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AI chatbots emerged as a go-to tool for holiday shoppers. What that means for our retail stocks

There’s a new shopping sidekick in town: generative AI. Looking for gift ideas and bargains, online shoppers flocked to artificial intelligence chatbots in droves this holiday season. Retailers reaped the benefits, particularly portfolio name Amazon . Clicking on a link to a retail site provided by AI increased 1,300% year over year during November and […]

Mayo Clinic’s AI tool offers a new way to visualize disease

Left: A circular OmicsFootPrint visualization shows genetic and molecular changes, with chromosomes in the outer ring and gene activity changes inside — red for increased activity, green for reduced. Right: A grid of OmicsFootPrints summarizes multi-omics data for nearly 700 cancer patients, with each circle representing a unique molecular profile.  Mayo Clinic researchers have pioneered […]

Business & Finance

New tool will help fight health insurance denials

The Waystar team celebrates its IPO at the Nasdaq 2024 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic Health-care payments company Waystar on Monday announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool that can help hospitals quickly tackle one of their most costly and tedious responsibilities: fighting insurance denials. Hospitals and health systems spend nearly $20 billion a year […]

Technology

Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers

What a week! On Monday, police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione and charged him in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s five-day run from authorities ended after he was spotted eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 300 miles from Manhattan, where Thompson was gunned down on the morning of December 4. Authorities […]

Technology

Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool

When Apple devices are used to spread CSAM, it’s a huge problem for survivors, who allegedly face a range of harms, including “exposure to predators, sexual exploitation, dissociative behavior, withdrawal symptoms, social isolation, damage to body image and self-worth, increased risky behavior, and profound mental health issues, including but not limited to depression, anxiety, suicidal […]

Science

Scientists develop ultrasound-based technique as a tool for directing cell growth and orientation

Using a simple yet effective technique, researchers from Doshisha University could harness ultrasound vibrations generated by a piezoelectric transducer to control the orientation of cultured myoblasts. After optimizing different timing, frequency, and intensity configurations, they developed a method to induce myoblasts to differentiate into circumferentially aligned myotubes. Credit: Daisuke Koyama / Doshisha University, Japan Developing […]