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AI has a growing role in processing health insurance claims

by Kristin Schwab
Dec 18, 2024
AI uses algorithms trained on types of patients and types of care. But these decisions often require nuance, which AI may not have.
A new California law will regulate how insurers use AI in the process of granting prior authorization for health care treatments.
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Who's ahead in the AI arms race — Microsoft? Google? Meta?

by Matt Levin
Dec 16, 2024
The early technological lead OpenAI had is fading, as Google and Meta continue to release and iterate competing AI products.
The early technological lead that OpenAI had on the generative AI front is fading.
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How microchips came to power your phone and the economy

by Janet Nguyen
Dec 6, 2024
As our devices and vehicles perform increasingly sophisticated actions, chip demand has soared.
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U.S. and China trade more blows in battle for semiconductor chip supremacy

by Kimberly Adams
Dec 5, 2024
This week, the White House added to the list of Chinese companies blocked from receiving certain American chip technology.
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Are people using AI as much as we thought (or feared) they would?

by Matt Levin
Nov 22, 2024
Next week it'll be two years since the debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Generative AI has developed a lot since then, though some people are still wary of it.
Tech has been quicker to use AI than other sectors. Above, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at his company's first conference for software developers.
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Big Tech goes nuclear

by Ellen Rolfes
Oct 18, 2024
Plus: AI slop is all over Spotify, and a tiny island is making bank off “.ai” websites.
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Exclusive: Authors Guild to offer "Human Authored" label on books to compete with AI

by Matt Levin
Oct 7, 2024
The Authors Guild will offer its 15,000 members a new certificate to place book covers: one that shows a book is written by humans and not artificial intelligence.
Coming soon to a bookstore near you? Labels that distinguish books written by humans.
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AI is teaching humans to human at work

by Elizabeth Trovall
Sep 30, 2024
As the role of soft skills shifts amid evolving technology, that tech — especially generative AI — can be a tool to both train and assess soft skills.
“[Chatbots] have infinite patience, and they have also been hammered with training to be polite and agreeable,” said sociologist Jason Jeffrey Jones.
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Will AI lead to layoffs? New data from CEOs says no

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer , Ariana Rosas and Meredith Garretson
Sep 18, 2024
KPMG's latest U.S. CEO Outlook survey finds that more than 70% of corporate executives feel AI "will not dramatically change their workforce."
"What we feel is that these technologies like generative AI and AI are going to augment the skills of workers and employees," said KPMG's Paul Knopp.
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Bill Gates: Solving malnutrition is both a global health and economic imperative

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Sep 17, 2024
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing on the need to invest in global health in its 2024 Goalkeepers Report.
"It's an investment in their stability, their child survival, their helping the world economy," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said. Malnutrition is a key focus of this year's Goalkeepers Report, which the Foundation releases annually to track progress on United Nations' targets for global improvement.
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