TTA’s May Double Feature: Seven Must Reads–the fiction of AI data centers, AI’s inauthentic Voice, health AI failures, Hippocratic AI’s stumbles, and more; Senate hearing on senior safety and tech next Wednesday

Friday 15 May 2026

This week’s Main Feature is multi-part–seven Must Read articles. The Promises of AI data centers buildouts, nor the current operational capacity, don’t quite resemble Reality. AI’s Voice inadequacy–why everything sounds not quite authentic. There’s documented health AI failures, how Federal agencies are having problems with AI procurement best practices, and how healthcare is losing empathy. Our Second Feature is a Senate Special Committee hearing on senior safety practices and technology, ‘televised’ online next Wednesday.

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A Must-Read potpourri: the ‘math’ of AI data center builds, healthcare AI failures, telehealth in schools, Hippocratic AI’s problems, the loss of empathy.

US Senate Committee on Aging hearings on senior safety 20 May–available online

Last Week’s Headlines

News roundup: Amwell narrows Q1 and full year losses, AMA urges Congress for guardrails on mental health chatbots, hospital at home study finds lower ED visits and lower hospital mortality

Character.AI sued by Pennsylvania on its chatbots posing as licensed physicians and psychiatrists

Oracle steps back from the AI debt brink with $16.3B financing for MI data center, the Project Jupiter ‘clean energy’ experiment in NM, and a major Federal DOW contract

Chutes & Ladders: Ad trackers still on healthcare websites after lawsuits, FTC; the US Navy adds WHOOPs it up and expands Talkspace; HealthVerity to buy Symphony Health; Nervonik’s $52.5M Series B

Is the health tech business neglecting validated deep learning medical AI models versus less proven LLMs and generative AI?

Plus…

Breaking: OpenEvidence app access terminated in the UK and EU

(Updated) Medtronic reports corporate IT systems cyberattacked. 500K UK Biobank records breached in inside job. Are med device and research organizations the new hacker happy hunting ground?

‘Behind the Emergency’–a well-done presentation about and approach to a specialized healthcare market

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