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Healthcare

Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

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Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.” In January, the Trump administration rolled out a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare—a federal healthcare program for seniors that previously hasn’t required doctors to get any such pre-approval, called prior authorization. Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties, long delays in decisions and care, puzzling denials, frustrated doctors, and patients suffering in pain. Those reports were largely confirmed…

Ars Technica AI · 25 Sep 2026 · 13:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

AI Audio

The Biggest News From Connect 2026

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We’re building personal AI agents for everyone and a whole family of devices that let you connect with them from anywhere. We launched Muse, a first-of-a-kind personal AI agent that proactively helps you meet your goals, earlier this month. At Connect, we announced we’re bringing Muse to our AI glasses in the coming months, so you’ll soon have easy access to your personal agent wherever you go. Mark Zuckerberg showed how Muse keeps getting better with new features, connectors, and a state-of-the-art model that brings your Muse to life. Muse…

Meta AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 23:15 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Governance

Estimating suicide risk from text

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When people reach out during a mental health crisis, a top priority for counselors is identifying those with a high risk of suicide. The distressed person’s language holds critical clues, and a new tool developed by scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research is designed to pick up on and rapidly evaluate those signals. The language-processing tool was developed by Daniel Low, a former graduate student in Senior Research Scientist Satra Ghosh’s Senseable Intelligence Group who is now a research scientist at the Child Mind Institute, where he leads…

MIT News · 24 Sep 2026 · 23:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Unclassified

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

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This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. DataOne got hit with the fine after an investigation by The Guardian and Floodlight News in August shared thermal drone footage showing that 45 of the 62 gas generators were operating. None of the generators had permits required for generators with 37-kilowatt capacity or higher, despite running at 1,982-kw capacities more…

Ars Technica AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 20:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar brings real-time visual presence to Gemini’s conversational AI. By natively coupling our live dialogue capabilities with low-latency streaming video, Live Avatar enables a more natural and intuitive conversational experience for enterprises and their users. Building on the momentum of last week's Gemini 3.8 Live launch, today we are excited to introduce Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar — bringing near real-time visual presence to our native live dialogue models. By pairing near real-time video generation with speech, the Live Avatar feature creates an experience…

Google DeepMind · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

AI Video

Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI

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Any team working with spoken audio hits the same wall with generic speech-to-text. Think contact-center calls, all-hands meetings, podcasts, depositions, and broadcast media. These workloads need two things that standard transcription gets wrong. First, timestamps land at the utterance level, off by several seconds. Second, there’s no reliable answer to “who said what.” Those gaps make transcripts hard to search, caption, redact, or analyze at scale. A missing speaker label breaks compliance review, and an imprecise timestamp breaks a caption or a redaction. WhisperX closes both gaps. It wraps OpenAI’s…

AWS AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:20 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Education

Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

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Google’s experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time. Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google’s “moonshot” effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers. Google’s first experimental satellite will launch on October 1 with the aim of validating Google’s vision for a constellation of AI satellites. The satellite, dubbed MVP, is…

Ars Technica AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:16 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

Build a multi-account AI agent with AgentCore Gateway and MCP

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Enterprises increasingly want AI agents that can reason over data spread across many AWS accounts without copying or centralizing it. Each team keeps its data in its own account for good reasons: clear ownership, scope isolation, and independent deployment lifecycles. But an agent that sees only one account’s data delivers limited value, and connecting it to distributed sources usually means replicating data or untangling cross-account AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The goal is to let data stay where it already lives, in each line-of-business (LOB) account. Only the specific…

AWS AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:12 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

Aderant builds intelligent ticket triage with Amazon Nova

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This guest post is co-written by Angela Mapes and Adam Walker of Aderant. In this post, we share how Aderant, a global provider of business management software for the legal industry, built an intelligent ticket triage system using Amazon Nova Lite through Amazon Bedrock. Aderant’s solution automates much of the context gathering, classification, routing, and knowledge enrichment required for support-ticket triage. The Intelligent Ticket Analyzer supports Aderant’s 38-person SierraOps team, which operates Expert Sierra across 268 client environments globally. It reviews newly submitted, unassigned tickets during scheduled hourly processing cycles…

AWS AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:06 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Governance

OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is investigating a June incident in which an OpenAI agent accessed “non-public files” from the country’s online Medicare statistics portal. OpenAI said in a statement that “our models took actions we did not intend” in causing the breach, which it only recently disclosed to the Australian government. Speaking in New York on Wednesday, Albanese said three other public health statistics systems also “may have been impacted” across Australian federal and state governments. He added that these portals “contain non-sensitive Medicare information” such…

Ars Technica AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 18:01 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Models & tools

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

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The vision drafter uses the same architecture as our text LFM2.5-DSpark drafters: it captures the target model's hidden states at a fixed set of tapped layers and conditions on them to draft a block of k candidate tokens. Image patches and text tokens are projected into a shared representation before those layers, so the drafter operates on hidden-state vectors of identical dimensionality regardless of input modality. The inference algorithm is therefore unchanged from the text models. We follow the DSpark recipe with a mixture of vision-language SFT data, weighted toward…

Hugging Face · 24 Sep 2026 · 16:08 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Models & tools

Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain

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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s new personal AI agent Muse has become the “centerpiece” of his AI vision, as he unveiled a new handheld AI “charm” device that will feature the interactive assistant. The Meta chief used the company’s annual Connect event at its Silicon Valley headquarters to announce Muse Charm, a small pendant-like device that fits on a keychain and is activated by a fingerprint sensor. The device, which features a screen showing the Muse avatar, will also have real-time voice interactivity and is set to be released in December.…

Ars Technica AI · 24 Sep 2026 · 16:03 CESTRead story →Join free ↗