...hack. In the second largest healthcare breach reported this year, 3.8 million records were breached by an unauthorized user via a network server between 5-10 October 2025, according to a report on Health and Human Services (HHS)’s HIPAA Cases Currently Under Investigation page. According to a class action law firm release in July, UT’s breached records had the full gamut of PII, including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, demographic information, and scanned documents such as copies of driver’s licenses or other government identification, insurance cards, and intake forms. PHI may potentially include... Continue Reading
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Breaking report: Oracle drawing up plans to lay off employees in “double digit percentages” by 1 September
...or her part time remote manager who remained after the last layoff round. Nothing is showing up in Federal/state WARN notices yet. However, WARN does not cover remote, dispersed employees nor offshore employees. There are about $300 million in restructuring costs included in the FY 27 SEC 10-K filing. This is a comparatively low amount that has to cover earlier layoff costs, which may indicate that this upcoming layoff will be lower than March’s. The money continues to flow out, not in. Oracle’s high-profile data center buildouts, notably Project Jupiter, are being hit with increasing “social costs”. Despite initial permitting,... Continue Reading
News roundup #2: Function Health’s jumbo $450M raise from General Catalyst, Hinge Health’s $105M Cylinder buy, and Throne Science’s $10M Series A
...Capital, Cosmic Venture Partners, Offscript, V1.VC, and Morrison Seger. Throne Science has developed an AI-assisted toilet sensor for $399 (plus $5.99/month membership) that monitors for bathroom habits, specifically monitoring patterns around hydration and gut health. Last month, they launched the beta version of their Gut Health AI coach which allows users to query the app about their data. The fresh funds will be used for further R&D for the next generation of the device targeting early detection of colon and urinary tract cancers. Interestingly, one of the founders is John Capodilupo, formerly CTO at the previously mentioned WHOOP. Release, Mobihealthnews... Continue Reading
News roundup #1: AI governance ‘in’ with Feds, ATA; Centene’s shrinking but more profitable future; repositions and partnerships for DispatchHealth, WHOOP; Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand modernization
Besides data center worries, AI governance and cybersecurity are very near the top of AI concerns. For the Feds, AI is being used to patch up cyber vulnerabilities at speed and scale. The Gold Eagle “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security” initiative established in Executive Order (EO) 14409 is designed to operate across agency lines, reduce bureaucracy, stimulate innovation, and utilize AI for security as well as develop internal, responsible AI practices. It also promotes cooperation between the private sector and government by being built out by open source software companies, The EO has three major parts: Upgrading American... Continue Reading
Chutes & Ladders, Oracle Edition: Surprise! Project Jupiter data center build overages, “social costs” multiply. Pentagon inks $7B, 10 year deal for software.
The Unexpected in the Terra Incognita of data centers whip up The Perfect Pricey Storm for Oracle. Oracle knows how to build software, not huge data center buildings. Buildings have messy things like power supply, coolant, and permitting at the local and state levels. There is also The Unexpected that any experienced builder will factor in even when unknown, whether it’s overruns for wiring, racks, chips, out of spec cement, etc., that delay Opening Revenue Day. The Unexpected increasingly includes what is termed “social costs” that start around genuine concerns such as power draw, transmission lines, water usage, disruptions, even... Continue Reading
This week’s Must Read: the dangerous financing of AI data center buildouts–and how they resemble the 2020 health tech boom
...the circular grift crash taking down Lehman Brothers and other financial institutions and putting us into a four-year recession. It also made financing nearly unavailable for health tech companies just getting out of their Series A or B. CDOs aren’t financing data centers, but Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are. The SPV raises debt financing for a data center and sells it to institutional investors, asset managers or banks. The SPV makes the payments to the contractors and suppliers such as Nvidia for chips. How they pay interest on the debt is via a special account. Finally, when the data center... Continue Reading
Chutes & Ladders: Data breach clouts Clover, OpenAI agent escapes sandbox to attack Hugging Face, Precision’s surface BCI achieves thought control, Tempus AI $1.5B Personalis buy, Karoo Health’s $16.2M Series A
...to move solely by thought cursors to navigate games like Pong and Mario Cart on tablets and smartphones while in recovery. The 510(k) investigational devices were removed in a five-minute procedure before the patient went home. This is a real advance for a less-invasive BCI. Mobihealthnews, video (YouTube) Tempus AI has agreed to acquire Personalis for $1.5 billion. Both are public companies listed on Nasdaq. Tempus AI is a precision medicine company using AI to analyze data for personalized care and therapeutics. Personalis is a cancer genomics company that uses DNA minimal residual disease (MRD) testing to detect cancer recurrence.... Continue Reading
News roundup: Withings Medical Group service launches, MPs urge cancellation of NHS/Palantir FDP contract, IKS closes TruBridge buy for $557M, ATA comments on prelim CMS PFS for telehealth, Philips’ AI-powered…toothbrush
...another contractor, or develop one in the UK. The concerned Members cross parties and are joined by the trade unions and 100 NHS data and technology specialists, who have separately objected to the FDP in a letter to Health Secretary James Murray. The FDP is a key part of NHS digital transformation to facilitate storage and analysis of health datasets to improve planning, patient care and hospital operations. But the concerns apparently are more political, targeting Palantir and alleging that its defense and security contracts will discourage patients from allowing their medical information to be used. If we in the... Continue Reading
A gloomy view on Oracle going forward: debt, cash flow, and dependence on OpenAI
...data centers, and OpenAI wasn’t happy about that. It’s not a simple matter of going to Nvidia and returning old chips and getting new ones–that isn’t done. Vera Rubin is also twice as expensive on a per-rack basis than Blackwell–$7.8 million versus $4 million. Add to this the long taffy pull of building (online is 12-18 months minimum), power, water, and labor costs…it adds up, as any builder will tell you. Given the above factors, it shouldn’t be any surprise that Oracle stock is down 30% since last December and continues to decline. Extra: The article also contains a short... Continue Reading
News roundup: 23andMe settles with data breach victims for $46.75M, Neuralink implants #26 & first Canadian ALS patient, Resmed selling MatrixCare EHR for $490M, Teladoc now preferred telehealth provider for NBA players
Bankrupt 23andMe finally settles with 2023 data breach victims. The settlement of $46.75 million was approved by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. It will be paid first to Kroll Restructuring within five business days from Tuesday 7 July. It will then be distributed among those who filed with Kroll as affected by the breach of their genetic and personal information. The breach occurred between 1 May and 1 October 2023. The benefits to those affected and filing a claim are: Up to $10,000 for Extraordinary Claims; Up to $165 for Health Information Claims; An estimated... Continue Reading
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