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Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned

Public trust in AI has collapsed to levels matching climate and war fears—governments must demonstrate concrete benefits or risk significant voter backlash, warns UK think tank IPPR.

Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline

Britain's government risks public backlash against AI unless it demonstrates tangible benefits to ordinary people, warns UK think tank IPPR. Public perception has soured—AI now ranks alongside climate change and war as a top global risk. Forrester forecasts 6.1% of US jobs lost to AI by 2030, and similar skepticism is emerging in the US and other democracies.

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Adaptive Ultrasound Imaging with Physics-Informed NV-Raw2Insights-US AI

NVIDIA and Siemens release NV-Raw2Insights-US, a physics-informed AI model that reconstructs ultrasound images directly from raw sensor data, bypassing traditional beamforming to preserve signal information normally discarded and enabling real-time portable imaging.

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Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI

Agentic AI tools like Cursor are reshaping development velocity—Uber shipped hotel booking against 700k+ Expedia properties and AI voice booking in record time, illustrating how code-generation agents compress typically multi-month cycles into weeks.