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$117B+ global market projected by 2032 and growing fast
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Elite team from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and Stanford
Future Cardia is racing toward FDA clearance—and changing the future of heart care.
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💥 OpenAI and Microsoft risk open war
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- OpenAI is considering accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior, potentially seeking federal regulatory review, to change terms of their strategic partnership agreement.
- Microsoft reportedly demands a larger equity stake in OpenAI's new public-benefit corporation, complicating the startup's for-profit conversion and fundraising efforts.
- OpenAI wants to protect IP from its Windsurf acquisition from Microsoft and also aims to renegotiate Azure's exclusive rights for selling its technology.
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📱 Social media is now the top news source in the US
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- Social media and video networks are now the primary news source in the U.S., with 54 percent of individuals getting news from platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
- Globally, TikTok is the fastest-growing network for news, with 17 percent of people now using it, cementing social media's role as a key news source.
- The platform X has also seen significant news user growth in the U.S. and U.K., particularly tripling its right-leaning audience stateside since Elon Musk's takeover.
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🤖 AI bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums
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- AI bots are overwhelming servers at many libraries, archives, and museums with massive traffic, sometimes knocking valuable public online collections entirely offline for users.
- Cultural organizations frequently first realize AI bots are scraping them when a sudden flood of automated requests causes system failures, blocking access for human visitors.
- Numerous AI scraping bots reportedly ignore the `robots.txt` protocol, a standard web file sites use to instruct automated tools against accessing their content.
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🛡️ OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
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- OpenAI secured a $200 million, one-year U.S. Defense Department contract to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities addressing critical national security challenges in warfighting and enterprise domains.
- This agreement is the first with OpenAI listed on the Defense Department's website and specifies work will occur via OpenAI Public Sector LLC in the National Capital Region.
- While significant, this $200 million defense award represents a small fraction of OpenAI's reported annualized sales, which currently exceed $10 billion.
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⚠️ Meta AI warns your chats can be public
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- Meta AI now displays a specific pop-up message to warn users that prompts they choose to post will become public and visible to everyone.
- Previously, some users shared sensitive personal information to the public Discovery feed, likely unaware their Meta AI chats could be seen by anyone.
- Publishing chats requires users to tap "Share" then "Post to feed"; this action now triggers the clearer warning about making content public.
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