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A developer has built something genuinely clever at one-e-four-dot-ai — a chess engine trained not to win, but to play like a human. Separate neural network models cover rating ranges from around eight hundred to over twenty-two hundred Elo, complete with time pressure blunders and realistic clock behavior. It's a fascinating inversion of what we usually ask AI to do.
Meanwhile, Whoop is moving deeper into the clinical space, announcing in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians who can actually view your health data during the session. It's a significant step, blurring the line between fitness tracker and medical platform — and raising the familiar questions about data access, consent, and just how much we want our wearables involved in our healthcare.
And over at Microsoft, PowerToys continues to quietly outpace Windows itself. The latest addition, Power Display, brings smart monitor management to users who know where to find it — though many are asking why features this useful keep living in an optional utility rather than shipping as part of Windows eleven by default. It's a tension Microsoft has never quite resolved.
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