in $1.1B IPO debut
The Tech Buzz , 2025-12-05 03:34:00 Moore Threads just delivered one of the year's most explosive public debuts, with shares rocketing over 400% in Shanghai trading today. The Beijing-based GPU…
AGI Is Not Multimodal
Benjamin A. Spiegel , 2025-06-04 14:00:00 "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry WinogradThe recent…
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity | TechCrunch
Julie Bort , 2025-12-05 01:20:00 The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a…
Agent Labs: Welcome to GPT Wrapper Summer
swyx (Shawn) , 2025-11-18 02:41:00 AIE CODE is sold out, but you can watch the livestream, join AIE CODE++ in SF, or Dev Writers Retreat after NeurIPS!We are on the…
LWiAI Podcast #225 – GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Remote Labor Index
Last Week in AI , 2025-11-22 08:27:00 Our 225th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!Recorded on 11/16/2025Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Michelle…
How agents can use filesystems for context engineering
LangChain Accounts , 2025-11-21 18:45:00 A key feature of deep agents is their access to a set of filesystem tools. Deep agents can use these tools to read, write, edit,…
How Data Engineering Can Power Manufacturing Industry Transformation
KDnuggets , 2025-11-20 18:00:00 Turning scattered information across production-line machines and systems into meaningful insights that help teams drive efficiency and competitiveness without increasing overhead costs. Source link
On Consistent Bayesian Inference from Synthetic Data
Ossi Räisä, Joonas Jälkö, Antti Honkela , 2025-01-01 00:00:00 On Consistent Bayesian Inference from Synthetic Data Ossi Räisä, Joonas Jälkö, Antti Honkela; 26(74):1−65, 2025. Abstract Generating synthetic data, with or…
Why AI writing is mid – by Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert , 2025-11-16 21:36:00 First, on the topic of writing, the polished, and more importantly printed, version of my RLHF Book is available for pre-order. It’s 50% off for…
Private AI: Moving Models to Data within Secure Boundaries
staff , 2025-11-14 17:04:00 By Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera Artificial intelligence drives the next wave of enterprise transformation, yet many organizations remain stuck. Concerns about keeping sensitive…
North Korea’s ‘Job Test’ trap upgrades to JSON malware dropboxes
, 2025-11-17 11:54:00 The final payload (BeaverTail) showed previously seen capabilities, including “usage of Axioms as embedded HTTP client, enumeration and exfiltration of system information, searching browser profiles and extension…
Merck Makes Big Antiviral Move With $9B Deal to Land Cidara’s Late-Stage Drug for Flu Prevention
Frank Vinluan , 2025-11-14 20:06:00 Efforts to innovate in the fight against influenza include universal influenza vaccines — none successful so far. Merck is aiming for universality with a drug,…
Pharmacy prescribing to begin in coming months after Minister signs new legislation
Michael McHale , 2025-11-14 16:39:00 Under the recently agreed Community Pharmacy Agreement, all interested pharmacies must sign up to the service by December 1 and must deliver the service to…
Would you believe coffee doesn’t trigger atrial fibrillation?
Joanna Mulvaney PhD , 2025-11-13 15:00:00 Everybody knows that over caffeinating can send your pulse racing, so it’s no surprise that doctors usually advise people with heart problems and high…
The Government Is Open – KFF Health News
, 2025-11-13 18:45:00 The Host Emmarie Huetteman KFF Health News Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as “Bill of the Month” and “What the Health? From…
Vance calls MAHA movement an ‘incredible part’ of Trump success
Chelsea Cirruzzo and Daniel Payne , 2025-11-12 22:27:00 WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance lauded the Make America Healthy Again movement as an “incredible part” of the Trump administration’s success…
Doctor who committed lewd act at work party is suspended for a year
Clare Dyer , 2025-11-11 16:16:00 A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a…
Smart biomaterials can reduce chance of medical implant failure and accelerate patient recovery
, 2025-11-11 05:10:00 Treatment with biomaterials developed by Extremus induces changes in the microscopic structural configuration of the implant surface, optimizing its fixation to the bone and reducing the chances…