Wired:
Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident  —  Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor.

Approximately 40,000 New York City civil servants, retirees and their dependents may lose in-network coverage at NewYork-Presbyterian’s hospital network as early as next week, as the embattled hospital system continues a drawn-out dispute with insurer EmblemHealth over rates. The United Federation of Teachers, the city’s second-largest public sector union, accused the hospital of engaging in […]

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Robert Hart / The Verge:
Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications  —  Some psychiatrists are asking what problem, exactly, this is solving. … Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor.

On Thursday, during Artemis II's journey to the Moon, commander Reid Wiseman ran into a tech issue some of us back on Earth can relate to: Microsoft Outlook wasn't working. In a conversation captured in NASA's Artemis livestream and shared on Bluesky, Wiseman reported to Mission Control: "I also see that I have two Microsoft […]

OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment - who was until recently the company's CEO of applications - says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave "for the next several weeks" due to […]