Book Review: ‘Prophecy,’ by Carissa Véliz
In “Prophecy,” Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
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Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz’s ingenious, scathing survey of forecasting takes a well-timed swipe at today’s obsession with predictive algorithms
Read full articleIn “Prophecy,” Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
OXFORD, England, April 28, 2026 — Lumai, the optical compute company addressing scalable AI, today announced its Lumai Iris inference server – the world’s first optical computing system to successfully […] The post Lumai Debuts Iris Optical Compute System for Real-Time LLM Inference appeared first on AIwire.
Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in England Oxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops. More than 60 million people worldwide have the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood around the body as well as it should. Spotting cases before they develop into heart failure would be a big step forward, experts say. Doctors could prepare better for and manage the condition at an earlier stage or even prevent it entirely. Continue reading...