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    Nurses Sound Alarm as ‘Uber for Nursing’ Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

    A new AI Now Institute report published April 21, 2026, warns that gig-work platforms marketed as "Uber for nursing" are aggressively lobbying states to rewrite healthcare staffing rules, a push that could leave nurses with less pay, fewer protections, and less control over their shifts, according to The Guardian.

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    The billion-dollar startup with a different idea for AI

    A billion dollars in startup funding for a company that employs 12 people is an indication that investors still have faith in AI. But the founder of the startup in question – AMI Labs’ Yann LeCun – believes that the breed of technology we currently term AI (large language models) is not the way through […]

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    NVIDIA and Google infrastructure cuts AI inference costs

    At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA outlined their hardware roadmap designed to address the cost of AI inference at scale. The companies detailed the new A5X bare-metal instances, which run on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. Through hardware and software codesign, this architecture aims to deliver up to ten times lower […]

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    Sony AI robot beats players as humanoid robot wins Beijing race

    An autonomous table tennis robot developed by Sony AI has competed against and defeated high-level human players in regulated matches, according to Reuters. The system is part of a broader category often referred to as “physical AI,” where artificial intelligence is applied to machines operating in real-world environments. The robot, named Ace, was designed to […]

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