A look at AI startups aiming to address loneliness among the elderly; a study predicts the AI market for aging and elderly care will grow to over $43B in 2025
The AI boom has brought with it a new crop of startups looking to build a business on an urgent but vaguely dystopian idea: solving loneliness among the elderly. LinkedIn: Richard Nieva , Jessi Gormez...
Study: Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can be easily used to create phishing emails targeting the elderly, despite being trained to refuse
Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders
clean energy experts Vidhi Taparia / Fortune India : BluSmart halts services amid Gensol crisis; Sebi action, funds crunch casts shadow on EV ride-hailing startup Prashant Tamta / DNA India : BluSmart...
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India...
Authorities in Singapore, which has a dire shortage of nurses, see the potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care, especially for the elderly
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it's using AI for preventive care. — • SINGAPORE
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
In an ingenious move to combat the UK's growing fraud epidemic, O2 has unveiled their newest team member - an AI-powered “Head of Scammer Relations” named Daisy. … Seth Ruden : One of the running them...
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line to waste their time.
Leaked documents reveal life-threatening issues at Amazon's primary-care service One Medical, raising concerns about Amazon's frugal approach to health care
Patient safety issues have increased since One Medical shifted care to a call center staffed by contractors, employees say. X: @boltyboy , @peter_grinspoon , @bulldoghill , @drpanmd , @rakeshsfnyc , @...
A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship
Lavender Au / Wired : LinkedIn: Yongjian L. and Ethan Tan LinkedIn: Yongjian L. : Wired magazine just released an article discussing the usage of Douyin/TikTok by elderly individuals in China. It fe...