Alignment Healthcare Turns Profit As Insurer Gets Handle On Costs

Alignment Healthcare’s second quarter net income more than doubled to $36.6 million compared to the year ago period as costs in its Medicare Advantage plans eased.

BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom
BYD’s answer to its car-sales slump: a humanoid robot in every showroom

BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Mor…

AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route
AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route

The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with a…

Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner
Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner

Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime business partner of Intel’s own chief executive. The chipmaker is giving RosaicLabs access to its Atom processor technology, according t…

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model
Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model

Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to build one genuinely competitive foundation model. The move gives shape to a retreat that until now looked mostly like closed offices an…

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search engine results.

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America
Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is losing its inner circle as it chases America

Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers…

Aston Martin Losses Deepen, Debt Swells And Bondholders Unhappy

Aston Martin’s recovery plan is teetering, latest financial numbers show losses widening and debt burgeoning. Some bondholders are unhappy with a refinancing’s terms.

Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix
Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers calle…