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In the United Kingdom, protesters gathered outside a major health care conference demanding that Palantir be removed from its contract with the National Health Service. The demonstrations center on deep concerns about data privacy and the ethics of allowing a US defense-linked company to handle some of the most sensitive personal health records in the country. It's a debate that shows no sign of cooling down.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, OpenAI is undergoing what insiders are calling its biggest overhaul of ChatGPT yet, and the engineer steering that transformation is Thibault Sottiaux. He previously helped turn AI-assisted coding into one of OpenAI's fastest-growing revenue streams, and now he's been handed the keys to reshape the product that put the company on the map.
And in a story that captures the strange tensions of this moment in tech, China is cracking down on Western AI models and chipmakers at home, while American companies continue quietly turning to DeepSeek as a cost-effective alternative. It's a dynamic that raises real questions about where the line between competition and dependency actually falls.
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