NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul

The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment [...]

US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance [...]

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue gr [...]

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before B [...]

India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child abuse material

India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has s [...]

Tesla’s driver assist faces new pressure after two fatal crashes where the cars stopped dead

Electrek has matched two fatal US freeway crashes to redacted Tesla reports showing a driver assistance system verified as engaged with the car stopped at 0mph in a live lane. The Netherlands approved [...]

Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment a [...]

OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal

OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets O [...]

Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn

Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tell [...]