UK tech firms have asked the government for at least £20bn over five years, partly as procurement guarantees, to build sovereign AI capacity. If the government adopts the procurement rules they propose, public buyers would weigh domestic AI suppliers differently.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives75
- Confidence50
Palantir's NHS Federated Data Platform deal has a break clause that would end it in 2027, but three Whitehall sources told WIRED the changeover has to be decided within weeks. The rest of its £670m UK book is untouched.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption72
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
IDC credits multi-agent deployments for European AI growth it puts at 35% a year through 2030, arriving while most high-risk obligations are already in force and the remainder apply from 2 August 2027.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption32
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
AI-assisted code analysis keeps finding old bugs in software that certified and unsupported OT cannot update. Talos answers with deep packet inspection on the path in and VLAN segmentation built on how little OT talks.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives75
- Confidence45
The Swedish company's headset beat a sham device on remission at 10 weeks in a 174-person trial. In the US it is prescription-only and cash-pay, at $2,200 for the first course and $325 a month after that.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives78
- Confidence50
A natural experiment at the October 2017 vaccine changeover gives the cardiovascular claim a cleaner comparison group. It also means nobody has yet measured Shingrix against no vaccine.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives42
- Confidence74
The UK has six months to decide whether to end a $400M-plus NHS contract, and one region's refusal to onboard the Federated Data Platform is the argument's only working counterexample.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
Deborah Cohen's "Bad Influence" argues that engagement-ranked content now shapes what patients expect from care. Her remedy sits with the reader, not the ranking system.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives68
- Confidence28