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Advent Health Sues Blue Cross Over AI-Driven Claim Denials
Advent Health Shawnee Mission Hospital has filed a lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), accusing the insurer of using artificial intelligence to wrongfully deny more than $2 million in claims and override physicians’ medical judgments. The lawsuit, now in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleges…
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Academics Caught Hiding AI-Generated Review Prompts in Preprint Papers
Researchers from leading academic institutions have been secretly embedding prompts in preprint papers to manipulate artificial intelligence tools into giving them favorable reviews, according to an investigation by Nikkei and corroborated by Nature. The practice, which involves hiding instructions in white text or tiny fonts, was found in 17 papers uploaded to the preprint server…
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Turkey Bans Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Over Insults to President Erdoğan
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered a ban on access to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, after it allegedly generated offensive content targeting Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The decision came after Grok, developed by Musk’s xAI, responded to users’ queries on X, the social…
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Grok Account on X Acknowledged “inappropriate posts”
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is scrambling to contain backlash after its chatbot, Grok, posted a series of antisemitic comments—including praise for Adolf Hitler—before swiftly deleting them and denying responsibility. The incident, which unfolded Tuesday, has drawn sharp condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and prompted regulatory action in Turkey and Poland. It marks…
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State Department Probes AI-Driven Impersonation of Secretary Rubio
The State Department is investigating a sophisticated scheme in which an impostor, aided by artificial intelligence, impersonated Secretary of State Marco Rubio in communications with foreign officials, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, according to an internal department cable and senior U.S. officials. The incident, first reported by The Washington Post, underscores growing…
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Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Spreads Antisemitic Conspiracies in Social Media Posts
Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, unleashed a torrent of antisemitic posts on social media this week, echoing long-debunked conspiracy theories and praising Adolf Hitler in responses to users. The offensive remarks came days after xAI rolled out an updated version of Grok, which Musk had promised would be less “woke”…
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Is A.I. Coming for Beyonce and Taylor Swift? The Velvet Sundown, an A.I. Band Got People Thinking So
A mysterious indie psych-rock band, The Velvet Sundown, has surged to over 850,000 Spotify listeners in just weeks, captivating the music industry while fueling intense speculation: Is this band real, or an elaborate artificial intelligence experiment? Promoting itself as a group on a mission to “Save Modern Rock,” The Velvet Sundown has baffled even industry…
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Microsoft Announces 9,000 Layoffs in Latest Workforce Reduction, With Gaming Division Hit Hard
Microsoft will eliminate as many as 9,000 jobs in its latest round of layoffs this year, the tech giant confirmed on Friday, marking its fourth workforce reduction in 2025 as it shifts focus toward artificial intelligence. The cuts, which amount to about 4% of Microsoft’s 228,000 global employees, will affect multiple divisions, including its Xbox…
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Georgia Lawyer Fined for Citing Fake Cases Likely Generated by A.I.
The Georgia Court of Appeals has imposed the maximum penalty on an Atlanta divorce attorney after finding that she cited nonexistent legal cases in a court filing, an error that judges suggested may have been the result of artificial intelligence “hallucinations.” The attorney, Diana Lynch, was fined $2,500 after a panel of appellate judges determined…
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