The Healthcare edition
This is a real edition from 8 September 2026, at the Practical level, in plain language.
Little care news this week, but there is a guide from your own professional body, plus two lessons on what AI does without oversight.
V&VN: use AI for the boring text first, not for care itself
The professional body has drawn up a step-by-step plan to cut admin work. It also sets out clear rules on patient data.
V&VN, the professional association for nurses and carers, has published a guide for using AI wisely on the work floor. The advice is to start small: summarising text, making templates, and rewriting messages in plain language. Leave critical processes alone for now. Once a pilot works well, scale it up carefully.
Your own professional association, V&VN, advises using AI first for boring tasks: summarising, making templates, rewriting messages. Care itself stays out of scope for now. It's important never to put identifiable patient data into a public chatbot, and to only use versions with clear data agreements. You'll also notice that AI use in offices is becoming more normal, and that rules around big chatbots are getting stricter. Research into computing on encrypted data shows that privacy and AI could go together better in future.
Google lets you control Gmail, Docs, and Keep with your voice
Google is adding three voice features to Workspace. You can dictate a document, search your inbox by voice, and turn loose thoughts into tidy notes. It rolls out this week for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in Gmail and Keep, and for Pro and Ultra in Docs. Read more →
Six in ten service firms use AI weekly
In the Dutch service sector, 61 percent of companies use AI weekly or more often. They mainly do this to work faster, cut costs, and serve customers better. In many offices, AI is no longer an experiment. It's now part of the normal working week. Read more →
ChatGPT now falls under the EU's strictest rules for big services
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as 'very large online services' under the Digital Services Act. This applies once a service has at least 45 million EU users a month. By January 2027 at the latest, they must meet stricter requirements, such as extra transparency and risk assessments. Read more →
Google publishes technique for computing on encrypted data
Google has published HEIR. It lets AI models do calculations on data that stays encrypted, so the underlying information is never revealed. Four demos show what's already possible and where the limits lie. Read more →
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