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Discord's age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally
Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
The next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026
The next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by Sept 25 to save up to $200.
Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs
Corridor focuses on SMBs, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook because small accounts generate lower commissions than larger accounts.
Vocci's ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
New California law will penalize influencers don't disclose political ads
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
Permitting deal faces political crunch
Senators believe they’re closing in on a long-sought permitting deal, but looming over the talks is whether to address the politically fraught data center boom.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro line hits stores with a $100 price bump amid memory crunch, AI pressure
Apple's iPhone 18 Pros hit stores Friday.
Lakers Add 6-Foot-8 Forward Amid Growing Roster Crunch
The Los Angles Lakers added a 6-foot-8 forward on Thursday as their crowded training camp roster takes shape. The post Lakers Add 6-Foot-8 Forward Amid Growing Roster Crunch appeared first on HEAVY.
Media Execs Talk Trends at Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit
A panel of execs from Hulu and ABC, NBCU, WBTV, Blumhouse and Crunchyroll kicked off the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit presented by EY.
Media Execs Talk Trends at Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit
A panel of execs from Hulu and ABC, NBCU, WBTV, Blumhouse and Crunchyroll kicked off the Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit presented by EY.
Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses
Snap unveiled new features for its smart glasses this week.
Le Fee provides stardust on Sunderland's special night
You have to go back to a second-round exit at the hands of Portuguese side Sporting in the 1973-74 Cup Winners' Cup for the last time Sunderland played in a major European competition. There were no shortage of individual displays to galvanise them from Robin Roefs with his crucial saves, Granit Xhaka pulling the strings from deep to full-back turned winger Trai Hume causing chaos in the opponents' box one moment and throwing in a crunching tackle to end an AZ break the next. The 26-year-old worked tirelessly off the ball, nicking the ball back for his side time and again, but it is in the final third that the Sunderland playmaker really comes to life.
After accusations of selling 'perv glasses,' Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?
Wardogs studio CEO issues new statement, after backlash for saying his studio won't hire people who "constantly tweet anti-crunch messaging"
Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer issues a new statement to Eurogamer, after finding himself in hot water over comments about crunch and social media screening.
Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries and access smart home activity using natural language.
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface
Anthropic is releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers initally
Science Museum on Purpose-Driven Licensing
Amy Harbour, head of licensing, Science Museum Group, discusses how the institution's licensing program prioritizes mission over merchandise.
Co-founder Max Hodak joins the agenda lineup on Disrupt 2026
Hear why Science Corp CEO Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before Sept 25 to save up to $200.
Wardogs CEO Says Workers Who Speak Out Against Crunch Won't 'Be Happy Here'
Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer told The Game Business the studio scans the social media of potential hires, and that those who speak out against crunch 'often don't make it in the door'
Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacks
The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone's modem "may be under limited, targeted exploitation."
"They often don’t make it in the door": Wardogs studio Bulkhead check for "anti-crunch messaging" on prospective hires' social media, CEO says
Wardogs studio Bulkhead check prospective hires' social media for "anti-crunch messaging" and tend not to hire such folks, CEO Joe Brammer has said.
'This Is a Place You Come to Work Hard' — Wardogs CEO Justifies Crunch as a Balancing Act
Joe Brammer, the CEO of Wardogs developer Bulkhead, has stated that the studio avoids hiring people that aren't willing to crunch.
U23 set for crunch clash with promoted side Rhynern
SituationWith a win in the rescheduled match, BVB could move even closer to the top of the table. With four wins and three draws so far, BVB sit in fourth place, ready to pounce. This is due not only ...
Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
Wardogs CEO: Studio Doesn't Hire People Who Advocate Against Crunch
The studio behind Steam super-hit Wardogs won't hire people who publicly criticize crunching
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
AI Agents now have a place to snitch
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge
The five-year-old startup raised $108 million from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women's health research with vaginal microbiome data
Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.
ClickFix attacks are tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves
If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising 'ClickFix' security threat.
With iOS 27, I'm actually using Siri again
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup from former Spotify employee offering fun music apps
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
Coast FIRE crowd might be making some lofty assumptions about retirement
The FIRE movement relies on some number crunching to know if it's a viable path ,and some chasing Coast FIRE might not be factoring in key risks.
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights
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The Crunchyroll and Fox One Bundle Hits Prime Video
The anime and live sports streaming services come together for a limited time for $23 per month.
Amazon makes it easier to buy what you see on Prime Video
Amazon is expanding shopping integrations across Prime Video, letting viewers discover products tied to thousands of shows, movies, and live sports through X-Ray, its shopping app, and a new Lens-powered “Shop the Scene” feature.
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
Google is making it easier to switch between password managers on Android
Google's new feature will transfer your passkeys as well
Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features
Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.
Top match at VfL Wolfsburg scheduled
FC Bayern Women will travel to Lower Saxony for a crunch meeting at VfL Wolfsburg on Matchday 10 of the Google Pixel Women’s Bundesliga. The clash against the She-Wolves will kick off at 17:55 CET o...
Everything Apple announced at its fall iPhone event, from the foldable iPhone Duo to an always-listening Apple Watch
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models
Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.
Apple's revamped Health app will calculate your 'health age' and readiness score
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple unveils Watch Series 12 and Watch Ultra 4 with an AI upgrade that can recap your day
Most notably, Apple is taking aim at the growing wave of AI wearables with new "Audio Intelligence" features that let you rewind moments and remember details from daily conversations.
Apple has a new way prove your iPhone photos aren’t AI slop
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
Apple shows off AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation
The AirPods 5 support better noise cancellation, Siri AI, and offer volume controls on the stem.
Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded camera
Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there's a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or
This Founder Built a $220 Million Fitness Business. His Playbook Comes Down to 4 Decisions
Tony Hartl has grown Undefeated Tribe, his master franchise for Crunch Fitness, to 4,000 employees and systemwide revenues of $220 million. Here's how.
How to watch Apple's foldable iPhone announcement
Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 AM PDT, and we're expecting big news.
Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.
Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
Bold Predicition for Orlando Magic 'X-Factor' Next Season
Anthony Black’s breakout season has sparked intense extension debates as Orlando balances a looming salary cap crunch against the rising guard’s demand for a lucrative long-term future.
Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Opinion: California billionaire tax could push founders away
Silicon Valley has made California a global hub for startup activity, but a proposed billionare tax puts all that at risk, writes tax policy expert Jared Walczak.
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts
Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option. Both of the smart rings will
Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature
Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates
Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.
Adobe is making its tools available in Slack
Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack
August Monthly Review: ChatGPT In Epic
Death, taxes, another frontier lab healthcare launch inspiring truly insane LinkedIn takes. As much as I want to stay away, I repeatedly am the crewman unplugging his ears whenever we pass these sirens. So it’s not the first and probably not the last time we dial up the typewriter rather than tie ourselves to the mast. The full blow-by-blow timeline: Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe The End of the Standalone PHR (Jan 8): ChatGPT Health arrives for consumers, at the time powered by b.well. I was bullish on the approach in that the best way for the PHR to finally solve distribution was to meet consumers were they already are (i.e. When Horizontal Meets Healthcare (Jan 9): OpenAI for Healthcare puts out the shingle for enterprises, with SharePoint ingestion standing in for the EHR integration the product actually needed. Another One: Anthropic’s Healthcare Debut (Jan 16): Claude's version, on HealthEx rails instead of b.well, with Agent Skills for FHIR development as the one true vertical-specific investment. ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung (Apr 24): OpenAI filled in the missing GTM middle with a free product for verified clinicians, effectively peeling the enterprise wrapper off ChatGPT for Healthcare and taking the PLG fight directly to OpenEvidence. OpenAI’s Second Attempt at Health (Jul 31): a relaunch of their patient specific app, now branded Health in ChatGPT, where the privacy partition came out, the connectors thinned, and b.well disappeared in favor of first-party FHIR work against a smaller network Beyond a Shingle So what was announced now? Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. The core portfolio is unchanged from prior announcements we delineated and discussed (aside from the relaunch of patient-facing). Since trade publications still seem to be confusing them by using the wrong names: Enterprise sales motion: ChatGPT for Healthcare Protecting their core product / PLG: ChatGPT for Clinicians Consumer/patient-facing product: Health in ChatGPT So really, this is a feature release (specifically for ChatGPT for Healthcare when it comes to EHR integration). What’s cool about it, though, is that we are moving beyond just putting out a shingle. Everything in the January enterprise launch was horizontalizable: Horizontal tech companies thus generally start verticalization with their “putting out a shingle phase”. Telling the world you’re open for business as a horizontal tech company reliably attracts early inbound interest from buyers who are already trying to force-fit horizontal tools into domain-specific workflows and are eager for any signal that the vendor intends to support their use case more directly. Nothing was really vertical specific, which is exactly what you'd expect from the ultimate hypergrowth horizontal company dipping their toes into specific industries. But eventually you have to stop changing the sign on the door and start changing the product. Can you guess where the horizontal product was going to run out of road? This is the core dilemma writ large: verticalization requires differentiation, while scale economics of consumer and horizontal push toward unification. I’ve buried the lede so deep here it will be painful to some readers, but what should be shocking to no one is that my perspective is that EHR integration is the only path that meaningfully resolves this tension for ChatGPT for Healthcare. Integration with Microsoft Sharepoint is fine, but it is categorically insufficient for any product that hopes to influence clinical decision-making. SMART Money Well here we are, eight months later! Real vertical investment has begun, which surprised a few people. One friend in the industry messaged me: “Absolutely no way Epic gave ChatGPT API access.” Looking forensically at the announcements, the integration is notably read-only across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. So while I’m not a betting man, I'd wager the house this is a SMART on FHIR launch: That sounds a lot like USCDI! The recommended path for the workflow they outline would be SMART on FHIR Their Health AI lead’s post is evocative of both standalone and EHR launch SMART, which another termed “ChartGPT” and “EHR Plugin” The implementation burden for SMART on FHIR is the lowest of the available integrative paths This is the team who literally did patient-facing SMART on FHIR with Epic last month Most importantly, if you’re a horizontal company, you generally still haven’t taken the full plunge and thus (overly) value reusability. SMART on FHIR is the logical compromise: healthcare-specific enough to matter, but standardized enough to reuse. Nobody Asked Judy Another friend asked “I thought they had to go to each health system, or did they go direct to Epic and now health systems opt in?” Given the trust paradigms in healthcare, this functionally cannot be Epic hoovering up all the data for OpenAI and shoving ChatGPT in their customers’ faces (or they would revolt). However, I do believe the aforementioned terrible coverage by TechCrunch and other outlets is probably responsible for that question, given the 325 million reference. When using FHIR as a business associate to an Epic customer, there is no EHR gatekeeping to speak of, as that isn’t how fhir.epic.com works: You register an app You pick your APIs You test against the sandbox APIs You list as “Ready for Production” Hospitals pick your app You test and go live with them Bluntly, nobody had to say yes or no in Verona (nor were they given the chance). Vendor Services (their next developer tier up that I doubt OpenAI is using quite yet in this initial release) certainly has contractual paperwork that some resent, but even there, the twin pressures of mounting antitrust and information blocking make outright gatekeeping increasingly fraught. My friend’s sentiment is, to me, representative of a broader industry neurosis, perhaps a sort of scar tissue of prior eras: people assume the gate is still there and never actually try the door. There are certainly other ways Epic (and any EHR) can put its thumb on the scale, but they are not so dumb as to stand in front of a federally mandated API and play bouncer at this exact moment in time. So I think they can and probably should go deeper, as this release is at best parity and at worst behind vertical-specific competition. OpenEvidence did a basic SMART launch with Sutter Health in February, allowing for more convenient evidence search by providers. They then add patient-context (the equivalent SMART on FHIR flow to what we see here) when Cedars-Sinai went enterprise-wide in May. UpToDate has four distinct applications across deeper workflows like patient engagement listed in Epic Showroom and announced a partnership with Epic to power Art at UGM Abridge and other ambient scribes have invested deeply into the deepest bidirectional clinical copilot workflow with integrations well beyond SMART on FHIR. In that light, the “Who is OpenAI primarily targeting here?” is clear. This release brings them into striking distance of OpenEvidence, but not the others quite yet. They are the only one of the three you can reach without building something truly Epic-specific. When will they go further? Competition is a great motivator to overcome the horizontal demons and start building things that can’t be reused: not across industries, not across EHRs, maybe not past the customer you built them for. That’s the price of actually verticalizing. The question is if and when OpenAI will be willing to pay it. Month in Review Here is the monthly review. As a reminder, this is a regular round-up of the month’s posts and other content to surface things you may have missed across regulation, litigation, interoperability, and beyond. AI assistance is used in these bullet summaries so I can focus on articles. Articles Published: None this month Video Content: The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition (Aug 14): Back to school for us too, with Brad reporting in from the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem’s one year anniversary in DC. We get into the January CMS-0057 deadline, the fall rulemaking reading list, and why enrollment still keeps most apps off FHIR. The Information Exchange: Epic Dúnadan Edition (Aug 25): A UGM roundup with Ryan Brickner joining for the first time to check our takes against what the building actually thinks. Rangers, Ergo sitting on top of EHI, and a down-market lineup that needs some cuts. Regulatory: Stacked Deck, Bad Hand (Aug 05): ONC’s website refresh took the entire HIT Policy Committee record with it, so I rebuilt the archive and went looking for the regulatory capture story everyone assumes is buried in there. Stacking the deck and winning the hand turn out to be very different things. The Sixth Generation of Patient Access (Aug 19): A quick catalog of the five generations of patient access we’ve layered on since HIPAA, and the two candidates now competing to be the sixth. One is planned. The other is the market routing around the plan entirely. Court cases: Three Cases Walk Into a Docket (Aug 06): Two surprise settlements cleared the board in a single week, and then Judge Maddox dropped ninety-four pages on Vyne v. Henry Schein. The sleeper is a DMCA holding that makes direct-to-database a considerably riskier business model. Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL (Aug 10): Nine class actions are headed to Miami, and the Panel signaled it wants to bring the case that spawned them along too. That would leave Epic arguing the requests were obviously fraudulent in one courtroom and unknowable in the other. Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized! (Aug 11): The Ninth Circuit vacated the injunction against Comet, holding that the user is the one accessing the servers rather than the company that built the agent. A real win for agentic access, and a much narrower one than the headline suggests. Veeva v. Epic: Come At Me, Bro (Aug 26): Epic’s response brief wants the dismissal affirmed and, unusually, wants the opinion published as precedent. Buried in it is Epic’s own description of what its non-competes actually prohibit, which current and former employees should read closely. EHRs: The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today (Aug 04): A 1999 SEC exhibit catches Epic licensing nearly its entire product line, Tapestry included, to the company that became TriZetto. The marketing services menu attached to it is the part that will make you blink. Forecast from Verona (Aug 07): The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. Emmie headlines, Art’s context stack is the most ambitious part, and Penny finally gets an autonomous coding date on the calendar. Works With Epic MyChart (Aug 17): Epic’s first new Showroom category since the death of Workshop certifies hardware instead of software, badge on the box and all. Made for iPhone, but for blood pressure cuffs, and rough news for anyone selling the RPM stack sitting in between. UGM Hot Takes 2026 (Aug 20): Everyone else covered the AI announcements, so I went after Savvy deleting the payment gateway, Rangers as Boost with the timer removed, and a down-market lineup with too many entries. Plus the Health Grid tidbits I cannot help myself on. MyChart Central Grows Up (Aug 24): Device data and Emmie turn Epic’s identity hub into a full consumer platform, which is both a logical answer to ChatGPT and a bit of a mistake. It also happens to be the best scraping target Epic has ever shipped. Industry Analysis: The Wrong Yardstick (Aug 12): Vertical software keeps getting judged against Superhuman and Notion, which is the wrong bar entirely. Your user is comparing your product to a whiteboard and forty phone calls before lunch. Primitives vs. Abstractions (Aug 27): Developers want building blocks, systems of record prefer to hand out business logic, and both sides have a real case. There’s no test from the outside that separates the engineering reason from the competitive one, which is why this keeps ending up in court. Cross-industry Comparisons: The Two Kinds of Platform Power (Aug 18): Attention power and record power are different problems that keep getting handed the same regulatory toolkit. Congress’s latest swing at Big Tech shows both what’s possible and where it falls apart. The Dogs of (Platform) War (Aug 21): A CourtListener alert turned up a property management fight with healthcare’s exact shape and none of the Cures Act. Shell prospects, ghost accounts, a notetaker bot that came back to haunt someone, and a lawyer arguing both sides of the same theory in two states. Fractals All the Way Down (Aug 31): Yardi dominates property management right up until you zoom into one segment, where AppFolio owns it outright and Yardi doesn’t appear at all. Where you draw the line around a B2B software market is about to decide an awful lot of cases. Other News: If Judy Had the Courage (Aug 13): A short eulogy for the era when software was allowed to look insane: WinAMP, bold colors, and everything the grey chatbot era has taken from us. External Media: Portland Monthly Health Tech Meetup: Erin O’Brien channeled my own feelings - maybe it’s just because it’s August and beautiful, but the monthly edition of the PDX Health community meetup was a ripper. Make sure to reach out if interested to join for the next one. STAT’s Coverage of Epic This Month: Brittany Trang of STAT did a fantastic job of breaking the FTC investigation that’s been lurking, as well as UGM related coverage, so I had to give her her wish of a meme. Fall Conferences: I’m pumped to be kicking off my fall conference season in NYC at Nabla Accelerate next month, which Chrissy provided the link to apply for. Here’s the rest of my schedule in case you want to meet up: Commonwell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 21-22 eHealthExchange (Austin, TX): Oct 27 Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 28-29 HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 RSNA (Chicago): Nov 29-Dec 3 Posts I Liked: HTI-6 Should Unbundle API Certification: Josh Mandel makes the case that HTI-6 should split (g)(10) into separate authorization and data certifications, so a PACS or a genomics platform can certify only the role it actually performs. Imaging is the urgent example, but the structure solves a much bigger problem. On implementing ePrior Auth with Epic: Scott Rossignol’s field notes from a live ePrior Auth build on Epic, including the two app registrations nobody warns you about and the CPT mapping problem waiting at the end. CMS-0057 implementations are going to be such a beast. Healthcare point solutions are starting to look a lot like streaming services: Spencer Dorn runs the cable-to-streaming arc against health IT and lands squarely on the bundling half of the cycle. Bundling can be good! It can also be bad! Life is nuanced. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
Google's Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more
The new features coming to Android are aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind users navigate their surroundings, and more.
Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.
Microsoft 365 outage drags on, but things are improving
Microsoft 365 and Outlook are still seeing service degradations on Tuesday, the company's status page indicates.
If space data centers feel far-fetched, why not interstellar travel?
The team behind Starcloud's orbital data centers has a new high-risk space project: Sending a probe to Alpha Centauri.
Obama-era mandate slashed after being blamed for 'skyrocketing' housing costs
A new Trump admin housing directive aims to tackle the U.S.'s housing affordability crunch by ending Obama-era rule allowing indefinite liability for property owners over past building design errors.
Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles
As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.
Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage
Microsoft says it's testing a fix for the widespread Outlook issues that have led to email delays and failures.
THE WEEK OF AUG 31, 2026
- Congress returns to face budget crunch - Science agencies targeted by hackers - NSF and Treasury announce quantum initiatives
Hawks Must Cut Kispert To Fix Small Forward Rotation
The Atlanta Hawks face a roster crunch. Per Sports Illustrated, trading Corey Kispert is the only move to fix the small forward spot before the season starts.
Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
Brave's browser begins testing an email alias feature that lets you keep your main email info private.
Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
Instagram’s 'First Draft' feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First
Apple's latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899
The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.
Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band
Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts into a single device, all without needing a phone nearby.
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage
As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
Price Transparency, Insulin Top Lawmakers’ Health To-Do Lists
Lawmakers are facing crunch time on healthcare priorities, with very few in-session days left in the year — and for some, their legislative careers.
Why you should check the ingredients of your açaí bowl
Beneath all that fruit and crunchy granola, are açaí bowls actually as healthy as they seem? Here's what to know.
Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can't hide an iterative upgrade
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners.
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
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Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams
Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.