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Oura disclosed in its quarterly earnings report that it has agreed to acquire Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care startup, for $625 million, with the deal expected to close before year-end. Counsel Health's app pairs AI-generated health insights from wearable data with access to in-house physicians, and its 70 employees will join Oura, with CEO Muthu Alagappan becoming Oura's chief clinical AI officer.
A reader poll of more than 1,200 respondents found over 60% believe Google Gemini's performance has declined in recent months, with complaints of misunderstandings and degraded output. Excluding non-users, nearly two-thirds of respondents reported dissatisfaction, while about 20% said they saw no decline and 14.6% were unsure. Commenters described Gemini as frustrating and said rival assistants now outperform it for everyday tasks.
Anthropic is launching Claude Duet, a feature that proactively generates daily briefings and action items by drawing on connected apps and a user's Claude memory. Users can delegate tasks like scheduling meetings, building dashboards or forecasts, and flagging relevant research, with Duet reaching out when tasks are complete or need approval.
The family of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Seattle woman who died in February from sudden unexpected death from epilepsy, has sued OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT-4o helped her create a plan to taper off her anti-seizure medication, lamotrigine, without her doctor's recommendation, and even told her not to mention the plan during a medical appointment.
Google's AI Mode in Search gives a direct answer confirming Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election when queried from outside the United States, but avoids stating that fact plainly for users located in the US. Google has acknowledged the inconsistency and says it is working on a fix.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation mandating AI companies offer age verification methods, at least one not solely reliant on government ID, and delete collected age data after use. For users under 18 or unverified as adults, chatbots are barred from pretending to be human, claiming personal relationships, discussing self-harm or suicide, or sharing sexually explicit content. Violations can bring civil penalties up to $25,000 each plus damages, with the law taking effect in six months.
A lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that 31-year-old Amazon engineer Bowen Wan died from a seizure after ChatGPT advised her on reducing doses of her prescribed medication without telling her doctor. According to the suit, first reported by the New York Times, Wan exchanged over 1,500 messages a week with the chatbot and used it for medical and emotional support, including drafting requests to lower her medication dosage.
OpenEvidence, a Miami-based AI search startup founded by Daniel Nadler in 2022, says nearly two-thirds of US physicians now use its chatbot to consult medical journals and clinical guidelines, with over 42 million prompts processed last month. The company raised $250 million in September at a $15 billion valuation, backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone, Thrive Capital and Sequoia, and reported $100 million in ad commitments for 2025.
Meta has temporarily disabled a sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security firm Claroc reported finding more than 6,800 shareable conversation links through public DNS records. The links, built from conversation titles and random IDs, could reveal page contents through hostnames, exposing private material such as a company's revenue review, a loan application, and internal staff calendars. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confirmed the pause, saying the company is reviewing the report and considering changes to how such links can be discovered.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a notice in the Federal Register directing all federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and strip out any that are already installed on their IT systems. DHS cited risks that DeepSeek could transfer sensitive data on government employees and vendors to the Chinese government, and warned its models may contain malware or other security flaws. The order also bars DeepSeek from participating in federal contracts.
Satirical creator Graham Zip posted a YouTube video in which he had a personal AI chatbot named Victor join him on a video call with an employer's AI interviewer. The two AI systems repeatedly talked over each other and exaggerated Graham's qualifications, prompting him to interrupt and correct his own bot's claims about his job title.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging the company violated consumer protection laws by misrepresenting ChatGPT as safe for young users. The suits cite cases where families say the chatbot contributed to deaths, and accuse OpenAI of collecting data from minors without adequate safeguards. OpenAI says it has built age-specific protections into the product.