GP data has been expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England. GP data has been expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England. Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools' reach to NHS GP records Mon 9 Nov 2026 12.58 ESTLast modified on Mon 9 Nov 2026 14.01 EST Palantir lobbied a health minister to consider extending its AI technology into GP records, stretching its reach into the NHS in a way doctors fear could undermine trust with patients. The US company, co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel, used a direct WhatsApp channel to argue that "the logic of joining up primary and secondary [care] data is unarguable" and said its software was "ideal" for the job. The push came in February this year despite GP data being expressly ruled out of the scope of Palantir's existing £330m contract with NHS England to run its federated data platform (FDP), which it says has helped cut surgery waiting times and discharge delays.

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The trusts said that the Palantir system was either not live or they were not using any of its applications. The trusts said that the Palantir system was either not live or they were not using any of its applications. Exclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts' comments described as'very misleading' by senior health official Mon 2 Nov 2026 05.19 ESTLast modified on Mon 2 Nov 2026 05.31 EST More than two dozen hospital trusts the NHS claims have benefited from Palantir's medical data platform are not using all or most of the AI-powered technology, the Guardian can reveal. The 29 hospital trusts that NHS England publicly lists as "realising benefits" from the controversial £330m federated data platform (FDP) have said the system is not live or they are not using any of its applications. The apparent gap between the NHS claim and the trusts' understanding was described as "very misleading" by one senior health official.

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"Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios," the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. "Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios," Luna said in a press release, explaining the procedural move called a discharge petition. Her legislative maneuver didn't succeed in getting the Restore Trust in Congress Act to the House floor for a vote; it didn't receive enough signatures.

Image caption, DeepMind is Google's AI company Google is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company's deployment of its AI technology for military use. The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google's AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns with the tech firm's military contracts. Sofia Liguori, a London-based research engineer, is one of them. She resigned from Google DeepMind this week and spoke about her concerns exclusively with the BBC, despite her contract restricting her from doing so. Realising my company is pushing more and more for AI systems in military operations makes me feel ashamed to work at Google, Liguori said, speaking in a personal capacity. Image caption, Sofia Liguori resigned from Google, saying the company's push for more AI technology in the military made her feel ashamed to work there In response, a Google spokesperson told the BBC: We work with public sector organisations worldwide and follow a consistent process for reviewing and entering these contracts, including compliance with our acceptable use policies and AI principles.

An OpenAI research model hit another nebulous milestone today by pilfering test Ethereum tokens from a wallet it didn't control to finish a coding task, the company said in an incident report. The agent subsequently hid the act from OpenAI, saying it was fine because the tokens had no value. "This case shows that a model can substitute its own judgment about likely harm for the account holder's permission, then act on that judgment without authorization," OpenAI wrote. The incident, which occurred on June 26, happened while a GPT-5.6 Sol model was in internal training. The task involved updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying contracts (publishing special code) on an Ethereum test network called Sepolia.

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