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Google has quietly introduced something worth watching: the Gemini Decisions API, built around a new model called Gemini Decision One. Unlike typical AI tools, this one doesn't generate text at all. It scores up to one thousand typed questions against a shared input and returns probability estimates, priced at ten cents per million tokens. The target is the invisible logic inside AI agents — routing decisions, policy checks, tool selection. It's a narrow tool, but it points to a maturing AI market where specialization is starting to beat generalization.
Shifting to a story about trust and infrastructure, certificate authority eMudhra has revoked eight more intermediate CA certificates after investigators found private keys were mishandled during the certificate-generation process. That brings the total revocations from this incident to a number that should concern anyone relying on web security chains. Certificate authorities are foundational to encrypted internet traffic, and when private keys are exposed, the damage can be quiet but wide.
And in genomics, the NIH's All of Us program has identified thousands of new genetic variants affecting how people respond to prescription drugs. The study, drawing on nearly one hundred thousand participants from unusually diverse ancestral backgrounds, found every single participant carried at least one relevant variant. That diversity is the story — previous research missed these variants by studying too narrow a slice of humanity.
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