In November 2016, three colleagues and I at IBM filed a patent application with a title that sounds almost quaint today: “Real-Time Analysis of a Musical Performance Using Analytics” (published as US 2018/0137425 A1 [1]). The scenario we described was a rock concert. A guitarist plays an instrument with an embedded sensor, cameras read the …
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LOS ANGELES – If you receive Medicare, Medicaid or food assistance, the Vice President has said what this administration means to do about fraud. The answer is to check whether you should be getting them. He said it on stage at the All-In Summit, in an episode published 15 September. What follows is what he …
Enterprise data science stacks are expensive. A single DataRobot seat can run over $50,000 a year. Tableau Creator costs around $900 per user annually. Commercial large language model (LLM) APIs charge per token, so a team running continuous data extraction or summarization pipelines can rack up thousands of dollars in monthly inference fees with no …
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Short answer Does anyone have to tell you AI was involved in your care? Whether anyone must tell you AI was involved in your care depends on your state and on who used the machine. Texas requires a health care provider to tell you no later than the day treatment starts. Colorado will require an …
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AI adoption’s main villain is safety. We’ve been seeing incidents of data exfiltration and confused deputy attacks. It happens because an LLM is probably the weakest link in the system. Most attacks happen when AI agents are exposed to the lethal trifecta. If agents can read from untrusted sources, access internal knowledge, and communicate to …
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Short answer What does Medicare telehealth actually cover? Medicare telehealth rules are mostly temporary relief from restrictions that never went away. A law signed on 3 February 2026 rewrote nine dates across eight subsections, moving most of that relief to 31 December 2027. Somewhere in a paragraph of the Social Security Act there was a …
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The Model Context Protocol changed in an important way this summer. With the 2026-07-28 MCP specification, the protocol core is now stateless: modern clients no longer need to establish a protocol session before making requests, and servers no longer rely on Mcp-Session-Id for ordinary requests. That makes MCP servers much easier to scale behind normal …
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Short answer What is remote patient monitoring in Medicare’s terms? Remote patient monitoring is paid for as a professional service, not as a device, and Medicare states plainly that it is not a telehealth service. That matters because the telehealth rules carry expiry dates and these do not. A blood pressure reading leaves a cuff …
In February 2025, Sakana AI announced that its “AI CUDA Engineer” generated 17,000 CUDA kernels with speedups of up to 381× over PyTorch. This is a system built to write CUDA kernels, the small programs that tell a computer’s graphics chip (the GPU) exactly how to crunch numbers. Within a day, an X user found …
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Short answer Who can see your health data when AI touches it? Who can see your health data when AI touches it depends on who is holding it. The federal health privacy rule covers exactly three kinds of holder: a health plan, a clearinghouse, and a provider who bills electronically. A watch company is none …
