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An ex-Palantir leader raised $16M to point AI at the NHS’s paperwork, not its doctors

Almost every AI tool aimed at the NHS is built for clinicians. Frontier Health raised $16M to build for the people behind them.

The London startup announced a $16M seed round led by Atomico, with firstminute capital and XYZ Venture Capital also taking part. It is the first institutional money into the company, founded in 2024.

Frontier Health makes JUNO, an AI agent built not for doctors but for NHS administrative teams, the coordinators who chase test results, rebook missed appointments, and spot patients stuck in a care pathway before a target is breached.

That focus is unusual. Most NHS AI funding has gone to ambient scribing, the tools that transcribe clinical conversations into notes. Tandem Health raised $50mn for that in 2025; TORTUS, Heidi, and Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot are chasing the same clinician market. The admin layer that actually governs patient flow has been largely ignored.

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'These actors are no longer relying solely on traditional cybercrime': Experts uncover another massive North…

* Nisos uncovers large DPRK employment fraud campaign embedding operatives in US tech firms * 22 agents submitted 166k+ applications, landing 21k+ interviews and 76 job offers using stolen identities, AI tools, and local stand‑ins * Targets were mostly software/data roles; scheme blended deception and AI tactics to generate salaries and

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ExpressVPN gives its desktop apps a visual makeover and a bigger push into AI

* ExpressVPN has pushed version 14.2.0 to its Mac, Windows, and Linux apps, * The update opens the app in compact mode by default, with a cleaner look * A new MCP server lets AI coding tools read and control your VPN connection ExpressVPN has just rolled out version 14.2.

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The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “Zero screen

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‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data

It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst,

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