Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management
Perficient launches AI tools for Medicare Advantage star ratings management

Perficient has launched an AI suite to help Medicare Advantage plans raise their CMS star ratings, which decide access to more than $13B a year in federal bonus payments. It arrived a day after CMS published 2027 ratings showing fewer plans qualifying,…

EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models
EU’s cyber agency and research centre are testing Chinese AI models

The EU’s cyber agency, ENISA, and the Commission’s own science service, the Joint Research Centre, have started testing open AI models from China, Politico reported. Three EU officials confirmed the work, the first time either body has spoken about it….

Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal
Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal

The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of …

Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes
Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Prax…

Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1
Google moves free Gemini to Flash-Lite and launches Nano Banana 2.1

From today, Gemini app users without a paid Google AI plan start losing two of its three models. Free personal accounts move to Gemini Flash-Lite only, according to Google’s Gemini Apps Help page. The change comes three days after Google released Nano …

Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg …

UK to ban non-compete clauses, marking boon for startup and scaleups

The UK prime minister today confirmed that the UK plans to ban non-compete clauses in workers’ employment contracts, marking a boon for the UK startup sector.Speaking at the Innovation Nation Summit i…

President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’
President Donald Trump says anyone using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is ‘the enemy’

US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to …

OpenAI expects a $70bn revenue run rate by year-end, Bloomberg reports
OpenAI expects a $70bn revenue run rate by year-end, Bloomberg reports

OpenAI expects its annualised revenue to reach or exceed $70bn by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company shared the forecast with investors in talks over its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter. Th…

Healthcare AI cannot improve outcomes until it understands the human context behind every claim
Healthcare AI cannot improve outcomes until it understands the human context behind every claim

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping healthcare, but many of the industry’s biggest operational problems remain unresolved. Hospitals continue facing administrative bottlenecks. Providers still struggle with documentation burdens. Insurers cont…