Palantir, a US data analytics company, has secured a £330 million contract to provide the NHS's Federated Data Platform, raising concerns about governance and transparency. Critics question the lack o…
Andy Burnham, expected to become UK prime minister as soon as July 20, 2026, is reportedly set to end the NHS's 330-million-pound data contract with Palantir, according to multiple UK outlets. The Pal…
A new report from the MHRA's National Commission on the Regulation of AI in Healthcare reveals that 70% of 761 stakeholders disagree that existing UK regulations are sufficient for AI safety and perfo…
The National Institute for Health and Care Research awarded £8.1 million to six AI and digital innovation projects, including two Oxford-led studies. SAMURAI-CT will evaluate AI-assisted head CT inter…
A Young Scot survey of over 2,600 young people aged 11-25 found that more than 80% have seen misinformation online, with nearly 70% worried about inaccurate information and 60% struggling to distingui…
An audiologist warns that sunburn can exacerbate or trigger tinnitus, an incurable hearing disorder affecting millions, due to inflammation, stress, and dehydration caused by intense sun exposure. Exp…
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal was wrong to set aside the competition watchdog's decision against Pfizer for excessive pricing of an anti-epilepsy drug, the Court of Appeal ruled. The regulator fo…
Frontier Health, a London startup founded by ex-Palantir healthcare lead Rachel Finegold, raised $16 million in seed funding led by Atomico to deploy its AI agent JUNO for NHS administrative teams. Th…
KPMG published a report on AI in business that contained fabricated case studies involving UBS, the NHS, and other organizations. GPTZero CEO Edward Tian, who helped uncover the errors, warns of 'seco…
KPMG pulled a report on agentic AI after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about their AI usage were untrue. GPTZero identified the errors as AI hallucinations, indicating the firm used AI to w…
NHS patients cannot opt out of Palantir's data platform, but their hospital can choose not to participate, raising concerns about patient data privacy and consent.…
Researchers at arXiv have proposed SafeLLM, an extraction-based method for retrieval-augmented generation that eliminates hallucinations by directly selecting relevant sentences from source documents …
UK lawmakers urged the government to terminate its contract with Palantir for NHS data services, warning that lock-in to a small number of suppliers is hindering digital government plans. A parliament…
Flok Health, a Cambridge-based company with regulatory approval to autonomously triage, treat, and discharge NHS patients without human oversight, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding led by Albio…
A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to exercise a break clause in its £330 million NHS data contra…
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has advised the NHS to maintain an "open by default" policy for its code repositories, countering the NHS's decision to close access following security vulnerabili…