{
  "id": 13469445,
  "title": "A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access (CBS News)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/a-look-at-a-1-700-member-slack-run-by-medicare-agency-cms-where",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-10T16:50:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-tech-leaders-trump-health-officials-slack/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A 1,700-member Slack channel run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) includes representatives from Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies. According to CBS News, this group helps shape policy on AI apps and medical records access.\n\nThe Slack channel has been active for about a year and includes a range of participants, including tech industry professionals, financiers, and high-level officials from the Trump administration.\n\nNo additional details about the Slack channel or its activities are available from the reports.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Microsoft skipped OpenAI’s decision model and built its own on Alibaba’s Qwen",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/microsoft-skipped-openais-decision-model-and-built-its-own-on",
        "published": "2026-10-10T13:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}