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  • Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help

    07/30/2025 5:09:00 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    Scripps News ^ | 4:47 PM, Jul 30, 2025 | AP via Scripps News Group
    The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. The Trump administration announced it is launching a new program that will allow Americans to share personal health data and medical records across health systems and apps run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness. More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system. The initiative will focus on diabetes and...
  • OpenAI says DeepSeek stole ChatGPT data sets to train its AI Model, claims to have 'solid evidence'

    01/30/2025 9:04:55 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    FirstPost ^ | 01/30/2025
    OpenAI has claimed it found evidence suggesting that DeepSeek used distillation, a technique that extracts data from larger models to train smaller ones. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which cost over $100 million to train, is an example of a large and complex AI system.OpenAI has raised serious concerns about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, suspecting the company of using its data to train its own models. DeepSeek has gained significant attention for its cost-effective AI solutions, which are seen as strong competitors to OpenAI’s offerings. Following this, OpenAI and its partner Microsoft are now investigating whether DeepSeek used OpenAI’s API to integrate...
  • Capitalism as we know it is over, so what comes next? Varoufakis argues we're in a new economic era

    12/20/2023 1:47:28 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    Euronews ^ | 20/12/2023 | Marta Rodriguez Martinez & Tom Goodwin
    It’s the most wonderful time of the year for retailers. With Christmas around the corner, shopping soars: groceries and drinks for dinners, toys, electronics for gifts, and clothes for events. It seems wild not to believe that capitalism is in perfect health... However, former Greek Minister of Economics Yanis Varoufakis not only thinks it's in decline but claims it's already dead. Who killed it? Well, according to him, Amazon and Alibaba, among others... My Wildest Prediction is a brand new podcast series from Euronews Business where we dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries. In this third...