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By Siddhi Mahatole(Reuters) -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring back furloughed staff next week to support open enrollment for Medicare and Affordable Care Act plans, despite the ongoing government shutdown, a spokesperson said on Thursday.The agency said the move was needed “to best serve the American people” during the enrollment periods.Staff had been furloughed for three weeks and will return on October 27, according to the spokesperson.CMS will fund the return using user fees collected from data-sharing agreements with researchers, allowing it to resume limited operations without congressional appropriations.It did not disclose how many workers are…
Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event on Thursday, the company introduced a range of new features and updates for its AI chatbot, but one that telegraphed how the tech giant intends to bring AI to consumers was the official introduction of its AI chatbot’s “face” — an expressive avatar blob named Mico. The company explains that Mico (its name a nod to “Microsoft Copilot”) is meant to offer consumers a “warm” and “customizable” visual presence that “listens, reacts, and even changes colors to reflect your interactions.”…
With the AI infrastructure push reaching staggering proportions, there’s more pressure than ever to squeeze as much inference as possible out of the GPUs they have. And for researchers with expertise in a particular technique, it’s a great time to raise funding. That’s part of the driving force behind Tensormesh, launching out of stealth this week with $4.5 million in seed funding. The investment was led by Laude Ventures, with additional angel funding from database pioneer Michael Franklin. Tensormesh is using the money to build a commercial version of the open source LMCache utility, launched and maintained by Tensormesh co-founder…
Meta this week told staff in its risk division that a number of their roles were being eliminated because of improvements in the company’s internal technology, Business Insider has learned.Meta’s chief compliance and privacy officer of product, Michel Protti, informed workers in the risk org on Wednesday that it has been moving away from manual reviews to more automated processes, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.”As a result, we don’t need as many roles in some areas as we once did,” he wrote, without disclosing the number of affected roles.Meta’s latest round of job cuts shows how…
Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company’s AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services. The companies are calling the deal “a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic partnership,” but Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources, that Lumen is going to spend over $200 million on Palantir’s tech over the course of several years. The agreement will see Lumen pairing Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) with its own edge computing, broadband infrastructure, and other digital services. The partnership comes as Lumen tries to transform…
OpenAI is teasing a series of updates coming to its viral app for AI-generated videos, Sora, which recently shot to the top of the App Store after a late September launch. The app, which remains at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada, will introduce video editing tools, offer the ability for users to create character “cameos” of pets and other objects, improve social features, and more. Plus, the company says the Android version of the app is “actually coming soon.” The announcement was made on X by Sora head Bill Peebles, who says the new creation tools will arrive…
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Cluely’s Roy Lee isn’t afraid to stir the pot — and he’s taking that bold energy to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. He’ll dive into how he’s building one of the most talked-about startups in AI, why courting controversy can be a growth strategy, and what it takes to stand out in a noisy consumer tech market. Don’t miss this chance to see Roy Lee shake things up at Disrupt. Register here to save up to $444 on your pass, and get 60% off a second. How Roy Lee’s rage-baiting built a $15 million AI startup Roy Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Cluely, an AI meeting assistant…
(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Thursday the aid to Gaza is increasing, but is still only a “fraction of what’s needed” as the health agency attempts to rebuild the region’s healthcare system.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said they are working with partners to plan for the long-term recovery and reconstruction of Gaza’s health system, which is expected to cost at least $7 billion.Many have suffered from injuries sustained during the two-year-long Israel-Hamas conflict that is now in a ceasefire under a U.S.-brokered agreement.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe health agency said the “food situation” has slightly improved since the ceasefire, but will take…
London-based AI creative studio Wonder Studios has raised $12 million in seed funding to scale production amid a push to bring AI-generated content into the entertainment industry. The round was led by Atomico, alongside existing investors LocalGlobe and Blackbird, and builds on Wonder’s pre-seed investment, which included executives from ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its engineering team and accelerate its push into IP ownership and original content production. The team recently produced an AI music video for Lewis Capaldi’s ‘Something in the Heavens’, created with DeepMind, YouTube, and Universal Music Group. Wonder also…