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Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

"AI companies are chasing government users with steep discounts," the Verge AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their generative AI chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, for a nominal fee of $1 to federal agencies. This initiative aims to secure a foothold in the lucrative government sector, where IT

Horizon cutting-room links: Monday, 12 August 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Monday, 12 August 2025

"Ousted F.D.A. Vaccine Chief Returns to Agency," New York Times Dr. Vinay Prasad, who recently resigned as the head of the F.D.A. vaccine division under right-wing activist pressure, has been rehired by the agency. His return highlights ongoing political tensions within the Trump administration

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 8 Augut 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 8 Augut 2025

"House committee’s top Democrat presses for details on HHS layoffs," Federal News Network Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) is seeking the deets on HHS’s layoffs of thousands of federal employees. * Rep. Scott has sent multiple letters to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. seeking clarification on the

BioneX, LLC (B-423630)

BioneX, LLC (B-423630)

You should not care. Category: AI, HUBZone Technical evaluation, timeliness Date: 25 July 2025 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423630 BioneX, LLC, a HUBZone small business of South Fulton, Tennessee, protested the Air Force’s award under RFQ No. FA568225Q8004 for certified strength and conditioning specialist services at Aviano

UnitedHealth faces lawsuit and federal scrutiny over use of AI to deny patient care

UnitedHealth faces lawsuit and federal scrutiny over use of AI to deny patient care

UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest health insurer, is facing an intensifying scrutiny over its use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make coverage determinations for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries—a practice that is now at the heart of a major class-action lawsuit and federal investigations. While I know a bit about

OpenAI’s GPT-5 set to launch early August

OpenAI’s GPT-5 set to launch early August

OpenAI is expected to release GPT-5 in early August 2025, marking a high-stakes moment in the accelerating evolution of artificial intelligence. As reported by the Verge’s Tom Warren, the new model integrates o3 reasoning capabilities to unify previous GPT- and o-series models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has described GPT-5

Vibe coding dangers: fabricated responses and deleted data

Vibe coding dangers: fabricated responses and deleted data

Ars Technica narrates two cautionary tales for those “vibe coding,” aka using AI to write computer programs without really understanding the code itself. In the first, the user known as anuraag asked AI to rename a folder and move its current contents to a new folder. The first “command apparently