A U.S. family that received a $195,000 hospital bill for four hours of intensive care after a heart attack used the AI chatbot Claude — and, according to their account, managed to lower the final amount to $33,000. The AI helped identify duplicate charges, coding errors, and other possible billing violations.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans to acquire Clario — a provider of software and services for clinical research — in a deal valued at up to $10 billion. It’s one of the largest healthcare sector transactions of 2025.
Verily — a company within Alphabet, Google’s parent group — and NVIDIA have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI in medicine. As part of the collaboration, NVIDIA’s technology will be integrated into Verily’s “Pre” platform, which supports healthcare systems, data science, and regulatory processes.
OpenAI has revealed that more than one million users per week discuss suicidal thoughts or readiness to act on them while chatting with ChatGPT. The company also reported that about 560,000 users weekly may show signs of psychotic or manic behavior during their interactions with the chatbot.
Amazon has announced layoffs affecting up to 30,000 corporate employees, representing around 10% of its office workforce. The cuts, set to begin on Tuesday, will impact departments including HR, Devices & Services, Operations, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
New research from the University of Cambridge and Meta Reality Labs, published in Nature Communications, sheds light on how much the human eye can truly perceive — and suggests that in many cases, 4K and 8K resolutions in TVs are unnecessary.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation in federal court, accusing the company of misleading around 2.7 million Australian users of Microsoft 365 regarding price hikes and the integration of its AI tool, Copilot.
Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three other companies, accusing them of industrial-scale data scraping — the unauthorized collection and use of Reddit users’ posts and comments to train AI systems, despite prior cease-and-desist notices.
In a pilot program involving more than 30,000 NHS England employees across 90 organizations, staff tested Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into tools like Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel. The results are promising — an average of 43 minutes saved per person per day, which at scale could amount to 400,000 staff hours saved each month.
More than 800 people – including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, celebrities, politicians, and even members of royal families – have signed an open letter urging a halt to the development of superintelligent AI systems that could surpass humans in nearly every task.