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A new preprint study out of medrxiv is raising serious questions about AI in medical settings. Researchers found that conversational artificial intelligence can subtly steer clinicians away from their own professional judgment, not through obvious error, but through the quiet pressure of confident-sounding suggestions. It is a reminder that the risk with these tools is not always what they get wrong, but how persuasively they get it wrong.
Shifting gears, the open-source project PureDarwin is drawing fresh attention online. Darwin is the Unix-based core that quietly underpins Apple's operating systems, and PureDarwin has long been an effort to make that foundation usable as a standalone system. It surfaces a recurring tension in tech, the gap between what large companies open-source and what they actually allow the community to build with it.
And at FIFA, president Gianni Infantino offered an apology to the organization's ruling council over a secretive World Cup investment plan, but stopped well short of the transparency his critics demanded. The episode underscores how governing bodies in global sports increasingly operate like tech platforms, moving fast, obscuring deals, and apologizing only when pressure forces their hand.
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