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Car manufacturers are quietly pulling the plug on Android Auto, and drivers are not happy about it. Automakers have long resented handing over the dashboard experience to Google, losing data, branding, and customer relationships in the process. Expect more proprietary in-car systems in two thousand twenty six, whether consumers want them or not.
Meanwhile, the companies building those connected cars and everything else in tech are borrowing at a scale we have rarely seen. Big Tech is taking on enormous debt precisely when the Federal Reserve has made that debt more expensive to carry. It is a calculated bet that future returns from AI infrastructure will outrun today's rising interest costs, but it is still a bet.
And on a longer timeline, new research is finding that early life adversity leaves measurable molecular changes across the body, changes that persist well into adulthood. Scientists are calling it a kind of biological imprint, one that affects health outcomes in ways we are only beginning to map. The implications for medicine, policy, and how we think about childhood conditions are significant.
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