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AI news that's actually fun to read — 2026-05-13
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Today's Hallucination HQThe Government Quietly Built a Way to Pay AI Doctors. Nobody Noticed.
Medicare's new ACCESS model does something that has never existed before: it creates a payment mechanism for AI agents that monitor patients between visits, coordinate care, chase up prescriptions, and arrange housing referrals. Previously, no billing code covered any of that. The American healthcare system, which can invoice you for a bandage with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker, simply had no line item for "AI rang your gran to check she was still alive."
Source: TechCrunch
Android 17 Arrives, Brings AI to Everything Including the Widgets
Android 17 ships with AI-generated widgets, improved dictation, and what Google is calling "vibe-coded" interfaces — meaning your phone will now arrange itself based on context and usage patterns. Remarkably, there are also updates with no AI involvement whatsoever, which in 2025 qualifies as an act of restraint bordering on the heroic. The non-AI features have not yet been named, but they exist, and we respect them for that.
Source: The Verge
Google and SpaceX Would Like to Put the Internet's Electricity Bill Into Orbit
Google and SpaceX are in early talks to build data centres in space, on the basis that orbit offers unique advantages for AI compute — namely, solar power and the absence of planning permission. The costs today are dramatically higher than ground-based facilities, which is the kind of detail that suggests this is either visionary long-term thinking or a very expensive conversation two companies are having while the bill hasn't arrived yet.
Source: TechCrunch
Clooney, Hanks, and Streep Would Like AI to Ask Before Borrowing Their Face
A coalition of Hollywood's most recognisable humans — including George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep — has backed the Human Consent Standard, a new AI licensing framework that lets individuals set terms for how their likeness, creative work, and characters may be used. The standard gives people the ability to say yes, say no, or say "yes, but pay me," which is a sentence the entertainment industry has been trying to make stick since before computers could walk and talk.
Source: The Verge
AI Is Building Mental Models of Reality Now. MIT Thinks You Should Know.
MIT Technology Review has flagged "world models" as one of the ten most important developments in AI right now. A world model is an AI system that builds an internal simulation of how reality works — not just pattern-matching text, but developing something closer to cause-and-effect reasoning. It's the difference between a system that has read every cookbook ever written and one that actually understands why heat changes food. The gap, it turns out, matters enormously.
Source: MIT Technology Review
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As always, the AI is learning to understand the world. The world remains cautiously optimistic.
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