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Year-Old Flapping Airplanes Raises $1B at a Reported $6B Valuation
The AI lab has no product on sale, and its reported valuation is four times what it was at its seed round. Read our full story →
Appeals Court Rebukes a Judge Over an AI-Drafted Order
The panel says the order cited declarations from people who didn't exist, along with facts nowhere in the case record. Read our full story →
UK Funds a £100M AI Biosecurity Lab With OpenAI and Anthropic
The two AI companies are offering up to £200M combined, but in credits and model access, not cash. Read the original story →
Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Could Inform Your Ads
It applies only if you let Search or Gemini access those apps, and Google says the content isn't used for personalized ads by default. Read the original story →
Johns Hopkins Bayview Alerts 3,182 Patients After Data Went to an AI Tool
A worker uploaded a patient spreadsheet to an unapproved AI platform, and the hospital says Social Security numbers weren't included. Read the original story →
What an AI Breast Cancer Risk Score Does and Doesn't Tell Patients
Radiologist Connie Lehman, who is also founder and CEO of Clairity, says risk scores estimate future risk and don't diagnose current cancer. Read the original story →
📚 From the AI Knowledge Hub
Cursor Pricing: Every Plan, Price and Real Monthly Cost — Plans from the free Hobby tier to $200 Ultra, Teams at $40 or $120 per user, and how usage beyond each plan is billed.
Anthropic Stock: How to Buy, Invest and Spot Fake Offers — Why shares can't be bought on a public exchange as of Oct. 7, and why Anthropic says SPV and tokenized offers are void.
AI Engineer vs ML Engineer: Pay, Skills and Demand Compared — Indeed's September 2026 average base pay for each role, plus LinkedIn's ranking of the fastest-growing US jobs.
📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
Several of today's stories are about who is accountable when AI is used. A court says an order drafted with AI carried facts nowhere in the record, a hospital says a worker put patient data into an unapproved AI tool, and Google is spelling out when Gmail and Photos content can inform ads. Meanwhile, a year-old lab with no product on sale raised $1 billion, and the UK's AI biosecurity lab is funded largely in AI company credits instead of cash.
