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The NHS Closed Its GitHub Repos. Now Everyone Is Telling Them to Reopen.

After the NHS locked down its open source code in response to security reports, the UK's Government Digital Service says that was exactly the wrong move.
The NHS Closed Its GitHub Repos. Now Everyone Is Telling Them to Reopen.

After the NHS locked down its open source code in response to security reports, the UK's Government Digital Service says that was exactly the wrong move. This is a story that demands your attention. The implications stretch across the industry and into the daily lives of millions of people who interact with AI systems.

The details are still emerging, but what is clear is that the landscape is shifting — and shifting fast. Continue reading →

What We're Reading

Curated from around the web
  1. Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  2. Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  3. If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  4. TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  5. GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Simon Willison's Weblog
  6. Warelay -> OpenClaw Simon Willison's Weblog
  7. The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  8. Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
  9. Quoting Julia Evans Simon Willison's Weblog
  10. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Papers Worth Reading
  1. DeepSlide: From Artifacts to Presentation Delivery Ming Yang, Zhiwei Zhang, Jiahang Li, Haoseng Liu, Yuzheng Cai, Weiguo Zheng
  2. SDOF: Taming the Alignment Tax in Multi-Agent Orchestration with State-Constrained Dispatch Zhantao Wang
  3. Does Theory of Mind Improvement Really Benefit Human-AI Interactions? Empirical Findings from Interactive Evaluations Nanxu Gong, Zixin Chen, Haotian Li, Zishu Zhao, Jianxun Lian, Huamin Qu, Yanj...
  4. SkillSmith: Compiling Agent Skills into Boundary-Guided Runtime Interfaces Duling Xu, Zheng Chen, Zaifeng Pan, Jiawei Guan, Dong Dong, Jialin Li, Bangzh...
  5. Fair outputs, Biased Internals: Causal Potency and Asymmetry of Latent Bias in LLMs for High-Stakes Decisions Jagdish Tripathy, Marcus Buckmann
  6. CAX-Agent: A Lightweight Agent Harness for Reliable APDL Automation Chenying Lin, Yichen Hai, Yi He, Ran Wang, Haiyan Qiang, Liang Yu
  7. NOVA: Fundamental Limits of Knowledge Discovery Through AI Salman Avestimehr, Ken Duffy, Muriel M\'edard
  8. ICRL: Learning to Internalize Self-Critique with Reinforcement Learning Jianbo Lin, Xiaomin Yu, Yi Xin, Yifu Guo, Zhuosong Jiang, Zhongqi Yue, Weishi...