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- “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online.
- Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPT Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn't pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.
- Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial Company is pulling out all the stops to protect itself in advance of New Mexico trial.
- Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about ‘deceptive advertising’ in ChatGPT Sen.
- Thinking of Joining IEEE’s Leadership Ranks? Strong leadership is essential for IEEE to advance technology for humanity.
- Arguing conformance with data protection principles arXiv:2601.15155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show how conformance arguments can be used by organisations to substantiate claims of co…
- Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems Article URL: https://charap.co/on-metastable-failures-and-interactions-between-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
- Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users Article URL: https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725300 Points: 27 # Comments…
- Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-january-2026-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
- Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."
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For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn't pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.
Company is pulling out all the stops to protect itself in advance of New Mexico trial.
Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."
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